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More than a century of industrial dumping has spread pollution throughout the Great Lakes, and fish caught from the world's largest source of freshwater often are unsafe to eat, but a new federal report concludes there still isn't enough evidence to tie the contamination to specific health threats.
The report, issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is considerably less alarming than a draft version leaked to the press last year. That version linked records of historical contamination and ongoing pollution with health databases documenting cancer rates and other diseases.
Some officials criticized the agency for not releasing the original version. But others said the conclusions in that draft couldn't be supported, in part because the data came from different years.

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The Director General of the BBC has been forced to admit that the map used in the channel's weather forecasts frequently contain names of towns that don't exist. The practice came to light after Conservative MP Toby Booth asked a question at PMQs in which he referenced recent levels of rainfall in the Hampshire village of 'Lower Spangle'.
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Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying,[4] while some U.S. states have laws against it.[5] Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation.
This, even though everyone knows it was Obama who suggested sequester, saw it passed, and then signed it into law.
Woodward's reporting threatens to monkey wrench all of this. His reporting not only confirmed that sequester was Obama's idea but that Obama moved the goal posts with his demand for tax increases. The original sequester deal did not include tax increases.
Yesterday, Woodward really threw the White House and its media a curve by being the only high-profile reporter willing to say out loud that Obama has the power to choose where the cuts hit. In other words, all this White House fear-mongering is an audacious lie.
Though no one's disputed Woodward's reporting, the media's Cult of Obama began pushing back against the Watergate legend even before he dropped the bomb last night that he had been threatened by a top White House official.
But when that news hit, many in media immediately chose to protect Obama by ridiculing Woodward, questioning his motives, and/or dismissing his reporting.
Meet the members of the Cult of Obama…
A reporter for CBS claimed that White House and Department of Justice officials screamed and cursed at her due to a story she was pursuing about a controversial DOJ program.
Sharyl Attkisson, the investigative reporter for CBS, made the allegations on conservative host Laura Ingraham's radio show Tuesday. She had been looking into the so-called "Fast and Furious" operation that the Justice Department was running.
Attkisson told Ingraham that, when she broke a damning story about the operation, she got extremely aggressive pushback from the Obama administration. She said that a DOJ spokeswoman named Tracy Schmaler had yelled at her on Monday about the story, but that it was nothing compared to the way a White House spokesman named Eric Schultz had acted.
Attkisson said he had "literally screamed at me and cussed at me" about the story, and that the White House also told her that she was the only reporter not being "reasonable" about the issue
Originally posted by jibeho
Screaming and ranting seems to be a common denominator with the WH bullies....
Originally posted by Helious
That's what dictators and their administrations do. They threaten, harass and sometimes even round up and kill "dissidents" and those with opposing political views or those in opposition.
Originally posted by burntheships
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I guess Woodward is starting to understand just how much he will regret
his actions...here is hoping they will make him mad enough that he starts digging.
Originally posted by Bixxi3
wow now this is something truly interesting and potentially something that could really shake people awake to how commonplace it is for the government to pressure those who the public listen to.
Now i have a question though, why can't he say who practically threatened him?
I understand that it could be potentially life threatening. But surely someone like bob woodward would want the name out there so everyone can know. A death would be highly suspicious now, would it not?
Originally posted by butcherguy
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We really can't be sure that this email covers what had the Obama camp was PO'ed about.
I kind of think it was the part about saying that the POTUS is mad.
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Originally posted by KyrieEleison
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Nah, see, he's pretty old so it would just be "natural causes" or "suicide" or whatever is in vogue du jour.
Oh come on, they only meant he would not be invited to press conferences, or white house dinners, cut off from the inner circle, no access.. Like castration for a reporter.. I'm sure they wouldn't just find him dead... A sudden car accident these guys are smarter..edit on 27-2-2013 by starfoxxx because: (no reason given)
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We really can't be sure that this email covers what had the Obama camp was PO'ed about.
I kind of think it was the part about saying that the POTUS is mad.
Hey Butch...If you have the bandwidth, clarify for me. everything I have read has cited this email as the basis for Woodward's comment. What have I missed?


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Every time Marcus Smart missed a shot, the crowd inside the Sprint Center roared.
His three misses in overtime were especially deafening.
Smart finished with 14 points Wednesday, but the Oklahoma State star's errant shooting in crunch time proved costly. No. 10 Kansas took advantage by pulling away for a 77-70 victory, earning a spot opposite fourth-seeded Iowa State in the Big 12 tournament semifinals.
"It's always hard to beat Kansas, especially in this building," Smart said. "They have the fan base to back them up. It's kind of hard. They have the energy and momentum from their fans, and it kind of takes the opposing team out of it."
Phil Forte briefly gave the Cowboys a 70-68 lead with a 3-pointer a minute into overtime, but the Jayhawks (24-8) scored the final nine points, all but two of them at the foul line.
Le'Bryan Nash scored 19 points to lead the Cowboys (21-12), who have lost four overtime games this season. Forte hit four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points.
"Kansas City is probably an hour away from Lawrence, so it's just like a home game for them," Nash said. "Their fans get into the game and, you know, it's Kansas. It's always tough."
Andrew Wiggins scored 30 points to lead Kansas. Wayne Selden Jr. added 14.
"My shot was falling the whole game," Wiggins said.
Both teams had chances to earn the win in regulation.
Wiggins hit a baseline jumper with a minute left to knot it 67, but Cowboys coach Travis Ford decided against going 2-for-1 on possessions, and Smart missed a 3 with 32 seconds left.
The Jayhawks got the rebound and called timeout with 16 seconds left to set up a play for Wiggins, and he missed a tightly guarded 3 with a few ticks left on the lock. Tarik Black gathered in the rebound and stuck it back, but the basket came after time had expired.
Black got extended minutes in place of Joel Embiid, the Jayhawks' 7-foot freshman center, who has been ruled out indefinitely with a stress fracture in his back. The senior transfer finished with seven points and 12 rebounds, including a couple with the game in the balance.
"I thought he was very good defensively," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
The No. 8 seed Cowboys, who had to play a matinee after dispatching Texas Tech on Wednesday night, didn't look as if they were weary in the first half. They actually pulled out to an early lead, silencing a heavily pro-Kansas crowd that had packed inside the Sprint Center.
Kansas responded by taking a 32-23 lead into halftime, and then maintained its advantage early in the second half. But once Black and fellow forward Perry Ellis picked up their fourth fouls, the Cowboys started shredding the Kansas defense by driving the lane.
Smart proved to be the most adept at it, picking up fouls when he wasn't hammered on the way to the rim. But just about everyone wearing black and orange got into the act, and Oklahoma State methodically trimmed the lead to 55-49 with about 8 minutes to go.
That's when Ford changed things up by slapping on a full-court press. It produced two quick turnovers and helped Oklahoma State take a 60-59 lead with 4 minutes left.
It was the Cowboys' first lead since the 12-minute mark in the first half.
"I thought our defense was good the first half. I thought it was excellent, to be honest with you," Self said. "They came out and obviously shot 52 percent in the second half. We didn't guard them as well, but the law of averages usually prevails when you have good players."
The two teams, who each won on their home floor during the regular season, traded blows down the stretch. Selden made a couple free throws for Kansas, Forte answered with two from the foul line for Oklahoma State. Black and Wiggins threw down alley-oop dunks for the Jayhawks, and Murphy hit a pair of free throws and Markel Brown hit a rainbow 3 to give the Cowboys the lead.
It just made sense that such a nip-and-tuck game would be decided in overtime.
"These guys played with a lot of heart. They did," Ford said. "We got down, they fought back, took the lead, but give Kansas credit. They made some big shots and got some big rebounds."


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A friend once joked that product management is 20% talking and 80% email. Even with modern collaboration tools like Slack, most PMs I know still send and receive lots of email. Ken Norton in "How I Manage My Inbox" Most days on the job, I feel like all I do is reply to an endless … [Read more…]


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Shakespeare's farewell to the stage?
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How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in 't!
The Tempest was Shakespeare's last play. After 1611, other than contributing occasionally to Fletcher's plays for the King's Men, Shakespeare appears to have retired from the stage. For many readers, it has been tempting to identify Prospero, the ageing magician who resigns his powers, with Shakespeare, the playwright who is also leaving 'the great globe itself' and all 'this unsubstantial pageant'. Prospero is a kind of playwright, putting on a 'masque' and manipulating all the characters to play their parts in his dramatic plan.
The moment when Prospero offers to break his staff is one of great ambivalence. Do we rejoice at his return to political power or mourn the loss of his magical powers? Shakespeare too, retiring to the comfortable wealth of his property and business interests in Stratford, might well have missed the applause he alludes to so feelingly in the epilogue: 'And my ending is despair/ Unless I be relieved by prayer'.Conquest and usurpation - a play whose themes have never dated
Shakespeare's age was one of exploration. The New World, as described in the books we know Shakespeare read, seemed at once a paradise and a savage wilderness. The inhabitants had equally contradictory reputations. Many commentators have perceived in Miranda and Prospero's attitude to Caliban a reflection of European views on slavery and colonisation. Yet Shakespeare gives Caliban some of the most powerful lines in the play - his articulate defence of Prospero is almost heroic, while his speech 'Be not afeared. The isle is full of noises' displays a far from 'monstrous' lyricism and sensitivity. Usurpation and betrayal run throughout the play: First Antonio takes Prospero's dukedom, then Prospero rejects Caliban's claim to the island and lastly Stefano attempts to make himself 'king o'th'isle'. Shakespeare surely invites us to make comparisons - and judgements - between them.


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The Rosa Parks Museum presents the history of the events of and the people involved in the 1955 and 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The museum is located at the site of Rosa Parks' refusal to give her seat on a Montgomery public bus to a Caucasian man. Following Parks' arrest, many African American residents boycotted the bus system as a protest against segregation. In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled segregation of buses unconstitutional. Collections include a replica of the aforementioned bus. The children's wing offers a sensory "time travel experience," which presents life under early Jim Crow laws.
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Superchick: Rockin' What They've Got
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- 2008 18 Jun
The term "rock-o-tronic" may not look all that familiar, especially as genres such as rock & roll and electronica are often separated by a 10-foot pole. But then again, Superchick's been anything but conventional throughout a tenure that's spanned all of the 2000s thus far, often blurring lines between pop, rock, hip-hop and now an electronically enhanced landscape throughout Rock What You Got (Inpop).
"The label kind of came up with the word 'rock-o-tronic' when they heard the new songs for the first time. And the thing is, we've never fit into any one genre," asserts front woman Tricia Brock. "The album's more rock than we've ever been. The vocals are really rockin' as well, and musically there are a lot of electronic elements, which is one of [producer/group member] Max [Hsu's] biggest strengths. He's a guy of the '80s who loves hip-hop, disco and funk beats, and he could program a whole album in an hour if he had to! So if people want to call it that, I feel like it fits, and it's cool because it's our own little sound. I don't think the album sounds like anything that's out right now."
Brock is indeed onto something as Rock What You Got explodes with guitars, synthesizers, programming and her own assertive vocals, inspired by a series of seminal retro rockers like Blondie, Pat Benatar and Cyndi Lauper. On one hand, the group provides a hearty throwback to those seminal stars of yesteryear, while simultaneously introducing those sounds to younger audiences. Though members make sure to put their own stamp of ingenuity on all aspects of the material.
"Our guitarist Dave [Ghazarian] literally learned to play from Van Halen, while [fellow vocalist/guitarist] Melissa [Brock] and I love '80s chick rock," Tricia verifies. "We're trying a ton of new things vocally and lyrically where some of the songs are almost like dance tracks with great beats and grooves, and others are more mellow but really artistic—along the lines of Frou Frou or other artists with a lot of programming and harmonies."
Though the band is justifiably proud of all these stylistic steps forward, the message remains paramount in the overall Superchick equation. For starters, the title track revolves around the idea of making the most of any circumstance, no matter how much the odds are stacked against someone. "Max wrote that song after being at Target and seeing this older guy riding around in a motorized cart," Tricia explains. "It looked like he couldn't walk, but he had a suit on, his hat cocked to the side; and he was leaning back in his chair giving head nods to people he passed as if to say, 'What's up?' He was the happiest guy with such a great attitude, and he was really rocking what he's got!"
Even deeper are the extensions of 2005's Beauty from Pain, a record birthed from a series of challenging circumstances (including break-ups, illness and death). Though Tricia and the entire troupe have since ironed out their difficulties thanks to an intense period of spiritual refinement and growth, they still feel compelled to connect with the hurting.
"We feel like this is naturally the record that's supposed to come next after all of those struggles—family problems, health problems and Dave suddenly losing his dad," she sums up. "But now we're at a new place where we've learned so much from God, and these songs are a reflection of that maturity. There's a song called 'Hold' that expresses those feelings of asking, 'God, where are you?' but knowing how much we need to cry out to Him. 'Breathe' is written for somebody in your life who's ready to give up and being there for them. We want to encourage people to do the best they can no matter how difficult the situation they're going through and to get to the point where they can say, 'I have life to live today, and there's not much to give, but I'll do what I can!'"
To learn more about Superchick's Rock What You Got, visit superchickonline.com.
© 2008 CCMmagazine.com. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
**This interview first published on June 18, 2008.


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Report on Instructional Technology Grant
by Kerri Steinberg
My motivation for applying for an Instructional Technology Grant was simple: each spring semester I teach three sections of the History of Graphic Design, Illustration, and Advertising—three histories which must be woven together within the structure of a fifteen week course.
This is a tall order, to be sure. To attempt adding additional points of interest to the class, like guest speakers or videos, requires letting go of something else. For several years, I was intent upon finding a way to integrate some of the fascinating sources related to the history of graphic design, illustration, and advertising contained within the Otis Library Special Collection into my class, providing students an opportunity to see what the history we were reading and talking about looked like in actual sources, some of which date back to the Medieval period.
Establishing an Otis History of Graphic Design wiki was just the solution. During the spring semester of 2007, the Communication Arts sophomores, all of whom are required to take the History of Graphic Design, Illustration, and Advertising, initiated three Otis College History of Graphic Design wikis. In preparation for the wiki project, I surveyed the sources held within Otis Library Special Collections, and identified those which I believed would be most useful for the project. From there, the students within my three classes were divided into four groups for the purposes of specializing in a particular era of graphic design history.
These periods include: 1) the Pre-Industrial—Medieval and Renaissance graphic arts; 2) the Industrial—19th century Graphic Design; 3)Modern Graphic Design: 1900-1935; and 4)Modern Graphic Design: 1935-1970. The navigation page for each wiki provides links to a timeline, historical overview, discussion of technology, design issues, the special collection sources for each respective period, and a bibliography. Ideally, the timeline should serve as an index to meaningful historical, technological, and design issues, which are then evidenced in the analysis of the special collection sources.
The beauty of the wiki project, as I saw it, was to allow each group to acquire more familiarity and depth within their respective areas, offsetting the inevitable "survey" approach followed in a fifteen work course. Moreover, I wanted students to take a more active role in their learning, and to understand themselves not only as consumers of history and content, but also as producers of history and meaning. In fact, this outcome—to have students regard themselves as generators of meaning—coincides with various articles the students read over the semester relating to issues of authorship and responsibility. Essentially, students were asked to step into different shoes—more professional "kicks"—as they began constructing their own histories from the ground up.
Not being much of a technology maven, I awaited the results with baited breath. As the wikis started to blossom, I soon realized that I was in way over my head, for essentially, I had put myself in a position of needing to manage the contributions of 85 students. I quickly realized that I should have started small, and then grown the project. And, most significantly, developing three wikis according to the same goals now strikes me as superfluous; at the time, however, I couldn't imagine a way to involve all of my students. As for the quality of the wikis, I found the results to be quite uneven. This can be attributed to several factors: some groups simply weren't able to effectively manage the wiki software, resulting in formatting complications. Others didn't follow the basic standards for academic writing, resulting in insufficient citations, or poor grammar. Some groups followed all of the guidelines for developing a substantive discussion of the historical context, technological and design issues, but then failed to pull all of this together in their consideration of the Otis Library Special Collections.
On the flip side, there were a couple of groups that took their charge quite seriously, and were motivated by the knowledge that their work could be accessed by the public. I now find myself in a place where I must help the students pair down the three wikis, and to consolidate the three extant wikis into one. Consequently, this academic year (2007-2008), my Communication Arts sophomores are, once again, returning to the wiki project, but this time, with the purpose of editing, revising, consolidating, and extending the current wiki. Each of my three classes will be assigned a discrete period (i.e. one of the four chronological periods mentioned above), and will be required to review the material currently posted under each of the wikis. Again, the class will be divided into four groups, this time corresponding with the different categories on the navigation page. Each group will be responsible for organizing the material under a particular category. They will retain the best information, insert citations where necessary, look for opportunities to create useful external links to helpful websites, online museums, dictionaries, etc., create internal links, and clean-up formatting inconsistencies.
The opportunities for this wiki are limitless. In the future, I can imagine asking students to feature biographies of important figures within the history of graphic design, illustration, and advertising, and also including a space where students will elaborate on contemporary issues affecting the art and design community. I am hopeful that by the end of this academic year, or by the beginning of the next academic year, we will have a single, fluid, Otis History of Graphic Design wiki, which will serve as an excellent reference not only for the Communication Arts students, but for the larger Otis student population.
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A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over the leak of information to national newspapers about Tory former chief whip Andrew Mitchell's tirade at officers on Downing Street.
A constable in the Diplomatic Protection Group was held on Saturday evening and bailed on Sunday to return next month, Scotland Yard said.
Mitchell resigned in October after weeks of controversy over what he was reported to have said to police after being told he could not ride his bike through the main gates.
On resigning, he insisted in a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron that he had not referred to an officer on the gate as either a "pleb" or a "moron" but acknowledged delivering the parting line: "I thought you guys were supposed to f****** help us."
The story first emerged in The Sun and transcripts of what was allegedly said appeared later in the Daily Telegraph.
Scotland Yard said that on Thursday the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) received fresh information regarding the alleged unauthorised disclosure of information. As the result of this the Directorate of Professional Standards arrested a police constable in the Diplomatic Protection Group, on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, at 8.15pm on Saturday.
He was bailed on Sunday morning to return in January. He has been suspended from duty. The matter will be formally referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission on Monday.
The Yard's statement said the arrest was linked to previous inquiries by the MPS as to how internal information was obtained by national newspapers following an incident at Downing Street in September. "These inquiries found no evidence to suggest any of the officers involved in the incident were involved in the unauthorised release of information. The officer arrested was not on duty at the time of the incident in Downing Street."
When he resigned Mitchell admitted the row over the incident made his position untenable. He said it was not fair to put his colleagues and family through such "damaging" stories any longer. He had clung desperately to his position amid a mounting clamour lasting a month for him to go.
Former minister David Mellor said it was "good news" that the police finally seemed to be taking leaks to the media seriously, adding: "What happened in the Mitchell case was a serious breach of duty with not only the full details of police reports being leaked, but the actual documents being handed over to newspapers. This was disgraceful. The question has to be asked, what took them so long?"
In September The Sun accused the Met of trying to "find and shoot the messenger" after it launched an investigation into the leak.
The paper said in an editorial: "To them [the Met] it's more important to devote resources to uncovering how The Sun broke this story and attempting to expose the source who showed us evidence confirming what took place.
"As we have said, we neither paid nor offered any money for this exclusive. It is the result of what is known as journalism.
"The public interest could not be more clear-cut. Britain has a right to know if a high-ranking Government member brands police officers 'morons' and 'plebs'."


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Each week, we'll be sharing a comprehensive list of links to help you master something new in the kitchen. Culinary greatness, here you come.
Today: You already know how to drink wine -- here's how to cook with it.
Somewhere, in someone's kitchen (perhaps your own), you've seen a sign displayed that proudly reads, "I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food!" This post is an ode to the people who own those signs -- the ones who enjoy a glass or two while they chop, sauté, and blend. While wine makes a great co-pilot in the kitchen, it also shines as the star ingredient in dishes like poached pears, beef tenderloin, and drunken clams. These links will give you the confidence (beyond the liquid variety) to cook with wine.
- 5 tips for choosing a wine to cook with. (Food Republic.)
- Should you use cheap or expensive wine in dishes? This experiment explores the question at hand. (Epicurious.)
- A very literal (and innovative!) interpretation of cooking with wine. (NPR.)
- For a bevy of approachable posts on wine and food, turn to this column by Cathy Huyghe. (Food52.)
- Make syrup out of leftover wine and drizzle it on berries or ice cream for a sweet treat. (The Kitchn.) Or, you can simply use this handy guide to pairing wine with desserts. (Serious Eats.)
Wine lovers -- share your secrets in the comments!


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The Week in Animal News: Penguins Showering, 82 Whales Stranded, Baby Gorillas, and More (Slideshow)
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Penguins lining up for a shower? Bring on the cute overload. We also have a set of rare baby mountain gorilla twins, the shocking story of 82 whales stranded, happy pigs freed from a factory farm, the ironic death of a gambler at a cockfight, and more.
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A dossier on contemporary British experimental film and video that I put together with Deniz Johns for Senses of Cinema is available here in the March issue. I also have a short essay on Malcolm Le Grice in the June issue of Sight and Sound.
The book Kurt Kren: Structural Films, which I edited with Nicky Hamlyn and Al Rees, has a launch event at Close Up on May 30th.
The new issue of Sequence (no.4) has been published - info and sales through the BFI bookshop. See here.
See here for details of the Contact festival of Experimental Film and Video May 2016.
A DVD compilation of Colour Field Videos, from Colour Bars (2004) through to Vice Versa Et Cetera (2010) is available from RGB, through the BFI and via the LUX shop


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- Provide the food and water needed for the trip.
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Before traveling and as soon as possible (up to a maximum of 48 hours prior to departure of your flight), you should contact the Veterinary Directorate-General by email so that the documentation can be checked in advance by veterinary control. If your pet does not comply with established health rules, its entry into the country may be refused. This requirement applies whenever you travel with your pet from countries outside the European Union (excluding Switzerland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino and Vatican City State).
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What would it be like if you had to fight Superman? You may be thinking, "Superman is the hero, so why would he fight me?" Work with us for a minute. After all, when the concept of "Superman" was first developed, he was a villain and not a hero.
Imagine for a moment going mano-a-mano against the Man of Steel. Just regular, mortal you against a brightly-garbed warrior who has super-strength, can fly, is faster than a speeding bullet, and has only one weakness. It doesn't sound like much fun. It would seem rather hopeless … unless you had some Kryptonite in your back pocket.
The heirs of the two co-creators of the legendary comic book hero must feel just as hopeless at times in their fight over what they feel is "truth, justice and the American way." They have been battling the powerful media conglomerates, Warner Bros. and DC Comics, for many years in a series of (seemingly) never-ending lawsuits. The heirs claim entitlement to full ownership of the Superman copyrights.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics say the heirs never owned the rights and the two corporations have nothing wrong. Their position is that even if the heirs did have valid claims at one time, the heirs agreed to let Warner and DC keep the copyrights in exchange for increased royalty payments and other compensation.
Superman was created by writer Jerome Siegel and illustrator Joseph Shuster, each credited with a 50% stake in the royalties. Their creation was picked up by DC Comics in 1937, who then hired the pair to create comic strips, with DC owning all work created from that point on. But the big battle centered on who owned the rights to the Superman character himself, as previously developed by Siegel and Shuster and as he first appeared in Action Comics Volume I in 1938.
Siegel and Shuster had an on-again, off-again relationship with DC, often suing over their rights, but ultimately returning to work for DC each time. Siegel and Shuster passed away in 1996 and 1992, respectively, without achieving their dream of reclaiming the rights to the Superman character.
New hope came with the passage of the Copyright Act of 1976, and certain amendments to the law in 1999, which provided limited rights to creators such as Siegel and Shuster, and their heirs, to reclaim copyrights. If Warner Bros. and DC are in the role of Superman in this long-lasting battle, then surely the Copyright Act is the Kryptonite. But, that Act is riddled with exceptions and loopholes that make it very hard to successfully use.
In 1997, the Siegel heirs filed notice under the Copyright Act, formally seeking to reclaim 50% of the Superman copyrights. The Shuster heirs did the same in 2003. Both of these filings provoked litigation between the two families and Warner Bros./DC Comics.
The Siegel family enjoyed rare success under the Copyright Act, achieving a court ruling in 2008 in its favor. The Judge wrote at that time, "After seventy years, Jerome Siegel's heirs regain what he granted so long ago–the copyright in the Superman material that was published in Action Comics, Vol 1." In other words, this court ruling returned 50% control over the primary rights to the Superman character to the Siegel family. Warner and DC soon appealed.
A couple weeks ago, the Shuster family lost their bid to achieve the same result. The same United States District Court in California ruled against Shuster's heirs and in favor of Warner and DC. So that 50% share of the primary Superman rights still rests in corporate hands.
The Shuster heirs will soon appeal that ruling, which means the battle is far from over. The federal court appellate system will decide both cases.
Setting aside the complicated intricacies of the Copyright Act, and what specific copyrights could and could not be reclaimed by the heirs, both court cases turn primarily on the same important issue — did the heirs already reach agreements with the corporations to give up their rights to the copyrights, in exchange for higher royalties and other benefits?
The recent court decision in the Shuster case held that Joseph Shuster's sister and brother did precisely that in 1992, when they agreed to accept higher royalties ($25,000 per year, for the rest of the sister's life) plus payment of Joseph's estate debts.
Similarly, Warner and DC contend that the Siegel heirs reached an agreement for higher royalties in exchange for the copyright claims in 2001. Unlike with the Shuster family, the Judge in that case felt the agreement was never formally reached because there were too many points of disagreement at the time. Warner Bros. and DC Comics say that ruling was incorrect. They contend on appeal that a binding deal was struck and they want that agreement enforced.
In the meantime, Jerome Siegel's only daughter, Laura Siegel Larson, has penned an open letter to Superman fans, vowing to continue the "David and Goliath struggle" in the face of a separate lawsuit by Warner Bros. against her and her attorney, noted copyright attorney Marc Toberoff. You can read that letter here.
This related lawsuit is based on documents stolen from Toberoff's office, which were then secretly delivered to Warner Bros. The company sued because of these documents, which it says proves there was a binding agreement in place in 2001. Warner blames Toberoff for wrongfully convincing Larson and her mother to breach the deal in 2002. It has asked a court to severely sanction Toberoff for wrongdoing and accuses Toberoff of trying to wrest control of the copyright for his own personal profits.
Larson is upset that Warner Bros. is using these documents to seek the removal of her attorney from the lawsuits. She says that Toberoff stood by the family for years, battling "legions of highly paid corporate lawyers that Warner Bros. has at its disposal." She accuses Warner Bros. of bullying and intimidation tactics, in a desperate attempt to hold on to the extraordinarily-profitable Superman rights.
Regardless of which side you believe, there is no denying how much is at stake in the fight. The Los Angeles Times reported that Superman has brought in billions of dollars in revenue, including $500 million from domestic box office takes alone over the course of five movies. There is a new Warner Bros. movie, "Man of Steel", scheduled for a June, 2013 release — not to mention planned "Avengers" style movies based on Superman and other DC Comics heroes. All of that is in jeopardy if the Siegel and Shuster heirs win control of the rights to the character through the appeals.
From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/trialandheirs/2012/10/29/heirs-of-superman-creators-battleue-to-battle-warner-bros-and-dc-comics/


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Students, teachers and parents from charter schools in flood-ravaged eastern New Orleans pleaded with Recovery School District officials Tuesday night to provide them with new buildings after nearly five years of making do with modulars.
After Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding destroyed or severely damaged most city school buildings, district officials developed a master plan to build new or substantially renovated facilities to house nearly every student in the city. Six projects have been completed, but it was not until last summer that the New Orleans schools received a historic $1.8 billion FEMA settlement.
Consequently, the Recovery School District estimates that about 6,000 students are still attending school in modular facilities. Those school programs have highest priority under a set of criteria developed by the district.
Yet at Tuesday's meeting, the last of five called by the RSD to gather input on which school programs should be assigned to which facilities, speakers highlighted the uncertainty still apparent in the district's plans.
Intercultural Charter School is housed in modulars on Michoud Boulevard in eastern New Orleans but is slated in a draft RSD document for either a new building in phase two of the master plan or a renovation in phase four.
RSD officials have said that phases 1 through 3 of the master plan, which encompass the bulk of the new buildings and major renovations, will definitely be funded with the FEMA money, while the remaining three phases are less certain.
Intercultural's ultimate location is also yet to be determined: The RSD has assigned it to either the Sherwood Forest or Gaudet sites.
At the meeting, Intercultural advocates said Sherwood Forest would be ideal because it is centrally located to where most students live. They spoke of floors and walls with holes in them and children who get soaked moving from class to class because the outdoor hallways of the modular campus do not have adequate roofing.
"Everybody is here fighting for a building. We should not be fighting for a building," said Cam-Thanh Tran, chairman of Intercultural's board. "It hurts my heart, watching the faces of little kids who have to walk through the rain to get to their class. We were promised a building. Three years after, we're still in modulars."
Since its founding in fall 2008, New Orleans Charter Science and Math Academy has become the top-performing open enrollment high school in the city, despite a freshman class that averaged a fourth-grade reading level at the beginning of the school year. In just over two years, Sci Academy is on its second modular campus, with a permanent location still "to be determined." The school is scheduled for phase 1 -- a promising sign -- but RSD officials are still searching for the right site.
Ramsey Green, deputy superintendent of operations, told the crowd at Schaumburg Elementary in eastern New Orleans Tuesday night that RSD officials are working with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and the Orleans Parish School Board to find a location in eastern New Orleans for Sci Academy's new building.
"No one's need is greater or lesser than anyone's. But our school is one of the greatest opportunities for change in the community," said James Jones, a Sci Academy student who said he entered the school with fourth-grade math skills and is now vying for a spot at the top of his class. "A building would be something that could help it benefit the community more. Through us having no facility, it's inhibiting us from making the improvements that we need."
A large contingent from Miller-McCoy Academy, an all-boys charter in eastern New Orleans, turned out to speak in support of the school, even though its slot for a new phase one school at the Livingston site, where it currently operates in modulars, is relatively secure.
Several speakers called for more schools in the 9th Ward. RSD Superintendent Paul Vallas has promised a new elementary school and high school in the Katrina-ravaged area, but City Councilman Jon Johnson described a recent meeting with State Superintendent Paul Pastorek where the outcome seemed to be more vague.
Green confirmed Johnson's understanding. "On the Lower 9th, we understand we have decisions to make," he said.
According to a demographic study recently released by the RSD and OPSB, the student population is expected to jump 20 percent to 30 percent by 2020 in eastern New Orleans and Gentilly, plus Lakeview, the Tulane/Gravier, Gert Town and Holy Cross neighborhoods. Even stronger growth is expected in areas hardest hit by Katrina flooding, including the Lower 9th Ward, Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods.
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The song, it killed her. Had she been in a state to talk, she would have. But the mind is a clever little thing. Or not so much. Not at the required time at least. She couldn't reach a decision. No, not with Nothing Else Matters playing in the background. She took off her headphones, and looked up at the night sky. There it was. But where was he? What was he thinking?
"I need to be strong. Or so says everyone. But this isn't me. I m not giving this any thought. But the decision was made. On my behalf."
Her hands reached for her cup of strong coffee. She needed to think it over. But for what? There isn't any point anyway. Drinking and slurping, she couldn't help but turn the lights on. She moved. Only if that was a "she moved on", how much more happiness that one word could have been. But well, it wasn't.
"Okay. I smile. I laugh. Minni is apparently proud of me. My parents trust me. My friends think it hasn't affected me. Well I don't really show that it has. Has it, actually? I knew it wouldn't last. But I wanted it to. Hell."
She slurps. Laying her hands on her cell phone, she opened her contact list.
"Staring at the screen won't help ma'am. Come on now."
Finally deleting that one name, she decided to wade through memories. At slow pace. Chats. Talks. SMS. One by one, all of them were deleted. She doesn't hear them. She tries to not read them. She stares, and hits the delete option every single time.
"It was all fake, wasn't it? I was faking it. I hate myself. No, I hate him. No. I can't."
She sees the video. The credits. They were funny. She switches it off. That reminds her of that one piece he wrote on some webpage.
"I can't delete that."
She doesn't. What bout the music list. She tries hearing some songs. Her list was topped by lips of an angel, learning to breathe, Romeo and Juliet, far away, cold,
"I never really wanted you to see the screwed up side of me that I keep. Locked inside of me so deep. I never really wanted you to go. So many things you should have known. "
, please forgive me, runaway, it's not over. The list wouldn't end. But the tears never came.


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Cranberry Race Report: Knocking on the door
I did it. I finally broke my PR of 2:43:49. My new PR is now 2:43:05. So 44 seconds improvement, which sounds sorta piddly after 18 months of training. Here's the thing: I went all out on this race. I pushed the swim, I owned the bike and I struggled through the run. I left absolutely nothing left in the tank, so I will take those 44 seconds with pride. (I will also remember that this course is technically 1.2 miles longer on the bike than my previous PR).
The swim was .8 miles around a cute little pond. The start was messy. I got out to start in the front, and still got pretty thoroughly pounded out to the first buoy. Then things eased a bit. Every 12 strokes I'd look to my right and I'd see another girl in my wave and I'd think, "ok, push it on this one and drop her" 12 strokes later, I'd look right again and see her, no further behind me, but importantly no further ahead. This girl paced with me the entire swim. And it was great to have some one right there. I definitely pushed harder because of it.
I came out of the water in 7th place in my age group, right behind the girl who paced with me and one other. I got out of transition ahead of those 2, so I was 5th starting out on the bike. As I've said, I rocked this bike. Just focused on picking people off and drinking plenty of fluids. I even held my coach off until the last few miles. I passed two girls in my age group, putting me in 3rd until the very end when I got passed just before the chute. Maybe it was getting passed at the end, but somehow, I just wasn't thinking when I was dismounting. I'm not the most graceful at getting off my bike: generally, I take my feet out of shoes while riding, then put weight on the right shoe, come to a stop, put my left on the ground, and swing the right leg over. Somehow this time around, I attempted a different dismount. I tried putting my weight on the left, and swinging the right leg over before coming to a stop. I didn't fall, but I did lose my left shoe in the process.
Finally, I've gotta give a shout out to the awesome spectators who get up when it's dark out just to come out and cheer. It was great to see other BPC and BTT athletes out, snapping pictures and cheering us on despite the pain, and of course, Paul and his parents coming out for it.


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Tampa Bay Rays have completed a deal to bring Australian pitcher Grant Balfour back to the organization after three years at the Oakland A's.
The announcement that Balfour had penned his two-year, $12 million deal was made at the Tampa Museum of Art after the team tweeted they were to announce some 'baseball-related activity' earlier in the day.
Balfour, 36, served as an opener for the Rays during his previous tenure, but he appears set to come in as the club's closer this season.
Last week, Balfour was reported to be close to signing a deal with the Nationals.
In December, the Australia native agreed to a two-year, $15 million contract with the Orioles, but that deal fell through when Baltimore said he failed his physical due to problems with his right shoulder. Balfour's agent then came out with statements from two doctors saying this was not the case.
Balfour pitched for the Rays from 2007-10, posting a 14-7 record and eight saves with a 3.33 ERA in 203 appearances.
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14 Questions With Don Cheadle
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I understand you play the saxophone. Ever think of venturing into music or recording?
Don Cheadle: I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper. Those are some of the funniest tapes -- oops, I just divulged my biggest secret!
Who is your role model?
DC: My father is mine. He is just an all-around solid and caring man -- always has been. And he's a stud. One year, we had an incident in my parent's house with carbon monoxide poisoning. He had the highest levels in his bloodstream but was the only one who didn't get sick -- he was too busy taking care of everybody. That's my father.
You recently took part in a Texas Hold'em tourney for charity. Are you good at playing poker? Are you a good bluffer?
DC: I love the game and play often. I think my skills are improving and I usually win. And I never bluff.
What's your best pick-up line?
DC: Does this look chafed to you?
Where do you take women on a first date?
DC: The first date is irrelevant, as long as the second date doesn't include a trip to the clinic.
Who's the hottest woman alive?
DC: For me, you'd still have a long way to go to beat Halle Berry.
What's a must-have item in your closet?
DC: A good stash spot -- your choice. Don't we all need that?
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Grab a chance to have a drink at last Happy Hour with the FCCC 2009/2010 board. Meet the nominees for the new board and prepare yourself for Annual General Meeting on May 11.
DATE: Friday, May 7
TIME: 6-10pm
VENUE: The Bookworm www.beijingbookworm.com
ENTRANCE: Free. Non-members very welcome as always.
DRINKS DISCOUNT: To FCCC members wielding a valid FCCC membership card.


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By Jennifer Martin
"I joined the Navy to see the world, really."
In March 1941, Walter Gafford had no way of knowing what would happen at Pearl Harbor nine months later. Or that he would be there to see it.
"We had 2300 folks killed that day."
Gafford was aboard the USS Maryland, when the Japanese struck.
"It happened so suddenly. It was a sneak attack. By the time I got my clothes on and went out on the deck, the Oklahoma was rolling over. It had 8 torpedoes in it."
Crew members of the Maryland went to the aid of the other ships in distress. Many were sinking, others were on fire.
"The harbor caught on fire. The side of the Oklahoma was burning. And Ford Island was on the right side of us and it was on fire. And the Arizona was behind us and an 1800 pound bomb had hit it and gone straight down the magazine. That's what blew it up so. All that fire, everything burning. It was awful."
But as awful as it was, Gafford says what lay ahead was even worse.
"Pearl Harbor was so fast. You didn't have time to get scared. But Okinowa, all the suicide planes. My hair would stand up on my head. I could feel it standing up I was so scared."
When the Maryland went to Okinowa, it had been more than four years since the Pearl Harbor attacks. The crew had seen operations in Saipan and Leyte. But nothing could prepare them for the kamikaze pilots they would encounter on the Japanese island.
"There were these suicide bombers and they were hitting these ships and there were people in the water. Not one place but all over. At night, we had 1500 ships there. And at night when they get to firing, it looked like the whole world was on fire."
One of the kamikazes hit the ship. 53 people were killed. The constant fear and threat of attacks proved to be too much. Gafford left the Navy on a medical discharge in February 1946.
He is proud of his service, but remains humble. "I'm glad I done what I done. But the only heroes are the ones that are dead."
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P.S. Have you ever noticed that every sales letter ends with a P.S.? It's true. And there's good reason why.
Now look at your latest postcard mailing. Did you include a P.S. on yours? If you didn't, here's a quick test. Send out the next postcard, identical in every way to the last, with one simple change. Include a simple P.S. at the end.
What should you say? What's the one message you want to leave imprinted vividly on your reader's mind. Put it down. Make that your P.S. It may be re-emphasizing your telephone number, it may be telling your reader about your incredible and generous offer again. It could be just about anything that you believe will persuade them to pick up that phone, call you and use your services.
Why is the P.S. such a fundamental fixture in the copywriting world? Because it works. Pure and simple. Statistics show that after the headline of your copy, your reader will immediately turn to see who has sent the mailing. And in the process, the reader then reads the P.S.
This means that if you don't use a P.S. you're missing out on a vital selling opportunity.
Here are two simple steps you need to keep in mind as you write your next postcard mailing. If you can remember these when you write your P.S., you'll have strengthened your mailing by 100 percent. And your response rate will show this.
If You Thought Your Remodel Was Tough, Read This…
First, you must remember that since it's read by the vast majority of people first, it's really a valuable introduction to your letter. So what does this mean for you? You need to make sure that anything you state in your P.S. is not only mentioned in the body of your letter, but actually amplified in it. Your reader may actually be reading the letter to gain more information about the topic mentioned in the P.S.
Second, you need to keep the P.S. simple and clean. This is essentially important in a postcard mailing where actual space is limited. Unlike some mailings, you don't have the luxury of using eight pages to outline your offer. You must make it short and succinct. This means words are at a premium. And so is your P.S.
You may have noticed that some copywriters load the end of the letter not with just one of these messages but several. It's almost as if you're reading an entire recap of the letter. Don't make this mistake. It just defeats the purpose of a short, sweet teaser.
Just as you spend a good deal of time perfecting the headline of your mailing, you need to spend some time, effort and thought, deciding what your P.S. message says. While it can be anything you deem appropriate, urgent and necessary, you do need to say it with flare. So don't hurriedly write this.
The next time you write a complete postcard text again, write the headline first. Then write the P.S. After that you can write the letter. Guaranteed, you'll be pleased with the outcome.


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What to see around Saint-SulpiceDistinguished for its monuments, here are some top landmarks to visit:
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Key editors at the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday explained the decision to publish a story and pictures of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of Afghan suicide bombers, after questions were raised by the White House, the Pentagon and readers.
In a live chat on latimes.com, Editor Davan Maharaj explained the decision to publish the material, especially the pictures, even though the events occurred two years ago. The publication comes at an especially sensitive time, with the U.S. and its NATO allies seeking to disengage from the Afghanistan war that began in October 2001.
"We considered this very carefully," Maharaj said. "At the end of the day, our job is to publish information that our readers need to make informed decisions. We have a particular duty to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan. On balance, in this case, we felt that the public interest here was served by publishing a limited, but representative sample of these photos, along with a story explaining the circumstances under which they were taken."
In response to a reader's question about how the photographs were selected, Maharaj said taste and relevance were the guiding principles.


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The capacity of humans to comprehend political violence in its most extreme form is limited, suggests Naida Zukic, an assistant professor in BMCC's Department of Speech, Communications and Theater Arts.
"So, instead of dealing with violence, we fictionalize it," she says. "Here in the west, we're able to deal with violence as it is depicted by Hollywood. But what we cannot deal with is the reality of torture, war, mass executions and human rights abuses."
Reflections on the "the ethics of responsibility"
An award-winning digital performance artist and media scholar, Zukic spoke on the fictionalization of violence and related themes on March 14 when she delivered the 2011 Anne Morrison Chapman lecture at Converse College, in Spartanburg, SC.
The subject of her lecture was "The Ethics of Responsibility and the Violence of the Self." The event was sponsored by the Anne Morrison Chapman Endowment and Converse's Departments of Foreign Languages and Literature; and History and Politics.
"In his film, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek observes that if something becomes too traumatic, it shatters the coordinates of our reality and we have to fictionalize it," Zukic says.
In her lecture at Converse, she examined this phenomenon and offered her theories on the relationship of the moral self to state-sponsored violence, torture and censorship—in Libya, Kosovo, Congo, Afghanistan, her native Bosnia and other "zones of the lost and destroyed."
Her presentation combined video images and film footage "and asked that we contemplate our own ethics of responsibility and our complicity with that violence, as journalists, scholars, artists, and filmmakers."
But complicity doesn't necessarily imply direct responsibility in violence and human rights abuses, Zukic says. Rather, "it points to our own blindness to the accumulation of these atrocities—or what Slavoj Zizek calls 'the fetishistic disavowal of reality'." For many people, the response to violence is, "I know but don't know want to know, so I don't know; I know it but refuse to fully assume the consequences of this knowledge so I can continue to act as if I don't know it."
That response is problematic, she says, "and ethical gestures like this need to be studied and questioned—in our own thinking and in our art."
Raising awareness
Zukic is quick to note that there are no easy answers. "I'm not in a position to ask people to take action or offer solutions," she says. "Rather, I can teach about these problems to my students and ask questions in the hope of raising awareness—about war and its effect on what the philosopher Judith Butler calls 'ungrievable populations'. We all need to pause and think about what is going on structurally, politically and culturally."


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Gil Cohen had a 1.6 grade point average in high school.
"I just wasn't doing well," he said.
Soon, he found something that clicked: software writing. He dropped out of high school at 16 and focused on writing software for an Internet start-up in New York.
In 2002, he helped start a technology company that grew into a multimillion-dollar firm and was eventually acquired by Earthlink. Currently, he's helping found a new technology company.
Looking back, he said, there are some things he missed out on, but he's content with the route he took.
"School's not for everyone," said Cohen, who grew up in North Miami Beach. "If you feel that going down this conventional path isn't for you, it's OK."
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, a growing number of students are taking non-traditional paths after high school. About 66 percent of high schoolers opt for further education but out of the students who don't go to college, 75 percent entered the labor force right away.
Miami-Dade College enrollment management director Rene Garcia says he's seen an increase in the number of students opting for two-year degrees. In 2013, he said, about 45 percent of Miami-Dade high schoolers enrolled at Miami-Dade College, with many choosing two-year degree programs.
"Nationwide, a very large chunk of students come straight out of high school and go to community college," he said. "You can still get some pretty good courses, and it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg."
The college offers bachelor and associate degrees along with college credit certificates in business, aviation, criminal justice, nursing, public service and more. Many for-profit schools also offer two-year degrees, though at higher costs.
When Fernando Mustiga graduated from Felix Varela Senior High School in The Hammocks area of Miami in 2004, he looked for a stable field that didn't require an advanced degree.
A law career seemed interesting, he said, so he decided to try paralegal studies. After graduating from a two-year program and finding a paralegal job, he realized it wasn't for him.
"I hated the 9-to-5 life," Mustiga said. After a year in the military, he stumbled upon job openings at the Turkey Point nuclear plant near Homestead. He earned two security licenses and became a security officer.
Six years later, he's working his dream job as an armed officer and making more than $70,000 a year.
MDC's Garcia thinks non-traditional career paths are becoming more common. Students are often swayed by the idea of not having to pay room and board fees, and some high schoolers don't feel ready for the independence that comes with moving away from home for college.
Another factor that influences students: not having to worry about selective admissions. Students applying to many two-year programs often aren't rejected because of GPA and standardized test score thresholds.
"I think that is a very big deal," he said.
As for Mustiga, he says he "wouldn't change anything."
"I'm very happy," he said. "I knew school wasn't for me."


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What is the full cost of buying your first home?
Have you been looking at property for sale to buy as your first home? First off, congratulations! Purchasing real estate can be an exciting and rewarding experience.
Tim Lawless from CoreLogic RP Data acknowledged that while the recent rate of property growth has been extreme, making affordability a real challenge, there is potentially a positive development for prospective buyers around the corner.
"Listing numbers are moving higher, providing more choice and taking away some of the urgency that many buyers have been faced with when considering to purchase in this fast-moving housing market," he said.
Mr Lawless cited a number of reasons for his forecast, including auction results that have been consistently moderating, a rising number of listings and a drop in demand from investors following stricter lending conditions from the banks.
Essentially, these factors are all contributing to help make receiving the keys to your first home a more achievable prospect! However, it pays to be aware of all the costs associated with buying a property, as there is a lot more to consider than just the price tag. Here are some of the expenses to factor into your equations:
Pest and building inspections
While professional inspections may not be compulsory, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) strongly recommends going ahead with them before exchanging contracts. They can save you a lot of money down the line, by potentially identifying insect or rodent infestations and homes that aren't structurally sound or don't meet regulations.
Home loan fees
When it comes to home loans, there is normally an establishment or application fee. This can vary depending on your lender, but the main banks all charge around $600.
And then we have lenders mortgage insurance (LMI). While the (ASIC) advises saving a deposit of at least 20 per cent of the property's value, sometimes this just isn't feasible.
This is especially true when you look at how the market has grown in recent times, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics affirms the combined capital city values have increased almost 10 per cent in just the 12 months to June 2015.
If you do find yourself having to borrow more than 80 per cent of the home's value, it's likely that you will have to pay LMI. This is an upfront expense to insure your lender in the case you default on your mortgage – in most cases it can be financed into your home loan.
For example, the ANZ mortgage calculator shows that if you wanted to purchase a $400,000 home with a 5 per cent deposit ($20,000), you would be expected to pay over $13,500 in LMI.
Stamp duty
This is a state government tax and undoubtedly one of the biggest expenses you will likely encounter when buying your home. As a first home buyer, you may be entitled to particular stamp duty concessions – but just like the size of the tax, this does depend on the state you live in.
Legal expenses
There is a mountain of paperwork and legal matters that need to be scaled when buying a home, which is why you will need to employ the services of a solicitor or conveyancer. It's important that you enquire about their fees before deciding on a professional to use.
Almost all homeowners need insurance, as normally your lender will make it a condition of your loan settlement.
Miscellaneous expenses
The aforementioned costs are perhaps the most prominent, but it's vital that you don't forget other expenses like moving, furnishing, council rates and utilities. While your real estate in Australia is likely to provide you with gains in the future, it will require constant upkeep, which is why it is always a good idea to have a sum of money set aside for any of these circumstances.