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Kaminsky & Associates is an independent consulting firm, specializing in employee benefit products and services. Our regionally exclusive affiliation with UBA, the largest independent employee benefits consulting firm in the nation, enables us to provide resources to our clients typically available only to the largest national firms, while maintaining our hands-on, one-on-one local expertise.
Providing Group Benefit and Insurance Solutions throughout Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan since 1956.
We like the current colors and the use of the rotator on the home page. We would like to see an example of how the drop down menu would look.
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At Kaminsky & Associates, we specialize in creating employee benefit solutions for our clients. Having been in the employee benefits industry for more than 20 years, we've worked with hundreds of clients and listened to the challenges faced by companies in the administration of their benefits.
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One of the good things about working in the service industry is the money. Not the pay, that's not all that great, but working with the money that the customers bring in. Somewhat often they end up paying with old coins and bills. I can buy these out of the drawer and collect them.
Above, you can see some of the pieces that I've bought over the years. The most recent is the $5 bill, which I got a few days ago. It might be worth a little more than $5, but it's not the value that I'm after - it's the age. I love that a bill printed in 1963 is still in circulation. And a barber dime from 1916, a Peace dollar from 1923, a JFK half-dollar from their first year, 1964, and Eisenhower half dollars from the bicentennial.


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A feature in The Atlantic on Monday proposed that we modern women should give chivalry another chance. Reviled as sexist acts by our bra-burning foremothers, today's feminists need not scoff at men who open doors for ladies or refuse to split the check on the first date.
These gentlemen are not assuming that we can't open our own doors or pay for own meals. They are not making a statement on the weakness of our sex or trying to put us down in any way. They simply like doing it for us because it makes them feel like men.
I'm okay with that. I'm also okay with being treated like a lady, and acting like a lady by graciously receiving any chivalry that comes my way. It makes me feel worth the extra thought and attention of another human being. When a man holds the elevator door, or gives up a spot in line at the grocery store when it's 5 o'clock and I have my kids with me, or says, "Excuse me, ma'am," after an accidental bump, I don't feel weak and invaluable. If anything, it makes me feel powerful as a woman that I would deserve that little bit of extra respect simply because of my gender.
Thankfully, widespread female subjugation in the Western world is a thing of the past. Women can do anything men can do, and we don't even have to worry about male pattern baldness. We can work, stay home, have kids, not have kids, be chefs or doctors or horticulturalists or whatever. We are so lucky!
The Atlantic sums it up nicely:
A story from the life of Samuel Proctor (d. 1997) comes to mind here. Proctor was the beloved pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Apparently, he was in the elevator one day when a young woman came in. Proctor tipped his hat at her. She was offended and said, "What is that supposed to mean?"
The pastor's response was: "Madame, by tipping my hat I was telling you several things. That I would not harm you in any way. That if someone came into this elevator and threatened you, I would defend you. That if you fell ill, I would tend to you and if necessary carry you to safety. I was telling you that even though I am a man and physically stronger than you, I will treat you with both respect and solicitude. But frankly, Madame, it would have taken too much time to tell you all of that; so, instead, I just tipped my hat."
So why not let the men be men? They aren't treating us deferentially because they view us as powerless waifs -- they're doing it because we are clearly awesome. And any man who takes a moment to tip his hat to me is awesome in my book too.
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Sherea Dillon has been selected to serve as a compliance officer specializing in imports for the Food and Drug Administration's Chicago District Office, which screens more than 500,000 imported food, drugs, medical devices and biologic shipments per year. Dillon will recommend firms or products be placed on import alert, which stops products from entering the U.S., determine compliance with FDA regulations, and process shipment refusals and detentions. Dillon also is on a national committee to enhance FDA import technology. Dillon has a master¿s of science in agricultural economics from University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and a bachelor¿s in food science and agricultural economics from Purdue University.
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Activist investor Nelson Peltz put the spotlight back on PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP), releasing on Thursday a letter that once again pressured the company to consider a spinoff of its beverage business.
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Peltz's firm, Trian Fund Management, said it owns about $1.2 billion worth of PepsiCo stock. Trian began to amass a stake in PepsiCo and seek out a split last year.
The beverage and snack giant subsequently launched a strategic review of the company. Last week, the maker of Lays and Doritos chips said it consulted with external bankers and opted against spinning off the North American beverage unit.
"Decoupling our beverage and snack businesses in North America would significantly reduce our relevance to our customers," Chief executive Indra Nooyi said at the time of the announcement.
In its letter, Trian said it was "highly disappointed" with PepsiCo's decision and will soon begin to meet with shareholders to create "a groundswell of support" for a split.
"Trian does not agree with the outcome of PepsiCo's strategic review, particularly following another quarter of uninspiring performance and weak 2014 guidance," Peltz wrote.
PepsiCo's beverage unit, which includes Gatorade and Tropicana, has struggled to keep up the pace as consumers increasingly choose juices and other soft drinks over sodas. The Purchase, N.Y. company reported last week a better-than-expected profit of $1.74 billion for the fourth quarter. Revenue from the Americas beverage segment dropped 1.6%, while foods revenue was up 3%.
PepsiCo also detailed plans to increase cash returns to shareholders by 35% to $8.7 billion in fiscal 2014, utilizing share buybacks and higher dividends. The company expects adjusted per-share earnings to grow 7% in the current year.
A separation of Pepsi's North American beverage and snack businesses, Peltz wrote, "would create two leaner and more entrepreneurial companies."
"A standalone snacks business would offer investors strong growth in sales, margins and free cash flow generation, and a standalone beverage business would provide strong, stable free cash flow that may be optimized through an effective balance sheet and capital return program," he added.
A PepsiCo spokesperson said the company is "fully aligned" with the strategy outlined last week and confident in its ability to "deliver long-term shareholder value as an integrated food and beverage company."
"We engaged constructively with Trian and invested a large amount of management time and significant financial resources analyzing Trian's proposals," the spokesperson added. "Management and the Board have spoken clearly, and our focus is on delivering results for our shareholders, not new, costly distractions that will harm shareholder interests."
Peltz previously wanted Pepsi to consider an acquisition of Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ), which owns Oreo maker Nabisco. But Peltz abandoned that idea after he got a seat on the Mondelez board in January.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Commission proposes legislation to facilitate damage claims by victims of antitrust violations
Why is the Commission introducing this draft Directive?
Infringements of EU competition law such as cartels or abuses of dominant market positions cause very serious harm, not only to the economy as a whole but also to particular businesses and consumers. They may suffer harm, for example, because of higher prices or lost profits due to foreclosure from a market.
These victims are entitled to compensation for this harm. They can obtain such compensation by bringing an action for damages before a national court. The EU Court of Justice put an emphasis on this right as one of the means of achieving effective application of the EU antitrust rules. However, few claims are brought before national courts as it is still difficult for consumers and businesses to obtain redress.
This is due to shortcomings in the applicable legal frameworks in most Member States that make it excessively costly and difficult to bring actions. In particular, victims may have difficulties in obtaining relevant evidence. There may also be legal uncertainty concerning the time limit within which they can bring an action and in some Member States. Decisions of national competition authorities establishing an infringement sometimes have no final value as evidence of the infringement.
This situation particularly affects consumers and SMEs, who rarely can face the cost of legal action. Moreover, the few actions that were introduced have been brought in a minority of Member States, where the rules are perceived to be more favourable. For instance, only 25% of antitrust infringements found by the Commission in the last 7 years have been followed by civil actions from victims. Most of these actions were brought by large businesses, and most actions were introduced in either the UK, Germany or the Netherlands. National rules are widely diverging and as a result, victims are more or less likely to obtain compensation depending of the Member State they live in.
What is private enforcement? Will it change the role of the Commission in finding antitrust infringements?
The private enforcement of EU competition rules consists in legal actions brought before a national court to enforce the rights derived from those rules. It particularly concerns the right to be compensated for the harm suffered from an infringement of the competition rules, e.g. through higher prices or lost profits.
The Commission's proposal is aimed at bringing compensation to those who suffered harm and not, as in some other jurisdictions, as a tool for punishment and deterrence of those who breach the antitrust rules. The latter is the role of competition authorities, be it at EU or at national level, which find and sanction infringements (public enforcement).
Private and public enforcement are complementary tools: the Commission's proposal for facilitating civil redress for victims does not change the role of the Commission and the national competition authorities as public enforcers of EU competition rules through antitrust investigations.
What are the main measures put forward in the proposal?
The proposal for a Directive puts forward a number of measures which will facilitate antitrust damages actions in Member States:
What is the relationship between the antitrust damages Directive and the recommendation on Collective Redress?
The harm caused by antitrust infringements is often spread across a large number of victims, each single one having a low-value damage. This is often the case for consumers and SMEs, who are thus less likely to face single-handedly the costs of bringing legal action. Collective action may improve the chance to get effective compensation for consumers and SMEs in these cases.
Since consumers and SMEs may face the same difficulties when enforcing their rights also in other fields of EU law, the Commission recommends that some form of collective redress should be available in all EU Member States to act against breaches of whatever EU rule, including breaches of the EU antitrust rules. This non-binding recommendation is thus a useful complement of the proposed Directive.
The Directive applies to actions for damages available in the Member States, whether individual (available in all Member States) or collective (currently available only in some Member States). However, the Directive does not oblige Member States to introduce collective actions if they are not available.
What is the relationship between the compensation of victims and antitrust fines?
Civil redress for victims obtained through private enforcement (i.e. actions for damages) is meant to compensate those victims for the harm they suffered.
Fines imposed by a competition authority after an investigation in the public interest (public enforcement) are instead a means of sanctioning infringers for their illegal conduct, and discourage them, and other potential infringements, to commit further infringements.
Compensation and antitrust fines pursue different, yet complementary, objectives. Therefore, fines should not be lower if compensation is paid, nor should they be higher if compensation is not paid.
Will actions for damages discourage companies from cooperating with the Commission or national competition authorities?
Under their leniency programmes, competition authorities offer a reduction or immunity from fines, under certain conditions, to those infringers who co-operate by enabling an authority to discover an infringement and bringing it to an end. Certain competition authorities also have settlement procedures that reward, under certain circumstances, companies that acknowledge their liability with a reduction of the fine. These tools have become essential instruments to enforce competition rules at both EU and national level.
To obtain these fine reductions, companies make statements concerning their participation to the infringement. Under the proposed Directive, these statements should not be used in civil actions against the companies who made them. This is because companies that cooperate with competition authorities in the detection and prosecution of an infringement should not be disadvantaged in subsequent civil claims over companies that did not cooperate.
For the same reason, the Commission also proposes to exempt, in subsequent actions for damages, companies that obtained immunity from fines from the rules under which an infringer can be held liable also for the harm caused by its co-infringers.
Are lawsuits before national courts the only way to obtain compensation?
No. The right to compensation can be enforced before national courts. The Commission's proposal aims at making it easier for victims to enforce their rights by reducing costs and uncertainties.
However, consensual dispute resolution can be an as efficient and even less costly and time consuming way to settle controversies and obtain compensation. The Commission's proposal encourages willing parties to use means of consensual dispute resolution.
Why has the Commission adopted a Communication on quantifying antitrust harm?
Quantification is the often difficult exercise through which the exact amount of harm suffered by a victim is established. The complex legal and economic issues to take into account make this exercise particularly costly and difficult, especially in cases where economic expertise is required. Thus, quantifying antitrust harm has resulted to be one of the major obstacles to compensation of injured parties.
Legal requirements for quantifying antitrust harm should not make it impossible or excessively difficult for victims to be compensated. The Commission has adopted a Communication that recalls this and other relevant existing legal principles for an action for damages.
The Commission services have also drawn up a Practical Guide that offers economic and legal insights into the harm typically caused by antitrust infringements and some methods for quantifying it. This Practical Guide may be of assistance to parties and judges in damages actions.
The Communication and the Practical Guide on quantification are non-binding documents, which the Commission offers as assistance in cases where it is deemed necessary and relevant.
Why has the Commission decided to propose a Directive rather than another legal instrument?
The Commission wants to remove the obstacles that currently impede effective compensation for victims of antitrust infringements. These obstacles most often lie in national rules governing actions for damages. A Directive is the most appropriate instrument to put forward measures to remove these obstacles: it respects the legal tradition of each Member State by leaving room to decide how to modify the relevant national provisions in order to implement those measures.
When will the Directive enter into force?
The proposal for a Directive will now be discussed by the European Parliament and the Council. Once these institutions adopt a final text according to the ordinary legislative procedure, Member States will have two years to implement its provisions in their legal systems.
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The Goldman 33: Where Are They Now?
Goldman Sachs is 31 partners lighter, according to accounts filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week. Our colleagues at Financial News have looked at what those who no longer hold the coveted title of partner are doing now.
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In its latest filing with the SEC, dated Nov. 2, Goldman Sachs revealed that its partner pool had decreased to 407 since its last filing in February: 33 are no longer on the partners list, while two–Mark Schwartz and Richard Phillips–have been added to the bank's most senior ranks.
Financial News name-checked 11 of the 33 in an April article on partners who had left Goldman Sachs since the start of 2011.
Below, we list all 33 former partners and–if they have new jobs–where they are working now. The list is based on previous Financial News coverage, as well as the Financial Services Authority's register of authorised persons, press releases and press cuttings.
Most have left to join other companies or set up their own, while the jobs of others are unaccounted for and they may still be employed by the bank.
Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
1) Sanggyun Ahn
A Korean citizen, he launched Seoul-based private equity firm Anchor Equity Partners in August after working in Goldman Sachs's Principal Investment Area. He has worked on private equity deals such as Goldman Sachs's stake in Korean banks, including Kookmin Bank and Hana Financial.
Source: Private Equity International
2) Christopher M. Barter
Barter set up his own investment fund in Moscow, DMC Partners, after his departure from Goldman Sachs was announced in February. DMC Partners is an investment fund targeting developing markets. Barter had spent the last five years running Goldman Sachs's Moscow office, and 20 years at the bank in total.
Source: Financial News
3) Samuel J. Wisnia
The former head of global macro has joined former colleague Chris Barter at DMC Partners.
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The standard procedures for the initial care of athletic injuries are universally accepted and can be remembered by the acronym RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation). These procedures are designed to control inflammation, pain, muscle spasm, and minimize the magnitude of the hematoma, which allows the process of healing to begin earlier and proceed at a more rapid rate.
The period of rest required after an injury will vary based on the severity of the injury and the athletic trainer's philosophy. Rest following an athletic injury is necessary to allow the body time to get the effects of trauma under control and to avoid additional damage or stress to the injured tissue.
Cold applications to an acute athletic injury reduce tissue damage, result in the formation of a smaller hematoma, decrease the amount of inflammation, and reduce the amount of muscle spasm and pain that may accompany the injury.
Ice should be used intermittently for the first 72 hours following an athletic injury. There are three treatment methods:
ICE PACK. Put crushed or cubed ice in a plastic bag and place over the body part to be treated. (A frozen bag of peas work as well). Use for 15-20 minutes. Be sure to cover area with a thin towel to form a barrier between the skin and ice to avoid damage to the skin.
ICE BATH. Immerse the body part (ideal for hands or feet) in a bucket of water and then add ice. If fingers and toes are not involved it may be more comfortable to cover them or leave them out. Immersion should be for 5-10 minutes (20 minutes max).
ICE MASSAGE. Freeze water in a Styrofoam or paper cup. Tear the edges of the cup away exposing the ice yet leaving the cup to hold on to. Using a gentle, circular motion, rub the ice over the injured area for 5-10 minutes.
*Maximum ice treatment time is 20-30 minutes. Tissue damage may occur and the effects of ice may be reversed if it is applied for more than 20-30 minutes.
The purpose of applying compression to an acute injury is to help control or reduce the amount of hemorrhage and hematoma formation. Compression is usually applied in the form of an elastic bandage but may also include the use of foam or rubber padding. Be sure to avoid wrapping the body part to tight since this can affect the blood flow to the area, and can cause further injury.
Elevating an injured body part above the level of the heart as much as possible for the first 24 hours following the injury further reduces the amount of swelling associated with the injury by limiting fluid pooling and encouraging venous return to the heart.
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The members of On Deck are on the road in Waco, Texas covering Fordham's forray into the Women's NCAA hoops tournament. But while March Madness ensues, baseball is another week closer to the start of the season. We discuss helmets for pitchers, Stephen Drew, walk-up songs, and more.


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Update: The Kings' bid for a franchise-record 12th consecutive game with at least one point came to a halt when they lost Saturday to the Calgary Flames. The prevailing thought in the dressing room was simply to "park it," as defenseman Willie Mitchell phrased it Sunday. In other words, put it next to the curb and walk away from it. The Kings (16-7-4) have other issues, starting with their power play. They haven't scored a man-advantage goal in the last five games (0 for 18). Right wing Justin Williams said the Kings need more shots from point-blank range instead of firing them from the perimeter while on the power play. Williams scored the Kings' lone goal Saturday, the 200th of his NHL career. Anze Kopitar had an assist for his 500th point. The teams meet for the first time since the Kings defeated the Blues in the first round of the playoffs last spring. The Blues are 18-4-3.


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This '55 Cameo Was Done Right and Dressed in White
How long does it take you to fill up your truck at the gas station? The handbuilt stainless gas tank in Mark and Angie Eddins' custom Cameo holds 15 gallons, but refills sometimes take longer than if Mark was gassing up a semi truck. It's not filling the tank that keeps him at the pump so long-it's the conversations that are inevitably struck up whenever people see the icebox white '55 Chevy. "Everybody wants to talk about it," he tells us. Questions can lead to stories of other trucks "just like it" (except for the year, make, and color, of course). Before long the camera phones are out and photographs are being snapped. Quick fill-ups are rare for the Cameo, but Mark doesn't mind. It comes with the territory and is a side effect of driving a remarkable truck.
Mark is one of the owners of House of Hotrods & Classics in the Texas town of Mansfield. What started out as a private shop for building personal projects evolved into a large commercial shop handling start-to-finish builds, including bodywork, paint, and upholstery. This truck, however, was a personal project. Mark had always wanted a Cameo and was constantly on the lookout for a suitable truck to build. Sometimes those searches are difficult. Other times, the right truck just rolls right up to you. "A guy brought it by the shop and I jumped at the chance to own it," says Mark. "We agreed on a price and I drove it right back to the fabrication department."
A visit to the House of Hotrods website (www.txhouseofhotrods.com) turns up a lot of photos of the truck prior to, and during, the buildup. When it showed up at the shop it was running but rough. And the brakes were shot-a fact Mark discovered on the drive to the fabrication shop, "nearly hitting the wall as I jammed on the brakes."
Once safely into the fab shop, it didn't take long for real progress to start. Changes to the exterior focused primarily on ironing out any wrinkles in the body and upgrading the glass and chrome. After every panel was beam-of-light straight, the body went to the House of Hotrods spray booth for a monochrome white paintjob. Painter Randy Mason shot the truck using PPG's Platinum Ice. The '55 Cameo's distinctive trim, including the egg crate grille, hood ornament and emblem, bed trim pieces, tailgate badge, and stylish taillight bezels, were kept in place or customized.
The bedside panels were modified with Cameo script badges transplanted from a '57 and the front fenderside spears were exchanged for cleaner looking '57 Cameo nameplates. Aftermarket outside mirrors replaced the originals. The replacement bed floor was built using stained dark oak and polished stainless steel rub strips-a good-looking contrast to the truck's overall brightness.
The right choice of whitewall rubber goes along with the paint scheme as well as with the Cameo's mid-'50s flavor. The tires are Nitto NT555 high-performance radials, dressed up with whitewalls to combine retro styling and optimal handling. The 245/45ZR18 and 255/45ZR20 meats have been mounted on a set of 18- and 20-inch Qualifier five-spoke wheels from Billet Specialties' Street Smart Line.
The Cameo is carried by a custom chassis, built around the original framerails by Beau Harrison at House of Hotrods. The 'rails have been boxed and beefed up with custom crossmembers for additional strength. A 9-inch Ford rearend with a limited slip differential is suspended by a pair of rear leaf springs and tubular shock absorbers. At the opposite end, a Mustang II independent frontend hangs on a pair of coilovers. When he needs to get on the binders, Mark knows that near mishaps are a thing of the past, thanks to reliable disc brakes at all four corners.
In place of the 123-horsepower inline-six that had propelled the truck since the Eisenhower era, there now sits a new-generation LT1 making about three times as much power. The EFI engine was machined and rebuilt at House of Hotrods and equipped with a Power-Plus throttle body from BBK Performance, drawing cold air through a hand-formed intake system. The LT1 provides plenty of pull for Mark's hauler and the shop-built 4L60 transmission backing it up contributes to the truck's drivability.
Chevrolet designed the Cameo's interior to de-emphasize its identity as a truck, and Mark's redesigned cockpit keeps much of the stock influence. The factory dash was reworked to take Classic Instruments. One immediately noticeable difference is the sweep speedometer, which resembles the original, but unlike the factory speedo, which tops out at 100 mph, this version climbs to the 140-mph mark. A '55 Chevy passenger car steering wheel was leather wrapped and dropped onto a GM tilt column. A late-model GM bench seat was modified and upholstered in two-tone stone leather and suede by Gordon Burke. The design was repeated on the door panels and the headliner. The A/C system was supplied by Old Air Products.
Six months after limping the Cameo into his shop, Mark marched it out in the condition you see here. Right now, there's nothing more to do except enjoy it-which Mark intends to do. If he were building the truck over again, he says he wouldn't change a thing-not even the amount of time it takes to get in and out of the gas station.


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Still from the 1959 film Room at the top, one of the defining works in the revitalised British cinema of this period
With a major retrospective on the horizon, I was researching the life and times of painter Francis Bacon. Revered as one of the greatest names in post-war British art, my research confirmed that he was also a legend in the hedonistic London social scene, a man whose night-time exploits included drinking, gambling and sexual adventure.
The spark of an idea came when I discovered the existence of a letter to notorious criminal Ronnie Kray – typewritten and signed by Bacon on Marlborough Gallery letterhead, dated 27 September 1989, and sent to Kray when he was in Broadmoor, a high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire, England.
Dear Ronnie
Thank you for your letter and for your drawing. I am glad to hear you are well. I wish I could say the same for myself as I have been ill for some time.
About your friend Paul Lake, I will write to him in reply to his letter.
Yours very sincerely,
Francis Bacon
Ronnie was one of the Kray twins, who were feared throughout London in the 1950s and '60s. The brothers were gangsters involved in armed robberies, violent assaults and murder, but they also owned nightclubs and casinos which were frequented by the rich and famous – entertainers, politicians, gentry and aristocracy. As celebrity criminals, they were part of the Swinging London scene, regarded as successful and dangerously attractive. Arrested in 1968, both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Ronnie was certified as insane.
I began to speculate on a possible friendship between Ronnie Kray and Francis Bacon. While in hospital, Kray had begun to paint scores of small, naïve, sombrely coloured landscapes. Had he sent one of his moody works to Bacon as a gift? I pondered the intersections of the London worlds they inhabited. Both were famous because of their occupations and the outlandish lives they led. To an unusual degree both straddled the broad strata of British class and society and undoubtedly spent time rubbing shoulders with rich and poor, famous and infamous in the same Soho nightclubs. George Dyer, Bacon's lover in the '60s, was working class and had been a burglar. Kray originated from the working-class East End of London.
In terms of conformist British society, both Bacon and Kray were sexual outlaws. They were self-confessedly and promiscuously homosexual – although evidence suggests Kray was more comfortable with his sexuality than Bacon who, at a time when homosexual love was illegal in Britain, described his attraction as an 'affliction'.
With these connections in mind, I decided to program films that explore class – the defining feature of British society – as well as sexuality, criminality and race. In a fascinating and fortuitous parallel, the late 1950s and early '60s saw British cinema explode with new energy. Throwing out stuffy, middle-class drawing-room comedies and war-obsessed dramas, young directors from theatre, television and documentary united with a new breed of actors to create a socially-conscious, aggressively working-class cinema, trampling taboos of sex and class.
Like the exhibition Francis Bacon: five decades, the resulting film series Hitting rock bottom in post-war England covers several decades, beginning with the 1950s and ending in the late '80s. These often groundbreaking films offer a survey of the changing social structure in Britain in the second half of the 20th century, exploring the effects of World War II, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the puritanism that regulated a class-ridden British society.
Watch a trailer for Victim on YouTube. One of the first films to deal directly with homosexuality, it screens at the Gallery on 14 and 18 November 2012.
Come to a lecture by Justice Michael Kirby at the Gallery on 11 November, where he'll discuss the Wolfenden Report which aimed to decriminalise homosexuality.
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Les adjunto un artículo sobre los T-SQL que ya no están disponibles en SQL 2008.
Deprecated T-SQL Features
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Executive Summary: Several T-SQL features have been discontinued, are deprecated in SQL Server 2008, or won't be supported in a future SQL Server version. These features include a change in supported compatibility levels, the TOP feature and ORDER BY clause, and several data types (e.g., the TIMESTAMP type). Before you upgrade, you need to remove the discontinued or deprecated T-SQL features in old code and refrain from using them in new code.
In SQL Server Books Online (BOL), Microsoft documents features that aren't supported in the current version of SQL Server, deprecated features that won't be supported in the next version, and deprecated features that won't be supported in a future version (after the next). I encourage you to thoroughly go over those sections of SQL Server BOL and plan changes in your code where needed to ensure you'll have a smooth upgrade to a future version of SQL Server when the time comes. Let's take a look at some of the discontinued and deprecated features in SQL Server 2008 and future versions. I'll start by addressing changes in behavior of the TOP option, then I'll discuss a couple of features that are a source for frequently asked questions, and finally I'll highlight a few discontinued and deprecated features. The features I chose to mention are those that are commonly used and could cause trouble if not addressed, or features that aren't well understood and require clarification. This article doesn't provide complete coverage of all the discontinued and deprecated features mentioned in SQL Server BOL. To see a list of deprecated features that won't be supported in the next version of SQL Server, visit msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx. To find out which deprecated features are being used in your environment, read the sidebar "Tracking the Use of Deprecated SQL Server Features."
TOP and ORDER BY in Table Expressions
The TOP option and the ORDER BY clause are often sources of confusion. Prior to SQL Server 2005, when you queried through a view that used the ORDER BY clause, the results were always returned in order. However, as of SQL Server 2005, order isn't guaranteed. To see an example of the lack of order, run the code in Listing 1, to create and populate the table T1 and to create the view V1. Note that Listing 1 doesn't specify the input to TOP in parentheses (as recommended as of SQL Server 2005) so that you can run the examples in SQL Server 2000. Next, query all the rows from the view without specifying an ORDER BY clause in the outer query using the following code:
SELECT col1 FROM dbo.V1;
If you run this code in SQL Server 2000, the output will be sorted by col1 (1, 2, 3). If you run this code in SQL Server 2005 or later, order isn't guaranteed. There's a lot of code out there that relies on the SQL Server 2000 behavior, and this code needs to be addressed if you're planning to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 or 2005.
Before I describe how you can address this problem, let me explain the reason for the change in behavior. A view is supposed to represent a table; a table is supposed to represent a relation from the relational model; a relation is supposed to represent a set from mathematical set theory; a set has no order to its elements. A query without an ORDER BY clause returns a table in which order of rows isn't guaranteed, whereas a query with an ORDER BY clause doesn't return a table but rather what ANSI SQL calls a cursor, which guarantees the order of rows. Because a view is supposed to represent a table, and a query with an ORDER BY clause doesn't return a table, ANSI SQL doesn't let you define a view based on a query with an ORDER BY clause. The same applies to T-SQL, although T-SQL supports an exception that has to do with the nonstandard TOP option. However, TOP wasn't designed with its own ORDER BY clause that defines which rows to filter; instead, TOP relies on the ORDER BY clause that's typically used in a query for presentation purposes. This design is the source of a lot of confusion, including the confusion surrounding using TOP with ORDER BY in a view (or other table expressions). To use TOP in a view, Microsoft had to let you specify ORDER BY as well. However, what many people don't realize is that when a TOP query isn't used to define a table expression, the ORDER BY clause must serve two different functions—defining logical ordering for the TOP option and its usual presentation purpose. Consider the following query:
SELECT TOP 2 col1 FROM dbo.T1 ORDER BY
This query guarantees that you'll get the two rows with the lowest col1 values back, as well as the rows back in the output in col1 ordering. However, when the same query is used to define a table expression (e.g., a view), presentation ordering isn't supposed to be guaranteed anymore. It's likely that in terms of optimization to figure out which rows to filter, SQL Server will need to scan an index in order or sort the data if an index doesn't exist. Then, there's no reason for SQL Server to rearrange the rows in the output. However, there's a difference between what's likely and what's guaranteed.
Regardless of the implementation aspects, if you understand the fundamentals of the relational model and SQL, you shouldn't expect a view to guarantee the order of the rows when you query it without specifying an ORDER BY clause in the outer query. Using TOP 100 PERCENT with an ORDER BY clause in the definition of a table expression is an absurd way to try and trick the system into behaving in a way that it's not supposed to guarantee. The change in behavior that took place as of SQL Server 2005 was considered an optimization improvement; when the optimizer finds TOP 100 PERCENT and an ORDER BY clause in a query defining a table expression, it ignores both, as it should.
All this confusion stems from the problematic design of the TOP option and the way the optimizer handles a view based on a TOP query prior to SQL Server 2005. Perhaps TOP should be redesigned to support its own ORDER BY clause that's unrelated to the presentation ORDER BY clause, but that's a topic for future consideration. The current reality is such that there's a lot of code out there in systems running SQL Server 2000 with views based on TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY, as well as queries against those views without an ORDER BY clause, with DBAs expecting the rows to be returned in order. If you're planning to upgrade such a system to SQL Server 2008 or 2005, you'll need to address this problem. The recommended way to resolve the problem is to add an ORDER BY clause to the queries against the views, assuming that's in your control. Once all those queries are revised, you can modify the views not to use TOP and ORDER BY anymore to avoid future confusion. If modifying the views isn't an option, or if you need a fast, temporary solution in the short term, there's a hotfix available in SQL Server 2008 as of Cumulative Update 1 for release to manufacturing (RTM) and in SQL Server 2005 as of Cumulative Update 2 for SP2 that you can download. This hotfix is described at support.microsoft.com/kb/926292 and is supposed to be used only as a temporary solution.
The Use of Semicolon and Ordinal Positions
There are a couple of SQL Server coding features that people often ask about, and I think that this article is a good place to address them. People often ask if SQL Server will eventually require the use of a semicolon as a terminator in all statements. I'm not aware of any plans to make it compulsory in the near future; however, I strongly recommend making it a habit to terminate all statements with a semicolon for several reasons. The semicolon terminator is supported by ANSI SQL and mandatory in some database platforms. For now, only certain statements require the semicolon terminator, but the list gets longer with every new version of SQL Server and there's a chance that SQL Server will make it compulsory for all statements at some point in the future.
Statements that require the use of a semicolon include the WITH statement used to define a common table expression (CTE) and the new MERGE statement in SQL Server 2008. Regarding the former, the requirement is actually to terminate the statement prior to the WITH statement using a semicolon to signify that the WITH clause doesn't belong to the previous statement but rather starts a new one. I've seen people adopt an approach in which you place a semicolon right in front of the WITH statement as the following code shows:
;WITH CTE_Name AS(...) SELECT …
This approach is intended to ensure that if you add a statement before the CTE definition in the future, you won't have to worry about terminating it with a semicolon. I have to say that I find this approach to be problematic because it leads to awkward code. If you make it a practice to terminate all statements with a semicolon, you'll write more elegant code and won't have to worry about such problems. Plus, you won't have to worry about it in future versions of SQL Server in which the list of statements that require the semicolon terminator gets longer and longer.
Another question people often ask is whether SQL Server will stop supporting specifying ordinal positions of expressions from the SELECT list in the ORDER BY clause in SQL Server, as in the following example:
SELECT col3, col1, col5
FROM dbo.T1
Regardless of whether this syntax is standard and SQL Server will stop supporting it in the future, it's a bad practice to use it in production code because you could make revisions to the SELECT list and forget to make the corresponding revisions to the ORDER BY list. Also, the code is less readable this way. The best practice is to specify the aliases of the expressions that appear in the SELECT list in the ORDER BY clause.
As for conformance to the ANSI SQL standard, ANSI SQL-92 was the last standard that still supported this syntax. ANSI SQL:1999 removed support for this syntax. SQL Server 2008 still supports this syntax, and currently its documentation doesn't refer to it as a deprecated feature, but it's on Microsoft's list of SQL Server features that are on their way out, so it's recommended to refrain from using it.
Discontinued Features in SQL Server 2008
In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft changed its approach to supporting database backward compatibility levels. In SQL Server 2005, you could set the database compatibility level to any previous version as of 60. As of SQL Server 2008, only two backward compatibility levels are supported. So in the case of SQL Server 2008, you'll be able to set your database to only compatibility levels 90 (2005) or 80 (2000); lower compatibility levels (i.e., 60, 65, 70) aren't supported anymore. Therefore, code elements and behaviors that were supported only under those compatibility levels will no longer be supported.
The BACKUP LOG WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY option isn't included in SQL Server 2008. This option was used in the past to indicate that you wanted to truncate the log without actually backing it up and enter a log truncate mode that's similar to working under the Simple recovery model. There's no replacement for this option; instead, simply remove all occurrences of this statement from your code. If you don't back up your logs and need SQL Server to automatically truncate the log, set the database recovery model to Simple.
SQL Server 2008 discontinues support for the Northwind and pubs sample databases. It supports the Adventure- Works family of sample databases (i.e., Adventure- Works, Adventure- WorksDW, Adventure- WorksLT) that you can download via CodePlex. You might find it a bit odd that Microsoft would discontinue support for sample databases. Besides the introduction of newer sample databases, there were changes in the internal guidelines regarding the use of people and company names, phone numbers, and addresses. The scripts used to create Northwind and pubs in SQL Server 2005 are available for download at go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30196, and they work just fine in SQL Server 2008. However, these databases aren't supported and aren't supposed to be used in official Microsoft documentation such as BOL or books published by Microsoft Press. I think that's a shame because I find Northwind to be a very good sample database for learning purposes. It contains small amounts of data but with enough variety and a simple model for creating useful examples. Although you can still download Northwind and pubs, I created sample databases that are similar to Northwind, with a few improvements, using new guidelines and fictitious names I got from Microsoft. You can find the sample databases TSQL Fundamentals2008 and InsideTSQL2008 at www.insidetsql.com as part of the source code download for my books about SQL Server 2008. Note that this section was just a sampling of the discontinued features. To see the full list, visit msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144262.aspx.
Deprecated Features in the Next Version of SQL Server
This section highlights a few features that aren't going to be supported in the next version of SQL Server (aka version 11). As I mentioned earlier, starting with SQL Server 2008, only two database backward compatibility levels are supported, meaning that the next version won't support compatibility level 80. Features and behaviors that were available only under compatibility level 80 won't be supported anymore. Examples of such features include the old-style syntax for outer joins (e.g., *=, =*) and the temporary solution for the problem with TOP and ORDER BY in views that I discussed earlier. So if you have code that uses those language elements or relies on those behaviors, now is a good time to start planning for the required revisions.
The next version of SQL Server also won't support working under the ANSI_NULLS OFF mode. This mode means that a comparison between two NULLs results in TRUE rather than UNKNOWN as dictated by ANSI SQL. It's recommended that you revise all code that relies on this behavior. For example, instead of col1 = NULL use col1 IS NULL, and instead of col1 <> NULL use col1 IS NOT NULL. When referring to a parameter and needing to treat a comparison between two NULLs as TRUE, use col1 = @p OR (col1 IS NULL AND @p IS NULL) instead of col1 = @p. Note that it's not recommended to use the ISNULL or COALESCE functions to substitute NULL with a known value that can't appear in the data because once you apply manipulation on the filtered column, the optimizer can't rely on index ordering anymore.
In addition, the next version of SQL Server won't support the SET ROWCOUNT option for INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. This session option causes SQL Server to stop processing a statement once the specified number of rows is processed. The problem with this option is that it has a global effect on the session, meaning that if, for example, the modification statement causes a trigger to fire, the code within the trigger is also bound by the session's ROWCOUNT limitation. Instead, you should use the TOP query option. As of SQL Server 2005, the TOP option supports an expression as input (e.g., a parameter) and is supported with both data modifications and data retrieval statements. So there's no reason to use the SET ROWCOUNT option anymore. Although the current plan is to stop supporting the SET ROWCOUNT option with modification statements first, it's recommended to replace SET ROWCOUNT with the TOP query option in all statements, including SELECT statements.
Deprecated Features in Future SQL Server Versions
Some deprecated features that SQL Server won't support in future versions require attention because there's a lot of code still using them. The following are a few features that Microsoft plans to remove from future SQL Server versions:
• Compatibility level 90.
• The TIMESTAMP data type. As a replacement, use ROWVERSION. The two aren't really different types, but rather are the old and new names of the same data type.
• The TEXT, NTEXT, and IMAGE types. Use VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX), and VARBINARY(MAX) instead.
• Default and rule objects. As a replacement, use the DEFAULT and CHECK constraints.
• Compatibility views such as sysobjects, syscolumns, syscomments, and sysprocesses. Instead, use catalog views and dynamic management objects. SQL Server BOL includes a section with a mapping between compatibility views and the corresponding catalog views and dynamic management objects that you can view at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187997.aspx.
• Several Database Consistency Checker (DBCC) commands such as DBCC DBREINDEX and DBCC INDEXDEFRAG. Use ALTER INDEX REBUILD and ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE instead of the aforementioned examples.
• Several system procedures, including sp_attach_ db. Use the newer alternatives (e.g., CREATE DATABASE FOR ATTACH) instead. • Column aliasing using the form 'string_alias' = expression. Instead, use one of the supported forms. My personal preference is the form expression AS alias.
Addressing the Use of Deprecated Features
Before upgrading to a newer version of SQL Server, you'll need to address the use of features that are discontinued in the target version. Better yet, if you aren't planning to upgrade to a newer version of SQL Server in the near future, I recommend investing the time to thoroughly go over the sections in SQL Server BOL that discuss the discontinued and deprecated features, and gradually address those in your existing code. Also, make sure you're not using deprecated features in new code. Doing so well ahead of a planned upgrade will help prevent problems and ensure a smooth upgrade in the future. I'd like to thanks Greg Low, Rubén Garrigós, Kevin G. Boles, and other members of Solid Quality Mentors, as well as Michael Coles, Tibor Karaszi, Erland Sommarskog, and other MVPs, for their input regarding the deprecated features.
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Royals support building of two adaptive baseball fields in Kansas City Metro
Proceeds from the 2012 MLB All-Star Game to Help Fund Fields in Independence & Olathe
The Kansas City Royals and Royals Charities have announced a partnership with Variety Kansas City and the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation to build two adaptive baseball fields in Olathe, Kan., and Independence, Mo. The projects are possible with proceeds from the 2012 Major League Baseball Gatorade All-Star Workout Day held at Kauffman Stadium in July 2012.
The two fields will be constructed at McCoy Park, located near Hwy 24 and Delaware in Independence, and at the Olathe Northwest High School Athletic Complex, 21300 College Blvd. in Olathe. Construction on both projects is scheduled to begin later this spring with the completion date tentatively set for this fall.
The Royals and Royals Charities hosted a press conference this morning at Kauffman Stadium announcing both projects. The press conference was preceded by a breakfast event featuring Jessica Long, a 12-time Paralympic Gold Medalist. Following the announcement, several Royals Alumni members toured Kauffman Stadium with youth from Variety Children's Charity. Former Royals participating in today's events included Jaime Bluma, Tom Burgmeier, Al Fitzmorris, Steve Jeltz, Dennis Leonard, Jeff Montgomery, Rod Myers, Joe Randa, Shawn Sedlacek and Jerry Terrell.
Below are highlights of both adaptive field projects.
The Independence Ability Field at McCoy Park
The City of Independence Parks and Recreation Department is transforming a section of McCoy Park into an accessible baseball field and play area for kids with and without disabilities. The park, which is located in the shadow of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, will feature a play area designed by Unlimited Play, Inc., with specialized equipment ensuring all children can participate regardless of limitations created by disabilities. Jackson County (Mo.) has more than 3,800 children with disabilities, the largest number of any county in the Kansas City area.
Additional support for this field is provided by the City of Independence Parks and Recreation Department, State Farm and Unlimited Play.
Olathe Miracle League Field
The newest addition to the Olathe Northwest High School Athletic Complex will serve as the home field for the Miracle League of Olathe. Since 2004, the Olathe Miracle League has played its games in the backyard of Ricky Hernandez, a youngster bound to a wheelchair whose family has graciously hosted more than 25 disabled children on Saturdays in the spring and fall. The Dream Factory built the custom baseball field at Ricky's home more than eight years ago after hearing of his dream to play baseball. The construction of this new adaptive field will help the Miracle League of Olathe reach more children in the district.
Additional support for this field is provided by City of Olathe Parks and Recreation Department, Olathe Medical Center, the Olathe Chamber of Commerce, Mid-America Nazarene University and Strickland Construction.
After contributions to these two projects, remaining All-Star funds will support future field projects as part of Royalty Fields matching grant program. Created in 2006, the ongoing Royals Charities program strives to improve baseball and softball facilities across the Midwest. With these two adaptive baseball fields, nearly 70 fields have received financial support since its inception. Baseball and softball programs in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas or South Dakota may apply for a Royalty Fields matching grant for major renovations. For more information, visit www.royals.com/royaltyfields.
MLB and the Royals donated approximately $4 million from a portion of the proceeds from the MLB Gatorade All-Star Workout Day to benefit a variety of local community projects and national charitable organizations. Since 1997, more than $48 million has been donated to non-profit organizations from MLB Gatorade All-Star Workout Day proceeds. The 2012 All-Star Summer boasted the most extensive charity activity in All-Star history, as MLB and the Royals partnered on more than 26 initiatives during All-Star Week.
Variety Kansas City: Variety the Children's Charity is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting and protecting the health and well-being of children around the world. Through a network of 43 chapters in 13 countries, Variety reaches into communities across the globe to offer financial assistance and services to children and organizations that serve children with special needs. Variety of Greater Kansas City supports individual children in the area who are physically or mentally challenged and children's organizations that benefit special-needs children. To learn more about this organization, please visit www.varietykc.org
Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation: The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation uses baseball and softball themed programs to help build character and teach critical life lessons to underserved youth residing in America's most distressed communities. Founded in 2001 by members of the Ripken family in memory of their patriarch Cal, Sr., the Foundation works to create programs that positively impact at-risk youth through active community partnerships with America's most successful youth service organizations. In 2012, the Foundation impacted more than 154,000 youth in 47 states around the country.
Royals Charities: The Kansas City Royals and Royals Charities are committed to being active members of the Kansas City community and region. Created in 2001, Royals Charities supports children, education, youth baseball/softball and military efforts in and around the Kansas City area through financial donations and in-kind support such as memorabilia, tickets and publicity. Under the leadership of the Glass family, Royals Charities has donated more than $7 million in grants since its inception.


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Limp, or Stiff? What Your Handshake Says About You
Amy S. Choi / BusinessWeek
Nobody likes a limp handshake, but you probably don't realize just how much you communicate through your hands, says Jacqueline Whitmore, author of Business Class: Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work. Here's one handshake to use, one to be careful of, and three to avoid.
Use the navigation at the bottom to click through the different types of handshakes and handshake tips.
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Photographer: Bikramjit Bose
GQ Legend: Rahul Dravid
When Rahul Dravid retired in early 2012, the cricketing world lost a stalwart – an athlete who was not only gifted and accomplished, but also unassuming and humble. The former India captain embodied the spirit of true sportsmanship: a titan who was above the petty politics of the game. Solid, dependable and consistent, he was the man the nation could turn to for hope in the face of defeat. And, to more than a billion people, the No 3 position will always belong to The Wall.
"It was a huge honour to play with Rahul Dravid. He is a legend. By the time I was picked for the Indian team, he was an established star. There was lot to learn from him – like the rigour with which he prepared for each game. He wouldn't leave any stone unturned, whether it was a practice game or a Test match. People talk about his textbook technique, but many other players have had similar skills. To be able to score over 20,000 international runs, though, you need to be mentally invincible. Rahul was a colleague for more than a decade. He was all about balance, on and off the field, and often guided me. I consider myself privileged to have shared a dressing room with him" – Yuvraj Singh
Photographer: Tarun Vishwa
TV personality: Shekhar Gupta
Amid the gaggle of voices emanating from nightly television news, his stands out for its clarity, gravitas and incisiveness. With over three decades as a political journalist, including 16 years leading The Indian Express newspaper as editor-in-chief, Gupta has displayed a canny ability to flit between print and television, where his Walk The Talk show on NDTV 24×7 has brought candid conversations with some of the most influential people on the planet right into our living rooms.
"Shekhar is a fine journalist, and I'm a big supporter of everything he does – as a writer, editor, publisher and television personality. I've been a guest on Walk The Talk several times, and admire his ability to get to the heart of issues, ask pertinent questions and capture the essence of a conversation" – Nandan Nilekani
Photographer: Tarun Khiwal
Director: Anurag Kashyap
With the epic Gangs of Wasseypur I and II gaining accolades at Cannes and at home, one of indie cinema's greatest champions is finally enjoying the kind of mainstream success few honest filmmakers ever achieve.
"Anurag Kashyap has believed, and succeeded, in making the kind of cinema he feels strongly about. For years he struggled to achieve this, and now that he has, it's only just that he receive the recognition that GQ honours him with" – Amitabh Bachchan
Photographer: Abhay Singh
Lifetime Achievement: Anil Kapoor
Staging a comeback is a feat few people are able to pull off – and in the fickle world of cinema, it takes talent, business savvy and flair: traits our Lifetime Achievement awardee has in spades. After a memorable two-decade run, Kapoor faced a dry patch before bouncing back with 2008's Slumdog Millionaire, which catapulted him back into our consciousness. The rest is history: an appearance alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol following a run in hit American TV show 24 (soon to be adapted for local television, with Kapoor in the lead). Most importantly, though, the prolific 54-year-old actor-producer continues to do it all with inimitable style.
"He's a great actor, and was an incredible host to me [in India] – we've become friends. I first met him at the Golden Globes in 2009 where I gave away the award for Slumdog. I really wanted him to make Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and I was so excited when he said he'd do it. Anil has a remarkable work ethic, and is inspiring to watch. I have so much respect for him" – Tom Cruise
Photographer: Abhay Singh
Emerging talent: Ayushmann Khurrana
Radio jockey – check. Reality TV host – check. Lead in critically-acclaimed indie movie – check. What's next for the pugnacious young man from Chandigarh? How about a breakthrough into the big time?
"Within 15 minutes of meeting Ayushmann, I knew we had our Vicky Arora. We needed someone special to do the role justice, for which Ayushmann had the perfect balance of innocence and spontaneity" – John Abraham
Photographer: Bikramjit Bose
Inspiration: Shekhar Kapur
When your body of work as a filmmaker includes Elizabeth, Bandit Queen, Mr India and Masoom, your place in the pantheon of legendary Indian artists is assured. How many other directors can claim to have created an Oscar-winning period picture based in 15th century England as well as Bollywood's most over-the-top villain? But truth be told, Kapur had us at Digjam.
"I first met Shekhar in 1994, after being blown away by Bandit Queen, which he had just completed. We got together for a few projects that never really took off, but I was happy for him because he went ahead and established himself in Hollywood. Some years later, he introduced me to Andrew LLoyd Webber and Bombay Dreams happened. A lot of things I thought would never come to fruition did because of Shekhar's initiative. He introduced me to the Internet saying it would revolutionize information and knowledge sharing, and make songs and videos go viral. He has this uncanny ability to predict what will work in the future" – AR Rahman
Watch this space for more on the other winners.
Photo Credit: Bikramjit Bose, Tarun Vishwa, Abhay Singh, Tarun Khiwal
Stylists: Antara Motiwala and Tanya Vohra


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2008 International Sculpture Conference
Sculpture in Public: Part 2, Public Art
Back to past conferences
Click here to view the Grand Rapids conference webpages.
Nearly 400 ISC members, artists, arts administrators, curators, city planners, educators, students, and arts supporters gathered this past October in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the ISC's 21 st International Sculpture Conference - Sculpture in Public: Part 2, Public Art. This 2 ½ day event, held in Grand Rapids in honor of its rich public art legacy, was hosted at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. Attendees had the opportunity to visit and explore the park's botanical gardens, as well as its internationally renowned sculpture collection, 125 acres featuring more than 160 works in the permanent collection. Other conference highlights included a keynote address by world-renowned artist Jaume Plensa, whose largest US show to date opened at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park to coincide with the conference. The ISC also presented the Patron of the Year award to Frederik and Lena Meijer and the Educator of the Year Award to Ron Pederson.
We thank everyone who joined us in Grand Rapids. And special thanks to the many sponsors whose contributions enabled us to offer an inclusive forum for discussion on public art.
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The forces of Sanctuary already stand more than 6.3-million strong and growing
PARIS, France -- May 23, 2012 -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that as of the first 24 hours of Diablo® III's release, more than 3.5 million copies had been sold, setting the new all-time record for fastest-selling PC game.* That number does not include the more than 1.2 million players who received Diablo III as part of signing up for the World of Warcraft® Annual Pass promotion. Altogether, more than 4.7 million gamers around the world were poised to storm Sanctuary on day 1 of Diablo III's release -- representing the biggest PC-game launch in history.
As of the first week of the game's availability, that number had already grown to more than 6.3 million.* The above figures also do not include players in Korean Internet game rooms, where Diablo III has become the top-played game, achieving a record share of more than 39% as of May 22.†
"We're definitely thrilled that so many people around the world were excited to pick up their copy of Diablo III and jump in the moment it went live," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We also regret that our preparations were not enough to ensure everyone had a seamless experience when they did so. I want to reaffirm our commitment to make sure the millions of Diablo III players out there have a great experience with the game moving forward, and I also want to thank them for their ongoing support."
"Regarding today's announcement, we recognize that setting a new launch record is a big achievement," Morhaime continued. "However, we're especially proud of the gameplay feedback we've received from players worldwide. We're pleased that Diablo III has lived up to players' high expectations, and we're looking forward to welcoming more players into Sanctuary in the days ahead."
Diablo III went live on May 15, with more than 8,000 retailers throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau opening their doors to players at midnight or concurrently with the local release time in celebration of the launch. In addition to being able to buy the game at retail stores, gamers in the regions above as well as in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil are also able to purchase Diablo III digitally via the official Diablo III website (http://www.diablo3.com).
"After previously hosting the UK launch for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade® and Wrath of the Lich King®, it's great to have Blizzard Entertainment return to HMV Oxford Street for Diablo III," said Ewan Pinder, head of technology and games at HMV. "The event was a massive success on all fronts -- going beyond all of our expectations -- and the player response is testament once again to their dedication and commitment to Blizzard's games."
Diablo III is available for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® for both the retail DVD-ROM version and the digital version sold directly from Blizzard. Diablo III has received a 16+ rating from PEGI and BBFC.
Players in the Latin American countries listed above and in Russia will be able to purchase Diablo III at local retail locations starting June 7. Digital availability via http://www.diablo3.com for the Russian version of the game will also begin June 7. In addition to the English version, Diablo III is fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, and traditional Chinese.
Diablo III is the latest chapter in Blizzard's critically acclaimed action–role-playing-game series. The game continues the epic Diablo storyline, with players taking on the role of one of five heroic characters -- barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, or demon hunter -- and embarking on a perilous quest to save the world of Sanctuary from the corrupting forces of the Burning Hells. As players adventure through rich and varied settings, they'll engage in pulse-pounding combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, grow in experience and ability, acquire artifacts of incredible power, and meet key characters who'll join them in battle or aid them in other ways. Diablo III features the intuitive interface, fast-paced action, and visceral gameplay that Diablo players have come to expect and enjoy.
Designed from the ground up to leverage the full functionality of the Battle.net® platform, Diablo III also provides gamers with industry-leading matchmaking and communication tools, allowing adventurers to seamlessly join forces for cooperative play. Battle.net also provides the infrastructure for the Diablo III auction house, a feature-rich marketplace that Sanctuary's heroes can use to trade their hard-earned treasures. To learn more about the auction house and the other features of Diablo III, please visit the official website at http://www.diablo3.com.
With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently available -- visit http://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.
* Based on internal company records and reports from key distribution partners.
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Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® franchises, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry's most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment's track record includes sixteen #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company's online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Blizzard Entertainment's expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Blizzard Entertainment generally uses words such as "outlook," "will," "could," "would," "might," "remains," "to be," "plans," "believes," "may," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "estimate," "future," "plan," "positioned," "potential," "project," "remain," "scheduled," "set to," "subject to," "upcoming" and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales levels of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the impact of the current macroeconomic environment, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, competition from the used game market, industry competition and competition from other forms of entertainment, rapid changes in technology, industry standards and consumer preferences, including interest in specific genres such as real-time strategy, action–role-playing and massively multiplayer online games, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, licensees, licensors, vendors and third-party developers, including the ability to attract, retain and develop key personnel and developers who can create high quality "hit" titles, counterparty risks relating to customers, licensees, licensors and manufacturers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates and tax rates, and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, and the other factors identified in the risk factors section of Activision Blizzard's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Blizzard as of the date of this release, and neither Blizzard Entertainment nor Activision Blizzard assumes any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Blizzard Entertainment or Activision Blizzard and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.


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Ray's Take Insurance companies typically keep a relatively small amount of money in cash in order to pay claims, including a reserve to respond quickly to catastrophes. The rest of their funds they invest for the long term, focusing on options like corporate bonds and real estate holdings.
Insurance companies are effective in matching their assets (premium income) with their liabilities (benefit payments), and always have their eye on the long term. It's not unusual for them to invest with a 30-year time horizon. They're not interested in investments with a short-term payoff. Taking this long-term, fairly conservative approach to their investing usually pays off well for them. They are not distracted by short-term gyrations because their focus is so far down the road. Further, investment options that don't make sense for short-term investors can be successful for long-term investors.
That's why it would certainly not be a bad idea to think somewhat like an insurance company when saving for your retirement. After all, like insurance companies, you are investing for the long term – saving for a comfortable future that is still hopefully several decades away, and should last for decades after that.
You may not have all the resources and options of a giant insurance company – they can invest in things such as early stage equity investments, low liquidity real estate and preferred stock – but this doesn't mean you can't follow the same general principles.
Take a hint from their investing policies and look for investments that match your time line – the further away the goal you are saving for, the more long-term you can think. It certainly is working for them.
Dana's Take People pay insurance premiums in order to have some protection in case of an emergency or major loss later. That's because the future is uncertain and it's best to be prepared.
For that same reason, it's a good idea to pay "premiums" to your own emergency fund as well. Set aside enough money to get you through at least six months. It should be an account that you can access easily. The object for this money is accessibility and safety.
Once you have this fund, don't touch it unless an emergency truly exists. It could be a lifestyle saver if your family's primary wage earner became unemployed or unable to work. It could also make a big difference if your home was made uninhabitable due to fire or extreme weather.
Having this money set aside can help you avoid touching your other savings and investments where you may incur penalty fees or other costs that would only make your financial predicament even worse.
What would you give to avoid a financial mess for your family? Put aside that much each month and consider it peace of mind insurance.
Ray Brandon is a certified financial planner and CEO of Brandon Financial Planning (www.brandonplanning.com). His wife, Dana, has a bachelor's degree in finance and is a licensed clinical social worker. Contact Ray Brandon at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Will Iowa State Fair be same without deep-fried Twinkies?
DES MOINES, Iowa – The fate of deep-fried Twinkies on a stick may be tied to the financial future -- if any -- of Hostess Brands.
On Wednesday a judge in New York could decide whether the bankrupt company can shutter its operations.
The decision matters greatly to Larry Fyfe, the concessionaire who introduced deep-fried Twinkies to the Iowa State Fair in 2003, a year after the concoction debuted at the Texas State Fair.
Fyfe told The Des Moines Register that he sells up to 7,000 of them each year.
Fyfe says he hopes another company will acquire the Hostess product lines. He says using a knockoff cream-filled spongecake "would not be one of my first choices."


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It's a tease for the game's new trailer, to be shown at the VGAs next week.
Way to be stingy, guys! In lieu of actual facts, then, we're going to substitute them for non-facts.
Folks, this is Eusebius Fink, owner of the Sky City Knickerbockers. He's made entirely of bronze, stands eleven feet tall, and is terrified of pigeons.
He's also a keen hunter, and a part-time hustler, so has a lot of MotherFuckin' Guns. Which is why his house is so big, and has that written right on the top of it.


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(CNN) -- Apple's iPad tablet computer -- one of the hottest items of the holiday shopping season -- got a price cut on the company's website Friday.
People who buy the iPad online Friday will save $41, making the lowest price for the device $458 for a model without a 3G connection and with 16 gigabytes of storage space. The top-end model, with a 3G connection and 64 gigabytes of storage, is also discounted $41, making it $788.
That's about an 8 percent discount on the base-level model and a 5 percent discount on the highest-end iPad.
Those one-day sale prices probably still sound expensive to many consumers, but the Black Friday sale is getting buzz from tech blogs because Apple rarely discounts the price of its high-end electronics and because the iPad is said to be one of the most sought-after gifts of the year.
The iPad was the No. 1 item on the electronics wish lists of kids ages 6 to 12, according to a survey from Nielsen. It was the fourth-most-sought-after item among kids older than 13. Computers, TVs and smartphones were higher on the list for the older kids.
"Given the continued pressure on consumer spending, it is difficult to know how robust a holiday season this will be for tech devices, but this survey suggests the electronics aisle will be heavily traveled this season," that survey said.
Apple also listed discounts for several other items on its website. All of these deals are good until the end of Friday only. Among them:
$101 off the 13-inch MacBook Air
$101 off the MacBook Pro
$101 off the iMac
$41 off the iPod Touch
$21 off the iPod Nano
The site is offering free shipping on orders of $50 or more. The online price cut highlights a trend toward online sales and discounts this holiday season, but the Apple discounts were also available in Apple's retail stores Friday, according to two Apple store employees phoned by CNN.
At least one other retailer appeared to have discounted the iPad, too. At least one T.J. Maxx store was selling the base-level iPad for $400, or $58 less than the price listed at Apple.com, according to the tech blog Engadget, which posted apparent photos showing the in-store-only sale. The same photo was posted by a user on the store's website.
An employee who answered the phone Friday morning at that T.J. Maxx store, in Mount Vernon, New York, told CNN the $400 iPads were sold out.


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Galaxy HUDF-JD2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
This image demonstrates how data from two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, are used to identify one of the most distant galaxies ever seen. This galaxy is unusually massive for its youthful age of 800 million years. (After the Big Bang, the Milky Way by comparison, is approximately 13 billion years old.)
[Left] - The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made at optical and near-infrared wavelengths.
[Upper Right] - A blow-up of one small area of the HUDF is used to identify where the distant galaxy is located (inside green circle). This indicates that the galaxy's visible light has been absorbed by traveling billions of light-years through intervening hydrogen.
[Center Right] - The galaxy was detected using Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). But at near-infrared wavelengths it is very faint and red.
[Bottom Right] - The Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), easily detects the galaxy at longer infrared wavelengths. Spitzer's IRAC is sensitive to the light from older, redder stars which should make up most of the mass in a galaxy. The brightness of the infrared galaxy suggests that it is quite massive.
NASA, ESA, B. Mobasher (Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency)


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Three weeks ago, the 49ers fell 20-7 to the Colts, leaving them 1-2 and two games behind the rival Seahawks in the NFC West.
Since then, the 49ers have started to get back into winning form, and Sunday's 32-20 victory against the Cardinals was their third triumph in a row. The 49ers improved to 4-2 and remain one game behind Seattle, which won against Tennessee on Sunday.
The 49ers' offense had a strong game, racking up 403 yards. Tight end Vernon Davis shredded the Cardinals' secondary for eight catches and 180 yards, including first-half touchdowns of 61 and 35 yards.
Leading 22-20 late in the third quarter, the Niners put some distance between themselves and Arizona with an 18-play, 89-yard drive ending in a six-yard Kendall Hunter touchdown run with 6:35 left. Eleven of the 18 plays on the drive were rushes, including the final eight in the sequence.
The Cardinals (3-3) showed some skill and grit in defeat. Their defense did well to limit San Francisco to two field goals after a pair of Carson Palmer interceptions. Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald turned a short pass into a 75-yard touchdown after cornerback Trumaine Brock and safety Donte Whitner could not make the tackle.
In the end, though, the 49ers kept the Cardinals at bay for much of the game. And now, San Francisco has gone from a shaky 1-2 to a stable 4-2.


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Eden99 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 153 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
Sierra Dogs
I have my own business boarding and training dogs. I board in my home, and strive to create a loving, stress-free environment for dogs while their owners are away. There are no kennels, the dogs sleep inside at night, and have an acre to romp around in during the day. I only take a few dogs at a time, and they are truly members of the family while they are here. For training, I offer Board & Train, and individual sessions. All training is positive reinforcement, reward-based training only. I have the best job in the world! I love it, and have fun with it every day. The dogs who come here have a great time, too. That joy should come through in every aspect of my business, including my logo.
I've been in business for about 6 years, and re-located 2 years ago from San Francisco to a small town in the Sierra Foothills in California. My clients are local as well as from San Francisco (2 hours away). My typical clients are middle-class to upper middle-class; they believe their pets are family, and are willing to spend money to ensure their pets happiness and well-being. Although my prices are on the high side for local folks, I have very competitive prices *for what I offer* -- my services and facility are fairly unique. I am professional, fully licensed, experienced and trained, but I offer an informal home environment for the dogs, in which they will get the love and attention they are used to receiving at home.
Many of my clients find me online (search engines, online review sites such as Yelp.com, etc) or by word of mouth. I do some community-based advertising, as well. I prefer to reach out to computer-savvy clients, since this will pre-screen somewhat -- they will see my services and prices online and only contact me if they are really interested.
I actually love my current logo (see http://www.sierra-dogs.com ). HOWEVER, I made it myself a long time ago, and the quality of the file is terrible, and it's just not practical for a lot of the uses I'd like to put it to.
What I like about the existing one, in no particular order: 1) soft bright colors (blues, greens, yellows), 2) it's fun & child-like or naive, without being too cutesy, 3) it conveys the idea of dogs frolicking 4) it conveys place: I'm near the Sierra mountains, among the trees, and my place is kind of like a cabin in the woods and fields, 5)it's an original design w/ no clip-art.
So, what I would like is a new logo (vector file format) that is INSPIRED by the current one (I own that image, so feel free to take what you need from it, or not). But feel free to offer new ideas that convey a similar feel. It's fairly easy for me to change the colors on my website in order to complement a new logo. (My current business cards are a pretty yellow with the same logo on my website, but I can change that up as necessary.) Maybe a tad more stylized? or simpler? More print friendly? Something for my website, but also for print ads, business cards, and promotional materials. I like fonts that are simple and easy to read. Text should be "Sierra Dogs"
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