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Regulations and Procedures Governing the Master's Thesis
The thesis is a major requirement or an option in many master's programs and when completed it marks the culmination of a candidate's program. The master's thesis must demonstrate the candidate's capacity for independent work and must be single-authored. It should demonstrate a scholarly approach to the subject matter and a clear understanding of how the work fits with the relevant practice and/or literature of the discipline concerned.
If thesis research involves humans, approval must be obtained from the WLU Research Ethics Board; if it involves animals, approval must be obtained from the WLU Animal Care Committee (details are available from the WLU Office of Research Services).
The thesis must be defended in an oral examination, which is a departmental examination. The candidate must be registered for the term in which the defence takes place. General guidelines for the master's thesis are presented below; however, there are variations in procedures for the thesis across departments/programs and the regulations for individual departments/programs should be consulted for the details.
The academic unit/program of the candidate approves an advisory committee for all thesis students. All Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) members must be members of the Graduate Faculty at WLU. For all masters' programs, TACs must consist of:
All members of the TAC must review and approve the thesis proposal (see MRP/Thesis Proposal Approval form). All members of the TAC must also review a complete draft of the thesis prior to the oral defence and verify that it is ready to go forward for defence (see Scheduling the Oral Defence of the Thesis, below).
The Thesis Examination Committee (TEC) must consist of all the members of the TAC and an external examiner who is knowledgeable on the subject of the thesis. The external examiner must be approved by the academic unit/program of the candidate (e.g., graduate co-ordinator, chair, or dean) and will not have been a member of the candidate's TAC. Normally, at least one member of the TEC must be from outside the academic unit/program of the candidate. If all members of the TAC are internal to the candidate's academic unit/program, the external examiner must come from outside the academic unit/program of the candidate and normally will be a faculty member from another WLU department. Where there is no available faculty member with requisite expertise in another department at WLU, a suitable member of another nearby university may be asked to serve as external examiner. The chairperson for the defense, appointed by the appropriate administrative office within the academic unit/program, must be a member of the Graduate Faculty of the university and be external to the TEC, but may come from within the academic unit/program of the candidate.
An external examiner for a master's thesis must be at "arm's length" from the candidate and the thesis advisor (TA). Arm's length means not being a close friend, a regular or current collaborator, a former supervisor or Graduate student, or a former colleague/co-worker of the thesis advisor (TA), or the candidate. It also means not having a vested interest in the outcome of the oral defense. For the purposes of past collaborationin terms of publication, conference organization/presentation, research grants, etc.the collaboration must have occurred at least six or more years from the time of the oral exam in order for the nominated scholar to serve as external. Former supervisors or graduate students of the TA or the candidate will not be permitted under any circumstances to serve as external examiners, nor will anyone outside the TAC involved in the candidate's dissertation/thesis project development, data collection, or data interpretation. In the event that the dissertation/thesis involves co-supervision, the rules for the TA will apply to both co-supervisors.
Once the TAC has agreed that the thesis is ready to go forward for defence, the thesis advisor must ensure that the Master's Thesis Defence - Request to schedule oral examination form is completed and the form is submitted to the appropriate administrative office within the academic unit/program (this might be to the graduate co-ordinator, department chair, or dean, depending on the academic unit/program). The candidate is responsible for ensuring that the thesis is submitted in the format required by the current WLU Dissertation/Thesis Format Guidelines. The candidate is also responsible for ensuring that all members of the TAC have received a copy of the thesis and for submitting two copies of the thesis to the appropriate administrative office within the academic unit/program.
Once the completed Master's Thesis Defence - Request to schedule oral examination form and two copies of the thesis have been received by the appropriate administrative office within the academic unit/program, this office ensures that the proposed external examiner receives administrative approval, arranges for a chairperson for the oral defence, and sets the date and time of the oral defence. This office also ensures that the external examiner and the chairperson receive a copy of the thesis. Normally, the defence will be scheduled within three weeks of the necessary materials being submitted.
The purpose of the oral defence of the master's thesis is to demonstrate to the members of the TEC that the candidate fully understands the process and outcome of the work and the meaning and significance of the findings in relation to the relevant practice and/or literature of the discipline.
The defence is normally one and one-half to two hours duration and is conducted by the chairperson. Any member of the university community is entitled to attend the defence, but the Chair has the authority to exclude persons whose conduct disturbs the defence procedures. Nonmembers of the university community may attend but must receive the permission of the candidate, the thesis advisor, and the Chair of the defence.
Procedures When a TEC Member Cannot Attend the Thesis Defence
It is expected that all members of the TEC will attend the thesis defence, either in person or via teleconference or videoconference. In the unusual event that one member of the TEC knows in advance that he or she cannot attend the defence, he or she must submit a written report, with questions and a preliminary vote (per the decision categories), to the appropriate administrative office within the academic unit/program at least one week before the defence. This office will arrange for the chair or a member of the TAC to read the questions of the absent member during the rounds of questioning in the defence and to share the preliminary vote of the absent member during the "in camera" committee deliberations. Only if the absent member is the external examiner will the preliminary vote count toward the decision. If two or more members of the TEC inform the appropriate administrative office in advance that they cannot attend the oral defence, it may be rescheduled.
In the case of an unexpected absence of the chair or a TEC member, the person who is going to be delayed or who cannot attend must, if possible, telephone the office of the chair of the department or of the program director. If any member of the TEC will be delayed not more than one hour, the department chair's/program director's office will inform the TEC Chair, the candidate, and the other TEC members that the defense will be delayed for this period of time. If a TEC member is unable to attend, questions to be addressed to the candidate are to be dictated over the telephone, along with a confidential vote (per the decision categories).
If the TEC chair or a TEC member do not appear for the defence and do not contact the department chair's/program director's office within one-half hour, or when the department chair's/program director's office has been notified of the TEC chair's or TEC member's unexpected inability to attend, the following procedures are to be implemented:
The examination is to be postponed and re-scheduled as soon as possible only if the candidate or two or more members of the TEC do not appear.
Once all members of the TEC are present and necessary introductions have been made, the chair will ask the candidate and all other attendees to leave the room. The chair will then conduct an "in camera" meeting to:
The Chair will ask the candidate to present an oral summary of the thesis (10 minutes) to begin the defence. The chair will ask the external examiner to commence the rounds of questioning (in the absence of the external examiner, the chair will ask his or her questions). When the members of the TEC have no further questions, the chair will offer other attendees an opportunity to direct questions to the candidate. Upon the conclusion of all questions, the chair will ask the candidate and others to leave the room. If present, the dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the dean of the candidate's Faculty, the departmental chair, and the graduate coordinator/program director are permitted to stay and observe the "in camera" deliberations of the TEC; however, they may not participate in the discussion except by invitation and they have no vote.
The chair will conduct an "in camera" meeting of the TEC to:
The Chair will then invite the candidate back into the room and:
The chair should return the Oral Examination Report to the appropriate administrative office in the candidate's academic unit/program. This office should then forward a copy of the form to the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office.
Note: The defence is public and the Chair has the responsibility to ensure that high standards of conduct are exercised by those in attendance. Thus, the chair has the right to exclude persons whose conduct disturbs the defence or to stop and reschedule the defence, if necessary.
Voting Procedures
If all but one member of the TEC agree on a decision category (see below), the decision shall be that of the majority. Where two dissenting votes are cast, discussion must continue to arrive at a decision on which there is consensus (i.e., no more than one dissenting vote). When consensus is reached, all members of the TEC should sign the Oral Examination Report. As discussed above, if a TEC member is absent but has provided a preliminary vote, this vote will be shared with the committee during the in-camera deliberations, but the vote will count in the determination of a decision only if it is that of the external examiner.
Decision Categories for the Thesis Defence
The following are the decision categories that are available to the TEC:
Note: If the examining committee is not prepared to reach a decision at the time of the thesis defense, it is the responsibility of the chair to determine what additional information is required by the committee to reach a decision, to arrange to obtain this information for the committee, and to call another meeting of the committee as soon as the required information is available. It is also the responsibility of the chair to inform the candidate about the delay.
The criteria for nominating a candidate for a Medal for Academic Excellence are:
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Leaving a Higher Stack of Wood
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks about industry ethics. He reflects on how companies used to assign a mentor to train new young employees, but now this is not a common practice. If we want to leave behind a well prepared profession once we retire, we have to take the time to train these newbees ourselves. If we don't do it who will?03/17/2008
Early Education
The process control and automation industries are loosing practical knowledge to retirement and outsourcing, and veteran engineers aren't being replaced quickly enough. Why is the U.S. not encouraging, attracting, and training the engineers it will need in the future, and what can be done about it? Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, says the magazine will explore this issue during 2008, and asks users to share their experiences and efforts to inspire junior high and elementary school students to get bitten by the engineering bug.03/10/2008
A Willingness to Learn, Podcast
Listen to Jim Montague's March 2008 column, A Willingness to Learn03/08/2008
Just Because They Havent, Doesnt Mean They Wont, Podcast
Listen to Walt Boyes's March 2008 column, Just Because They Havent, Doesnt Mean They Wont03/04/2008
Our Toilets Are Not for Customers!
End users now have much more power to improve or hurt a brand image, and many automation vendors are slow to realize what this means.03/03/2008
EAM - Is there a "there" there?
Managing editor Nancy Bartels talks about process manufacturers who are integrating EAM with SCADA or other control systems. They are taking advantage of factory floor data to optimize maintenance operations and support the transition to preventive and predictive maintenance models.02/25/2008
Life on the Edge of the Idea Economy, Podcast
Listen to Keith Larson's February 2008 column, Life on the Edge of the Idea Economy.02/20/2008
Watch Your Mouth, Podcast
Listen to Jim Montague's February 2008 column, Watch Your Mouth.02/20/2008
Calibrate ThisElectronically, Podcast
Listen to Dan Hebert's February 2008 column Calibrate ThisElectronically.02/20/2008
Peter Terwiesch of ABB
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes, asks Peter Terwiesch, chief technology officer for ABB, how the foreseen recession could affect industries serving automation businesses, automation vendors, and automation end-users.02/18/2008
Industrial PC
Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, tries to answer some questions about the changing nature of industrial PCs and asks for readers to contribute their thoughts as well. Many industrial PCs no longer need the keyboard and screens of the past and can run in headless configurations on DIN rails, on boards and in chips. So how is it possible to define, write about and use them? Are the enclosure-based PCs of the past still useful? All these questions prompted a variety of answers.02/18/2008
Professional Development with Dick Hill
We Have Candidates for the Hall of Fame, but for How Long?02/14/2008
Top 10 and The Lost Companies
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks about the most popular articles of 2007 on ControlGlobal.com, and why we built the Directory of Lost Companies wiki.02/11/2008
Calibration Practices
Watch This Video and Find Out What Control Learned After Surveying Its Readership About Their Calibration Practices02/06/2008
Tips for Identifying Counterfeits
To help users identify counterfeit devices, the alliance between U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American Council of Independent Labs (ACIL) has drafted several recommendations. These tips include looking for and inspecting certification marks, checking for inferior packaging and/or missing parts or product information, and only buying from suppliers who are well known to you.02/04/2008
Having A Career in Process Automation
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks with the 2008 inductees into the Process Automation Hall of Fame Vernon Trevathan, William M. Hawkins and Dale E Seborg. They talk about what it takes to have career in process automation.02/03/2008
Selling the Cool
Want kids to become automation engineers? Convince them the job is cool.01/25/2008
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Cal Poly Science Cafe welcomes GAFFTA, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, a "diverse community of coders, artists, entrepreneurs, innovators, and civic leaders that believe in the potential for creatively applied digital art and technology to transform society."
At this event, meet Josette Melchor, the Founder and Executive Director of GAFFTA and George Zisiadis, an artist who recently installed the interactive "Pulse of the City" in Boston. Together they will talk about GAFFTA's urban prototyping model and how open urban prototyping can lead to pilots and pilots to products. They will also discuss Pulse of the City, which was recently installed in Boston:
Josette Melchor — An early social entrepreneur, Josette started her first art gallery and studio program at the age of 19 by self-funding creative projects through her work in the technology industry.
As a community organizer, Josette led the launch of Seaquence.org, a product of Gray Area Research, an artist-in-research program for creative technologies. She also ran City Centered, a program that connected cities with data artists for public good.
As a curator, Josette has worked with notable designers and interdisciplinary research centers including: MiT Senseable City Lab, Institute of Computer Sound and Technology, Stamen Design; artists C.E.B Reas, Robert Hodgin, Aaron Koblin, Camille Utterback, and many more.
Photo from Pulse of the City, by George Zisiadis
George Zisiadis — I'm a San Francisco based interactive artist whose projects draw out the curiosity and endless fun that lie within us all. My work playfully re-imagines people's relationships to their environments and to themselves. I collaborate with major brands like Nestle and institutions like the City of Boston to create engaging, interactive experiences for thousands in public settings.
His work has been featured in Wired, FastCompany, The New Yorker and Laughing Squid. He has a BA in Sociology from Harvard University.


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Sidhu takes moonlighting as a movie star very seriously and says that it's simply a matter of balance to keep both careers thriving. "Up until now, I've either been in undergrad or grad school," he explains. "Now that I have a practice of my own, I've been able to find the time to do something else I really love. These are my two great passions in life. My goal is to be a caring and competent physician and surgeon, honor the Hippocratic Oath I've taken. But acting is something I'm also very committed to."
The initial challenge wasn't just the task of juggling the two pursuits, but the immense time that cultivating a budding acting career alone requires. "At first, I knew it'd be difficult. I've seen other professionals do it, but they do it within their field. I have to take care of my practice but also develop scripts, for example. As a full-time professional, I can't go the normal route of actors in L.A.: live on the West Side, hang out, go to the right parties, go to a million auditions, and hope to get a part once in a blue moon."
Not one to be distracted by doubt, though, Sidhu realized that instead of searching for opportunities as an actor, he'd create them as a producer. "I had to choose an alternate path for myself; the only way I was going to get into front of that camera was to produce myself. I know it's very competitive there are thousands of talented people looking for work. I knew I wouldn't be able to go traditional routes, so I created one."
The modest doctor keeps his day job under wraps on set, but it raises questions when it's revealed. "When I got my crews together for Aakhari Decision or The Black Russian, no one knew I was a doctor. Being a physician is not relevant, so I try not to bring it up. As soon as people bring it up, they want to know "why acting?" I had a different calling; 'You may have been doing Nickelodeon but I was studying anatomy.' I definitely downplay it."
An admitted cinephile, Sidhu derived his devotion to film from Hollywood and abroad. "Being brought up in the U.S., you're exposed to all kinds of entertainment, especially mainstream Hollywood stuff. But through my folks I was exposed to Bollywood; they're designed for a completely different culture and I have a great appreciation for their entertainment value." His long-time aspirations were realized when he had the opportunity to shoot in both of those major film capitals for his first feature.
He describes his new film, The Black Russian, as "very L.A." Inspired by a firsthand experience with India's robust drug trade, Sidhu used his new film to bring light to the problem. "We had finished Aakhari Decision, and I was visiting north of India where the movie was still playing. It was several months after the release, but it was a cult favorite in that region because of the dialect and story line. As we were traveling, my driver kept pulling over. He was obtaining opiates, and he was completely high the whole journey. There is a striking drug problem in the north of India, which is linked to Pakistan and Afghanistan. When we had to decide what the next story was for us and what kind of story we wanted to tell, it was how to bring attention to that issue without doing a documentary. We came up with a script that takes us through parts of this world and expose some of what's happening." He says the film, shot in L.A., India, and Pakistan, required both "a lot of army personnel, and a lot of permits". His next piece may need even more heat, though less of the weapon variety and more warming apparatuses.
Tentatively called "A Winter's Dream", Sidhu's new futuristic sci-fi action film is projected to start shooting in Alaska in April. He's decided that agile action genre works best for what he wants to accomplish, "I'm going to stick with action, it can reach the broadest audience on a small budget. I find it fun to watch, and I try to do things that I enjoy."
"When you're doing low budget you're constantly worrying about the dollar amount, you can come up with these grand ideas but you want to work with what you have and still be able to tell a good story that audiences find compelling." He's learning though, how to make those stories come to life and keep furthering his ambitions. "You tend to get more efficient as time goes on, more economic with shooting, your sensibility, your appreciation of the script. It evolves." With two films completed and one in pre production, it's only a matter of time before Hollywood comes calling. Learn more at: http://theblackrussianfilm.com


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Aimilianos (Vafeidis)
The Right Reverend Archimandrite Aimilianos (Vafeidis) is the former abbot of Simonopetra Monastery. (There are many variations on spelling his name in English—Amelianos, Aemilianos, etc.)
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Panagia Philanthropi
Panagia Philanthropini, Center for Social Advancement and Medical Prevention and Research, (Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Who Loves Humankind) resides in northern Greece, near the town of Ormylia, Chalkidike. The mother monastery, the Sacred Convent of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, is a large monastic community with over 120 nuns from various nations—the majority of whom hold university degrees. The Convent is a dependency of the Monastery of Simonos Petras on Mount Athos.
It was founded by the Very Reverend Archimandrite Father Aimilianos, Abbot of the Sacred Monastery of Simonos Petras on Mount Athos, for the glory of Almighty God and the service of His children, the mission of the Center is to comfort and alleviate the suffering of human beings with emphasis on the poor and working class public without preference to race, nationality, gender, or creed.
The Center is dedicated to spreading the message of God's love and saving grace to all human beings. Given the Orthodox Christian faith teaches quiet acts are of supreme importance and not words, this vibrant message takes the practical form of medical and educational services, scientific research, charitable and spiritual ministries. These activities constitute the means by which the Center seeks to serve the needs of human beings in the Twenty First Century and beyond.
- Spiritual Instruction and Discourses, Volume 1: The Authentic Seal. By Archimandrite Aimilianos. Ormylia, Halkidiki: Ormylia Publishing, 1999. 400 pages. ISBN 9608560330. (Available in North America from Alexander Press or Alexia Publications.) [1] [2]
- The Church At Prayer - The Mystical Liturgy Of The Heart. By Archimandrite Aimilianos. ISBN: 960-518-251-3.
- The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain: Contemporary Voices from Mount Athos. Translated with introduction and notes by Hieromonk Alexander (Golitzin). South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, 1996. 311 pages. Price p/b £18.75. ISBN 1878997483. (Available in the UK from Orthodox Christian Book Service, 95 Spencer Street, Birmingham B18 6DA.) [3]
- Last sermon of Archim. Aimilianos at Holy Cross Monastery, Thebes, Greece.
In Greek (original texts)
- «Ασκητικά» ο Λόγος περί Νήψεως του Αρχ. Αιμιλιανού Σιμωνοπετρίτου, ερμηνεία στον Άγ. Ησύχιο (Prologue by Bishop Kallistos Ware) No of Pages. 632. ISBN 9789605183028
- An Interview with Sister Aemiliane of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Monastery, Thebes, Greece (St. Nina Quarterly, vol 3:4)
- ↑ FoMA book review
- ↑ An excerpt from this book, Orthodox Spirituality and the Technological Revolution is available at OrthodoxyToday.org
- ↑ FoMA book review
External links
- Website for Social Advancement, Disease Prevention & Medical Research - Panagia Philanthropi
- Extract from O Holy Mountain by Fr Basil Pennington] (includes photo of Archim. Aimilianos)
- Orthodox Spirituality and the Technological Revolution by Archimandrite Aimilianos, Posted: 28-Nov-05 on OrthodoxyToday.org
- FoMA book review
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Contrary to the false propaganda proclaiming that Dr. Ron Paul is "not electable", his numbers are rising, his support growing and he stands an excellent chance of winning both the GOP nomination and the 2012 presidential race.
Dr. Paul's opponents are desperate to stop Americans from listening to, and subsequently electing Ron Paul. Opponents of liberty falsely present Ron Paul as "unelectable" to the American people, attempting to plant subconscious seeds doubt of "don't listen to him, don't vote for him in the primaries or caucuses because he'll never win". This strategy is failing as more Americans hear Dr. Paul speak, leading them to contribute to his campaign and vote for him. The American public understands Dr. Paul's common sense approach and trusts him. The other candidates are clearly in the race to serve their egos and personal agendas. The "Dr. Paul is not electable" rumors are deliberately created and spread solely as a calculated attempt to confuse honest, hard-working American with falsehoods such as "Ron Paul is crazy, anti-women, anti-Israel and anti-blacks. He's isolationist, he'll wreck the country, he's anti-government". These are simple "control the masses" fear tactics to try and stop Americans from actually listening to Dr. Paul, hearing his logical and intelligent plan and deciding for themselves.
Dr. Paul went from third in Iowa, to second in New Hampshire and may win South Carolina. The new video about Romney's career, King of Bain, depicts Romney as a deceptive and greedy man with Wall Street connections who made his money destroying viable companies. The film portrays as Romney unnecessarily eliminating jobs of hard-working people while getting rich himself.
Romney is the unelectable candidate, not Dr. Paul.
6. Dr. Paul not an "isolationist". He is a veteran who believes in only going to war when it has been formally declared per the U.S. Constitution. "We shouldn't have so many injured and in our hospitals because we shouldn't go to war unless it's declared. If it's declared, we should go win it and get it over with." If he were an isolationist, what reason would he be the candidate who gets the most donations from people in the military? Dr. Paul wants to withdraw from the United Nations, which would be the Constitutional thing to do. Thomas Jefferson, founding father and an author of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution stated, "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Regarding Israel, Dr. Paul said "Two of the tenets of a true Zionist are 'self-determination' and 'self-reliance...We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her avowed enemies. How does that help Israel? And in return, we act like her master and demand veto power over her foreign policy." Ron Paul states, "Any kind of racism or anti-Semitism is incompatible with my philosophy." He is against foreign aid period. "I believe that federal foreign aid is absurd. We're broke!... It is ridiculous for us to be borrowing money from China and giving it to Pakistan. I have described foreign aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. I know that many in other nations are hurting, but I also know that the American people are a generous people. While we should end the unconstitutional federal foreign aid program, I would encourage Americans to continue to voluntarily contribute to the needs of other nations."
5. Dr. Ron Paul would run the U.S. budget like many of us responsibly handle our money at home: Spending less than we make and getting rid of dishonest or unnecessary waste.
4. Dr. Paul's plans for the country make sense.
3. Dr. Paul has the right track record, temperament and character to be President. He is mentally clear, firm and tells the truth.
2. He is the only one who makes sense in the debates. If you watch the debates, he answers questions directly and honestly. The link in this paragraph lists the upcoming debates. Many traditional Democrats might find themselves voting for Dr. Paul after watching him in a few debates.
1. Dr. Paul is the only person in the 2012 race for president who wants to serve the country. All the other candidates like the idea of the power, status, glory and success. Dr. Paul has humility and a humble approach that no other candidate has.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson


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Pitching an aggressive state "GI Bill," Republican legislative leaders want to attract more military veterans to the Sunshine State and attract more people to the Florida National Guard.
The hefty proposals (HB 7015 and SPB 7020), which include spending $14.5 million a year for an expansion of free tuition for members of the National Guard, would create a nonprofit to market Florida to former members of the U.S. military. Also, they would upgrade state armories, ease professional licensing for veterans and offer a waiver for all honorably discharged veterans from having to pay out-of-state tuition charges at state colleges and universities.
The potential overall costs remain unknown.
Katie Betta, a spokeswoman for Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said Thursday that efforts are being made to ensure money is available to cover all the personnel who are expected to seek the various educational and business incentives.
"Those numbers will become more defined as the bill moves through the process," Betta said.
The biggest one-time cost would be to speed an ongoing revitalization program of state armories, which the National Guard projects will cost about $30 million.
The Department of Military Affairs has requested $12.5 million for the upcoming year for armory improvements, providing upgrades for six facilities.
The intent of the overall measure is to create more opportunities for Florida, said Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, as they endorsed the Florida GI Bill on Wednesday.
"We believe that there are some things that we can do to make sure we are the most military friendly state in the United States of America, bar none," Weatherford said.
The proposal would also help military personal shift into civilian life, Gaetz said.
The state's unemployment rate has fallen to 6.2 percent, but the jobless mark for veterans in Florida stands at 7.3 percent.
"Despite developing leadership skills, despite having certain amounts of discipline and being drug free, veterans are having a hard time finding meaningful employment in the state," House Veterans and Military Affairs Subcommittee Policy Chief Kerrington Kiner said during a briefing Wednesday broadcast on The Florida Channel. "They're having a tough time translating the skills and experiences they've learned in the military over to the civilian world."
The state estimates there are 61,189 active-duty military personnel in Florida, along with 1.5 million veterans. More than 115,000 of those veterans served during World War II, while nearly 500,000 are considered Vietnam-era veterans.
In the 2012-2013 academic year, about 1,054 of the nearly 12,000 members of the Army and Air National Guard took advantage of free tuition funding through the 16-year-old Educational Dollars for Duty program.
The program, providing full undergraduate tuition at state colleges and universities, cost the state $1.8 million in the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a House staff analysis.
The Legislature's Guard tuition proposal far outpaces the increase to $3.5 million that Gov. Rick Scott recommended in his $74.2 billion fiscal package on Wednesday.
Guard leaders were open to any increase.
"One of the great opportunities the Florida National Guard has to offer is being able to continue our education -- not just to obtain a higher education level. but to build our knowledge base for the National Guard and life itself," Maj. Gen. Emmett Titshaw, head of the Florida National Guard, said in a release.
Florida National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. James Evans added in an email that the support from state lawmakers is another example of why Florida already "has the reputation of being the most military-friendly state in the nation."
Besides the $14.5 million budget request to cover the Guard's tuition, another $1 million would be needed to upgrade the current computer programming used to administer the program.
The nonprofit, to be called Florida is For Veterans, would be used to promote the value of military skills to private businesses and to set up a marketing campaign to encourage former members of the military to remain in Florida or to make the state their permanent home.
No cost projection was available for the nonprofit.
The cost of the tuition waiver for all honorably discharged veterans -- called the Congressman C.W. Bill Young Veteran Tuition Waiver Act -- starts at $8.2 million a year, based upon current enrollments of students on the federal GI Bill in state colleges and universities. But the total is expected to go up as more veterans are drawn to Florida's schools.
Currently, military veterans using the federal GI Bill can only receive reimbursement for the listed cost of in-state tuition, even if they are not from the state
For non-Florida veterans, the out-of-state charge is around $15,279 per academic year for undergraduate programs in the state university system, while the amount is $8,407 for those in the Florida College System, according to the Board of Governors.
The waiver is included in the House measure and currently stands in an individual Senate bill (SB 84) that has already received full support of the Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Committee, the Senate Education Committee and the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
The House proposal is scheduled to make its first committee appearance Tuesday before the Appropriations Committee.
The Senate measure, which is expected to become the catchall for SB 84 and other veterans'-related proposals, is scheduled to be discussed in the Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Committee on Tuesday.


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Robert Ellis, Ian O'Neil
"I want this record to be more about the Paul Simons and the Randy Newmans and the other half of my upbringing,
which is very much rooted in pop." – Ellis recently told Rolling Stone
Robert Ellis is the kind of songwriter who only comes along once in a great while. With his first two albums, a promise was made. With his new record, The Lights from the Chemical Plant, that promise has been delivered and fully realized. The music, like the artist, refuses to accept the confines of a box, and burns white-hot from the inside out. But what seems even more striking about this record, this musician, even at a first glance, is that feeling of unyielding authenticity.
With every remarkable cut, with every twist and turn, Robert's life and his experience, shine through. His days growing up in a small industrial town in Texas, his move to Houston, and now as a 24-year-old man, when not on the road performing around the world, living with his wife in Nashville.
The Lights from the Chemical Plant, produced with great care and precision by Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Norah Jones), and recorded at Eric Masse's Casino studio in East Nashville for New West Records, is an album that has a way of grabbing you by the hand and pulling you in so that it can play with your soul. Alive with memories and innovation, you become absorbed in the world Robert paints with his smoky lyrics, his hypnotic voice, and his masterful work on the guitar. But then something happens. Something new. Something special. And it begins with the very song for which the album is named, "Chemical Plant." You realize that Robert's building layer upon layer of different sounds from different places and different times. A synthesis of sounds and textures that pick you up and pull you in even deeper.
R&B, bossa nova, fusion, free jazz – from the rousing beat of "Good Intentions" to the floor stomping bluegrass anthem "Sing Along," you've bought your ticket and you're in for the ride. And so it goes, the floodgates standing wide open. The quiet, unexpected feel of a jazz guitar in perfect union with a steel guitar in the ballad, "Steady as the Rising Sun." And so it goes. The soulful wobble of a saxophone in "Bottle of Wine," and the dreamy pedal steel that draws you into "TV Song." These are songs about love gained, about love lost, about growing up in a place where nobody stands too tall for fear of being knocked down ("Sing Along"). These are songs about lives broken, lives healed, and moving on.
As if that weren't enough, Robert gives us his interpretation of Paul Simon's classic, "Still Crazy After All These Years," which is pure elegance, cut against the song "Only Lies" with its quiet pulse, its dusky blue lyrics, and the story of a man trying to help a friend who refuses to believe that her husband is cheating on her…
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Cyclocross season is just around the corner and with that, Racer Boy Ian needed a new ride since outgrowing his 44cm Redline Conquest Pro, that he raced last season. The Conquest Pro, a 2010 model, was bought used off a fellow junior teammate and worked well.
My original plan was to score a bigger 'cross frame and move everything over - since the Conquest Pro sports some nice SRAM Rival running gear. After checking his team deals, online offers, and local shop stock - wound up scoring a very nice deal on a new 2011 Redline Conquest from my pals who own Bicycles West, a chain of stores here in the Seattle area. Good folks, ring 'em if you're in the market for any bike goodies.
Ian's new ride for 'cross this year poses for photos. The fast growing 13 year old now riding a 52cm frame. Aluminum frame, carbon fork, decent components and wheelset.
Shimano 105 rear derailleur mounted to replaceable dropout.
FSA Vero crankset, a bit low spec with old school square tapered BB, but totally useable, plus correct 172.5 crank length. I might swap this out for a lighter, hollow axle crankset - maybe.
Kenda Small Block 8 tires - nice for dry courses. I dig 'em on my 29er.
Shimano Tiagra shifters. 9 speeds of Shimano smoothness.
The Conquest is one model below his previous Conquest Pro, so maybe a pound heavier. Still completely race ready and a nice bike, especially since it probably won't fit Ian next 'cross season. I'll put up his 44cm Conquest Pro up for sale soon, and that should cover the cost of the new 'cross bike - since we scored deals for both. Not bad, eh?
The new bike has been a 20+ mile road ride, some backyard barrier practice, and one official team 'cross practice/ride session. It works and fits Ian well. Only complaint is the taller gearing. I'll swap out the rear 25 cassette for a 28, or change the inner 36 tooth chainring for a 34. I'll also need to score some mud ready tires for the season. Otherwise, full steam ahead.
Race reports to follow...


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New Faces and Positions at SVOTS
This autumn, we will welcome new faces—and old faces in new positions—as we begin our Fall semester.
We greet our new employees:
- David Wagschal, an SVOTS alumnus ('02), joins us as an Instructor in Church History and Director of Admissions and Financial Aid.
- Fr. Benedict Churchill, another SVOTS alumnus ('10), will assume his duties as Associate Director of SVS Press.
- Gregory Hatrak, former Bookstore Manager at St. Tikhon's Seminary, comes on board as our new Bookstore Operations Manager.
- Matushka Thekla Hatfield, as a seasoned clergy wife, will coordinate our campus Wives' Group.
We also wish our current employees well in their new positions:
- Fr. Alexander Rentel, former Instructor in Liturgics and current chapel Ecclesiarch, has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Canon Law and the "John and Paraskeva Skvir Lecturer in Practical Theology," an Academic Chair founded by our beloved Trustee Emerita, Elsie Skvir Nierle.
- Dr. Peter Bouteneff, in addition to being Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at SVOTS, will take on the role of Director of Personal Formation for all M.Div. students.
- Dr. Kate Behr, Professor of English at Concordia College, will be an Adjunct Professor of Literature at SVOTS, as well as the "Our Community" section writer for our Web site and our institutional Facebook page writer.
- Fr. Steven J. Belonick will step down from his former position as Associate Dean for Student Affairs and, because of his long-time pastoral and parish experience, become our Campus Chaplain.
- Fr. David Meyzynski, former Dean of Students at St. Tikhon's Seminary, will act as Associate Dean for Student Affairs.
- Hdn. Philip Majkrzak, former Director of Music at St. Herman's Seminary, will conduct our liturgical services as Chapel Choir Director.
- George Kokonas, our steadfast Systems Support Specialist, has moved up as Director of IT.
- Deborah Belonick, in addition to her duties as Advancement Officer, will assume the position of Managing Editor and News and Events section writer for our Website.
View our faculty and staff directories for more information.


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Walt Disney Pictures is wasting no time on setting the stage for next month's John Carter adaptation to become the first in a new blockbuster series for the studio. The plan all along has been for the sci-fi flick to kick off a new trilogy - something which co-writer/director Andrew Stanton has previously made no secret of - and now progress on the next installment is already heating up.
Screen Rant's own Roth Cornet has learned that Stanton and his John Carter co-writer, Michael Chabon, have not only written outlines for the next two films in the series, but they've also actually begun penning a script for the sequel, tentatively known as John Carter: The Gods of Mars (the subtitle comes from Edgar Rice Burroughs' second Carter novel). But is Disney counting its chickens before they hatch?
According to a new report from Deadline, the answer to that question right now is decidedly "yes" - with the site's story on the subject bearing the disconcerting sub-headline that "['John Carter'] could be [the] biggest writeoff of all time." The 3D project's official budget is estimated to be around $250 million (with unofficial reports pegging it as even higher), but early word is that the Mouse House could be looking at a loss of well over $100 million on the film.
Those theoretical numbers are based on early box office tracking results for John Carter, which Deadline quotes an anonymous non-Disney studio executive as claiming that "women of all ages have flat out rejected" based on early surveys of the demographic. Kind of ironic then that the film's original title (John Carter of Mars) was shortened, under the logic that it would lend the movie more appeal to younger female moviegoers - without significantly weakening its appeal to men. But we digress.
Disney is already downplaying the idea that a John Carter sequel (much less a franchise) is merely a pipe dream, and early word of mouth from those who've seen the film is actually very positive (most comments state "The movie is a lot of fun"). Seeing how the company's marketing campaign for John Carter has only begun to really intensify over the past two weeks, awareness and interest in the movie should become all the more heightened from hereon out.
In other words: John Carter may not prove to be the box office disaster that some are anticipating - and on the off-chance that it actually turns out to be a surprise hit (good word-of-mouth would help), Disney wants to have the next installment already in motion. Still, best not hold your breath while waiting to find out whether or not this sequel is going to happen for certain.
John Carter arrives in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters around the U.S. on March 9th, 2012.
Source: Deadline


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Neurosurgery in Iraq
They say "blogging is difficult but its harldly brain surgery." But this one is. Dr. Haitham H. Shareef writes about all the latest developments in the field of neurology in Iraq. So if you are a brain surgeon looking for like-minded (no pun intended) people or desperate to know if you can get your suprasellar arachnoid cyst treated with endoscopy in Baghdad... this is the blog for you.
What I like about this blog is that it is so ordinary. It shows whatever happens to Iraq we will always bounce back.
So now we have brain surgery what next.. rocket science? oops lets not go there!


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Godmack, Staind headed to Beaumont's Ford Pavilion
The first big rock show of the outdoor season! The four-time Grammy nominated rock band GODSMACK and Multi-platinum rock band STAIND will be bringing their co-headline "THE MASS CHAOS TOUR" to Ford Pavilion with HALESTORM on Tuesday, April 24.
GODSMACK has sold over 18 million records in just over a decade, yet despite the decline of album sales in recent years, they have proven to be one of the highest-grossing artists in the United States. This will be the band's first live performance at Ford Park!
Band website: www.godsmack.com
STAIND has had five chart-topping singles and sold over 15 million records worldwide. The band last played Ford Park on a Tuesday night of a Holiday week in 2008, and they treated over 4,000 Southeast Texans to one amazing rock show!
Band website: www.staind.com
HALESTORM is well known for their near non-stop touring, often performing as many as 250 shows a year. The band played Ford Pavilion at Dog Jam 2009.
Band website: www.halestormrocks.com
The bands are giving fans the chance to design a tour poster for The Mass Chaos Tour via Creative Allies. The winning designer will receive $500 and a prize pack. For contest details and entry, go to http://bit.ly/xzpcAx
All seating is reserved. Ticket prices are $45.00* and $35.00*. Tickets will be on sale at 10 am this Saturday, January 28 at the Ford Park Box Office; all Ticketmaster outlets, including HEB on Dowlen Road, the Beaumont Civic Center and the Lake Charles Civic Center; ticketmaster.com and charge by phone at 800-745-3000.*
*Additional Fee's may apply. All dates, acts, and ticket prices subject to change without notice. No one act(s) is/are a condition of ticket sales.


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CFP: [Science] "Science & Technology, 1500-1800" (11/30/07; 03/14/08)
Call for Papers, Extended Deadline
"Science & Technology, 1500-1800"
March 14, 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Early Modern Center (EMC), in collaboration with the Transcriptions
Project, at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites paper
proposals for "Science & Technology, 1500-1800," an interdisciplinary
conference that will take place at UCSB on Friday, March 14, 2008. This
one-day conference will be a forum to explore the interrelated fields of
science and technology in the early modern period. We conceive of science
and technology as a broad range of social and cultural practices,
cultural and historical formations, and epistemological perspectives. How
and why were systems of knowledge created and proliferated? What
particular scientific developments participated in the exploration of the
body, the mind, time, and space? How were individuals, communities, and
nations impacted by new systems of knowledge, particular objects or
hardware, or advanced procedures to accomplish tasks?
The program will consist of nine panelists representing a variety of
disciplines, as well as keynote talks by the following invited speakers:
- Ann Jensen Adams (History of Art and Architecture, University of
California, Santa Barbara)
- Kevis Goodman (English, University of California, Berkeley)
- William R. Newman (History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana
We invite proposals from across the disciplines that use a variety of
thematic and methodological approaches. Papers ranging from specific case
studies to broad explorations within the fields of science and technology
are welcome. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to,
discussions of horticulture, botany, engineering, automata, stage
machinery, navigation, cartography, anatomy, medicine, alchemy, the
occult, taxonomy, archiving, printing, and information science. Since
both the Early Modern Center and the Transcriptions Project undertake
initiatives that bridge the study of digital media and the humanities, we
are also interested in proposals that apply the perspectives of new media
study to the cultural formations of the early modern period.
Abstracts (300 words or less) for 15-minute papers should be sent to
EMCConference_at_gmail.com by Friday, November 30, 2007. We hope to notify
participants by December 15, 2007.
Please visit our website at http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2007-
2008/Science&Technology1500-1800/ to learn more about the conference, the
Early Modern Center, and the Transcriptions Project at UCSB.
From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
more information at
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Jeremy Glaser: For Morningstar, I'm Jeremy Glaser. I'm here at the 2013 ETF Invest Conference with Heidi Richardson. She is a global investment strategist for BlackRock. We're going to look at some of the big trends in the market right now and what it means for investors.
Heidi, thanks so much for joining me.
Richardson: Thanks for having me.
Glaser: Let's start with the government shutdown. That's obviously top-of-mind at the moment. What impact do you think the shutdown is going to have on, particularly, the equity markets? Are we in store for some more volatility?
Richardson: Well, I think that looking at what's happening in U.S. Fed now with economic policy, whether it's the shutdown, whether it's looking at the debt ceiling that were coming up upon or whether it's a new Fed chairman, we're likely to have more volatility not only in the U.S. equity markets, but also in the fixed income market.
I think if we look at the shutdown, it depends how long we're shutdown. The contribution to economic growth that will detract from is unlikely to be too much if this is a short-term shutdown, but I think it's just more the longer it goes, the more volatility that we're likely to see in the system.
Glaser: How about the debt ceiling, though? Is that a bigger worry for you?
Richardson: The debt ceiling absolutely is a bigger worry. If we think about the debt ceiling, it could go now to the 11th hour in terms of coming to some resolution on the debt ceiling and continuing to raise the limits on that. The worrisome thing is if we potentially defaulted on our debt, which I think is highly unlikely, but if we default on the debt, then it's going to be much more of an issue on global financial markets, not just the U.S. market.
Glaser: Is there anything investors can do in terms of preparing for a potential debt-ceiling problem, or is it just kind of risk that will be difficult to diversify away?
Richardson: I would say if you had money that you were thinking about putting in the market over the next couple of weeks, you might want to wait until Oct. 17 in terms of waiting for that to happen. If for some reason, we did actually breach the debt ceiling and we defaulted, we could have a potential downgrade on U.S. Treasuries and our debt. We could see a run in gold because it would be the one flight to safety that we would be able to see in the marketplace.
Glaser: Another policy uncertainty from Washington has been from the Federal Reserve. People are broadly expecting a taper in the September meeting. It didn't happen. When do you think the taper is going to come, and is it a really important event that people should really be watching out for?
Richardson: I think a couple of things. I'll step back first with looking at the tapering because I think a lot of people don't understand what tapering is, and they confuse it with rising interest rates in terms of the Fed deliberately raising interest rates. If we think about the tapering aspect of itself, what the Fed's being doing over the last couple of years is a quantitative easing.
We saw Quantitative Easing 1, Quantitative Easing 2, Quantitative Easing 3, which some refer to as Quantitative Easing Infinity, and if we look at that quantitative easing, it's repurchasing of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities of $85 billion a month from the Fed. If they taper that what they're saying is they're not going to do $85 billion, but they're going to reduce that. So maybe it's $70 billion, maybe it's $75 billion, maybe it's something different than that, but they're going to reduce it. And the reason why they reduce it is because they believe that the U.S. economy is improving; improving from an economic growth standpoint, improving from the job standpoint more importantly.
So if we look at the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate is improving and not improving artificially because people are falling off and the participation rate is lower, but really truly structurally improving and jobs are being created. That's the first thing. If they do taper, it's actually because of good news.
The second thing is, they'll taper for a while, they'll continue to reduce the purchasing, and then eventually they'll stop the quantitative easing. That's the second thing that will happen. By the time they raise interest rates it's a couple of years out. And so, I think that sometimes we confused tapering with raising interest rates and thinking of this easy money drying up and liquidity drying up in some of these markets. But they're very, very separate and distinct situations.
Glaser: But in the discussion of the taper, we did see some pretty big moves in the Treasury market. Is that just kind of a bit of a dress rehearsal for what we can expect when it really happens?
Richardson: Well, it's interesting when we saw those big moves because they weren't based truly on fundamentals. Not only did we see large swings of over 100 basis points or 1% in the Treasury markets, but we saw massive swings in high-yield market. We saw massive swings in the muni market and the mortgage market. We saw what happened with mortgage rates. So, I think that it wasn't based on fundamentals in terms of some of the shifts, but I think it was just market reaction on the Fed's comments, whether they were hawkish or dovish.
I think you will see more volatility more importantly than it being a dress rehearsal; sure, we'll some changes when it does happen, when we start to taper. But I don't think you'll see as wide a swing as what we saw in this first one.
Glaser: Where do you expect Treasuries to be then, say, over the next 12 months?
Richardson: Well, I'd say that we're forecasting 10-year Treasuries to be somewhere between 2.50%-2.75% for the end of the year, and then on an upward slope, potentially finishing 2014 at maybe 3.25% or 3.50%.
Glaser: One of the other victims of the taper talk were emerging markets, which got hit pretty hard with the threat of this easy money being at least not taken away, but tapered in some way. Do you think that emerging markets are a good investment right now? Has that underperformance created some opportunities there?
Richardson: When we take a look at emerging markets, particularly emerging-markets equities, when we look at the high-quality nature of some of these individual countries--and we look at their current account surpluses that we're running; we're looking at the foreign exchange reserves that they had; there is good corporate policy; there is good corporate governance--I think that the opportunities set for emerging markets over the next three to five years, particularly in the equity side, would be one of our favorite overweights right now.
There will likely be more volatility over the next few months with this talk of tapering, but we've already started to see flows coming back into emerging markets. When we look at the broad-based index, the valuations in terms of price/earnings we're trading at a five-year discount to the developed economies, so I think people were starting to look at and question whether this has bottomed because we know that fundamentally, a lot of these countries are still very, very sound.
As we look at that, in the last 30 days we've seen a lot of flows go back into not only the emerging markets, but some of the developed non-U.S. markets, as well.
Glaser: Shifting gears a little bit into fixed income. Obviously finding income in this environment is not an easy task. Was there anything that looks like it could provide some of that right now? Where are the fixed-income market do you think folks should be looking?
Richardson: I'd say in the fixed-income market, we've been advocating to our clients to reduce duration all year because of the interest-rate sensitivity to that. I would say that if you are still long on the curve particularly in the Treasuries, shorten that up as much as you can, and think about having a credit rotation. So, if you were fully in interest-rate-sensitive areas of the marketplace, think about going into more credit-sensitive areas of the marketplace.
One of our favorite spots in terms of the credit is looking at the single B issuance, so essentially the lowest rung of the investment-grade credit. I think there is some opportunity set with the high-yield marketplace, as well. I think if there were some more dislocation, and we saw a widening of spreads, it could be an entry point for looking at the high-yield marketplace. And then there are some areas of floating rate, as well, so you can try to help hedge against any of the potential rising interest rates.
Glaser: Some investors have been using dividend-paying stocks to supplement their income with rates so low. Have valuations become too stretched in order for that to be a viable strategy right now?
Richardson: I think, it depends on the sector. If we look at utilities in the U.S. as an example, I think utilities have become stretched. If we look at utilities historically, they traded at a discount to the broad market, and now they are trading at a premium. They are very expensive because of the flight to the dividend-paying stocks, the flight to quality, and the defensive nature of the market earlier in the year. I think that if we look at that, we'd rather have exposure to energy, there is a good dividend component to energy, but more of a cyclical trade as we move forward.
Outside of the U.S. though, I think the dividend story still has room to go. If we look at the valuations of some of the dividend payers outside of the U.S., they are looking very, very attractive, and the yields in some cases in some of these countries in the developed economies, in particular, are more than double what's being offered with the S&P 500.
Glaser: Heidi, we really appreciate you taking the time today.
Richardson: My pleasure. Thanks so much for having me.
Glaser: For Morningstar, I'm Jeremy Glaser.


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Jose Mourinho lauds Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho believes that his former charge Raphael Varane is the best young defender in the world.
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Mourinho was in charge of Real Madrid when they landed Varane from French side Lens in 2011, beating Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United to his signature.
Mourinho used Varane from the moment the Frenchman arrived in the Spanish capital and the Blues boss feels that the 20-year-old is the best young defender in world football.
"I think he is the best young central defender in the world. Already I think he's the best," he told Yahoo.
"A young player must be somebody who plays in the World Cup for the first time.
"These are players like Hazard, Neymar and Rafa Varane. Maybe I forget some others."
Some reports have claimed Mourinho could be preparing a summer bid for Varane, but Chelsea do already have St Etienne defensive starlet Kurt Zouma arriving in the summer having struck a deal for him in January.


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AVAILABLE TODAY: Releases from METZ / King Tuff / Total Control
METZ's debut album, aptly titled METZ is out today on CD and on the fidelity-maximizing vinyl LP format. The CD and LP are also available to be bundled with one of two new METZ t-shirts. Pick up your copy of METZ.
Watch the brand new video for "Wet Blanket" from METZ, which premiered on Spin.com today:
For a limited time only, we're also streaming the Full Album Stream for METZ over on our SoundCloud channel.
The Canadian noise maestros will also be playing the Sub Pop Showcase at 2012's CMJ. For more information, click this word.
October 9th also brings us two new seven-inch singles from King Tuff and Total Control.
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Marina Abramovic: "The Artist Is Present" on HBO
TV tends to ignore the stuff of museums. Static paintings and sculpture don't always perform so well on a medium that requires action to get going.
But HBO has found a way, shifting the focus to performance art airing the documentary "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" the evening of July 2.
Abramovic is a star in the visual arts world and presented a piece with the same title at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. The doc follows the making of the work.
Don't expect a journalistic take on Abramovic. As New York Times critic A.O. Scott puts it, the film is "more celebratory than analytical, a kind of slick, extended promotional video for its subject."
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Dream Interpreting: The Emotions in Your Dreams
If you're interested in recording your dreams in a dream diary — or in interpreting your dreams — some emotion you've experienced is probably the driving force. Every time you express or deny an intense emotion, you can be sure there is fodder for a powerful dream. Though dreams heavy with emotion can be disturbing, they provide guidance about what's going on in your subconscious. Some topics of emotional dreams are:
- Psychological processing: You root out fears, pain, vulnerabilities, blind spots, and subconscious blockages so you can become conscious of what holds you back, clear it, and be courageous and free. You may dream about fears of being powerless, in pain, unworthy, unsuccessful, out of control, overwhelmed, victimized, rejected, changed, or of dying or facing the void.
- Taboos: You explore forbidden territory, inhibitions, and suppressed desires, often about sex, crime, or antisocial behavior, as a way to free self-expression. For example, a sensible accountant by day may dream of wild sexual trysts by night. You might find yourself acting out secret vengeance thoughts about an unappreciative boss or relative.
- Relationship dynamics: You receive insights about how you relate to others and how you give and receive so you can improve your ability to love. This includes learning to balance your internal yin and yang energy. You might dream you are a helpless passenger in a car driven by another, aggressive person, or that you took your obnoxious neighbor a cake instead of reporting him to the police.
- Past life memory: You travel in time to revisit memories of other lives, or to clear blocked energy where emotion is stuck. You re-experience, in a dream, a previous death, trauma, remorse, deep grief, terror, or a situation where you had too much ego.
- Precognitive warnings: You receive forewarning of sudden change or upheaval: A loved one is about to die, you are soon to lose your job or partner, or the world is about to experience a shocking event like Pearl Harbor or September 11. Or, you are shown an omen to watch for that is a clue to success in a new endeavor.
- Out of body travel: You collapse time and space and visit a distant sick friend you're worried about, have a visitation from a dead relative with a message for you, or travel with a friend who's actually in India.
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Date: 6/8/2009 8:47 pm EDT
First I want to say that I just love my floor! I installed it myself in November 08 and have had so many comments about it~ Even the people who installed our new carpet that butts up to it were impressed.
But-I do not like the grout color! I used what was available in the store(I didnt want to mess with special ordering) , which was antique white, and it gets so dirty and shows everything. We have 3 kids, a dog and two cats so it sees plenty of traffic and I cant get the grout clean in some places. I would love to re-grout it with a darker color. Is this possible to do and if so, would I have to dig all of the old grout out or just down far enough to fill it in so it covers?
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Date: 6/9/2009 1:28 pm EDT
I have kids and pets also so I understand! The flexible urethane grout will bond to itself so you dont have to remove all the grout,just low enough that the new grout will cover.It's eaiser to go from light to dark so you should be fine. Just try an area to get a feel for how much you need to remove.Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes!
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This summer's performances by the Bolshoi Ballet mark the 50th year of the Moscow-based company performing at Covent Garden under the banner of Victor and Lilian Hochhauser.
Described by tour promoter Lilian Hochhauser as 'the cultural face of Russia', the Bolshoi is recognized as one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. Even Lady Gaga is apparently a fan. Recent controversies seem to have done nothing to blunt the company's brilliance on stage.
The company was founded in 1776, originally established by Prince Pyotr Urusov as a dance school for Moscow orphans. English theatrical entrepreneur (and former acrobat) Michael Maddox played a key role in helping the company to develop and within a couple of decades a the Bolshoi consisted of 50 dancers.
In 1812 the original premises were destroyed by fire and so in 1825 the Company moved to the newly-built Petrovsky theatre, which soon became known as 'the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow'. 'Bolshoi' is Russian for 'big', still true today of a company that comprises over 200 dancers). By the early years of the 20th century, the Bolshoi was developing its own identity, helped by the appointment of Alexander Gorsky, Marius Petipa's former assistant who staged and revised such works as Don Quixote, Coppélia, La Bayadère and Swan Lake.
The start of the Soviet era saw Moscow become the capital of the newly-formed Soviet Union and politicians increase their involvement in artistic decision-making. Works from this era such as The Red Poppy often feature revolutionary themes.
The first London performances by the company took place in 1956, when they danced Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House. The Hochhausers promoted the tour in 1963 that included performances of Swan Lake, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet and The Little Hump-Backed Horse. They have organized all of the Bolshoi's trips to the UK since, with the company's London initial early 1960s performances being a decade in the making. 'The day of [Stalin's] death we started working with the Russians,' Lilian recently told the Telegraph, 'That meant we just missed meeting Prokofiev because he died the same day.'
As the Soviet Union began to open up, and under the directorship of Yuri Grigorovich, the company cemented its international reputation with a string of tours and grand productions including Spartacus and Ivan the Terrible. This period saw opportunities for a new generation of stars too, as dancers such as Ekaterina Maximova were able to perform on the world stage for the first time.
Over the years the Bolshoi has developed a historical rivalry with St Petersburg's Mariinsky. Both companies have developed different performing styles; the Mariinsky's refined classicism against the Bolshoi's emotion-filled spectacle. The company has a reputation for reviving classics, commissioning new works (Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon became the first Englishman to create a work for the company when he created Misericors in 2007) and developing new talent (Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova being just one example).
This 50th anniversary visit by the Bolshoi promises to be a treat for ballet fans, a reflection of a company that is - as the Russians say - Bolshoi nazvaniyem, bolshoi svoistvom' ('big by name, and big by nature').
Have you seen the Bolshoi perform? What makes the company's style so unique?
The Bolshoi Ballet perform Swan Lake, La Bayadère , The Sleeping Beauty, Jewels and The Flames of Paris between 29 July and 17 August. Tickets are still available for some productions but there are no day tickets for Bolshoi performances.


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Frank Tucker's Flamed Flyer
The itch for building a classic pickup is a feeling lots of gearheads experience as time goes by. Some scratch that itch early in life; some hold off until they just can't ignore it any longer. In Frank Tucker's case, it took a fair amount of time to start scratchin' and near 10 years to finally satisfy that itch. Frank's satisfaction came in the form of this way-cool '52 Chevy three-window pickup.
Back when Frank finally decided that it was time to quit thinkin' about an ol' truck and to start lookin' he eventually ran across a less-than-pristine, but pretty darn nice West Texas workhorse. The Chevy turned out to be a good solid foundation for a slow but steady rodstoration. The task was a bit slow cuz Frank had always had his hands full keeping his clientele at Industrial Crankshaft Repair happy and steady with the help of both friends (Craig 'n' Shorty Clark and Ken Stek) and the hot rod craftsmen (at Stek Lo Hot Rods, Wadell's Auto Body, and Indian Summer Upholstery) when duty called at the machine shop.
The pickup's stock frame was modified with the installation of a Mustang II-style IFS crossmember and components up front, a custom trans crossmember, and a freshened-up set of rear leaf springs mounting an 8-inch Ford rearend (via a pair of 2-inch lowering blocks). Power for Frank's flyer is supplied by a stout LS1 Vette motor backed by a 4L60E electronic overdrive transmission.
The pickup's updated chassis then became the fresh foundation for its newly restored/repaired sheetmetal. The cab and bed assemblies were massaged back into pristine shape as well as slightly modified with details like a shaved and filled hood, shaved door handles, relocated fuel filler, and a neat rolled rear pan. With the Chevy's cab and bed freshly repaired and prepped, Frank chose an eye-opening shade of DuPont Tangier Orange. Once the folks at Wadell's Auto Body had finished applying the glass-smooth orange urethane, Frank then decided to add a helping of purple flames as well as some tasteful pinstriping applied by Monte Smith of Performance Plus.
With the chassis and body complete, the icing on the cake ended up being the pickup's comfy cabin. A pair of late-model bucket seats and custom door panels were upholstered in a combination of vinyl and tweed, a billet instrument cluster filled with a full complement of VDO gauges were installed in the dash, and a Vintage Air combination heat and A/C unit was mounted under/behind the dash. Added to those upgrades were a high-quality sound system and a later-model GM column topped by a good-lookin' Lecarra steering wheel.
It seems to us that Frank has done a great job of scratchin' that classic truck itch. His pickup is one great-looking ride that was surely worth the time and effort it has taken to turn it from just an ol' truck into an awesome hot rod hauler.
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Frame: modified stock
Rearend / Ratio: 8-inch Ford / 3.25:1
Rear suspension: leaf, 2-inch lowering blocks
Rear brakes: drum
Front suspension: Mustang II IFS
Front brakes: disc
Steering box: Mustang rack-and-pinion
Front wheels: Foose billet / Wheel Vintiques Smoothies
Rear wheels: Foose billet / Wheel Vintiques Smoothies
Front tires: Hankook
Rear tires: Hankook
Gas tank: Tanks Inc.
Engine: 346ci LS1
Heads: stock
Valve covers: Corvette
Manifold / Induction: GM / EFI
Ignition: GM electronic
Headers: Hooker, Super Comp
Exhaust / Mufflers: 21/2-inch aluminized / Flo-Pro
Transmission: 4L60E
Shifter: GM
Style: pickup
Modifications: shaved, molded, V-butted windshield, rolled pan
Fenders front / rear: stock / stock
Hood: stock, filled
Grille: stock
Bodywork and paint by: Wadell's Body Shop, Oskaloosa, Iowa
Paint type / Color: DuPont / Tangier Orange, Chrome Illusion Purple
Headlights / Taillights: stock / LED
Bumpers: stock / rolled pan
Dashboard: modified stock
Gauges: VDO
Air conditioning: Vintage Air
Stereo: Kenwood / Alpine
Steering wheel: Lecarra
Steering column: GM
Seats: buckets
Upholstery by: Indian Summer Upholstery, Oskaloosa, Iowa
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