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With litigation now an inevitable feature of the deal landscape, boards evaluating the sale of their company would be well-advised to understand the variety of claims that are being made by plaintiffs in these cases, and in particular those that have gained traction with the courts. While directors taking appropriate steps to address the underlying issues will by no means ensure that litigation will not be brought, the risk of an adverse outcome can be significantly reduced by advance preparation and proactive engagement. With the ever-changing nature of claims and creativity of the plaintiffs' bar, the outline below is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to offer some practical guidance to target boards as they structure their sale process.
Adviser Conflicts — One of the earliest decisions in a sale process is the selection of a financial adviser. That choice will often be later challenged with questions as to the integrity of the banker's management of the sale process and/or fairness opinion based on the adviser's alleged lack of independence. Plaintiffs frequently will focus on prior work performed by the bankers for the target itself or one or more potential acquirers or the adviser's ownership interests in one or more parties. While there may be circumstances where it is advisable to obtain additional advice or opinions from a separate "conflict-free" adviser, the courts generally have recognized that "conflicts" arising from prior engagements and a bank's routine investing activities are an inevitable feature of today's deal environment. Rather than mandating that boards reflexively disqualify these advisers, who because of industry expertise or familiarity with the parties may be the best choice for the assignment, courts expect that directors, at the outset of the engagement, fully understand the nature and extent of these prior assignments, including the associated fees earned, and ownership interests. This inquiry should be broad in scope, extending to the identity of the individual bankers involved in the prior assignments and the timeframe in which they were completed. Advisory fees should be constructed in a fashion that best aligns the interests of the adviser with the optimal outcome for target shareholders in the particular circumstance, noting that there is no one fee model appropriate for all situations. Finally, targets should consider appropriate public disclosure in the proxy statement or tender offer documents of the board's inquiry and understanding of potential conflicts, as well as the steps taken to address any of these issues.
Projections — The development, use and disclosure of projections of future performance by the target are another area that would benefit from proactive engagement by the target board. While many companies do not regularly maintain and update detailed financial projections extending well into the future, the management team of the target will be expected to create such a set of projections early in a sale process, and refinements and changes to those projections have proven fertile ground for hindsight criticism. While a board is not necessarily expected to actively participate in the generation of these projections, directors should ensure that they fully understand the underlying assumptions and drivers as well as the purpose for which a particular set of projections is being created. A not uncommon fact pattern features an optimistic set of projections sent to a potential buyer early in the process, followed by the board being later offered a lower set of projections as it engages, with the assistance of its financial adviser, in its valuation exercise and consideration of the fairness of the final price offered. While the cynical view often painted by plaintiffs is of treacherous executives, directors and advisers creating a last-minute pessimistic set of projections designed to justify an unfairly low price in a deal motivated by a myriad of self-interested actors, in an overwhelming majority of cases the reality is much less sordid. The optimistic set of projections sent to a buyer may be part of a "sales job", designed to generate the highest possible interest and price from buyers. Buyers inevitably will apply their own discounts and assumptions to these projections, recognizing their purpose and provenance. Equally, an alternative and more sober set of projections, often created later in the sale process, may be more reflective of management's and the board's best estimates of realistic expectations, and therefore an appropriate basis for a board's valuation, and evaluation, exercise at the end of the process. Rather than an unquestioning acceptance of a final lower set of projections, courts expect that target directors understand the genesis, development and drivers of the various sets of projections that may be floating around, as well as the impact of these various cases on the valuation exercise. Finally, where appropriate, targets should consider measured disclosure of the various cases in public documents, preemptively offering the target shareholders insight into the board's oversight and reasoning in the projections process.
NDAs and Standstills — Perhaps no issue has garnered more recent attention in Delaware legal circles than confidentiality agreements and implicit or explicit "standstill" obligations which, in general, prohibit potential buyers from later making an unsolicited offer for the target after obtaining access to non-public information. While the minutiae of these standstills have long been viewed as the esoteric province of legal professionals, recent cases have shown that courts expect that directors at least understand the interaction between these provisions and their conduct of a value-maximizing sale process. In some recent cases, the courts have focused on the impact of so-called "don't ask, don't waive" standstill provisions which not only prohibit the making of an unsolicited offer, but also restrict the potential buyer from making its interest known to the target board absent an explicit invitation. Courts have questioned whether boards are violating their duty to make informed decisions if the standstill provision may deprive them of knowledge of potential bidding interest. The cumulative take-away from these recent decisions is that targets and their directors need to appreciate that standstills, and particularly "don't ask, don't waive" provisions, are powerful tools that need to be used thoughtfully and carefully in pursuit of the value-maximizing outcome. While there are circumstances where these provisions are warranted — for example, a measured pre-signing auction process where the finality of an airtight standstill motivates bidders to offer their "best-and-final" price — boards should understand their deployment and the underlying rationale and evaluate their continued usefulness and propriety throughout the sale process. In addition, where appropriate, targets should consider public disclosure to shareholders of the existence and extent of these standstill provisions so their vote or tender decision is made with the knowledge of the bidding landscape.
Motivations — Delaware law, as well as the law of many other states, continues to recognize the primacy of price-maximization for shareholders as the board's sole objective in a cash sale transaction. As a result, alleging all manner of competing motivations on the part of deal participants has become a favorite pastime of plaintiffs' lawyers. These include social or business relationships among individuals, economic benefits to executives from preexisting severance or change-of-control arrangements, and liquidity pressures affecting controlling shareholders. Except in egregious circumstances where the court finds that resulting incentives overwhelmed the basic goal of achieving the best price, courts readily accept the proposition that executives and directors are human beings, with personal and economic impulses — financial investors properly desire liquidity on their investment and executives may benefit from contractual protections triggered by a cash-out transaction. What is expected from directors is an attempt early in the sale process to survey the variety of potential "conflicts" that may exist and the enactment of appropriate safeguards given the circumstances. A corollary benefit to a particular person does not generally require a reflexive exclusion of that person from the sale process but rather awareness of that interest coupled with suitable oversight to manage the resulting risk. Once again, appropriate disclosure to shareholders of the board's awareness of these issues, as well as the steps taken to address them, rounds out a thoughtful approach.
While deal litigation is in most cases a nuisance, boards of target companies can draw lessons from recent claims and decisions and take proactive steps to reduce the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome, whether in the form of injunctive relief, costly settlement or post-closing damages claim. Happily, those steps generally don't require wholesale substantive changes to the way a target conducts a sale process or selects its advisers. Rather, a spoonful of awareness and disclosure can go a long way to avoiding a litigation-mandated cure.
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La Paz Intermediate School in Mission Viejo has been named one of five model "Schools to Watch" statewide for its success in raising test scores among Hispanic and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
The state Department of Education and the Savoy, Ill.-based National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform made the announcement Friday. La Paz Intermediate, part of the Saddleback Valley Unified School District, is the only Orange County honoree.
"Each school met the distinctive needs of their middle grades students by building strong academic and extracurricular programs to support achievement for each student," newly installed state schools Superintendent Tom Torlakson said in a statement.
The other four middle schools are Andrew Carnegie in Sacramento County, Calavera Hills in San Diego County, Vista Verde in Riverside County and Washington Academic in Fresno County. The "Schools to Watch – Taking Center Stage" program recognizes middle schools only.
State officials cited La Paz for closing the achievement gap among its Hispanic and socioeconomically disadvantaged students, who made gains of 48 and 54 points, respectively, on their Academic Performance Index scores. The school boasts an overall API score of 891; the state benchmark is a minimum of 800.
About 20 percent of La Paz's students are Hispanic, and about 13 percent receive free or reduced-price meals.
La Paz also was recognized for breaking up the 1,000-student school into smaller learning communities, for its Steps 4 Success intervention program and for its Career Explorations class that helps students make real-world connections.
To be considered for the model middle school honor, campuses must demonstrate that they have:
-implemented best practices focused on academic achievement
-responded to the developmental needs of young adolescents
-offered a fair and equitable education for all students
-instituted organizational processes and procedures to foster and sustain academic growth
The five honorees will be recognized at a California League of Middle Schools conference next month in Sacramento.
Last month, Marie L. Hare Continuation High School in Garden Grove was among 27 continuation high schools statewide recognized as 2011 Model Continuation High Schools for helping struggling students stay in school.
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I am back in the US for the final run into the first major of the year. I missed last weeks WGC event as it didn't suit my preparation for the Masters. I like to play two events immediately before a major and if I had played in the CA championship then it would have meant playing four events before Augusta; I definitely play my best in three week runs, and feel that by the time I get to the third event I am really ready to play. So with this in mind I am back in New Orleans for the Zurich Classic. I have played this event twice before; the first time the year before the Hurricane and then the year after. The first year I played it was on the TPC Louisiana course which is where it is also being played this year.
I had a good week off last week and I took it somewhat easy. I did a small bit of practice but not too much. A lot of the work I did was on my short game and not as much technical work as I would normally do. This was partly due to the fact that I only got home on Monday night, and that my son Patrick was on his Easter holidays so I spent quite a bit of time messing around with him. It means that I am coming into this event in a little better shape than I usually am after time off, but still not quite where I would like to be.
I traveled out on Sunday so as to try and get the jet lag out of the way early and to do a bit of work on my clubs again. After knocking them more flat for the Ballantine's Championship I have decided that they were a bit too flat. I wasn't able to play the course on Monday as there is always a Monday pro-am on the PGA Tour, so I spent Monday doing a bit of practice and fiddling with my clubs. After speaking with Ron Graham who looks after me over here for Wilson we decided that it would be best to go with my regular clubs and stick with the same length but knock them one degree flat from what I have been using. We reckoned that this was the best approach as I know what these clubs do and so once I am fully comfortable with the lies and lengths that I want it would then be best to put the new heads into play. So Monday was spent working on my short game and hitting a few shots to see how they felt. The problem that I have is that I really have to use them in a competitive round before I know how they really are. I played the course on Tuesday morning which was early for me as the jet lag had me up early and the course was much tougher than I remembered. The clubs felt fine in the practice round so fingers crossed that they are fine come the tournament. After playing I spent some more time on the range working on my short game, in particular trying to get used to a 64 degree wedge that I will be using for the next few weeks. I used one in Augusta last year and it is definitely a club that can save you some shots around there but I hadn't used one before and so I wasn't fully comfortable with it. This year I am making sure that I am happy with it in tournament play before I get there.
I played early in the pro-am on Wednesday which was nice as it meant that I got to play the course and get my work done and finish early. I played fine in the pro-am; hit a lot of good shots but some bad ones too. In general the bad ones came about out of poor focus or from thinking about my swing over the ball, nothing new in this for me! After I played it was back to the putting green and the chipping green, as I have promised myself that I am going to spend a lot of time working on the short game over the next two and half weeks.
We are back playing on the TPC Louisiana again this year, it was partly washed away after the Hurricane and last year was the first year back. This is a really tough course, measuring 7,341 yards and the ball is not running on the fairways so it feels really long. It is definitely playing a lot longer than when I played it last. On top of this most holes have a fairway bunker or water down one side of the hole which makes you want to stay away from that side and so push you down the longer side. While the fairways aren't running the greens are firm which makes it very hard to get the ball close to the hole especially as the greens are quite undulating. The more I played it the more I felt it was really good preparation for the Masters. The other feature of this course is the long par threes. I seem to have been hitting my four iron to nearly all of them. It's relentless with regard to long irons; it seems that's all I have been hitting. There are plenty of tough holes on this course and as far as I am concerned there aren't too many easy ones. The par threes are really tough holes as they have plenty of length in them and three of them have water. The three holes that I would pick out to watch are the 13th, 17th and the 18th.
The 13th is a 377 yard par four and a dogleg left. There is a bunker all down the left which is 300 yards to carry, if you can carry this then it is possible to make the green. If you decide to lay it up there is a tree in the middle of the fairway that can cause problems. It is a hole that you want to make birdie on but it can easily end up catching you out.
The 17th is a 215 yard par three with water all down the left and a bunker on the right. From the tee the green looks tiny, in practice it has played into the wind which has made it a very tough hole. A three here is a great score! As the second last hole of the tournament it is definitely going to have a say in the outcome of the week.
The 18th is 589 yard par five. Again this hole has water down one side; the right hand side. It is possible to reach this hole in two but very risky as the water goes all the way down from the tee to the green. Left of the green is heavily bunkered which means that a bail out can leave you with a difficult up and down. The sensible play here looks like laying it up to 100 yards and taking your chances of making a birdie from there. The tournament certainly won't be won until this hole has been safely negotiated. Par here is not necessarily a bad score.
This is a very tough course that is playing very long and the area normally gets quite a bit of wind to add to the toughness. Pars on this course are hard to come by and I wouldn't expect anyone to go mad with the scoring here. As ever I am trying to get myself into contention on Sunday afternoon but I am also looking to the Masters; I have put in a new wedge and taken out my nine iron to accommodate it so really my main focus is the Masters but I will naturally be trying hard to win this week as well.
I am playing with Daniel Chopra and Stewart Cink for the first two days, teeing off at 12.13pm on Thursday and 7.43am Friday.
The Tournament
It turned out to be a decent week for me in New Orleans, a tie for fourth place wasn't too bad. I got myself into contention as I had hoped for but this time it didn't quite work out as I would have liked. However it was good preparation for the Masters in a couple of weeks, by being in contention to win a tournament you find out the areas that need work. I only tend to see what needs to be worked on when I have been under a bit of pressure and have to perform.
The main aim for me coming to this tournament and next weeks in Houston is to prepare for the Masters but it doesn't mean that I am not trying to win them, so to get into contention and not win is disappointing. It would be great to win all the events that you get into contention in but I have learned over the years that the key is to make sure that you give yourself enough chances as you will always miss out on some. For me the best way to ensure that I am at my best for a big event is to play two tournaments before it as it takes me a couple of weeks to get set. This was evident to me this week even though I managed to finish well. I had done some practice when I was at home as I normally do but I hadn't quite got my preparation right in the practice days this week, so when I got to the first hole of the tournament I wasn't quite ready; which is easily seen from my start in the tournament.
After my first four holes of the week I wouldn't have laughed at anyone if they told me that I would finish fourth and have a chance to tie the leader on the last hole of the week. After four holes I was three over and really struggling, I had hit two of the biggest wides of my career and made a bogey and a double bogey. I didn't know where I was going to hit it off the tee and was a total mess. The reason behind this was that I did a small bit of practice on Wednesday evening after the pro-am because I was loosing a few drives to the right. I spent some time trying to get myself to release and hit it with a draw; it worked because when I came out Thursday I felt that I was going to hit everything left and then as a result I ended up hitting them way right to protect against it going left. Luckily I managed to sort out my head going down the 5th hole and made a birdie to settle things down. Birdies at the short par five 7th and the 8th got me back to even par for the day and made me feel quite a bit better. I was still wary of where I was going to hit it but it was getting better; in the end I made two more birdies and one more bogey to end up shooting one under. It was a good comeback after my start but when I finished I felt like I could have done better but I wasn't complaining. I shot a two under 70 in the second round to be three under heading into the weekend, again this round should have been a lot better but a couple of silly mistakes meant that I left a few shots behind me.
The weekend was quite a lot better but it was still littered with silly mistakes. I shot rounds of 68 and 69 over the weekend to finish in ten under for the tournament. My 68 in the third round which was played over Saturday and Sunday due to bad weather was blighted by two mistakes that cost me three shots. On the 10th tee on Saturday I got distracted before I hit my drive and ended up hitting out of bounds, I should have stood off the shot but I didn't and a result I hit a bad shot. I bogeyed the 15th after a sloppy chip shot again down to poor concentration.
In the final round I played quite well and gave myself plenty of chances starting out but all my putts just slipped by the hole. A poor drive on the 4th cost me a bogey, a shot that I wasn't able to get back until the 9th. I was getting a bit frustrated as the front nine went on as I wasn't holing anything and then after a really good tee shot with a four iron into the 9th left me with a 16 foot birdie putt which I duly holed, which got me going; I made another birdie on the 11th to get me to eight under and then made birdies on the driveable 13th and the par three 14th. This put me ten under for the tournament and right in the mix. The 16th tee was moved up so that we could drive the green, I went for it but missed it right; I hit a poor chip with my 64 degree lob wedge, left it short, but holed from off the green for birdie. I hit another good four iron into the 17th to give me a 12 footer for birdie but unfortunately I missed it. At this stage I checked to see where I stood; it left me two behind with one to play.
I knew playing the last that I needed an eagle to tie Romero; I hit what I thought was a very good drive but the wind never moved it. It finished in the bunker right of the fairway, 226 yards from the pin. Knowing that I needed an eagle I went for the green with a five wood but again I got distracted just before I hit and again I didn't stand off it and I ended up hitting a bad shot into the water. In the end I made a good bogey to finish fourth but the most disappointing thing about it was that I didn't stand off the five wood shot.
Even though I finished well this week it didn't go as I would have liked, I made a number of silly mistakes as a result of not being ready to play. When I look back over the week I can pick them out, the tee shot on the 10th in the third round and the five wood on the last are just a couple. It was disappointing to have these mistakes but not surprising to me. It tells me that I have to do some work on my mental game next week so that it is all ready for the Masters. The fact that I got into contention considering the mistakes I made gives me confidence though; it is hard to pick out the reasons for doing well but one of them is that I made the most birdies of the week.
So all in all it was a somewhat disappointing week as far as getting things right is concerned but a good week in terms of result. The fact that I got into contention will stand to me when I get to Augusta; the key for me in the coming week is to make sure that I get my preparation right so that I don't have to try and find it when I get to the Masters.
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Beit Hakerem - The Last Secular Holdout in Jerusalem
Property purchases have made J'lem's secular 'islands' metamorphose into ultra-Orthodox communities.
It took about a decade for the small north-Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamivtar to change its skin. Now, after most of its well-to-do secular households have been replaced with ultra-Orthodox families, the metamorphosis seems almost complete.
For Yael Bar-On, the decision to leave was made four years ago, when it came time to enroll her 6-year-old son for elementary school. That presented a problem, because by then, the Bar-Ons were among the few remaining secular families in the neighborhood.
"The population of young couples with children had slowly disappeared," she recalled recently. "Only the older residents remained. The neighborhood's kindergarten and its secular schools just kept losing students."
Increasingly, the families replaced those who departed came from Ramot Eshkol, the Haredi neighborhood to Givat Hamivtar's west. Since the latter half of the 1990s, many relatively well-off people from Ramot Eshkol began buying homes in the secular neighborhood.
One secular school in Givat Hamivtar, Yad Hamoreh, has managed to hang on because it was declared a regional school, which allows it to receive students from several other north Jerusalem neighborhoods.
Unlike so many Jerusalem secular families in their situation, the Bar-Ons and their four children did not move to the coast, to the greater Tel Aviv area, although they had considered the possibility. Instead they moved to Beit Hakerem - the neighborhood on Jerusalem's western side that so many secular residents have come to regard as the city's "last secular island," as Bar-On calls it. She and other people living there say Beit Hakerem is the only thing keeping them in the capital, which is becoming increasingly ultra-Orthodox each year.
"Women can wear shorts here, and you can start the car on a Saturday without worrying about disturbing the neighbors," says Ephraim Schlein, a departed Beit Hakerem native who returned there in the 1990s. Many of his neighbors seem to share the sentiment. Schlein even compares the quarter to the boy with his finger in the dyke. By this analogy, when Beit Hakerem falls, there will be no stopping Jerusalem's "Haredization."
The flow of people leaving other Jerusalem neighborhoods because of their increasingly ultra-Orthodox nature has placed a strain on Beit Hakerem's schools. The fact that the area is home to some of the city's most prestigious educational institutions may also play a part in this.
On top of that, the veteran quarter has seen a brand-new secular neighborhood spring up to its east: Ramat Beit Hakerem. This neighborhood has 2,000 housing units, but no schools at all, despite the high percentage of young couples living there. Haim Rubenstein, who oversees Jerusalem's elementary education system, says this is the result of a miscalculation on the part of City Hall.
The new apartments - which come with relatively steep price tags - were expected to attract older owners rather than young couples with children. And indeed, many of them were bought by prosperous older businessmen - who then turned around and rented them out to young couples, he says.
"Still, we're talking about only 30 pupils who have to be sent to schools in other parts of town," he says. Rubinstein nonetheless concedes that Beit Hakerem could use a new school. But in the past few years alone, Jerusalem has seen five secular schools close down in other parts of the city. City officials are understandably reluctant to open a new school at a time when other ones are closing down.
Tali Yogev is fighting the city on this catch-22. She is a member of a forum of parents and educators from Beit Hakerem who organized as a pressure group last year to persuade the city to solve the local education situation. "Distributing pupils from Beit Hakerem to schools in other neighborhoods is not a solution," she says.
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A bill under review in Chile's congress and that aims to introduce royalties on mineral production will not affect cement, daily Estrategia quoted mining under-secretary Patricio Morales as saying.
Morales made the announcement after the country's cement producers association (Aprocem) went before the lower house's mining and finance joint committee arguing that under the International Standard Industrial Classification cement is an industrial product and should not have the royalty applied to it.
As it currently stands, the bill calls for a three per cent royalty on metallic mining sales and a one per cent royalty on non-metallic mining sales, less direct labor and input costs, including transport. The law would come into force on January 1, 2005 but be deductible from corporate taxes until January 1, 2008, after which it would be applied as an additional tax.Published under Cement News


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Donald J. Daniels, 81, of South Bend, died at 3:10 a.m. Wednesday, October 18, 2006, in the Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend.
He was born on August 3, 1925, in Logansport, IN, to James O. and Ruth (O'Herren) Daniels. Donald was preceded in death by his brother, Carl F. Daniels in January 2002.
On August 29, 1953, he married Janet Nyerges in St. Matthew Catholic Church. Janet survives along with two sons, Patrick A. Daniels and his friend, Cindy of South Bend, and Paul and his wife, Leslie Daniels of Hutto, TX. Also surviving are his grandson, Samuels Elijah Daniels of Hutto, TX; his sister, Rita Faulstich of Plymouth, IN; and by seven nephews, five nieces, 26 great-nephews, 16 great-nieces and several great-great-nieces and nephews.
Donald retired from the Bendix Corporation after 30½ years as an inspector.
He was a member of the Eagles Lodge #435, United Auto Worker's Local #9, and attended meetings at United Auto Worker's Local #5. Donald ushered at Notre Dame football games in Section 13 for approximately 40 years. He loved to swim at the Fitness USA Supercenter.


text: [Federal Register: August 31, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 170)] [Notices] [Page 45975] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr31au01-38] [[Page 45975]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [CFDA No. 84.229A] Office of Postsecondary Education; Language Resource Centers Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Purpose of Program: The Language Resource Centers Program provides assistance to establish, strengthen and operate centers that serve as resources for improving the nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages. Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education and combinations of institutions of higher education. Applications Available: September 10, 2001. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: November 5, 2001. Estimated Available Funds: The Administration has requested $3,240,000 for this program for FY 2002. The actual level of funding, if any, depends on final congressional action. However, we are inviting applications at this time to allow enough time to complete the grant process before the end of the fiscal year, if Congress appropriates funds for this program. Estimated Range of Awards: $200,000-$400,000. Estimated Average Size of Awards: $360,000 per year. Estimated Number of Awards: 9. Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice. Project Period: Up to 48 months. Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 82, 85, 86, 97, 98 and 99. (b) The regulations for this program in 34 CFR parts 655 and 669. For Applications and Further Information Contact: Jose L. Martinez or G. Edward McDermott, Language Resource Centers Program, U.S. Department of Education, International Education and Graduate Programs Service, 1990 K Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006-8521. Mr. Martinez's telephone number is (202) 502-7635. Mr. McDermott's telephone number is (202) 502-7636. Mr. Martinez and Mr. McDermott may be reached by email at: email@example.com; email@example.com If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339. Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the program contact persons listed under For Applications and Further Information Contact. Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application package in an alternative format by contacting those persons. However, the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative format the standard forms included in the application package. Electronic Access to This Document You may view this document, as well as all other Department of Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at the following site: www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF, call the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in the Washington, DC area at (202) 512-1530. Note: The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http:// www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1123. Dated: August 28, 2001. Maureen A. McLaughlin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Innovation, Office of Postsecondary Education. [FR Doc. 01-22075 Filed 8-30-01; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000-01-M


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The fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie will sail into theaters in Summer 2011.
The film will be titled "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," Disney announced at the company's D23 Expo in Anaheim on Friday. Johnny Depp has previously announced he will reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow.
The company also announced the next film in the dormant Muppets franchise – "The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made."
Jason Segel, who memorably included a muppet Dracula musical at conclusion of his movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," will write the film. The title stems from a planned 1985 Muppet film that never went into production, which was to feature the character Gonzo's wild attempts at directing a feature film.
And with Beatlemania back in full swing this week with the arrival of the band's remastered catalog and the video game "Beatles Rock Band," Disney chairman Dick Cook also announced that Walt Disney Studios would develop a 3D adaptation of the Fab Four's animated movie, "Yellow Submarine," which will be written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. The original 16 Beatles songs and recordings will be included.


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TUNIS (AFP) – Riot police and hundreds of protesters clashed in the Tunisian capital Friday, as a new cabinet was sworn into office in a bid to end the unrest that has followed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's ouster.
Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, as some groups threw stones in the main government quarter where protesters have remained camped out in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's offices for five days.
Protesters had demanded a clean break with the old regime, calling for Ghannouchi to step down. The premier has been in charge since 1999 and has stayed on despite the end of Ben Ali's 23-year iron-fisted rule on January 14.
Ben Ali fled in disgrace to Saudi Arabia amid a wave of social protests.
"The whole government has to go, especially Ghannouchi," said Khaled Salhi, a 22-year-old student, who called the government reshuffle announced late on Thursday just "playing for time" by figures associated with the old regime.
The ripples of Tunisia's revolution have been felt across the Arab world and have helped inspire protests against Egypt's veteran ruler Hosni Mubarak that have raged this week in cities across Egypt and killed eight people.
The US-monitoring group SITE said Al-Qaeda hailed Tunisia's revolt in a message saying: "Your revolution was no ordinary uprising, rather it was a devastating earthquake that struck the throne of the tyrant Ben Ali."
Hundreds of protesters had arrived in Tunis on Sunday from impoverished regions in central Tunisia where the anti-Ben Ali movement began last month.
Security forces moved in on Friday to shut down the protest camp and bulldozers were brought in to remove tents and mattresses from the area.
Running street battles continued into the evening in the city centre.
"I saw at least five people injured. Many were bleeding. Two were injured by stones that were being thrown back at the protesters. A third was hit by a tear gas canister to the head," Majdi Amami, an ambulance worker, told AFP.
Tunis had earlier returned to its normal bustle for the first time since Ben Ali's downfall, but cafes quickly cleared and shops were shut down.
The government has struggled to restore order in recent days, keeping in place a curfew and a state of emergency and deploying the army in city centres.
At the same time it has unveiled major democratic freedoms, lifting media controls, releasing political prisoners and legalising opposition parties.
The cabinet has also issued international arrest warrants for Ben Ali and six members of his family and Interpol has issued a global alert.
Canada on Friday said it had agreed to arrest Ben Ali's billionaire brother-in-law, Belhassen Trabelsi — one of the most hated figures in Tunisia.
The government also responded to public pressure by appointing a new cabinet line-up that culled key figures associated with Ben Ali's ousted regime including the defence, finance, foreign and interior ministers.
Ghannouchi has promised to hold democratic elections within six months.
The reshuffle was received positively by the influential UGTT trade union — which played a vital role in the anti-Ben Ali movement and had led opposition to the interim government, with the union saying it approved of Ghannouchi.
EU officials said the new foreign minister, Ahmed Abderraouf Ounais, a Paris-educated career diplomat, was set to visit Brussels on Tuesday.
The EU said it would send experts next week to help prepare elections.
France, which has come under fire for backing Ben Ali and failing to support protests against him early on, said it wished the new government "success".
Tunisian newspapers were generally positive about the government changes, with a headline in Le Quotidien daily reading: "Deliverance, At Last."
"I think the vast majority of Tunisians are happy now and just want things to return to normal," a taxi driver in Tunis said.


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By Luca Caioli
In the end, it was a pair of penalties which closed the door on paradise for Cristiano Ronaldo.
The first was the one he missed in the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich, the second was the kick he failed to take in the last four of Euro 2012 against Spain. Two slight but significant dark spots in probably the best season Ronaldo has had since he joined Real Madrid in July 2009.
It had all looked rosy enough before those two evenings, though. In April, by scoring a goal at Camp Nou, he handed the Spanish Primera Liga title to Madrid at the expense of Lionel Messi and Barcelona. That was even better than when he scored in the final of the Copa del Rey against Barca 12 months earlier. He said it himself that to win La Liga against Barcelona, and with a nine-point advantage, was amazing.
Amazing because Cristiano, Jose Mourinho and the whole Real Madrid institution have finally overcome the previously invincible Barca. Ronaldo had been left having nightmares of Messi, and Mourinho of Pep Guardiola. But they erased the fear and put the losses of Clasicos past to the back of their minds.
That game at Camp Nou has given Madrid a little something else, too. Sure, there is much to be expected: the Spanish Supercopa, which brings Barca and the Blancos together once more, is a matter of days away. But for now, the mind must stay with the phenomenal achievements of Ronaldo over the past 12 months.
He scored 60 goals in official matches (46 in La Liga, 10 in the Champions League, three in the Copa del Rey and one in the Supercopa), and also registered five for Portugal. It is an impressive figure, though not enough for a second successive Pichichi, thanks to Lionel Messi's 50 league goals. Messi's season was a feast of goals; 73, a record in the history of world football. But, as Mourinho, ever the iconoclast, was to put it, they were goals that did not help to win a major title.
Calm down, I'm here | Ronaldo secures the Liga title at Camp Nou
They may also not bring home a fourth straight Ballon d'Or in January 2013. Because, as Mourinho said: "To win it, you must be the best player of the season. Cristiano helped his team to win something, and I don't think that anyone ever won it without winning something important during the season. How can Messi win it if he didn't win La Liga or the Champions League?"
At the moment, Cristiano Ronaldo would prefer to think of other things, but everybody knows that he would love to capture that highest of personal accolades once more, having previously earned it in 2008 – the last time he clinched the top position in the Goal.com 50. Ending Messi's record run of three successive gongs would also give him extra pleasure.
But, more than that, Ronaldo wants to win the Champions League, and that fabled decima which Real Madrid have now chased unsuccessfully for a decade. The European title is one that Ronaldo has conquered with Manchester United but has only ever lost with Madrid. It remains a necessity for him and for the club.
With his goals, there is every reason to believe they can win La Liga again, as well as the Copa del Rey, and he could be the top scorer in Spain and in Europe, too. It is no exaggeration because when he was a boy in Madeira, Ronaldo always wanted to win everything, including when he was playing marbles. He has always set new targets, always attempted to outdo himself. His three years in Madrid have demonstrated exactly that.
|It has been a crescendo: 33 goals in the first season, 53 in the second, 60 in the last one. A total of 146 goals in just 144 matches, at an average of 1.01 goals per game
It has been a crescendo: 33 goals in the first season, 53 in the second, 60 in the last one. A total of 146 goals in just 144 matches, at an average of 1.01 goals per game. He is the Real Madrid player who has reached 100 goals in fewer matches than any other. He is the only player in La Liga to have scored against all 19 opponents in one season, slapping a spectacular 19 past his favourite victims, Malaga. But it is not only goal tallies which speak of his amazing progress.
There is greater penetration being contributed by the Portuguese to the team's game as a whole, with better defensive work, assists, and a generally more rounded role. Cristiano is a proven leader for Real Madrid. And for Portugal, too. The national skipper's three goals helped his side to the semi-finals at Euro 2012, with a crucial double against Netherlands that qualified them for the last eight a real stand-out moment.
Those feats ensured that the Portuguese people have once more hailed him as a hero, and the country's newspapers were left with little else to call him other than simply the best in the world.


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A small area of rainforest in Eastern Brazil.
Primary and secondary tropical rainforest
Vibrant golden-colored coats make the Golden Lion Tamarin one of the brightest colored of all mammals. Their faces are dark and hairless and their mane is what gives them their name. They have long tails used for balance and elongated fingers adapted for extracting sap and gum from tree bark.
Golden Lion Tamarins have a variable social structure and spend most of their lives in a family group. The dominant female will suppress the other females' estrus cycle, ensuring that only it will reproduce. Males are dominant to females and show intense aggression toward unrelated animals. Aggressive displays include arch backing and the pilo-erection of their fur. Commonly heard vocalizations are shrill whistles, chirring, descending trills, whines and clucks. Much communication is through scent-marking with their special scent glands. Tamarins rarely come to the ground and usually sleep in tree holes. The family will share food with the juveniles so that they may eat hard to find foods and maintain a nutritious balance.
Gestation length is approximately 4 months and twins are most common. After giving birth, the female will be able to conceive again in only 3 days. The female's milk is richer in protein and ash than the milk of other simian groups. Infants are raised cooperatively. After the initial couple of weeks, the infants are carried by the father who then teaches the siblings how to properly care for the young.
The male of this species stays with the female after mating and actively helps with raising the infants.
We have a successful breedings family group led by Poco and Puddles. Poco is an accomplished father and has begun losing his hair due to carrying so many infants.
The Golden Lion Tamarin is one of the most endangered of all primates. In the early eighties, researchers discovered that there were more tamarins in captivity than in the wild. They became one of the first primates to be reintroduced back into their wild habitat. A collaboration between the Brazilian government and zoos in the United States, most notably the National Zoo in Washington DC, created the successful reintroduction. As of now, 95% of the wild population is now wild born. The goal is to have 2000 animals in the wild by the year 2025. We are well on the way toward that goal. The Golden Lion Tamarin reintroduction program is a rare success and highlights how such programs can be vital in the survival of some of our most endangered species.
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|Golden Lion Tamarins are born with teeth.
|Body: 8-13 in.; Tail: 12-15 in.
|12-28 ounces
|Average Lifespan:
|14 years
|Wild Diet:
|Fruit, nectar, flowers, insects, and small reptiles.
|Zoo Diet:
|Monkey biscuits, marmoset diet, vegetables, fruits, insects and greens
|Birds of prey, man
This is an ssp animal
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|Critically Endangered
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A dead-end road
CAYMANAS TRACK Limited (CTL) managed to sidestep industrial action by its unionised workers last Thursday night, yet another sign that the Government-run promoter of local horse racing is in deep trouble.
In addition to not being able to meet purse payments on time, CTL also can't afford to grant staffers a wage increase, forcing them to put a gun to management's head - an action that was planned for Superstakes Day last month.
Whatever agreement was reached between management and workers will further negatively impact CTL's bottom line, adding to its many woes, which the Government tried to ease with a $50m bailout about two or so months ago.
It is, indeed, sad that local horse racing, last reporting sales of $4.3b, 2012-2013, continues to struggle with no infrastructural investment by its owner, the Government of Jamaica, which, instead, is trying to sell a bad business model in the name of divestment.
To make matters worse, those tasked with 'preparing CTL for divestment' continue to do the same things, day after day, expecting a different result from that which has been obtained since the claiming and condition system of classifying horses, implemented January 1993, started the slow and painful, now accelerated, death of local racing.
Until CTL's management, the Ministry of Finance, the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC), the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC), the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association of Jamaica, the Jamaica Racehorse Owners Association, and both trainers associations, come to the realisation that claiming and condition racing is an unprofitable model in a one-track jurisdiction, it makes absolutely no sense keeping local racing on life support because the end is inevitable.
First, in order to have competitive racing, there has to be a quality bank of horses from which to assemble races that are profitable for CTL by way of each runner being a viable betting interest to punters.
A quality bank of horses can only be guaranteed by owners and breeders who are paid purses on time and not taxed an arm and a leg to import animals into the country to provide employment for trainers, jockeys, grooms, CTL staffers, the bookmaking industry, JRC, BGLC, and all other service providers associated with local racing.
What has happened since 1993 is that the conditions and claiming system of classifying horses in local racing has chased away the majority of these owners and breeders, who are simply not interested in offering their horses for sale in order to win a claiming race.
What is left is a handful of owners who don't mind passing on broken-down horses, via claiming, to a majority who really can't afford to own horses but do so in a game of musical chairs with lame horses as players.
Owners must have the option of not declaring their horses on a claim tag, regardless of the designation of the race. In other words, let those who are interested in selling their horses nominate with a claim tag, but all races must comprise runners in a particular rating group, which must be based on past performance, and the field handicapped for betting purposes after assembled.
For CTL to have viable racing, each runner in every race, apart from maidens and three-year-old classics, must be afforded as good a chance as the other of winning, which can only be achieved by rating horses after each performance.
Rating takes into account the manner in which a horse won, quality of opposition, track condition, weight carried, among other variables.
Therefore, after like is assembled by way of offering races to a particular rating group, handicapping then further fine-tunes the chances of each runner, spurring betting interest among connections and punters.
How can condition racing, which is allotting a basic weight, with none of the above taken into consideration, ever yield competitive racing? What happens when a horse wins a six-furlong maiden race, by 12 lengths, in 1:13.0 and meets another, which had struggled to win in 1:17.0, at the next rung of the condition system - a 'non-winners-of-two' condition race? Do they belong in the same rating class? Should they even be in the same race?
More so, how can claiming, which allows horses to hop, skip and jump classes at will, from the highest to the lowest groups, decimating betting in races, inspire confidence in the betting public? How does the punter follow such a system of racing? What happens to the betting in that race? Doesn't CTL have to pay out a purse on that race?
Wouldn't the punter be better guided in knowing there are 30 or so horses in each rating group, classes F-A, with which he would become familiar and be better able to make betting decisions based on
rating and weight movements after performances over particular distances?
If this doesn't make better sense to those so charged with 'preparing CTL for divestment', they should ask themselves one simple question: Why does thriving Trinidad and Tobago, whose racing product Christopher Armond now presides over, practise optional claiming and handicap racing, not conditions and claiming, the system which he had introduced to Jamaica in January 1993?
As for the argument that rating and handicapping promotes corruption by way of owners, trainers and jockeys conspiring to have horses underperform, and the threat of a claim tag is a way to police local racing, why haven't France, Australia, England and many other jurisdictions adopted the condition and claiming system practised primarily in North America?
The JRC is the body tasked with policing local racing and should take full responsibility for its portfolio, including seeking increased penalties for instances of corruption, as is done elsewhere in the world.
n Ainsley 'Jimmie' Walters is a sports reporter with special interest in horse racing. Email feedback to email@example.com and email@example.com.


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False economy - Fraudulent housing benefit claims cost the state between GBP 900m and GBP2bn a year, a situation compounded by councils' inability to fight fraud. Sophia Ewen reports on the Audit Commission's efforts to help redress the balance
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Profile: Union city blues - Diana Warwick was a union woman even in her school days in Bradford. Sophia Ewen meets her now that she's made the switch to management
Ewen, Sophia, (1998)
Feeling bearish? Index-tracking funds may be passive, but in the bullish market of the last ten years they have been making higher returns than actively-managed funds. Can they survive a bear market though?
Dimbylow, Edward, (1998)
Paying the piper - There is a growing trend to outsource payroll and personnel services. The author explains why it is a development that could lead to the courts calling the tune
Ewen, Sophia, (1998)
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MH370 breakthrough: New clue to lead investigators to missing plane within DAYS
A NEW clue has been found that may lead search teams to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 within days.
Information emerged earlier today that the plane may have gone further off course than first thought, pinpointing a new area on the map for investigators.
The latest breakthrough was found after satellite data went under "further refinement".
It brought up an area more south than expected, some 1,000 miles west of Perth, Australia.
Investigators are now preparing to begin their new search operation at the start of September, focusing heavily on a certain area inside the 23,000 square mile search section.
Warren Truss, Australian deputy prime minister, said researchers have traced a phone call made from ground staff to the plane after it disappeared, which has narrowed down its possible routes.
He said it shows the plane "may have turned south a little earlier than we had previously expected".
"Areas a little further to the south are of particular interest and priority"Warren Truss
He added: "After MH370 disappeared from the radar, Malaysia Airlines ground staff sought to make contact using a satellite phone. That was unsuccessful
"But the detailed research that's being done now has been able to... trace that phone call and help position the aircraft and the direction it was travelling."
He confirmed there is a "very, very strong" belief that the plane will be situated somewhere along the seventh arc on the search teams map.
And he said: "Areas a little further to the south are of particular interest and priority in the search area."
The seventh arc is understood to have been one of the last placees investigators received one of the planes final "pings".
Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai promised loved ones of the 239 people on board the flight that he search will go on.
He said: "Malaysia will provide the necessary financial contribution towards the search effort and match Australia's commitment.
"I want to assure the loved ones of the passengers and crew on-board MH370 that we are resolute in our efforts to search for this aircraft.
"I have been touched by many of the stories I have heard and we will do our best to engage the next of kin and help them find closure."
The plane went missing on March 8 as it travelled from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
No clues or evidence has been left that has lead to its whereabouts.
Experts believe the plane remains deep in the Indian Ocean after going off course and crashing into the sea.
The airline suffered further disaster in July when another Boeing plane, flight MH17, was shot down over Ukraine killing all 298 on board.


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Like so many, I'm totally fascinated by the energy around Obama and the inauguration tomorrow. I only vaguely remember the energy around Clinton in 1992 -- I was a sophomore in high school and more focused on how much I hated the school [1] I was attending. That said, I don't think Clinton's inauguration matched Obama fever 2009. Clinton, and certainly Bush, didn't have cupcakes.
Critics mock Obama's rock star status. I like to think that people looking up and idolizing our president-elect seems like a novel change. And if a photo of our president-elect painting a wall in a homeless teen shelter can inspire people -- including myself [2] -- to get out of the house and do something good, that rocks.
This morning, I (1) saw the picture (2) looked online for places to volunteer with baby in tow (3) found a friend to go with me (4) volunteered for a couple hours at a Mori Point. We planted native plants in an effort to rebuild the habitat after quarrying and off-road vehicle use.


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Air Seychelles launches flights to German city of Düsseldorf
Captained by Seychellois pilots Nicole Chang Leng and Christophe Larue, the flight was operated by an Airbus A330 named after Silhouette, an island lying 20 km northwest of Mahé in the Seychelles.
Düsseldorf is the second new route launch by Air Seychelles this week after the introduction of a twice-weekly connection to South Africa's coastal city of Durban yesterday, 30 March.
Jean Weeling-Lee, Chairman of Air Seychelles, said: "The launch of services to Düsseldorf represents our commitment to enhancing air connectivity between Seychelles and Europe, and providing our guests with more travel choice and flexibility. As the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state in Germany with 18 million inhabitants, Düsseldorf is the perfect gateway to the country and makes a logical addition to our route network. We are confident this service will perform well and drive the sustainable growth of tourism on both sides."


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In news that will come as a surprise to, well, no one, second children are photographed less than first-borns. (And don't even get us started on those poor third and fourths.) The reasons make total sense: we're exhausted. Stretched too thin, both in terms of time and money. And when second (and subsequent) children DO make an appearance in the family album, they're often smiling right beside their brothers and sisters, and rarely in a portrait of their own. This is not a revelation. Ask any parent. Or any sibling.
The question for us, as photographers, is what can we do with this information. The answer for us, as photographers, is that we have the opportunity to change this phenomenon. When talking to parents, mention that as a photographer, you bear witness to the swift physical process of growing up. Work this survey into the conversation.
While you certainly don't want to play on parental guilt, the fact that 92% of parents regret not taking more photographs of their second-borns is a hard number to ignore. Consider running a special event, just for second (and subsequent) children, a catch up session of sorts, for them to have their own experience in front of the camera without their siblings around. Make a point to capture individual portraits of each child in each photo session. Line all these up, perhaps as a storyboard or wall gallery, to suggest to your client a display that honors each child. (Hang that great portrait of all the children right in the middle!) Create canvas collages for each child's room, decorated with multiple images of them, and them alone. Above all, celebrate the individuality of each child. Prioritize this for your parent clients, and maybe they'll prioritize it for themselves. Make it a tenet of your business that second children--and third, and fourth--are just as worthy of photography as the first.
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Twilight dominates Scream Awards
'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' won a host of prizes at the Spike TV Scream Awards on Saturday (16.10.10).
Kristen Stewart attended the event to pick up the Best Fantasy Actress honour, while co-star and rumoured boyfriend Robert Pattinson won Best Fantasy Actor.
The film - the third in the vampire movie franchise - also won Best Fantasty Movie, The Ultimate Scream and Breakout Male Performance for Australian star Xavier Samuel.
Blood-sucking vampires seemed to be the order of the day, with Alexander Skarsgard winning Best Horror Actor for his performance as Eric Northman in TV series 'True Blood'.
Mickey Rourke won Best Villain for his performance as Russian bad-guy Ivan Vanko in 'Iron Man 2', while James Cameron was named Best Director for record breaking movie 'Avatar'.
A number of big-named guests made an appearance at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles for the event, with British singer M.I.A shocking the waiting paparazzi by wearing a burkah emblazoned with 'I Love You', while Kelly Osbourne rocked the red carpet in a polka-dot and lace dress.
Ryan Reynolds also turned up to see his forthcoming comic book-adaption 'Green Lantern' win the Most Anticipated Movie award, while Bill Murray donned his 'Ghostbusters' ghoul-fighting outfit to accept the Best Horror Movie prize for 'Zombieland'.
The Scream Awards will be televised on Spike TV on October 19.
List of main winners at the 2010 Spike TV Scream Awards:
The Ultimate Scream - 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'
Top Anticipated Movie - 'Green Lantern'
Best Fantasy Movie - 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'
Best Fantasy Actress - Kristen Stewart 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'
Best Fantasy Actor - Robert Pattinson 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'
Breakout Male Performance - Xavier Samuel 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'
Best Horror Actor - Alexander Skarsgard 'True Blood'
Best Villain - Mickey Rourke 'Iron Man 2'
Best Director - James Cameron 'Avatar'
Best Horror Movie - 'Zombieland'
Most Mind-Bending Film - 'Inception'
Most Memorable Mutilation - 'The Human Centipede'


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Disney/Pixar dropped a Cars 3 teaser trailer Monday, emphasis on "dropped." Because it sure looks like our hero Lightning McQueen is going to be spending some time in the shop.
But we spoil too much. Watch it first, then let's talk about it:
SEE ALSO: Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' trailer is setting the bar high for the live-action remake
Obviously the big takeaway here is that McQueen (voiced again by Owen Wilson) is in a horrifying wreck echoes of what happened to Doc Hudson (Paul Newman) in the backstory of the 2006 Pixar original Cars.
We're dreading seeing the look on Mater's grill.
And let's face it, that ominous tagline isn't pulling any pistons:
Somewhat more subtle is the appearance of what might be a new villain, a la Chick Hicks. Except whereas Cars featured only NASCAR-style stock racers in its competition events, it looks like this guy and (a few others) are more in the GT sports-car racing class:
In any event, we're glad to see McQueen back on the track he never seemed suited for the spy game.
Cars 3 is set to come off the line on June 17, 2017.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2016/11/21/cars-3-teaser-trailer-disney-pixar-lightning-mcqueen/


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Ah, you beautiful Miss Things!
We've all had a busy week. Hopefully things in your life are going the way you'd like them to. Let's pamper ourselves with a sumptuous Sunday Brunch. I got us a couple of tables at Sylvia's up on Lenox (had to almost cut a bitch to get them…but that's neither here nor there) in Harlem. I've ordered the Mimosas. Try the Catfish and Eggs, or the Chicken and Waffles–they are DIVINE.
Today, the only thing heavy around here is the food. Let's dig in!
Hey Rick! What Part of Psalms 75:7 Don't You Understand?
Couldn't resist. Thanks to Gillian, Harry and Joelle for the idea. Thanks also to Carl H. Bloch for his compelling painting "Sermon On The Mount."
Pictorial Drag
If you haven't done so already, you have GOT to check out the incredible artwork of Mr. Chad Sell. Like Sharon Needles and Chad Michaels, this phenomenal artist captures the essence of a character with specificity and charm. When you scroll through his work, you know immediately that you are in the presence of a gifted cognoscente.
What Makes A Guy Sexy?
I wrote this in a post on my other blog about two years ago, but it's no less true today. I thought I'd share.
I am in Starbucks on East-West Highway in Hyattsville, MD. I've been sitting behind a beefy brother with a broad back; to-die-for love handles and belly, and a killer goatee. I've been crushing on him all morning. He just got up to leave and I saw something that sent me over the edge: he has pictures of what I believe to be his kids as wallpaper on his laptop. It made me want to finally record all of the unconventional things that make a man sexy to me:
A father having fun with his kids.
A man who puts back the shopping cart in a grocery store parking lot.
A man who knows what looks good on him–even if it's an orange leisure suit.
A man who isn't afraid to hold hands in public.
A man trying to hold back emotion but not…quite…succeeding.
A handsome, thick guy with a nice belly.
A brother who isn't afraid to SMILE.
A greying brother with earrings.
ANY man who finds me attractive.
What about you Miss Things? What unconventional things do YOU find attractive in a man or woman?
Whew! I am full. Time for a nap. Talk to y'all later.
Oh, and I got the check.


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Options file (first generation)
From Worms Knowledge Base
WormsDC saves its option sets as .OPT files, which store basic game settings such as round time and starting worm health alongside weapon-specific information such as ammo, power and crate frequency.
In addition to this, WormsDC .OPT files also store addition settings for DIY terrain frequency, allowing you to limit the chances of (or outright preventing) the map generator from creating maps using a particular terrain style. For instance you could, if you so wished, prevent FOREST or JUNGLE maps from being generated at all.
- TO DO: Find out if level codes that generate in one style still select this style if it is disabled.
WormsDC .OPT files will also recall which cheats have been enabled and disabled at the time of saving. Some cheats do not take instant effect despite being enabled by selecting the option set, which can lead to errors such as the MUSIC cheat glitch.


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Meet Robert Jarell Neal, 22, of Burlington, North Carolina.
On Wednesday, January 9th, around 4:30-4:45 p.m., this shifty gangbanger was chilling on East Morehead Street, looking for a way to ruin someone's day.
At the same time, on the same street, Terrance Ervin Daniels, 45, of Burlinton North Carolina, was walking with a friend while having a conversation.
Daniels, a deaf man, was completely unaware of the danger that lie in wait for him.
Neal, observing the deaf man's signing, viewed the signing as a challenge.
Accepting the challenge, Neal ran over to the deaf man and began stabbing the man.
Neighbors that witnessed the stabbing began screaming for the assailant to stop.
"My voice is gone from me screaming, 'Stop, stop, leave that man alone," said Candace Gerrington through tears Thursday.
She said Daniels was trying to defend himself, "Throwing his hands up like this. Next thing I saw was somebody stabbing and grinding him," recalled Gerringon.
Neal is being held under a $500,000 secured bond in the Alamance County Detention Facility.
Neal's criminal history includes 3 Assaults on a Female, Assault with Intent to Kill, 2 Communicating Threats, DWI, Injury to Real Property, Injury to personal property and 2 Resist, delay or obstruction of officers.
Police are still investigating and ask that anyone with further information would call them at (336) 229-3500.
I think I have a candidate for Dumb Criminal of the Year…
But I can't pass out the award to early, the year is very young…
This guy is in the running though…
Read more here.


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Back in 2004, while America was decimating Iraq, sending a million refugees fleeing for their lives, torturing and raping in Saddam's dungeons, melting people with white phosphorus, and arming contractors who shot civilians for sport, an offensive thing happened. Psy, "Gangnam Style" not yet a glimmer in his eye, had a rap about the U.S.
Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers
Kill them all slowly and painfully
Sons were off the hook, apparently.
Most people were taken aback by such things being said about American soldiers. But believing Muslims should be killed, raped, humiliated, and tortured - actively and without regard for whether they are even terrorists - was uncontroversially expressed by pundits every day during this time. They were merely a bit more articulate. Thomas Friedman, you'll remember, said soldiers should go "door to door" threatening Iraqis, a country we only invaded "because we could." Expressing opinions opposite to that was actually a bad career move for a while.
Psy is looking at performing "Gangnam Style" for the rest of his life, for smaller and older crowds, until he's doing cruise ships with Lou Bega and the Baha Men. In order for America to continue embracing this annoying song and dance, he had to mend fences by doing one of the most American things of all: apologizing for being offensive. (Everyone's doing it - can't wait til my turn!)
While he fully walked back his very specific kill list, part of his statement read: "While it's important that we express our opinions, I deeply regret the inflammatory and inappropriate language I used to do so." My reading of that sentence is, "While I believe your relatives should die slow and painful deaths by torture, I made some poor language choices in expressing it." I like the idea of him truly believing daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers of torturers should die horrifically and using weasel words to preserve his position. That's really what most Americans do when they apologize anyway.
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I've been attempting to isolate 16S rDNA from bacteria grown on contact lenses for several months now but always seem to get some sort of inhibitor when I run PCR. My positive control works great (just E. coli DNA) but when 1 uL sample is added to the control I get no amplification. I have very little sample left but have a good concentration for approximately 150 ng/uL based on my nanodrop-1000. I've tried dilutions down to 1:1000 for the samples and still get inhibition. We've also used several DNA cleaning columns and alcohol precipitations to try and get it out but no luck. Any ideas?
P.S. my 260/280 ratios are 1.84 and 260/230 is 1.32
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Manan – An Unforgettable Love Forever EPISODE 3
EPISODE 3 : Recap : Manik met with the accident.
Nandhini is waiting outside the room for his frnds to come but her chachi is calling her continosly and she is worried abt her and she have to leave him like that so she touches her pendent to pray but she finds its missing and panics and search for it, a nurse who is watching her asks abt it.
Nurse : Wat happen beta wat r u searching for?
Nandhini : Mam i was wearing a pendent in my chain, now it is missing i dnt knw where i lost it and its very important to me as its given by my parents.
Nurse : May u must have lost in that place where u got him beta, now frm whr u will search for it.
Nandhini is vry upset so she decided to go to that place and search so she gave his mobile to her and told her that his frnds will be coming and give it to them and left the hospital but forgot his purse to give. Nandhini went to the same place to search her pendent but she cant find it and decided to go back to home. On the way she is crying and saying that i lost my mom and dad again nw wat will i do, how will i live without that, Yesuappa (Jesus Christ in tamil), how will i find it, how will i live without it, pls yesuappa help me to get that pendent back and reaches home. Chachi opens the door and finds somthing fishy and asks her for the reason of crying then nandhini explains everything to her and cries a lot, chachi consoles her.
Chachi : Dnt worry nandhu ur love for ur parents is not fake so dnt worry abt it ur mom and dad will forgive u, u lost it in helping a person so its not wrng and u will get it soon dnt worry.
Nandhini is not in a mood to accept that the pendent is not with her and cries a lot and get back to her room and not stop crying.
Here in hospital Mukthi, Cabir, Alya, Dhruv came running to hospital and searches for manik and finds him and asks nurse abt his health she says that he is alright its a lite wound on his forehead but he is unconcious becoz of alcohol. They sits beside him until he gets his concious. After some time manik gains his concious and opens his eyes, mukthi who is watching him and gets up to get his neck.
Mukthi : Kaminae! dnt do this to us ever again hearing this everyone gets up and beats him badly and manik shouts with pain.
Manik : Okay i wnt again this is my last time so spare me. But how come iam here, i started to come to ur place but now iam here how?
Cabir : Saale! how we knw some girl called mukthi and said that u met with a accident and she got u here so we came here.
Manik : Girl! so where is she? have u all seen her?
Alya : No we dnt find anyone around when we r here except nurse, i think she must be gone to her home.
Cabir : So u are interested to meet that person only becoz she is a girl, am i right Manik and winks.
Manik Takes his hand to beat him and finds somthng new in his bracelets hanging and pulks it from his bracelets and asks everyone that who is tis? no answer from anyone that time nurse enters the room, and sees that pendent immidiately says that the pendent belong to that girl who got him to the hospital and also said that she was so worried abt tis pendent that tis given by her parents. Manik sees that pendent and feels her touch while she was helping him but cant remember her face.
Cabir : Pokes him, oh romeo is this ur juliet's pendent, then y r u looking it like that bhai, wat happen control, control. And everyone laughs.
Manik : Gives him a angry look, cabir just stop it.
And asks the nurse that wats her name nurse said that she dnt knw her name, address r any other details abt her. Manik gives her a disgusting look and asks her that when i can go from here, she repied morning. everyone settled down and start chatting but monik is still try hard to recover her face but fails and gng on looking tat pendent and laughs, and think to say thank u to her and give this pendent to her that the nurse said it was gifted by her parents.
Next day morning chachi wakes up nandhini at 5 nandhini opens her eyes and sees her amms photo that hanging opposite to her bed. And checks her neck to find pendent is missing and again starts to cry and hugs her she consoles her and tell her to get ready for her interview in SPACE ACADEMY. She got and came to hall Chacha, chachi, rishab dnt want to c her sad so they all started to crack jokes but it doesnt work so the all tickles her and she starts laughing. She started to forget it slowly as she done good to one person by loosing it so she felt somewat happy and got ready for her interview when she was arranging her bag she saw the purse and remember that it was his purse and thought to give it to him again. So she left the house earlier that she want to go to hospital to meet him.
At 8 in the morning Manik got discharged and he gave his address to the reception so that if she again comes here it will be easy for her to find him,(he thinks in mind). He moves with his frnds to get into his car and turns back and see whether she is coming r wat.
Cabir : Hello Romeo! tumare Juliet ko doonreyo kya, come na lets go time horaha hai college ka chalo.
All laughs and Manik gets irritated and get into the car they started to move, an auto came and stops near the hospital and said the driver to stop her for some time and she will be back soon. She went to manik's room where he was admitted but finds it is empty and think to ask any nurse.
Nandhini to the receptionist : Hai, yesterday i admitted some one here in this room but i find it is empty so where is he?
Receptionist : Mam just now he discharged from here.
Nandhini : Oh how is he? when i left him he was unconsious so he is alright na kuch bade problem tho nahi na?
Receptionist : No mam he is perfectly alright now chote se choot hai abi tk.
Nandhini : Thank god he is alright. Actually yesterday i forgot to give his purse to him so may i get his address r phone no so that i can return it back.
Receptionist : Yes mam here is his address and gives his address to her.
Nandhini gets his address and said thank u to her and moves from there.
Precap : Nandhini in Malhotra Mansion.


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Beer Aged 21 Years
I had someone ask me at a beer shop the other day what beer would age well for 21 years. And instantly I was confused. Why would you want to age a beer for that long? In any event, they just had a daughter and they wanted a beer that would be from when they were born. I mean.. that still seems stupid to me. Not only because 21 years for a beer seems like... well, like they'll be tasting beer that taste worst than Coor's or PBR.
Not to mention that it's a waste to not enjoy a good beer when its good. It seems like a waste to give to someone just turning 21. At that age you really aren't looking for GOOD beer, you're just looking for something to get fucked up at. Teens and barely drink legal kids are chugging shit like bud, coors and PBR without concern of taste.
It's sort of like giving a baby some lobster. That shit is lost on them and they just want mooshed together peas and carrots.
If you're aging beer, another good style would be Gueuze. Or perhaps a sour like that, but let's be fucking honest here. Some new to legal drinking beer drinker is going to like a Gueze like a virgin will enjoy anal sex. That shit is just going to make them a wine drinker for life. Is that a crude metaphor? You're damn right it is, but it's only fitting since you're trying to force a hobby on to your kids, like a broken trailer trash living former high school prom is vicariously living their dreams on Toddler and Tiaras.
Your newly turned 21 kid isn't going to give a shit about how that beer has hints of barnyard funk and horse blank smells. Or if the lacing on the glass is clingy as fuck. Ya' know.I get the idea. You can enjoy something that was aged along
with them, but unless you want your kid to think and associate "good
beer" with something that more than likely taste like cardboard, it
seems pretty foolish.
A better option would be to just invest that money you would have spent on those old beers... shit, with aged beers like that, you could easily turn them around and sell them for a shit load of cash. How about you invest that money into some sort of college fund for the kid. It'll be a lot longer lasting than having them swig back some beer that time has forgotten. Don't you worry, they'll appreciate "get-you-shitfaced" alcohol just as much as you do when they're chugging it back with their frat mates or dorm roomies. Only they'll gladly throw back those shitty beers you wouldn't touch.
I'm going to flat out say it. In general, the majority of beers, even cellarable styles like high ABV stouts and barleywines, just do not improve with age. Sure, if they're tasting hot out of the gate, they'll mellow out. But by and large, you're not going to improve a beer by aging it.
It gets to the point that cellaring a beer is really unnecessary. And in fact, cellaring wine is equally foolish. The vast majority of wine you buy over the counter isn't made with the mindset of laying it down for half a decade or more. It's made for pretty much immediate consumption.
Over all, you just have to realize that the whole fact of a beer "improving" is completely subjective. It's not a harda nd fast rule. Some beers will taste better, some will not do well over the ravages of time. Even if they are high in ABV to begin with. At some point you just need to stop telling yourself you're cellaring a beer if it's simply just sitting there waiting to be drank when you get around to it or holding it for a special occasion that is coming up soon.
Forcing your children to drink something that old isn't going to do you any favors. I mean, most of the time kids like to rebel against what their parents like anyway simply to break out and have their own identity. So perhaps you shouldn't push beer on them, unless you actually want them to NOT drink. In which case, I think we just discovered the best way to prevent alcoholism in teenagers.
Have a craft beer parent.
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Doug Wilson answers by questioning the atheist's self-respect - what's it worth anyway if we're nothing but a bunch of 'churning chemical reactions.'
As the Day 1 exchange shows, among other things, the whole idea about God – even the possibility of his existence – is resisted by an atheist not because there is necessarily an absence of evidence (not that it doesn't matter), but because if God does exist, there would be a massive reordering of lifestyle. For one, it would mean submission to a higher authority.
In the words of C.S Lewis, "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, is of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
That's a discomforting thought, that someone should tell you how you should live in the "most intimate details of [your] life and mind." Better to be one's own God, as it were.
Back to the Newsweek debate, there's quite a bit to chew, even if it was one-sided (also, the preamble was thick with the interviewer's own bias). I personally didn't think Rick Warren was unnerved by the almost overbearing Harris. To Warren's credit, I thought he conducted himself with appropriate humility. And even if Warren did not specifically address Harris' objections, the appeal to Pascal's Wager to my mind is no less a sensible apologetic.