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Australian Motoring Book Shortlisted for premier international historic motoring awards
An Australian author's major work on the racing history of MG sports cars in the 1930s has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Historic Motoring Awards 2015 Publication of the Year.
The Mighty MG Magnettes of 33. The Cars, The Drivers, The Mystery was written by Perth based author, Graeme Cocks, and covers the creation of the most admired British sports racing car of the 1930s, the MG K3. It details how this car was campaigned with great success and a legend was born.
Accomplished Australian motoring historian and author, Mr Cocks, scoured archives in Europe, North America and Australia and spoke to dozens of people around the world to uncover the intriguing story of the mighty MG Magnettes. He has put together a story of elation and tragedy, of success and failure, and he has examined the mystery of the ultimate fate of arguably the greatest MG of all, K3003.
The 464 page book is one of eight international works shortlisted for the Publication of the Year Award that recognises a truly outstanding publication, released between October 2014 and September 2015. An international panel of experts judges the shortlist of finalists. The winners are announced at the Awards dinner to be held in London on 19 November.
Launched in 2011, the International Historic Motoring Awards recognise and celebrate the skills and achievements of the worldwide historic motoring industry and celebrate the best of the best in the international historic motoring world. The Awards comprise 14 categories ranging from Museum of the Year through to Motor Sport Event and Publication of the Year.
"The Mighty MG Magnettes of 1933" takes the idea of international motoring history to a whole new level. An Australian motoring historian travelling the world researching an iconic British racing car and producing an intriguing publication that is described by reviewers and readers as extraordinary – it has everything.
Lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs from archives and privates collections across the globe, this major work is an important contribution to the study of the history of Great Britain's iconic sporting car.
The author, Graeme Cocks, trained as a journalist and worked for many years in travel and tourism writing. He has been writing and producing motoring history publications for the past 20 years.
Since the book's international release in October 2014, it has been enthusiastically received around the world. It was Classic and Sports Car magazine's Book of the Month (December 2014), and was described by Octane magazine in January 2015 as "commendably well-researched…a wealth of images, a superb book, beautifully produced".
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I gotta bitch for a second. I've been really pissed about some things and all of sudden, I don't know why... I suddenly remembered that I have a blog and I get to bitch about stuff if I want. So. I'm going to start a regular Rant of the Week. Feel free to rant away with me. Or not. These may or may not pertain to potty training.
This week: One of the many MIXED MESSAGES we as parents receive daily.
Can we please get a nationwide decision: Are our kids fat and lazy and don't go out to play anymore? Or are they going to get kidnapped the minute we take our eyes off them? Cause really...I'm tired of hearing both sides.
I'm tired of hearing about the good ole days. I'm tired of hearing that our kids are lazy and don't go out to play anymore and it's all technology's fault. Meanwhile, I know a person who called the cops because she saw a 4th grader walking to school alone.
If we let our kids run free outside of fenced in playgrounds: people call the cops or Social Services. And yet, if I stay with my child and keep my eye on him, I'm a helicopter mom who has to schedule play (insert scornful look).
Yeah, yeah, yeah...I understand that a lot depends on your neighborhood, your child and parenting is always an assessment of risk at any given moment. But I'm really tired of hearing these 2 blanket sides. And no offense, but it's usually the...ahem...older generation playing both sides of this fence. Hm.
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Paulsen Reacts to Governor's Gas Tax Statement
House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) issued a statement reacting to Governor Chet Culver saying he will veto a gas tax increase:
"I'm pleased that the governor came out today and said he's ready to start vetoing tax increases. As the governor says, there could not be a worse time to raise taxes on hardworking Iowans than during this time of economic downturn. This is why I would urge the governor to also publicly take removing Iowa's federal deductibility off the table as well. Repealing federal deductibility would result in another significant tax increase on the backs of Iowans."


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Hi! We're looking for a (Junior) Rails developer!
We're Localistico, a London-based startup with a small team of 9 people. We have been running for a couple years. Together the members of our team have worked in companies like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Vodafone, Tuenti and Yelp, among others. We have offices in both central London and Madrid, although our team works remotely most of the time (with quarterly in-person meetups).
We're looking for a (Junior) Rails Developer to help us grow and build the platform - somebody with a strong drive to leave their mark in a product and help build something from the ground up and willing to be in continuous learning mode.
Our platform:
Localistico backend is based on a mix of Ruby on Rails and Python components, this latter particularly for the data processing and integration pieces. Data storage is mostly PostgreSQL, Redis/resque and ElasticSearch. Our frontend is a web app in Ember.js. Our whole deployment is cloud based with Codeship+Heroku. We use github as code repository and issues platform (with a bit of help from CodeTree).
Our product:
We are a local marketing platform. Our tool helps brick & mortar business owners and marketing teams to manage their digital presence and track their location analytics in order to do better digital marketing, get more clients to their locations and gather better insights about how to improve their spend.
We're generating early revenue and our current clients include brands like El Corte Inglés, Foxtons, O2 or Starbucks.
Your role:
Your task is to contribute to make Localistico the best local marketing platform ever, obviously!
Your focus will be working alongside the Rails team, with an initial focus on all the webapp-facing APIs. You will work with our more senior developers engineering the best way to select, query and present data across the application.
We would like you to:
Be grounded in development best practices and with some basic knowledge on web applications architecture.
Enough working knowledge of Rails (even if it was as part of some basic application), able to find your way around implementing models, controllers and serializers.
Have some experience (even if basic) of web APIs, REST APIs and JSON. Preferably both integrating with external APIs and creating your own in Rails.
Have some knowledge of SQL (we use Postgres but any other SQL-based db experience will be fine)
Experience working with Git as version control, preferably in github or bitbucket
Other experience, such as having worked as part of a bigger Rails team, experience in remote work or familiarity with other areas of the stack would be good for extra brownie points, but is not mandatory. Of course, be sure to mention it just in case :)
What we offer:
Flexible location and hours: we are a distributed team and we plan by goals, not times - work from wherever you are happiest and feel most productive. For when we need an office, we have them in London and Madrid.
Creative work: don't just execute to guidelines but be a defining part of a great team tackling an interesting problem and help us drive the solution and the company culture.
Competitive salary (£20-3XK) and equity participation (via stock option scheme), according to location and experience. Ask us for details if you'd like to discuss, we're very open about this. We want everybody that is part of the project to share the uptake as we share the work.
More info about us:
We have been part of Telefonica Wayra UK accelerator and SeedRocket. We have also raised additional funding from several (amazing) angels. Our client focus for the next months is mostly businesses in the verticals of retail, hospitality/restoration and health/beauty across UK and Spain.
We're looking for the type of person that is always learning and feeling ready to take new challenges (despite it being scary sometimes!). We'd love to hear if you have some hobby or activity you're passionate about, apart from your work (everybody in the team has at least one!). We would particularly like if you feel comfortable collaborating with others and discussing technical solutions and alternatives to a problem.
If you are proactive, resourceful, very hands on and ready to learn as part of a team taking our platform to the next level… we'd love you to join us!
Please send us a a short note/email intro to firstname.lastname@example.com - if you want, you can include links to your Github, LinkedIn or some other up-to-date summary of your CV - so we have a better idea of your background
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text: BUYER'S GUIDE Multi-Car – Long-Term Update Jeff Bartlett writersJuly 1, 1998 Share this article Facebook Twitter Google Plus Email Share this article Facebook Twitter Google Plus Email Free Price Quote From a Local Dealer View Special Offers No Obligation, Fast & Simple Free New Car Quote Change Car Select Make Acura Alfa Romeo Aston Martin Audi Bentley BMW Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Dodge Ferrari FIAT Ford Genesis GMC Honda Hyundai Infiniti Jaguar Jeep Karma Kia Lamborghini Land Rover Lexus Lincoln Lotus Maserati Mazda McLaren Mercedes-Benz MINI Mitsubishi Nissan Porsche Ram Rolls-Royce smart Subaru Tesla Toyota Volkswagen Volvo Select Model 1-Series 2-Series 3-Series 3-Series Plug-in 4-Series 5-Series 5-Series Diesel 6-Series 7-Series 8-Series ActiveHybrid 3 ActiveHybrid 5 ActiveHybrid 7 ActiveHybrid X6 Alpina B6 i3 i8 M M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 X1 X3 X3 Diesel X4 X5 X5 Diesel X5 Plug-in X6 Z3 Z4 Z5 Z8 GO 1. Vehicle Option Trim Exterior Color No Preference Black Blue Brown Gold Green Orange Red Silver White Yellow Interior Color No Preference Beige Black Blue Gray Green Other Red White Buying Time Frame Within 48 hours Within a week Within two weeks Within a month More than a month Payment Method Undecided Loan Lease Cash Trade In? Yes No 2. Contact Info First Name Last Name Address City State -- AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY Zip Code Phone Email 3. Dealer Selection Receive your free dealer pricing information by completing your contact information! '97 BMW 540I ManualWe're into our second year with the sumptuous and ferocious 540i, and our love affair continues. Logbook entries praising the black-on-black Bimmer read like a blend of Olympic commentary and art criticism: "Gold-medal sprinter able to dust international competition," "Where's the Nike swoosh? With 282 horsepower on tap, the eager powerplant says 'Just Do It' at every stoplight," and "Exquisite, elegant luxury with a devilish side." After spending five days in the greatest sports cars in the world for our "Viva Velocity" cover story (May '98), Editor C. Van Tune scrawled in the logbook, "I can't think of a better car than this 540i Sport to use as a transition back into the real world. With its excellent power, six-speed manual, taut handling, ultra-supportive and comfy seats, it's like a four-door sports car." Having served most recently as a daily driver for our editor (who makes an exhilarating high-speed canyon road blitz to the office), average gas mileage has dipped a bit. On the open road, the black beauty returns upward of 25 mpg, even at 80 mph. Base price $52,350 Price as tested $58,145 Body style 4-door, 5-pass. Engine size/type 4.4-liter V-8 Transmission/driveline configuration 6-speed man./ front engine, rear drive 0-60 mph, sec. 5.6 EPA mpg, city/hwy. 15/24 Total mileage 12,858 Test mileage 12,848 Fuel consumed, gal. 882.9 Fuel cost $1212.16 Average mpg 14.6 Additional oil/cost 1 qt/$2.15 Routine maint. None Additional maint. None Previous maint. $65.00 Problem areas Power windows Total operating cost $1279.31 Operating cost/mile 10.0 '98 Ford Escort ZX2 SportTorrential rain has recently turned the normally picturesque Southern California coast into a sliding mud pie and created enough traffic chaos to challenge the patience of petrified wood. Our sporty front-drive ZX2 faced off against nasty weather, struggling against all odds to deliver its drivers home. One night, a full six alternate routes were employed to traverse canyon-filled Ventura County, with more roads closed than open. Sloshing through hub-deep, lake-size puddles, the Escort remained water tight, even around the door seams. Although road debris bent the front license plate under the bumper, otherwise the little Ford soldiered through unscathed. Amazing! With solid body structure, driver-oriented suspension tuning and good steering feel, the ZX2 responds well to aggressive input. Around town, mileage hovers near 22 mpg, but we've recorded a high of 27.8 mpg on a straight highway shoot through the desert. The car's first service totaled $49.43. Next visit, we'll have the dealer check the recently inoperative heating system. Base price $13,145 Price as tested $17,255 Body style 2-door, 5-pass. Engine size/type 2.0-liter inline four Transmission/driveline configuration 5-speed man./ front engine, front drive 0-60 mph, sec. 7.8 EPA mpg, city/hwy. 26/33 Total mileage 5661 Test mileage 5648 Fuel consumed, gal. 231.6 Fuel cost $284.50 Average mpg 24.4 Additional oil/cost None Routine maint. $49.43 Additional maint. None Previous maint. None Problem areas Heater Total operating cost $333.93 Operating cost/mile 5.9 '98 Lincoln NavigatorLincoln has added a twist on the sport/ute craze with the Navigator by packaging living room comfort with abundant power amenities, creating a superb long-distance motorcoach. Trip-loving family types on our staff lobbied hard to add the big luxo beast to the MT long-term fleet, and those editors have fulfilled the promise to keep it in constant motion. At its $42,660 base price, the Lincolnized version of Ford's Expedition 4×4 is not cheap, but it is loaded, combining the smooth 5.4-liter/230-horsepower V-8 and four-speed automatic transmission with load-leveling air suspension, variable-assist power steering, and anti-lock disc brakes at each corner. Our super-lux machine also features running boards, chrome trim, leather-wrapped seating for seven, and power everything. We added the rear area climate control ($705), 17-inch all-terrain tires ($305), aluminum wheels ($235), skid plates ($105), and premium 290-watt stereo ($355) with a CD changer ($595). A stark contrast to the thrifty Escort also in our fleet, the Navigator has consumed dino juice at a thirsty 12.7-mpg rate. Fortunately, gas has been relatively cheap lately, and it has a 30-gallon tank. Base price $42,660 Price as tested $45,880 Body style 4-door, 7-pass. Engine size/type 5.4-liter V-8 Transmission/driveline configuration 4-speed auto./ front engine, four-wheel drive 0-60 mph, sec. 10.3 EPA mpg, city/hwy. 13/17 Total mileage 9857 Test mileage 9762 Fuel consumed, gal. 768.7 Fuel cost $898.23 Average mpg 12.7 Additional oil/cost 1 qt/$2.10 Routine maint. $45.00 Additional maint. None Previous maint. None Problem areas None Total operating cost $945.33 Operating cost/mile 9.7 National gas average prices courtesy of Lundberg Survey, Inc., Camarillo, California. 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To be frank, I'm doubtful the Cycling iQ blog is anywhere significant enough to even warrant this post but it's important to me that new and regular readers understand where the future content they read comes from, as well as any connections the author (me) has to it.
Definitely not the Cycling iQ office… but the UCI's HQ will soon be just down the road from work.
As noted already, Cycling iQ began in September 2011 after I decided to take an introspective break from the commercial side of the bicycle industry. Some of my favourite things – cycling, traveling, market research, analysis and reporting – were distilled into my most recent role (international market manager at BMC), which ultimately informed me that; 1) few media outlets were focused on road cycling in Asia, and; 2) the fragmented global retail landscape of the bicycle industry was highly topical but not well understood. This made me believe there was room for a dual-channel blog that attempted to at least partially fill some information gaps. [Cycling iQ was never about me, so it's strange to be writing a personal post such as this].
A reasonable understanding of the bicycle industry lead to the 'Vertical Limit' series, followed by articles about companies in the bicycle manufacturing sector. Though I already knew many of the larger factories by name, actually speaking with representatives involved research, countless overseas calls and emails. It was important to me that content was original and facts were obtained and/or corroborated from the source. In the following months, Cycling iQ was referenced by respected sites such as The Inner Ring, Bicycling, VeloNews, CyclingTips and Road, which made me believe the basic formula was sound.
The philosophy around original content also applied to the coverage of professional road cycling in Asia. I figured the best way to find out about these races was to go myself. As a new blogger with few media credentials, this meant burning through some savings. Attendance to my first race, Tour of Beijing, was self-funded, as were Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL was the first race to pay for my on-site costs, which I am still incredibly grateful for) and Tour de Taiwan. I emailed or called other race organizers to see what assistance they could offer and became accustomed to receiving responses along the lines of "we have no budget for foreign media". To be fair, any race organizer would be right to question what exposure a blogger in Australia could possibly give to a UCI2.2 stage race in Asia.
During my travels on the UCI AsiaTour circuit, I quickly learnt the value of good media contacts. It was through such a contact that I received an invite to be Tour de Korea's official reporter in April 2012. Not only would my costs be covered, but I would be paid a small wage! On arrival into Seoul, I received a loaner Samsung Galaxy tablet and 4G network card so I could tweet and blog 24/7. Paradise! Not long after Tour de Korea, I was invited to perform a similar role at Tour of Chongming Island and Chongming Island World Cup. A certain momentum was developing and Tour de Singkarak was the next race to invite me along, but it clashed with another appointment. This brings me to the behind-the-scene changes mentioned above.
As a by-product of Cycling iQ's scope I'd been keeping a constant eye on the bicycle industry job market, but knew a rare combination of factors would be needed before I personally leapt into a permanent role. Without going into unnecessary details, a casual conversation commenced a great dialogue, which led to an unmissable professional and personal opportunity. As of August 1 this year, I will begin working for Scott Sports based in Switzerland.
Most readers will immediately recognize the complications of working for a global bicycle brand whilst writing about the bicycle industry. I know that many bicycle industry insiders have found the market information presented in Cycling iQ articles quite useful. It also takes much time to research and compose the type of industry articles I enjoy writing. This could be called the 'price of market intelligence'; on the one hand, market data is very valuable to brands and interesting to readers; on the other hand, it gives me less time to write about pro cycling in Asia.
Ultimately, I've decided the best way to avoid any perceived conflict of interest in future is to stop producing brand- and market-specific industry content before starting my new job. All current content will remain available as a resource. Cycling iQ will continue as a source for information on the people and places of the Asia-Pacific cycling scene, with a particular focus on the UCI AsiaTour. Better yet, I hope a regular salary will allow me to pay for more great images from people like Sonoko Tanaka, Aaron Lee and Mike Mokhriz. There will be less regular spare time for writing, but I'm optimistic this will result in the most interesting content floating to the top.
A huge thank you to all regular readers and visitors to Cycling iQ. It's immensely rewarding to log in each morning and see so many different nationalities have visited the site. Special thanks to anyone who has referred readers or friends to Cycling iQ. Though I'm a little disappointed that lengthy industry-analysis pieces will no longer be a regular feature in future, the previous nine months have already been instrumental in informing me that the growing sport of cycling in Asia is a far more interesting (and accessible) area to write about. I hope you will continue to enjoy learning about it with me.
I've long suspected you of being a replicant, given your superhuman work ethic, so it seems appropriate to reference Blade Runner at this point: "the candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long". Good luck with the next project.
Many thanks, Rob. Don't rush back from Europe – would be great to get in some rides with you.
Thanks for the excellent work Cam. Will miss the industry insider stories, but you never know what the future might hold.
Best of luck with the new job, no doubt it will be as big a success as the blog has been.
Cheers for being a significant part of the racing coverage Nick! Would be nice to think Cycling iQ could get more post-stage quotes from you again in the future.
Congratulations. I very much enjoyed the Vertical Limit series and will miss the market intelligence pieces you wrote. Enjoy Switzerland. I've lived here for about 9 years, it's a great place to live, work and ride a bike.
Thanks, Greg. As a New Zealander, I suspect the outdoors of Switzerland will be a great fit! Your support of Cycling iQ is greatly appreciated.
Ah ha, I knew there was something in the works and wish you all the best in your next step.
You're never far from industry news, Christopher! Drop me a line anytime you're back in the EU zone.
2nd Greg's comments above. Vertical Limit read like quality docu-drama to me. It explained a lot, particularly the fracturing of wholesale/retail chain, increase in quality, drop in prices …
All the best in your next job move, and thanks!
Thanks Paul, I especially appreciate your support from the beginning. It may take a few months to settle into a new rhythm, but I hope you will still find future content of interest.
I've enjoyed reading your articles over the last few months, Cam, and will still look forward to the race reports.
All the best with your new position, I'm sure I'll see you around somewhere!
Many thanks, Zac. It will be great to catch up; maybe at Eurobike? Otherwise, I hope to see you when I'm next in Japan.
Very much enjoyed your erudite writing Cam. There will be a big bike industry knowledge shaped gap out there for someone to fill in your absence. All the best to you in your new position.
It's been great to have your company almost from the beginning, Simeon. Thanks a lot for your kind words.
Thats a bit further to travel to have a chat! Good luck and well done Cam.
Congrats on your new job. Enjoyed reading the blog – its been spot on. Hope to still see you as a regular visitor to China in the new role.
Thanks a lot Shannon. I expect to be in China regularly in the future – really looking forward to seeing you and your new bike space venture.
Bit late to comment, but I'll add to the sentiment. A fascinating, insightful and slightly peculiar take on the cycling industry that I have enjoyed very much. Best of luck in Geneva and keep paying the domain fees!
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I just found your blog reading up on Taiwanese bicycle companies. Man was the information valuable. Now after reading for a few hours I came to this post… Sad to read that there won't be more articles about the industry. Glad to hear that you ended up with a new job in the industry given the somewhat jaded feeling I got reading your texts about the industry.
Hi Eddie, thanks a lot for dropping by and also for your comments. I'm really happy to know that you've found the information here useful. While the industry articles stopped more than one year ago, I still occasionally post some quick facts/stats on Twitter. I would also highly recommend bike-eu.com and bicycleretailer.co; both of whom have their fingers on the pulse with good industry data. Cheers, Cam
Hi Cam,
I found Cycling IQ some months ago but I would like to thank you now for your amazing work with this ! I really love your section "Business", it helps me to understand some things. Please continue posting news 😉 Cheers from Spain
Thanks a lot Andres!
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Spring 2006
Mainstage Production
Date of run:
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 (All day) to Saturday, April 22, 2006 (All day)
University Theater
"A triumph… . An essential hysterical fix… . Masterly." –The New York Observer
"Spectacularly funny … a peerless backstage comedy." –The New York Times
"A comic masterpiece." –Daily Telegraph
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award— winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare going on backstage. In the end, at the disastrous final performance, the two plots can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into a single collective nervous breakdown.
Rosemary Andress
Reed Abrahamson
Stage Manager:
Yotam Barkai
Danielle La Rocco
Lighting Designer:
Anya Kaplan-Seem
Set Designer:
Seema Kairam
Sound Designer:
Liam Andrew
Costume Designer:
Anastatia Curley
Graphic Designer:
Alice Tai
Props Master:
Andrew Beaty
J. Alex Johnson
Master Electrician:
Valerie Cervantes
Technical Director:
Esther Molnar
Dan Swett
Sound Engineer:
Eric Sauerhoff
Member & Role:
Constantine Lignos - Head Rigger
Emily Koh - Paint Charge
Emmett Zackheim - Assistant Producer (Sets)
Emily Biesecker - Assistant Producer
Eva Bitran - Assistant Producer
Kiersten Taylor - Assistant Producer
Yonah Freemark - Assistant Scenic Designer
Laura Edwards - Assistant Lighting Designer
Rahel Biru - Assistant Technical Director
Bryan Hunter Assistant Technical Director
Matt Jarge - Fly Captain
Andrew Chittenden - Light Board Operator
Gabriel Diaz - Sound Board Operator
Summer Banks - House Manager
Jessica Becker - Run Crew
Leah Franqui - Run Crew
Harry Guinness - Run Crew
Adele Li - Run Crew
Martine Alexander - Sets Crew
Erica Bergman - Sets Crew
Sean Bland - Sets Crew
Maile Borthwick - Sets Crew
Elysa Chao - Sets Crew
Samantha Do - Sets Crew
Laura Edwards - Sets Crew
Anya Kaplan-Seem - Sets Crew
Bobby Kolba - Sets Crew
Kate Lewandowski - Sets Crew
Constantine Lignos - Sets Crew
Sarah Marks - Sets Crew
Diana Mosca - Sets Crew
Megan Murphy - Sets Crew
Katie Reynolds - Sets Crew
Gabriel Diaz - Sound Crew
Hector Suerio - Sets Crew
Alexander Dominitz - Sound Crew
Neal Ubriani - Sets Crew
Constantine Lignos - Sound Crew
Alice Tai - Sets Crew
Jeffrey White - Sets Crew
Elysa Chao - Electrics Crew
Andrew Chittenden - Electrics Crew
Rebecca Dinerstein - Electrics Crew
Becky Dinerstein - Electrics Crew
Actor / Actress & Role:
Susie Kemple - Dotty Otley
Kobi Libii - Lloyd Dallas
Jamie Kirchick - Garry Lejeune
Sarah Minkus - Brooke Ashton
Annie Heller - Poppy Norton-Taylor
Brian Earp - Frederick Fellowes
Alexandra Trow - Belinda Blair
Andrew Ash - Tim Allgood
Josh Odsess-Rubin - Selsdon Mowbray
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FBI Turns Animal Cruelty Into Top-tier 'Group A' Felony to Help Identify Future Serial Killers, Too Late for Puppy Athena Tortured to Death by Stacy Glover in Sarasota
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
FBI to File Animal Cruelty Crimes as 'Group A' Felony to Prevent Future Violence: A/P LOS ANGELES: Young people who torture and kill animals are prone to violence against people (serial killers) later in life if it goes unchecked, studies have shown. A new federal category for animal cruelty crimes will help root out those pet abusers before their behavior worsens and give a boost to prosecutions, an animal welfare group says. For years, the FBI has filed animal abuse under the label "other" along with a variety of lesser crimes, making cruelty hard to find, hard to count and hard to track. The bureau announced this month that it would make animal cruelty a Group A felony with its own category — the same way crimes like homicide, arson and assault are listed.
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Sarasota: Miniature Dachshund Puppy Athena Tortured to Death by Stacy Sean Glover he Choked Out Wife in Prior Incident, This is Serial Killer 101. SARASOTA FL: The story of a sweet, tiny pup named Athena has gone worldwide. The precious miniature dachshund died a horrible death, spending her final moments, sadly, in fear and pain. Athena's heartbreaking murder was captured on surveillance video. A man dog sitting Athena is seen on camera, deputies say, punching the 12-pound puppy repeatedly. Stacy Sean Glover was supposed to be caring for the pup, but is instead accused of a savage crime – beating Athena to death.
Acts of cruelty to animals are not mere indications of a minor personality flaw in the abuser (Stacy Sean Glover); they are symptomatic of a deep mental disturbance. Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit acts of cruelty to animals don't stop there—many of them move on to their fellow humans (Stacy Sean Glover also strangled his wife until she passed out from the physical abuse). "Murderers-Serial Killers" … very often start out by killing and torturing animals," says Robert K. Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Sociopath: Many serial killers kill to control others' lives, small animals are the only lives they have the power to control. Cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer would bike around the woods as a child, collecting dead animals to dissect. Dahmer even killed and dismembered his own puppy.
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A well written plan should address the different requirements of the particular project and foresee many of the problems that may arise. A plan should be dynamic and change when assumptions change.
The four major steps to Planning are:
The Mission Statement
Planning begins with the preparation of a mission statement. The mission statement sets forth the objectives and intent of the project. It is the reference point to which all managerial actions in the project refer. The mission statement is dynamic, ch anging when environmental factors change.
A mission statement should not be general, such as "Computerize Acme Widgets"; a statement that lacks any specific goals. A better, more complete mission statement might be "Computerize Acme Widgets' Accounting and Manufacturing Divisions. Pro vide Marketing and Sales with timely statistical information, and the company with additional productivity and office automation tools". This revised mission statement tells more to the reader than just "Computerize". It has provided Management and employees with concrete intentions or objectives. These objectives can now be further defined so they are results oriented, reachable, and measurable.
Goals, Objectives and Milestones
Our model company, Acme Widgets is a $3 million assembler and distributor of Widget Tidbit's, The Company requires an integrated accounting system, where all manufacturing and distribution data is linked to the financial accounting data. The procurement and implementation of an appropriate integrated accounting system is the primary objective of there project.
An objective requires a specific, measurable, challenging goal that must be achievable during a specific time frame. Acme Widget's mission statement clearly sets forth a defined specific, and measurable goal, but no time frame. The major objective, in addition to any secondary objectives, requires an operational time frame. Each objective and/or milestone must have a completion date, which may or may not affect the performance of the next objective, milestone or task.
Secondary objectives can be determined by the implementation team. At Acme Widgets, these secondary objectives will be determined by the major departments that need to interact with the MIS system. The issue will be the information needs of the departme nts that can be satisfied though the management information system. As the company implements new techniques in production and inventory control, (i.e., Material Requirements Planning or Manufacturing Resources Planning) more and more departments will wan t to interact with the entire MIS system.
Acme Widget's accounting department needs the integrated accounting system that includes accounting programs to cover all facets of the five areas of accounting: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Inventory. An integrated accounting system was chosen so duplicate General Ledger postings would not have to be made. It would also provide up to date and accurate information was available to all users. Lastly, if possible, accounting would like to install a Job Costing syst em, in conjunction with the manufacturing departments, so that expenses and cost of production can be properly allocated to individual products and profit centers.
In addition to monthly, and quarterly financial statements, management requires summary reports concerning marketing, sales, production, and inventory control. The Marketing and Sales Manager requirements necessitate specific marketing and sales informat ion to provide Acme Widgets with much needed data concerning trends in customer sales, geographic and territory sales, distributor and outside agent productivity.
Manufacturing and Distribution must maintain Inventory, Order Processing, Purchase Orders, Bills Of Materials and Shop Floor Control. They should also utilize Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Master Scheduling to plan purchasing of material to ma ximize inventory turnover and increase the capacity of the facility.
The last part of the mission statement required productivity tools on the computer system. Such tools could include word processing, databases, spreadsheets, and a CAD system for designing new products. Acme Widgets has placed a lower priority on this a spect of their mission statement.
Participants, Resources and Costs
It now becomes necessary to locate an initial resource group whose job it will be to:
This group should be marketed to the company. By utilizing a cross section of employees, the new systems or plan will belong to the users, not to management. It is the users who will make the plan or systems work, not management.
The Plan must be marketed to the company. The term marketing is used in the same sense as marketing the company's products to its. Every member of the company should understand the who, what, where, why, and how of the new system and the impact on the w orkplace.
Resources will also be needed from outside the company. Individuals or companies will be hired based on the examination of the 'expertise' factor of company personnel. A careful review of the employees will determine whether there are individuals in the Company with the background in computers, or those familiar with the installation and implementation procedures. Use of independent Implementation Consultants should also be considered. The role of the Consultant can be multi-faceted, from Catalyst t o Team Leader. Most companies require an outsider whose expertise in system integration will allow the smooth transition from a manual to a computerized accounting system. In addition, hardware and software vendors, maintenance companies, electricians, cable installers, trainers, etc. must be found.
Another major resource that needs to be discussed is the current manual systems and files. These files and/or systems are the basis of the creation of the Companies new data bases. These data bases, such as the Vendor File or the Open Customer Order Fi le will be used during the implementation of the accounting system. Great care must be given to the accuracy of the information gathered and entered into the new databases.
The Action Plan
With the resources identified and assembled, the objectives and mission statement defined, the Planning Committee/Implementation Team must set forth the specific steps to accomplish the objectives. This action list will most likely be further sub-divided into sub-projects. Again, each sub-project requires a mission statement, objectives, resources, and an action plan. Sub-projects could include: Selecting the Hardware Platform and Hardware Vendors; Accounting Software and it's Vendors; and Consultants and Trainers. These sub-projects will be treated as part of the entire project.
The development of a Action Plan is made easier when the Planning Committee utilizes Project Management techniques. Use of Gantt Charts or the Performance Evaluation and Review Technique can make the process of defining tasks, assigning resources, setti ng time frames and determining predecessors and successors to each task and milestone much easier. Project Management is the basis for evaluating the Action Plan against the performance of the Plan. Remember, each goal, objective, milestone and/or task requires measurability. Project Management provides the instrument to gauge that measurability. See Table 1.
For purposes of this discussion, it is assumed the Planning Committee has decided that the hardware platform best suited for the company is or microcomputer based (PC). The Planning Committee must determine what type of PC Acme Widgets should purchase. To determine the type of PC and what operating system or network to use, the Committee must understand the marketplace. This is the area in which the Independent Consultant can be most helpful to the Company.
Most companies have four different choices when selecting software for their accounting system. The first two are either horizontally or vertically marketed programs. The third choice is a custom programmed software package. The last option is a hybrid system, or re-writing large amounts of "off-the-shelf" software. Each type of software package offers certain limitations that must be considered. Such limitations, if not entirely explored could lead to investing in a software package which just won't work, or will only work with a great deal of customizing. Good "off-the-shelf" software has a degree of flexibility with features that can be turned on or off are user defined.
One of the most important factors in choosing a high end accounting system is the ability of the client company to obtain source code, the original text of the program. This is accomplished by either purchasing the source code directly, or having an outs ide company to make program modifications. When spending considerable amounts of money on software, you should be able to modify the accounting system if your circumstances require it. Remember, no two companies are exactly alike, nor do even the best o f accounting systems do everything you need to do.
There are three types of high-end software publishers. The first type permits end-users access to the source code. The second group allows distributors and other 'certified' individuals, developers or group's access to the source code. The last group d oes not allow any access to source code. This last group of software publishers prohibits any modification what so ever to their software. I find this last group of software publishers difficult to recommend (high-end systems only).
A modification is a change in the computer program. For example, making the description field for inventory items longer or shorter, would be a major modification that would effect almost every program in the Inventory system, Purchase Order system, Cust omer Order system and possibly the Accounts Payable system.. Modifications should only be made after the system is operating.
When you have the system working in real time, you may find that those "must have" requirements are no longer essential for the business. Many high end accounting systems provide enough reports and with a report generator can make as many different repor ts as necessary. Report Generators do not modify source code, they only present the information already at hand in a new form.
I strongly recommend against a custom designed and programmed accounting system. Customizing a system involves extensive development time, is quite expensive, is a re-invention of the wheel and requires additional maintenance costs. A software package s old "off the shelf" that has been installed in a number of locations is a safer bet. Odds are most of the serious bugs have either been found during testing or by those customers who were the first to purchase the package. Before buying any accounting package, the track record and stability of the manufacturer should be investigated. The cost of updates should be considered. More significant upgrades or changes in versions would have a more substantial charge. All new upgrades should come with a compl ete new set of documentation.
In the microcomputer market, business accounting software, is broken into two markets, low-end and high-end. A mid-level accounting software market is just emerging. Most times, those packages designed as mid-level systems are outgrown soon after impleme ntation. Mid-level packages are offered by some manufacturers with the expectation that the user will gravitate to the next offering in that particular software publisher's line of accounting systems.
The major consideration between low and high-end is the price point, with most low-end systems going for under $500 for the entire system. Low-end systems are limited in features and vary in difficulty of implementation, quality of documentation, and sup port from independent consultants, dealers, and the software publisher. Normally, source code is unavailable, making modifications impossible. Some low-end systems have built in report generators and the ability to import and export data and graphs.
Low-end systems are limited by the number of transactions they are able to process efficiently. Large quantities of data in these low-end systems will take inordinate amounts of time to process. Also some low-end systems can not be networked. They do n ot possess the ability to have file and record locking. File and record locking prohibit other users from changing data on the same record or same file at the same time.
High-end systems start at a minimum of $295 per module (not an entire system) and going up to over $4,000 per module. High-end systems offer a greater number of features, with most control modules (A/R, A/P, Inventory and Payroll) able to stand alone.
Stand alone systems enable companies to purchase groups of modules and implement them in small projects. For example, a company with a purchasing problem, could implement the purchase order and accounts payable systems first while organizing themselves f or the implementation of the inventory module.
Better systems are able to automatically copy or link shared data among applications instead of having to reenter the same data. Many high-end systems have third-party software houses developing industry specific or specialized modules.
High-end systems have file and record locking, while some even have field locking. High-end systems are being re-written to utilize the most modern advances in database systems. They also come with report generators, import and export capabilities and a host of other features.
High-end systems should be reviewed for their auditing capabilities, level of integration and speed of processing. Again, support is a key element, especially when your software will be the key to the company's information system and likely to cost in th e neighborhood of $20,000. Most accounting packages have a few strong points or emphasis on certain features. The software manufacturer might have originally written the software package as only a financial accounting package and then added other appli cations.
How many versions does the software house currently support? Does the software version have multiple releases, or multiple versions (i.e., Lotus 1-2-3 version 2, 2.2, 3.1) and Windows versions. Does the publisher constantly update the software when bugs are discovered or conditions such as as payroll taxes change? How does and what type of installations does the software company have? How many different accounting systems do they publish? These are some of the important questions that should be asked of the consultant and software vendor.
One of the key strategies in implementation is "keep it simple." For instance, during the "load phase," only necessary information should be entered.
For example, Acme Widgets, currently has little or no marketing data. It would be foolish to take an inordinate amount of implementation time and enter into the customer file every customer that Acme Widgets has ever dealt with. Data entry can be a tedi ous process, and by blindly adding hundreds or thousands of extra entries will increase the chances of error, eat up what might be crucial disk space, and increase the maintenance time.
The easier and simpler you make your inventory number schemes, customer numbers, bills of materials, while still keeping control, the simpler it will be to maintain your data base. Data base maintenance is an ongoing function. Companies evolve, personne l change, and complex procedures and policies make it ever so difficult to keep data pure. Another potential for improvement is the Chart of Accounts. This is the opportunity to establish a new Chart of Accounts or modify the old chart. The questions t hat should be asked are whether the current Chart of Accounts addresses the needs of management.
The first step in the implementation process is the entering of the Chart of Accounts in the General Ledger. Most high-end accounting systems permit the Chart of Accounts to be downloaded, linked, or copied into sub-modules as required. Normally the Ac counts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Job Costing, and Payroll modules require their own copies of the Chart of Accounts. Remember, most high-end systems allow for the A/R and A/P modules to be used as stand alone packages. Specific information can be ex tracted from the software's documentation. See Table 2.
Running Dual or Parallel Accounting Systems
It is conventional that before you change over to a new accounting system it is necessary to run dual or parallel accounting systems. This is done for an extended period of time to make sure that the output of the new system is the same as the old system . Dual or parallel systems permit the company the time to check all programs and procedures of the new system and make sure they are fully debugged and working properly. Unfortunately, running dual or parallel systems from three months to a year a signi ficant overhead is added to the entire project. There is also an element of decreased morale due to pressure placed on managers and employees of all departments for an increased period of time.
An easier way to run dual or parallel accounting systems is to enter all the data which occurred as a result of the last fiscal quarter during the training phase. This will provide:
To accomplish this dual or parallel system, all outstanding items: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Purchase Orders, Physical Inventory, and Customer Orders; as well as the trial balance from the ending period of the quarter prior to the test quarte r, must be made available. At the proper time, this information will be entered into the computer and will be verified prior to the operational training phase.
Training consists of three major areas; database training, operational training, and system administration.
Database training
Database training covers all the necessary steps that are required to prepare and enter all the appropriate information into the system. Future information, such as new customers or inventory items will be based on the decisions made during this portion o f the implementation. Specific one time training is necessary for the loading of the starting or base financial data.
Operational training
Operational training includes the development of all data entry policies and procedures that will be used on a daily basis to run the system. The procedures developed during the start up phase will be proven during the operational phase. By utilizing a ll the records from the test fiscal quarter, the training process will utilize every aspect of the computer system. The tests require the accounting and supporting staffs to initiate purchase orders, receive inventory, build product, enter customer order s, invoice orders, receive and make deposits, enter vendor invoices and pay them, and post all the resulting information ultimately to the General Ledger, after verification. Finally, at the conclusion of all activity for the given test month, month-end procedures will be run along with financial statements. Results will be verified again. When the control data and the training data agree, you are ready to enter the new month's data. It is usually possible to complete an entire month's activity in a fraction of a month.
System administration training
System administration training consists of acclimating all company personnel to the network operating system. Training includes logging on to the system, use of the menu system, and setting security measures such as passwords. Employees designated admini strators should be trained in creating new users, and security groups, loading new programs, maintaining backups and creating disaster recovery procedures.
The first full module that should be implemented is inventory. A major task in this area is the development of a numbering system for each component of inventory. Another area of concern is the development of appropriate item description files.
Once the Inventory file is created, including all raw goods, work in process and finished goods, attention should be directed to the Bill of Material module. The last step before starting the Bill of Material is to load the inventory quantities (prefera bly based on a physical count) at the beginning of the period that is going to be used for training.
Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable Systems
While the implementation team members involved in the production area of the company are working on the Inventory and Bill of Materials system, the Accounting and Sales department team members should start on the Accounts Receivable modules. Also the Pur chasing department team members should help implement the Accounts Payable modules.
Before starting, the installation of the customer base, the Credit department members must set either default credit limits or specific credit limits for each customer. Most high-end accounting systems provide multiple stage credit checking on customers. The usual credit checks are done at order entry and again at the time the picking lists are created.
Marketing should spend its time determining how they wish to code those fields reserved for marketing purposes. It is always easier to code the customers for credit or marketing purposes during the creation of the account versus after sales have been mad e. It is this period of the implementation that is most important to fulfilling part of the Mission Statement. The customer file is one of the core areas that will give Marketing and Sales timely statistical information.
With the necessary customer base installed, the open A/R items from the beginning of the period being used for training should be entered. There is usually a quick entry feature used for this purpose. This sub program is normally only used once. Great care must be taken to make sure that the Accounts Receivable figure is the same as the live data it is taken from.
The next step is implementation of the Customer Order Processing system. Each accounting system is different, and this area may be one or two different modules. The key to this module is the pricing matrix and the entry of open orders as of the beginnin g of the training period. Again, great care must be taken to be sure all open orders are entered correctly, that the purchase order numbers, old order numbers, items, sales price, and discounts all match.
Similar procedures should be performed at the same time for the Accounts Payable system. All A/P open items had to be entered from the beginning of the training period. All open Purchase Orders must be entered as of the beginning of the training perio d. Again, the system demands these orders to be correct in all respects, as the Cash Requirements Report and Cash Projection Reports will utilize this data.
The General Ledger
The General Ledger module is installed after all the other modules are finished. All G/L accounts not yet activated should be created and entered along with their beginning balances. An opening trial balance should be run and agreed to the prior ending balances. The last check is to make sure that the control accounts in the G/L equal the subsidiary accounts. Financial statements can be run and checked against the training period's beginning financials for accuracy.
One module not mentioned here is Payroll. For the average company, Payroll is best done by an outside vendor. If that is the case, payroll distributions will be entered into the General ledger through manual postings from journals provided by the payrol l vendor.
Once all the modules have been loaded with initial data, and beginning balances have been entered and verified, each department will organize its records and data in a sequential fashion. Each department will enter operational training by entering days' documents, by batch. The General Ledger must be updated in relation to the transactions entered by each of the other accounting modules and normal G/L transactions.
At this point, all entries have been made in every module; repeating in a matter of days what took the company a month to perform. These entries have been double checked and verified. Verification is always done against source material and existing jour nals and reports from the test month. The last action to the complete the month is to run financial statements. These statements should mimic the financial statements made in the test month (allowing for change in the Chart of Accounts, if any).
The reports and journal that are produced by the accounting program are not always required. Companies with insignificant inventories may not require or need ABC inventory reports, or all managers within the Company may not require access to the report. All journals and reports are management tools, to help the Company manage its growth, production, cash and expenses. If these tools are not used or the data contained on the reports is not valid, then the management information system is not working.
The processes should be repeated for all the months in the test data range.
When the training period has ended and all the data has passed the company standards your system is now ready for 'live' data.
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Japan's Anritsu which last year acquired the Danish test equipment producer Nettest for DKK 440 m (USD 74.8 m), is now planning to make a Nettest competence area into its most important global focus for growth. Hiromichi Toda, CEO of Anritsu, last week visited Nettest in Brøndby close to Copenhagen to inform the Danish staff of Anritsu's strategy.
Hiromichi Toda says: "We acquired Nettest less than a year ago, and now we are establishing a global division which will promote the particular strength of Nettest – service agreements with large telecom operators."
From the previous focus on developing and selling test equipment, Anritsu now aims to offer a full service on the new generation of network. "It is a new type of business to us, and we have to learn a lot from the Danish division and create a new model from it. By making the division into an independent global unit, it will be easier for us at headquarters to maintain the focus on this business unit," says Mr. Toda.
Anritsu expects over time that its new focus on service agreements will play a significant role in the company's strategy to become the world's leading test equipment producer. The news was reported by financial daily newspaper Børsen.
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CNX Increases Capital Budget
CNX Gas Corporation (NYSE: CXG) announced that J. Michael Onifer has been promoted to Senior Vice President - Established Business Units and Randall M. Albert has been promoted to Senior Vice President - Emerging Business Units.
Michael Onifer will continue to be responsible for Virginia Operations, while Randall Albert will continue to be responsible for Mountaineer, as well as the Nittany and Cardinal exploratory plays.
Nicholas J. DeIuliis, president and chief executive officer, commented that, "It is not coincidence that Mike Onifer and Randy Albert join the executive office concurrently. Both bring decades of experience in CNX Gas operations. Both have performed in an exemplary manner, especially as additional responsibilities have been placed upon them in recent months. Our operations ran smoothly in the second quarter, with preliminary sales production of 14.9 Bcf, a company record."
CNX Gas has also made an important new hire, Dr. DeAnn Craig, who is Senior Vice President - Asset Assessment. Dr. Craig was most recently employed by Chevron North America Exploration and Production (Chevron), where her duties included assisting in capital budget preparation and analysis. DeAnn is also a prior president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Nick DeIuliis spoke about the hiring of Dr. Craig, saying, "We are thrilled to have Dr. Craig lead our asset assessment program. As our emerging plays develop and as our acreage position continues to expand, DeAnn will play a key role in helping us to determine how we can best deploy our capital to more quickly and efficiently monetize our asset base. She'll be able to apply analytical techniques she's honed with major oil companies to enhance the systematic approach we already employ. Our expectation is that DeAnn will quickly build a world-class engineering and technical assessment staff and institute best-in-class processes within CNX Gas."
Mr. DeIuliis continued, "Our operational team is now situated where asset plays that are unassessed within the company will be efficiently and accurately evaluated by DeAnn's team, then if warranted as economic, will be started-up under Randy, and then as they reach critical mass will be efficiently operated under Mike. With these three individuals, the core of our operations group is established for the coming years."
In conjunction with the executive appointments, CNX Gas has also increased the 2007 Capital Budget from $312 million to $336 million. The increase is due primarily to land costs related to increasing the inventory of available well sites that the company will be able to drill in the Mountaineer, Nittany, and Cardinal plays. Both figures are exclusive of the recently announced Peabody transaction.
Mr. DeIuliis continued, "I view all of these announcements as facets in our continued growth. We have production growth targets of 15% per year, with a 2010 production target in excess of 100 Bcf. to get there, we need to continuously assess and remove operational bottlenecks. Eighteen months ago, drill rig availability was the primary bottleneck that we faced. Then as we accelerated our drilling, land and permit availability became our main area of focus. We countered by placing more capital resources on acquiring sites and obtaining permits. Now, we believe our key challenge relates to our ability to timely assess our huge acreage position and to deploy capital across a much wider asset class. We ended 2006 with 2.46 million gross acres, 640,000 of which were not included in our 3-P reserve assessment. With our recent transactions, we now have 3.6 million gross acres, including 1.6 million acres that need technical assessment. Our asset class is also evolving, as we move from a historically pure-play Central Appalachian coalbed methane producer to a multi-basin unconventional gas producer. These recent actions show that we will devote the necessary resources to monetize this exceptional asset base sooner rather than later."
J. Michael Onifer had been Vice President - Virginia Operations & Administration. In this position, he is responsible for annual production in excess of 50 billion cubic feet (Bcf) and the wholly owned Cardinal States Gathering System. Mr. Onifer graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. degree in mining engineering. In 2004, he attended the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Onifer started his career as a project engineer at CONSOL Energy and held various coal-related positions, including Superintendent -- Buchanan Mine. He joined CNX Gas in late 2000 as a production foreman and advanced through various management positions.
Randall M. Albert had been Vice President - Emerging Business Units. In this position, he is responsible developing coalbed methane (CBM) in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia (Mountaineer), exploring for CBM in central Pennsylvania (Nittany), and exploring for gas in the New Albany Shale formation in western Kentucky (Cardinal). Earlier, he held the position of General Manager - Technical Services and Administration. Mr. Albert graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. degree in mining engineering. He joined CNX Gas in 1990. From 1980 to 1990 Mr. Albert held various mining positions including Mine Engineer. He is a registered professional engineer in Virginia and West Virginia.
Dr. DeAnn Craig, while at Chevron North America headquarters, worked with appropriations and expenditures and the requests for authorizations to make such expenditures. She was an internal expert on project economic evaluation and also led a team that worked on improving probabilistic reporting of production and capital and expenditures. Dr. Craig began her career at Phillips Petroleum as a petroleum engineer, where she rose to the position of Manager, Worldwide Drilling and Production. Later, she became president of Phillips' Canadian exploration and development operations. This was followed by a tour in Washington, D.C., where she was a government affairs representative for Phillips, while also serving as president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Dr. Craig earned her Ph.D., two master's degrees, and a B.S. degree from the Colorado School of Mines, where she is also a member of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Craig holds an MBA from Regis University in Denver and is also a registered professional engineer in Colorado.
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Movie Summary
A group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp, where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place, back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors.
As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and now he is a vengeful and inexorable killer, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments. The legend proves horribly true, as these campers quickly discover.
Six months later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all.
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Movie Review
The only problem I had with this movie was the title of it. I didn't agree with a remake of Friday The 13th and not follow the story of the original part one. It does pick up from where the original left off, with Jason's mom dying. So, they should have just called it part 2 remake but then it probably wouldn't make any sense at all, if they did that.
This has everything the first couple parts of this series has. They do, however, give Jason the ability to run but he doesn't do it too much. I only noticed one part where he did run, which was seen on the trailer.
Another good thing about this version was how they made it into 2 different storylines but both connecting, at the middle and end. Other than that, it's your basic Friday The 13th movie (in camp, of course). There were a few comedy moments, within the movie, but not a lot. I thought it made the movie more entertaining to watch, personally. Also, I enjoyed seeing how they made Jason Voorhees live underground, in this version, because it gives a more real feeling to the movie. I know a lot of people, including myself, have always wondered where Jason hides out, when he's not seen walking around.
The only thing I didn't agree with was the ending. If this is a remake, then Jason is not in "undead" form. So, he should have died, just like he did in part 5. Since a sequel to this version is suppose to come out, I would like to see how they explain him living. Also, I didn't enjoy the very beginning either, for that matter. Everyone, who followed the original series, knows Jason supposedly drowned in 1957. Then in 1980, his mother was beheaded, with a machete. So, when they flash-backed to 1980, at the beginning of this version, Jason was still a little boy, when they showed him going over to his mother. It took him 23 years to finally grow up to an adult size?
Anyways, if you liked Friday The 13th parts 1 through 6, then you'll enjoy this one, as well. It was worth watching, to me.
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Tomato and Bread Soup
Tomato and Bread Soup
A hearty, inexpensive soup that's good at any time of year.
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 small onions, finely chopped
- 1 cup peeled, diced carrots (about 4)
- 1 cup chopped and cored fennel bulb
- 4 garlic cloves, finely minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 4 cups dried bread cubes
- 2 28-oz. cans of crushed tomatoes
- 5 cups chicken or vegetable stock, or water
- 1/3 cup red wine
- 1 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh oregano leaves
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- 4 oz. sliced mushrooms
- 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
- In a large sauce pan (and I mean large) or a stockpot, heat the olive oil on medium. Add onions, fennel, and carrots, and sweat until they start to soften, about 7 minutes. Add the garlic and stir in the tomato paste. Cook about 3 more minutes. Stir in the bread, and cook an additional 5 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, stock, wine, and herbs. Add 1/2 tablespoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of pepper.
- Increase heat to high and bring to a boil. Stir, reduce heat to medium, and simmer partly covered for about an hour, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are soft.
- Stir the bread to break it up (if necessary). Stir in the mushrooms and Parmesan cheese. Check the seasonings.
- Serve and enjoy.
You can use fresh bread as well. Whichever you decide to use, you can make it as thick or thin as you want. If your soup is too thick, add more stock or water, or add tomato juice. If it's too thin, allow it to reduce uncovered, or add more bread.
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Whisper Pitch-Doni Silver Simons-Project Room
Whisper Pitch
The interaction and communication between audience and art are "gold" to me. Whisper Pitch is my response to the invitation to create work based on the themes of "gold and alchemy" for this exhibition.
Whisper Pitch represents the alchemical transformation of elemental into complex. Utiliziing a drawn line, the most basic component of art, this work explores the magic of marking. The place begins with my single drawing horizontal line. Throughout Whisper Pitch, guests are invited to also draw a single horizontal line. The culmination is a drawing comprised of multiple lines, side by side and intertwined.
Each individual mark becomes encoded within this web creating the symphonic voice of communal work.
Doni Silver Simons
I was able to interview Doni on the phone and also in person at the gallery space. Doni's current interactive-drawing-installation-performance investigates the formal issues of line from literal to conceptual to ethereal. A scroll of paper surrounds the installation space on three walls. Doni invites individual gallery visitors to choose a drawing tool such as charcoal sticks, pencils, and oil sticks. They are asked to make a continual mark along the three walls. Each person creates marks based on their height.
When Doni interacts with each person she stresses that Whisper Pitch is not about making art. What is paramount is being present. Doni continued to say that "...you as a person is present-the residual was the mark...". This concept of leaving residual marks existed since Doni was a child. She frequently spent time on the beach playfully dragging a stick on the sand. As Doni reached her destination, she would turn and absorb the emphemeral marks that were a component of her journey.
Doni had participants express loss of ego and become "the collective symphony of voices". There have been heartfelt demonstrations of tears and expressions of "feeling human".
Whisper Pitch is reduced to the basic essential of drawing lines. These lines have unified numerous visitors which continue to move and have an impact far beyond the installation walls that currently house Whisper Pitch.
Doni Silver Simons' journey...


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Angry Birds 15-7 "Mining for Melons"
15-7 4 Birds
Loop first white bird between first two towers. Drop egg to take out foundation of first house and recoil into front stalactite.
Arc second yellow bird to take out pig in the box at right of game. Nicking bottom of nearby stalactite helpful.
Aim third yellow bird to take out any debris of closest wood house.
Aim fourth big red bird to take out central stone tower, and hope for good fallout.
(High score two and three bird solutions also possible)
Score: 84,210
*Rank: 5
Some High Score Targets:
3 Stars: 75,000
*Top 30: 78,680
*Top 20: 80,430
*Top 10: 83,220
*Top scores in Massachusetts in August, 2011 according to Crystal (a former feature of the Mobile App).