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Skip to comments.A day in the life of President Bush (photos): 5/27/02
Posted on 05/27/2002 6:08:21 PM PDT by rintense
President Bush continued his European trip today with a Memorial Day ceremony at Normandy, France. The President then continued on to Italy, where he was greeted by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Bush will join the 19 NATO leaders together with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a summit at an Italian air force base Tuesday. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!
Text of President Bush's Speech at Normandy (keep the tissues handy):
Mr. President and Mrs. Chirac; Secretary Powell and Secretary Principi; members of the United States Congress; members of the American Armed Services; veterans; family members; fellow Americans; and friends: We have gathered on this quiet corner of France as the sun rises on Memorial Day in the United States of America. This is a day our country has set apart to remember what was gained in our wars, and all that was lost.
Our wars have won for us every hour we live in freedom. Our wars have taken from us the men and women we honor today, and every hour of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
This day of remembrance was first observed to recall the terrible casualties of the war Americans fought against each other. In the nearly 14 decades since, our nation's battles have all been far from home. Here on the continent of Europe were some of the fiercest of those battles, the heaviest losses, and the greatest victories.
And in all those victories American soldiers came to liberate, not to conquer. The only land we claim as our own are the resting places of our men and women.
More than 9,000 are buried here, and many times that number have -- of fallen soldiers lay in our cemeteries across Europe and America. From a distance, surveying row after row of markers, we see the scale and heroism and sacrifice of the young. We think of units sustaining massive casualties, men cut down crossing a beach, or taking a hill, or securing a bridge. We think of many hundreds of sailors lost in their ships.
The war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, told of a British officer walking across the battlefield just after the violence had ended. Seeing the bodies of American boys scattered everywhere, the officer said, in sort of a hushed eulogy spoken only to himself, "Brave men, brave men."
All who come to a place like this feel the enormity of the loss. Yet, for so many, there is a marker that seems to sit alone -- they come looking for that one cross, that one Star of David, that one name. Behind every grave of a fallen soldier is a story of the grief that came to a wife, a mother, a child, a family, or a town.
A World War II orphan has described her family's life after her father was killed on a field in Germany. "My mother," she said, "had lost everything she was waiting for. She lost her dreams. There were an awful lot of perfect linen tablecloths in our house that never got used, so many things being saved for a future that was never to be."
Each person buried here understood his duty, but also dreamed of going back home to the people and the things he knew. Each had plans and hopes of his own, and parted with them forever when he died.
The day will come when no one is left who knew them, when no visitor to this cemetery can stand before a grave remembering a face and a voice. The day will never come when America forgets them. And our nation and the world will always remember what they did here, and what they gave here for the future of humanity.
As dawn broke during the invasion, a little boy in the village off of Gold Beach called out to his mother, "Look, the sea is black with boats." Spread out before them and over the horizon were more than 5,000 ships and landing craft. In the skies were some of the 12,000 planes sent on the first day of Operation Overlord. The Battle of Normandy would last many days, but June 6th, 1944, was the crucial day.
The late President, Francois Mitterrand, said that nothing in history compares to D-day. "The 6th of June," he observed, "sounded the hour when history tipped toward the camp of freedom." Before dawn, the first paratroopers already had been dropped inland. The story is told of a group of French women finding Americans and imploring them not to leave. The trooper said, "We're not leaving. If necessary, this is the place we die."
Units of Army Rangers on shore, in one of history's bravest displays, scaled cliffs directly in the gunfire, never relenting even as comrades died all around them. When they had reached the top, the Rangers radioed back the code for success: "Praise the Lord."
Only a man who is there, charging out of a landing craft, can know what it was like. For the entire liberating force, there was only the ground in front of them -- no shelter, no possibility of retreat. They were part of the largest amphibious landing in history, and perhaps the only great battle in which the wounded were carried forward. Survivors remember the sight of a Catholic chaplain, Father Joe Lacey, lifting dying men out of the water, and comforting and praying with them. Private Jimmy Hall was seen carrying the body of his brother, Johnny, saying, "He can't, he can't be dead. I promised Mother I'd look after him."
Such was the size of the Battle of Normandy. Thirty-eight pairs of brothers died in the liberation, including Bedford and Raymond Hoback of Virginia, both who fell on D-Day. Raymond's body was never found. All he left behind was his Bible, discovered in the sand. Their mother asked that Bedford be buried here, as well, in the place Raymond was lost, so her sons would always be together.
On Memorial Day, America honors her own. Yet we also remember all the valiant young men and women from many allied nations, including France, who shared in the struggle here, and in the suffering. We remember the men and women who served and died alongside Americans in so many terrible battles on this continent, and beyond.
Words can only go so far in capturing the grief and sense of loss for the families of those who died in all our wars. For some military families in America and in Europe, the grief is recent, with the losses we have suffered in Afghanistan. They can know, however, that the cause is just and, like other generations, these sacrifices have spared many others from tyranny and sorrow.
Long after putting away his uniform, an American GI expressed his own pride in the truth about all who served, living and dead. He said, "I feel like I played my part in turning this from a century of darkness into a century of light."
Here, where we stand today, the new world came back to liberate the old. A bond was formed of shared trial and shared victory. And a light that scattered darkness from these shores and across France would spread to all of Europe -- in time, turning enemies into friends, and the pursuits of war into the pursuits of peace. Our security is still bound up together in a transatlantic alliance, with soldiers in many uniforms defending the world from terrorists at this very hour.
The grave markers here all face west, across an ageless and indifferent ocean to the country these men and women served and loved. The thoughts of America on this Memorial Day turn to them and to all their fallen comrades in arms. We think of them with lasting gratitude; we miss them with lasting love; and we pray for them. And we trust in the words of the Almighty God, which are inscribed in the chapel nearby: "I give unto them eternal life, that they shall never perish."
QUOTE OF THE DAY: The grave markers here all face west, across an ageless and indifferent ocean to the country these men and women served and loved. The thoughts of America on this Memorial Day turn to them and to all their fallen comrades in arms. We think of them with lasting gratitude; we miss them with lasting love; and we pray for them. And we trust in the words of the Almighty God, which are inscribed in the chapel nearby: "I give unto them eternal life, that they shall never perish."
Thanks, rintense!!
I checked out all the Doses while I was gone, and nearly fainted when I saw the picture of the President whispering sweet nothings into Laura's ear! Sigh........
There was entirely too much going on (and too much fun) while I was away!!
then click on the Streaming Link Glenn Beck's Memorial Day Essay
Rintense, thank you for posting the President's speech as I missed it this morning. What moving words, and also a gentle reminder to our European allies of what we gave for them. The sight of all those crosses facing West gives me the chills.
OhioWFan, welcome back! How was graduation?
Ohiowfan - Welcome back. We missed you!
I saw two TV news blabberers today sniffing and sneering that this is the first President ever to be out of the country on Memorial Day. I was appalled. Compared to the great good our President is doing, the news bimbos seemed so petty and ridiculous and out of touch.
America is great because America is (or has been good). We must lose that integrity at our moral core. Thank God we have a President who has returned to our highest office a sense of honor and dignity and moral purpose. May those in this country who seek to tear him to shreds be, themselves, torn asunder. May God be our ever fortress and ever sure defense. Thank Him and Praise His Holy name!
(and thank you to any who saw the previous day's Psalm I just posted and the prayer request there).
Psalm 7 (Part 1)
1 O Lord my God, I take refuge in you;
save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
2 or they will tear me like a lion
and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
3 O Lord my God, if I have done this
and there is guilt on my hands-
4 if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me
or without cause have robbed my foe-
5 then let my enemy pursue and overtake me;
let him trample my life to the ground
and make me sleep in the dust.
6 Arise, O Lord , in your anger;
rise up against the rage of my enemies.
Awake, my God; decree justice.
7 Let the assembled peoples gather around you.
Rule over them from on high;
8 let the Lord judge the peoples.
Judge me, O Lord , according to my righteousness,
according to my integrity, O Most High.
and pay attention to the last 2 paragraphs
The weekend finished with a worship service for the graduates and parents, and with communion being served to the graduates. It was extremely moving and meaningful.
We got back at 2:00 in the morning (Minnesota's a long way from here) after hauling back both daughter and son's things (and them too, of course!). Now we have 2 weeks as a complete family before son #2 leaves for boot camp..........I'm going to savor every single moment.
Oh, yeah, and son #1, majoring in International Relations and Political Science told us on the way home that he is seriously considering applying for a job in the CIA when he graduates! Wild, huh?
Although security was tight in Sainte-Mère-L'Eglise, several hundred local people lined the streets for several hours in the rain, chanting "Chirac" and "George Bush" and waving US and French flags.
One elderly man complained that the anti-capitalist, anti-globalist and pacifist demonstrations against Mr Bush in Paris and Caen on Sunday and a new protest in Caen yesterday were "completely misplaced".
"There may be disputes with the Americans today. That is normal. But these protesters forget what these young Americans did for us in 1944," he said.
Thanks so much for the beautiful pictures, rintense.
Thanks so much for those lovely photos. And even if I can't see his face, I know that's my dear son-in-law Harry, holding the American Flag in the honor guard!!
They're so nice to see.
God Bless
Hmmmmm.......doesn't look to me like all the Europeans hate the President!
Rintense....THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I couldn't help but remember the slime today, and what a beautiful difference this REAL man is!!!!
That is so cool! Be proud!!
Once a year we recognize our fallen heroes and all who have served this country, both past and present. This year we also have the memory of 9/11 and all the innocent people who lost their lives along with the brave men and women who died trying to save others. Since 9/11 we have seen our nation come together in a way that would make our fallen heroes proud. My hope is that we will continue to stay focused and support our brave men and women in uniform and support our President as we deliver justice to those who attacked us and those who want to destroy us.
Our brave men and women in uniform deserve our support and our thanks each and every day, not just one day a year. A simple email of thanks and appreciation to our troops once a month will be a huge contribution in keeping their spirits up. I know that most, if not all, here on "The Dose" do this already, my only hope is that millions of other will do this also. We owe it to them for what they do for us. For me, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about our troops around the world and appreciate what they're doing for us. So from the bottom of my heart I thank the brave men and women who are defending our freedom in Afghanistan and other places around the world, and may God bless and watch over each and every one of them.
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|Learn about the Japanese art of shaped-resist dyeing known as Shibori. Through the stitching and tying of fabric you will create intricate patterns - Think about it as tie-dyeing, but more complex and beautiful!
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Team put together an inspirational War Graves Project,
working with the Imperial War Museum North. Young offenders
learned about the servicemen and women who are commemorated,
and talked to veterans before helping to clean up the
cemetery. Finally, inspired by their involvement, they
created their own artwork for a display.
(The young people who took part had not themselves
damaged war graves, but had to do community work for
other reasons.)
what one of them said:
'I have been on the scheme for
a few months now. It's part of my licence
to do some work with Groundwork. I crashed a car.
Every week I come here to the Imperial War Museum
or to the graveyard. It's a bit disrespectful
what has happened at the church – people
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There has long been a tension between business units and legal departments over contracting. In many companies this tension has resulted in a "live and let live" environment, since the companies don't have much contract-driven litigation and haven't been slapped with sanctions.
However, this seemingly benign tension has flared into something more intense in some companies, and general counsel are finding that looking the other way is no longer an option. Audit committees of boards (especially at public companies subject to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards) are asking for audits of their companies' contracting practices. Here are some of the circumstances that have prompted action:
- At a board meeting of a publicly traded Fortune 100 company, the GC and the CFO of a company were asked to succinctly state the "total value of all obligations contained in active agreements." No one on the management team could answer the question.
- Elsewhere, a company's management could not represent an overall "risk" level across all contracts.
- At the same company, during the pursuit of a potential acquisition, key common customer agreements could not be located—at least not fast enough to appease anxieties of the target company. The deal fell apart.
- When these agreements were eventually located, some of them were not even fully executed or had been executed by individuals without authority to bind the company.
- At another company, commercial groups in the company lamented the "delay in response" due to legal department involvement in contracting, and proceeded to exclude the legal department from the contract review cycle. This resulted in the execution of agreements that went significantly outside of the bounds of risk tolerance at the company—especially in areas such as indemnity and liability.
The situations above occur on a daily basis at a surprisingly large number of companies, significantly increasing organizational risk. In addition to risk, legal department professionals—especially senior lawyers—are spending too much time creating agreements from whole cloth or reviewing the same clauses in agreements on a regular basis. This not only has impacted overall legal spend, it also has contributed to lower morale in in-house departments due to the "nonstrategic" nature of the work.
What's gone wrong? Management of the contract processes the company uses is decentralized. Procurement departments "own" buy-side indirect purchasing. Manufacturing groups own direct materials purchasing. Commercial units own sell-side contracts. Everyone owns confidentiality agreements. Not only does this federated model of ownership result in an inability to implement controls, it is especially pernicious in an environment where M&A activity in many industries is high and deals need to be put together quickly.
What's the solution? Corporate boards and executive management are increasingly looking to the general counsel to take charge of contract management. This is a natural phenomenon due to the fact that the GC is the adjudicator of risk-value tradeoffs such as how heavy a hand is necessary to manage risk yet still enable business to be conducted efficiently. In addition, general counsel are well equipped to measure overall exposure created through contracts and establish a barometer for risk tolerance that can be adopted by the company at large.
Legal departments are increasingly involved in (and often are driving) technology decisions around enterprise document management, communications and correspondence (email, instant messaging, etc.), records management, data storage and archiving. Much of this is driven by the need for good discovery practices as well as fluid information governance—disciplines that have enterprise-wide impact. These same skills are relevant for contract management, also an enterprise-wide discipline, in which enabling technology—generally called Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) —is key to helping corral contracting practices.
Here are 10 strategies that general counsel can use to increase the effectiveness of contract management:
1. General counsel need to acknowledge that they (should) have a point of view in every phase of contracting. Initiating a contract requires translating business discussions into a contract document to memorialize discussions. Lawyers are key to determining the right document to use. Negotiation typically centers on price, terms, liability, indemnity and remedies. Lawyers are key adjudicators of these items. Contract execution is key because without a fully signed agreement, there is no actual contract. Proper contract storage enables ongoing obligation management. The legal department should not apologize about stepping up to own this process.
2. Explore the implementation of a contract management business process, enabled by workflow and repository technology. Technology is not an elixir but can certainly put automated controls in place to facilitate approvals and bring visibility into new contracts.
3. Harvest lower-hanging fruit with agility. Execute a "sweep" of all executed agreements in the company that can be located. Then digitize the (active and material) paper documents, identify key metadata elements to be extracted from these agreements and store them in a simple, searchable repository. The value of "knowing where they are" is immeasurable when trying to scope the fury of the untamed beast.
4. Go through a quick exercise of "contract demographics." How many different contract types exist (buy- and sell-side)? What is the approximate number of each contract type executed on a monthly basis? How many contracts are driven off a legal department-approved template (like nondisclosure agreements) versus ones that are sourced from the hard drives of nonlawyer business managers? Where do the in-house lawyers spend most of their contracting support time?
5. Present the "state of the contracting state," and socialize the pain to the management team and the board in order to win their support.
6. Build a good relationship with procurement. This group is at the center of vendor management processes, which often represent the largest contract volume in companies. This group often has operational skills around contract administration, plus technology knowledge that is invaluable in managing an overall contracting process.
7. Increase knowledge of sales processes. What is prompting commercial groups to enter into contracts with counter-parties without (appropriate) legal review?
8. Focus on business impact. If the general counsel can shorten the cycle time for executing commercial contracts, thereby shortening the time to revenue, the chance of garnering support for controlling contract management will be much greater.
9. Embrace vendors as knowledgeable professional colleagues. These service and technology providers know where the bodies are buried in peer group companies. They will share their knowledge unabashedly as a guide for a company's own approach.
10. Talk to peers. General counsel in almost every company have contract management on their minds. Some have made significant strides in this area, using some or all of the strategies outlined above. Learn from them. They are happy to share.
Contract management is a foundational tool for many companies. General counsel are recognizing the opportunities controlling contracts affords for decreasing organizational risk and also for contributing to the company's revenue by making commercial processes more efficient.
Prashant Dubey is president and CEO of The Sumati Group, an IT-enabled services firm working exclusively with the general counsel to support business processes such at contract management.


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Asher's softballers garnered 25 hits in just seven innings Tuesday in swamping Allen in both ends of a doubleheader, 15-2 and 19-0. The first game went four innings and the Lady Indians needed just three innings to take the nightcap.
Asher posted 10 hits in the first game as Shayla Dekuyper led the way at 3-of-3, all singles.
Alisha Huggins added a double, a home run and five runs batted in while teammates Shelby Fleming and Desaray Goodgion notched two singles apiece.
The Lady Indians added 15 hits in the nightcap as Huggins was the ringleader with six RBI on two doubles and a single. Sarah Wauahdooah added a two-run triple and a single while Fleming recorded an inside-the-park home run. Kasadi Reimers collected a double and a single while Tristan Milburn had a two-run double. Haley Odell added two singles.
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|Vegetable oil
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In large heavy saucepan or Dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat; cook onions and garlic until softened, about 5 minutes.
Increase heat to high; add beef.
Cook, stirring to break up, for about 3 minutes or until meat is no longer pink.
Stir in oregano, basil, cinnamon, salt, pepper, sugar and thyme; cook for 3 minutes.
If Pour in wine, tomato paste and tomatoes, mashing tomatoes with fork.
Bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
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Drain; transfer to large bowl.
Toss with 2 tbsp (25 mL) of the butter.
Set aside.
In large heavy saucepan, melt remaining butter over medium heat; stir in flour and cook, without browning, for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Gradually add milk, whisking until smooth; cook for about 5 minutes or until thickened.
Season with salt, nutmeg and pepper.
if In large bowl, whisk eggs; whisk in about 1 cup (250 mL) of the hot sauce.
Return mixture to saucepan; cook for 2 minutes, stirring.
Remove from heat; blend in cottage cheese and mozzarella.
Blend into pasta.
In each of two 13- X 9-inch (3.5 L) baking dishes, spread one-quarter of the pasta mixture.
Spread meat filling over each.
Spread remaining pasta mixture evenly over meat.
Sprinkle with Parmesan.
Bake in 375°F (190°C) oven for 1 hour or until bubbly and heated through and top is lightly browned.
Let stand for 10 minutes.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 1329 Calories from Fat 625
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 70 g107.5%
Saturated Fat 31.7 g158.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 255.9 mg85.3%
Sodium 1010.9 mg42.1%
Total Carbohydrates 110 g36.8%
Dietary Fiber 8 g31.9%
Sugars 17.4 g
Protein 62 g124%
Vitamin A 52.3% Vitamin C 44.8%
Calcium 60.3% Iron 41.6%
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Modscape is an Australian owned and operated company that utilises the benefits of modular design and prefabrication to create architecturally designed, innovative and sustainable homes and buildings.The owners of Modscape have combined their extensive experience in the design, development and construction industries to create our modular solutions.
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This Spud's Next Gig: Professor Potato Head
Iconic Toy Enters Academia With a Tour of 11 Museums
At the ripe age of 56, Mr. Potato Head, like many Americans, is postponing retirement to pursue a second career.
No longer just a child's toy, he begins a four-year foray into the world of academia as a guest educator at 11 museums across the country. His new gig starts Saturday morning at the Betty Brinn Children's Museum in Milwaukee, Wis.
While Mr. Potato Head won't actually be speaking, he will appear in life-size form to herald an educational exhibit called "The Adventures of Mr. Potato Head," designed by the Betty Brinn Children's Museum and PLAYSKOOL, the infant/preschool toy division of Hasbro Inc. HAS 0.30 %
The exhibit features Mr. Potato Head in his various forms throughout activities like "Spud Overboard," where divers can explore a pretend underwater environment to learn about oceanography in an oversized Spud submarine, or the "Spud Quest," where kids join the Ph.D. (Potato Head Doctor) on a dig in search of the statue of King Tato. Children must solve a riddle using alphabet letters called tatoglyphs and go through mazes to open the almost 6-feet tall statue's treasure, a secret compartment filled with materials related to real-world archaeology.
"With Mr. Potato Head, there's no right or wrong answer. He can be anything we want him to be, go anywhere we want him to go. He's the guide to their adventures" says Fern Shupeck, the museum's executive director.
This renaissance vegetable's entry into higher learning comes at no surprise. He has doubled as numerous NFL players, Star Wars characters -- even as a Frenchman affectionately known as "M. Patate." Fans often ask: Is there anything Mr. Potato Head can't do?
In addition to achieving best-selling product status for more than half a century, he has already enjoyed a long career as a spud superstar: first appearing on television in "Potato Head Kids" and then hosting his own "Mr. Potato Head Show." He played himself in both Toy Story movies, voiced by Don Rickles. Furthering his fame, acclaimed artist Jim Davis penned a comic strip about the tater's adventures. Following the trajectory of most D-list celebrities, he dug up some attention in his older years with commercial appearances for Burger King french fries.
In many ways, the evolution of Mr. Potato Head has fried with the times, providing insightful commentary on American culture.
Created by Brooklyn toy developer George Lerner and launched in 1952 by Hasbro, the original Mr. Potato Head contained only body parts such as eyes, ears, noses and mouths. Parents had to supply children with real potatoes. A hard plastic potato "body" was added in 1960.
In the '70s, as fast-food restaurants began to supersize menu items, the Mr. Potato Head's pieces grew too. This was also to comply with an increasing number of toy safety regulations. And after 35 years of tokin' along, Mr. Potato Head had to lose his signature pipe in 1987 because of pressure from an antismoking campaign launched by then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
Amid a series of toy company mergers and an advertising trend toward branding, a variety of Mr. Potato Head products were sold over the next three decades including a Mrs. Potato Head and two children, Brother Spud and Sister Yam.
One reason fans say Mr. Potato Head has maintained his "cool factor" over the years is by popping up in both musical and political culture. The famous spud was featured on album covers and band T-shirts ranging from rock band Smashing Pumpkins to the 1982 techno group Devo. He made it into Joe Satriani's 1989 CD "Flying in a Blue Dream" in hit song "The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing" and jazz great Louis Armstrong's 1927 "Potato Head Blues."
More recently, the 1996 League of Women Voters asked Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head to sponsor their "Get Out the Vote" campaign. And perhaps as a precursor to the idea of political flip-flopping, New Jersey Senate candidate Jay Webber called state Sen. Robert Martin "Mr. Potato Head" in accusing him of changing his political face to meet the challenges of a more conservative electorate during their 2003 Senate primary campaign. He has even showed up on the latest political race in pictures with presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain.
But Ms. Shupeck from the Betty Brinn Children's Museum says Mr. Potato Head was always created to be a teacher. He's the children's "guide to adventures…prompting them to think and imagine," she says.
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Spring has arrived in Maryland and our students are enjoying the opportunity to study and socialize outdoors on our beautiful campus. A high priority for students right now is selecting roommates and participating in the room selection process. They will need your advice and counsel as they manage relationships and make living decisions for next year. This newsletter provides tips for you to help your student through this process. Feel free to check out the Student Life website for more information on how the process works.
Students will soon make plans for summer and there will be many internships and leadership opportunities on and off campus for them to consider. They may need your encouragement to pursue new challenges, find the right fit, and use the skills and knowledge that they have gained at Loyola. The different departments in the student development division are available to consult with your student, so encourage your student to go to them for assistance with this process.
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Nice! I like the fact that they converted the color photo to black and white. Black and white photography is clean/minimalist; it also denotes class, elegance, luxury, etc. As for the horse's electrified mane, well it just testifies, tongue in cheek, to Peugeot's 100% electric horse power.. :-) I like that they left the car out. There's too many ads out there featuring car shots.
its not black and white. Its 4 colour with a beautiful grade.
Wunderbar! This is the first good ad I've seen for an electric car. Are there any others?
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We asked IT professionals who've used or evaluated unified threat management products to tell us about their performance and features in our latest vendor evaluation survey. The upshot? Few are enthusiastic about the performance of these appliances.
Our 183 survey respondents rated five UTM vendors -- Check Point Software, Cisco Systems, Dell SonicWall, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks -- on overall performance, which included reliability and acquisition costs, and on specific features.
Cisco, Juniper and Dell had top overall performance scores of 75%. Check Point was close behind with 74%, and HP 72%. If this were a school report card, these vendors all have C averages.
Respondents rated reliability and performance as the two most important features (averaging 4.6 and 4.5, respectively, on a 1 to 5 scale, with 5 being "very important). No surprise there. The one surprise is how low product innovation scored, landing No. 8 out of 10 criteria. Given the rapid innovation in malware vectors and zero-day threats, it's odd that UTM product innovation isn't a priority.
On specific performance criteria, almost all of the scores fell somewhere in the mid-3 range. Cisco stands out with both the lowest score for any product category (a 3.1 in acquisition cost) and the most scores of 4.0 or better (breadth of product line, performance and reliability). Check Point had performance and reliability scores of 3.9, and a 3.3 acquisition cost score. Given that reliability and performance are the criteria rated most important, it seems that Cisco and Check Point are targeting customers' needs well, but at a price.
Price-conscious buyers should take a look at Dell SonicWall and Juniper, each of which rated most favorably on acquisition cost, at 3.7. Both companies are known for offering reliable products. Dell tied Check Point's scores in performance (3.9) and reliability (3.9) while topping Check Point in breadth of product line (3.8), post-sales support (3.7), service innovation (3.6) and acquisition and operational cost, both at 3.7.
When asked to rate 12 UTM features on their relative importance, respondents say anti-malware, high availability for failover, central management and URL filtering are most desirable. The lowest score for a particular UTM feature was a 3.5 for Juniper's ICAP integration and the highest was a 4.2 for Juniper's HA and Cisco's VPN termination features. In general it seems as if each of the UTM products did at least acceptably well for each evaluation.
We also break out respondents' evaluations of vendors' performance around individual features. It's worth noting that Dell SonicWall earned ratings of 4.0 or 4.1 in six individual categories, the most among the vendors evaluated. Check Point and HP each had five categories with ratings of 4.0 or higher.
UTM products do most things well enough, without excelling in any area. Which you go with depends on your risk profile, industry, budget and IT expertise.
The cybersecurity profession struggles to retain women (figures range from 10 to 20 percent). It's particularly worrisome for an industry with a rapidly growing number of vacant positions.
So why does the shortage of women continue to be worse in security than in other IT sectors? How can men in infosec be better allies for women; and how can women be better allies for one another? What is the industry doing to fix the problem -- what's working, and what isn't?
Is this really a problem at all? Are the low numbers simply an indication that women do not want to be in cybersecurity, and is it possible that more women will never want to be in cybersecurity? How many women would we need to see in the industry to declare success?
Join Dark Reading senior editor Sara Peters and guests Angela Knox of Cloudmark, Barrett Sellers of Arbor Networks, Regina Wallace-Jones of Facebook, Steve Christey Coley of MITRE, and Chris Roosenraad of M3AAWG on Wednesday, July 13 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss all this and more.


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The Big Catch Could Have A Big Catch
As San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds closes in on Hank Aaron's career home-run record, a thorny question looms: If you're the lucky fan who catches the record-breaking home run ball, what are the tax consequences?
The short answer: Find a very smart accountant -- and if you don't like the answer, try someone else.
"Everyone's sure they know the right answer, but there's very little agreement" on what it is, says Phillip Mann, a tax lawyer at Miller & Chevalier in Washington and a former head of the American Bar Association tax section.
Mr. Bonds, who turned 43 yesterday, hit his 752nd and 753rd homers last Thursday, leaving him only three away from eclipsing Mr. Aaron's record of 755. Last night, the Giants played the Atlanta Braves at home in San Francisco.
Common sense might suggest the answer is simple: The lucky fan who catches the historic ball shouldn't owe tax until he or she sells it. But relying on common sense to interpret tax laws can often lead to trouble. Asked whether any fan who has ever caught a valuable home-run ball has had to pay tax on it before selling it, an IRS official declines comment.
Some professors, such as Alice Abreu of Temple Law School, feel strongly the answer is clear. "It's taxable income" to the fan the instant that person catches the ball, Prof. Abreu replies. How come? "It's accession to wealth," and nothing in the tax code specifically exempts from taxation a Barry Bonds-propelled baseball. Lawyers say this view logically stems from cases saying that someone who finds a "treasure trove" owes tax on it right away.
But other lawyers disagree. They also say it's highly unlikely that the IRS would be willing to risk the wrath of a baseball-loving nation by taxing the fan right away.
Yale Law School Prof. Michael Graetz, a former Treasury Department official and co-author of a leading course book on federal income taxation, says that the Bonds issue "would make a great law-school exam question."
Actually, there's way more than one question. Will the Internal Revenue Service require the fan to pay tax immediately, based upon the ball's estimated fair-market value? Or only after the fan sells the ball? Will the fan have to pay tax based on regular federal income-tax rates, which range up to 35%? Or, if the fan waits to sell the ball for more than a year after catching it, would any profit qualify as a long-term capital gain taxed at the maximum rate of 28% on collectibles?
If the prize catch does qualify as a long-term capital gain, what would the fan's cost be for tax purposes? Zero? The price of the ticket? The ticket price plus the value of a new baseball? What if the fan purchased a season ticket? Could he or she consider the cost of the entire season package as the cost basis? Would it make any difference if the person who catches the ball isn't a fan but rather a player standing in the bullpen? Or a groundskeeper?
These are just some of the curveballs that IRS officials don't want to try hitting. The IRS's expert is Don Korb, who not only is chief counsel, but also the agency's resident baseball fanatic. His office is filled with sports memorabilia, especially those related to his beloved Cleveland Indians -- including two home-run balls he personally caught in Cleveland. Last summer, he gave a speech at the Hall of Fame, where he discussed "the 10 most significant tax events in the history of baseball." If anyone knows the answer, it should be Mr. Korb.
When asked, Mr. Korb hides his head in his hands and replies: "Please, whatever you do, don't ask me that question."
A senior IRS official says, to the best of his recollection, the issues involving milestone home-run balls haven't been addressed in any formal IRS guidance. Yet the IRS did offer its thinking on one aspect of the subject back in 1998 -- and the story behind that pronouncement helps explain why IRS umpires are so reticent to discuss the subject today.
In the summer of 1998, a tax tempest flared up when St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire was on the verge of smashing Roger Maris's single-season record of 61 homers. At the time, a reporter asked an IRS spokesman what might happen if the fan who caught the record-breaking ball gave it back to Mr. McGwire as a gift.
The IRS spokesman replied that the fan could get hit with a hefty gift tax. That response produced howls of protest from the halls of Congress, as then-IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti recalls vividly.
"More than innocent-spouse cases, more than small-business owners losing their businesses, more than IRS modernization failures, the prospect of the IRS taxing this hypothetical good-hearted fan unleashed the fury of the American people, not to mention their representatives in Congress," Mr. Rossotti wrote in his memoir, "Many Unhappy Returns."
The IRS quickly reversed itself. Mr. Rossotti issued a statement saying that if a fan caught the ball and gave it back to Mr. McGwire, the fan wouldn't be taxed. "Sometimes pieces of the tax code can be as hard to understand as the infield fly rule," Mr. Rossotti explained. "All I know is that the fan who gives back the home-run ball deserves a round of applause, not a big tax bill."
That witty response drew its own round of applause -- and relief within the IRS. But it seems unlikely that the fan who catches the Barry Bonds ball will give it back to the slugger as a gift. For one thing, the ball probably will be worth a considerable amount of money -- "probably somewhere in the half-million range, four or five hundred thousand" dollars, says Dan Imler, managing director of SCP Auctions in Mission Viejo, Calif. (Mr. Bonds's 700th home-run ball was sold through SCP in 2005 for $102,000.) Mr. Imler says his estimate is based on such factors as "what other milestone home-run balls have sold for recently, the mixed public opinion about Barry Bonds and the record, and market conditions in general."
Mike Heffner, president of Lelands.com, a sports-memorabilia auction firm, thinks the price could be higher. "In my estimation, it's a half-a-million-dollar baseball, but it could sell for more at an auction," he says. "Sometimes people get crazy at auctions. Strange things do happen."
In May, Heritage Auction Galleries offered $1 million to buy the ball that Mr. Bonds hits when he breaks the record, says Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions for the Dallas-based auction house. But Heritage recently withdrew its offer because of what it referred to as "concerns about the safety of fans in the stadium and potential legal liability."
Prices for historic baseballs have swung widely over the past several decades. When Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 -- breaking the single-season record -- the ball was sold at auction for about $3 million. Since then, prices for home-run balls haven't come close, partly because historic records have been falling more frequently and because of suspicion that some players -- including Mr. Bonds -- have used steroids to enhance their performance. (Mr. Bonds has denied using steroids.)
Yale Law Prof. Graetz helped advise the IRS on the Mark McGwire flap in 1998 before Mr. Rossotti issued his statement resolving the issue. In return, the grateful Mr. Rossotti sent Prof. Graetz a baseball signed by Mr. Rossotti, saying: "Thank you for saving us from a strikeout on national TV."
So did Prof. Graetz declare the Rossotti ball on his tax return as income?
No, Prof. Graetz replies with a chuckle, explaining: "I don't think it has a lot of value to anyone but me."
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SOME STATES plan sales-tax holidays next month.
At least 14 states plan to waive their sales and use taxes for limited periods on certain items, according to a survey to be released today by CCH, a Riverwoods, Ill., unit of Wolters Kluwer. Typically, these tax holidays include back-to-school items such as clothing, footwear, school supplies and computers.
Details vary from state to state. Also, local sales taxes may continue to be imposed in some places, CCH officials say.
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Allison Leigh Kuhn and Thomas Andrew Manning were united in marriage Saturday, Oct. 2, at St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Mentor, Ohio, with the Rev. Thomas Johns officiating the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Cindy Kuhn of Barnesville.
The groom is the son of Joseph and Susie Manning of Mentor.
Jennifer Miller was matron of honor. Dave Amrine served as best man.
Other attendants were Marisol Miller, Kerah McKenzie, Lauren Ackerman, Leslie Stepoway, Suzi Manning , Courtney Scott, Hollie Kernya, Robert Kuhn, Joe Manning, Bob Manning, Pat Manning, Frank Bartos, Andrew Stern and Mike Utesch.
A reception was held at Lamalfa Center, Mentor.
The bride is a graduate of Barnesville High School and a graduate of Ohio University. She is employed by Kimpton Hotels as a sales coordinator in Arlington,Va.
The groom is a graduate of Lake Catholic High School and a graduate of Cleveland State University. He works for the National Geographic of Defense in Washington, D.C.
After a wedding trip to the Caribbean Sea in November, the couple resides in Arlington.


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Gibbons sweeps swimming state titles
Hansley places sixth in 50 freestyle
Published: Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 11:36 p.m.
RALEIGH Cardinal Gibbons swept to victory in both the boys and girls competition Saturday in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 2-A/1-A swimming and diving championships at the Willis Casey Natatorium at North Carolina State University.
Gibbons won its second straight boys crown by tallying 346 points to 248 for second-place Carrboro. Lenoir Hibriten was third with 223.5. West Henderson finished 16th with 42 points.
Kyle Hites of Hibriten was selected as the MVP of the boys meet after recording first-place finishes in the 200 IM and 100 breast, breaking the 2-A/1-A state record in the 100 breast.
The highest-placing individual team was the Falcons 400 freestyle relay team, which ended up in ninth. West also had two other relay teams end up in 14th (the medley relay and the 200 freestyle relay.
In the girls competition, Cardinal Gibbons had a 173-point margin over the field with 403 points to 230 for runner-up Carrboro, winning its fourth consecutive team title. West Davidson was third with 169, followed by Elkin (164) and Salisbury (120).
Hendersonville was 15th with 46 points, West Henderson was 20th with 35 points, and North Henderson was 26th with 17.
Kelly Ann Baird from West Davidson and Caroline Smith from South Davidson shared Most Valuable Performer honors in the girls meet.
Baird won both the 200 free and 500 free, breaking the 2-A/1-A state record in the 500 free. She also achieved automatic All-American times in both events.
Smith took first place in both the 200 IM and the 100 backstroke while breaking the state record in the 100 backstroke. She also achieved automatic All-American times in both events.
Lady Bearcat senior Caroline Hansley had the highest finish of any area swimmer, placing sixth in the 50-yard freestyle and eighth in the 100 free.
Wests Chloe McCall also had a sixth-place finish in the 1-meter diving held Friday.
Team scores
Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons 346, Carrboro 248, Lenoir Hiriten 223.5, Valdese Draughn 159, Durham School of the Arts 145, Raleigh Chater 127.5, N.C. Science and Math 110, Newport Croatan 97, Kill Devil Hills First Flight 81, Kernersville Bishop McGuinness 80, West Davidson 74, Mount Airy 76, Mayodan Dalton McMichael 62, East Lincoln 55, South Brunswick 45, West Henderson 42, Shelby 38, Salisbury 32, Elizabeth City Northeastern 26, Reidsille 19, Clinton 18, Elkin 17, Roanoke Rapids 17, Albemarle 15, East Surry 14 West Wilkes 13, Hillsborough Cedar Ridge 12, Morganton Patton 11, Chase 10, Highlands Tech 9, Owen 9, Hiwassee Dam 7, Orange 6, Southern Vance 4, Mount Pleasant 4.
Individual state champions
Medley relay Cardinal Gibbons 1:41.38; 200 free Ted Esch (Hibriten) 1:44.09; 200 individual medley Kyle Hites (Hybriten) 1:59.30; 50 free Kenneth Ryan (Carboro) 22.12; 1m diving Jay Bell (Gibbons) 364.3; 100 butterfly Nathan Walters (Gibbons) 52.98; 100 free Joe Bonk (Raleigh Charter) 48.04; 500 free Nathan Walters (Gibbons) 4:45.44; 200 freestyle relay Hibriten 1:32.66; 100 back Elliott Casey (McMichael) 53.66; 100 breast Kyle Hites, Kyle (Hibriten) 1:00.43; 400 freestyle relay Cardinal Gibbons 3:20.55.
Area results
Medley relay 14. West Henderson (James-N. Courtney-S. Courtney-Reesor); 200 individual medley 15. Niall Courtney (West Henderson), 16. Shane Courtney (West Henderson); 100 butterfly 14. Shane Courtney (West Henderson); 500 free 21. Bradley Haley (West Henderson); 200 freestyle relay 14. West Henderson (Reesor-Melton-English-Turner); 100 back 12. Niall Courtney (West Henderson); 400 freestyle relay 9. West Henderson (S. Courtney-Loder-N. Courtney-Turner).
Team scores
Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons 403, Carrboro 230, West Davidon 169, Elkin 164, Salisbury 120, East Surry 108, Orange 94, Durham School of the Arts 93, Kernersville Bishop McGuinness 91, Mount Airy 83, Hillsborough Cedar Ridge 81, Surry Central 68, Central Davidson 50, East Lincoln 46, Hendersonville 46, Leford 44, Kill Devil Hills First Flight 43, Boonville Starmount 41, South Daidson 40, West Henderson 35, Shelby 34, Canton Pisgah 32, Tarboro 31, N.C. Scence and Math 24, Catawba Bandys 18, North Henderon 17, Misenheimer Gray One Day 14, South Brunswick 12, West Stokes 10, Hayesville 9, Lenoir Hibriten 9, Valdese Draughn 5, Mount Pleasant 5, Smoky Mountain 3, Swansboro 1.
Individual state champions
Medley relay Cardinal Gibbons 1:50.75; 200 free Kelly Ann Biard (West Davidson) 1:50.86; 200 individual medley Caroline Smith (South Davidson) 2:05.30; 50 free Lakenn Reynolds (Elkin) 24.25; 1m diving Audrey Timmel (Cedar Ridge) 279.35; 100 butterfly Julianna Prim (Starmount) 57.51; 100 free Lakenn Reynolds (Elkin) 52.12; 500 free Kelly Ann Baird (W. Davidson) 4:51.68; 200 freestyle relay Carrboro 1:42.93; 100 back Caroline Smith (South Davidson) 56.77; 100 breast Kristen Esplin (Gibbons) 1:07.22; 400 freestyle relay Cardinal Gibbons 3:36.07.
Area results
200 free 9. Gabby McDaniel (North Henderson); 200 individual medley 14. Krista Van Geison (West Henderson); 50 free 6. Caroline Hansley (Hendersonville); 1m diving 6. Chloe McCall (West Henderson), 7. Darene Agnaonao (Hendersonville); 100 free 8. Caroline Hansley (Hendersonville), 16. Krista Van Geison (West Henderson); 500 free 12. Gabby McDaniel (North Henderson); 200 freestyle relay 9. West Henderson (Grayson-King-Carpenter-Van Geison), 12. Hendersonville (Franco-Lane-Griggs-Hansley); 100 back 14. Terri Toro (North Henderson).
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Today we have a special announcement: Aria Agency has joined and will fly under the banner of The Atkins Group, with offices in San Antonio and Dallas. Learn more about the merger of these two premier destination marketing agencies at theatkinsgroup.com
An article published today in the Wall Street Journal – only available to WSJ subscribers – takes a look at the carefully crafted experience Apple strives to create for visitors to its retail stores.
From the Wall Street Journal, "A look at confidential training manuals, a recording of a store meeting and interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees reveal some of Apple's store secrets. They include: intensive control of how employees interact with customers, scripted training for on-site tech support and consideration of every store detail down to the pre-loaded photos and music on demo devices."
Also this morning, Adweek published a similar article about Apple's heavily-managed, experience-oriented design, "The confidential training manual reads: "Listen and limit your responses to simple reassurances that you are doing so. 'Uh-huh' 'I understand,' etc." One employee recalls being told that he should never correct a customer's mispronunciation of a product, for fear of patronizing them. The Geniuses working the Genius Bar are taught to say "as it turns out" instead of the more gloomy "unfortunately" when delivering bad news."
Interesting, but by no means surprising. After all, you don't become the most recognizable global brand by accident.


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The Reform Movement is deeply commited to early childhood education, with congregations operating pre-schools of all types – formal, informal, full-time, part-time, and more – in an effort to engage families with young children in their communities.
But traditional models of early childhood education are no longer sufficient. This is the result of a number of factors: increasingly more working and single parents, an array of diverse family structures, and geographic dispersion, which makes it challenging for grandparents and other relatives to assist with childcare in the same ways...Read More
What is the most important part of your house of worship? Is it the spiritual well-being of the community or good attendance at adult classes and innovative programming events?
That question is at the core – at the essence – of every progressive synagogue (and every church, mosque, and other house of faith). It's not reflected in congregations' mission statements, value statements, or statements of purpose, and frankly, I doubt that many synagogue leaders know the answer as it applies to their own institutions. And, among those who think they do, at least half of them get it wrong...Read More
In the 21st century, we shouldn't need to assert that the lives of people of color matter as much as those of their white counterparts. We shouldn't need to declare that the votes cast by people of color count in this election.
We shouldn't need to – but we do.
Rev. William Barber and NAACP President Cornell Brooks have asked us to build on our significant participation in America's Journey for Justice last summer by protecting the right to vote this election year.
We're saying "Yes" by launching ...Read More
Contacts:Deborah Goldberg (U.S.): 212-650-4153Jo-Ann Mort (Israel): 054-726-9886
July 26, 2016 – Late last night, the Israeli Knesset passed a law instigated by ultra-Orthodox leadership to overturn a recent Supreme Court decision banning discrimination against non-Orthodox converts from state-funded mikvaot (ritual baths), which are integral to the conversion process. The Supreme Court case was brought by the Israel Religious Action Center, on behalf of both the Reform and Conservative movements...Read More
"I have to tell you, my daughter married a man who was Asian, and it was really hard for me. Because of the race thing. I told her that it was going to be tough, and she was so mad at me. I've been very worried about this, and I'm hoping things will be OK for her and her kids. It's been terrible trying to work this out."
This comment came from an audience member who attended a recent book event at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, where we...Read More
Inside Leadership, the blog at URJ.org, is a source for Reform Jewish leaders to get the latest news and though-provoking articles about Jewish communal life.


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Think you put a little too much shit going on in this song. Or maybe it's just me. TO be honest I didn't find this one flowing as nicely as your other songs. Better luck with the next one kiddo right?
yeah this loop was pretty shitty indeed xD
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execution good but the is a little short
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This song reminds of the time I played Sonic advanced for the Nintendo SP I got this game for Christmas I don't remember this song being in the game but it reminds me of it.
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This music reminds me of how I tore Eggman to pieces as Supersonic.*sigh*Those were the good ol days. :)


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Change the site license server for a site
Updated: January 21, 2005
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
To change the site license server for a site
Open Active Directory Sites and Services.
In the console tree, click the site you want to configure.
Active Directory Sites and Services/Sites/Site
- Active Directory Sites and Services/Sites/Site
In the details pane, click Licensing Site Settings.
On the Action menu, click Properties.
Under Licensing Computer, to select a different server to be the site license server, click Change.
To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.
To open Active Directory Sites and Services, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Active Directory Sites and Services.
To retain the licensing history for your enterprise, stop the License Logging service on the new site license server, and then copy the following files from the old site license server to the same location on the new site license server:
- Systemroot\System32\Cpl.cfg, which contains the purchase history for your organization.
- Systemroot\Lls\Llsuser.lls, which contains user information about the number of connections.
- Systemroot\Lls\Llsmap.lls, which contains license group information.
- Systemroot\System32\Cpl.cfg, which contains the purchase history for your organization.
For optimal performance, install the site license server in the site whose licenses you want to manage. The default site license server is the first domain controller created in the site, but the site license server does not have to be a domain controller.
Information about functional differences
Your server might function differently based on the version and edition of the operating system that is installed, your account permissions, and your menu settings. For more information, see Viewing Help on the Web.
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Other:*All feature films and shorts are full frame versions. **All content will have Spanish subtitles. Only the pictures with sound will have English subtitles and closed captions
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Vol. 1 leads off with the most famous of Lloyd's pictures, the 1923 "thrill" comedy Safety Last. The bespectacled Mr. Lloyd found his spot in comedy by playing the persona seen here: an optimistic go-getter, energetic but not particularly remarkable, who perseveres as he moves up the ladder. In Safety Last, he really moves up: Harold is a department-store clerk who concocts a publicity scheme for his store, which results in a climactic, hair-raising ascent up the outside of the building (at one point hanging from the hands of a huge clock). There is at least one other masterpiece on Vol. 1, the wonderful Girl Shy (1924), in which Harold is a small-time tailor's apprentice who can't speak to women but nevertheless has penned a how-to book entitled "The Secret of Making Love." There's also the 1923 Why Worry?, which suffers just a bit with its odd milieu (tropical island beset by revolutionaries) but has some hilariously weird routines built around compact Harold and the giant John Aasen (8 feet, 9 inches). A trio of shorter films are included, plus two Paramount sound features, the oddball Cat's Paw and Leo McCarey's entertaining The Milky Way.
Vol. 2 has the brilliant The Freshman (1925), with Lloyd as a college plebe whose ridiculous ideas about making himself ingratiating to others (including hilariously inapt jig during a handshake) makes him the laughingstock of the campus. The movie concludes with a justifiably famous football sequence. The Kid Brother (1927) is Harold as the weak link in the tough Hickory family, while Dr. Jack (1922) casts him as a country doctor whose ordinary ways prove sharper than they seem (his co-star, as in some other films here, is future wife Mildred Davis). In Grandma's Boy (1922) Lloyd plays a small-town fellow who lives with his frisky grandmother; convinced of his own cowardice, he yearns to compete for the hand of a pretty girl. His courtly call to the girl's home is the occasion for uproarious battle with a ridiculous "formal" suit, mothballs, and a litter of kittens attracted by the goose grease on his shoes. The gem of the shorts here is High and Dizzy (1920), a warm-up for Safety Last, which has a great sequence with Lloyd tipsily navigating a ledge on a high building. Feet First (1930), Lloyd's second talking picture, has Harold as an upwardly-striving shoe salesman trying to finesse his way up the ladder. Some good shipboard sequences in the middle of this one, but the main drawing card is a throwback: Lloyd re-visiting the Safety Last hanging-from-a-building sequence, but this time working every variation known to slapstick.
Vol. 3 has Speedy, his last silent picture, which packs as many great gags per minute as any Lloyd film, and also has one of his sweetest love stories. But the film is also notable for its extensive location shooting in New York City. The sequences shot at Coney Island, with some wonderfully hair-raising (and understandably obsolete) rides, are gorgeous and historically valuable. Hot Water (1924) also goes into the time capsule of great Lloyd features, even if it feels like a handful of shorter films shoehorned together. This one gets its charm from basic domestic situations. Like Hot Water, For Heaven's Sake (1926) is an hour long; this funny one casts Lloyd as a rich twit who takes up with a girl whose father runs a homeless mission.
There's one talking picture, the somewhat routine Movie Crazy (1932), but the silent shorts, of which there are many here, are better. Check out Haunted Spooks from 1920, which has its share of good jokes but which is also fascinating for its place in Lloyd's career. He suffered an off-set accident midway through shooting, costing him the thumb and forefinger of his right hand; after a hiatus, he completed shooting with a prosthetic glove (which he used in films thereafter). A heartfelt 15-minute documentary on Lloyd's palatial L.A. estate, Greenacres, uses copious home-movie footage to show the marvelous place and give a hint of Lloyd's homey, likable personality (it's narrated by granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd). A bonus disc contains home movies, celebrity tributes, Lloyd's collection of 3-D photographs, and his honorary Oscar acceptance speech from 1953. --Robert Horton