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A former student recruiting leader at Mississippi State is coming back to his alma mater as the university's new registrar.
John R. Dickerson, currently vice president of Copiah-Lincoln Community College's Simpson County Center, will begin his new MSU duties Jan. 16.
A 1986 graduate of Jackson's Jim Hill High School, Dickerson holds master's and doctoral degrees from MSU in counselor education and community college leadership, respectively. He also is a graduate of Mississippi College and Hinds Community College.
At the Mendendall-based center since 2007, Dickerson has been responsible for overseeing all aspects of the branch-campus operations. He became a Co-Lin vice president after having worked for a decade at MSU.
Dickerson came to the Starkville campus in 1997 as associate director for enrollment services. Prior to that, he had been Mississippi College's associate dean of students.
At MSU, he earned successive promotions--including the directorship of enrollment services--until achieving the office of senior associate director for admissions and scholarships, the post he held before joining the administration at the South Mississippi community college.
"He has deep roots at MSU, in that he is an active alumnus and former employee in the Division of Student Affairs," said Jerry Gilbert, provost and executive vice president. In making the announcement, Gilbert specifically cited Dickerson's extensive experience in the admissions, student orientation, scholarships and student recruitment areas.
With offices in Garner Hall's East Wing, the Office of the Registrar is responsible, among other things, for the processing of data related to MSU course offerings, registration, academic records, records certification and degree clearances. For more information, visit www.registrar.msstate.edu.
Dickerson succeeds Butch Stokes, who retired earlier this year after working in the registrar's office since 1995 and leading it since 2002.
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You Got (Daft) Punk'd – A Commentary on the Hype Machine
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When the 90's house music French duo Daft Punk announced a new album, the blog-o-sphere was tilted on its side. Releasing teaser posters, commercials featuring 30 seconds or less of new music and a sound-byte a day to the music press, you realize that whoever does Daft Punk's publicity should give up their day job and run for political office. They took a non-event and turned it into a media blitz. The press as well as the fans seemingly could not get enough and for over 3 months, very thin news with hardly any meat about Daft Punk clogged up everyone's news feeds. The funny thing is, I actually like Daft Punk, but as the weeks rolled on, I got so fed up about hearing about them, I started rooting for them to fail just so the press and all the fans would once and for all shut the fuck up about them! The daily news on this band made me realize that while I've bought their albums consistently over the years (and there aren't many), I like very few of their songs. Sure their debut track "Da Funk" made me shake my ass on a dance floor many times, but upon further inspection, it's really a song featuring one minute of different music looped together over and over for 6 minutes! They pulled off the same trick for their next big single "Around The World" too. Take a serious listen if you think I am hating for the sake of hatred.
The music industry has changed a lot since Daft Punk first came on the scene and in 2013 the record labels leak the album in full and then are forced to "stream it" ahead of its release date. This gives the label the perfect excuse to account for dubious sales numbers by blaming the bootleggers on an album's failure instead of the fact that many times, the biggest failure of the record is the record itself! Also, don't these labels wonder that if an album is under lock and key and somehow it gets out, why don't they question the hiring managers of these departments. There's seemingly no accountability when you can loudly shout out in the press "we've been robbed!" Why nobody speaks about this very obvious fact is beyond my comprehension, so if you think of the last few years of blockbuster albums and how they've all followed this pattern, you can thank me later for being the true voice of a generation. You certainly can't rely on press release regurgitating blogs because they are never going to jeopardize losing their perks by speaking the truth. Since I do things renegade style and 99 times out of 100 get better access on my own than going through the "proper channels," the time has come to break the silence! So spread the word!!!!
Back to Daft Punk. I've given their new album "Random Access Memories" a couple of spins and I could not be any more underwhelmed with the record. However, I've noted that it follows the same pattern as their other albums – 2 or 3 decent tracks with a whole lot of filler. Obviously the best tracks are the ones that feature Nile Rodgers producing. The man knows how to craft a hook and has done so successfully for over 30 years. The tracks he is featured on should actually be called Nile Rodgers tracks featuring Daft Punk and not the other way around, but we can save that for another time. The vocoder is ever present in many of the songs ruining great cameo appearances by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and the majority of the album features completely forgettable songs. The album hasn't even seen the official release date and I am already at the point where if I never hear any of the album again, you will not see one tear fall from my eye.
The hype machine has already labeled this album a "game changer," and for those who really believe that, I urge you to get a better education in dance music because if you do, you will find yourself (probably to your dissatisfaction) agreeing with me 100%. I didn't come here to make you hate the Daft Punk record. I hope that you like it. I want you to stop allowing the media to force feed you what you "should" like because I am starting to find that with so many big time releases, people only like them because they read somewhere that they should. 6 months, or hell, in the one second attention span generation we live in, 2 weeks from now, I am quite sure once the buzz has died down from this record, your enjoyment of it will have as well. Think for yourself!!!
If you believe the hype, you've been Daft Punk'd!


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn is set to become the next coach at Arkansas State.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn is set to become the next coach at Arkansas State.
A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Tuesday night, confirming earlier reports, that Malzahn will return to the state where he made a name for himself as a high school coach before leaving for college football.
Arkansas State has scheduled a 3:30 p.m. news conference on Wednesday to introduce its new coach. Former Red Wolves coach Hugh Freeze left the school last week to become the new coach at Mississippi.
Arkansas State (10-2) will play Northern Illinois in the Godaddy.com Bowl on Jan. 8.
The 46-year-old Malzahn has served as Auburn's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for three seasons, helping the Tigers win the national championship last season.
He won the Broyles Award last season, recognizing college football's top assistant coach, and helped Auburn and quarterback Cam Newton set nine school records in 2010 — including points per game (41.2) and total offense (499.2).
Malzahn began his coaching career in northeast Arkansas at Hughes High School, eventually moving on and winning two state championships at the private school Shiloh Christian in Springdale, Ark.
He later took over at Springdale High in the state's largest classification, going 14-0 in 2005 and winning the state championship while finishing in the top five in most national high school polls.
That team featured star players such as former USC quarterback Mitch Mustain and Tennessee Titans receiver Damian Williams.
Malzahn brought Mustain and Williams with him to Arkansas when he was hired as the offensive coordinator there for the 2006 season under then-coach Houston Nutt.
After a season filled with conflict with Nutt behind the scenes, one that led to the transfers of Mustain and Williams to USC, Malzahn left for the same position at Tulsa.
The Golden Hurricane had one of the nation's top offenses for two seasons under Malzhan, who was hired at Auburn before the 2009 season.
Arkansas State won 10 games this season under Freeze for the first time since 1986, when it was a member of the I-AA Southland Conference. The Red Wolves were 45-63 in nine seasons before that under former coach Steve Roberts, but Freeze's enthusiasm and energy quickly took hold in Jonesboro, Ark.
The school promoted a "Feel the Freeze" ticket campaign in the preseason, named for the former Memphis, Tenn., high school coach who was mostly known as the high school coach for left tackle Michael Oher, who was later featured in the best-selling book and popular movie "The Blind Side."
The wins quickly followed, with Arkansas State securing an undefeated run through the Sun Belt Conference with a 45-14 win over Troy. The Red Wolves' only losses this season came to Illinois and Virginia Tech.


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IndyCar puts Castroneves on probation through June
INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar has put Helio Castroneves on probation through June because he violated the series' social media policy.
Castroneves was penalized Tuesday for a tweet sent from his official account after the Long Beach, Calif., race on April 13 that criticized race control for not penalizing drivers during the race. The tweet included an image of IndyCar's official logo with a "thumbs down" symbol photo-shopped in the center.
The tweet was deleted not long after it appeared, and Castroneves later posted that his sister had sent the missive from his account without his permission.
"I apologize and the steward were correct with the call made," Castroneves posted.
Castroneves was fined $30,000 in 2011 for calling the race director "a circus clown" on Twitter.


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As of 11pm March 31, I made over $4200 on Kindle this month. That's over 5850 ebooks sold in just under four and a half weeks.
Here's the screen shot. It doesn't include the money earned on FLOATERS and SERIAL UNCUT, which are listed on Amazon by my co-writers Henry Perez and Blake Crouch.
I'm pretty surprised by this number. And it has lead me to some startling conclusions.
Back in October, I looked at my ebook sales and said I'd never sell a book to a publisher for less than $30,000.
I've revised that a bit. I added a "1". My new number is $130,000.
This actually isn't as outrageous as it seems. Let me break it down.
Of my five best selling Kindle titles, four are original novels, and one (the novella TRUCK STOP) was written expressly for Kindle. Their average unit sales for this month were 880.
In June, Amazon is switching to the agency model, which means ebooks priced between $2.99 and $9.99 will earn the author a 70% royalty, minus a 6 cent delivery fee. Instead of making 70 cents per ebook sale like I'm currently doing, I can make $2.04 per sale.
If I put an original ebook novel on Kindle, going by my current average sales, I'd earn about $1800 a month on that title, or $21,600 per year.
That means, in six years, keeping my erights and steadily selling on Kindle alone, a single title could earn $129,600.
My first novel, Whiskey Sour, came out six years ago. During that time it has appeared in hardcover, and has had multiple editions in paperback. It has sold to ten countries. It's been an audiobook on cassette, CD, mp3, and download. It has also been an ebook, released by my publisher.
I've earned, with everything combined, around $50,000 on Whiskey Sour.
I think my royalties on Whiskey Sour are pretty good for a midlist author. The fact that it is still earning money six years later is rare, especially when I look at many of my peers who were also published in 2004 and are now out of print.
And yet, it's less than half of what I predict I can do releasing a Kindle-only title.
Of course, Kindle sales aren't a sure thing, even though mine have been steadily rising. Sales could begin to drop. The Kindle may become obsolete, like so many other technologies.
But my prediction for the future is I'll actually sell MORE ebooks than I expect, not less. I base these predictions on the trends I've seen in the industry, coupled with my own experiments. I've been blogging about Kindle for a year now, and my current numbers have exceeded my wildest expectations from back then.
And Kindle may be just the beginning.
My ebooks aren't up on Sony yet. They were just recently put up on Barnes and Noble. And naturally, I'll also sell my ebooks on the iPad. That's all extra income.
Plus, I believe the Kindle hasn't come close to critical mass yet. Over the next few years, the Kindle will get better, come down in price, and sell a lot more units.
Not only that, but I should still be able to exploit non-ebook rights. I could still sell print rights for novels, and audio rights, and foreign rights, and movie rights. I'm only talking about ebook sales here. And it makes no sense to give them to a publisher.
Let me repeat myself, because I've spoken with a lot of my peers who don't seem to grasp this point.
Now there's always a chance my sales might drop if I raise my prices from $1.99 to $2.99. But I've been thinking about this a lot, and here is what I foresee:
1. The ebooks that my publishers own the rights to are priced between $4.70 and $9.99, and they're all doing well because readers are getting hooked on my $1.99 books and then buying the more expensive titles. I know this for two reasons. First, because my traditionally published ebooks didn't spike until I started getting popular with my self-published cheap ebooks. Second, because I've gotten dozens of emails from readers telling me that's what they did.
2. As an experiment, I raised one of my ebooks to $4.99. It made more money this month, even though it sold fewer copies, than last month at $1.99. And this is without the new agency royalty rate. Even if my sales dip, I'll still be more than doubling my current profits.
3. The difference between $1.99 and $2.99 isn't that big a deal, especially in comparison to what the major publishers are pricing at. Once the agency model takes hold, Big NY Publishing is going to sell ebooks at $12.99. I predict fewer sales for Big NY Authors, more for indie authors, even if we go up to $2.99.
4. If enough indie authors go up to $2.99, then it's the new bargain rate.
I've been part of the traditional publishing world for over a decade, and what's happening right now with ebooks is unprecedented. Not only do authors have a chance to directly reach a large pool of readers for the first time in history, but NY Publishing is so short-sighted they're making it easy for us to compete with them.
My ebook THE LIST has sold 12,000 copies in a year. At the agency rate, that's over $24k annually, assuming my numbers stay the same.
But I don't think they'll stay the same. I think my sales numbers will continue to go up, even when I raise the price to $2.99. Ereaders haven't hit their stride yet.
So if I were to take an original J.A. Konrath or Jack Kilborn novel and put it on Kindle, I believe $130,000 in six years is a modest prediction.
If I also take into account Sony, B&N, the iPad, and print, audio, and foreign rights, I can see $130,000 being just a starting point for the money one of my novels can earn.
Of course, that's my prediction for 2016. How about my predictions for 2010?
Let's say I put two original ebook novels on Kindle this year, and they sell on average as well as my top five best sellers.
That means I'll be selling 7560 ebooks per month. I'll err to the side of caution and say my sales drop off 25% because I'm raising the price to $2.99. That would mean I'd be selling 5670 ebooks a month. At $2.04 profit per download, that's still $11680 a month.
So between June 1 and December 31, I'm looking to earn $81,761 on Kindle alone. And that's being a pessimist.
If I take the optimist route, I'll assume my numbers won't drop off, they'll escalate, as they have in the past. Especially if I offer new, exclusive titles. Perhaps I'll sell 8000 ebooks per month. That would mean from June to December, I'd earn $114,240.
Being even more optimistic, I'll also put up another novella on Kindle, as well as the Newbie's Guide to Publishing ebook (over 360,000 words of writing advice.) And people will continue to buy Kindles. So let's really dream big and guesstimate I can eek out 9,000 sales a month.
That puts me at $128,520 for a seven month period. For just Kindle.
The shocking thing about this is that it isn't a pipe dream. It's entirely within the realm of possibility.
Is everyone reading this thinking "holy shit" just like I am?
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — As Brazil's economy powered forward over the last decade and millions rose out of poverty, shiny new shopping malls popped up as testament to a more prosperous society.
In these temples of consumption, well-to-do families and couples stroll gleaming hallways, popping in and out of stores to browse $300 boxes of macaroons or shoes costing thousands of dollars. The only dark-skinned faces present, in a country where more than half of the people identify themselves as black or brown-skinned, have been those of security guards, workers or the women busing
But now, the high-end malls are the focus of heated political protest and, for some, proof of how far the country still needs to go to overcome centuries-old racial and class divisions.
Groups of mostly dark-skinned and working-class youths in Sao Paulo began organizing last month on Facebook to meet and hang out at malls. Thousands showed up, singing and flirting in the halls. Mall operators reacted by banning further rolezinhos, Brazilian Portuguese slang for "taking a little stroll," but sometimes translated as "flash mob."
The crackdown included what some claim was police abuse and racial profiling and led to a proliferation of now-politicized rolezinhos around the country, as well as protests targeting malls deemed to be fortresses for Brazil's white elite.
"We just wanted to get together, meet new people, have an ice cream or snack and do the things all kids like to do," said Jefferson Luis, an office assistant and musician who organized an early rolezinho in Sao Paulo. "But the malls were uncomfortable with us, as they weren't used to seeing so many lower-class youths in their environment."
Luis, 20, is older than most who attended his event. For the most part, the worst the kids have been accused of is minor offenses such as blocking escalators, being too loud or disturbing the shopping environment.
But the response has been aggressive, both among other mall-goers and security officials.
"These youths decided to call attention to themselves, yelling and making a commotion," said Fernando Ricciarelli, 35, who works as a financial director in Sao Paulo and says he wouldn't want a rolezinho in the mall where he eats lunch almost every day. "This scares the people in the mall who want peace and quiet so they can do their shopping."
Meanwhile, video taken by local news media in January showed youngsters fleeing tear gas or being threatened by police.
As Brazil prepares to put its best face forward in preparation for hosting the
The rolezinhos have prompted city, state and federal authorities, including the president, to call emergency meetings to formulate a quick response plan.
On Jan. 18, a protest shut down the JK Iguatemi mall, a luxury shopping center in Sao Paulo.
"Poor youths have no public spaces for culture or leisure where they live, and when they try to use malls, their only option, there is a prejudiced and racist response," said protest organizer Douglas Belchior of UNEafro, an organization that seeks to provide educational opportunities for blacks and the working class. "The malls have put in place injunctions which amount to racial segregation."
Soon after the rolezinho controversy began to dominate headlines, young people pointed out that elite university students have long been organizing flash mobs in malls — with largely rich, white participants — without incurring the ire of authorities.
The rolezinho participants wear their Saturday best — and they say one of their main reasons for showing up was to meet members of the opposite sex. The boys often wear baseball caps bearing logos such as
In a nation whose economy has been kept afloat of late by an explosion in consumption, glitzy new shopping malls serve as meeting places for the elite, and new malls are springing up in lower middle-class neighborhoods. Protest organizers say it is no surprise that youngsters would congregate in these spaces rather than the slums in which many live.
"Our poor youths are largely barred from university because of their background. But they have been educated to consume," Belchior said. "The shopping mall is the grand symbol of our culture of consumption and acquisition."
"We in the elite don't know how to communicate with the rest of the country," said Miriam Berton, a 51-year-old music teacher waiting in front of the movie theater at JK Iguatemi, where patrons lined up to pay $21 to see "The Wolf of Wall Street." "The people here, we are privileged. We have a responsibility to the rest of the population. We should invest in culture and encourage the kids to come here and sing and dance."
Brazil's recent growth has somewhat narrowed the gap between rich and poor, but the country remains one of the most unequal. The left-leaning Workers' Party, in power since 2003, has implemented quotas to increase racial and socioeconomic diversity in colleges, a measure that has stirred political controversy.
But the poor still lack healthcare, housing and access to education.
After initial confusion and a public backlash, mall operators are asking the government to provide alternative gathering sites in poor parts of the city, where public space and cultural centers are mostly nonexistent.
"Everyone is welcome, but the arrival of thousands of people at the same time compromises the security of these establishments," Nabil Sahyoun, president of Brazil's Shopping Mall Store Assn., said Wednesday in a news conference with Sao Paulo government officials.
Jefferson Luis, who plans to return to school, hopes the accidental politicization of the mall gatherings may lead the government to offer much-needed improvements.
"As long as the city doesn't do their job, the kids are going to find their own way to spend leisure time," he said. "And right now, that's the rolezinhos."
Bevins is a special correspondent.


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On the flip-side there are a quite a few poor films that get more exposure than they should.
Lost in Karastan sits firmly in the former camp.
It's a little gem, with a good script, fine acting and some slick direction.
Director Ben Hopkins has worked mainly on small projects abroad and most of this movie is based out of the UK (hence the title).
Matthew Macfadyen plays Emil Forester, a film director who once won a major award for a short film, but who is in the doldrums.
He has no work, no money, has writer's block and is separated from his wife, a successful film star.
Out of the blue he gets an invitation to go to (the fictional) Karastan, in the Caucasus region of Europe, as a guest of their film festival.
While there, though, the President asks him to direct a film about the country's founder and its history.
Forester encounters various characters as he tries to do the job, including the mysterious Chulpan (MyAnna Buring) and washed-up actor Xan Butler (Noah Taylor).
Macfadyen is superb in the role, with the right mix of bewilderment at the poverty and corruption he comes across, anger at the bureaucracy and desire for Chulpan.
There are some very funny moments but there is also a strong message about the corruption of governments.
Overall, it's a well conceived, slick movie that certainly deserves plenty of plaudits.
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RALEIGH � One check is written with loopy cursive handwriting. Another features neat all-capital lettering. And a third is marked by its messy script.
But all bear the signature of the same campaign donor � raising questions about how the checks were directed to state lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory and whether state law was violated. State Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance, is one of the lawmakers who received a campaign donation.
Chase Burns, an Internet sweepstakes company executive who became the largest donor to North Carolina legislative races in 2012, routed much of his $230,000 in donations through lobbyists from Moore & Van Allen, the Charlotte law firm where McCrory worked until days before his inauguration. Burns and the firm were pushing an effort to make sweepstakes machines legal, despite laws and court decisions that shut them down.
The N.C. State Board of Elections has opened an informal inquiry concerning Burns� contributions to more than 70 Republican and Democratic legislative candidates, the governor and state Republican Party. The probe focuses on the checks � who wrote them, where the money came from and how they were delivered to candidates.
The News & Observer reviewed copies of 34 campaign checks from Burns� account and found the checks were completed by at least three different people. While the handwriting varied, three distinct styles were used to fill out the �pay to the order of� and amount lines. The most common used two zeros over one hundred in the cents portion, extending a line from the hundred to fill in the amount section. A second uses a consistent ampersand. The third, used on the checks to McCrory, is markedly different from the others.
The signature line on the checks resemble corporate documents in Florida with Burns� signature. But it�s unclear whether the handwriting directing the contributions is a match to Burns.
North Carolina law requires a check signer to choose the political candidates who receive the check, though others can makes recommendations. It also prohibits candidates from accepting a check that lacks either the name of the recipient or the amount. The law reads: �No contribution ... may be made or accepted unless it contains a specific designation of the intended contributee chosen by the contributor.�
If the donor doesn�t pick the candidate, it suggests �that you were essentially aiding and abetting contributions in the name of another because you weren�t really making a specific contribution,� said Michael Weisel, a campaign finance attorney who represents prominent Democratic-leaning groups.
State Rep. Jamie Boles, a Whispering Pines Republican, received one of the checks with the cursive handwriting. Like many campaigns that receive many checks, it didn�t raise any red flags when it came in the mail. He didn�t compare it with others. �It was accepted in good faith,� he said.
Inquiry underway
Even as the informal inquiry is underway, the new Republican-majority state elections board is considering whether to launch a formal investigation, which would allow officials to dig deeper and gather witnesses testimony and additional records.
The last time �blank checks� were an issue was in 2006 when then-House Speaker Jim Black, a Democrat, admitted to the Board of Elections that he accepted checks from optometrists with blank payment lines that he filled out and deposited. The board recommended a criminal investigation that led to Black�s conviction and imprisonment in 2007.
After the Black case, lawmakers strengthened the law to forbid blank checks.
But Roger Knight, a campaign finance lawyer who represents prominent Republican-leaning groups, said how the current law is interpreted and applied to a specific situation remains murky. For instance, he envisioned a scenario where the donor could leave the recipient of a check blank and later direct his lobbyist or assistant to make the contribution to whom he wanted.
�The biggest problem is going to be establishing that a violation occurred, unless someone acknowledges making a mistake and accepting checks with the payee line blank,� he said. �The contributor can, in theory anyway, write a check and leave the payee blank as long as the contributor �chooses� the payee before the check is delivered and the contribution is complete.�
Money source at issue
Burns, his wife Kristin, and 55 others face scores of felony charges in Florida, where prosecutors allege the group, under the guise of a charity helping homeless veterans, used a string of sweepstakes parlors to divert $300 million in untaxed profits for their own use.
Burns and his company, International Internet Technology, have been embroiled in litigation in North Carolina courts. In December, the state Supreme Court ruled that IIT�s machines violated the state law banning video poker. The company has tinkered with its software, saying the changes make the sweepstakes legal.
The checks to North Carolina candidates came from an account titled �Chase Burns Trustee for the Chase Burns Trust.� The bank is MidFirst Bank of Anadarko, Okla., where Burns and his wife reside.
Florida authorities allege that this account is part of a web of bank accounts that Burns used to launder and comingle tens of millions of dollars of illegal gambling proceeds, including about $100 million from Internet sweepstakes cafes in North Carolina that used the company�s software.
North Carolina law prohibits corporate contributions to candidates. A trust can include corporate money and personal money, though, and candidates typically should verify the source before accepting the check.
Bob Hall, the director of the watchdog group Democracy North Carolina, filed the complaint that launched the state election agency�s inquiry and highlighted the possibility of corporate money. �There are a nest of problems here that could point to corruption,� Hall said.
Another factor state officials are analyzing is how Burns� checks made it to lawmakers and candidates.
Nearly all were dated Sept. 17 or Sept. 19. The exceptions were two checks for $4,000 each from Burns and his wife to the McCrory campaign in August. According to state campaign finance reports, most of the checks were cashed between early October and mid-November.
Moore & Van Allen helped direct the money. Some checks were hand-delivered, others were mailed from the law firm . Many envelopes with the checks inside contained the business card of Thomas Sevier, a Moore & Van Allen lobbyist and former staffer for Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, according to records reviewed by The N&O.
The relationship confused a number of campaigns that mistakenly identified Burns as a lawyer with Moore & Van Allen, listed him as director of public affairs at Moore & Van Allen or gave his address as the Moore & Van Allen office , campaign finance records show. Stopped in the halls at the legislative building, Sevier declined an interview request. The law firm did not respond to questions.
Moore & Van Allen dropped Burns and his company as clients after the Florida investigation.
McCrory, Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis all received money from Burns. All denied meeting him and later donated the contributions to charities to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
�Governor McCrory is not aware of formally meeting Chase Burns, his wife or anyone with the company,� said Kim Genardo, McCrory�s spokesman.
Burns contributed $4,000 to Sen. Josh Stein, a Raleigh Democrat who authored the bill that outlawed online sweepstakes. Stein has no idea why Burns gave him money.
�The issue now is, what do I do with it?� Stein said. �If they find that it was illegally given, I have to give the money to the State Board of Elections.�
Burns also contributed $4,000 to Sen. Jerry Tillman, a Republican from Asheboro, who received one of the checks with an ampersand connecting the dollars and cents.
Tillman said he never met or heard of Burns before the issue came to light in March. Tillman has consistently voted against online sweepstakes and video poker.
�I�d like to ban it,� Tillman said. �There�s no rhyme or reason to this contribution.�


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China's gross domestic product rose 7.9% in the fourth quarter of 2012 from a year earlier. The WSJ's Aaron Back explains how the economy rebounded back after a two-year slowdown.
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I ... across Asia are broadly higher after data out today ... show that the Chinese economy is rebounding after two years ... now ... with me to discuss the queue for GDP figures and Aaron Back ... reporter with ... The Wall Street Journal and Beijing ... and thanks for joining us today ... now ... we saw strong growth in the fourth quarter where did a lot of this growth comes from and what are we likely this The going forward ... well other a number of factors I think ... and probably one of the main factors the fact that Chinese government ... took actions earlier this year ... to try to support growth ... things like ... building more subways and railroads ... over the summer they cut the amount of reserves that banks need to hold rather than lands ... and so on a series of government policies support the economy ... you also saw ... things ... get a little less bad in Europe and United States in around the world ... so that helps China's exports ... so you put all those things together basically saws that ... the Chinese economy has been recovering for a few months now ... now we likely to see this trend continue into kewl and um ... I'm going forward and the reason we do have some risks on the horizon one of them is inflation the fear of rising inflation ... the other one is the property prices continuing to rise ... sure so ... I think the very near term outlook is still positive ... if you look weak in the fourth quarter the December data on basic Industri production and exports were specially positive ... so the B of A lot of ... good momentum right now on the Chinese economy ... what a lot of economists say is they see risks may be ... made here were in the second half of twenty thirty at which point the government might start say ... coming out of policies to tighten down on growth ... to ... tamp down property prices that you mention this ... but to do with inflation as you mentioned ... so I you know I think what we may see is the cycle may turn around ... Macy's server traditional ... China upcycle where ... growth is ... is is decent and the government is taking actions to kind of camping stuff ... and what about consumer spending and that's where a lot of companies are focusing right now ... on and they just wanna know when the Chinese consumer will start spending again ... yet so I mean I ... to be Frank I don't think that the Chinese consumer never stops spending I mean I think a ... when you're seeing is a gradual increase ... in the share of the economy ... taken up by the consumer ... and I think that continued in twenty thirteen ... there are twenty twelve excuse me ... I think he continued but ... I think ... it's still not quite enough I think the Chinese economy is still quite reliance on investment as awful ... and you know for example if you look at what happens ... in twenty twelve ... the Chinese economy to win back the traditional investment lever is that you know what when you invest in railroad to invest in some ways we get companies spending on new factories ... is that's the lever that was pull the economy going ... so ... I think ... it's it's not the teachings content that China's consumer was ever really not spending money it's just that ... the Chinese consumer is not ... taking the lead fast enough ... for a number of people to really be satisfied ... that the Chinese economy is fundamentally rebalancing ... read a great way of explaining it ... thanks so much for joining us and back with a Wall Street Journal in Beijing ... for


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In the 29-year history of the modern NCAA tournament, a No. 15 seed has upset a No. 2 seed on just six occasions. Each of those victories felt like a David was slaying Goliath.
On Friday night, Florida Gulf Coast's victory over Georgetown had no such biblical parallel.
There's always the sense in these types of games that the No. 15 seed will wilt under the pressure. The No. 2 seed will pull it out in the end. Remember the Lehigh-Duke game last year? Duke was always going to win. Even when the final buzzer sounded, it was still hard to believe the Blue Devils lost that game.
Not so in Philadelphia. FGCU was the better team for all 40 minutes. Georgetown cut the lead to five points at various points late in the second half and it still didn't feel like they'd be able to come back.
That's because of plays like these. On three occasions during the game, FGCU attacked the offensive glass for an uncontested put-back dunk.
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Q: I'm a 17-year-old guy faced with gift-giving conundrum of the most urgent order: I want to outshine my older, perpetually brown-nosed siblings this Father's Day and bestow my good-natured, hard-working pop with a gift that:
a. Isn't a necktie.
b. Isn't excessive manual labor (I'm willing to do some light chores).
c. Isn't returnable to Sears.
d. Somehow reflects some of the qualities that he champions like self-reliance, thriftiness and environmental stewardship.
He also enjoys beer, gardening and home-cooked meals. Any ideas?
A: Unless he's Armand Goldman, no matter what the occasion — his birthday, baby Jesus' birthday or the dedicated patriarch appreciation day that you're currently struggling with — dads can be tough cases in the gift-giving department. This is especially true if your pop is an overly taciturn type who buys all of his trés chic clothing at Costco and spends his weekends hiding out in the garage reorganizing his comic book collection. Although they may gladly receive them, dads just don't do gifts the way moms do — e.g. they aren't likely to squeal and shower you with kisses over an Edible Arrangement or a gift card to Barnes & Noble.
Your four specific conditions seem totally reasonable. Right off the bat, I'd suggest offering your pop a complimentary car wash or a couple hours of gratis landscaping work. Sure, these are both somewhat clichéd "I'm broke/still dependent on you financially but want to do something nice for you for Father's Day" types of chores/gifts but they're clichéd for good reason: There's really nothing that dads like more than relegating tedious tasks typically assigned to them to their teenage offspring. It's called free labor, and a lot of dads have come to expect it on or around Father's Day.
Since your own dad sounds like a green-minded fellow, I'd suggest "borrowing" his car and treating it to a commercial self-serve wash — don't simply pay to go through the automatic wash, that's cheating! — in lieu of performing the task in the driveway or on the street, which is the more polluting, water-wasting method. Save up those quarters and take a couple of hours to do the deed yourself at a self-service joint. And instead of giving that grass a much-needed shave with a gasoline-powered lawnmower, try performing other landscaping tasks that don't involve the emission of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. Spend a couple of hours weeding plant beds, trimming the hedges and poking around the garden performing some general maintenance with hand tools.
If your dad is as eco-conscious as you say he is and is indeed using a gas-powered mover, I don't think he'd object if you told him why he should reconsider. Try striking a bargain with him: If he retires the fuel-leaking, smog-blowing, grass-cutting machine and purchases a more eco-friendly mower like a cordless electric model with rechargeable batteries, you'll gladly break it in for him for the rest of the summer. However, this "breaking in" period may be delayed given that dads do like to play with their new toys before handing them over to willing teenage laborers.
Other than green-minded spins on the tried and true Father's Day rituals of lawn mowing and car washing, I'm sure you could offer your services in other ways. Sure, dads dig it when their children perform manual labor for them and take on chores without having to be asked/bribed, but they also do like spending quality time with their progeny. If normally you're simply too busy to hang out with the old man, make yourself available. Plan a date and suggest a few possible outings like a flea market or estate sale, a plant nursery, a vintage record store or a home improvement center. Or, pick out a DIY project from MAKE or ReadyMade that you and your dad can tackle together over the course of a couple of weeks, be it a hydraulic espresso tamper or a cement planter.
Breakfast in bed is a typical Mother's Day tradition, so why not extend it to Father's Day but with a customized twist? Put your Google searching skills to the test and surprise your pop with a dad's day dinner (at a table, not in bed) made from strictly fresh, locally sourced ingredients, particularly ingredients that are grown at home in your dad's garden. You mentioned your dad is big on self-reliance, so I'm sure a hearty, urban homestead-y meal will delight him. Plus, I'm sure your mom will appreciate the night off.
And while we're on the topic of food and drink, you mentioned your dad likes beer. Given that you've got a few years to wait until you're old enough to buy him a round of his favorite local microbrew for Father's Day, consider encouraging him to start homebrewing if he hasn't already — I hear this new book is a must-read for homebrew hobbyists. Sure, brewing his own beer may give him another reason to hide out in the garage or basement, but it does sound right up your dad's alley.
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Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option today, using a simple majority vote to change the Senate rule on filibusters with regard to federal judges at the district and court of appeals levels (but not the Supreme Court). Henceforth, such nominations cannot be filibustered and lower court judges can be confirmed by a simple majority vote. The repercussions of Reid's action are likely to be far-reaching.
The filibuster has always been controversial–senators as far back as Henry Clay have threatened to abolish it by changing Senate rules–and the attitudes of politicians and pundits generally depend on whether their party is in the majority or the minority. When the Democrats were a minority in the Senate, Harry Reid denounced a threat to change the Senate's filibuster rules as "un-American." In our early days, we embarrassed the Minneapolis Star Tribune by pointing out that they had editorialized effusively both for and against the filibuster, depending on which party controlled the Senate. But the same could be said of many newspapers and other commentators.
The Democrats may argue that today's rule change has only limited scope, but the genie is out of the bottle. Once filibuster rules start changing, why not change them some more? The key precedent that has been set is that the rule can be changed by a simple majority, so in the future, the filibuster will not be secure anywhere.
Reid's timing is a little puzzling. In the short-to-medium term, the rule change is more likely to benefit Republicans than Democrats. My guess is that we will have a Republican Senate in 2015 and a Republican president in 2017; if so, the precedent the Democrats set today will come back to haunt them with a vengeance. To cite just one example, it will now be possible to pass Obamacare repeal in the Senate with 51 Republican votes.
Long-term, the filibuster is not a partisan issue. Both parties will be sometimes in the majority, and sometimes in the minority. Arguments for and against the filibuster strike me as inconclusive, so I would keep it. The filibuster has existed for a long time and is part of our political fabric. No one can fully foresee the consequences of doing away with it. The sound conservative approach, I think, is not to alter, without a compelling reason, an institution that has been part of our political life for going on 200 years.
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Date: October 1, 2008
Disabled Refugees Act"
On September 30, 2008, President Bush signed into law H.R. 2608, the "SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act," (P.L. 110-328). On September 17, 2008, the House approved the Senate amendments to the previously House-passed language. (See Legislative Bulletins 110-4, 110-35 and 110-36.)
Following are the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) provisions:
• Extends the 7-year SSI eligibility period for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants (including victims of human trafficking) to 9 years for the period October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2011. In order to qualify for the extension, certain noncitizens would be required to sign a declaration indicating that they have made a good faith effort to pursue U. S. citizenship (as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Security).
• The 2-year extension also applies retroactively to those noncitizens whose SSI had previously ceased solely due to the expiration of the 7-year period. For these individuals, SSI benefits would be paid prospectively, monthly over the duration of the noncitizen's renewed eligibility.
• Defines noncitizens (qualified aliens or victims of human trafficking) eligible for the 2-year extension as follows:
• Lawful permanent residents who have held such status for less than 6 years, and such status has not been abandoned or rescinded (as verified through the Commissioner in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security).
• Noncitizens who have applied to become lawful permanent residents within 4 years from the date they began to receive SSI (as verified through the Commissioner in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security).
• Cuban and Haitian entrants, as defined in section 501(e) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980.
• Noncitizens who have had their deportation withheld by the Secretary of Homeland Security under section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (as in effect on December 31, 1996) or whose removal is withheld under section 241(b)(3) of such Act.
• Noncitizens who have not attained age 18, or those who are age 70 or older.
• Provides that noncitizens (qualified aliens or victims of human trafficking) who are under age 18 are exempt from the requirement to sign a declaration indicating that they have made a good faith effort to pursue U. S. citizenship.
• Exempts from the time-limited SSI eligibility period (during the 3-year window of October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2011) specified noncitizens (as defined above) if they have naturalization applications pending or if they are awaiting the citizenship swearing-in ceremony, as verified by the Commissioner in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security. The exemption also applies to individuals with applications pending who were previously rendered ineligible due to expiration of the 7-year period.
• Effective October 1, 2008 and expires September 30, 2011.


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Vasquez Is 17th Yale Selection To All-Ivy First Team
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After leading the Yale University women's basketball team to its highest overall win total since 2002 and its most successful Ivy League finish since 1989, four players earned places on the 2010-11 All-Ivy Team.
Sophomore guard Megan Vasquez (Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun), senior forward Mady Gobrecht (New Haven, Conn./Hamden Hall), junior forward Michelle Cashen (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Midwood), and freshman forward Janna Graf (Mission Woods, Kan./Shawnee Mission E.) all earned places on the All-Ivy Team in recognition of their performances this season.
The four players helped to lead Yale to a 14-14 final regular-season record and a 10-4 finish in Ivy League play, only the second time in Yale's history that it finished Ivy play with a 10-4 record. The result was a second-place finish in the Ivy League standings and an automatic berth in the WNIT postseason tournament — Yale's first postseason appearance in 32 years.
"I'm thrilled for our program that so many from our team received recognition by the Ivy League," said Chris Gobrecht, the Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954, Head Coach of Women's Basketball. "Yale's success has been because of our collective strength and having four players honored by the Ivy League today reflects that truth."
Vasquez was named to the All-Ivy First Team, a year after earning a spot on the All-Ivy Rookie Team. She finished the 2010-11 season as the Bulldogs' leading scorer at 13.8 points per game, including a 13.9 ppg. average in Ivy League contests. She also led Yale in 3-point field goals made (38), minutes per game (32.0) and free-throw shooting (94-for-123, 76.4 percent). Vasquez was Yale's leading scorer in 14 games and she surpassed the 20-point mark five times. She saved some of her best performances for Yale's biggest games this season. She poured in a career-high 25 points in a 91-85 win over then-No. 15/14 Florida State, Yale's first-ever win over a nationally ranked opponent. She also scored 23 points in a 78-64 win at Harvard on Feb. 26, 2011, Yale's first win at Harvard since Feb. 17, 2001.
It is the 17th time in Yale women's basketball history that a player earned a spot on the All-Ivy First Team. All-Ivy selections began in the 1979-80 season. In the 32 seasons since, Yale's First Team selections include Lisa Brummel (1980 and 1981), Margy Hutchinson (1982 and 1983), Sue Johnson (1984 and 1985), Kelly LeComte (1986), Karen Yarasavage (1987), Tonya Lawrence (1988, 1989, and 1990), Mary Kalich (1993 and 1994), Katie Grubbs (1998), Erica Davis (2007), Melissa Colborne (2008) and Vasquez (2011).
Vasquez is the third player to earn All-Ivy First Team honors during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as Yale's head coach.
Mady Gobrecht saved her best season for her last one in a Yale uniform, earning a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team, the first All-Ivy honor of her college career. She was second on the team in scoring, with 12.0 points per game, and rebounding, with 6.4 rebounds per game. She was also second on the team in assists (90), field-goal percentage (42.9, 120-280), and free-throw shooting (74.8 percent, 83-for-111). In Ivy League contests, Gobrecht averaged 12.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. She led the Bulldogs in scoring in eight contests this season and recorded three double-doubles.
Graf is one of three unanimous selections to the 2010-11 Rookie Team, along with Ivy League Rookie of the Year Alyssa Baron, from Penn, and Harvard's Christine Clark. Despite missing the first three games of the season due to illness, Graf finished the regular season 17th in the Ivy League in scoring at 9.3 points per game, which was third on the Bulldogs. She was named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Week four times this season and was a Player of the Week once. She was also third on the Bulldogs in rebounding (4.2 rebounds per game) and third in field-goal percentage (39.4, 89-for-226). Graf led the Bulldogs in scoring in three games, including a career-high 26 points in a 91-85 win over then-No. 15/14 Florida State. She scored in double figures 10 times, surpassing the 20-point mark three times.
Cashen was one of three players to earn All-Ivy Honorable Mention, a year after earning a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team as a sophomore. She finished her junior season fourth on the Bulldogs in scoring at 8.1 points per game. She led the Bulldogs in rebounding at 6.8 rebounds per game, which was fourth in the Ivy League. She was the Bulldogs' top scorer in one game this season and top rebounder in nine games.
Princeton's Addie Micir was a unanimous selection by the League's eight coaches as the Ivy League Player of the Year. Her teammate, Lauren Polansky, was the Ivy League's Defensive Player of the Year. Princeton placed three players on the All-Ivy First Team, including Micir, Devona Allgood and Lauren Edwards. Vasquez, Columbia's Kathleen Barry and Harvard's Brogan Berry round out the other First Team selections.
Yale is off until it begins play in the WNIT next week. The WNIT will announce the bracket for the 2011 tournament late Monday.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity