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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 13 (UPI) — A law on registration and community notification for released sex offenders cannot be applied retroactively, the Ohio Supreme Court said Wednesday.
The justices ruled 5-2 the 2007 Ohio Adam Walsh Law can only be applied to offenders who committed their crimes after it became effective, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported. The court reversed a decision by a state appeals court.
"The General Assembly has the authority, indeed the obligation, to protect the public from sex offenders," Justice Paul Pfeifer said. "It may not, however, consistent with the Ohio Constitution, 'impose new or additional burdens, duties, obligations, or liabilities as to a past transaction.'"
Justice Terrence O'Donnell in the minority opinion said the court has said in previous rulings that requiring sex offenders to register and providing community notification in some cases are civil sanctions, not criminal penalties.
The Ohio Supreme Court, in a ruling published today, has declared that imposing "enhanced" sex offender registration and community notification requirements on previously-convicted sex offenders, as required by the Ohio Adam Walsh Act (AWA) which was contained in 2007's Senate Bill (SB) 10 is a violation of the Ohio Constitution.
"When the General Assembly adopted the AWA by enacting 2007 S.B. 10," stated a Ohio Supreme Court press release, "it included statutory language requiring that, regardless of the date on which a defendant's crime was committed, state courts sentencing sex offenders on or after July 1, 2007 must apply a new three-tiered AWA offender classification scheme and must include in the defendant's sentence registration and community notification requirements set forth in the AWA that are more severe than similar provisions in the prior, Megan's Law, version of the statute."
The decision was based on Article II, Sec. 28 of the Ohio Constitution, which states in part, "The general assembly shall have no power to pass retroactive laws." Similar wording can be found in the U.S. Constitution as well, where one clause in Article I, Sec. 9 reads, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto ["after the fact"] Law shall be passed."
The case at issue was State v. George Williams, where the defendant had been convicted for engaging in sexual conduct with a minor—conduct which took place prior to July, 2007, although Williams was convicted on the charges in December, 2007, after SB 10 had been passed.
"Prior to his sentencing hearing," the Supreme Court's press release stated, "Williams entered a motion asking the trial court to sentence him under the Megan's Law sex offender classification scheme that was in effect on the date of his offense, rather than under the AWA classification scheme. The trial court overruled Williams' motion. Pursuant to the AWA he was classified as a Tier II offender, which required him to register with the sheriff in his county of residence, and in any other county in which he worked or attended school, every 180 days for the next 25 years." Under Megan's Law, his registration and reporting requirements would have been limited to 10 years.
Williams appealed that ruling under the ex post facto/retroactivity clauses of both the Ohio and U.S. Constitutions, as well as arguing violation of the U.S. Constitution's due process clauses and its ban on double jeopardy.
Another portion of the AWA, which would have allowed the Ohio Attorney General to reclassify sex offenders without the necessity of judicial approval, was overturned by the same court just over one year ago.
The Ohio Supreme Court's 5-2 decision, authored by Justice Paul E. Pfeifer, overturning the AWA was largely based on the fact that while several state decisions had held that the registration requirements of Megan's Law were considered remedial rather than punitive in nature, "Following the enactment of SB 10, all doubt has been removed: R.C. Chapter 2950 [the AWA] is punitive," Justice Pfeifer stated in the majority opinion. "The statutory scheme has changed dramatically since this court described (in [State v.] Cook) the registration process imposed on sex offenders as an inconvenience 'comparable to renewing a driver's license.' … And it has changed markedly since this court concluded in [State v.] Ferguson that R.C. Chapter 2950 was remedial…
"Based on these significant changes to the statutory scheme governing sex offenders, we are no longer convinced that R.C. Chapter 2950 is remedial, even though some elements of it remain remedial…," the high court concluded. "We conclude that SB 10, as applied to Williams and any other sex offender who committed an offense prior to the enactment of SB 10, violates Section 28, Article II of the Ohio Constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly from enacting retroactive laws."
"The Ohio Supreme Court decision in Williams does a really good job of explaining how in light of these internet websites that we now have, and community notification and criminal penalties attaching and more periodic registration in person with a sheriff there, all of these measures are looking more and more and more like punishment and less and less and less like a driver's license," one attorney analyzed, "and as that shift has happened, it's become more like criminal punishment, and really, the Ohio Supreme Court is the first top court in a state to characterize it that way."
Kinsley said that through her discovery motions in the case, it had been revealed that hundreds of people in Ohio will be affected by today's decision, and will now be able to get on with their lives without the stigma of appearing on sex offender websites.
Court: Law applied to convicted sex offenders violates constitution
The legislature's attempt four years ago to apply a new law to already-convicted sexual offenders violated the Ohio Constitution, the state Supreme Court ruled today.
Imposing enhanced registration and community notification requirements in the 2007 Ohio Adam Walsh Act against defendants whose crimes were committed before the effective date of that law violates a constitutional prohibition on the General Assembly enacting retroactive laws, the justices declared.
The 5-2 decision, which reversed a ruling by the 12th District Court of Appeals, was written by Justice Paul E. Pfeifer.
"The General Assembly has the authority, indeed the obligation, to protect the public from sex offenders," Pfeifer said. "It may not, however, consistent with the Ohio Constitution, 'impose new or additional burdens, duties, obligations, or liabilities as to a past transaction.' "
Joining the majority opinion were Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and Justices Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, Judith Ann Lanzinger and Yvette McGee Brown.
Justice Terrence O'Donnell authored the dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justice Robert R. Cupp.
Today's decision came on the appeal of George Williams of Warren County, convicted in December 2007 for engaging in sexual conduct with a minor an offense that occurred before the Adam Walsh Act took effect. Williams asked the judge to sentence him under the previous sex offender classification setup, known as Megan's Law.
The judge rejected that motion and classified him under the more stringent Adam Walsh Act as a Tier II offender, which required him to register with the sheriff in his home county and in any other county in which he worked or attended school, every 180 days for the ensuing 25 years.
Williams appealed, but was turned down by the 12th District Court of Appeals.
Pfeifer noted that in earlier Supreme Court decisions on previous changes in the sex offender law, justices upheld the changes because they were more remedial than punitive, and thus the constitutional ban on retroactive laws did not apply. But the changes in the Adam Walsh Act made them punitive, and therefore unconstitutional.
Ohio HB 77 Bill Summary – Sex Offender Reclassification
Summary, and Content and Operation:
Court reclassification or classification of pre-S.B. 10 offenders and delinquent children into S.B. 10 Tier classification
Conviction, guilty plea, or adjudication prior to January 31, 2011 –
The bill repeals the existing provisions that contain the reclassification mechanism enacted in S.B. 10 and that the Supreme Court in Bodyke, supra, held to be unconstitutional (repeal of R.C. 2950.031 and 2950.032). It also repeals two existing, related provisions enacted in S.B. 10. One of the related provisions extends the S.B. 10 reclassification mechanism to offenders and delinquent children whose registration and other duties under the SORN Law was scheduled to expire on or after July 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2008. The other requires a sheriff to notify the AG when an offender or delinquent child initially registers an address with the sheriff on or after December 1, 2007, based upon a duty imposed for an offense committed prior to that date (repeal of R.C. 2950.033 and 2950.043; these sections were not addressed in Bodyke, supra). The bill enacts a judicially based reclassification mechanism to replace the repealed, unconstitutional mechanism. It also enacts a provision that extends the new mechanism to offenders and delinquent children whose registration and other duties under the SORN Law were modified as a result of the operation of the S.B. 10 reclassification mechanism and, subsequently, were terminated or scheduled to be terminated as a result of the decision in Bodyke, supra (see "When SORN Law duties terminated or to be terminated under Bodyke," below).
Fighting Ohio House Bill 77 – Reclassification of Sex Offenders
This is a letter we sent today to the Ohio Representatives on the eve of the Criminal Justice Committee hearing of Wed, Feb 9th, 2011. We urge all readers to write, email and call the Representatives listed on the previous posting to strongly oppose this House Bill 77:
I lead an organization named ConstitutionalFights which strongly opposes House Bill 77, introduced by Rep. Hackett. This bill will come before the House Criminal Justice Committee on Wed. Feb, 9, 2011.
HR 77 is the Legislature's latest attempt to re-classify citizens who have a sex offense conviction in their past. We strongly urge you to oppose advancement of this bill.
The intent of HR 77 is very similar to that of Senate Bill 10, which was ruled as a constitutional violation on June 3, 2010 by the Ohio Supreme Court in Bodyke vs, Ohio ( R.C. Chapter 2950 — Sex offenders — R.C. 2950.031 and2950.032 violate separation of powers by requiring executive branch to reclassify sex offenders already classified by court order).
The difference with HR 77 is that it orders all affected citizens to appear in court for a second sex offender classification hearing.
This is an attempt to bypass the Separation of Powers violation.
But in the 2010 Ohio Supreme Court ruling, the challenges of Due Process, Double Jeopardy and Ex Post Facto violations were not
even addressed by the Court. Had these challenges been decided, they would certainly have resulted in similar nullification of the law.
HR 77 requires any citizen with a sex offense who had not matriculated off the sex offender registry by January 1, 2008 to appear before a Court for a second sex offender classification hearing. A majority of these individuals had fulfilled all requirements put upon them by the sex offender laws in place at the time of their conviction or plea. To haul them back into Court for a new classification hearing where a new set of registry requirements would be imposed is a violation of the Ohio and U.S. Constitutions. This bill violates the Due Process, Double Jeopardy and Ex Post Facto clauses of our Constitutional rights.
In addition to the constitutional violations of any law which attempts to retroactively reclassify offenders and to impose new and more stringent sex offender registry requirements, there are several other factors which our Legislature must consider when drafting sex offender legislation.
Firstly, there is no empirical or statistical data or evidence to support the contention that public sex offender registries have any
effect on recidivism or public safety. In fact, the only data correlating these two factors is in opposition to popular conception.
Publicly-accessible sex offender registries actually serve to isolate humiliate individuals to the point where they cannot build family and social support systems necessary to live productive and law-abiding lives. Along with residency restrictions, these public registries are no less than a Scarlet Letter which brands individuals, often
for a lifetime from normal social life and interaction.
Public sex offender registries do not prevent crimes. National media sensationalistic news reports of hideous sex offenses actually support this contention. In recent years, the highest profile news stories of sex offenses have involved men who were actively compliant registered sex offenders. These registries are simply a means for legislators to appear tough on sex crimes and an excuse for the public to feel better.
But the harm they do in the lives and families of tens of thousands of Ohio citizens caught up in the registry net is dramatic.
A popular myth is that sex offenders have a high recidivism rate. The statistical data proves this to be false. The U.S. Department of Justice statistics refute this myth. USDOJ data reports that "Recidivism Rates of Sexual Offenders (5.3% re-arrested, 3.3% of Child victimizers re-arrested)"
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation study, "Ten-Year Recidivism Follow-Up Of 1989 Sex Offender Releases", concludes that the recidivism rate for child -victim sex offenders (outside family) for a new sex-related crime in Ohio is 8.7%. The recidivism rate for all sex offenders for a new sex-related crime in Ohio is 8.0%.
Numerous other studies have reported similar data. I can provide official sources.
Finally, this is just morally unjust. Most of the individuals who would be affected by legislation such as HB 77 are those who made a terrible error in their lives many years ago (often times 10 -20 years ago).
They have been living law-abiding, productive lives in the years since they served their debt to society. All of us make mistakes in our lives, yet sex offenders are the only group to which we give no second chance. If the laws are in place at the time of conviction, we have no argument. But imposing new laws in order to recapture those who completed their obligations many years ago is simply immoral and wrong.
I could continue with supporting arguments but in an effort to be concise, I will conclude. I would welcome the opportunity to provide additional supporting information to the Committee members
for their consideration in these hearings. After the 2010 Ohio Supreme Court ruling (Bodyke vs, Ohio) which we fought for 3 years, we have extensive experience in studying sex offender laws, their effects, and the related empirical data within Ohio and throughout the nation.
We urge you to strongly oppose House Bill 77 and any future legislation which attempts to retroactively classify those who have long since satisfied all registration requirements of their offenses.
OH: House Trying to Retroactively Classify Past Offenders (Again)
As we posted last week, The Ohio House of Representatives has proposed a new bill (HR 77)
If this bill passes, anyone who had not yet matriculated off of the sex offender registry by January 1, 2008 would be hauled back into court for a second sex offender classification hearing where a judge would instate a new sex offender classification. The result of this bill would be exactly what Senate Bill 10 did in 2008 (to reclassify those who should have graduated off of the registry and impose new registry requirements on them, often a life-long registration requirement).
HB 77 is to be debated in the House Criminal Justice Committee on Wed. Feb, 9, 2011 at 9 am. Everyone affected or concerned with this matter should attend this hearing at The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus Ohio. (update Feb 8: we are told by Rep. Slaby's assistant that only sponsors will participate in this first hearing, and that opponents will not be permitted to participate).
The hearing is open to the public and opposing opinions are allowed. Just fill out the witness form when you enter the statehouse. If you have any written information for the record, you should submit it as well.
If we act proactively and if we have a large number of people attend this hearing, we can avoid a repeat of the 2-1/2 year debacle which we experienced with the implementation of Senate Bill 10 from Jan 2008 through June 2010 when it was finally ruled to be illegal.
We have a good chance to defeat this bill before it advances to a vote. But only if we have others willing to join in the fight, appear at the hearing and communicate your opposition to the bill.
In the meantime, readers should contact the bill's sponsors and Committee members to clearly express their opposition to this House Bill 77, which would retroactively classify anyone with a sex offense who was not removed from the ESORN sex offender registry before January 1, 2008. This retroactive bill is a violation of the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions which expressly forbid any ex post facto law. It also violates constitutional rights of the Double Jeopardy clause of both Constitutions.
Bill Sponsors:
Hackett Garland Blessing Combs Grossman Hottinger Patmon
Bob D. Hackett, Representative
Phone: (614) 466-1470
Fax: (614) 719-6984
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Nancy J. Garland, Representative
Phone: (614) 644-6002
Fax: (614) 719-6959
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Louis W. Blessing, Jr., Speaker Pro Tempore
Phone: (614) 466-9091
Fax: (614) 719-3583
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Courtney Combs, Representative
Phone: (614) 644-6721
Fax: (614) 719-6954
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cheryl L. Grossman, Assistant Majority Whip
Phone: (614) 466-9690
Fax: (614) 719-6962
Email: email@example.com
Jay Hottinger, Representative
Phone: (614) 466-1482
Fax: (614) 719-3971
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bill Patmon, Representative
Phone: (614) 466-7954
Fax: (614) 719-0010
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Criminal Justice Committee:
Lynn Slaby R Chair
Phone: (614) 644-5085
Fax: (614) 719-6941
Email: email@example.com
Roland Winburn D Ranking Minority Member
Phone: (614) 466-2960
Fax: (614) 719-6940
Email: email@example.com
Bill Hayes R Vice Chair
Phone: (614) 466-2500
Fax: (614) 719-6991
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Nancy J. Garland D
Phone: (614) 644-6002
Fax: (614) 719-6959
Email: email@example.com
Louis W. Blessing, Jr. R
Phone: (614) 466-9091
Fax: (614) 719-3583
Email: email@example.com
Connie Pillich D
Phone: (614) 466-8120
Fax: (614) 719-3582
Email: email@example.com
Danny R. Bubp R
Phone: (614) 644-6034
Fax: (614) 719-6988
Email: email@example.com
W. Carlton Weddington D
Phone: (614) 466-5343
Fax: (614) 719-3581
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
William P. Coley, II R
Phone: (614) 466-8550
Fax: (614) 719-6955
Email: email@example.com
Sandra Williams D
Phone: (614) 466-1414
Fax: (614) 719-0011
Email: email@example.com
Joseph W. Uecker R
Phone: (614) 466-8134
Fax: (614) 719-3966
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ron Young R Member
Phone: (614) 644-6074
Fax: (614) 719-3963
Email: email@example.com
Call to Action : OH Legislature Going at it Again – Part 2
It appears that a similar bill was introduced in the Ohio Senate in Nov. 2010. Senate Bill 316 was proposed by Senators: Seitz, Miller, D. Wagoner, Grendell, Turner, and Smith.
Senate Bill 316 is "to clarify for an offender or delinquent child who had SORN Law duties under the SORN Law in effect prior to January 1, 2008, the offender's or child's duties under the current SORN Law and the duration of those duties and to declare an emergency."
Those who are concerned about this attempt to retroactively re-capture (onto the sex offender registries) all offenders whose crimes pre-dated the 2008 law change, should immediately contact these Senators to voice your opposition.
SB 316 Sponsors:
Bill Seitz (R)
Phone: (614) 466-8068
Email: email@example.com
Mark Wagoner (R)
Phone: (614) 466-8060
Email: email@example.com
Tim Grendell (R)
Phone: (614) 644-7718
Email: email@example.com
Nina Turner (D)
Phone: (614) 466-4583
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Shirley A. Smith (D)
Phone: (614) 466-4857
Email: email@example.com
The intent of SB 316 and HB 77 is to:
"Create a list of all the sex offenders who were reclassified via the 2010 Bodyke ruling, notifying them all by mail, and forcing them into court one at a time to have a judge issue a new Adam Walsh Act sentencing order. It would re-reclassify all of these individuals into the AWA tier scheme, adding thousands to the registry, many for life."
Both of these bills will be debated within the respective House & Senate Criminal Justice Committees. Readers should contact the members of this committee in order to voice your opposition to these bills.
Senate Criminal Justice Committee (re: SB 316)
Tim Grendell (R) Chair |
Larry Obhof (R) |
Nina Turner (D) |
Eric Kearney (D) |
Frank LaRose (R) |
Peggy Lehner (R) |
Scott Oelslager (R) |
Joe Schiavoni (D) |
Mark Wagoner (R) |
House Criminal Justice Committee ( re: HB77)
Criminal Justice | |||||
Name | Party | Position | Name | Party | Position |
Lynn Slaby | R | Chair | Roland Winburn | D | Ranking Minority Member |
Bill Hayes | R | Vice Chair | Nancy J. Garland | D | Member |
Louis W. Blessing, Jr. | R | Member | Connie Pillich | D | Member |
Danny R. Bubp | R | Member | W. Carlton Weddington | D | Member |
William P. Coley, II | R | Member | Sandra Williams | D | Member |
Joseph W. Uecker | R | Member | |||
Ron Young | R | Member |
Call to Action : OH Legislature Going at it Again
Ohio Legislators are going at it again. Just six months after having been soundly defeated in the June 2010 Bodyke vs. Ohio Supreme Court ruling, seven Ohio House Representatives have proposed new legislation to retroactively revise Ohio's sex offender laws to re-capture all offenders who committed crimes before 2008 onto the rolls of the sex offender registry.
Those concerned about this proposed legislation must contact the seven Representatives immediately to express their opposition to this bill. If we are forced to do so, ConstitutionalFights will return to the battlefield to help defeat this latest attempt by the Ohio Legislature to violate the constitutional rights of 30,000 Ohio citizens.
The newly proposed bill, House Bill 77 of the 129th General Assembly would amend and repeal parts of the existing Ohio sex offender statutes to:
"clarify that SORN Law definitions of sexually oriented offenses, child-victim oriented offenses, tier classifications, public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants, and related terms include the specified offenses regardless of when they were committed and to provide for court reclassification of offenders and delinquent children who committed their sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense prior to January 1, 2008, and had SORN Law duties based on that offense into one of the tier classifications of the current SORN Law.
Bill Sponsors:
Hackett Garland Blessing Combs Grossman Hottinger Patmon
Bob D. Hackett, Representative
State Representative (R)
District: 84
Term: 2nd
Term Limit: Eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-1470
Fax: (614) 719-6984
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Nancy J. Garland, Representative
State Representative (D)
District: 20
Term: 2nd
Term Limit: Eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
10th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 644-6002
Fax: (614) 719-6959
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Louis W. Blessing, Jr., Speaker Pro Tempore
State Representative (R)
District: 29
Term: 4th
Term Limit: Eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
14th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-9091
Fax: (614) 719-3583
Email: email@example.com
Courtney Combs, Representative
State Representative (R)
District: 54
Term: 5th (includes appointed and elected terms)
Term Limit: Not eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
13th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 644-6721
Fax: (614) 719-6954
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cheryl L. Grossman, Assistant Majority Whip
State Representative (R)
District: 23
Term: 2nd
Term Limit: Eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
14th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-9690
Fax: (614) 719-6962
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Jay Hottinger, Representative
State Representative (R)
District: 71
Term: 3rd
Term Limit: Eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
12th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-1482
Fax: (614) 719-3971
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bill Patmon, Representative
State Representative (D)
District: 10
Term: 1st
Term Limit: Eligible to run for another two-year term
77 S. High St
11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Phone: (614) 466-7954
Fax: (614) 719-0010
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
We seek legal professionals who are willing to engage in a lawsuit against the State of Ohio should this legislation be put into law. We also still seek legal professionals who are willing to engage in a lawsuit against the State of Ohio regarding the Bodyke Supreme Court ruling of June 2010 for damages of those 30,000 former offenders who were maintained on the sex offender registry 2-1/2 years after they should legally have been removed.
We must collectively hit these legislators squarely in the "front teeth" this time to assure that we do not experience what we experienced between 2008 and 2010.
Ohio Attorney General New Efforts to Track Sex Offenders
ohioattorneygeneral.gov: Cordray Announces New Efforts to Track Sex Offenders (official announcement).
sexoffenderresearch.blogspot.com: Cordray Announces New Efforts to Track Sex Offenders (important analysis).
8/27/2010(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced today that his office has received a federal grant that will help county sheriffs keep better track of registered sex offenders.
The $155,546 grant will pay for two new programs. (your tax dollars)
The first will allow the Attorney General's Office to develop a phone and e-mail alert system that will send automated messages to offenders and sheriffs' offices around Ohio, five days before offenders are supposed to re-register as part of their reporting requirements. The system also will track phone numbers or e-mail addresses that no longer are in operation, alerting sheriffs' offices if the contact information provided by offenders is incorrect.
The second part of the grant will help county sheriffs' offices fund extradition of offenders who moved to other states without notifying local authorities as required by law.
Analysis from sexoffenderresearch.blogspot.com:
"Of course this new system of tracking likely will catch offenders unaware and maybe arrested, when they are actually compliant. For instance, if a phone is shut off because one cannot pay a bill, that would cause the registrant to be arrested. If a registrant doesn't use his/her e-mail addresses frequently, the e-mail provider will tag that account for being dormant and eventually close the e-mail account, causing the registrant to be arrested. Next, if a registrant has many e-mail addresses each for different purposes, will s/he be arrested because he decides to no longer use one of them? There is a big difference in having a e-mail address and using it, this new system forces registrants to use ALL e-mail addresses regularly or face arrest."
Don't forget: The Ohio Attorney General has still not complied with the Bodyke Supreme Court ruling of June 3, 2010. While 2300 registrants are slated to be removed from the sex offender registry as a result of this ruling, only 1000 names have been removed from the list in three months' time. We must all continue to call and contact the Ohio AG office to force them to comply with the law. 90 days after Bodyke, the Ohio AG office is in violation with Ohio law. Click Watchdog icon below for contact information:


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I've been reading a collection of articles on the SunRockIce website. One that caught my eye is called Decision Making for Wilderness Leaders, by Ian McCammon, of the National Outdoor Leadership School. It's probably no secret that the avalanche education industry has undergone a crisis of confidence in recent years. Disturbing studies suggest not only that traditional avalanche courses may be ineffective, but that they may even increase the likelihood a person will expose themself to risk.
McCammon's article examines three ways we make decisions, and assesses them from the point of view of preventing avalanche fatalities.
The first method is called Analytic Decision Making. This is the process most often taught in avy courses, emphasizing the collection of data, using that data to compare alternatives, and then choosing a course of action.
We would expect Analytic Decision Making to be the most rational and therefore the most effective of the three methods. Surprise: in the topsy-turvey world of avalanches and mountaineering, the Analytic method is the least effective, particularly for novices.
To understand why, we need only look at the first step of the process: gathering data. This works well in situations where it is possible to collect and accurately assess all relevant data.
In the mountains, however, data is often incomplete and ambiguous. Additionally, it takes valuable time (itself a safety consideration) to collect the data. The likely result of trying to make an analysis of incomplete (or misleading) data is a bad decision, or the inability to even reach a decision.
The second mode is labeled Heuristic Decision Making. Mountaineers are probably familiar with the term Heuristic Trap, which refers to our tendency to apply rules of thumb inappropriately when making critical decisions.
Heuristics, however, can also be useful in the backcountry, provided those rules of thumb are appropriate to the situation. For example, a heuristic rule might be to avoid slopes steeper than 30 degrees whenever the avalanche danger is rated (by a professional forecast) considerable or higher.
Here, choice has been removed from the system in favor of a simple rule. For novices, this can be advantageous, provided the rule is adhered to—and provided the rule is appropriate to the context.
The last and most interesting method is called Expert Decision Making, or Recognition-Primed Decision Strategy. In this case, experts employ their extensive catalogue of knowledge to search for pattern matches.
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RPD can be the most effective of the three methods. However, like heuristic decision making, experts can fool themselves into thinking they have expertise about a situation when in fact it is beyond their range of experience: the Expert Trap.
Ultimately, McCammon stresses the complexity of Human decision making processes, and how little we know about it. From these three examples, however, McCammon suggests ways to teach better backcountry decision strategies. If the topic interests you, do give the article a look.


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American Idol finalist Casey Abrams returns to the Academy, where he studied during his junior high and high school years. The 24-year-old singer and songwriter released his self-titled debut album in 20012. He will be performing at the Holmes Amphitheater on Sunday.
Clarinetist and composer Evan Christopher is based in New Orleans, but his roots at Idyllwild Arts Academy run deep, and his return to the festival is highly anticipated. He will perform at the Holmes Amphitheater on Saturday.
Yve Evans, who has been singing since she was 3 years old, is no stranger to performing. She will sing Saturday with her trio of musicians. On Sunday, she will raise things up a notch, singing with her Voices in Praise gospel group. Both performances will be held in the Holmes Amphitheater.
Sultry strains of jazz music will curl around pine trees and fill the mountainside this weekend during the 21st annual Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines music festival.
More than 25 acts will showcase myriad jazz styles across three stages during the two-day outdoor festival, which benefits students at the Idyllwild Arts Academy.
"Jazz is a fine art. It's a niche, a uniquely American art form," said Sherry Williams, who has been singing at the festival off and on for the past 10 years and will perform with the Harry Pickens Trio on Sunday. "It's an experience. You're sitting out in a beautiful setting among all these pine trees. ... The whole vibe up there is amazing."
Headliners this year include "American Idol" finalist and Academy alumnus Casey Abrams, contemporary jazz musician Evan Christopher and pianist and singer Yve Evans. All have performed at the festival in the past.
"Musicians love to come back and support (the event)," said Jeff Hocker, spokesman for the event, who previously served as the festival's executive director. "It's an amazing concert outdoors. You don't feel like you're confined to a venue."
The Holmes Amphitheater will be the main stage for the event, with artists such as Deanna Bogart, Ruby Blue, David Garfield & The Afro Cuban Jazz Project and the Euphoria Brass Band performing over the weekend.
The French Quarter stage, which will feature danceable, New Orleans-style jazz, will see performances from Rocky Zharp, The Greg Jones Band and Black Swan Blues featuring Bill Saitta and Don Reed, among others.
Straight-ahead jazz will be the focus of the Stevens Hall stage, with the music stylings of The Straight Jackets, Paul Carman's Quarket Plus One, Jazz Grass and The Harry Pickens Trio featuring Sherry Williams and Marshall Hawkins.
"We feature a mix of different people who've come before and big artists who want to take a step back from headlining shows," Hocker said. "It's a very diverse lineup of musicians from all different walks of life. We feature everything from zydeco to straight-ahead jazz."
For the past five years, Jazz in the Pines has organized a special dinner on Friday night as a preview to the festivities. This year's special menu, created by Australian chef and designer Georgie Smith, has a $250 entrance fee that includes entrance tickets to Saturday and Sunday as well as preferred parking.
"It is going to be a celebration of Idyllwild, so we're taking the party outside," Smith said. "It will be a beautiful forest party under a parachute and string lights. There will be a barbecue, a band and dancing."
In addition to all of the music and enticing eats, there will be more than 65 juried vendors selling unique, hand-crafted wares both Saturday and Sunday.
The food and crafts are great, but jazz music is what the festival is all about.
"I've done a lot of festivals and I just think ... Idyllwild is the best-kept secret," Williams said. "I would encourage anyone to do this at least once in their lifetime."
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Perhaps not quite as fundamentally bizarre as its parent show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, but often plenty transgressive and unsettling enough, spinoff Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule is a worthy showcase for John C. Reilly's Dr. Steve Brule. The bits of nonsensical advice the character pitched during Awesome Show's "Brule's Rules" segments are 30-second comedy gold, and I'm happy to say the bit works just as well stretched out to 12-minute episodes.
Part of what makes Brule so funny is how aggressively cartoonish he is — impossibly naïve, unabashedly grotesque and completely unable to pronounce anyone's name even remotely correctly — but Reilly's performance adds unexpected dimensions of naked vulnerability and a childlike fear of a world he doesn't understand. Sure, it's funny, but it can also veer pretty close to unbearably sad — a hidden emotional strength that can sometimes get obscured by the overtly outré flourishes.
Adult Swim's single-disc DVD collects all 12 episodes from 2010's season one and 2012's season two, in which Dr. Steve Brule is unleashed upon the 4:30 a.m. time slot on Channel 5, self-producing a talk show where Brule investigates a particular topic. Episodes range from considerations of topics like food, family, pleasure and boats. Inept interviews and bumbling field reports by Brule are punctuated by recurring weather reports, movie reviews and advertisements that only seem like slightly exaggerated versions of something you might see on late night cable access. Tim and Eric's married news team Jan and Wayne Skylar show up from time to time as well.
While each episode's bevy of intentional technical problems — poorly spliced segments, incorrect footage, unsynced audio — becomes a bit of an overused stylistic flourish, the overall effect is a show that genuinely feels like the product of a well-intentioned but incompetent self-styled newsman, whose journalistic approach is driven by maybe the most genuinely curious (and cracked) mind you'll ever see. Reilly's creation is inspired, prompting laughs borne out of both delight and genuine discomfort.
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The wild deer in Naga, Japan know the rules
Check out these deer in Naga, Japan who seem to know to wait for the "walk" signal before darting out across the street…whether or not they really *know* what they're doing, it's still amusing nonetheless.
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A Tale of Three Sons
By Cindy Sheehan
In the spring of 2000, my oldest son, Casey Sheehan, was at a crossroads. He was completing his third year at a community college and he had finished all of his lower division requirements. Casey earned an AA in Theatre Arts and was hoping to transfer to Sacramento State and get his teaching degree to teach elementary school. However, working full time and going to college was taking its toll on Casey.
Somehow, an Army recruiter got hold of him at the right time and he was beguiled by the promises of instant wealth (a $20,000 signing bonus that somehow metamorphosed into $4500 when he finished basic training); a specialty that was attractive to him (Chaplain's assistant) that was transformed into being a humvee mechanic when he reached basic and promises of education that never, ever materialized. After Casey was KIA in Iraq, we got a check for $1200; his educational benefit that was taken out of HIS pay for the first year he was in the Army: One hundred dollars a month for twelve months. Not even one penny of interest for the entire time that the government had his money.
In 2002, Andy, my youngest son, graduated from high school. Uncle Sam allowed Casey to come out on leave to attend his brother's graduation and the pictures of my four children together at that time break my heart. This was after the tragedy of 9-11, but before the insane invasion of Iraq. Andy was not much of a student and did not do as well as Casey when he tried to take classes at Solano Community College. Not every person is designed to take an academic route, so that was okay, but I worried how was Andy going to support himself without an education? One day, almost miraculously, an apprenticeship job with Operating Engineers, Local 3, fell into Andy's lap. He was hired to be a land surveyor's apprentice as age 19 and now at age 24, he is a journeyman in a great union with great pay and benefits. These great opportunities, however, are few and far between for our young people today.
Andy's union bent over backwards to help him make up his apprenticeship classes after Casey was killed and Andy is getting a quality education while he is getting on the job training. I thank Andy's lucky stars everyday that he was saved from joining the military: a fate worse than death, for sure.
Any day now, my daughter's son, Jonah, will make his appearance into this world. Because of his Uncle Casey's sacrifice, our family will do everything in our power to make sure Jonah does not become cannon fodder or a paid assassin for the Military Industrial Complex. There will be no more naïve, but well-intentioned mistakes in the Sheehan family! Even more important than this, however, the tale of three sons should be instructive to the US population as a whole.
A recent AP article lamented the Democrat's "politically painful" choice of funding BushCo's occupation of Iraq for another year. Of course, what the Democrats really mean is that they have to fund Iraq and Afghanistan past the November elections because the leadership is counting on the fact that we Americans have short-term memory when it comes to their callous political expediency. However, now, with the economy in virtual free-fall and the mess in the Middle East worsening by the day, we are all beginning to feel the sting of the personal cost of this occupation.
As a political candidate against the number one Bush enabler, Nancy Pelosi, I have felt the immense personal pain of her politically "painful" decisions and I have a plan that would help our country (and the world, especially Iraq) recover from 8 years of the Bush Horror and prevent more Caseys and promote more Andys and Jonahs.
First, as an emergency measure, we need to start bringing our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. We are borrowing from Jonah's future to fund these occupations at 16 billion a month. We will need to use some of that money as reparations to these countries and to help our veterans reintegrate wholly into society. It has recently been estimated that 18 vets per day commit suicide (6-7 Iraq vets) and 250 more per week try, but are not successful.
Secondly, instead of using this money to fund death and destruction, we immediately institute, or re-institute jobs' programs that put our unemployed neighbors back to work repairing bridges, levees, roads, schools and other infrastructure that has been crumbling for the last few decades.
Such barriers to fair trade, as NAFTA and other "free" trade agreements need to be repealed and we need to rebuild our trade unions to be the bargaining force that they once were. We need a place for our young Andys to go to learn positive trades with decent pay and benefits.
Finally, to prevent more Caseys, we need to reduce our Pentagon budget to a rational and moral one that would be strong on defense, but not strong enough to be able to staff almost one thousand bases world-wide, nor to be able to embark on illegal wars of aggression. Our "defense" budget has now surpassed an obscene one trillion dollars a year (not counting the twin disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan) and the nation that spends the second most is, with over triple the US population, China, at 65 billion. Adjusting for the fact that we can be the "mightiest" nation on earth, I propose a DOD budget of 70 billion dollars.
We can use the money we save every year to truly reduce taxes on the middle and working classes and invest in institutions and programs that truly make a nation strong: health care, education, jobs, and sustainable forms of energy and farming.
The vampire of US fascist militarism is sucking this country and world dry. To ensure a healthy world for Jonah and all of our children, the monster needs to be stopped!
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Wouldn't it be nice if we did not have to feed our children to a war machine in order to get them a education. Americans are just as much religious fanatics as any other fanatics. Since when is war on the world as Christians not a form of fanaticism?
I think I am going to have to move to California soon.
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i'll be sending a portion of my CEA check - soon as it arrives = perhaps many will do the same and get Cindy elected to office and unseat the bane of our existance Pelosi.
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Ciara Glasheen
Ciara began her musical training in the County Cork School of Music studying flute with Conor O' Connell. After completing an LTCL in flute performance in 2007 under the tutorage of Katrina Emtage in the Cork School of Music, she decided to change direction.
At the age of 19, Ciara took up oboe, studying with Sarah Burn and later with Matthew Manning. She has just completed her final year of a BMus degree in the CIT Cork School of Music studying oboe with Aisling Casey. She is currently studying at the Rotterdam Conservatoire with Aisling Casey and Maarten Dekkers.
Ciara has attended masterclasses with prestigious teachers such as Klaus Becker (Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Hannover), Marc Schaeferdiek (Musikhochschule Koln), David Walter (Paris Conservatoire), Celia Nicklin (Royal Academy of Music, London), David Theodore (Royal College of Music, London) and Jo Lively (Trinity College of Music, London) among others.
Ciara has played with ensembles such as the RTE Concert Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, Codarts Symphony Orchestra - Rotterdam, International Youth Wind Orchestra, National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Cork Symphony Orchestra as well as the many Cork School of Music orchestras and ensembles.
Ciara has also played concertos with DIT Baroque Orchestra and Monica Huggett in the National Gallery of Ireland and the Cork School of Music Baroque Orchestra. Ciara is a reserve player for the European Union Youth Orchestra. She has been awarded scholarships to prestigious summer schools such as Sewanne Music Festival Orchestra (USA), Domaine Forget Academie (Canada) and the International Youth Wind Orchestra (USA).
Ciara has been privileged to collaborate with composer John Gibson for the World Premiere of his work for Cor Anglais, Mezzo-Soprano and Piano "Lament for Oona" in the Crawford Art Gallery Cork in 2007.
This year, Ciara has been awarded a study scholarship from the London Philharmonia Orchestra and Martin Musical Scholarship. She has also won prizes that include the Music Teachers Association Bursary and the Crowley Cup at Feis Maitiu, Cork.
Most recently Ciara has played with Camerata Ireland for the re-opening of City Hall in Belfast, Codarts Symphony Orchestra for the re-opening of the concert hall "De Doelen" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, a tour in the USA as part of the WASBE conference 2009 and the prestigious Clandeboye Festival in August 2009.
Ciara's teaching experience spans many different age groups and ensembles. She is currently music teacher at Arnhem International School in the Netherlands. She studied music pedagogy and child psychology in the Cork School of Music from 2007-2009 and has taught in primary schools such as St. Joseph's National School, Mardyke and the Cork School Project. She has taught as a substitute teacher of both musicianship classes and individual instrumental tuition in the Cork School of Music and County Cork VEC School of Music.
One-to-one instrumental tuition on flute, oboe and recorder from beginner upwards is available. Entry for grade examinations can be under either the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music or the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Preparation for the Junior and Leaving Certificate practical is included. This option may be particularly attractive to primary school students who wish to take up a musical instrument as part of their overall personal development.
One-to-one tuition in the academic aspects of music i.e. harmony, music history, aural training/ear tests, sight-singing, rudiments, improvisations, transposition and general musicianship is also available. This is particularly important to back up the instrumental tuition a student may be receiving. Entry for theoretical grade examinations can also be arranged.
The above aspects are particularly important for students who wish to study music as a subject for their Junior or Leaving Certificate yet the core subject of music in their chosen secondary school is not available. A fully comprehensive course work package is provided for both state examinations.
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In Wednesday's edition of the Around The League Podcast I noted that the Denver Broncos offense has a chance for a historic season along the lines of the 2007 New England Patriots.
One of the primary reasons for that optimism is the Broncos' emphasis on playing faster in a heavy no-huddle attack which has been cribbed from the 2012 Patriots -- via new Philadelphia Eagles mastermind Chip Kelly.
"You want change of pace" coach John Fox told NFL Media's Michael Silver. "Just like a pitcher -- you don't throw all fastballs. The good ones throw different speeds. They throw curves and sliders and changeups. That's the trend. Call it the 'Chip Kelly Effect'. We fell victim to it a year ago in New England. We kind of stole it from them really."
In a copycat league who can blame aggressive new coordinator Adam Case for adopting strategies from the best minds in football?
To an offense that finished second only to the Patriots last season the Broncos have added Wes Welker and athletic tight end Julius Thomas to provide a sustaining element in the passing game.
This is a nightmare scenario for opposing defenses.
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CLACKAMAS - Clackamas High athletic standout Shelby Vasconcellos-Mattocks has been selected as a Multnomah Athletic Club 'Sophomore Scholar-Athlete' for the 2010-11 school year. MAC will honor her and scholar-athletes from other Portland area high schools at a banquet in mid-May.
A three-sport athlete, Vasconcellos-Mattocks has excelled in the classroom as well as on the athletic floor. She has been a varsity participant in volleyball, basketball and track and field, while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Last fall, Vasconcellos-Mattocks was a starter on Clackamas' volleyball team that earned Three Rivers League co-champion honors with West Linn. This past winter Vasconcellos-Mattocks was a starter for Clackamas' basketball team that made school history, advancing to the state final for the first time.
She was a first-team all-league selection in volleyball last fall. She was honored as Clackamas' 'Player of the Game' in the Cavaliers' championship final with Jesuit at the 2011 Class 6A Basketball Tournament.
Last season, as a freshman, Vasconcellos-Mattocks had personal bests of 32-3 in the triple jump and 15-3 in the long jump. She plans to also compete in the high jump and javelin this spring.
Vasconcellos-Mattocks also makes time for community service, participating in a mother-daughter charity league. Most recently she helped out at a food bank and in spreading barkdust at schools.
Vasconcellos-Mattocks said of the MAC honor, 'It's huge! I didn't even know about it. I think it's great that they are recognizing kids who work so hard.'
Vasconcellos-Mattocks has ambitious goals as she continues her high school athletic career.
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"While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic; he was looking for negotiations and cooperation. And this was the most important thing to me; he had the trust of the American people."
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism"
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"Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal,"
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"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
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"They're very dogmatic. The North Koreans, they are very programmed, they have their policy statements they don't want to diverge from. They're very doctrinaire. They don't negotiate like others -- quid pro quo."
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Actor Michael Sheen thought he'd drop by the set of Rachel McAdams' new film for a quick visit with his ladylove. While he was hanging out, director Terrence Malick put him to work. No slackin' on this set!
Michael shared:
"Apparently, if you're an actor and you turn up on a Terrence Malick set, he asks you to be in his film. So I got to be Ben Affleck's boss for a day."
The film is still untitled, but is due out sometime in 2012 and also stars Rachel Weisz and Jessica Chastain.
Ben Affleck, Rachel Weisz, AND Rachel McAdams? I'm IN!
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n. - The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
n. - To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
v. t. - To give joy to; to congratulate.
v. t. - To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
v. t. - To enjoy.
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Ahh jeans. They go with everything, and are always in style.
And usually, there's one special pair in your closet that you just can't live without...your favorite pair.
Most of us have a favorite pair of jeans. They might be old and a bit worn, but these days you pay premium for that same "distressed" look on designer jeans. And we did it all by ourselves, simply by loving them to death.
Well, the newest thing in designer jeans is...you guessed it, embroidery. (Funny how the fashion world is just picking up on things we've known all along). Embroidered, distressed, designer jeans are pricey though. I found pairs that ran anywhere from $60 to $200 online.
So, we have "naturally" distressed jeans AND embroidery designs. With a few quick stitches, we can swank up our jeans to boutique status. You can use your favorite old pair, or buy a new "favorite" pair of jeans, and dress it up with a little classy embroidery. Then if you like, you can sell them to boutiques for a 500% markup. Hurrah for free market economy...
For this project, all you'll really need is a pair of jeans, a seam ripper, and some slick embroidery designs. I'd highly recommend printing out templates of your designs so we can get exact placement, especially if you want to use a repeating border design, like I have.
Embroidering on jeans is a fairly simple process, once you know a few tricks. There are a few places on jeans that lend especially well to embroidery. The back pockets and the bottom cuff of jeans are the easiest places to add a little embellishment, but if you're really ambitious and enjoy ripping seams, I guess you could embroider them just about anywhere.
Remember, when embroidering on pockets your design has to be smaller than the pocket or our little trick won't work very well.
To embroider on pockets, we'll first need to free them from the jeans. You could do a big fancy embroidery design right on top of the pocket and stitch it all together, and you'll look very fashionable, but not very intelligent.
To free your pockets, grab a seam ripper and rip out the seams holding the pockets to the jeans, save the very top. Leave about 1/2 inch of seams behind, so your pocket is hanging on by just two small spots at the top. This will help us line it up exactly when we stitch it back onto the jeans.
Take your printed design template and cut it out so it's a bit smaller than your pocket. Now, tape it onto your pocket exactly where you want it.
To hoop it all, grab some stabilizer and hoop it by itself, then spray the back of your pocket generously with fixative.
Line up the cross hairs on your design with the markings on your hoop to get perfect placement, then press your pocket firmly onto the stabilizer, so it sticks. The rest of your jeans are just going to kind of hang out on the outside of the hoop. Once you're sure your pocket is where you want it, you can remove the paper template.
To make sure your pocket stays in place, pin the corners of it to the stabilizer itself. Make sure none of the pins are going to get in the way of the embroidery.
When you stick it under your machine, you might find you have to adjust the rest of the jeans a bit in order to make it all fit. An important thing to keep in mind: don't leave most of the weight of the jeans draped over the table while it's embroidering. Believe it or not, the weight of the jeans alone is enough to throw off the embroidery arm, and make your design all wonky. Keep it all up on the table and as much out of the way from the movement of the arm as possible.
Set your machine to sewing!
Keep a close eye on the rest of your jeans as it's embroidering. You don't want them to bunch up and impede the arm, or get stitched underneath. My little Futura was especially grumpy this time, and I had to watch it like a hawk to make sure it didn't eat my favorite pair of jeans.
Once your embroidery is finished, remove it from the hoop and trim the excess stabilizer so it's smaller than your pocket. You can embroider the other pocket if you want, for a little extra flare. I'd recommend doing all your embroidery first, before you switch to your sewing machine to stitch everything back together.
To embellish the bottom cuffs of your jeans, you'll need to grab your seam ripper again, and open up the side seam about 6-8 inches, depending on the size of your hoop. Don't rip it up any more than you need to, or it will be difficult to fit back under your machine to sew back together again.
You can place any design on the bottom cuff, it doesn't have to be a border but just in case, I'll show you how to do a repeating border with perfect placement, all the way around the bottom of your jeans. If your design is not a border, you'll still hoop it in the same way you did the pocket, spray the back and pin down the corners.
As before, tape your template to the jeans exactly where you want it, then use the cross hairs on the design to line it up with your hoop. Be sure to pin down the edges of the jeans to keep it from moving about.
For a border design, I'd recommend starting at the seam. Use your template to roughly measure out how many times you'll need to repeat the design in order to go all the way around. Most jeans, unless they're huge flares or skinny jeans, will probably use three. When you're measuring, decide if you want your border to line up with itself, or leave a bit of a gap between designs. It will probably depend on the design itself.
Stick it under your machine, taking extra care to make sure no other part of your jeans are stuck underneath it, and let it sew.
To continue my cowboy chic theme, I'm stitching out the barbed border to coordinate with the cowgirl skull. I'm not sure why I'm in a western mood. Maybe it's nostalgia. Like most kids through one phase or another, I wanted to grow up to be a cowgirl and ride ponies. This was a lot better than my previous phase, when I watched too much My Little Ponies and wanted to grow up to be a horse. I guess one naturally led into the other. Kids are strange.
To get perfect placement, use your template to line up the edges of your borders. You can either have them touch, or even have them overlap just a little bit. Tape your template down and hoop up your design as you did before.
A quick tip I learned here is that all though your needle may look centered, it may not actually line up perfectly with the marks on your hoop, which kind ruins the whole idea of your placement. With the template still taped on and hooped, gently lower your needle to make sure it's coming down in the center of your design. Being a little bit off before wouldn't have mattered, but when we're lining things up, we want to make sure everything is perfect.
Repeat your border as many times as needed to go all the way around. Three times took me just shy of the seam, which was perfect. Truly, that was just luck on my part.
So what if you're not so lucky? If you find your border an annoying few inches short of the end, I have a little trick for you. Hoop up your last length of jeans, and line up your design as you did with all the others. When your design sews, it will stitch right over the edge of your jeans, and onto the stabilizer. When it's done, simply snip off the extra embroidery, and you're set!
Now it's time to stitch it all back up together again. Line up your seam as it was before, and pin it in place.
Remove the detachable part of your sewing machine, and stick the jeans under the foot. This will take some maneuvering, but since we didn't rip up the seam that far, it can be done. Just make sure that the pins stay in place and that no extra bit of jean gets caught underneath and stitched together. When you sew the seams shut, you can either match the thread to the same color used on your jeans, or use clear nylon thread, so it doesn't show. Stitch down both sides, copying the seams that were stitched before.
Now go back to your pocket and do the same.
Pin it in place, which should be easy, because it should just fall exactly where it was before, and re sew the seams all the way around the pocket.
Now stand back and marvel at how you turned an old worn pair of jeans into a high class boutique item! Custom embroidery touches add subtle class to jeans, and dresses them up a bit. You can stitch on pockets and borders and embellish the bottoms of jeans to all manners of fancy.
I put the cowskull on the back right pocket, and the border on the opposite left cuff. The coordinating border around the bottom of the jeans is a delicate accent to the whole ensemble. We have a few different borders you can choose from to dress up your edges, and all kinds of designs you can use to dress up any other pair of jeans. Have fun with it! You can make any ordinary pair of jeans a designer pair with a few quick stitches, and for a heck of a lot cheaper than boutique prices. Plus every pair is customized for you!


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In Wednesday's final home dual meet, CHS (9-1) won against North Haven (96.5-53.5) and Lyman Hall (119.5-30.5) on Senior Day. Sophomore Alexandra Pelletier won the 400-meters (59.2). She also added to first place finishes in the 4x100- (sophomore Jamiya Richardson, freshman Janaia Skibitcky, junior Kristin Cabrera; 50.6) and 4x400-meter (seniors Jenna Hart and Saparja Nag, junior Kimmi Grove; 4:22.4). Cheshire also took the 4x800-meter relay (Hart, sophomore Sharon Bian, junior Theresa Cashore, senior Hannah Purtell; 10:28.2).
Junior Selina Sampieri claimed the pole vault (10 feet) and triple jump (33 feet, eight inches), while sophomore Natalie Wickenheisser did the same in the 1,600- (5:45) and 3,200-meters (12:30.7). Seniors Ariel Greene (discus; 107 feet, two inches), Purtell (800-meters, 2:33.1), Grove (200-meters, 27.9), junior Katie Cavallaro (300-meter hurdles, 51.4), and Richardson (100-meters, 13.1) secured victories.
The Middletown Invite is Friday (3:30 p.m.) and Saturday (1 p.m.).
Photo of Purtell below was taken by Allen Paul/Cheshire Herald.
Softball (9-4; 4-1 in Housatonic Division)
Cheshire swept Sheehan (7-5; 1-3) 4-1. After Sheehan tied the score 1-1 in the fifth inning, Cheshire scored three times in the bottom half. Junior Bryanna McIntosh (three-for-four) hit a home run, her third of the season, to bring home sophomore Olivia Odermatt (hit by pitch). McIntosh added two runs scored and RBIs. Cheshire also received an RBI single from sophomore Sara Como.
Senior Kierstyn Bourdeau had two hits. Classmate Erin Donnarumma scored a run.
Senior Nicole D'Amato picked up the win after pitching a four-hitter. She struck out four.
The teams wore pink to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer awareness. Read more in next week's issue of The Cheshire Herald.
Team photo at bottom taken by Allen Paul/Cheshire Herald.
CHS visits Branford on Friday at 4 p.m.
Boys' Volleyball (8-3)
Cheshire lost 3-2 at undefeated Oxford (12-0). Game scores: 25-16, 23-25, 18-25, 25-17, 5-15. Oxford won the season series, 2-0. Junior Ted Li tallied 22 assists and six kills (career-high). Evan Colechia (19 kills, eight digs), Scott Romano (eight digs), and Lucas Yasuda (eight kills, five blocks) contributed from the senior class.
Cheshire hosts Amity (8-4) on Monday at 6:30 p.m. CHS won 3-1 on April 12.
Baseball (5-7; 1-4)
Shelton (8-5; 4-1) jumped ahead 2-0 and never trailed in their second win over host Cheshire. Sophomore Cooper Mrowka was two-for-three. Junior Ethan Lonardelli drove in senior Kevin Mirando with a sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to 2-1 in the fourth inning. Shelton plated three runs in the sixth inning to gain separation.
Mirando and classmate Kyle Hodgdon added hits. Seniors Christian Colp (six hits, seven walks) threw four innings before being relieved by classmate PJ Watson (four hits, two walks). They both had a strikeout.
CHS hosts Daniel Hand on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Boys' Lacrosse (4-6)
Daniel Hand (7-5) defeated host CHS 15-8. The Tigers led 5-0 in the first quarter and 11-4 at halftime. Senior Chris Trasacco posted four goals in the loss. For the first time, junior Matt Samuelson posted a hat trick. Senior Tom Dupont scored once. Classmate John Klemenz recorded three assists and sophomore Jack Cunningham had one. Junior goalkeeper Jared Dawson supplied 20 saves.
Hand seniors Will Reynolds and Matt Sullivan combined for 13 goals.
The Rams host Shelton (2-6) on Thursday at 7:15 p.m.
Remainder of Thursday's varsity schedule:
Boys' Golf (8-2; 4-1)
CHS hosts Notre Dame-West Haven at 2:30 p.m.
Girls' Golf (8-1)
At Indian Hill Country Club, the Lady Rams face host Newington at 3 p.m. Cheshire beat them 184-210 last Thursday.
Boys' Tennis (6-5)
Cheshire hosts Guilford (10-2) at 4 p.m.
Girls' Lacrosse (9-1)
The Lady Rams, winners of eight straight, host Daniel Hand (6-2) at 5:15 p.m.


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2012-08-10, 19:00 | Link #1041 | |
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And from his reaction, he's not amused. Last edited by Nvis; 2012-08-10 at 21:08. |
2012-09-25, 19:26 | Link #1043 |
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Love the color pages for chapter 208.
Tsurara & Rikuo being together kind of signal a harem ending. It would be so cruel for him to sack only Kana and maybe even Yura for an alliance's Just previously in chapter 207 and down, Abe no Seimei decedents were huge antagonist's of the arc, but now they're cannon fodder for the Nura Alliance's. The story feels bit rush though.
2012-09-26, 04:13 | Link #1045 | |
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2012-09-26, 05:15 | Link #1046 |
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Weird that they are ending this way. Maybe the problem was that the series started as a cutesy shounen romcom/action manga and gradually metamorphosed into a legitimately frightening action manga with almost seinen level of graphic violence.
I guess this change began with the Hagoromo Gitsune arc and became really pronounced in the seriously nightmarish Hundred Tales Arc. I think that if this series could have decided earlier which one of these it was, I would have liked it better, but frankly, I think it does a pretty bad job of balancing both aspects. Also, I get the feeling that the author is gonna do something stupid like pair Rikuo with Kana (because he is supposed to bridge the gap between the human and yokai world :P although I guess the he would be down to a 1/8 of the day as a yokai) even though she's mostly been gone for like all of the last two story arcs. I guess I'm a Rikuo x Tsurara shipper but Rikuo x Yura would also be better than boring Kana. |
2012-09-26, 07:04 | Link #1047 | |
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It's Tsurara or nothing. There's one thing I don't get about the Gokadoin clan: how did they manage to become immortal? I thought even Seimei couldn't do it, hence why he had to die first and be reborn as the Nue.
2012-09-26, 07:26 | Link #1049 |
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He could have ended the manga with chapter 207 with an open end. The final page was actually quite fitting with both sides attacking. And later he could have restarted the manga if he wanted. Better than rushing it.
2012-09-26, 08:08 | Link #1050 | |||||
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Anyway, getting a kid is a reason to not end it. NuraMago makes money and you need money to bring up a kid. At best, he would have asked to be moved to SQ and seeing how he is not closing the HM storyline, there is a chance that a sequel or something will start there. But thats practically a baseless speculation as well. Most likely, it is pure cancellation... a stupid move IMO as WSJ has yet to get a new series that would be a lasting hit and it would be more logical to hold to a series like Nura which still sold well. Quote:
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The thing I wonder is. Weren't the tankoubon sales quite high for Nura. I always though even if the ranking are low as long as the sales are high enough you are safe or at worst moved to another magazine. Why outright cancel Nura? |
2012-09-26, 08:32 | Link #1052 | ||
The Faceless One
I agree tough it is weird that it wasn't moved to SQ. Now that Ao no Exorcist has become popular, SQ has a lot of readers who like youkai and demons, perfect audience for Nura. On other hand, Hiroshi isn't trying to even end the HM side of the story and neither is he ignoring them (mind you that he would have known about cancellation weeks and gotten warnings months before). There is a chance that he wants to end the Seimei side of the story and Rikuo's story and start a fresh sequel of spin-off in SQ. Getting a daughter is good enough reason to want to be moved to SQ, not to mention that its audience would be more fitting.
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Sorry for the rant. Quote:
And I noticed that too. HM is not finished yet and there are other plot points that I think can be expanded. A time skip or new generation could be a great idea. I just don't want to see Nura finished like this. Hoping for a part 2. |
2012-09-26, 15:39 | Link #1054 | |
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Actually, after One Piece, I'd say Nura was my probably second favorite shounen manga ( along with D. Gray Man, which was quite awesome for a few arcs and is also ending soon after a big drop in popularity). I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a deeply flawed manga, but it's also very unique and the art which started off a little dodgy, has become some of my favorite in manga. All in all, this manga has continued to be entertaining for me. Why cancel a series like this and let something like Bleach continue? P.S. I know that this series was supposed to end after the Gokadoin Arc anyways, but they could have taken a little more time. P.S.S. I will say though, I'm glad we're getting these color chapters. They're beautiful. |
2012-09-26, 16:35 | Link #1055 |
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So I came here and I'm glad the series didn't cancelled after hiatus. The chapter feel rushed though but I do hope the author fill more plot without feel any rushing moment.
How many chapter left again? 3 or 4?
2012-09-26, 17:55 | Link #1058 | |
The Faceless One
Tsurara: "The final palace" Tsuchigumo (who just arrived): "It is just a shack." ""Shhhh!"" Tsurara: "Well guys, lets go to Seimei!" ""YES!!"" *Tsurara opens the doors* Kitsune: "And this is for throwing me into that hot place!" *POM* Seimei: "I am sorry mom! T_T" *POM* Kitsune: "No sorries will save you you naughty, naughty boy!" *POM* *Tsurara closes the gates* Tsurara: "Actually, lets rather not go to Seimei. He is a silly man."
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== Kernel Configuration == | == Kernel Configuration == |
Latest revision as of 17:00, 3 February 2012
The Leapster Explorer includes a USB recovery function, designed to be used in conjunction with LFConnect to recover the Leapster Explorer to a known-working state. We can leverage this USB recovery function to transfer kernels we want to test to the Leapster Explorer without having to do a destructive write of the new kernel to the LX nand (which can be dangerous). The result is an ability to test kernels on Leapster Explorer using USB booting, just like we test kernels using UART or SD kernel booting on the Didj.
Kernel Configuration
Modify lines 999-1008 of linux2.6/drivers/mtd/nand/lf1000.c as follows to enable mounting of the onboard partitions:
//if (gpio_get_boot_source_config() == SCRATCH_BOOT_SOURCE_USB) //{ // base_parts = partition_info_recovery; // base_parts_nb = ARRAY_SIZE(partition_info_recovery); //} //else //{ base_parts = partition_info; base_parts_nb = ARRAY_SIZE(partition_info); //}
You can then build your kernel as you normally would.
The bootloader expects the kernel to be in the Common Boot Format (cbf) LeapFrog included a script in their sources. To create the 'cbf' in the scripts directory, type:
$ make_cbf.py
You now have a kernel ready for USB Booting.


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Peer Reviewed
- Edition: The Tempest
The Tempest (Modern)
- Introduction
- Texts of this edition
- Facsimiles
Enter Trinculo.
2.2.201057Trinculo Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any 1058weather at all -- and another storm brewing! I hear it 1059sing in the wind. Yon same black cloud, yon huge 1060one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his 1061liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know 1062not where to hide my head; yon same cloud cannot 1063choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we here -- a man 1064or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish. He smells like a fish -- a 1065very ancient and fish-like smell, a kind of not-of-the-1066newest poor-John. A strange fish. Were I in England 1067now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not 1068a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. 1069There would this monster make a man. Any strange 1070beast there makes a man. When they will not give a 1071doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see 1072a dead Indian. Legged like a man, and his fins like 1073arms. Warm o'my troth -- I do now let loose my 1074opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish but an 1075islander that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. Alas, 1076the storm is come again -- my best way is to creep 1077under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter 1078hereabout. Misery acquaints a man with strange 1079bedfellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm 1080be past.
2.2.221082Stephano I shall no more to sea, to sea; here shall I die ashore. 1083This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's 1084funeral. Well, here's my comfort.
The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I,
2.2.371097Stephano What's the matter? 1098Have we devils here? 1099Do you put tricks upon us with savages and men of 1100Ind? Ha! I have not escaped drowning to be afeard 1101now of your four legs, for it hath been said, "As 1102proper a man as ever went on four legs cannot make him 1103give ground", and it shall be said so again while 1104Stephano breathes at' nostrils.
2.2.391106Stephano This is some monster of the isle with four legs, 1107who hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil 1108should he learn our language? I will give him some 1109relief if it be but for that. If I can recover him, and keep 1110him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a 1111present for any emperor that ever trod on 1112neat's-leather.
2.2.411115Stephano He's in his fit now and does not talk after the 1116wisest. He shall taste of my bottle; if he have never 1117drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit. 1118If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will not take 1119too much for him -- he shall pay for him that hath him, 1120and that soundly.
2.2.421121Caliban Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt 1122anon -- I know it by thy trembling. Now Prosper works 1123upon thee.
2.2.431124Stephano Come on your ways. Open your mouth -- here 1125is that which will give language to you, cat. Open your 1126mouth -- this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and 1127that soundly. You cannot tell who's your friend. Open 1128your chops again.
[Caliban drinks.]
2.2.451129Trinculo I should know that voice. 1130It should be -- 1131but he is drowned, and these are devils. O 1132defend me!
2.2.461133Stephano Four legs and two voices? -- a most delicate 1134monster! His forward voice now is to speak well of 1135his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches 1136and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover 1137him, I will help his ague. Come: amen, I will 1138pour some in thy other mouth.
2.2.481140Stephano Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! 1141This is a devil and no monster! I will leave him -- I 1142have no long spoon.
2.2.491143Trinculo Stephano, if thou be'st Stephano, touch me and 1144speak to me, for I am Trinculo. Be not afeard, thy 1145good friend Trinculo.
2.2.501146Stephano If thou be'st Trinculo, come forth. I'll pull 1147thee by the lesser legs. If any be Trinculo's legs, 1148these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How 1149cam'st thou to be the siege of this mooncalf? Can 1150he vent Trinculos?
2.2.511151Trinculo I took him to be killed with a thunderstroke -- but 1152art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art 1153not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me 1154under the dead mooncalf's gaberdine for fear of 1155the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, 1156two Neapolitans 'scaped!
2.2.531159Caliban [Aside] These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. 1160That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor. I will 1161kneel to him.
2.2.541162Stephano How didst thou 'scape? 1163How cam'st thou hither? 1164Swear by this bottle how thou cam'st hither -- I escaped 1165upon a butt of sack which the sailors heaved 1166o'erboard -- by this bottle, which I made of the bark of 1167a tree with mine own hands since I was cast 1168ashore.
2.2.551169Caliban I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true 1170subject, for the liquor is not earthly.
2.2.581174Stephano Here, kiss the book. 1175Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made 1176like a goose.
2.2.601178Stephano The whole butt, man! My cellar is in a rock 1179by the seaside, where my wine is hid. 1180[To Caliban] How now mooncalf? How does thine ague?
2.2.631184Caliban I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee! 1185My mistress showed me thee, and thy dog and thy bush.
2.2.641186Stephano Come, swear to that: kiss the book. I will 1187furnish it anon with new contents. Swear!
2.2.651188Trinculo [To Stephano] By this good light, this is a very shallow 1189monster. I afeared of him? A very weak monster. 1190The man in the moon? 1191A most poor, credulous monster. 1192[To Caliban, who is drinking] Well drawn, monster, in good sooth.
2.2.661193Caliban [To Stephano]I'll show thee every fertile inch of the island, and 1194I will kiss thy foot. I prithee be my god.
2.2.671195Trinculo By this light, a most perfidious and drunken 1196monster -- when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
2.2.701199Trinculo I shall laugh myself to death at this 1200puppy-headed monster, a most scurvy monster. I could find in 1201my heart to beat him.
2.2.731205Caliban I'll show thee the best springs, I'll pluck thee 1206berries, I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough! 1207A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! 1208I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, thou 1209wondrous man.
2.2.751212Caliban I prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow, 1213and I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts, 1214show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how to snare 1215the nimble marmoset. I'll bring thee to clustering 1216filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee young scamels 1217from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
2.2.761218Stephano Ay prithee now lead the way without any more 1219talking. Trinculo, the King and all our company else 1220being drowned, we will inherit here. Here, bear my 1221bottle, fellow Trinculo; we'll fill him by and by 1222again.


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General Motors: We're No. 1*
It's not official quite yet -- the company won't release its final, official 2011 sales numbers until later this month -- but it's looking like General Motors (NYS: GM) has reclaimed the global sales crown, less than two years after emerging from its historic bankruptcy.
Adding up the year-end numbers from GM's divisions and affiliates around the world gives a total of about 9 million vehicles sold in 2011, enough to put the General ahead of the surprise second-place finisher Volkswagen (OTC: VLKAY.PK), and longtime rival Toyota (NYS: TM) .
It's a nice capstone to an up-and-down-year for the General, which, let us not forget, is still in the midst of a major overhaul of its global product line that won't be completed for several more years. But that sales crown comes with a caveat, and it's one that GM shareholders would be well advised to keep in mind.
The asterisk: China
GM posted an 8.3% year-over-year sales gain in China, its largest market by sales volume, enough to retain its first-place position in the Middle Kingdom's sales rankings. GM's China efforts are powered by two big joint ventures:
- Shanghai GM, a roughly equal partnership with Chinese automaker SAIC, builds and sells cars under the familiar Buick, Chevrolet, and Cadillac brands. It sold 1.2 million vehicles in 2011, enough to make it China's passenger-car leader, according to GM.
- SAIC-GM-Wuling, a three-way venture that builds inexpensive little commercial vans and trucks under the Wuling brand, and low-cost cars under the recently introduced Baojun brand. A small number of Wulings are exported and sold elsewhere under the Chevrolet Move nameplate. It sold just under 1.2 million vehicles in 2011.
Wuling is the reason for the asterisk on GM's global sales total. While the General is technically a minority partner in Shanghai GM, a concession to the realities of Chinese politics and business, the venture is functionally just another part of General Motors. Its technical centers are integrated with GM's global product-development operations, its cars wear familiar GM nameplates (and many are identical to cars sold by GM in other markets), and so on.
Wuling is a bit of a different thing. GM owns only about a third of the venture and receives only about a third of the (tiny, thanks in part to incentives) per-vehicle profits, and it produces vehicles that don't really resemble any others in GM's global product portfolio. But what GM does own is the contractual right to count all of the vehicles produced by the venture as its own for purposes of global sales totals and market-share claims.
You see what I'm getting at with the asterisk?
It's a bit tempting to call that cheating, but I think that's probably a little too harsh -- GM hasn't (yet) made a big deal out of its return to global sales leadership, and CEO Dan Akerson has signaled that it won't. But it's worth keeping in mind as we look at how GM is performing around the world.
GM: We're focused on profits, not volumes
I'm hesitant to bust GM's chops too much over those sales totals, because Akerson, to his immense credit, has made it clear that his primary focus is on improving margins, not market share. But GM's profitability right now isn't great, in part because its product line is still very much in transition. While the arrival of the new Fusion signals that rival Ford (NYS: F) has largely completed its effort to streamline its global product portfolio -- to offer the same core group of cars and trucks all over the world, with a few regional variations and additions -- GM's efforts to follow suit are several years behind.
That's one reason GM, for all of its impressive sales totals, isn't as profitable as Ford on a per-vehicle-sold basis -- and why its operating margin (just under 5%) lags well behind rivals like VW, which sports a margin in the 7.5% range (and a more coherent global product portfolio).
GM's long-term plan is to consolidate its roughly 30 "core architectures" -- global vehicle platforms -- with a goal of building 90% of its vehicles on just 14 platforms by 2018. There will still be a few regional and low-volume exceptions -- think of products like the Corvette, which doesn't share its underpinnings with any other GM product -- but that will be a radical shift from today, when only about a third of GM's total global production is built on truly global platforms.
In all likelihood, it's only then that GM will have a chance of being seen as the real global auto leader, one that leads with profits as well as sales volumes.
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Kate Upton Refers to Her Breasts as 'The Ladies'
Kate Upton appears on the cover of V Magazine's Spring issue where she speaks about 'the ladies,' otherwise known as her breasts, how she felt about being insulted by a casting agent from Victoria's Secret, saying they would never use her as a cover model and much more!
The magazine has a Special Edition Box Set, referred to as 'Why Can't Kate Upton Keep Her Clothes On?,' with three big reveals – a V87 with acetate overlay, a heat-activated mug, and a retro slider pen — three ways to expose what's under Ms. Upton's clothes! Or as Kate Upton refers to what's under her clothes, 'the ladies'
In 2012 a Victoria's Secret casting director said that Kate was "like a footballer's wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy." At the time Kate remained silent but has now admitted that the nasty comments were her "introduction to being in the spotlight and having people you've never met have an opinion of you."
As for why she refers to her breasts as 'the ladies,' she said, "Everyone brings them up, so I have to have something to call them."
What do you think about Kate naming her lady parts??