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Holding that recess appointments authorized by the Recess Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution are limited to "intersession recesses" – "the period between sessions of the Senate when the Senate is by definition not in session and therefore unavailable to receive and act upon nominations from the President," on January 25, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia1 ruled in the matter of Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board (the "Ruling" or the "Canning decision") that the "recess appointments" made by President Obama on January 4, 2012 to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were invalid. Important to the banking and financial services world, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on the same day he made the NLRB appointments, presumably relying on identical justifications as to what constituted a valid recess appointment.
Issues similar to those in Canning are likely to be raised by one or more litigants in a CFPB matter within months, if not sooner. The Canning decision (as concerns the NLRB) and any associated matters (involving the appointment of the CFPB director or other agency appointments) will no doubt be appealed, possibly directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to D.C. Circuit rules, the NLRB may file a petition for panel rehearing or rehearing en banc within 45 days of the decision, which would be March 11, 2013.2 The NLRB will also have 90 days to seek certiorari before the Supreme Court,3 but that deadline may be extended by 60 days with the court's permission.4
The Recess Appointment Clause
As background, on the day the "recess appointments" were made, the Senate was operating pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement which provided that the Senate would meet in pro forma sessions every three business days from December 20, 2011, through January 23, 2012. This process was apparently designed, in part, to avoid the possibility of valid "recess appointments."5 The agreement stated that "no business [would be] conducted" during those sessions, but in any case, during the December 23 pro forma session the Senate overrode its prior agreement by unanimous consent and passed a temporary extension to the payroll tax and during the January 3 pro forma session the Senate acted to officially convene the second session of the 112th Congress and to fulfill its constitutional duty to meet on January 3.
As cited in the court's Ruling, the Justice Department had contended6 that the Senate's "pro forma" sessions during its winter break, where no business was generally to be conducted, were insufficient to prevent the President from being able to exercise his constitutional power to appoint officials during a recess.
Although Mr. Cordray was nominated to become the CFPB director in July 2011, his appointment was delayed due, at least in a large part, to the fact that 44 Senate Republicans had stated that they would attempt to block7 any nominee for the position of CFPB director until a deal could be reached for desired CFPB reforms on issues such as potentially expanding the CFPB's leadership from a single director to a five-person commission and making the agency subject to the congressional appropriations process. In any case, on December 8, 2011, the Senate failed to secure cloture on Cordray's nomination. The final vote was 53-45.
Power of the CFPB Without a Director
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank Act) created the CFPB and according to various authorities and government agencies,8 the CFPB is substantially limited in the scope of its power without a without a director.9 Under this interpretation, although not free from doubt, at a minimum the new powers granted to the CFPB, including the ability to supervise nondepository financial institutions (such as payday lenders or mortgage lenders) were not designed to become effective until an initial CFPB director was approved.10 Since the recess appointment of Mr. Cordray as director, the CFPB has engaged in a number of actions using "new" Dodd-Frank Act powers, including, among other things, initiating federal court enforcement actions against nondepository consumer financial entities, and suing parties for such things as alleged violations of loan modification laws and violations of the Telephone Sales Rule. Further, while the Dodd-Frank Act does authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in the absence of a director, to perform the CFPB's powers that were transferred to it from other federal agencies, it does not authorize the CFPB to exercise those powers on its own and it does not authorize parties not acting under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to exercise such powers.11 12
Current Congressional State of Play
Republicans are still working on their goal of reforming the structure of the CFPB and limiting certain of its powers – very similar to the situation that existed at the time of the recess appointment. On February 1, 2013, a letter by 43 Senators13 was sent to President Obama stating that the senators will "continue to oppose the consideration of any nominee, regardless of party affiliation, to be the CFPB director until [certain] key structural changes [outlined in the letter] are made to ensure accountability and transparency at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."
Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, has also reintroduced legislation14 to, in part, replace CFPB Director Richard Cordray with a five-person commission and subject the CFPB to an annual appropriations process. If passed, The Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act of 2013 would also subject the CFPB to a regular congressional appropriations process15 and establish what is stated to be a "safety and soundness check" that would ensure "excessive regulations do not cause financial institutions to fail."
S. 190 (introduced by Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) and entitled "Restoring the Constitutional Balance of Power Act of 2013") would also have an impact on the CFPB. The bill states, in part, "[n]o funds may be transferred from the Federal Reserve to be used by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to carry out activities that are authorized only upon the confirmation of a Director of the Bureau [until such time as a director of the CFPB is confirmed] consistent with the advice and consent requirements of the United States Constitution, as determined in accordance with the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the case Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board (No. 12-1115)."
Likely Short-Term Implications of the Opinion
CFPB Director of Enforcement Kent Markus has stated concerning the Canning decision,16 "That is a case in one court, about the NLRB. It is a not a case about the CFPB. It is not a decision that is done, necessarily, being litigated in any way so our view is that we have a director, we have our authority, we have our responsibility to American consumers and American businesses and we intend to proceed."
We would expect that some financial institutions subject to CFPB investigations and examinations may reconsider whether they are subject to CFPB jurisdiction while the current validity of certain CFPB powers may be in doubt. We believe an assertion by a financial institution that it is not subject to CFPB authority is a very risky strategy and should only be undertaken after consulting with counsel. No doubt, such an assertion will cause a confrontation with the CFPB. Nonetheless, it is likely that the CFPB will consider delaying certain actions where the powers needed to take action may rely, at least in part, on the CFPB having a validly appointed director.
We would also expect certain proposed new CFPB initiatives relying on powers the CFPB arguably was never granted or expected to wield – such as the CFPB possibly taking on an active role in helping Americans manage their retirement savings17 (a role Mr. Cordray has noted as being "one of the things we've been exploring and are interested in in terms of whether and what authority we have") to be put on hold for now. It should be noted that various Web sites are speculating whether such retirement savings "help" would be strictly voluntary.18
Will Prior CFPB Rules and Actions Remain Valid?
Some have concerns if the rules and orders issued by Director Cordray will be upheld if his January 2012 appointment is found to be invalid. With that in mind:
The Dodd-Frank Act invested the Secretary of the Treasury with certain CFPB powers (although, in general, largely powers transferred to the CFPB from other federal agencies and not powers newly established by the Dodd-Frank Act) until such time as a CFPB director could be appointed. As such, without a valid CFPB director appointment, the Secretary of the Treasury could have taken or initiated many of the same actions taken by Mr. Cordray. As a result, it is quite possible that the Secretary of the Treasury could validly "ratify" many of the actions taken by the CFPB since January 4, 2012. It is also possible that the Secretary of the Treasury could delegate a significant amount of authority to new CFPB Acting Deputy Director Steve Antonakes or even to Director Cordray.19
Pepper Point: If Mr. Cordray's appointment is ultimately decided to have been invalid, we believe that the CFPB will operate in the same general fashion as it did prior to January 4, 2011 (i.e., with significant, but more limited powers). Additionally, it is unlikely that a court would view ratification by the Secretary of the Treasury of any actions taken by the CFPB in the intervening period as particularly problematic (at least to the extent that the CFPB's actions could have been authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury prior to Mr. Cordray's appointment as CFPB director). For this reason, financial institutions considering raising the point that the CFPB does not have regulatory authority should carefully consider the merits of such a claim and the implications of proffering it.
De Facto Officer Doctrine
If the validity of the current CFPB director is challenged, the CFPB and the Obama administration may argue that the past actions of the CFPB should be upheld due to a legal principle known as the "de facto officer doctrine"20 – a doctrine that has been stated to "spring[] from the fear of the chaos that would result from multiple and repetitious suits challenging every action taken by every official whose claim to office could be open to question, and [which] seeks to protect the public by insuring the orderly functioning of the government despite technical defects in title to office," or potentially ratified by a later duly appointed CFPB director – which may include Mr. Cordray himself (or the CFPB board, if legislation sponsored by Republican senators is successful).
In Franklin Savings Association v. Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision21 it was recognized that an action by one government official in this case, Danny Wall (who was found to have been unconstitutionally appointed to serve as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)) had his actions ratified by a successor, in this case Timothy Ryan, Jr., the validly appointed director of the OTS. The Franklin court noted22 that for a ratification to be effective, the ratifying person or entity must have had authority to do the underlying act both at the time of the original act (something potentially not existing as of February 2013 for the CFPB, at least as far as actions taken under powers that are were only to be granted to the CFPB on the appointment of the first valid CFPB director) and at the time of ratification.
However, notwithstanding the constitutionally defective appointment of Director Wall in Franklin, the Franklin court found that plaintiffs' challenge to the actions of Director Wall, based on the defective appointment, "must fail under the time-honored doctrine of 'de facto officer.'" This doctrine, as explained by the Franklin court "provides that when … plaintiffs challenge government action on the ground that the official who took the action was improperly in office, the challenged acts of the officer will be upheld against such challenge in the interest of the public …[. Such] doctrine exists to prevent wholesale invalidation of an improperly appointed official's acts, and thus prevents interference with orderly government."
Pepper Point: Case law on the de facto officer doctrine is not well developed. If the CFPB had already operated with one or more directors and if the existence of the full Dodd-Frank Act-authorized power of the CFPB was not so apparently dependent on the appointment of an initial director, then "de facto officer" arguments likely would be stronger than they are. However, in our view and largely as a practical agency matter, the Supreme Court is more likely than not to accept "ratification" of past actions once a validly appointed CFPB director is in place (assuming the Canning decision stands).
1 See http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/D13E4C2A7B33B57A85257AFE00556B29/$file/12-1115-1417096.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013) for the text of the Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board decision.
2 Available at http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/Content/VL%20-%20RPP%20-%20Circuit%20Rules/$FILE/RulesDecember2011LINKSandBOOKMARKScj2013.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013). See, in particular, Circuit Rule 35(a) as interacting with the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) 40(a)(1).
3 If requested, certiorari may very well be granted, in light of both the practical political importance of the Canning decision and the split it represents with the decision of the Eleventh Circuit in the case of Evans v. Stephens, 387 F.3d 1220 (11th Cir. 2004), cert. denied, 544 U.S. 942 (2005), which determined that the word "recess" had a more expansive meaning. See http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/387/1220/532548/ for the text of the Eleventh Circuit decision and http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-828.ZA.html concerning the denial of certiorari.
4 See Supreme Court Rule Number 13, available at http://www.supremecourt.gov/ctrules/2010RulesoftheCourt.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013). In the meantime, the Obama administration has re-nominated (or, technically nominated – as a new congressional session has commenced since the original nominations were made) Sharon Block and Richard F. Griffin, Jr. to serve on the NLRB and Mr. Cordray as the Director of the CFPB. See http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/13/presidential-nominations-sent-senate and http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=092ac137-38b3-48e5-9887-8fe7220c54fa.
5 See Congressional Research Service Report prepared for Congress on January 9, 2012 entitled "Recess Appointments: Frequently Asked Questions" available at http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0DP%2BP%5CW%3B%20P%20%20%0A (last visited February 22, 2013). Between the beginning of the Reagan presidency in January 1981 and the end of December 2011, the shortest intersession recess during which a President made a recess appointment was 11 days, and the shortest intrasession recess during which a President made a recess appointment was 10 days. Congressional Research Service data on recess appointments before this period is incomplete; however, based on the public record, they were only able to identify two historical occasions in which a President has made recess appointments during recesses of three days or less – 1903 (in which many appointments were made, primarily of military officers) and 1949 (in which one appointment was made to the Civil Aeronautics Board – the appointee being an individual already serving on the board), both of these occasions having been during the period of transition between sessions.
6 See the U.S. Department of Justice memorandum of January 6, 2011 entitled "Lawfulness of Recess Appointments During a Recess of the Senate Notwithstanding Periodic Pro Forma Sessions" available at http://www.justice.gov/olc/2012/pro-forma-sessions-opinion.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013).
7 See the June 9, 2011 Washington Post article entitled "GOP's Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader, stands by vow to block CFPB nominees" available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gops-mitch-mcconnell-senate-minority-leader-stands-by-vow-to-block-cfpb-nominees/2011/06/09/AG3LcjNH_story.html (last visited February 22, 2013).
8 See, i.e., the January 10, 2011 Joint Response by the Inspectors General of the Department of the Treasury and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System addressed to the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services and the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity in response to a congressional request concerning activities to date to establish the CFPB. The Joint Response is available at http://www.federalreserve.gov/oig/files/Treasury_OIG_Posted_PDF_-_Response_CFPB.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013).
In the Joint Response the Inspector Generals specifically stated their interpretations of the following: "5. Do you agree that the interim authority specified in Section 1066 of the [Dodd-Frank] Act terminates on the designated transfer date, and that after such date, the Bureau can function only if a director has been confirmed with the advice-and-consent of the Senate?" and provide, in approximately three pages of text, their views of what powers the CFPB has and does not have absent a director confirmed with the advice and consent of the Senate.
9 See generally Section 1011 et. seq. As noted in Section 1066 (concerning only the powers transferred to the CFPB from other agencies), "(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to perform the functions of the Bureau under this subtitle until the Director of the Bureau is confirmed by the Senate in accordance with section 1011."
10 See the Congressional Research Service report of May 18, 2011 entitled "Limitations on the Secretary of the Treasury's Authority to Exercise the Powers of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection" available at http://www.llsdc.org/attachments/files/314/CRS-R41839.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013) or the Dodd-Frank Act itself, as available at http://www.sec.gov/about/laws/wallstreetreform-cpa.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013). Section 1066 of the Dodd-Frank Act provides for more limited authority absent the appointment of a CFPB director – "The Secretary is authorized to perform the functions of the Bureau under this subtitle until the Director of the Bureau is confirmed by the Senate in accordance with section 1011."
11 See Section 1066. See also the Congressional Research Service report of May 18, 2011 entitled "Limitations on the Secretary of the Treasury's Authority to Exercise the Powers of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection" available at http://www.llsdc.org/attachments/files/314/CRS-R41839.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013) that states, in part, "Until a CFPB Director is appointed, the CFP Act [meaning Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act, also referred to as the "Consumer Financial Protection Act"] provides the Secretary the authority to exercise some, but not all of the Bureau's authorities. Although not beyond debate, the CFP Act appears to provide the Secretary the authority to exercise the Bureau's transferred powers, but not the authority to exercise the Bureau's newly established powers."
12 Prior to the recess appointment of Mr. Cordray, Elizabeth Ann Warren (now U.S. Senator Warren) in her role as Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the CFPB, was effectively tasked with running CFPB operations in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury. Ms. Warren's departure officially took effect August 1, 2011. Given that the CFPB has operated absent the authority and control of the Treasury Department since that time, a question also exists as to the validity of even the actions performed by the CFPB in the intervening period that would be within the "more limited" range of pre-director appointment CFPB/Secretary of the Treasury authority.
13 Release and letter available at http://www.cfpbmonitor.com/files/2013/02/Senate-Republican-Leader-McConnell-42-Senators-Demand-Accountability-and-Transparency-at-the-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau-Full-Text-of-February-2013-and-May-2011-Letters-to-President-Obama.pdf (last visited February 22, 2013).
14 See http://moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=b21a1872-cad9-437f-9d39-6bb44ba97718 (last visited February 22, 2013).
15 Section 3 of S. 205 is, in fact, currently titled "Bringing the Bureau Into the Regular Appropriations Process."
16 See the February 7, 2013 article entitled Remarks of Ken Markus at DBA Annual Conference, available at http://www.cfpbmonitor.com/2013/02/07/remarks-of-kent-markus-at-dba-annual-conference/ (last visited February 22, 2013).
17 See January 18, 2013 Bloomberg article entitled "Retirement Savings Accounts Draw U.S. Consumer Bureau Attention" and available at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/retirement-savings-accounts-draw-u-s-consumer-bureau-attention.html (last visited February 22, 2013).
18 See, i.e., http://www.businessinsider.com/homeland-security-fear-and-your-retirement-savings-2013-2 ; or http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/now-obama-wants-your-401k/#8uQm6KDQ7MO5K8pC.99 (complete with polling options concerning whether readers think "Obama is after your retirement savings." Various "yes" variant option responses far outweigh the possible "no" responses. As of February 11, 2013, two voters have selected "No, I think the rumors are unsubstantiated" and 540 voters have selected "Yes, everything about Obama is evil, and this is just another example." This story is widely circulated among conservative leaning sites, in particular those with interests in precious metals or firearms.
19 For more about the transition from the prior deputy director to Mr. Antonakes this February, see the February 1, 2013 LegalNewline.com article entitled "Deputy director of CFPB leaving agency; acting deputy director named" and available at http://legalnewsline.com/federal-government/239260-deputy-director-of-cfpb-leaving-agency-acting-deputy-director-named (last visited February 22, 2013).
20 See Ryder v. United States, 515 U.S. 177, 180-81 (1995), available at http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-431.ZS.html (last visited February 22, 2013) where it was found that while the de facto officer doctrine, which confers validity upon acts performed under the color of official title even though it is later discovered that the legality of the actor's appointment or election to office is deficient can be valid, cannot be used in cases where there is a more fundamental problem with the constitutionality of the appointment of an officer in question.
As noted in Ryder, the de facto doctrine "springs from the fear of the chaos that would result from multiple and repetitious suits challenging every action taken by every official whose claim to office could be open to question, and seeks to protect the public by insuring the orderly functioning of the government despite technical defects in title to office."
However, in Ryder, the Court distinguished claims based on the Appointments Clause of Article II of the Constitution – in effect, a claim that there has been a "trespass upon the executive power of appointment," and claims where there is simply a misapplication of statute (for example, a statute providing for the assignment of already appointed judges to serve in other districts). The Appointments Clause reads in full: "[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments." U. S. Const., Art. II, §2, cl. 2.
In Ryder, an enlisted member of the United States Coast Guard challenged his conviction by a court martial. He appealed to the Coast Guard Court of Military Review, which, except in one minor aspect, affirmed his conviction. On request for rehearing, petitioner challenged the composition of that court as violative of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution because two of the judges on the three-judge panel were civilians merely appointed by the General Counsel of the Department of Transportation and such appointments by the Secretary of Transportation were without constitutional and statutory authority and therefore ineffective. Agreeing, the Supreme Court held that the Court of Military Appeals erred in according de facto validity to the actions of the civilian judges of the Coast Guard Court of Military Review and stated that the petitioner was entitled to a hearing before a properly appointed judicial panel.
21 See Franklin Savings Association v. Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, 740 F. Supp. 1535, 1541-42 (D. Kan. 1990), available at http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19902275740FSupp1535_12104.xml&docbase=CSLWAR2-1986-2006 (last visited February 22, 2013). See also Olympic Federal Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, 732 F. Supp. 1183 (D.D.C. 1990) where, among other assertions, a thrift argued that the previous and current directors of OTS were unconstitutionally appointed and thus had no legal authority to appoint a conservator or receiver. The court granted the injunction. The previous director was appointed by operation of § 301 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 and not appointed in the manner specified by the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. In view of the fact that the previous director never constitutionally became the director of OTS, the current director's appointment was not authorized by the Vacancies Act, 5 U.S.C.S. § 3345 et seq., because the previous director's resignation did not constitute the resignation of an officer of a bureau of an Executive department. The Court found that the thrift had a strong probability of success on its claim, the destruction of its business would be an irreparable harm, and the granting of the requested relief did not pose a threat to public interest. In any case, the Court of Appeals later dismissed an appeal of the case as moot because, by that time, the President had nominated and the Senate confirmed an OTS director. See Olympic Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, 903 F.2d 837 (D.C. Cir. 1990).
See also Doolin Sec. Sav. Bank, F.S.B. v. the Office of Thrift Supervision, 139 F.3d 203 (D.C. Cir. 1988). Doolin involved an OTS director who was appointed by President George H.W. Bush and thereafter delegated his authority to the acting director and resigned. The acting director signed a notice of charges against the bank. The bank was found to have violated the law and to have engaged in unsafe and unsound banking practices. The acting director resigned without signing the final order and a new director, designated by President Clinton, signed the order. The bank argued that the directors did not have authority to sign the order. Ultimately the court found that the order was valid because (1) the Clinton director had been confirmed by the Senate for another position and thus qualified under 5 U.S.C.S. § 3347 of the Vacancies Act to fill the position, (2) the acting director did not ascend to the post through Presidential appointment and, thus, the Vacancies Act, 5 U.S.C.S. §§ 3345, 3346, 3347, did not apply to the acting director, (3) under 5 U.S.C.S. § 3348, the President could fill the position vacated by Bush's director without any time limit, and therefore, Clinton's director lawfully occupied the position, and (4) the acting director's signing of the notice was harmless error and was ratified by Clinton's director.
22 In part, citing United States v. Heinszen & Co., 206 U.S. 370, 382, 27 S.Ct. 742, 745, 51 L.Ed. 1098 (1907), available at http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/206/370/case.html (last visited February 22, 2013).
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Gov. Rick Scott is in Jacksonville Thursday promoting yet another aspect of his "It's Your Money Tax Cut Budget."
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/#storylink=cpyScott wants the Legislature to allocate $30 million next year for a new workforce training initiative focusing on careers related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) occupations. He made the announcement at Greencore USA, a company that makes convenience foods. The firm plans to expand its Jacksonville-area work force in the coming years.
"Pursuing a great career often means having the skills needed by employers who are creating jobs – especially in STEM-related fields," Scott said in a news release. "With these dollars, we will provide access to training resources for both job seekers and employers, while also providing scholarships to Floridians wishing to pursue STEM and other great careers at Florida's state colleges and vocational centers. This strategic investment will no doubt provide Florida families with even more job opportunities so they can live the American dream."
Scott's proposal includes taxpayer-funded scholarships for students seeking training in STEM-related fields at a Florida state college or post-secondary vocational center. Many credentials necessary for eligible in-demand careers can be obtained in two years or less.
Scott will propose the next state budget next Wednesday in Tallahassee in conjunction with the annual AP planning seminar for reporters and editors. A governor's budget recommendations mark a starting point in negotiations with the Legislature, which writes the final budget.
The Workforce State Training Program mirrors similar programs in economic competitor states and provides Florida a competitive advantage in attracting new business as well as retaining workers at existing Florida companies.
One of several leaders applauding Scott's idea is a president of an IBEW union local, Rodney Wickham, who is also on the board of Workforce Florida. Through Scott's office, Wickham said: "One of the keys to attracting new businesses to Florida is ensuring we have the skilled workforce to get the job done, and Gov. Scott is demonstrating his commitment once again by investing in our workers so we can compete not just nationally but globally."


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A relationship between two people usually consists of the yin and the yang. When we don't see eye to eye with our respective other, whether it be with a partner, friend, family or co worker, it is quite common that we throw in the old saying 'opposites attract' and be done with it. We think of opposites attract, what does it really tell us?
Opposites, or perhaps more accurately, "complements" do attract. Introverts and extroverts, morning people and night people, impulsives and planners, steady plodders and adrenaline junkies, adventure-grabbers and security-seekers
The French view the old saying 'opposites attract' as 'Vive La Difference' in which we don't just use the word 'opposites attract' as a bandaid but rather we celebrate those differences.
It is important during hard times in a relationship to write down the differences you are having, once you have written them down, discuss them and then find a way to celebrate them.
Remember, we need to love and continuously send out good vibes to our world and our lovers.
Who's going to be next on your list to celebrate Vive La Difference?


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8088?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Robert Joseph Evans updated HADOOP-8088: ---------------------------------------- Fix Version/s: (was: 1.1.0) 1.0.2 > User-group mapping cache incorrectly does negative caching on transient failures > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8088 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8088 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: security > Affects Versions: 0.20.205.0, 0.24.0, 0.23.1, 1.0.0, 1.1.0 > Reporter: Kihwal Lee > Fix For: 0.24.0, 0.23.2, 1.0.2 > > Attachments: hadoop-8088-branch-1.patch, hadoop-8088-branch-1.patch, hadoop-8088-trunk.patch, hadoop-8088-trunk.patch, hadoop-8088-trunk.patch > > > We've seen a case where some getGroups() calls fail when the ldap server or the network is having transient failures. Looking at the code, the shell-based and the JNI-based implementations swallow exceptions and return an empty or partial list. The caller, Groups#getGroups() adds this likely empty list into the mapping cache for the user. This will function as negative caching until the cache expires. I don't think we want negative caching here, but even if we do, it should be intelligent enough to distinguish transient failures from ENOENT. The log message in the jni-based impl also needs an improvement. It should print what exception it encountered instead of just saying one happened. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Since it's first episode with Alex Trebek in 1984, Jeopardy has become one of the greatest game shows of all time. Similar to funny situations in other game shows, Jeopardy has endured a fair share of hilarious and unbelievably real moments.
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About six weeks ago, 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh was shot to death in her car just feet from her parents town home in the Galleria area. There are still no solid leads on who might have killed her and no one, including police, seems to know the motive.
Bagherzadeh's family came to HPD in search of reassurance and to get a better understanding of how the investigative process works.
"She's always been passionate and helpful to people, anybody she knew, and I just can't think of any enemy,"said her brother, Ali Bagherzadeh.
Bagherzadeh helped organize local demonstrations supporting women's rights in Iran. Neither her family nor police believe Bagherzadeh's political beliefs had anything to do with her murder.


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This is still getting the kinks worked out so dont take it too seriously.
I just started playing Sona maybe 2 days ago. Had about 10 matches and only lost 2. (I lost my first game with her cuz i wasnt sure how to really play her, you know how that goes, and i just lost my second game after a 52 min 4v5) My average score for games is prolly 3/2/15. Not spectacular but shes great for support and harassing early on.
About the items:
Once your level 18 you should have up to at least Innervating Locket. From my experience you can practically cast endlessly without noticing an issue with mana, so feel free to heal away! Im sure your allies wont mind at all.
You dont necessarily have to get Mejai's Soulstealer. A lot of times i wont get to 20 stacks before the games over or if i do it ends shortly after. If your getting beat down you could prolly pass it up and get something else on the list.
Depending on who your playing against you could switch up Rylai's Scepter with something else. For instance if your taking a lot of magic damage try Abyssal Scepter, or if your taking physical damage maybe frozen heart. Most of the time i just use the items in the list to build up health and try to stay away from the fighting and heal from afar and buff teammates appropriately.
I start out with Hymn of Valor to harass whoever im laning. Not long you can get a heal so you can start pushing more. This is great when your laning with a tank or fighter, since they wont need a heal right off the bat even if they get hit. (Pantheon seemed really great for some reason in my last few games, i usually got him to 3-0 within 10-15 mins. Getting your teammates fed is just as good as you getting kills. Remember this is a team game =] )
One last piece of advice... Dont quit before the games over! I had a game where we had 3 surrender votes, thankfully they all failed. After they pushed into our base and killed one of our inhibitors we grouped up and aced their team. Pushed all the way into their base when the respawned we were able to fend them off again since i was there providing heals and mana when needed. Theyd rush out attack us 1 at a time and fail, run back to heal, by the time they came back i had my entire team back up to almost full health.
You will be targeted first! Stay in the back best you can, but not out of range of your spells. Dont get discouraged if you get ganked early on. They are looking for easy pickings and Sona fits the bill perfectly, especially early on. I got ganked 3 times in a row early one game but was able to keep my allies alive when needed and we pulled off the win and i finished 5/5/21. So dont surrender unless they are tearing through your towers like they are paper and ur allies arent even touching them.
Thats all i got for now i think. Ill update this as i see fit as i play her more. Thanks for reading all this if ya did!


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In late 2012, Carrollton Station, the cozy neighborhood watering hole across the way from the Willow Street streetcar barn, changed hands. It remains a favorite gathering place for both students at the Uptown colleges and neighborhood regulars, who drop in for the menu of hearty bar fare, a popular comedy open-mic night on Wednesdays, and a weekly trivia contest on Thursdays.
However, the Station has cut way back on its live music, booking bands -- generally locals playing rootsy music -- only intermittently, mostly on Saturday nights, except during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Check the calendar at Carrolltonstation.com for a schedule and drink specials.
Tip: Friday happy hours feature $1 tacos.
Location: 8140 Willow St., New Orleans, 504.865.9190.
Open: Daily. Parking: Street.
Prices: Beer: $2.50-up, wine: $4.50-up, cocktails: $3-up.
Crowd: Residents of the surrounding Carrollton neighborhoods, but plenty of college students, too.
Outdoor seating: Yes.
See also: Uptown bars, New Orleans bars with live music, New Orleans neighborhood bars, New Orleans music clubs, New Orleans college bars


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They say flying is the safest form of travel. That may be true but if you are interested in more than just safety, cruises are the best. There is so much to do on the ship; it is like being on a mobile city. Let me share with you one of my many cruise trip stories. You may just learn a thing or two.
What makes this trip different from my others is that I tried something for the first time. It was so easy to do I could not believe it. Security was not exactly lax but they could have done better to prevent me from achieving what I did. It was the first time I was able to sneak alcohol on the cruise.
All I can say about the specs of the trip is that, we went to the Bahamas. There are many cruise lines on that route; you have probably been on the same one as me. I was not sure my plan would work. I was also not sure what was going to happen when my plan failed. So I chose a short trip just to try out my diabolical plan.
Of course that was not the only reason why I went on the Bahamas. There are so many things to do out there, especially with family and friends. Anyway, I wanted to visit the Fish Fry in Nassau. The food there is great. I also wanted to spend time in the casino, away from Las Vegas Nevada.
There are many reasons why people aren't allowed to bring alcohol on cruises; policies differ from one cruise to the other. Don't get me wrong, but if I'm going to pay more for beer, I should get more beer. I don't know if this statement is accurate but alcohol seems to be more expensive on cruises than on land. So basically, they earn something on alcohol sales because they know we are going to buy it.
On the other hand, it is all about security reasons. They don't want people losing control and falling over board or some stuff like that. So they try to keep the alcohol doses minimal by regulating sales and what not. That is fine, but it also seems like they take away our freedom to choose what we want and how much of it we want. Every alcohol container is written "drink responsibly", isn't it?
Do not get too carried away though, when the ship docked, I was knocked out of my boots by the wine. It is quite simple really; first things first, visit the local liquor store and pick your poison. Secondly, get a couple of flasks where you will pour the alcohol in. They are the only things that will pass through the x-ray scan. Fill the flasks up to the max with alcohol and you are ready to roll. That certainly worked for me.
Make the most of your cruises and unleash the party animal in you. Just remember to drink responsibly and make sure you stay away from the rails when you drink.


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Tickets for 2017 are now on sale via ticket flap at Ticketflap
Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th November Free Entry
(register for up to two tickets per person at Ticketflap)
Saturday, 25th November HK$400
Sunday, 26th November HK$400
Season Pass to all four days of the tournament HK$600
*A season pass is inclusive of entry to Thursday and Friday play. Please bring your season pass with you for entry inspection each day.
**Registration for free tickets on 23rd and 24th November is required for spectators aged 21-and-over ONLY. Fans under 21 years of age can enjoy FREE entry to the 2017 UBS Hong Kong Open across all four days of the tournament with a photo ID containing date of birth.
Champions' Pavilion
Overlooking the 18th green, the Champions' Pavilion is a prime location to witness some of the world's best golfers battling it out for the title. The Pavilion offers relaxed, contemporary surroundings and provides the ideal opportunity to keep up with all the golfing action in comfort.
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- Unreserved, contemporary seating
- Continental breakfast
- Buffet Lunch
- High Tea
- Complimentary bar serving beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks from 11am – 5pm
- Official Programme
*Hospitality marquee will close at 6pm daily
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Early Bird Offer HK$ 3,950 per day for bookings made prior to October 15th
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Getting There
By car:
Follow the Tolo Highway and leave it at the exit sign for Shek Kong and Kwu Tung. As you enter Fan Kam Highway, the club is about 450 metres from the highway, with the car park on your left and the clubhouse on your right.
Please note that parking space is limited and available on first come first served basis. Additional public parking will be available at the North District Hospital. The standard parking fees will apply.
By MTR:
Catch the complimentary shuttle bus from and to Sheung Shui MTR East Rail Line station (Exit C).
|Thursday & Friday
|7:00am to 6:00pm, every 30 minutes
8:00am to 7:30pm, every 15 minutes
8:00am to 7.00pm, every 15 minutes
Alternatively, taxis are available from Sheung Shui MTR station. The Hong Kong Golf Club is a short five-minute ride.
By complimentary bus service:
A free bus service to the UBS Hong Kong Open will operate at selected times from Central IFC Mall and Kowloon Tong MTR from Thursday to Sunday.
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23 & 24 November
|Saturday & Sunday
25 & 26 November
|Central IFC Mall
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Pick Up Points:
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Kowloon Tong, To Fuk Road (MTR Kowloon Tong Exit D, outside Yew Chung International School – Secondary Section)
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Spectator Information
The UBS Hong Kong Open is one of the longest running and most prestigious annual international sporting events in Hong Kong. Once again, some of the world's best golfers will be at the picturesque Hong Kong Golf Club this year to battle for one of the most coveted crowns on the tour.
With an enhanced off-course entertainment to complement the world class on-course golfing action, the 2017 UBS Hong Kong Open will be one of the most fun days out for all the family!
While we are sure you will have a great time, here are a few tips that can enrich you and your fellow visitors' time at the UBS Hong Kong Open even more:
- Please obey the marshals and follow their instructions.
- Be as quiet as you can while play is going on.
- Keep your movements to a minimum when players are about to hit.
- Wait for all players to finish before moving on.
- Respect the players. Cheer a good shot, but only in an appropriate and moderate fashion but refrain from heckling or booing a player's mistake.
- Wear sensible, comfortable footwear.
- Turn your mobile phone off or to silent mode.
- Don't run around the golf course.
- Don't take photos as the players are about to hit.
- Don't ask golfers for autographs while they are still competing on the course.
- There are plenty of activities around the course for all members of the family to enjoy.


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Saltires and sea
February 14, 2012
It's been a bit challenging recently at work and I have a feeling that it may get even more so in the future; but I guess that's education for you in these times of painful cut backs and efficiences. We had our mid term break this weekend so Mr K and I escaped to St Monans to stay at our friend Helen's holiday house right on the harbour. Helen has been working hard to get the house ready for holiday lets and she kindly allowed us to stay even although she hasn't quite finished everything yet. It was perfect for us, I loved the rustic charm and couldn't wait to light the log fire and settle down with a glass of red, who could resist that view out the sitting room window? We walked miles along the coast and tired ourselves out so were in bed at 9pm most nights. I'm not sure it's entirely sensible to start a fitness regime with a 7 mile walk but we did stop one of the days at the Ship Inn at Elie for some delicious mackerel pate and homemade oatcakes to help us on our way. Got to love the knitted Pimm's tea pot covers! On the walk to Anstruther we found a welly boot tree in a garden and only in Scotland do you get the thrill of seeing our national flag, the saltire represented beautifully in the sky courtesy of two jet planes.
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David Letterman Discovers His Son's Hidden Talent
"Whenever I'm around talented kids, I begin to wonder, 'Is my kid talented?'"
Last night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, a bevy of talented kids took the stage to perform at SeriousFun's celebration of Paul Newman's legacy. While attendees like Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Danny DeVito, and Carole King bopped to the music, presenter David Letterman turned inward, wondering if his own kid had any talent to speak of. He came to a positive conclusion:
I saw George Clooney backstage, and he's not that handsome … If any of you happened to drive through the snowstorm last night — not good. And then I was here rehearsing today, and whenever I'm around talented kids — and maybe every parent is like this — I begin to wonder, Is my kid talented? I did some soul-searching, and I will share with you now what I consider to be a moment of pride. We were commuting last night in the storm. It's usually about an hour and ten minutes. Last night it was three and a half hours. My son was doing what 11-year-olds do, or at least what mine does: whine and argue. He kept announcing over and over that he needed to go to the bathroom. Fair enough. We're in nonstop traffic on the Hutch. I mean, do you turn him loose? Maybe he gets clipped by a plow? But here's why I'm proud of my son today: Having to go to the bathroom at that level we've all experienced, he did so while we were inching along in traffic in a blinding blizzard — in my coffee thermos. I said, "Son, you don't need a bar mitzvah. Today, you are a man."


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Natalie Portman had gossips giddy at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Thursday (08Sep16) by debuting what looked like a growing baby bump.
The actress, 35, was in the city for the premiere of her acclaimed new movie Planetarium, and stepped out in a figure-hugging blush pink gown that left many convinced the star is pregnant with baby number two.
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LTE is a must-have feature on our smartphones. So, it stands to reason that carriers would work as hard as possible to roll out their LTE coverage. Having launched LTE over a year later than Verizon and AT&T, Sprint is now playing catch-up with their coverage. Today brings in a new wave of LTE markets from Sprint that should help to greatly bolster their coverage. The list includes nearly two dozen cities and is fairly expansive:
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
2004 Toronto Film Festival Report, Part Three
(originally published in The Outreach Connection in September 2004)
This is the third of Jack Hughes' reports from the 2004 Toronto Film Festival.
Silver City (John Sayles)
John Sayles' reputation is getting a little shaky. His dedication to doing the films he wants to do can't be in any doubt, and the scope of his interests is impressive, but approval for his recent films has been fitful. I thought Limbo was interesting for the way it digressed from Alaskan politics into existentialism, but the film could be regarded as merely incoherent. Sunshine State was a little flat, although it's possible that this was part of Sayles' commentary on Florida. Casa de Los Babys seemed abstracted and impressionistic. Through all of this the rap has often been that he lacks artistic vision, that his writing is increasingly pedantic. He certainly seems like something less than a truly great American director; he has the organization and the commitment, but compared to Robert Altman (who's often worked in a broadly similar vein) he doesn't have the occasionally inspired idiosyncrasy or the depth of feeling for messy personality.
Silver City only confirms these reservations. Already in commercial release, its main selling point is Chris Cooper as an airhead son of privilege running for governor of Colorado. Cooper's hilariously inane speeches evoke you-know-who to a T, but this already shows you the film's limitations, because it seems not to comprehend the calculation that lies beneath the real W's buffoonery. Around this, Sayles builds a vaguely Chinatown-ish plot of hypocrisy and corruption involving an abandoned mine and a land deal. But where Chinatown was allusive and genuinely intricate, fluently fusing personal and political decay into a seamless web, Silver City plods from one thing to the other, never finding much buoyancy or coherence. It does make an important point, about the immense shallowness of the right's homeland-embracing rhetoric. But if you share its views then the film merely states the obvious; if you don't, it's easily dismissible as a contrivance.
There's no sign here of the ethereal tendencies of Limbo or Casa, and the film's general washed-out inertia could be taken as an expression of the deadened self-satisfaction of power. But it might as easily denote a director who underestimates the audience's sophistication and overvalues his own insight. Sayles' trek through America is in danger of becoming downright boring
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
Getting into this film was like going through an airport – Chow's last film Shaolin Soccer was real big with the pirates, and Columbia Pictures is evidently determined not to have the same thing happen again. All through the film, I'd swear a woman with an infrared detector thing had it pointed at my face, especially when I took an occasional – no doubt suspicious – sip of coffee. Early on I wondered if the film would be worth the trouble – I only went to see it because it fitted into an open time slot. But it's unquestionably fun. The movie is indeed just one big kung fu hustle, just bang bang bang from beginning to end, crammed with balletic action, mysticism, good vs. evil showdowns, and so forth.
It's crammed with movie references – Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Shining, Sergio Leone, Jackie Chan, probably a hundred Asian movies I don't know (apparently it's a homage to the Shaw Brothers movies, which I'm not sure I've ever seen), and most prominently The Matrix. Indeed, it would almost be conceivable that the entire project is at its heart a debunking of that film and its pretentious sequels. It has an overload of digital effects, some funny (if generally obvious character business, and the most unorthodox villains since Miyazaki's Spirited Away. If you pine for the choreography and sweep of the classic Hollywood musical, this is probably the genre that now comes closest to providing it. Even so, I'll never be a major aficionado of this kind of stuff – it's too hermetic ever to be more than the candy you take between main meals. But in this case at least I can see why the pirates might be straining to get their hands on it.
5 X 2 – Cinq Fois Deux (Francois Ozon)
Pedro Almodovar (whose new film Bad Education I'll review in a few weeks) is currently at the top of the heap of European directors, but Francois Ozon seems to have aspirations to push him aside, and could make it soon. Almodovar has been honing a specific affinity for lush stylization and hall of mirrors narrative, but Ozon is much more variable and resourceful, moving from the black comedy of Sitcom to the hermetic Fassbinder tribute Water Falls On Burning Rocks to the allusive and mysterious Under The Sand to the contrived delight of 8 Women. Somehow his work nevertheless seems to be of a piece, held together by a wry skepticism at bourgeois assumptions.
I think 5 X 2 may be his best film, although in some ways it's his least surprising. It's the story of a relationship told in five sequences, from their initial connection at a beach resort to the signing of the divorce papers. The film's structural innovation – recently somewhat familiar from Memento and Irreversible – is that the sequences run in reverse order. The tone is calm and penetrating – it's a tone familiar from observational European cinema. The film's intrigue is in Ozon's near-incredulity at the possibility that such relationships might exist at all, and how he consequently renders events calmly but ineluctably strange.
For example, after the divorce papers are signed, they arrange to sleep together again; she changes her mind, but he rapes her. On their wedding night he falls asleep too quickly, so she goes outside and meets another man, whom she has sex with. On the day their son is born, he simply disappears. The film's expressions of "I love you" are intimately linked to these moments – they all seem like defensive movements in the wake of a transgression. The title clearly sounds more geometric than thematic, and I think this reflects Ozon's beguilement at the very structure of relationships. The film's backward trajectory seems to suggest his doubt at our tired paradigms by which they're kindled, grow, wither and die.
The most explicit challenge to this structure within the film comes from the man's gay brother, who has an open relationship with his latest boyfriend. Ozon is also gay, and 5 X 2 may provide the festival's most astringent gay perspective on a predominantly straight world (Bad Education looks merely gauche by comparison). But like everything in the film, this is allusive rather than explicit. Overall, 5 X 2 is immaculately well played by the two actors, and I found it completely mesmerizing. It's a miracle of utterly fresh coordinates planted in familiar territory, without apparent strain.
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As a speaker at FDA's social media hearings last November, CEO Bill Drummy challenged regulators to simplify risk information for patients, and ditch the kind of "encyclopedic" postscripts printed in "mouse type" that "no one reads." Drummy also advocated for new and simpler ways for patients to report adverse events, suggesting that "we have to use technology as the answer to the problem that technology, in part, helped to create."In the meantime, Heartbeat Digital has expanded work with mainstay clients including Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis and Schering-Plough, now a part of Merck. Drummy says the agency picked up a big piece of business with GSK, but isn't allowed to disclose the specific brand. With Sanofi-Aventis, Heartbeat will continue working in the allergy sector—the agency handled "design and technical work," including the brand.com site, for a Xyzal campaign that launched last spring—but also picked up a "cross-brand, corporate level" assignment on the professional side, and a mobile strategy project, says Janelle Starr, VP of marketing solutions at Heartbeat. Agency revenues were up 25% in 2009, according to Drummy.
New business wins include work on Nexavar, a kidney and liver cancer drug from Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, as well as assignments with Cephalon, Genentech and Inspiration biopharmaceuticals.As the agency undergoes a rebranding exercise—complete with new logo, identity and a "change in the way we talk about ourselves to clients," staffers are free to mind-meld in Heartbeat's new uber-interactive office, a 14,000 square foot space in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. Heartbeat Digital and its software company, Heartbeat Software, parted ways in December 2009, and are now legally separated. Drummy says "different visions, sales models and ways of going to the market" between the two units were confusing to clients. Heartbeat Software held on to the Park Avenue office, and Heartbeat Digital moved into its "high-tech, high-touch" digs on Hudson Street in May.
The agency hopes to use its new office space to expand service offerings, eventually including in-house broadcast production. Drummy says the agency produces video for the web, but the "next step for us is to move into the broadcast arena," adding that a client recently asked the agency to consider an AOR assignment across all channels. "We're trying to define ourselves more broadly. Our core digital strength is enormous, but we see ourselves as also having real strength in creative and strategy…we may not want to limit ourselves by having the name 'digital' in our title."Heartbeat Digital has a total headcount of 72. Drummy says that number represents growth of around 20%. Nardine Leonard, Heartbeat's former head of strategy, was promoted to head of strategic client services, where she is "essentially running all of client services as well as strategy," says Drummy. Janelle Starr was promoted from VP, production to VP, marketing solutions. Heartbeat brought in a new director of technology, Jessica Cristani, and filled Starr's old position as director of production with Claudia Riegelhaupt, a four-year veteran of the agency.


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