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Sandra Bullock Is On Top of The World with Her New Film Gravity
The beloved—and eminently bankable—Sandra Bullock soars to new heights in the season's hotly anticipated outer-space thriller, Gravity.
In our next lives, let's all move to Austin, Texas. I'm serious. The place is heaven, with better breakfast. A capital city, a college town; the living is easy, unpretentious, serene. Everything moves at just the right speed. Little surprises happen. You go for coffee, and there may be a bluegrass band playing at the coffee shop. Another city, that might drive you slightly bananas. Here, it feels perfect. That's Austin.
This is what brought Sandra Bullock here. She found herself in Austin about fifteen years ago, on a road trip, searching for something that wasn't New York City, which at the time was grinding her down, with its concrete and claustrophobia and that person on the subway who would not . . . shut . . . up. Bullock stepped into the warm Texas air, and it was as if a screen door had opened. Grass, green, calm. Austin made it possible to not be Sandra Bullock, movie star, celebrity, paparazzi target. Here she could crawl out of that protective exoskeleton she calls her "armor" and be a human being. "I felt like myself," Bullock says. "It was just my safe place. I would get off the plane, smell the soil, hear the cicadas. . . ."
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It is late afternoon, and Bullock is guiding me across the front counter of Walton's Fancy and Staple, a local flower business she bought and relocated to Austin's downtown in 2009, adding gourmet sandwiches and a bakery with a chocolate cake that Bullock asks me to order because (a) it's chocolate cake, like I need a reason, and (b) she is going to steal some later. High-ceilinged and airy, with elegant floral arrangements sold in the back, Walton's looks like the kind of establishment Jimmy Stewart might have taken someone on a first date. Bullock is deep in its details here, and also at Bess, the law office turned bistro she opened three years prior down the street. She jokes that her staff rolls its eyes at her suggestions, since the boss has expensive taste. Whatever. It makes her happy. "The acting thing is so beyond my control," she says. "Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention." She looks at the tables behind us, full of families meandering on a long summer Sunday. "This is mine."
Bullock takes a seat around the corner from the counter, by the window. She is dressed in a pair of white J Brand cutoff shorts, a matching white top, and Sam Edelman gladiator sandals. In these surroundings, it can be hard to remember that the laid-back proprietor is also one of the most successful actresses in the business, an Academy Award winner, still a box-office juggernaut after more than two decades in the trade. You know: OMG Sandra Bullock! It's not always easy for Bullock to hide in plain sight as she can in Austin. "Going someplace with her can be cuckoo town," says Melissa McCarthy, her costar in this summer's bawdy buddy-cop hit The Heat. "People go crazy. They're just so happy to see her."
Let's consider that Sandra Bullock for a moment, now 49, an actress with a staggering $3.5 billion in accumulated global box office. Peter Chernin, the former Fox studio chief whose Chernin Entertainment produced The Heat (and who ran Fox in 1994, when Bullock appeared in Speed), refers to her without hesitation as "the biggest female movie star in the world." And yet it is something of an imprecise science to divine why audiences love her so. There are Bullock's acting chops, long underrated, finally receiving their critical due with her decorated performance as football-mom dynamo Leigh Anne Tuohy in 2009's The Blind Side. There's also Bullock's self-deprecating comedic gift—the homecoming queen who never quite got the hang of walking in heels. This ability to laugh at herself exists in real life: Bullock is the only actress to show up in person to collect her "Razzie" for Worst Actress (for 2009's forgotten All About Steve) in the same season she won the coveted Oscar. "She's incredibly funny, but the butt of almost all her jokes is herself," says George Clooney, whom Bullock thanked from the Academy's stage for throwing her in a swimming pool years ago. "That's just an appealing quality."
But the appreciation of Sandra Bullock always tends to circle back to a single, squishy word: relatability. Consciously or not, Bullock tends to remind people of someone they know—a best friend, a forgetful roommate, a favorite cousin. Audiences get behind her, connect to her, root for her because they recognize the person she is. It sounds so simple, and yet it is not. It is a golden quality. Clooney, who costars alongside Bullock in October's 3-D space adventure, Gravity, puts it this way: "There has always been a really levelheaded, smart, funny girl you feel like you know. As if she was the cool girl next to you in school."
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This is something of a policy. Great care is taken at Sandra Bullock Industries, Inc., to stay grounded, to live as normal a life as possible. The center of the universe is Bullock's son, Louis, adopted in January 2010, now three. There are birthday parties and children's books, and cheetah-print pajamas that Louis likes his mom to wear. There's an entourage that's not exactly red-carpet: a two-legged pet dog named Ruby, a three-legged dog named Poppy ("Basically one dog with an extra leg"), a fish named Rave after the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, and a stray deer that has shown up in the backyard of Bullock's Austin house; Louis has named it Gofi for reasons only Louis knows. Back in California, where she also has a home, she keeps chickens named for comediennes: Carol Burnett, Wanda Sykes, and a Phyllis Diller, until she was revealed to be a rooster and rechristened Phil Diller. "Work was my life before," Bullock says. "Now I have no reason to leave home."
She reaches across the table and sticks a fork in my dessert, lifting a bite into her mouth.
"Quality control," she says.
Cautiously, Bullock has been stepping back into her day job. Until The Heat, she had appeared in only one film since her Oscar, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, released in 2011. Now comes Gravity, an intimate epic years in the making, from the acclaimed Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá También).
The story of Bullock and Gravity begins in Austin, specifically at the Four Seasons Hotel several blocks away, where Cuarón had flown in to talk to Bullock about this long-gestating idea he had for a movie about astronauts. He wanted Bullock to consider the highly sought-after centerpiece part: Dr. Ryan Stone, a NASA medical engineer working for the first time aboard the space shuttle when a disaster strikes, stranding Dr. Stone in space, cut off from all contact, running out of oxygen, desperate to find her way back to Earth.
Bullock was a massive fan of Cuarón's—she jokes that she would have taken a part in Alfonso Cuarón's Garfield IV—but the role of Dr. Stone gave her a knot in the stomach, especially when the director excitedly explained how the film would replicate antigravity: by putting Bullock inside a specialized airplane nicknamed the Vomit Comet, plunging out of the sky to create brief moments of weightlessness. "I'm petrified of flying," Bullock says. "Plummeting out of the sky was not my idea of how I wanted to work with Alfonso Cuarón. But at one point I sat down and said, 'What is it about this movie that is telling me to get off my ass and get over something that has paralyzed me?' "
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Bullock put her fears aside and signed on, and it wasn't until shortly before shooting began that she learned the Vomit Comet had been mercifully canceled for reasons of logistics (it turned out it was possible to film weightlessness inside the plane only in bursts of 20 seconds, making long takes impossible). Instead, Gravity was filmed on an elaborate set in London, using puppeteers from the stage production of War Horse to simulate astronauts floating through the weightless environment. Bullock was outfitted in carbon-fiber plates and connected to a dozen wires, and together the actress and her puppeteers mastered the art of floating in a space suit, which basically looks like swimming through pudding. Cuarón says the process was difficult, sometimes painful for Bullock. "But after not having to do the Vomit Comet, she was so happy, she didn't care."
Bullock's Dr. Stone spends much of the movie on her own, and the same was true during filmmaking, as Bullock worked long days in a space suit suspended in darkness, listening to Cuarón via an earpiece, guiding her attention to a string of LED lights meant to represent things like a space station, or Clooney's character, who is also stranded. Obsessive attention was paid to details such as breathing and moving. ("You have to speak quickly and move slowly," says Clooney. "Sounds easy, but it's hard to do.") Dr. Stone is haunted by a past tragedy, and Bullock wanted her to resemble a person who had "become a shell," so she underwent a grueling physical-training regimen designed to strip away "almost everything that possibly made her a woman." A dancer since childhood, Bullock found a pair of Australian dancers who served as her trainers. "They created a way of working out that I could tolerate," she says. "I don't want to feel like I'm in a gym."
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Gravity is Cuarón's first movie in nearly seven years, and the final product is extraordinary in both its ambition and its soulfulness. Audiences will be mesmerized by its special effects and attention to detail—great care has been taken to re-create a true outer-space environment—but the film also doubles as a meditation on loss. "We wanted to do a film that was deeply emotional," says Cuarón, who succinctly describes Gravity as a film about "rebirth." The director says it wasn't until shooting was finished and editing commenced that he began to notice all the subtle textures of Bullock's performance, almost all of it done working against a green screen. "It was an amazing exercise of make-believe," Cuarón says. "Watching in the cutting room, seeing all those beats together . . . her breaths, the fear in her face . . . it was incredible."
Bullock sees Gravity as a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity. "You check it off and go, 'If it ends here, I've ended up on top,' " she says. "There's nothing else to do."
When the film wrapped, an exhausted Bullock wanted something completely different. "I was like, 'I need my funny,' she says. This led her to The Heat, shot last summer in Boston with McCarthy, fresh off the breakout smash Bridesmaids. Bullock credits the success of Bridesmaids with helping The Heat happen, since it put to rest the dubious proposition that audiences wouldn't support a female-driven comedy. Written by Katie Dippold and directed by Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, The Heat has already grossed nearly $200 million worldwide. I saw it in a packed theater not long after it opened, and the anticipation resembled Super Bowl Sunday, as if the audience couldn't wait to see the comedic combination—Bullock playing it straight as a taciturn FBI agent; McCarthy crashing through doors as a foulmouthed Boston cop.
The pair's chemistry was undeniable. "In comedy you just know right away," says Bullock. "Melissa's pure genius, you know? Everyone was just waiting to see what would come out of that woman's mouth."
What was novel about The Heat was seeing Bullock, a proven comedian, graciously take a step back and let another star shine. "If she wanted to, she could have stolen every scene in that movie," confesses McCarthy. "She could have easily been like, 'I'm Sandra Bullock. And you can walk behind me.' Instead, she was like, 'Come up here. Let's figure this out together.' That was a pretty amazing thing to be part of."
After nearly 40 films (!), Bullock knows when to play it big, and when to close the valves and keep a performance measured. This kind of self-awareness elevated The Blind Side, a true story about an affluent white family that took in an African-American teenager who later went on to play pro football. Bullock was initially hesitant to get involved with the inspirational project, fearing it might be too hokey.
"I turned it down three, four times," she says. "I was so worried about it being a Lifetime movie." Director John Lee Hancock convinced her otherwise, but the first week of shooting was rocky. Bullock admits she struggled to find her rhythm playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, a larger-than-life Memphis powerhouse. "I could not make it work," Bullock recalls. "I thought, I'm going to get roasted. I'm going to get creamed for this."
But Bullock found the proper balance, and her performance as Tuohy was an exuberant surprise. So was The Blind Side, which started slowly at the box office but rallied via word of mouth, grossing more than $300 million on a $29 million budget. Bullock was at first an unlikely Oscar candidate, but the momentum grew gradually. This was her moment. Her friend Sue Kroll, the president of global marketing and distribution of Warner Bros., remembers being at the Screen Actors Guild Awards that season and seeing a room of actors erupt almost giddily when Bullock's name was announced. "There was genuine warmth," Kroll recalls. "People were happy for her."
The Academy Awards that year felt like a cheery validation. Bullock wore a silvery, beaded Marchesa dress, and when her name was announced, she looked composed but stunned, rising from her chair and turning to her co-nominee Meryl Streep as if to ask: Did that actually happen? Her first line from the stage was classic Bullock self-deprecation: "Did I really earn this, or did I just wear y'all down?"
Of course, it is difficult to discuss that time in Bullock's life without recalling the ugly mess that immediately followed. Only days after the Oscars, tabloid reports emerged that Bullock's husband, motorcycle builder turned reality-TV star Jesse James, had been enmeshed in an extramarital affair. Bullock canceled a Blind Side promotional appearance in Europe for "unforeseen personal reasons" and fell off the radar as the story roiled for weeks. James would apologize for causing "pain and embarrassment"; the pair was divorced within months. From any angle, it looked like an agonizing nightmare, played out in public.
Bullock won't get into specifics of the split or X-ray its details. She understands the fascination, but she isn't going to examine it all. There is little doubt that the episode only furthered the public's affection for her; more than ever, her audience stood behind her, eager to pick her back up. But a few years removed, Bullock is intent on letting the past stay in the past.
"We're all where we're supposed to be," she says now. "I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting. . . .' " Bullock doesn't complete the thought, but it is clear what she means.
What is astonishing about that frenzied period before and after the Oscars is that it corresponded with the happiest moment in Bullock's life: the arrival of Louis. Born in New Orleans, he entered her world in January of 2010, and it's something of a tiny miracle that the secret lasted through awards season, when Bullock was in the public eye almost daily, doing publicity for The Blind Side, making small talk on the red carpet. She remembers telephone interviews at her home in which the interviewer had no idea of the scoop on the other end: baby Louis, weeks old, nestled in her lap. "Thank God for the mute button," Bullock jokes. Bullock had wanted to adopt for a long time. Reports that she was inspired by The Blind Side were wrong; the process had been initiated years before. Still, Louis's arrival was sudden. A call came; Bullock scrambled to get ready. "There was no crib, nothing," she says. "It was amazing how you just kick in and go, 'This is it.' "
Her life was transformed. She was stunned, exhausted, sleep-deprived, ecstatic. She thought about screaming out the news at the Oscars—"I wanted to get up there and say, 'Guess what?' "—but she decided against it. She did make a veiled reference, however, thanking "moms that take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from." Everyone assumed she was referring to the movie and Leigh Anne Tuohy, and she was. But she was also speaking about herself.
Bullock and Louis (pronounced LOU-ee) remain an inseparable tandem. "Louis is number one, and the next one down is 101," says McCarthy. "He takes up the first hundred slots in her life." McCarthy's children grew close with Louis during the making of The Heat; Louis had his own kid zone on the London set of Gravity. (While Mom had her photograph taken for this issue of Vogue, Louis was also outfitted with his own NASA suit.) Bullock customizes her life around his, trying to minimize interruptions. "I think this business can take the child out of kids so quickly," she says. "I don't want him to have pressures brought on by what I do. I will quit. I will leave. If I see whatever I'm doing affecting him negatively, I will pack up and move to Alaska."
Bullock says Louis is only vaguely aware of his mother's day job. To him, she is somebody better. The hugger, the holder, the keeper of the food. The reader of Thomas the Tank Engine and The Runaway Bunny. Theirs is a quiet, domestic life. Bullock jokes that it's been a while since her name surfaced in any tabloid stories. No secret wedding speculation. The latest untrue rumor was that Bullock was dating her security guard, Peter, which only infuriated Peter's wife when a tabloid printed her name and age. "That's what makes me want to step out of this business," Bullock says. "When it hurts amazing people I've gotten to know. This is family, you know what I mean?"
It will not surprise you that Sandra Bullock is not on Twitter.
How come you're not on Twitter?
"I don't want anyone to know where I am."
This explains Austin, where nobody cares about the box office, the paparazzi do not lurk behind mailboxes, and Bullock can waltz through her restaurants like the detail-obsessed small-business owner she wants to be. "It's as if she has no idea that she's one of the most famous people on the planet," says McCarthy. "She's just solidly who she is. I don't know what she thinks, but she's never getting rid of me."
Bullock will voice a character in an animated comedy next year; there are rumblings of a sequel to The Heat. "I'm just sort of seeing where life goes," she says. She is open to the idea of more children. "If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it." At the moment, "I'm having such an amazing time. Whatever comes our way, we handle as a family. It's not just me anymore."
At night, Bullock and Louis perform a little mother-and-son ritual they call the Grateful List, in which they express their gratitude for whatever comes to mind. Sometimes they're grateful for big things. Sometimes it's little things. Louis might say he is grateful for his toy cars, his food, his friends. Next to him is a movie star whom everybody knows, but none of that matters. It doesn't matter to Sandra Bullock, either. Everything she is grateful for at that moment is right there in that room. It sounds perfect. It sounds close to normal. It sounds like a life.


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Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, a renowned freedom fighter, founded Andhra Bank with a paid up capital of Rs. 1 lakh and the endorsed capital of Rs. 10 lakh. With its head office in Hyderabad, it has 1623 in India and an office each in UAE and USA.
Andhra Bank with the advent of latest technology and upgrading initiative has all its branches under CBS (Core Banking Solution) and provides services like internet banking, mobile alerts, instant debit card issue, and online tax payments to its customers.
Apply for Andhra Bank Internet Banking (AB INFI-net Online Banking)
Andhra Bank customers can signup to Internet Banking facility in below mentioned 2 ways:
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- Download the application form from the website or fetch from one of the bank branches
- Fill in the application form and submit the filled form to their branch office
- Bank will provide the login ID, Login password, and transaction password for conducting net banking at Andhra Bank Internet Banking
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- Access the link for registering the Andhra Bank Online Banking
- Select the check box for the criteria - Mobile Number Registered with Bank and You have a valid (Active) Andhra Bank ATM Card and press Continue button
- Enter Customer Id, select internet banking profile as either View & Transaction or View Only and press Proceed
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On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:21 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > Dan Connolly wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 14:30 -0700, John Foliot wrote: > >> Mr. Bratt, Mr. Berners-Lee, Ms. Brewer, Mr. Connolly, > >> > >> I am writing today regarding an issue that both shocks and profoundly > >> disappoints me. While I understand that to a large extent there is little > >> that can be done at this point, I personally feel that the issue I am > >> referring to should be brought directly to your attention, as it indirectly > >> affects the reputation and public position of the W3C. > > [...] > > > > John, your complaint is acknowledged. > > > > Yes, accessibility is essential part of our charter... > > http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html#coordination > > ... but figuring out how to achieve it is hard work. > > > > Organizing the W3C HTML WG as primarily a large mailing list is > > somewhat risky; typically, W3C Working Groups establish mutual > > trust and respect in face-to-face meetings and teleconferences > > which results in more sensitivity than we are seeing in > > the HTML WG mailing list and nearby forums such as IRC. > > (The particular discussion you cite is in a WHATWG forum, > > not a W3C forum, but I think that matters only a little.) > > Other standards organizations cope, and do so by having policies for > dealing with situations such as these. For example: > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3683.html > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3934.html > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4633.html > > I submit that if the W3C is not willing to establish and enforce similar > policies that this noble experiment is openness may not produce the > results you seek. W3C has established and is willing to enforce similar policies. See, for example, section 3.1 Individual Participation Criteria in the W3C process document. http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#ParticipationCriteria Many of the people in this WG are here on an invited basis. I'd rather not revoke those invitations without some due process. And I'd rather not have to establish a process for revoking them. But if it comes to that, that's my job (along with my co-chair, Chris Wilson, and the W3C Team Contact, Karl Dubost). -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Monday, 30 July 2007 18:56:10 UTC
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Cheap Buzz: PF Chang's
Editor's note: You may know John M. Edwards from his fast food reviews here at Serious Eats. We figured that if he's willing to try a Denny's Fried Cheese Melt, he's pretty much up for anything involving chain restaurants...even tasting his way through their signature cocktails. Here he is with another edition of Cheap Buzz! Take it away, John. --The Mgmt.
PF Chang's is an unabashed celebration of Americanized Chinese food. The inspiration for these dishes comes from Middle-America strip malls, not Flushing, Queens, or Shanghai. And it's a weird experience: the giant horses outside the doors frighten children; your server is almost always Caucasian; some locations serve french fries.
So it comes as no surprise that the cocktails are prepared for the American palate. Most, like the Orange Peel Manhattan or the Plum Collins, try to incorporate some vaguely Asian element into a mostly American invention. In some cases, these drinks are interesting, even enjoyable renditions of classic cocktails. In others, they're as sugary their General Tso's Chicken.
Everybody in my party liked the Orange Peel Manhattan, a mix of Woodford Reserve Bourbon, blood orange bitters, and sweet vermouth. The bourbon tasted smooth, the vermouth was apportioned properly, and the orange flavor really came through. It was slightly—but not undrinkably—too sweet. When I'm putting back a Manhattan, something about me likes to feel like Don Draper, swilling a man's glass of hooch; this wasn't quite it.
Next up, the Chinese 88 Martini, is a renamed French 75. Plymouth Dry Gin is shaken with lemon juice and topped with sparkling wine—it's crisp, citrusy, and very refreshing; they keep the gin subtle, but overall, it's more tart than sweet. (That is, until you get a taste of the sugar rim, which all but ruins the drink. If you order one, ask for it without.)
Our waiter boasted that the Organic Agave Margarita had been named among the top three most popular cocktails among chain restaurants. (How they determine that, I have no clue, but it was enough to sell me on it.) They start with Patron Silver tequila, then add organic agave nectar and lemon juice. I saw exactly why it was a top seller—it's good for a chain restaurant cocktail. The tequila is subtle, and doesn't bite; there's a good balance of booze and citrus. However, it's a fairly sweet cocktail, and I wouldn't order two.
The Tangier is Stoli Ohranj Vodka with tangerine liqueur and lemon juice. It's mellower than a Screwdriver, and has varied and interesting citrus flavors—but it's light enough that it belongs on the brunch list only.
Steer clear of the Plum Collins (a take on the Tom Collins) and the Mai Tai—both of these are in the sorority punch school of drinks.
If you're hungry, I recommend the steamed pork dumplings; even if the dough can be a bit gummy, the pork insides are plenty delicious. The ahi tuna was marred by an excessively sweet sauce; I'd skip the calamari, unless you like cafeteria fried clam sandwiches.
Overall, the cocktails mirror the food: they lean on sugar or other sweeteners to appeal and they lack the subtle complexity you'd want from a great cocktail. Still, some surprise you. Though we would have preferred our drinks a bit more grown up, I've had far worse cocktails during my Cheap Buzz odyssey.
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Man Killed in Rare Midtown Shooting
A gunman armed with an automatic pistol crept up behind a Los Angeles man walking in Midtown Manhattan on Monday afternoon and shot him fatally in the head before escaping in a waiting car, police said.
The area just south of Central Park and not far from Columbus Circle usually teems with tourists and shoppers in the weeks before Christmas. But it was unusually quiet about 2 p.m. as the victim, identified by police as Brandon Woodard, 31 years old, of Los Angeles, strolled on West 58th Street, away from Seventh Avenue.
The killing marked the fourth homicide this year in an area not usually touched by murder—the Midtown North Precinct, which runs from 59th Street south to approximately 42nd Street and stretches from the Hudson River to Lexington Avenue.
Mr. Woodard was passing under the American flag hanging near the entrance to the St. Thomas Choir School when he was shot once in the back of the head at close range.
"The shooter then turned, walked a few steps eastbound and got into a parked, waiting gray or silver MKZ Lincoln sedan," said Paul Browne, the spokesman from the New York Police Department.
The car traveled east on West 58th, then turned south onto Seventh Avenue toward Times Square. Police on Monday night they were still searching for the killer and his getaway driver.
A law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said, "It definitely looks like a hit."
Mr. Woodard was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead. He had been staying at the Hudson Hotel on West 58th Street, about a block from the scene of the shooting, and had checked out Monday afternoon, a person familiar with the matter said.
Mr. Woodard, who was from the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, graduated in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in business degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Seabicio Rodregues, a 53-year-old doorman, was inside a nearby building on West 58th when he said he heard a gunshot, though he didn't realize what it was at the time. "I heard a 'tuk,' that's it," he said. "I didn't give it a lot of attention."
Later, Mr. Rodregues said he saw the victim lying on the ground, face up.
David Mirambeau, 29, was making a delivery for United Parcel Service Inc. when he mistook the gunshot for a blown tire. "Next thing I knew, I saw [the victim] on the floor," he said. "He was gasping for air, he was still alive."
He said two cellphones were on the ground next to Mr. Woodward, who he said was wearing a black rain coat, black jeans and purple Nike sneakers.
According to a published report, Mr. Woodard was involved in an altercation in 2004 with a security guard for the singer Usher backstage at a concert at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. Mr. Woodard was the only person arrested by police and was charged with misdemeanor battery. He had accused the guard of injuring him in what he said was an unprovoked attack. A spokeswoman for the Clark County District Attorney's Office in Las Vegas said Mr. Woodard failed to appear in court in October 2004 and a warrant was issued for his arrest. In April 2008, Mr. Woodard was arrested in Las Vegas on the warrant. In May 2008, he pleaded guilty and a judge released him without imposing a jail term, the spokeswoman said.
Representatives of Usher couldn't immediately be reached for comment Monday.
Last week, also in the Midtown North precinct, Ki-Suk Han, 58, was pushed to his death on the subway tracks inside the 49th Street station after getting into an argument with 30-year-old Naeem Davis, who has been charged with murder in the case.
Theodore Beckles, a 19-year-old student at Independence High School, was fatally stabbed in September in a fight with a student from the High School for Environmental Studies, which shares the same building as Mr. Beckles's school on West 56th Street. In April, 19-year-old Henry Wachtel allegedly beat his 63-year-old mother to death in what his attorney described as an epileptic seizure. The mother, Karyn Kay, had been an English teacher at LaGuardia High School.
All of those cases remain pending.
—Will James contributed to this article
Corrections & Amplifications
There have been four homicides this year in the New York Police Department's Midtown North Precinct. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said there had been three homicides in the precinct so far in 2012.
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The major portions of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul bill won't take effect until 2014, but in the coming year the medical industry will start to prepare for the onslaught of new policyholders scheduled to hit the system in little more than 12 months.
As the bill — formally known as the Affordable Care Act and popularly referred to as Obamacare — starts to kick in, investors should watch a number of stocks that could either sink or soar.
The fortunes of insurers, care givers, device makers, drug distributors, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms rest largely on which sector they occupy in the health-care spectrum. If they sink, chances are others in their sector will suffer as well unless mitigating factors help keep their shares humming.
The same goes for Obamacare winners; all boats in a particular sector are likely to be lifted if the rash of new policies smiles on them.
Analysts agree the biggest winners in Obamacare will be hospitals, followed by insurers and drug distributors/pharmacy benefit managers.
Medical-device makers, on the other hand, could suffer as a new tax imposed on them under the law threatens to eat into their bottom line. As more companies in the system become acclimated to the law, they likely will cut down on the use of health consultants and services groups.
Provisions of the law that affect drug makers and biotech labs already, for the most part, have been enacted — including taxes on some drugs coupled with higher reimbursements. Going forward, these two sectors should see a largely neutral effect, though there could be a net gain for some companies, analysts say.
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But there are exceptions too. There are some medical-device makers which could cut a swath based on demand for their products. And some hospital companies could see their windfalls limited in states that opt out of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion program.
One caveat: as with most legislative mandates, they can always be pushed back. Les Funtleyder, president of the investment advisory division at Poliwogg, a health-care investment specialist, says he wonders if states will be able to set up health-insurance exchanges by October 2013, or whether they'll have to be delayed.
The exchanges are a critical cog in the new system, as they are expected to be used to add millions of new policyholders to insurers' rolls.
"I think we're going to have this conversation in the middle of 2014 and early 2015," Funtleyder said.
Here's a list of five prospective winners, once Obamacare is implemented:
1. HCA Holdings Inc. HCA, +0.30% : The largest hospital operator in the nation, HCA is in prime position to reap the rewards of Obamacare.
As more individuals become insured, hospitals stand to wipe billions of dollars in bad debt off their books that they have incurred for years by treating uncovered indigent patients in their emergency rooms. For some hospitals, it amounts to as much as 20% of revenue. "That should drop significantly by covering the uninsured as long as states go along with the Medicaid provisions," said Jeff Jonas, an analyst with Gabelli & Co.
Due to its sheer size, HCA stands to gain more than most but it also is setting itself up to take advantage. The company operates 263 hospitals and surgery centers in 20 states. It also recently announced a secondary offering of shares, as a number of private investors are liquidating their stake in the company which has traversed in and out of the public market.
One note of caution, though. HCA has significant holdings in Texas, which has opted not to take part in the law's Medicaid expansions. Seventy HCA facilities are listed in Texas. But Jonas says most states are likely accept the provisions. "It's essentially free money for the first few years," he said.


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by John Colgan-Davis
I don't regularly write about sports in these columns. It just doesn't seem quite appropriate most of the time. I do not normally talk to most folks about sports. My wife and family and I have discussions about the disappointment of the Phillies this year and the apparent re-awakening of the Eagles, and there are a few friends with whom I have the stereotypical guys argument/discussions: they shouldn't have traded him, what were they thinking, who should be fired or let go, etc.
But I love sports, especially baseball and pro football, and I have for most of my life. I love them both for the games themselves and for what the games can show and reveal about our society, our culture, our times and our values.
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s when baseball was king and when blacks were just breaking into the big leagues. I have clear memories of Jackie Robinson's last years with the Dodgers, Don Newcombe, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson and many others who were personal heroes of mine, both for their baseball skills and as symbols of black excellence and as indicators of change.
It was about much more than just the score or the game. And as I grew older, I began to see more of the larger social patterns at play in much of our sports. Boxing and basketball reflected the ethnic and social systems of certain times with Irish, Jewish, Italian and black athletes dominating and becoming popular in those sports, reflecting who was struggling to move up in U.S. urban society during a given time period.
The decades featured Irish, Jewish, Italian and then African-American names as we moved through the 20th century, one group dominating and then being replaced by another. So sports is both games and a measuring stick and peek into aspects of U.S. society
I bring all of this up because one of the joys I have had during my summer vacation is reading the newspaper. I do not mean glancing at a headline or looking at one or two stories. I mean READING the paper — having the time to go from much of the first section through to most of the other sections as well.
And in so doing I have discovered the wonderful sports writing and analysis of Inquirer columnist Frank Fitzpatrick. Yes, he talks about the games, but like great sportswriters of the past such as Roger Kahn and Bill Conlin, he gets behind and underneath the stories to go into the places where sports reveal some greater truths, including those we may not want to look at.
He is a very effective writer, and he is able to make us see the people involved beyond the stories. His Father's Day piece, for example, on the World War II veterans who were behind the growth of Little League baseball in the 1950s was wonderfully observed and generously stated:
"In retrospect, for our dads, that well-tended field must have been a shrine, a place that represented the deepest emotional bond they would ever have with their sons. For so many of them, World War II had turned off their emotional taps.
"Whatever horrific war residue they needed to deal with, they often did so inappropriately by drinking, philandering, raging, or most commonly, retreating … For them, Little League served as a welcome conversational surrogate."
Clearly this is a new way to look at Little League, but it is also a new way to think about the lives and roles of fathers in the 1950s. And that is something one does not expect to see in a sports column these days.
There has recently been a lot in the news about use of mascots and sports teams' names with the debate over the Washington pro football team's use of "Redskins" and the Cleveland baseball team nickname of "Indians" and their home run mascot and logo, "Chief Wahoo." There is a lot of passionate debate about this but little historical reference. In his column on the controversy, though, Fitzpatrick provided some of that reference:
"There was a time in American sports, predominantly in early 20th-century baseball, when deformed or degraded mascots were the norm. In Philadelphia, for example, both the Phillies and Athletics employed humpbacked youngsters as batboy mascots. The custom grew out of a patronizing society's ignorant belief that the more socially outcast one was, the greater his worth as a good-luck charm. Humpbacks, dwarfs, those with crossed eyes, the mentally ill and, of course, blacks and Indians were widely seen as talismans. It wasn't long until superstitious sports teams were cruelly using them for that purpose."
It is such a treat that in the world of "man-caves," 24-7 sports coverage, obsessive fans and egomaniacal athletes, there is sports commentary that can make you think and feel, that makes you want to go beyond the scores. Frank Fitzpatrick does that … Even if the Phillies are still not driving in runs.
Here is a link to some of Fitzpatrick's columns: www.philly.com/philly/columnists/frank_fitzpatrick
John Colgan-Davis is a long-time Mt. Airy resident, teacher and harmonica player for Philly's top rockin' blues band, Dukes of Destiny.


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Kansas City – St. Joseph Bishop Robert W. Finn is leading a Kansas City pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The pilgrimage began yesterday and will last till November 10. Claude Sasso, Ph.D., Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese, will be sending occasional dispatches on the visit. Below is the second installment. Tomorrow I'll post the third which has pics.
Our second day on the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land took place on Friday, 30 October and began under sunny skies but a much cooler day in the 60's. We traveled by bus to the Dome of the Ascension on the Mt. of Olives, which is situated east of the Old City of Jerusalem and looks down upon the Kidron Valley and Old Jerusalem. The site is sacred to Christians because it is where the Ascension of Jesus took place forty days after his Resurrection.
Bishop Finn gathered everyone inside the small dome and read from the Gospel of Luke concerning Christ: "And it came to pass as he blessed them, that he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem" (Lk 24: 51-52). In the first chapter of Acts, which was also read, it is recorded that "he was lifted up before their eyes and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing up into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white garments and said to them, 'Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall come in the same way you have seen him going up to heaven''" (Acts 1: 9-11). After praying we learned that the first Christians worshipped in a cave on the sight until a chapel was constructed in 380 A.D. It was a round building open to the sky but it was converted into a Muslim shrine after the conquest by Saladin in 1187 A.D. and was considered sacred to Moslems, whose Quran has one line affirming the Ascension (Surah 4:158). The footprints formed in the dust inside the dome were considered to be those of Christ and the right print still remains today.
We walked from there a short distance to the Church of the Pater Noster, which is believed to be the place where Jesus responded to the request to teach us to pray, by teaching the Our Father. The Church was built by Constantine and construction supervised by St. Helena, his mother. The Constantian church was destroyed by the Persians in 614, but the Crusaders constructed a small oratory amidst the ruins in 1106. The present Church and Carmelite monastery was built between 1868-1872 by French Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne. Tiled panels inscribed with the Our Father prayer are found all around the grotto area in over 100 languages. Bishop Finn read from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 11, where it recounts Jesus' teaching. We pilgrims prayed the Our Father in the Grotto and then entered the Chapel of the Carmel.
We then walked down the sharply declining road on the hillside which Jesus used on Palm Sunday a short distance to the Dominus Flevit Church, a small Franciscan church located on upper western slopes of the Mt. of Olives. This church commemorates the tears Jesus shed as he approached Jerusalem looking out towards the Temple, which the Romans destroyed during the civil war with the Jews in 70 A.D. along with the city.
The Church of Dominus Flevit, which literally translates, "the cry of the Lord," was constructed by the Italian architect Anton Barluzzin in the shape of a tear drop. It has four large jars on the exterior corners to symbolize the Jewish custom of catching the tears of one who is mourning. As we entered the small church the altar decoration of the mother hen gathering her chicks catches the eye as does the beautiful window behind the altar, which provides a panoramic view of Old Jerusalem from the East in general and especially the Dome of the Rock. It was here we celebrated Mass. In his homily Bishop Finn noted that Jesus was not thinking of his own glory on Palm Sunday but weeping for those who will be lost. He said that Jesus' constant prayer was that we be one. He urged the pilgrims to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and to participate in the work of peace and unity.
As we further descended the Palm Sunday road we observed a vast grave yard on the hillside where many Jewish people have been buried in the belief that they are close to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where they expect mankind to be resurrected on the Day of Judgment. Our last stop was the Garden of Gethsemane, with its eight ancient olive trees, the garden where Jesus spent a sleepless night praying before his arrest and crucifixion. The Franciscans maintain the Basilica of Agony, which was built in 1924. This beautiful church was our last stop and Mass was being offered there as we arrived. This was our last stop before lunch at the Notre Dame center and a free afternoon to see things on our own.
The first installment can be read here.


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Since I joined the IE team at the beginning of 2007, it has become clear to me how important it is for web developers to predict how a given browser will work. I've certainly heard and read how very important it is to web developers to minimize the cost of supporting each additional browser version. In apparent contradiction to this, everyone needs continued innovation in the browser to create new online business opportunities.
One of the most important ways to ease development costs is to support a well-defined set of web standards in all the browsers. This frees up developers' time to spend on their site innovation rather than porting and testing work. However, sometimes there are ambiguities or optional items in the specifications, such as the behavior of tables. This naturally results in browsers that behave differently.
The Internet Explorer team is serious about enabling web developers to be the most effective and efficient as possible. One very important way we can do this is to support and contribute to the web standards. For the Internet Explorer team, we will do this in multiple ways including implementing support for standards and driving to cut the ambiguity in these industry standards' specifications.
I believe the way to cut through the ambiguity is to have a set of tests that can help define how the implementation should actually work. The W3C's CSS Working Group has a set of 487 tests today in the CSS Working Group's level 2 revision 1 test suite. We just submitted over 700 tests to the W3C for possible inclusion into the official test suite. We're providing these using the BSD License. We wrote these to test the CSS 2.1 behavior in IE8 beta 1. The coverage they provide is for both basic property support and the scenarios called out in the CSS 2.1 spec. We strongly believe in the W3C and how its test suites can ultimately help the web developers of the world spend more time creating new web experiences and less time dealing with browser differences. The feedback regarding the first set of submitted CSS 2.1 tests will help us improve these tests and strongly guide our future test submissions to the CSS Working Group and others.
The IE Test Team welcomes your feedback about our CSS 2.1 tests including our interpretation of how they test the CSS 2.1 support in IE8 Beta 1. If you're interested in commenting on the tests, I encourage you go to join the existing W3C's 2.1 Test Suite Mailing List discussion on the topic. I truly believe that starting with IE8 Beta 1 we've begun a journey toward making it easier for you to build the web in a standards-based, predictable way.
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The last battle of T'leth has severely damaged Earth's biosphere. As a result, several self-contained Megalopolis-type cities were proposed to provide habitation for humanity. Follow Mega-Primus, the first of these cities, built over the ruins of Toronto, while fending off new type of extradimensional aliens trying to attack the city through tetrahedron-shaped teleport gates.
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Online Student RequirementsPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/ext/online/onlinelearning.html
Before You Get Started:
Earning an online degree or taking online education courses is a positive experience for most students. You'll be most successful if you're knowledgeable about online learning before taking a course so we've provided a list of online education requirements and suggestions for you to consider before finalizing your decision to earn your online degree or enroll in our accredited online education courses. Be sure to check out our other online education resources listed below for even more helpful information related to online learning.
While online courses can offer more flexibility in scheduling, they require more self-discipline and independence than on-campus courses. Some students can find this uncomfortable and not suitable for their learning style. They may miss face-to-face interaction with an instructor and peers, which helps to keep them on track. In the online environment, you have to be able to start and to work on tasks on your own, without someone keeping you focused, and you have to be self-disciplined in order to follow the class schedule and meet deadlines.
Please check the Skills Requirements and Technical Requirements links for additional considerations you may want to take into account.
Online classes take as much time as regular on-campus classes. You need to set aside sufficient time for study. Plan to spend at least as much time working on the assignments and studying as you would with a traditional course. Note that some students report spending even more time for online classes than for traditional ones. Time that you need to devote to a 3-credit course will be approximately 12 hours a week.
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Author(s): Amor Towles
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***Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh*** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAYBOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESSBOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original than Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'Charming a shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' The Times, Books of the Year '(A) supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
"A comic masterpiece . . . very funny, tender and as laughably accurate an account of the dismal nature of life in Soviet Russia as one could hope for . . . Quite apart from the ingeniously ludicrous plot and the acutely drawn characters, what adds to the joy of this book is the precision of Towles' style. Again and again he conveys exactly the right impression with a deliciously surprising choice of words . . . a sheer delight." -- William Hartson * Daily Express * "A work of great charm, intelligence and insight." -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times * "No historical novel was more witty, insightful and original" * Sunday Times, Culture Magazine * "Elegant sentences, wonderful characters and inventive storytelling . . . This is everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight." * Mail on Sunday * "I think the world feels so disordered right now. The count's refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we're longing for. His world was also in shambles but he maintained his grace and humor." -- Ann Patchett
Amor Towles was born and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. An investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.


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Ray Kelly (born Dublin on December 29, 1976) was an Irish soccer player during the 1990s and early 21st century.
Kelly was a striker who began his career at Manchester City F.C., but made only one first team appearance,[1] against Huddersfield Town on 7 November 1997. Kelly also played for Wrexham on loan from City.[1]
He returned to Ireland in December 1998 to play for Bohemians. Kelly excelled during Bohs FAI Cup campaign in 2000 scoring 5 goals as they reached the final, losing in a replay to Shelbourne. Soon after this, Kelly shockingly retired to become an airline pilot.


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Cokie Roberts
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Cokie Roberts is a Morning Edition commentator.
At NPR she previously served as the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming.
From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by Universal Uclick. The Roberts also wrote From this Day Forward, an account of their more than 40-year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto The New York Times bestseller list, following Roberts' number one bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. Roberts histories of women in America's founding era — Founding Mothers, published in 2004 and Ladies of Liberty in 2008, also became instant bestsellers. Her most recent book, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868, was published in 2015.
Cokie Roberts holds more than twenty honorary degrees, serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and on the President's Commission on Service and Civic Participation. The Library of Congress named her a "Living Legend," one of the very few Americans to have attained that honor. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six.


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Yesterday, Double Fine put together an interesting new idea to crowdsource the selection of their next "Amnesia Fornight" games. It's a cool move, inviting people to support them financially while opening up their process to the world and giving fans a say in what games they make.
In that same spirit, they've also made a number of prototypes available via their Amnesia Fortnight Bundle, which allows you to vote on new prototypes and download a few existing ones. Today, they added a new prototype to the bundle, for a game called BRAZEN from Iron Brigade project lead Brad Muir. You'll only get the prototype if you pay more than the average, which is around $6.50 right now (clever, Double Fine). You can see Muir describe the game in detail in the video above, and snag the prototype from the Amnesia Fortnight page.


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MESH is a nationally recognized advertising agency and marketing firm specializing in integrated branding and marketing strategy. We have proven expertise in brand building, strategic account leadership, advertising, creative services, PR and traditional and digital media. We've provided professional, creative solutions to clients in a wide variety of industries – from music to architectural materials, from home and garden to healthcare, to food and beverage – and much more.


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Good morning beauties and happy Thursday! If you missed yesterdays review on the Yogi Surprise Jewelry Box, make sure to check it out here. Today I'll be doing a review on the Yogi Surprise Yoga Box and I was super excited for the items in this months box. This is my first month receiving this … Continue reading December 2018 Yogi Surprise Yoga Box Review
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December 2018 Yogi Surprise Jewelry Box Review
Hey Beauties and happy Tuesday. Today's review will be on the Yogi Surprise Subscription Box. This subscription box offers three boxes which are the Yoga Box, Jewelry Box, and the Men's Yoga Box. Not to mention they are the #1 Yoga Subscription Box out! Before I get into the Yogi Surprise Jewelry Subscription Box review, … Continue reading December 2018 Yogi Surprise Jewelry Box Review
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My Top 4 Eyeliners This Fall/Winter 2018
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Meet Greg McElroy, the man who may steal the job of Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez
On the heels of a scintillating performance that included five completions for 29 yards, second-year quarterback Greg McElroy may have snagged the coveted position as New York Jets
punching bag quarterback from Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow (Rex Ryan didn't say at Monday's press conference). Big things happen in New York when you beat the Arizona Cardinals 7-6. But who is Greg McElroy, the would-be usurper?
Led Alabama to a national championship in the 2009-10 season: To NFL fans, all those BCS title games blend together. That was the one in which Colt McCoy got hurt early, 'Bama took a big lead, but Texas came back and hung around long enough to delay Nick Saban's preening for a bit. The main thing you'd remember about McElroy is that he hadn't lost a game since eighth grade. He'd go on to suffer one in the 2010 season to South Carolina.
Was best known in NFL for his postseason rant about Jets locker room: McElroy blasted the Jets locker room last January following his rookie season. He said there was a "corrupt mind-set" among "extremely selfish individuals" and said the team would have to learn from its "trials and tribulations."
Is smart: McElroy interviewed to be a Rhodes Scholar in his senior season. He didn't make the cut of the final 32. Later, McElroy scored a 43 out of 50 on his Wonderlic test, hence the use of phrases like "corrupt mind-set" and "trials and tribulations."
TEBOW DISSED: Unnamed Broncos agree with Jets: Tim Tebow not an NFL quarterback
Last name isn't spelled like the similarly-surnamed golfer. It's Greg McELROY. Think of the kid from The Jetsons if you're confused.
Also uses Twitter to preach to followers: About Alabama football, that is. Six of his last seven tweets have been about the Crimson Tide. Five have referenced the rallying cry "Roll Tide.' None included a Bible verse.
Speaking of Alabama, how can you tell him apart from other QBs? All the 'Bama quarterbacks tend to blend together. If I put McElroy, A.J. McCarron, Brodie Croyle and John Parker Wilson in a police lineup, you'd think the only discernible way to tell them apart would be by their Croakies. McElroy is the only one in that group to hail from outside Alabama; he's from Los Angeles.
People do not care about his relationship status: Google search results, as of Dec. 3, 2012:
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IADLEST President, Richard Clark and Executive Director, Mike Becar met with a group of Government & Education Officials from Lagos, Nigeria who reached out to them for assistance in training Lagos Law Enforcement Officers. The Lagos State Government's intent was to establish a Law Enforcement Institute. The Executive Board of IADLEST then began their search to find a qualified instructor that they could send to Nigeria to provide the assistance and training they were looking for.
Among the several individuals who were interested in this once in a lifetime opportunity was James Russell Sharpe who works for the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions in Sykesville, Maryland. With Mr. Sharpe's background in working with the State Department in training foreign corrections and parole and probation officials, as well as being an advanced law enforcement instructor and Homeland Security Coordinator in the Law Enforcement Training Unit, the Executive Board of IADLEST felt that Russ would be a great candidate and selected him to go.
The journey began on December 8, 2012 when Russ arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, after a 22 hour flight that started in Baltimore, MD. He was met at Murtala Muhammed International Airport by Abimbola Lamina who works for the Ministry of Transportation. Shortly after arriving to his hotel he had a meeting with his host, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Transport Education, Dr. Mariam Masha. At that meeting they discussed what he would be doing for the next 8 working days which consisted of being the featured facilitator at a capacity building workshop on "developing standards and training" for the Law Enforcement Officers of the State Government. The Lagos State Government's intent is to establish a Law Enforcement Institute and Dr. Masha was the lead person on the project.
In the front row are: Homeland Security Coordinator, State of Maryland, James Russell Sharpe (3rd Right), Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Transport Education, Dr. Mariam Masha (3rd Left), Project coordinator, Miss. Demilola Shitta (2nd Right), Special Assistant to the Governor on Kick against Indiscipline (KAI), Mr. Dapo Bode-Thomas (Right)
During the workshop Russ discussed hiring standards, what a Lagos Law Enforcement Officer needs to know and training objectives, length of training, ongoing in service training, hiring and training of staff, academy administrative needs, record keeping and training standard's. They also touched on subjects such as integrity, public perception, inter-agency relations, intergovernmental relations, nepotism and cronyism, and the unique problems of Lagos. Attending his workshop were administrators, managers and supervisors from the Lagos Law Enforcement Agencies: Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Kick against Indiscipline (KAI) Brigade, the Law Enforcement Unit Ministry of the Environment, neighborhood watch, and the Lagos State Security outfit. The workshop was held at the Public Service Staff Development Centre (PSSDC) in Magondo, Lagos.
Russ was in Lagos for a total of 10 days and upon returning home, he gave us a short write up on the whole experience and said "This was one of the best training experiences I have had as a trainer. I think I stimulated some thought and gave the workshop participants suggestions on how to make the Lagos Law Enforcement Institute a reality." Russ plans on continuing to assist the Lagos State Government in building a top flight law enforcement training academy.
On behalf of IADLEST I want to thank you Mr. Sharpe for the dedication and professionalism you put into this project, your time and effort, and for sharing your expertise in helping Nigeria establish their Law Enforcement Institute.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Tough Times: Thoughts on the Library Job Market from a Department Head Who Just Hired a Reference Librarian
Reading through over seventy letters (a few foolish applicants failed to send cover letters), I got a look into the very deep pool of library talent that is currently available for hire. Many qualified, experienced, and creative librarians are currently either unemployed or under-employed. From my reading of the letters and resumes, I sense that under-employed is the new norm for young librarians. Quite a few have been working in part time library positions for several years, perhaps supplementing that employment with work at restaurants, discount stores, and such. Many have been volunteering at libraries or social services agencies that they feel translate into relevant experience. A fortunate few are making ends meet with two part time library jobs. Many get glowing references from employers who wish they could give them full time hours. New graduates from library school have these now experienced librarians competing for the same few jobs.
While I did not sense despair from the letters, there seemed to be a heightened urgency to get a library job that actually paid a living wage. The applicants are ready to work. Several expressed that the open position was just what they had been seeking – a position that sparked their imagination. They were sure that they were perfect for the job. I am sure that many of them would have done well. My first call folder was rather thick.
It always stings not to get a job for which you are qualified and enamored. Nothing I can write here can lessen that sting for the many hopeful applicants that did not even get an interview. At this point all the applicants know the outcome, for I did contact them to announce the position was filled.
A second round of surprises came after my carefully worded closing letters. Around a dozen applicants thanked me for letting them know that the job was filled. While the news was not good for them, it was an acknowledgment of their offering themselves to my library and ended any doubt that they had as to their status in the process. Another handful of applicants asked me through email or even by phone call what they had lacked to be considered. Here I answered carefully, saying what I had sought (a reiteration of the job announcement) instead of dissecting what the candidates lacked. They could then make their own analysis. By doing this, a potentially awkward question (which I would not deny them) became a more positive conversation.
I have spent weeks thinking about the experience and have a few observations for people applying for jobs.
1. Send a well-written cover letter of no more than three paragraphs that covers about three quarters of a page. Address how you meet the job criteria. Don't stray into your irrelevant (to the job) interests and activities. Be positive without boasting.
2. If you are sending cover letters and resumes by email (which most people do), be very careful to send the right ones specific to the job for which you are applying. Sending letters addressed to other parties does not engender any confidence in your ability to do good work. If you are applying to a public library, do not state on your resume that your objective is to work in a government archive. This seems pretty obvious, but I saw six or seven cases of incompatible objectives.
3. For the benefit of the prospective employer, who might be collecting Word documents or PDFs in a folder, put your name in the document name. It saves the employer from having to rename dozens of documents named "resume."
4. If sending paper letter and resume, be sure to include your email address so the prospective employer can quickly verify that it was received. Not including an email makes you seem out of touch.
5. PDFs often look better when opened by the prospective employer, whose Microsoft Word might have different margins than the applicant's Microsoft Word.
6. Have patience. Looking through applications and setting up interviews takes time. Calling or emailing the prospective employer to ask when your interview will be the moment the application period ends will not portray you as the calm and confident candidate that the employer seeks.
Here are a few thoughts for the profession as a whole.
1. This is not the time to push prospective librarians to attend library school. Only those people who know the current conditions and who either have a job already lined up or are willing to risk spending a few years under-employed should start working for a degree.
2. Library schools need to scale back to survive. If too many degrees are issued causing an overabundance of librarians, the news will eventually reach prospective future students and registrations will fall.
3. Finding satisfying non-traditional jobs for current and future library students is also needed.
Thousands of librarians are meeting at the annual conference of the American Library Association this week in Washington, D.C. I suspect there will be many there seeking jobs. I hope to read how well they did finding them and how the issue of jobs for librarians is address at the conference.
26 comments:
- laura said...
What kind of a mix of applications did you get in terms of where people were from? I'm curious about how numbers and demographics in suburban Chicago compare to those of the applicants we get for jobs out here (and we get a lot of applicants!) in rural Wyoming.
- ricklibrarian said...
Laura, I am a bit surprised on looking to see how overwhelmingly local the response was. Of the 78, only 15 were from outside the Chicago area. I thought there had been more. Three were from Indianapolis, which is about three hours away. Applications did come from the East Coast, South, and Southwest.
- Lauren-laserone said...
It's a shame how things are right now. I have been feeling SO inspired to go to library school but I keep reading about libraries closing, etc. I hope things turn around soon. Cheers.
As a librarian looking for work, I can answer to why applicants are mainly local. With today's economy most can not afford to move and/or risk a spouse leaving their career.
Sadly, I am one of those underemployed librarians. I attended ALA last year as a library student and then graduated less than a month later. At one of the sessions I attended I was asked to introduce myself. Many of the professional librarians there were pleased to hear I was a library student and one even remarked "We need you" to which I replied "Well, I need a job." No one had a response to that, in fact I am still waiting for one.
Rick, thank you for the advice. It would never have occurred to me to name my document "Jane Doe resume," but it certainly makes sense!
Congratulations to your new reference librarian, as well. It sounds like they will be working in a very positive environment.
- Rebecca said...
Rick, this is some great advice. I agree that job seekers (of any profession!) need to check and double check their submissions to make sure they are sending it to the right name! And yes, if you call me to see why you were not interviewed yet, you go right to the "no" pile. A polite email to make sure your submission was received is OK, but anything more than that makes you a pest.
And I also very much agree that this is not the time to be encouraging folks to head back to library school. My last job opening, I had FORTY applicants for a 10-hour a week position. Yikes!!
As an underemployed librarian, it's good to know that I'm not alone (or maybe, it's not really good!). I graduated from library school two years ago, and in that time I have (barely) survived by working part-time, non-professional jobs. I FINALLY got a professional position, but it's part-time. I'm up to my neck in student loans and sometimes feel like going to library school was incredibly foolish and selfish of me. I have actually told students who are interested in librarianship NOT to go to library school at this time because a.) the job market is terrible, and b.) I don't need any more people competing with me for jobs!
- Chad said...
Good post, Rick, and most helpful advice. I wish the profession as a whole, though, would not continue to discuss ad nauseum the number of "baby boom" librarians and others on the verge of retirement. If the recent economic downturn has taught us anything, it is that many librarians are staying employed well past retirement, for various reasons. For some, they will be employed literally until they die. And that is not to disparage them; just to acknowledge the state of affairs. The normal transition of one generation to another through retirement has ended in many professions, including librarianship. That, coupled with positions being eliminated upon retirement, of course.
- MeganO said...
Like many other commenters, I have also just graduated from library school and I'm looking for a job. Luckily (maybe?) it seems as though there are increasing numbers of academic full-time jobs out there, but as you point out there are lots of more experienced people with whom I'm competing. I am looking at being underemployed, or employed outside my field while volunteering, until I can get a full time position. Sad to know it's not my imagination and there are so many of us out there...good luck everyone!
- Beth said...
Don't loose hope--there are library positions out there. Use any networks you have (or work to establish them) and keep trying. I lost my job on May 28th and just accepted a job offer comparable to one I loss. Stay positive and keep working toward your goal!
Thanks for the info, and I wish all newer librarians the best of luck in this economy. I also agree that potential library students should consider their options seriously.
Sadly, many of the older generation of librarians are now in the situation of NOT being able to retire perhaps as soon as we would like. I had contemplated retiring in another 2 years or so, but will most likely work longer than that due to my spouse losing his job (he is highly educated, highly experienced and currently working 3 part-time jobs with no benefits). We feel grateful that I have my benefited full-time job, but I am sorry that I can't leave sooner - both for myself and to open up a position for someone younger.
I know of other boomer generation librarians in my situation, which just makes the job market that much tighter.
The idea that the entire library market is experiencing a lack of openings is an over-generalization. Making suggestions that potential librarians forego library school or library schools to cut back is bad advice. Better advice: look outside your local market and be willing move. Markets exist where job postings go unfilled or must be posted multiple times before being filled (ex: San Antonio area).
As an academic librarian, when one of our student workers expresses interest in the professional library world, I caution them that they shouldn't go into it if they're not willing to relocate. I was tied to the region by my husband's still attending school, and it took me 3 years to find a full-time position.
- Elizabeth said...
I just found this post (that's why I'm commenting so late) through an underemployed librarian friend of mine. I graduated from library school in December and spent 5 months looking for an academic reference position. I was picky because I had two job offers from public libraries and during the face-to-face interviews, realized that I DID NOT want to work at a public library.
You can read more about my job hunt and my eventual job offer/acceptance on my personal blog and at Closed Stacks (where I blog occasionally as Librarian Rx), but I did just want to say that it's nice to hear an opinion from someone doing the hiring and not just people looking for jobs. All of your advice is excellent and I will be passing it along to anyone who asks and use it in any future job hunting activities of my own. Thanks!
Rick, thank you for this thought-provoking post. I'm a new graduate looking for jobs, and I wish that all libraries were as courteous to job seekers as you were during your search process. Many libraries do not bother to notify applicants that a position has been filled. I would much rather get a rejection letter than be subjected to complete silence. I interpret this silence as disrespectful and I often think that if they can't be bothered to respond to job applicants, then how do they treat their patrons? The librarian you hired is lucky indeed to work for such a well-run library. ~K
The points you make echo those I made in my article "Back to the Future" in American Libraries in response to the attempts by library school educators to glut their classes with new students because of all the "retirements" that will open up new jobs. I am glad is there is at least one other sane voice pointing out where this path of good intentions may lead. I have thirteen years of library experience in multiple settings and four publications in the library literature, but if I am caught in the budget cuts, I too could spend years looking around the country before anyone would hire me again, so the plight of the brand new librarian is a particularly bad one. Library schools may benefit financially from classes packed with students, but it is another story for their graduates
I will receive my MLIS in a month, and I just wanted to thank you for your tips for us job-seekers. Many of my classmates and I who have started applying are dismayed at the lack of response (my cohort is a very smart bunch). I think that it's classy that you take the time to notify your candidates of search outcome.
What you have said about the number of applicants echoes what I have been told by hiring managers in academic libraries in my region. 10 years ago, they would receive maybe 12-15 qualified applications; now they receive 70+! While I am interesting in working "traditional" library jobs such as reference and cataloging, I am exploring other avenues such as digital asset management (my focus is in digital content management). I am also willing to relocate, which should help my odds.
I am praying that once I get that degree, that I will start getting some phone calls :).
Thank you for the useful advice written with a compassionate voice. Although I am employed full-time, I've sacrificed a lot to take & keep this job. Many people who graduated with me in 2006 have still not found jobs in libraries or related fields. Your sympathetic understanding of both sides of the hiring process is most welcomed.
This is great advice. I especially agree with #3 (thoughts on the profession as a whole.) As a recent MLIS graduate and someone with business and academic library experience, I took a non-traditional job in the library industry (I am doing marketing for a library technology company.) Although it is not my desired job, it is very fulfilling, full-time, an MLIS was preferred, and I get to stay very involved in the library field. I encourage other recent MLIS grads to look into non-traditional positions.
- Librarian Zero said...
Rick, I'm interested in hearing from some of your applicants. I've started a blog about just this topic, underemployed librarians, and am looking for people to profile on it: http://librarianzero.blogspot.com . Anyone else in such a position is welcome to contact me. I think these stories aren't told often enough, especially to aspiring librarians.
- ricklibrarian said...
Librarian Zero,
Good luck in your quest. I am sure there are many good stories. I would caution all to write well and thoughtfully. Prospective employers may be reading.
I wonder if all of the online MLIS degrees are doing anyone any favors. Perhaps in the case of those who are currently working in a library and surrounded by librarian mentors, but in the case of those who have never and are not currently working in the library field, it seems a disservice. Furthermore, will those who are not in the position to move to attend library school later be in the position to move to for a librarian position? One requirement for finding a job in the field seems to be the ability and willingness to relocate.
On another note, I always converted my letters and resumes to PDF, until at one interview I discovered that the printers at the university garbled even the PDF. Since that time I have gone back to using Word. I figure that even if my formatting is changed, at least the text will be readable.
I graduated from library school in May and felt really lucky to find a part-time librarian job, but I know a lot of people who are still looking for any library job to get some experience.
Thank you for your honest advice, although I can't see library schools denying admission when their enrollment is booming.
I'm also concerned for people who would like to go to library school but are constrained by finances. It's going to be tough to have a more diverse workforce if people can't afford the tuition are are limited in terms of the school loans they can get.
Rick, I am curious if you happen to know if the job market for School (K-12) librarians is just as competitive and difficult to get into as other librarian positions? I was hoping to become a school librarian, but after reading your blog I am not sure if it is worth my time and money. I would have no problem re-locating, since my husband's job is flexible and he could do it most anywhere.
- ricklibrarian said...
Hi. Being a school librarian is a wonderful thing. and I believe every school needs a good library with professional staff. School administrators do not always agree. The library is often the first thing cut in a financial crisis. There are jobs but there is much competition to get them. If you decide to proceed, do so with patience and determination. Good luck.


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The contest took place two days after it was originally scheduled, when heavy rain Sunday postponed the game. It certainly did not affect the Beacons, as UMass Boston set new season-highs in hits (11), extra-base hits (four) and runs (nine).
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Hood College answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the third, but Killilea put the game out of reach with her two-RBI triple. Killilea would later score on a passed ball on a Bouyea strikeout to give the Beacons an 8-1 lead after four innings.
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