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Doctors may order liver function tests as a way to check a person's liver for injury, infection, or disease. They're a type of blood test, and they're usually (but not always) done as a group. You may hear your doctor refer to these tests by their medical name, hepatic function panel or liver profile.
If your liver isn't working properly, it can affect your overall health. That's because the liver plays lots of different roles the body, such as storing fuel from food, making proteins the body needs, and helping to remove toxins.
Your doctor may send you for liver function tests if you have signs of liver disease — including jaundice (yellowish skin or eyes), dark urine, nausea, vomiting, or abdominal (belly) pain or swelling.
Your doctor may order liver function tests to help diagnose a viral infection involving the liver (like mono or hepatitis, for example) or to look for possible effects of cancer or other diseases on the liver. Doctors also use liver function tests to monitor people who are taking medicines that might cause liver-related side effects.
Several different tests are in the liver function panel. Your doctor may order one, a couple, or all of these tests. The good news is you should only need to get blood taken once. The lab uses the same blood sample to run all the tests.
The different tests that make up a liver function test are:
Although liver function tests can be done without any special preparation, the results are more accurate when a person has been fasting. So your doctor may ask you not to eat or drink for 8 to 12 hours before having your blood taken.
Tell your doctor about any medications (including over-the-counter medicines or herbal supplements) you're taking because certain drugs might alter the test results.
It can help to wear a T-shirt or other short-sleeved top on the day of the test to make things faster and easier for the technician who will be drawing the blood.
A health professional will usually draw the blood from a vein in your arm — most often on the inside of the elbow, but sometimes on the back of the hand. The technician cleans the skin surface with antiseptic and ties an elastic band (tourniquet) around the upper arm so the veins swell with blood and are easy to see.
Next, it's time for the needle. It should feel like a quick pinprick. Occasionally, it can be hard to find a vein so a nurse, doctor, or technician may need to try more than once. That's not the norm, though — most people's veins are easy to find.
It's best to try to relax and stay still during the procedure since tensing muscles can make it harder and more painful to draw blood. And if you don't want to watch the needle being inserted or see the blood collecting, you don't have to. Look the other way and maybe relax by focusing on saying the alphabet backwards, doing some breathing exercises, thinking of a place that makes you happy, or listening to your favorite music.
The technician will draw the blood so it collects in a vial or syringe. Collecting blood will only take a few minutes. Once the technician has enough blood, he or she removes the needle and covers the area with cotton or a bandage to stop the bleeding. After the test, you may notice some bruising — that's normal and it should go away in a few days.
Don't be afraid to ask the technician if you have any questions about the blood draw.
A blood test is a safe procedure and there are no real risks. Some people may feel faint or lightheaded during a blood test. And, while nobody really loves needles, a few teens have a strong fear of them. If that's you, talk to your doctor since there are ways to make the procedure easier for you.
The blood sample will be processed by a machine. It usually only takes a few hours or a day or so for your doctor to get the results. If the results seem to point to a possible liver problem, your doctor may want to do other tests to find out what the cause is and how to treat it.
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Jet correspondent Simeon Booker tells of his front-line reporting on the war for Civil Rights
Simeon Booker is a lucky man. He has lived to enjoy the spoils of victory.
On the sandy shores of the Chesapeake at Cove Point in southern Calvert County, the 94-year-old has enjoyed 30 years of the best the Bay has to offer. He has basked in water just outside his cottage windows, miles of beach walking, fishing, the solace of nature, the company of neighbors and friends … even the luxury of a new septic system supported in part by the Bay Restoration Fund.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the rewards Booker gained from America's mid-20th century struggle to win for African Americans the civil rights guaranteed by our Constitution. On the Bay he lives in comfort and satisfaction, and in Washington he gained renown, respect and the recognition of diplomats and presidents.
In the tranquility of retirement, Booker has recollected the struggle as he saw it and waged it over the half-century he reported for Jet magazine, the pocket-sized bible of the movement.
"If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen. And if it did happen, Jet would tell you the truth about it." That, Booker writes, was the standing of his magazine, and its sister publication Ebony, across black America.
Much of the truth we read in Shocking the Conscience, Booker's just-published account of front-line witness, was bloody and brutal. Written with his wife of 40 years, Carol McCabe Booker, the 334-page book is published by the University of Mississippi Press.
Mississippi is where Booker's story begins, and where, he thanks god, he will never have to go again. He survived. Many who lived or traveled there did not.
Two years into his career at Jet, Booker made his first trip to Mississippi. In April of 1955, the Baltimore-born son of generations of Negro leaders was following his dream. After college and a few years working for regional black papers he'd gone to Harvard as a mid-career Neiman Fellow, the second black to win that "life-changing" honor. Next came two years as The Washington Post's first black reporter. The segregation of the city and newsroom stifled him. At Jet he would soar.
Civil Rights was the story of the era, and Booker made it his beat.
"Nothing in either my upbringing or training prepared me for what I encountered." With those words, Booker opens his up-close and personal story of the many-fronted war for civil rights.
If you, like me, think you know anything about how today's measure of racial equality was achieved, you'll stand corrected as you read this book. You had to be there, as the white press wasn't until many years into the struggle. Or you had to read Jet.
Booker's narrative is as vivid with hair-on-end fear and danger at every turn as the best novels of social change. The stakes in this war fought on our own land were as high as in any struggle for justice and independence — and the dangers as real.
"When I started," Booker told me as we spoke in the comfort of his living room, "blacks did not have anything. It was like slavery had just ended. Didn't have voting rights."
Voting rights is the battleground where Shocking the Conscience begins. Booker and photographer David Jackson take you on their first harrowing journey. They travel by night, trying to "blend in" with a Bible always visible in their beat-up rental car.
Energized by the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court desegregation decision won by Baltimorean Thurgood Marshall a year earlier, the black town of Mound Bayou was holding a massive rally for voting rights. The gathering of 13,000 Negros energized by defiant speakers set off an explosive counter-reaction.
By Chapter 3, the killing begins. The first to fall is the Rev. George Washington Lee, "a prominent Civil Rights leader on the Klan's death list" and speaker at the rally. The newspaper headline reproduced in Booker's books reports "preacher's mouth shot off."
Next come the kidnapping, torture and lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Summering with family in Mound Bayou, the stuttering teen is believed to have whistled at a white woman. After his body is finally recovered from a river, his mother defies the establishment and opens the coffin at his funeral in Chicago so the world can "see what I saw."
Trials without justice follow as the war widens. As front-line witness, Booker chronicles the Battle of Little Rock, where state public schools shut down after nine black teens integrate Central High … the Freedom Rides to integrate interstate commerce, with bloody bus station beatings and burnings … the voting rights "freedom drive" in Alabama, bloody even after the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 … You see the battles and meet the legendary soldiers and generals, names you know, like Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr., and names you wish you'd known.
In all these battles, the federal government is pitted, more or less reluctantly, against recalcitrant southern states defying the law of the land. When Booker moves to Washington, D.C., as Washington bureau chief for Jet, the narrative broadens to encompass national policy and personae. Booker introduces us to Eisenhower, Nixon, the Kennedy brothers, Lyndon Johnson and, always lurking behind the scenes, the hostile head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.
Death remains a constant stalker in Booker's story, claiming, among others, Evers, King and the Kennedy brothers.
But each loss is countered by accumulating victories, in every sphere of society up to the presidency. Among the victories is Booker's achievement of that sweet piece of the American dream, retirement on the shores of the Chesapeake.


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Undergraduate Catalog
2014 – 2015
Office of Admissions
Emil H. Messikomer Hall
100 W. Rosedale Avenue
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-3411
Fax: 610-436-2907
Revised September 2014
309A Anderson Hall
Orhan Kara, Chairperson
PROFESSORS: Andrews, Benzing, Kara
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: Condliffe, Doorn, Li, Tolin, Zhu
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: Abdesaken, Dunleavy, Isgin, Malcolm, Marcinak, Miller, Saboe, Schini, Ulupinar, Zheng
The primary objective of the Department of Economics and Finance is to provide a learning experience that will permit each student to achieve maximum intellectual development in his or her chosen area of study and to prepare for a satisfying career in that field.
Two degree programs are offered:
All freshmen and those transfer students who have not completed the required courses will be admitted to the pre-business program.
120 semester hours
A minimum of 30 credits in business courses must be completed at West Chester University, with a minimum of 15 credits in 300–400 level ECO courses.
120 semester hours
A minimum of 30 credits in business courses must be completed at West Chester University, with a minimum of 15 credits in 300–400 level ACC or FIN courses.
To apply for their business major, students must (1) complete ACC 201; ECO 111, 112, and 251; and MGT 200 with a C or better in each course; (2) pass and complete both MAT 107* and MAT 108† with a C or better required in at least one of them. If a student is placed directly into MAT 108 and receives a C or higher or has completed MAT 161 or MAT 162 with a C or better, then the student does not have to take MAT 107 (replaced as a free elective); (3) have a minimum overall GPA of 2.50; (4) pass an Excel basic skills exam with an 88% or better; and (5) have at least 45 credit hours. These requirements must be met to be eligible to register for 300 and 400 level business courses. The same rules apply to all transfer students – both internal (those from within the University) and external (those from a non-WCU institution).
To be admitted into the minor in economics, students must have an overall GPA of 2.5 and have completed the following classes with a C or better: MAT 105 or 107 or 110, and ECO 111, 112, and 251. Once admitted to the minor, students must maintain an overall GPA of 2.5 to continue in the minor.
To be admitted into the minor in finance, students must have an overall GPA of 2.5 and have completed the following classes with a C or better: MAT 105 or 107 or 110, and ECO 111, 112, and 251. Once admitted to the minor, students must maintain an overall GPA of 2.5 to continue in the minor.
Course requirements are ACC 201**, MAT 108, and FIN 325**, 326**, 344**, and 372**. Only business majors and students who have been accepted into the minor may register for 300-level finance classes.
*Course substitutions for MAT 107 are MAT 105 or MAT 110.
† Course substitutions for MAT 108 are MAT 161 or MAT 162.
**A minimum grade of C must be attained in these courses. Students must maintain a 2.50 overall GPA and pass an Excel proficiency exam to register for 300- or 400-level business courses and to graduate.
111 Principles of Economics I (Macro) (3) National income and its measurement. The determination of price levels, output, and employment. Money and credit, expenditures, and economic stability. Government fiscal and monetary policy. PREREQ: Working knowledge of high school mathematics is required.
112 Principles of Economics II (Micro) (3) Principles underlying use and allocation of scarce productive resources. Consumption and production activities. Value, price, and income distribution. Considerations of economic efficiency and welfare. PREREQ: Working knowledge of high school mathematics.
200 Personal Economics and Financial Planning (3) Students will acquire an understanding of the nature and scope of the economy and how it affects one's life plans and goals. Topics covered include supply and demand, financial planning, personal taxes, retirement planning, investing in stocks and bonds, portfolio management, the time value of money, managing credit cards and debt, and insurance planning.
250 International Special Topics in Economics (3) Different international special topics.
This course may be taken again for credit.
251 Quantitative Business Analysis I (3) Teaches students to analyze data and solve problems using descriptive statistics and probability theory. Covers discrete and continuous probability distributions, and sampling distributions. Stresses practical business applications of statistical theory as well as how to obtain and interpret descriptive statistics using Excel. Use of a spreadsheet program (such as Excel) necessary to manipulate data and formulas. PREREQ: ECO 111 or 112; MAT 105 or 107 or 108 or 110 or 161.
252 Quantitative Business Analysis II (3) Teaches students how to develop testable hypotheses and use them to analyze data and answer questions. Covers confidence intervals, analysis of variance, simple regression, multiple regression, and correlation. Stresses practical business variance using Excel and another statistical package and interpret the results. Use of a spreadsheet program (such as Excel) necessary to manipulate data and formulas. PREREQ: ECO 111, 112; ECO 251 or MAT 121; MAT 105 or 107 or 108 or 110.
334 Labor Economics (3) Application of economic theory to the operation of labor markets and the collective bargaining process. Consideration is given to the development of the labor movement and public policy toward labor and employment. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
335 Money and Banking (3) A survey of money, credit, and prices, emphasizing their effects on economic stability. The Federal Reserve System and its effect on credit control. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
336 Regulation of Competition (3) Background and development of public policies that directly modify the free enterprise economy of the United States. Evaluation of policies that change the nature and extent of competition. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
337 Economic Growth and Development (3) A survey and critical evaluation of alternative theories of capitalist economic development. Analysis and comparison of alternative public policies applicable to underdeveloped countries and regions. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
338 International Economics (3) A descriptive, analytical examination of international trade, finance, and other economic relationships. The effects of public policies on these relationships. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112..
340 Intermediate Microeconomics (3) A continuation and extension of the price-system analysis in ECO 112. Emphasis on the need for efficiency in the economy's use of scarce productive resources. PREREQ: ECO 111, 112, and 252; ECO 251 or MAT 121; MAT 108 or 161.
341 Public Finance (3) Government's influence on stability of national income. Nature of taxes and expenditures at the various levels of government and their effect on the allocation of resources and the distribution of income. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
342 Economics of the Law (3) Applies economic reasoning to the analysis of legal rules, examining both efficiency and distributional consequences. Examines the incentive effects created by property law, tort law, contract law and criminal law, along with their institutional frameworks. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
345 History of Economic Thought (3) Origins of economic thought and comparison of the major schools of economic doctrine. Current economic and socio-political factors. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
346 Game Theory (3) This course introduces students to strategic decision making. It considers simultaneous and sequential interactions, repeated interactions among the same players, and interactions where information is incomplete or asymmetric. It provides an applied overview of game theoretical concepts and emphasizes their use in real-world situations. The course also introduces students to the field of behavioral game theory, which integrates insights from psychology into standard economic theory. PREREQ: ECO 111, 112, and 252; ECO 251 or MAT 121; MAT 108 or 161; and a minimum 2.50 cumulative average.
348 Intermediate Macroeconomics (3) Introduction to the theory of income, employment, and growth. Provides the analytic tools necessary for dealing with aggregate economic problems. PREREQ: ECO 111, 112, and 252; ECO 251 or MAT 121; MAT 108 or 161.
350 Urban Economics (3) Economic aspects of such urban problems as poverty, housing, taxation, income distribution, and discrimination. Analysis of economic aspects of various proposed remedies, including urban renewal, family allowances, cooperatives, and others. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112. Writing emphasis course.
370 Economics of Health Care (3) This course will apply the tools of economic analysis to the various components of the health care system. Relying on microeconomics principles, students will study the behavior of participants (consumers, providers, insurers) in the health-care industry. Key policy issues that surround the provision of health care will be discussed. To be successful in this course, students must be able to manipulate data and formulas using a spreadsheet package such as Excel. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112; minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA.
385 Environmental and Resource Economics (3) The role of the environment in an economic system. Topics include energy economics, the economics of renewable and nonrenewable resources, and the economics of pollution. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112.
400 Research Methods for Business and Economics (3) Provides the skills and tools required in business and economic research. Covers hypothesis development, data collection, multivariate analysis, and regression. Senior economics majors only. PREREQ: ECO 340 and 348.
401 Introduction to Econometrics (3) Statistical and mathematical techniques applied to economic situations. Use of empirical data in economic analysis. PREREQ: ECO 111, 112, and 252; MAT 108.
409 Senior Seminar (3) Students are expected to prepare a research paper that describes and analyzes a current topic in economics. PREREQ: Senior standing, ECO 252, 340, and 348.
411-412 Internship (3 or 6) The internship is open to majors in economics only. It is intended to enhance the student's educational experience by providing substantive, professional work experience. PREREQ: Permission of department chairperson.
This course may be taken again for credit.
414 Special Topics in Economics (3) Provides in-depth coverage of a major current topic in economics, from current monetary policy to economic issues in China. PREREQ: ECO 111 and 112; minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA.
325 Corporate Finance (3) Fundamental financial management course introduces students to essential financial concepts, including the analysis of financial statements, time value of money, stock and bond valuation, risk and return, capital budgeting, and cost of capital. PREREQ: ACC 201; ECO 111 and 112; ECO 251 or MAT 121; MAT 108 or 161.
326 Intermediate Financial Management (3) Emphasizes the theoretical understanding and practical application of concepts introduced in FIN 325. Students perform a financial analysis of one or more companies including current trends in the economy and industry, as well as ratio, DuPont, and operating capital analyses. Use of spreadsheet analysis to value stocks and bonds; determine the cost of capital, NPV, and IRR; and calculate beta. PREREQ: FIN 325; MAT 108 or 161.
330 Principles of Insurance (3) Designed to give students a sound foundation for personal risk management along with a basic understanding of the insurance industry. Covers insurance pricing, industry regulation, risk management, and contract law; homeowner's, personal auto, life, and health insurance; and retirement products. A paper is required. PREREQ: FIN 325.
332 Real Estate Finance (3) Covers different types of real estate, forms of ownership, real property rights, and land use policies; how to perform a feasibility analysis and value real estate using the income capitalization, sales comparison, and cost approaches; various types of residential mortgages; and how to finance a commercial property purchase. How to lease, buy, sell, and mortgage a property, analyze the market, examine risk factors, and determine the best financing technique. PREREQ: FIN 325.
337 Financial Markets and Institutions (3) Covers a variety of domestic and international financial markets and institutions, including the mutual fund industry, banking institutions, insurance companies, savings institutions, credit unions, and pension funds, as well as their regulation, operation, and management. Reviews macroeconomic principles and money and banking theory. Written and oral presentation of a financial institution required. PREREQ: FIN 325.
344 Investments (3) Problems and procedures of investment management; types of investment risks-security analysis; investment problems of the individual and as well as the corporation. PREREQ: FIN 325; minimum 2.50 GPA; majors only.
350 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (3) Emphasizes portfolio construction and importance of diversity and asset allocation rather than security selection. How to set portfolio objectives, develop investment policy, construct a portfolio, and manage it. Importance of using options and futures, periodic review and portfolio revision, benchmarking, and duration analysis. Interview a client, develop an investment portfolio based on needs assessment, and present the results. PREREQ: FIN 344.
351 The Market for Corporate Control (3) The question of who controls an economy's assets is essential to understanding the success of the economy. The aim of this course is to thoroughly examine the market for corporate control, which includes mergers, acquisitions, LBOs, proxy fights, reorganizations, and antitakeover protections. This course will cover the history of M&A markets, review corporate governance practices, and investigate the current theories and empirical evidence on buyouts and acquisitions. The course includes a rigorous treatment of deal valuation and financial modeling. Throughout the course, case studies provide students with access to key concepts and an interactive experience. PREREQ: FIN 326 with a grade of C or better.
360 Financial Analysis Using Excel (3) Teaches students how to use Excel spreadsheets to structure, analyze, and solve financial problems. Students will use Excel to develop financial forecasts, perform break-even and sensitivity analysis, and make capital budgeting decisions. PREREQ: FIN 325 with a grade of C or better.
372 International Finance (3) Introduces global financial markets and financial risk management. Covers foreign exchange markets, money markets, bond markets, and equity markets, of which each market is developed to consider the needs of a multinational corporation, thus providing a meaningful integration of international markets and institutions. PREREQ: FIN 325.
375 Contemporary Financial Issues (3) Students will think, speak, and write about complex financial and economic issues, including ethics, efficient markets, data analysis and forecasting, globalization, behavioral finance, and portfolio analysis. Thesis, PowerPoint presentation, and portfolio analysis required. Senior finance majors only. PREREQ: FIN 326, 344, and 337. Writing emphasis course.
410 Special Topics in Finance (3) Provides in-depth coverage of a major current topic in finance. The topic will change each semester. Topics to be covered include capital budgeting, valuation, financial derivatives, and financial modeling. PREREQ: FIN 325.


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So I'm not great at nail art but nail glitter – I can do. It's easy…sprinkle sprinkle.
But my problem is not knowing when to stop. I was that kid who would start colouring in a picture within the lines, then suddenly would enthusiastically start adding glitter and stars and pipe cleaners until I couldn't even pick the picture up.
Anyway, so I don't end up dunking my entire finger into glitter, I bought these Canmake Nail Lame Powders in pink and blue.
These cute bottles of glitter are to be used on top of polish, and the container comes with a little straggly brush. The glitter can be sealed with a top coat to make sure it stays in place:
I didn't have any kind of design in mind, I just wanted to add some sparkle to a nail and it's super easy with this product.
The brush is oddly cut at the end…quite messy. I am guessing this is so that there is a natural sprinkly effect, or you can just tap it over your nail.
Either way the brush leaves glitter everywhere no matter how carefully you tap it on your nail. It goes EVERYWHERE. Well ok not everywhere, just the surrounding areas.
Not very interesting but this is how I dusted it over my polish. I tried to go for the graduated effect but the glitter just went everywhere. D'oh! But you get an idea of the finish:
To be honest there's nothing that special about the brush, and the glitter is just glitter. It's quite fine, but you can easily find fine glitter in a craft store for next to nothing. If there's one nice thing about this product it's the handy bottle I guess.
I like this product but wouldn't buy it again!
Would you use glitter on your nails?


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That's the mantra my 9 year-0ld nephew Harald (he chose his blog-name after the famous Nordic hero) travels by. We're not talking about a small plastic shovel, either. This is a metal spade of medium size and good quality. Perfect for a born digger.
Give Harald a shovel and a vast expanse of beach, and he's as happy as a clam. Literally. He will dig and build all day, and be completely exhausted by 6pm. He's the perfect kid.
He builds cool stuff too. The other day he decided that what our beach needed was a Sand Bar. So he built one – with excellent engineering. It had cool benches and a table in the middle where we could put up our feet and place our beverages in comfort.
Both Harald's dad and Alexei were the envy of the beach as they sat and enjoyed a cool drink, the waves, and one very busy kid.
Next, Harald decided the Sand Bar needed to have a moat around it so when the tide came in it would flood around the structure, and not get the people sitting inside wet.
Did I mention he's 9 years old?
I wondered what happened to the E gene (engineering gene – don't tell me it doesn't exist!) in our family. It's pretty obvious Harald has it. He proceeded to dig a moat around his Sand Bar that could have been used around a levee.
If the Army Corps of Engineers have a talent scout, they really need to check out Harald. The kid started building with blocks as a baby, and hasn't stopped since.
The next big event was Harald reproducing the Pyramids at Giza. Seriously. With the aid of a paddle, he not only built the three main pyramids, he also did an irrigation moat around them and a levee wall to keep them protected from the high tide. He learned his lesson from the sand bar.
Yep. 9 years old.
Building is not all Harald does. He also likes to bury things. Shells, rocks, people – you know, just the stuff all normal genius-kids like to do.
I'll leave you with a pic of Harald and his good buddy who was also on Maui with his parents. If this is what Harald does to his best friends, it would be interesting to see what he does with people who tick him off.
I really do need to keep up favorite auntie status.
This kid is going places!


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In the world of the future, science-fiction movies tell us, robots may do just about everything. But you might figure that the business of marrying would be an exception and remain the province of the heart and soul rather than of sensors and circuit boards.
But maybe not. Though robots at weddings are probably still too rare to qualify as anything approaching a trend, they have already lent a Jetsonesque air to a few ceremonies.
When Sam Vilain, 34, and Melia Meggs, 30, were married last June in Santa Cruz, Calif., the groom rented robots from Anybots, a company in Santa Clara, Calif., so that friends in New Zealand could watch and even interact with guests on the dance floor despite being halfway around the world.
At the reception, two robots shuffled to the rhythm, wiggling themselves into a circle of guests. Back in New Zealand, the groom's friends, using an app downloaded from Anybots, navigated the robots and talked with guests via video conferencing.
Anybots rents its QB Avatar robots — which feature a flying-saucer-type contraption attached to a pole and two wheels and containing, among other things, two cameras — for guests who can't be at a wedding but still want to be part of it. The cost is $325 for a one-day rental.
The QB Avatar is not the only nonhuman helping couples marry these days. One man is renting out robots for use to assist in the wedding ceremony itself, and other couples have made toy robots a part of their ceremony.
At the wedding of Neva Reese and Moe McLendon in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., in July 2011, it was a robot named Father Emiglio, with flashing red light bulbs for eyes, that posed a tough question to the bride, while the gathered guests howled. "Neva, do you promise to coordinate your functions in cooperation in sickness and in health?" it asked Ms. Reese, now 33, as she was about to marry Mr. McLendon, now 37.
Then Father Emiglio sputtered and said, "Please vocalize your agreement," before passing the proceedings on to Eric Sherman, a minister ordained by the Church of Scientology. Mr. Sherman rambled on about philosophy, but Father Emiglio was programmed to interrupt: "Stop. Stop. Enough. Nonrelevant."
Mr. McLendon, who was interested in robotics already, got the idea for this particular touch after meeting Bob Gurr, who had created the Disneyland attraction Mr. Lincoln, an animatronic version of the president. Mr. Gurr showed the Mr. Lincoln design to Mr. McLendon, who talked about it with his fiancée while they were planning their wedding.
Using his training in computer science, Mr. McLendon started with Emiglio, a used robot made by the Italian toy company Giochi Preziosi, as the shell. For four months, he tested memory chips and glued Lego blocks, vacuum tubes and antennas to the robot. He secured a Y-wing starfighter, a "Star Wars" toy, for a nose and ribbon cables to create mutton chops.
"I was in full mad-scientist mode," he said. "I was red-eyed and didn't sleep."
Turned off by a friend's traditional wedding, Mrs. McLendon said that she wanted her wedding to stand out.
"I didn't want everyone oohing and aahing about how pretty I was," she said. "People seem to want to do the mainstream thing, but we wanted something memorable."
Laura Wong, now 26, a mechanical engineer for QinetiQ North America, borrowed the military robot Dragon Runner 20 from work to be the ring bearer in her wedding to Alexander Cressman, 31, in May 2012 in Annapolis, Md.
As the robot rolled down the aisle while a friend of hers played "Mr. Roboto" on the piano, she couldn't see what was happening but could hear her guests giggling.
The robot had not been used in the rehearsal — a co-worker of Mrs. Cressman's was supposed to navigate the robot but couldn't make it — so during the actual ceremony, the best man, her brother-in-law, was startled when the robot lifted its gripper arm to present the ring box.
She had told him "to just stand there, but he got a little ahead of himself and he bent down so the arm brushed up against him and he jumped back," she explained.
"Everyone laughed," she added.
Mrs. Cressman said that one of her friends approached her on the dance floor and said: "You know what's really sad? When the robot has better rhythm than I do."
Jon Schmig of Minneapolis designed a robot to fill the ring-bearer role when Mark Martin, 38, married Sarah Kriha, 31, last August in Oshkosh, Wis. Mr. Schmig used an online fund-raising tool for creative projects to raise hundreds of dollars for the project, which he calls WeddingBot.
He pieced together aluminum sheets and a foam board that he had created in Google SketchUp for the skeleton and head. Then he salvaged the hands and eyes from a broken Kasey the Kinderbot toy.
Mr. Schmig also created an app to transmit signals from his cellphone to the robot, which wore a tuxedo made to fit 3-to-6-month-old babies.
"I spotted this 3-year-old kid talking to the robot, and I fired up my interface to move it," he said. "At first, the boy was freaked out, but by the end, he was dancing with it for 10 minutes."
For Version 2.0, known as Oscar, Mr. Schmig is working on upgrades like a confetti cannon mounted on the head, a video camera on board and a voice chip so the robot can talk when Mr. Schmig triggers the control device.
Mr. Schmig, who became an ordained minister online with the Universal Life Church, charges $250, plus travel expenses, to supply the voice of a robot to officiate a wedding.
With robots taking on more and more everyday tasks, these incidents of robot-assisted weddings are not that surprising, said Brian Coltin, a researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
"Laptops have gotten better and cheaper, battery technology has improved, and for us, a big change in robotics is RGB-D cameras," he said. "It's cheaper than it ever was, and that's made a big difference."
Mr. Coltin is doubtful, though, that brides and grooms of the future will see crowds of robotic stand-ins at their ceremonies.
"I don't really see it being the preferred means of attending a wedding," he said. "There's something about being there in person that technology can't achieve."
Patricia Arend, a sociology professor at Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg, Mass., said that the robotic weddings are an outgrowth of the desire of couples to make their weddings be a distinct expression of themselves.
"It's a way of saying we're unique and different and we're carving ourselves out from all those other people doing the same thing over and over again," Dr. Arend said.
But there could be a downside, too, she warned.
"On the one hand, it's this quirky cool thing that people might love if your friends are all graduates from M.I.T. or tech people," she said. "But if your social group thinks of your wedding as religious or an example of high femininity, then a robot could be completely out of place or sacrilegious."
Russell O'Neill built a robot to serve in his place when his father, Phillip O'Neill, now 65, was married to Clara Travaini, 66, in July 2011 in Queensland, Australia. Russell couldn't attend the wedding because he had to be in Canada to get his work visa stamped right before the deadline.
He and his brother Andrew O'Neill cut scrap wood to assemble a life-size robot with joints so that other guests could shake its hands. They hooked up a small laptop computer with a webcam as the head so that Russell could witness his father exchange vows. It all cost $50.
"My sister told me, 'Russell, it's not your day, don't do this,' but everyone mingled for an hour," he said, "so by the time they walked down the aisle, the novelty was over."
As men pulled their dates to the dance floor in Australia, Mr. O'Neill watched from Canada sitting at his computer dressed in a suit with a beer in hand, and was able to see what was happening only right in front of the seat where his brothers had propped up the robot.
"I was unconsciously turning my head to talk to people and realizing I'm in a cold, dark basement and it's 1 in the morning," he said.


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HOW TO AUDIT A KNOWN FRAUD by NORMAN C. GROSMAN The magnitude of the Equity Funding fraud had not been seen in the American economy since the days of McKesson and Robbins in the mid-30's. Actually, to begin the reorganization of a company with a fraud as pervasive as this one is beyond the experience of most professionals in today's business world—be they accountants, attorneys, trustees, or anyone else. The fraud continued for at least nine years. All of the mechanisms of regulation and scrutiny, including annual audits, did not uncover what was going on. It came to light because a disgruntled former employee talked to a securities analyst. How much longer the fraud might have continued is very problematical. It seemed that it could not have lasted very much longer, but I suspect that anyone looking at the situation two to three years before would have said the same thing. The case was originally billed as a sophisticated computer and insurance fraud. Really.it was neither of these. It would be more accurately characterized as an ordinary securities fraud. Ordinary in the sense that the motivation was one of inflation of earnings to provide the basis for increased stock prices. The purpose of the fraud was to create artificial values for the stock. The other aspects of it developed during the later years of its existence. In talking about Equity Funding as a securities fraud, it is necessary to understand that the illegal acts started before the company ever went public in 1964. The wrongdoing, as best as can be determined, was premeditated. In other words, it was planned to inflate earnings, to increase the price of the stock. It is unique of course in the length of time during which it continued. It is also probably unique in its pervasiveness. Most other cases seem to have been limited to a few major transactions, usually involving a limited number of people. In Equity Funding's case, however, there was direct involvement of at least 15 people. And the misrepresentation was not limited to a few transactions but involved the basic operating accounts of Equity Funding. From the initiation of the fraud through at least 1969, the procedure was highly simple, took very little time, and involved little effort to cover-up. The basic fraud during this period was achieved through regular accounting entries-increasing both accounts receivable and commission income. It was one accounting entry a month, or one accounting entry a quarter. There was no computer involvement at all. As the fraud developed, it was expanded into the Equity Funding's insurance operations, through the creation and reinsurance of fictitious insurance policies. Since this required significant detailed support, the use of the computer became important. But the use of the computer in the Equity Funding operations was still not extensive compared to its use in today's business. While certain fictitious information was maintained on the computer, none of it was inputed on a regular basis. The information that was added to the records was done off-line. It did not involve any special technology, or any unusual programming. It did, however, require a lower level of controls and less systems integration than one would ordinarily expect. Part of the nature of the fraud was that it had to increase in magnitude in order that the company could show increased earnings. Thus, increasing amounts of fictitious income had to be created. The company was in an extremely tight cash position at the time of the discovery of the illegal acts, and it undoubtedly had similar problems in the past as well. This required the continual raising of additional capital and additional borrowings. How much longer all this could have continued is unclear, The fraud got its first major publicity at the end of March, 1973, when an extensive article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. A day or two after this disclosure, the Touche Ross office in Los Angeles received a phone call from a law firm in our city asking us if we would be interested in becoming the auditors for Equity Funding. We met with the law firm and with the judge and were appointed as auditors on April 2, The company went into Chapter X reorganization on April 5, 1973 and we were reappointed as auditors to the company under the Chapter X proceedings. We were actually appointed before the trustee. This was an unusual situation, but it was necessary because of the extent of the fraud, the publicity that was given to it, and the need for some work to be done immediately. When we started our work, senior audit personnel from the California and Illinois insurance departments were 12
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An intriguing new book on Charlie Chan by Yunte Hang has received good reviews–from the L.A. Times and the New York Times and The New Yorker:
Chan's Hollywood career was launched in 1926, with a film adaptation of "The House Without a Key," starring the Japanese actor George Kuwa, after which Chan went on to appear in forty-six more movies; he was most memorably played, in the nineteen-thirties, by a Swede named Warner Oland. He also appeared in countless comic strips and, in the nineteen-seventies, in sixteen episodes of Hanna-Barbera's "The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan," which aired on CBS television on Saturday mornings and featured a dog named Chu Chu, Jodie Foster's voice as one of Chan's ten children, and the cri de coeur "Wham bam, we're in a jam!"
Charlie Chan is also one of the most hated characters in American popular culture. In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, distinguished American writers, including Frank Chin and Gish Jen, argued for laying Chan to rest, a yellow Uncle Tom, best buried. In trenchant essays, Chin condemned the Warner Oland movies as "parables of racial order"; Jen called Chan "the original Asian whiz kid." In 1993, the literary scholar Elaine Kim bid Chan good riddance—"Gone for good his yellowface asexual bulk, his fortune-cookie English"—in an anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction titled "Charlie Chan Is Dead," which is not to be confused with the beautiful and fantastically clever 1982 Wayne Wang film, "Chan Is Missing," and in which traces of a man named Chan are all over the place, it's just that no one can find him anymore.
"Role of dead man require very little acting," as Charlie Chan liked to say. (Don't ask me what that means. Aphorisms, like tiger in zoo, all roar, no claw.) In "Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History" (Norton; $26.95), Yunte Huang, who grew up in China, went to graduate school in the United States, taught at Harvard for a while, and now teaches American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, confesses, abashedly, to being a Chan fan: "Sometimes late at night, I turn on the TV and a Chinaman falls out. He is hilarious." Most interesting.
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Safety is not necessarily a hot rodder's top priority. If it was we wouldn't drive around in overpowered roadsters with no rollbars or seatbelts. But if you want to race that same roadster under the rules of a sanctioning body, be it SCTA, NHRA, or any other, driver safety is something you'll have to address.
As the Notso Special is destined to be a dual-purpose street and lakes race car, I planned on including the necessary safety equipment from the onset. These include a number of body and chassis additions over a regular hot rod, as well as a race-legal harness, arm restraints, and a head and neck restraint (HANS) system. Of course there's also the necessary fire suit, gloves, underwear, boots, and so on, but with the exception of the HANS, we'll concentrate here on the equipment on the car, not on the driver.
Most sanctioning body rules require an on-board fire extinguisher system, and SCTA is no different. The size of the system required will depend on the speed your car will be capable of, as the longer it takes to stop your vehicle, the larger the extinguisher capacity you'll require. I opted to go with a bigger system than required in my case, so it won't need upgrading in the future should I go faster than I initially plan to. Considering the simplicity of the installation, and the fact it requires no electrical power at all, I'd be tempted in the future to install such a system on any project vehicle, not just a race car, purely for the peace of mind factor.
The 10-pound ColdFire foam bottle and mounting brackets had already been donated to the project (thanks Jeff), while a drive across L.A. to DJ Safety saw me return with the remainder of what the company offers both individually or as a complete kit with bottle—an injector with cable bracket, 9-foot cable assembly, 10 feet of aluminum tubing, and three nozzles. I also came back with the correct SFI-spec rollcage padding, a pair of arm restraints, and a five-point latch-style harness with 3-inch belts. The shoulder belts taper to 2 inches wide where they go over the HANS device. DJ Safety also offers parachutes, window nets, blower restraints, trans blankets, helmets, gloves, fire suits—in fact, they pretty much have your safety needs covered for racing or off-roading.
In addition to driver safety items, there are a couple of electrical safety issues that aren't required when building a "normal" hot rod or custom. The fuel pump wiring circuit has to include an inertia switch to turn off the pump in the case of a rollover, while there has to be a battery cut-off switch both on the rear of the car, and within reach of the driver. Many racers simply run two manually operated cut-off switches to accomplish this, but I didn't want to run the main battery cable through the interior, and figured this was the perfect opportunity to use Lokar's interior battery disconnect lever kit. While Lokar is a name familiar to readers, you may not know that the company also has a line of drag racing products, of which this is one. The kit allows you to turn electrical power on or off from the driver seat, the lever bolting directly to many drag race shifters, though I mounted it to the rollcage. It's available with or without either a 125- or 300-amp master power switch. We selected the without option, as Ron Francis Wiring had already supplied a switch, as well as battery cables. OK, enough with the theory, let's get on with the practical work.
1 With the fire bottle mounted as recommended in the instructions, at an angle greater than 15 degrees from horizontal, I had ensured there was sufficient clearance for the release cable to attach, without contacting the Aeromotive fuel tank. The bottle has a protective cap in place here.
2 A bracket for the other end of the release cable was TIG-welded in place within reach of the driver seat, yet in a position where it couldn't be accidentally activated.
3 With the injector fitted to the bottle, the release cable could be installed through the bracket supplied. It should be cut to length where it is visible through the small sight hole (arrow), then clamped using the setscrew. The plumbing was also tackled now, with 1/4-inch hardline passing through a bulkhead fitting in the painted rear cab panel, then down the diagonal rollcage tubing to the front of the car. As the body panels are bolted solidly to the cage and chassis, there's no flexing to worry about.
4 Here's the release cable mounted within the driver's reach. The yellow tag is on an R-clip that passes through the end of the cable, preventing it from being activated unless the clip is removed. Above it is the tubing running from the bottle to the front of the car.
5 The tubing runs to a T on the inside of the firewall (I have yet to install tubing clamps), one line leading to a nozzle aimed at the driver, the other passing through a bulkhead fitting in the firewall to another T …
6 … from where the tubing splits again to run either side of the engine, pointing upward at the headers and oil pan, as directed by the SCTA rulebook. Note the three angled slots in the DJ Safety nozzle, providing a wide fan of foam.
7 These are the components making up the Lokar Performance Interior Battery Disconnect Lever Kit, as well as the master disconnect switch from Ron Francis Wiring. The lever on the switch is replaced by the billet arm on the left of the picture. The kit is supplied with an 8-foot cable as standard, though 6- and 7-foot cables are available.
8 The lever was mounted on the door's diagonal cage tube, drilled and tapped for 1⁄4-20 bolts. I used 1⁄4-20 threads throughout the car wherever possible for ease of future maintenance.
9 The switch spindle required tapping to accept the larger bolt, which locates the arm, but other than that assembly was straightforward. Here the cable is in place and all bolts are ready to tighten.
10 A temporary bracket, in lieu of a tailgate for now, and the switch was mounted.
11 Ron Francis Wiring supplied these cable ends and heat-shrink tubing with their Hot Rod Battery Cables kit. The aluminum block can be used to crimp the cable ends … though I used this version. With the cable in place, a good hammer blow crimps the cable for good.
12 The battery is wired to the right side of the switch (as seen from the rear), while the three wires on the left are the battery feed to the front of the car, the live feed from the alternator, and the fuel pump feed (which uses a relay and fuse near the tank rather than running the wires back from the fuse box behind the dash). This way the master switch kills power to all electrical systems.
13 The shoulder straps for the five-piece harness travel over the shoulder bar of the rollcage, and are mounted vertically, behind the seat. Here's the first 3/16-inch plate welded in place …
14 … and here's the second, with spacers between the two, allowing the mounting eyelets on the harness straps to be sandwiched between them.
15 Cutting the minimum amount possible from the cab back panel allowed me to determine the final amount to be trimmed. The second horizontal bar was added in case anyone shorter than me ever drives the car, as the rules (and harness installation instructions) are specific about the angle of the harness straps from the driver's shoulders to the bar or mounts. This way the straps can pass over the lower tube, if required.
16 Finally, the welding is completed, the chassis and cage have been painted, and assembly has begun. The cab back and corners are in place, as is the pickup bed. Though there are no adjustable seat runners, per se; I tapped two sets of holes in the lower mounts, and the driver seat upper mount is adjustable too, allowing for the seat to come forward 1 inch, if required.
17 As with the shoulder strap mounts, the lap strap mounts consist of two 3⁄16-inch plates sandwiching the eyelets. These, however, were pre-fabricated brackets bought from the local steel supply house.
18 If it wasn't clear before, it probably makes sense now, with the shoulder straps installed for the final time. Now I need to fabricate a cover for this area.
19 I added these tubes and a 3/16-inch plate as additional side impact protection as the corner of the pickup bed was close to the driver's body at this point, protruding slightly into the cage. Now it doesn't do that. Note also how the harness lap strap mounts are opposite horizontal tube sections of the cage structure.
20 Here's the driver seat with its cover in place (supplied by Speedway Motors along with the seats), and the latch-style harness bolted in. DJ Safety also offers the cam-style latch on their harnesses.
21 The crotch strap is referred to as an anti-submarine strap. I mounted it as shown, on a gusseted plate that was welded to the 1/4-inch steel floor as well as the 1/4-inch wall seat crossmember.
22 Test-fit time! The fish-eye lens makes the cage look roomy, but believe me, it's not! With a fire suit on, and the harness tight, I needed to ensure I could reach everything with the arm restraints on. You can clearly see here how the shoulder straps narrow to 2 inches in width …
23 … so they can fit in the shoulder sections of the HANS device, which has raised edges to locate the straps.
24 These clips attach to corresponding clips on the driver's helmet, preventing his or her head from moving forward violently in a crash, and preventing neck injury or worse. You won't be allowed to race without a HANS device, and they ain't cheap! They are, however, preferable to the alternative, if you crash without one.
25 Here are the correct SFI-spec arm restraints, with the SFI tag shown. The slotted ends fit the latch on the harness, while the restraints are adjustable for length.
26 In picture 23 you can see that I could reach the steering wheel, but I could also get my hand outside the cage structure, meaning it could do this in an accident. The arm restraints are there to stop this from happening, and once adjusted to prevent this, I could reach but no longer turn the wheel. I'll need a dished wheel for racing it seems.
27 I can, however, reach the battery disconnect lever.
28 While I'm on the subject of body parts exiting the cage structure, the SCTA rulebook also states that no limbs should be able to do just that in the event that the vehicle's body panels come off in an accident. While specially made nets are available for this, aluminum paneling, installed inside the outer plane of the rollcage, is also acceptable. Now you know what all the threaded tabs on the driver side of the cage were for in previous pictures!
29 This temporary switch panel down between the seats houses the fuel pump and ignition switches with aircraft-style covers, from Ron Francis, as well as the starter button. I can reach it, and it's not in the way so it won't be hit accidentally, but I'm not sure I like the position. However, I certainly can't reach the dash, and my options are limited!
30 The SCTA rules state that where fuel lines pass the bellhousing, even with the addition of a scattershield, they have to pass through thick wall tubing to prevent them from being sheared by flying clutch parts. I used a length of leftover rollcage tubing, radiused the ends, and welded it to the framerail.
31 Restraining straps, or "slings" as the SCTA rulebook calls them, are required near the forward end of rear suspension links, with a minimum diameter of 1/4 inch, to prevent them from dropping to the ground should the joint fail. I added them to the front split 'bones too.
32 Even the rollcage padding has to meet an SFI specification. DJ Safety also supplied this for our car.
33 With slight trimming to clear the vertical tubes, the padding was installed using large wire ties to hold it in place.


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Zack Snyder's Man of Steel sequel - still known as Batman vs. Superman, until the world is told differently - is set to begin filming in Michigan this February, barely a month away. The only pieces of confirmed information about the film are new details about the shoot in Detroit and the reported $131 million production budget attached to - presumably - the filming in that state.
As always, the rumors are more fun - whether any of them end up to be true or not - and just in the last few weeks alone we've seen a whole new spate of them as DC and Warner Bros. get ready to establish their own Cinematic Universe. Is Denzel Washington involved? If so, will he play Lex Luthor? The Green Lantern? Or is Dwayne Johnson playing GL? How big of a role will Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman have?
And if potential Justice League members like Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are making some kind of appearance, what about some of the other DC characters who are major JL members, like Aquaman and Martian Manhunter? The inclusion of Lex Luthor appears to be a lock, but what about the identity of a suspected second villain? Batman on Film has addressed a slew of Batman vs. Superman questions and rumors, and while many of BoF's answers are really just opinion and speculation, some of the information sounds fairly legitimate and intriguing.
For instance, is Lex Luthor really in the film, and who is the additional villain? According to BoF's Jett Ramey (framed as a response to readers' questions):
Yes. And sorry, I'm not at liberty to reveal the ID of the other villain at this time...but the character is highly rumored to be in the film.
What about the casting of Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa? Will he play Martian Manhunter or (a miscast) Aquaman? According to Jett:
Nope and nope. Neither of those characters are in this film.
BoF also denies that any Bat-villains will make an appearance. From the sound of it, that's about it for the hard information. The film's reboot of Batman, the rumored involvement of the John Stewart Green Lantern and the confirmation of Wonder Woman's role has led some fans to wonder how much room is left over for Superman and if this Man of Steel follow-up is a Justice League movie in disguise. BoF responds to this particular question:
Based on all my intel…NOPE. It's a Superman film – a Superman film that just so happens to include Batman and Wonder Woman – but a Superman film nonetheless.
BoF has additional insight on other issues, such as the size of Wonder Woman's role in Batman vs. Superman - "on par with Scarlett Johansson's first appearance as Black Widow in IRON MAN 2." There is also a rather novel take on WW's ancestry - which is complete and utter speculation, but interesting to note:
...the "Amazons" of this cinematic DCU will be descendants of those "ancient Kryptonians" who attempted to set up Kryptonian outposts throughout spacedom thousands and thousands of years ago. Furthermore, I say that Wonder Woman will be powered-down, if you will, relative to Superman because these Amazons have evolved and adapted to living on Earth for hundreds of centuries.
Probably a stretch, but given screenwriter David S. Goyer's extensive tweaking of the traditional Krypton mythology, it's at least plausible. BoF goes on to answer other fan questions, such as which source comics would inform Ben Affleck's Batsuit - they mention the Kingdom Come and Batman Beyond suits as possible inspiration (we've heard differently, and should point out that Batman on Film loves Batman Beyond and turned out to be off-based when predicting that the beloved futuristic animated series would serve as a jumping off point for DC's Batman reboot).
So could Jason Momoa be playing Doomsday, after all? There is no hard proof, but this new information is a strong clue that this could be the case. And what about the notion of Batman controlling drones from the Batcave? BoF is all for it (even if the reader wondered if it could be a "rip-off" of the Iron Man series), since Batman is usually always a step ahead of everyone; hence, the use of bat-drones could form his method of dealing with Superman - the need for which he would have foreseen.
Several of BoF's other reader questions had to do with the likelihood of Ben Affleck taking on solo Bat-films after Batman vs. Superman, and just how many films he might be contracted to appear in. There is no way to know the details on these points, but both answers could depend on the success of BvS. Given the level of fan anticipation involved - and this before any significant portion of the film has been shot - the film's success is nearly a given, and the more we hear about Affleck's approach to and respect for the role, the more it sounds like Affleck is in this for the long haul.
What do think about this Batman vs. Superman news, Screen Ranters? Should Martian Manhunter or Aquaman be included? Are bat-drones a good idea? Sound off in the comments!
Man of Steel 2/Batman vs. Superman hits theaters July 17th, 2015.
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Click on the Referee Registration button on the left sidebar. Read through the instructions on the Referee Registration page. Complete the three fields (First Name, Last Name, Email) and click on the Submit button. Once submitted, you will see a new page advising you that you are now registered as a referee with BAYS. You will receive an email with your BAYS Username and Password.
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Once you receive your BAYS Username and Password, return to BAYS.org and click the Unified Login button on the left sidebar. Read through the instructions and then login using your assigned Username and Password. You will be directed to the Web site Welcome and Administration page. This page contains important updates and status information. Be sure to review it every time you enter the site. Click the My Profile button under the About Me header on the left sidebar. Complete the applicable information. (NOTE: You will not be asked for your Social Security number. Should you work enough games to have earned more than $600, the BAYS Accountant will contact you and request your number before she pays you.) Click on the Update Profile button to submit your profile. Use the buttons on the left sidebar to navigate around the site.
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Las Ramblas is one of my favourite haunts in Barcelona because there is nowhere like it!
This is where you get to meet people from all over the world; artists, entertainers, sightseers combined with local people out for their evening constitutional. This is a place where there is an unmistakable feeling of living life for the moment! Everyone just blends in together and are free to do what comes naturally. The rip-roaring Las Ramblas is the beating heart of Barcelona's city centre. Expect crowds, music, dancing, painting and conning (look out for the cup and ball con artists always seemingly a step away from the long arm of the law!)along the mile of this Spanish boulevard. Heading down towards the sea from the Placa Catalunya, it is pleasing that the pavement resembles the waves of the sea, as though reminding you of your destination.
Along Las Ramblas, there are numerous cafes that pour out onto the central pavement allowing some pretty serious 'people-watching' to be entertained.
A small word of warning for accommodation seekers. Las Ramblas is a twenty four hour a day party street and generally noisy long into the small hours. For this reason, the hotels will not suit everyone. While you are close to all the many of the sights like the Barri Gotic and Port Vell as well as offering endless places to eat and drink close by, unless your hotel is equipped with sound-proofing, you may not achieve a good night's sleep!
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TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): The governor of central Uruzgan province says he wants to carry out reconstruction projects in Taliban-controlled areas after he has discussed the topic with area people.
Governor Mohammad Nazir Kharotai, who presided over an administrative meeting here on Monday, said projects could not be implemented in areas under Taliban due to insecurity.
He said if Taliban allowed projects' implementation, a procedure would be made and signed with the rebels. Kharotai said under the procedure plan, the Taliban were required to let projects' monitoring team work in areas under their control.
According to him, a number of local Taliban leaders have showed consent to their decision and the provincial administration would sign the agreement with area residents and tribal elders.
However, some provincial governance officials supported the decision but others opposed it.
Rural rehabilitation and development director Eng. Shams Rahman, told Pajhwok Afghan News he welcomed the decision and demanded its early accomplishment.
According to him, security problems have blocked their activities and they couldn't carry out projects in areas under Taliban.
He said currently work on 13 projects of his department worth 182 million afghanis had been stopped due to insecurity.
Rahman said if the mentioned projects weren't implemented, the ministry concerned would cancel them.
Agriculture, irrigation and livestock department head, Zalmai Alko, also said if an agreement aimed at allowing projects was signed with tribal elders, influential figures and insurgents, it would help complete half-done projects.
However, refugee and rehabilitation director, Abdul Qahar Dost and finance and administrative in-charge at the governor's house, Abdul Jaleel Achakzai, expressed fear about the agreement.
They believed the Taliban would take all facilities and equipment of projects and would use them for strengthening their ranks.
Achakzai said Taliban in areas under their control extorted money from vaccinators processes, telecom networks and even education offices.
Residents of the province expressed happiness over the provincial government's decision to implement reconstruction projects in insecure areas through spending aid money.
A resident of Tirinkot city, the provincial capital, Abdul Qadeer, said insecurity had brought most of the projects to a halt, with ordinary people bearing the brunt of the situation.
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