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TransGlobe Energy Corporation Announces 2012 Year-End Contingent Resources and Propsective Resource Evaluation
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Jan. 29, 2013) - TransGlobe Energy Corporation (TSX:TGL) (NASDAQ:TGA) ("TransGlobe" or the "Company") today announced its 2012 year-end contingent resources. In addition the Company is pleased to announce the results of an independent prospective resource evaluation of 38 individual oil prospects located in the Egyptian Western Desert within the South Alamein (100% WI), South Mariut (60% WI) and East Ghazalat (50% WI) exploration concessions.
The Company's 2012 year-end contingent resources and the prospective resource evaluations were prepared by the independent reserves evaluation firm of DeGolyer and MacNaughton Canada Limited ("DMCL"). Both evaluations were performed in accordance with National Instrument 51-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities Section 5.9 ("NI 51-101") and the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook ("COGEH") Volume 1, and are effective December 31, 2012.
All dollar values are expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise stated.
The following is a summary of DMCL evaluation for the year ended December 31, 2012. The Company did not have Contingent Resources evaluated at year ended December 31, 2011. The recovery and contingent resource estimates of crude oil, natural gas liquids ("NGLs") and natural gas resources provided in this news release are estimates only, and there is no guarantee that the estimated resources will be recovered. Actual crude oil, NGL and natural gas resources may be greater than, or less than, the estimates provided herein. All Contingent Resources presented are based on DMCL forecast pricing effective December 31, 2012.
Contingent Resources are those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from known accumulations using established technology or technology under development, but which are not currently considered to be commercially recoverable due to one or more contingencies. There is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resources.
Uncertainty Ranges as described by the COGEH handbook as low, best and high estimates for resources as follows:
Low Estimate: this is considered to be a conservative estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered. It is likely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the low estimate. If probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 90 percent probability (P90) that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the low estimate.
Best Estimate: This is considered to be the best estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered. It is equally likely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will be greater or less than the best estimate. If probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 50 percent probability (P50) that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the best estimate.
High Estimate: This is considered to be an optimistic estimate of the quantity that will be actually be recovered. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the high estimate. If probabilistic methods are used, there should be at least a 10 percent probability (P10) that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the high estimate.
In Egypt, Contingent Resources were assigned to the Boraq 2 oil discovery in the South Alamein concession which was acquired in 2012. The Contingent Resources assigned to Boraq are contingent on the approval of a development plan. During 2012 the Company prepared and submitted an eight well drilling program for approvals, which includes two appraisal/development wells at Boraq and six exploration wells on the concession. Upon receiving the necessary approvals, the Company plans to proceed with the appraisal/development of the Boraq 2 discovery in 2013.
In Yemen, Reserve volumes which had historically been assigned to the Osaylan oil pool in Block S-1 were removed from the Company Reserves and reclassified as Contingent Resources at year-end 2012. The assigned Contingent Resources are contingent on future drilling which has been curtailed in the area due to political instability and related security issues.
Contingent Resources Estimated Future Net Revenues
All evaluations and reviews of future net cash flow are stated prior to any provision for interest costs or general and administrative costs and after the deduction of estimated future capital expenditures for wells to which resources have been assigned. It should not be assumed that the estimated future net cash flow shown below is representative of the fair market value of the Company's properties. There is no assurance that such price and cost assumptions will be attained, and variances could be material. The recovery and resource estimates of crude oil, NGL and natural gas resources provided herein are estimates only, and there is no guarantee that the estimated resources will be recovered. Actual crude oil, NGL and natural gas resources may be greater than or less than the estimates provided herein.
The estimated future net revenues for year ended 2012 presented below in millions of U.S. dollars ("$MM") are calculated using DMCL price forecast at December 31, 2012 and constant pricing for 2012. In the constant price case, the prices were held constant for the life of the resources.
Forecast and Constant Pricing Contingent Resources
Present Value of Future Net Revenues, After Tax ($MM)*
* Numbers may not add exactly due to rounding
The following table summarizes DMCL reference price forecast used to estimate future net revenues:
The DMCL prospective resources estimates were prepared in accordance with the requirements of Canadian National Instrument 51-101 Standards of Disclosure, for Oil and Gas Activities Section 5.9 ("NI 51-101").
Capitalized terms related to resources classifications used in this press release, are based on the definitions and guidelines in Section 5.3.5 of the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook ("COGEH"), Volume 1.
Historic well data, regional geology and seismic data were reviewed by DMCL to prepare a probabilistic Prospective Resources Estimate. The following table shows the gross estimated prospective resources expressed in millions of barrels. These estimates have not been adjusted for the probability of geologic success (Pg).
The following tables summarize DMCL independent evaluation of the Prospective Resources associated with these 38 prospects:
Low, best, high and mean estimates in the table set out above are P90, P50, P10 and mean respectively as defined below.
Pg has not been applied to the volumes in the table set out above.
Application of any geological and economic chance factor does not equate prospective resources to contingent resources or reserves.
Recovery efficiency is applied to prospective resources in the table set out above. The prospective resources presented above are based on the statistical aggregation method.
There is no certainty that any portion of the prospective resources estimated herein will be discovered. If discovered, there is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the prospective resources evaluated.
Mean Estimate Prospective Resources
The probability of geologic success ("Pg") is defined as the probability of discovering reservoirs that flow petroleum at a measurable rate. Pg is estimated by quantifying the probability of each of the following individual geologic factors: trap, source, reservoir and migration. The product of these four probabilities or chance factors is computed as the Pg. Application of any geological and economic chance factor does not equate prospective resources to contingent resources or reserves.
2013 Drilling Plans
The company announced December 11, 2012, a 2013 Capital Budget of $129 million with $53 million (41%) allocated to Exploration. The $53 million Exploration budget includes 23 exploration wells and seismic, which is primarily focused on Egypt (96%). In the Western desert, 10 of the exploration wells are planned to test 10 of the 38 prospects summarized in the independent resource report. The total working interest Mean Prospective Resource (prior to the application of geologic success) to be evaluated by the 2013 ten well exploration program, is approximately 75 million barrels.
The resource estimates set forth in this news release have been evaluated by an independent qualified evaluator in accordance with NI 51-101 and the COGE Handbook. The resources have been categorized in accordance with the definitions as set out in the COGE Handbook, which are set out below:
Undiscovered oil initially-in-place or UPIIP is that quantity of petroleum that is estimated, on a given date, to be contained in accumulations yet to be discovered. The recoverable portion of undiscovered petroleum initially-in-place is referred to as prospective resources; the remainder is unrecoverable.
Prospective Resources - are those quantities of oil and gas estimated to be potentially recoverable from undiscovered accumulations. There is no certainty that the Prospective Resources will be discovered. If discovered, there is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the prospective resources. Application of any geological and economic chance factor does not equate prospective resources to contingent resources or reserves.
In addition, the following mutually exclusive Classification of Resources were used:
Low Estimate - This is considered to be a conservative estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered from the accumulation. This term reflects a P90 confidence level where there is a 90% chance that a successful discovery will be more than this resources estimate.
Best Estimate - This is considered to be the best estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered from the accumulation. This term is a measure of central tendency of the uncertainty distribution and in this case reflects a 50% confidence level where the successful discovery will have a 50% chance of being more than this resources estimate.
High Estimate - This is considered to be an optimistic estimate of the quantity that will actually be recovered from the accumulation. This term reflects a P10 confidence level where there is a 10% chance that the successful discovery will be more than this resources estimate. Note that these distributions do not include consideration of the probability of success of discovering and producing commercial quantities of oil, but rather represent the likely distribution of the oil deposits, if discovered.
Mean Estimate - In accordance with petroleum industry standards, the mean estimate is the probability-weighted average, which typically has a probability in the P45 to P15 range, depending on the variance of prospective resources volume or associated value. Therefore, the probability of a prospect or accumulation containing the probability-weighted average volume or greater is usually between 45 and 15 percent. The mean estimate is the preferred probabilistic estimate of resources volumes.
The probability of geologic success ("Pg"): is defined as the probability of discovering reservoirs that flow petroleum at a measurable rate. Pg is estimated by quantifying the probability of each of the following individual geologic factors: trap, source, reservoir and migration. The product of these four probabilities or chance factors is computed as the Pg.
Pg-adjusted Mean Estimate: The Pg-adjusted mean estimate, or "geologic risk-adjusted mean estimate", is the probability- weighted average of the hydrocarbon quantities potentially recoverable if a prospect portfolio were drilled, or if a family of similar prospects were drilled. The Pg-adjusted mean estimate is a "blended" quantity. It is a mean estimation of both volumetric uncertainty and geological risk (chance). This statistical measure considers and quantifies the geological success and geological failure outcomes. Consequently, it represents the average or mean "geologic' outcome of a drilling and exploration program. The Pg-adjusted mean estimate is calculated as follows:
Pg - adjusted mean estimate ("Risked P-Mean") = Pg X mean estimate.
DMCL is a wholly owned subsidiary of D&M (http://www.demac.com/), a global consulting firm providing a variety of services related to the upstream sector of the petroleum industry, including evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of exploration areas, estimation and classification of reserves to be recovered from new discoveries, verification of hydrocarbon reserves, production forecasting, and appraisal of properties for prospective acquisition, divestiture, issuance of securities, or financing purposes. The firm offers expertise in the primary scientific specialties related to petroleum evaluation including Evaluation of Prospective Resources.
DMCL has acted independently in the preparation of the Report. DMCL and its employees have no direct or indirect ownership in the property appraised or the area of study described.
With respect to Assumptions and Limiting Conditions within the Report, the Report is limited to a discussion of the potential undiscovered oil and gas Prospective Resources of the subject property. The Report does not attempt to place a value thereon. DMCL reserves the right to revise its opinions of reserves and resources, if new information is deemed sufficiently credible to do so. The accuracy of any estimate is a function of available time, data and of geological, engineering and commercial interpretation and judgment. While the resources estimates presented herein are believed to be reasonable, they should be viewed with the understanding that additional analysis or new data may justify their revision and DMCL reserves the right to make such revision.
TransGlobe Energy Corporation is a Calgary-based, growth-oriented oil and gas exploration and development company focused on the Middle East/North Africa region with production operations in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Yemen. TransGlobe's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TGL and on the NASDAQ Exchange under the symbol TGA.
Cautionary Statement to Investors:
This news release may include certain statements that may be deemed to be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements relate to possible future events. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "should", "believe" and similar expressions. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Although TransGlobe's forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, expectations, opinions and assumptions of the Company's management on the date the statements are made, such statements are inherently uncertain and provide no guarantee of future performance. In particular, this press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the Company's appraisal, development and evaluation plans and the focus of the Company's exploration budget. In addition, information and statements relating to "resources" are deemed to be forward-looking information and statements, as they involve the implied assessment, based on certain estimates and assumptions, that the resources described exist in the quantities predicted or estimated, and that the resources described can be profitably produced in the future. Actual results may differ materially from TransGlobe's expectations as reflected in such forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company.
These factors include, but are not limited to, unforeseen changes in the rate of production from TransGlobe's oil and gas properties, changes in price of crude oil and natural gas, adverse technical factors associated with exploration, development, production or transportation of TransGlobe's crude oil and natural gas reserves, changes or disruptions in the political or fiscal regimes in TransGlobe's areas of activity, changes in tax, energy or other laws or regulations, changes in significant capital expenditures, delays or disruptions in production due to shortages of skilled manpower, equipment or materials, economic fluctuations, and other factors beyond the Company's control. With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this press release, assumptions have been made regarding, among other things: the Company's ability to obtain qualified staff and equipment in a timely and cost-efficient manner; the regulatory framework governing royalties, taxes and environmental matters in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts and will conduct its business; future capital expenditures to be made by the Company; future sources of funding for the Company's capital programs; geological and engineering estimates in respect of the Company's reserves and resources; and the geography of the areas in which the Company is conducting exploration and development activities. TransGlobe does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's beliefs, expectations or opinions should change, other than as required by law, and investors should not attribute undue certainty to, or place undue reliance on, any forward-looking statements. Please consult TransGlobe's public filings at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml for further, more detailed information concerning these matters, including additional risks related to TransGlobe's business.


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As the only two teams to go winless during last year's Class 6A boys basketball state tournament, odds are good that South Medford and Central Catholic will be chomping at the bit when the teams square off tonight in a quarterfinals matchup at the Rose Garden.
That matchup will be one of several compelling storylines at the eight-team event in Portland, along with Jesuit's search for a fifth straight state title and Lake Oswego's bid for an undefeated season.
"We surely are appreciative of the fact that we're in the final eight," said South Medford head coach Dennis Murphy, "but we'd like to get over the hump and that's not an easy task when you're playing a Central Catholic team that is seeded third overall."
"We come in under the wire and definitely the underdog in this whole thing," added Murphy. "Nobody thought we would still be playing by any means or even to the point where we end up ranked sixth in the (state power rankings), so there's really not a lot of pressure on us."
The No. 3-ranked Rams (22-4) bring a 13-game winning streak into tonight's 6:30 game against the seventh-ranked Panthers (21-5), who have won 14 of their last 15 games. Each team is a conference champion, and each make their fortunes on the defensive end of the court.
It's the effort on defense, combined with the ability to execute on offense against whatever pressure is applied, that will dictate which team earns the right to take a day off before the semifinals or is thrown back into the fire Thursday morning.
"I remember from last year it was really aggressive and the teams got into you really aggressively on defense," said South Medford senior Matt Toreson. "The game's played a lot different up there in Portland so we need to just come out with a better effort and be ready for it to be that way."
Central Catholic is led by 6-foot-7 senior post Austin Dyer, who has committed to Azusa Pacific, and a backcourt combination of senior shooter Mitchell Franz and sophomore point guard Deante Strickland. Dyer and Franz were starters last season for the Rams, while Strickland was one of the main players off the bench.
Dyer is strong on the blocks but capable of stepping out and shooting from the perimeter. He averaged a team-best 12 points and 8.5 rebounds at last year's state tournament and has ramped up his play this year in preparation for a third straight tourney experience. Dyer is averaging 16.6 points and eight rebounds for the Rams this season, and recently was invited to play in the annual Oregon-Washington all-star game.
Providing a nice complement has been the 6-foot Franz, who is averaging 12 points per game, and 5-9 Strickland, who averages almost nine points per game but notched a team-high 20 points in Central Catholic's 78-70 overtime victory against Century in the second round. Strickland is adept at penetrating and kicking out to shooters like Franz, and also hit two clutch free throws with 1.7 seconds left to send the Century game into overtime.
"Against Central Catholic it's really going to have to start for us on the defensive end," said Murphy. "They're going to want to push the ball and get up the court and score a bunch of points."
Sophomore guard Xavier Hallinan also averages nearly nine points per game for a Rams team that's outscored its foes 66-53 thus far. Senior Simon Noling and junior Ryan Nall also have limited state tournament experience.
South Medford counters with a balanced, team-first mentality that has served the inexperienced Panthers well throughout the season but doesn't lead to any eye-popping statistics. Senior Jesse Mondry and junior Mark Winans are the only players averaging double figures, but seniors Adrian Garcia and Toreson and junior CJ Keepes each score at least six points per game.
"Really a big part of this is going to end up falling on the shoulders of our three seniors," said Murphy, "but all of our guys have to step up and play as well, if not better, than they've played to this point. The fellas need to be ready to embrace their roles, from the starting guy to the ones coming off the bench for even a couple minutes, because it's all very important."
Mondry is averaging 12 points and five rebounds and Winans is at 11 points, but each have stepped up their scoring in the playoffs — as have the Panthers, who have scored at least 70 points in each playoff game after reaching that figure only once in the regular season.
South Medford has shown a willingness and faith to go 10-deep in its player rotation throughout the season, and has been clutch down the stretch to close out tight ballgames.
"It's gonna take a lot of hard work and making shots," Garcia said of finding success in Portland. "We know all the teams up there are good, but they're all beatable, too."
Reach reporter Kris Henry at 541-776-4488, email@example.com, www.facebook.com/krishenryMT or www.twitter.com/Kris_Henry
Panthers take underdog role to state
As the only two teams to go winless during last year's Class 6A boys basketball state tournament, odds are good that South Medford and Central Catholic will be chomping at the bit when the teams square off tonight in a quarterfinals matchup at the Rose Garden.

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Graduation Survey
All graduating students must to take the graduation survey and have the receipt prior to picking up the cap & gown. The survey will be sent by email to each student to their Barry mymail account.
Cap & Gowns
Caps & Gowns can be picked up in Landon Student Union Events Room
- December 12, 2013 9:00a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- December 13, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
We will have a graduation celebration for all graduating students during cap & gown pick up!
Students who owe $1,000.00 or more CANNOT pick up caps & gowns until they pay their debt down to under $1,000.00.
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The Songwriter, the Gemini mic, Beyonce's dad and the Channel 4 reality show!
Mick Lister has playing in bands since he was ten, enjoying a long spell of success as a member and co writer of The Truth who had
several UK hits and who also scored well in America with a Top 40 hit and a Hollywood movie score. After leaving life on the road behind, Mick became a songwriter and producer.
We split up in about 1990, he remembers. I didn't want to do the live thing anymore as we'd done so many American tours, so I
spent a year out writing with unsigned bands and getting into production. I got signed to a publisher called Strong Songs under the
Telstar umbrella writing for pop and rock, different genres.
Mick then worked with a production company called DK in Denmark and Sweden and wrote songs for all sorts of pop acts. The great thing was that I didn't have to produce it, just write it, he says. I did the first single for a Pop Idol finalist Rosie Ribbons, called Blink which was a top 10 and also wrote a top 10 hit for another Pop Idol band called Fixed.
As well as song writing, Mick also produces and works with Steve Chrisanthou who produced a lot of the recent and hugely successful
Corinne Bailey Rae material. It was Steve who introduced Mick to his number one mic, the sE Gemini.
He co wrote and produced Put Your Records On and used the Gemini on all her vocals, Mick reveals. Obviously hearing the sound of
that I was so impressed by the mic with its warmth and clarity. I just had to have one and it was so reasonably priced as well.
Mick's also taken delivery of another hit sE product, the Reflexion Filter.
It is absolutely fantastic, he says. My studio is in my loft and Steve's is in a basement below an art shop so the Reflexion
Filter is great for us, just such a great invention that just does what it says on the tin. It's fantastic, just deadens the sound and
there's no reflection it's just brilliant to work with.
Both sE products are being used to the full with Mick and Steve's latest and most exciting project yet.
We are working with an artist called Katie Shotter who was the winner of the Channel 4 program, Chancers, says Mick. Eight
urban kids were taken over to Mathew Knowles stable (Beyonce's dad) and he gave them all the best coaching and handpicked the winner (Katie) who got a deal with Sony. We are three tracks through her album at the moment. I'm also going over to America in a couple of weeks to work with Mathew Knowles' producers because they've gone mad over one track that we've written and think will be the first single.
With Katie's voice, the thing about the Gemini is that it's brilliant for a subtle vocal like hers. Obviously with the Corinne Bailey Rae stuff it sounds fantastic and with Katie the detail is amazing on it.
As if his work with Katie is not enough, Mick is currently developing other bands with help from the sE gear, of course!
There's a band called Go Audio who I've just got signed to Sony, and there's a great band called The Volts, a typical classic
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STOCKTON - Police arrested a man who assaulted two women after burglarizing a north Stockton home Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
STOCKTON - Police arrested a man who assaulted two women after burglarizing a north Stockton home Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
A 23-year-old woman had just returned to her home in the 8000 block of Albany Drive along with her 21-year-old sister about 3:20 p.m. when they noticed the front door had been forced open, officers said. After going inside to investigate, a neighbor, identified by police as 30-year-old Brandon Sharp, entered the home behind them.
Sharp told the 23-year-old woman that the property manager had evicted her and demanded that she and her sister leave, police said. When the victims refused, Sharp punched the 21-year-old woman in the face several times and struck the 23-year-old woman in the head several times with a gun, officers said.
Police spotted Sharp in a vehicle several blocks away and conducted a traffic stop. Sharp was arrested on suspicion of burglary, battery, making terrorist threats and assault with a deadly weapon with force likely to produce great bodily injury, authorities said.
STOCKTON - A man was arrested Thursday afternoon after beating another man with a baseball bat in downtown Stockton, police said.
Officers responded to a report of a fight in progress about 3:50 p.m., authorities said. The fight started in the 500 block of East Main Street and moved to the Phoenix House, a low-income rental complex in the first block of North American Street, police said.
Officers said Onario Ausborne, 19, assaulted another man with a bat. The victim was taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, authorities said.
Roland Wilson, who witnessed part of the fight on North American Street, said the victim swung a chain and brandished a knife at Ausborne before Ausborne armed himself with the bat. Ausborne was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police said.


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The Ford F-Series is hands down the best-selling vehicle in the US, but as it turns out, there are plenty of states where the truck doesn't reign supreme. Business Insider compiled data from Kelley Blue Book based on 2013 sales figures from January through August to create a map of the top-selling vehicles in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Looking at the map, Ford's truck is the top vehicle in 34 states, but there are states – some surprising, some not – where other vehicles are more popular among consumers.
After Ford's pickup, it's a battle among midsize sedans, with the Honda Accord being the most popular in Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, while the Toyota Camry (the reigning best-selling car in the US) is the favorite among Florida and Maryland owners; the Nissan Altima is one of the surprises on the list as the most popular car in Oklahoma. The Ford Fusion is the top-selling car in Michigan, and it is also the only American-branded car on the list. Rounding out the passenger cars, Massachusetts and Connecticut favor the Honda CR-V, California buyers flock to the Honda Civic and Washington, D.C. buyers prefer the Toyota Corolla.
Truck-loving buyers also reside in Maine and Indiana (choosing the Chevy Silverado), Vermont (GMC Sierra) and Hawaii (Toyota Tacoma). Regardless of what vehicle is most popular in which state, one interesting observation for all the models on this list is that they all have at least some US production. Head on over to Business Insider to see the whole map.
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Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again
by L. Brent Bozell III
September 7, 1995
In the 1980s, left-wing media critic Ben Bagdikian predicted
in his book "The Media Monopoly" that "If mergers and
acquisitions by large corporations continue at the present rate, one massive
firm will be in virtual control of all major media by the 1990s."
Bagdikian no doubt thinks his nightmare is coming true. Disney buys Capital
Cities/ABC. Westinghouse buys CBS. Time Warner pursues Turner Broadcasting.
News Corp. and TCI lurk. "Consumers are the losers," he proclaimed.
Bagdikian and other liberals suggest that left unregulated,
the market will restrict consumer choice in media, a reduction in freedom of
expression, a downsizing of democracy. They mourn the waning powers of the
Federal Communications Commission. But as media scholar Thomas Hazlett
demonstrated in the February issue of Reason magazine, it was the FCC that
strangled the explosion of cable and new media beginning in the 1960s.
Consumers were the losers as the FCC delayed the advent of CNN, C-SPAN, and
other political news channels. Liberals who are really interested in opening
up public affairs broadcasting should be supporting deregulation.
But old liberal habits die hard, not the least of which is
the habit of being wrong. Remember the dire warnings of an Atari monopoly on
video game technology? Not so many years ago, the Left proclaimed in the same
apocalyptic terms that IBM conspired to control the world of computers.
Microsoft shattered that silliness, so now Bill Gates becomes the conspirator.
The left will simply not accept that his entrepreneurial spirit has not only
spawned competition in computers, but created a new frontier in communications
as well.
Another, more ideological reason liberals oppose having
these capitalists run the media is the belief that liberal and left-wing
voices will be buried by corporate media owners, assumed automatically to be
fire-breathing supply-side radicals. That also assumes that the corporate
brass spends its days controlling the nightly network news content. But a
close look at recent Federal Election Commission records shatters the sloppy
preconception of corporate conservatism.
Begin with Michael Eisner, the Disney chairman who pulled
off the ABC deal: he gave almost $25,000 to Democrats in the last election
cycle and almost nothing to Republicans. Eisner brought in superagent Michael
Ovitz, who, as the new President of Disney, will be in an influential place at
ABC. Consider that Ovitz hosted a fundraiser for Bill Clinton in December
1993. Or consider that Ovitz co-chaired the Democrats' host committee pushing
the DNC to hold the 1996 convention in Los Angeles. Or consider that in every
campaign cycle since 1987, Ovitz has given tens of thousands of dollars to the
Ted Kennedys and the Chris Dodds, matched only by a measly $500 to one
Republican, the hapless Rudy Boschwitz.
The last mega-merger of media companies, Time Warner, also
featured executives who were very active supporters of Democrats. The late
co-chairman Steven Ross gave at least $190,000 to the Democratic National
Committee. Timothy Boggs, Time Warner's vice president for government affairs,
gives thousands to Democrats, including $10,000 to the DNC in 1994. Common
Cause found Time Warner to be the Democrats' largest supplier of soft money.
How about a Time Warner merger with Turner? Well, in the
1993-94 cycle, Ted Turner gave to six Democrats (Buddy Darden, John Lewis, Ed
Markey, George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, and Mike Synar) and two Republicans
(Jack Fields and Carlos Moorhead). His chief Washington executive, Bertram
Carp, gave to five Democrats and no Republicans. Jane Fonda surely approves.
Time Warner, along with NBC's owner, General Electric,
signed a Dan Rostenkowski statement supporting Bill Clinton's massive 1993 tax
increase. GE lobbied the Business Roundtable not to endorse a health reform
plan when it considered endorsing something less liberal than the Clinton
Preferring Democrats to Republicans is the rule. Over at
CBS, vice president for government affairs Martin Franks, a former Tony Coelho
aide, continued to shovel thousands to Democrats like Tom Foley and Joe Biden.
Some recently retired major newspaper executives also put a little money on
the table. The Washington Post's Katharine Graham gave $2,000 to the liberal
Women's Campaign Fund; New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger gave $1,000
to Senator Daniel Moynihan and $500 to liberal Republican Rep. Amo Houghton.
Bagdikian ended his book by declaring as his enemy "the
insidious power that comes with unchallenged dominance over the information of
others." If we deal simply with the major national media, that
"unchallenged dominance" is held by people who donate the vast
majority of their political kitty to the Democrats. But as technology expands,
the media will become all of us. That's what liberals truly fear.
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On Monday night, over 200 interested members of the community (as well as political figures such as New York State Senator Tom Duane) gathered at the Hudson Guild at an event sponsored by Community Board 4 and the Hudson Yards Community Advocacy Coalition that included presentations from the five developers who have submitted plans for the rail yards. After the presentations, attendees had the opportunity to break into small groups to discuss the plans and give their feedback in a formal way.
Photos of the event can be found here.
CB4 prepared a handy info sheet (PDF) comparing each plan by the numbers. A summary from the community discussion will be available soon.
The developers' presentations were short and business-like, as they labored mightily to conform to a time limit of ten minutes per proposal. That was still plenty of time for lots of shiny pictures (and in the case of the Durst/Vornado plan, a snappy video), as well as for some revealing rhetorical moments. A brief digest after the jump.
Extell presented first, starting by emphasizing (with a picture) that they are already a part of the neighborhood – their offices are located next door to the redevelopment site. "We've been dreaming about this for a long time," they said. The firm also strove to emphasize that their big idea – suspending a suspension-bridge-like truss above the railyards, instead of decking them over – would allow all of their buildings to have lobbies at-grade. Time was reserved for lots of pictures of their centerpiece, a "people-activated" park, which was variously compared to Madison Square (in terms of usage) and to Central Park (in the way in which it is development opportunity within Manhattan that would break the street grid).
Related was next, and from the outset they barraged the audience with a lot of numbers and statistics intended to emphasize their bona fides as a leader in affordable housing. The firm developed The Caledonia, on the High Line, and their presenter introduced it both as an example of the firm's ties to the community as well as to its commitment to the 80/20 market-rate/affordable housing development model. A running joke throughout the night involved architect's fondness for the term "iconic", with one presenter saying that he would only use it once – Related rose to the challenge by describing the bridge that would connect the (preserved) High Line to the Hudson River Park as "iconic."
Brookfield then took to the podium, with a joke about how the tight scheduling implied that CB4 should get into the speed dating business. The firm owns and operates the World Financial Center, and their presenter compared their intentions at this site to the success of that development. Since their proposal is clearly the one with the least in common with all others (especially in the sense of having essentially junked the planning guidelines set out by the Hudson Yards Development Corporation), the presentation featured a fair amount of justification for that decision, including the statement that reimposing the street grid to the site was "crucial to long-term success and value creation" at the site. Brookfield also took time to discuss the problems posed by developing a park and offices at a 30-foot grade removal from the surrounding neighborhoods, and argued against creating a "wind-tunnel" of a public park at the center of the site.
Next to bat was the Durst/Vornado squad, who boast the one plan that does not continue the High Line from 30th Street through the site. (Also, for what it's worth, it's the one plan to include a people-mover to the proposed Moynihan Station, to facilitate commutes that don't use the 7 train). The presenters spent a lot of time discussing their vaunted "Skyline," which they intend as a way of breaking up and creating "sanctuary space" within the large public park at the plan's core, as well as allowing movement to and between the buildings' above-grade lobbies. They also used the term "galleria" to refer to the large retail core at 10th Avenue, and did not mention their main tenant, Conde Nast, once.
The final group to present was the party from Tishman Speyer, the caretakers of Rockefeller Center. Their presenter was the only one to mention specifically that the renderings presented were probably unrepresentative of the archictecture that would ultimately transpire were their plan to be adopted. The developer also, for what it's worth, struck back at the "galleria" mentioned by the Durst/Vornado team by outlining proposals for street-fronting retail and specifically mentioning that the rail yards are "not a site for a mall." The team also compared various elements of its plan, specifically its "Forum" on the Eastern Rail Yards to a set of steps on the 11th Avenue Side of that zone, to the Sony Center in Berlin and the Spanish Steps in Rome, respectively.
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Did AMD announce that the Radeon HD 8000 series would be delayed and that the Radeon HD 7000 series would continue to be the companies primary focus yesterday on Twitter? A number of sites are reporting that Robert Hallock, AMD Radeon marketing manager, did just that on AMD's Radeon Twitter page. Check out the Tweet below that has caused some people to get all worked up.
The Tweet that is causing controversy, basically just says that AMD will be focusing on the AMD Radeon HD 7000 series for the foreseeable future and doesn't mention anything about the AMD Radeon HD 8000 'Sea Islands' graphics card series that gamers are waiting on. Legit Reviews doesn't like spreading rumors, so we reached out to Robert Hallock to confirm that he made the tweet and what is going on with the Radeon HD 8000 series being delayed rumors. Check out what he had to say below. Sounds straight up and honest!
"Yes, I made that comment. I cannot say anything more than what I've already said, really. AMD and its partners are happy with the HD 7000 Series, and it will continue to be our emphasis in the channel for the foreseeable future. I should note that HD 8000 Series has never been so much as hinted at for a channel release. Anything to the contrary is an unsubstantiated rumor fabricated to drive traffic." – Robert Hallock
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The social network was down for only several minutes, but users noticed and posted about their social media withdrawal on another social media website, Twitter.
'Facebook' was trending term on Twitter in the United States for a few minutes while the website was down.
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Accident Sunday in St. Louis
Soldiers from two Missouri National Guard Military Police companies with a detachment in Moberly responded to a serious traffic accident that took place Sunday afternoon in front of the Guard armory on south Kingshighway, St. Louis.
"A car with a father and son was turning left off of south Kingshighway, when they hydroplaned on the wet pavement and got hit by another vehicle," said Staff Sgt. Amanda Barginear, of Florissant, who was among the soldiers that responded.
Just a few feet away, a detachment of soldiers with the 1175th and 2175th Military Police companies were in the armory at 4350 south Kingshighway, about to participate in a class, when they heard the accident just after 2 p.m.
"Within a matter of seconds we called 911 and had our military police and two medics respond to help," explained Barginear, who serves with the 1175th.
"The boy was injured and trapped in the front seat and the father had a head injury from the windshield," added Capt. Amanda L. Self, of Jonesburg, commander of the 1175th. "Two of our medics began providing medical support to both victims and also helped the occupants of the other vehicle out of their car. While all this was going on, our military police donned their safety equipment and began directing traffic and securing the scene. We also had two soldiers who are also police officers take witness and victim statements."
Self said her soldiers remained at the scene for about 30 minutes, until relieved by St. Louis Police and firefighters, who praised their assistance.
"Both the police and firefighters commented that it was really fortunate for the victims that we were nearby," said Self. "I am very proud of my soldiers. They did a great job. The little boy was really panicking and my medics did a good job of calming him down. It's sad that the accident happened but it's great that my soldiers were there to help."
Witnesses said the occupants of the vehicle that struck the car with the father and son appeared to be uninjured.
In addition to Staff Sgt. Barginear and Capt. Self, other soldiers who responded to the accident were 1175th medics, Spc. Nicole Belli, of Hazelwood, and Spc Andrew Crayton, of St. Louis; 1175th military police officers, 1st Sgt. Gabe R. Medina, of Rolla, Sgt. 1st Class David F. Diamond, of Pevely, Staff Sgt. Jeffrey S. Knelange, of Ballwin, Spc. Kimberly R. Knight, of Evansville, Ill., Spc. Cody R. Graham, Spc. John R. Harris, and Spc. Ramon Crayton, all of St. Louis; and Sgt. Michael K. Moore, of Black Jack; and from the 2175th; Sgt. Amy Parker-Staten, of St. Louis. Moore and Parker-Staten are both police officers in their civilian careers.
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Project Godus beta: Molyneux discusses power of testing via Kickstarter
Project Godus is the first and perhaps only full game from Peter Molyneux's studio 22 Cans. The veteran developer has explained to VG247 how an abundance of strict publisher control helped him consider Kickstarter instead, and why putting the beta into investor's hands will help Godus become a better game.
As part of a full VG247 interview, we asked Molyneux to reflect on his Eurogamer Expo developer session earlier this year – in which he confessed he felt he has never made a 'great' game. He said he felt he had made enough 'good' games, but never a 'great' one.
We asked Molyneux if Project Godus is the 'great' game he's been searching for and why, to which he replied, "I've said these ridiculous things in the press about, 'This is the greatest role-playing game ever', and, 'This is going to be the greatest this or that'.
"That has always been honestly in my heart what I've tried to do, and I've got my list of excuses I could give you, and you'd probably say, 'Oh that's fair enough', but ultimately what is the secret to making a great game?
"Certainly the best games that I feel I've played are the ones I've played the most, and that is the trick. It's a trick I'm going to use with Kickstarter, because if you look at the pledges on Kickstarter, we start on a really low tier with beta access.
"That's because what I want is to play Godus with hundreds and hundreds of people, over and over again until we get it right. Because it's not just the old days where you can go in your ivory tower, lock yourself away and hope that you get games right, nor is it a publicity stunt which a lot of betas are, or a way of drumming up press interest."
We then asked Molyneux if this is the reason for his move to the Kickstarter crowd-funding model, and he replied, "This is the real power of Kickstarter: how do you find the best beta testers who care most about the game? It's obvious, they're the ones who have actually put money down and said, 'Look, I care about this game and I want to see it come about.'"
"If we can use those people, and we can refine the game with them, tweak it with them, and do something that people like Notch did so unbelievably well… it's exactly what publishers never do.
"If I ever said to a publisher – as I have in the past – 'We should release an early version of this and see what people think', they'd say, 'No, no, no, you've got to have shock and awe, you have to keep your features secret, we can't talk about it. You demo it and only show a little sliver of it'.
"Fuck all that. Let's just work as hard as we possibly can to make great features as early as we possibly can, work hard on a prototype that we can start showing off very soon. Let's just refine it, play it, and play it. You know, with the original Populous Glen and I played for hundreds and hundreds of hours, and it wasn't a genius of design, but we just loved playing the game.
"If we can do that, then maybe what I said at Eurogamer Expo is the secret? Maybe it isn't to pretend that I know everything, that me as a designer doesn't have every feature mapped out in my head. I can start that off, but maybe through that beta test program we can refine it, tweak it, balance it and get it so it really sings.
"That is one of the beauties about what Kickstarter is doing – it's not the only reason we're doing it – but it's certainly one of the bigger reasons."
Godus is Molyneux's re-imagining of his first game Populous. It's heading to iOS, Android and PC via Kickstarter. Are you interested in the concept? Let us know below.


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Interview with 'Collaborator' Star Martin Donovan
The new film Collaborator is the writing and directing debut for veteran actor Martin Donovan. Amongst his hectic press day, Martin spent a few minutes with Movie Room Reviews to talk about the film.
Nick- Hey Martin, how are you doing? Busy day for you I bet.
Martin- Yeah, busy but I'm not complaining.
Nick- A good busy right?
Martin- Exactly.
Nick- So we are here to talk about your new film Collaborator, which you wrote, and directed,and star in as Robert Longfellow who is a playwright finding his career fall apart. Why don't you give our audience here at MovieRoomReviews.com an idea of what the movie is about and your role as Robert Longfellow.
Martin- Sure. Robert Longfellow is a playwright and was at one time considered to be the voice of his generation. He had a huge impact early in his career and now he's hit the wall creatively and his most recent play has been brutally savaged by the New York Times. He goes home to visit his mother, he is from the San Fernando Valley, and also to pursue some screen writing works out in LA. His neighbor Gus, played by David Morse, who grew up across the street from him is still living there with his mother. Gus comes to pay a visit and ends up taking Robert hostage in his own home and that's when the fun begins.
Nick- David Morse plays Gus so what's Olivia Williams role in the movie?
Martin- Emma Styles, a movie star whose career was launched by Robert's early plays and they have a history together. That's another complication that re-sparks in the film. Robert is also married with kids but Emma is there to perhaps tempt him to get himself in trouble. Meanwhile, Gus is a huge fan of Emma's. Gus is a complicated guy but he's a huge fan of Emma Styles.
Nick- When you wrote the film were you initially intending to play Robert?
Martin- Yes I was. The writing, directing, acting, the whole schibang. This film, I should say, really sort of emerged as a package. I've been acting for like 35 years and I've always wanted to write and direct. This first time out is really the result of my whole life as an actor. The writing part just took me so long because it's just been very hard for me to clarify my thinking and the task of writing. Once I got going on this screen play and developing it pulling it apart wasn't a choice, it was a package deal.
Nick- That's what I was going to ask you. This is your first film that you've written and the first film you directed, was there a lot of preparation? Did you make a lot of changes while you were doing the movie? Did you have to work the kinks out a little bit?
Martin- No, there weren't any changes once we got to the set but there was a lot of drafts of the screenplay over several years. My producer, Ted Hope, is a very successful film producer and he's one of the rare producers who is a creative, shall we say, producer and he was involved with this script and was very helpful, among a couple of other filmmaker friends of mine in developing the script. Once we got to the set we didn't change a thing but things did change in the editing room. That's kind of always the case with films. A lot of 're-writing' shall we say, is done in the editing room.
Nick- I feel that it would be tough to draw the line between being the writer, and then being the actor, and then being the director. Are these hard transitions to make? Being an actor you are focused on your role and then as the director you have to focus on everybody's role.
Martin- Yeah and that's why I could have never done this when I was younger and that's why it's taken me so long but I was ready to do this. I'm not a kid and I've been doing this for a long time, I could of never done this in my twenties. There are a lot of people who have done this at a much younger age and I'm in awe of those people who have wrote, directed, and starred in their own films. It's just different DNA because it took me decades to clarify my thinking on how to write and what to write. The directing and the acting, again, just emerged from being on a lot of sets with a lot great actors and world class filmmakers. I guess maybe I have been paying attention. I didn't write an action film, it's a set piece and it's pretty simple and straightforward. I wanted it to focus on the story and the characters and the situations. I wasn't interested in doing a tour de force ,camera heavy, kind of thing. I was interested in developing a story that I hoped audiences would find compelling and they would be wrapped up in it and the performances.
Nick- The film came out nationwide on June 20th on VOD and has played at several festivals since last July and has won a couple of awards already, how do you feel the audience has received the movie and what awards has it won so far?
Martin- It won in a festival called the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in eastern Europe and is a very prestigious festival very close to Prague. We had an incredible response there and David Morse won Best Actor and we won the Critics Prize. I have been around to a lot of places in the country and to a lot of screenings and I'm very pleased with how the audience responds. I'm particularly interested in people who don't necessarily gravitate towards, for lack of a better word, arthouse fair. Although, I don't know what that means anymore, it used to mean something. People continually tell me, 'I thought this film was going to be this, but it turned out to be that' and because it doesn't fit into any kind of a genre, somehow audiences get pulled in to the people and the situation and they go with it. I have been very, very pleased with how audiences have reacted to this film and I couldn't be happier.
Nick- That's great and I can't wait for everyone to see it. What else are going to be able to see from you in the future Martin? I know you are doing a new Silent Hill right?
Martin- Yeah, I am in Silent Hill and I've been working on a couple of series including the first season of Boss with Kelsey Grammer, which I'm very proud of and is a great show. I just did a part in Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist who did Salaam Bombay!, and Monsoon Wedding. I got to go to India last fall and that was quite an experience. I've been busy and I'm developing another screen play, so give me another ten years and I'll have another film (laughs).
Nick- Martin, thanks so much for talking with us here at Movie Room Reviews today and I hope everyone checks out Collaborator on VOD.
Martin- The movie is also going to open at The Egyptian Theater in LA on July 20th.
Nick- Cool I hope it does well, thanks Martin.
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Street Fighter IV's producer Yoshinori Ono has accused Capcom of viewing the BAFTA-nominated fighting game as "an unwanted child", revealing that employees at the firm regularly asked him to pledge SFIV's budget and resources into "something else that will make money".
"Until the day of release, Street Fighter IV was an unwanted child," Ono told Eurogamer.
"Everyone in the company kept telling me: 'Ono-san, seriously why are you persisting with this? You are using so much money, budget and resources. Why don't we use it on something else, something that will make money?'
"No-one had the intention of selling it, so I had virtually no help from other departments - they were all reluctant, right up to the day of release."
Ono had to 'pester' his superiors to develop the game, he explained, with Capcom eventually bowing to pressure once fans and journalists "started making a lot of noise" for the series' revival.
"I was working on Onimusha 4 and during that time I repeatedly submitted my proposal for a new Street Fighter," he said. "The company kept telling me: 'It's a dead franchise. It doesn't make any money. We have series that make money like Resident Evil and Onimusha. Why bother with a dead franchise?'
"Eventually I was given a small budget to create a prototype. That wasn't really down to me pestering my superiors so much as all of the journalists and fans started making a lot of noise and pressuring Capcom.
"This was a strategic plot on my part. I had been asking all the journalists to make noise about the series when out and about. I would always tell them that it was their responsibility to tell Capcom, not me as I don't have the power. Journalists and fans have the power to move Capcom - not producers.
"With so many voices crying out for a Street Fighter game Capcom could no longer ignore it any more and so they gave the green light for a prototype and they asked me to create it. It's a miracle that happened after a decade..."
Street Fighter IV launched in February 2008 to critical and commercial success, prompting Capcom to release two updates to the game in the years that followed.
The success of the fighter and its updates, it seems, made an impact on Capcom's business model. The publisher now releases a new fighting game during the same window each year.
This year it launched Street Fighter X Tekken. However, sales of the game 'fell short' of Capcom's plan.


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General Comments: Futures closed higher again on ideas that demand is increasing. Most traders still note that big supplies appear to be available to the market, but Brazil said it will increase the ethanol in its gasoline blends in May. There are ideas that this could help work off a lot of the surplus production in Brazil and could tighten world balance sheets. India said it will pay its producers more to grow Sugarcane this year, and that might indicate that current production has been disappointing. Most buyers are still not worried about prices and are not chasing rally attempts. Most statistical organizations continue to look for a big surplus production for the year, although the surplus amounts in these forecasts seem to be dropping. Production has been strong in Brazil so far this year, and reports say that the new crop production looks to be strong as well. Exports from Brazil continue to be very strong after the delayed start to the program. The Thai crushing season is underway with good production expected, but the crushing and export pace remain slow. It is possible that the crop size there has been overestimated. Traders wonder if and when India will cut offers to the market due to the lower prices and perhaps less than expected production due to some dry weather at the beginning of the growing season.
Overnight News: Scattered and light showers are expected in Brazil through this weekend. Temperatures should be near to above normal.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are mixed to up with objectives of 1910, 1950, and 1965 March. Support is at 1875, 1825, and 1805 March, and resistance is at 1905, 1920, and 1960 March. Trends in London are up with objectives of 510.00, 516.00, and 535.00 March. Support is at 490.00, 480.00, and 475.00 March, and resistance is at 503.00, 515.00, and 520.00 March.
General Comments: Futures were higher as traders contemplate less planted area next year and strong export sales. Demand bulls noted positive economic data released last week as another reason to buy. Export sales have been strong for the last month to six weeks, and strong sales are expected to continue after another failed Chinese government auction held over the weekend. However, the export sales report was not bullish last week as the demand was down from previous reports. The report showed that China had cancelled some of its recent purchases. The current low prices are bringing into question what farmers in Texas and the Delta and Southeast will plant this year. Some are wondering if planted area might be lower this year here in the US due to weak prices against competing crops. The area lost would go mostly to Corn and Soybeans. Current weather featured some precipitation in Delta and Southeast areas, but western Texas was mostly dry. Delta and Southeast areas will turn dry starting today. Ideas are that the market can continue to work higher overall.
Overnight News: The Delta and Southeast will see mostly dry conditions. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Texas will get dry weather. Temperatures will average much above normal. The USDA spot price is now 77.45 ct/lb. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.144 million bales, from 0.137 million yesterday.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are mixed to up with objectives of 9100 March. Support is at 82.10, 81.40, and 80.20 March, with resistance of 84.00, 85.25, and 87.00 March.
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For more than a decade, Elayne Silversmith has been the face behind the library at Fort Lewis Colleges Center for Southwest Studies.
As the head librarian at the Robert Delaney Southwest Research Library, Silversmith has organized, maintained and grown the librarys collection of more than 18,000 books and 200 periodical titles.
Now, after 16 years at the college, she is moving on to become the branch librarian at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
On Saturday, she attended her last FLC graduation.
Just as Silversmith has played a role in shaping the college, FLC also has shaped her life.
She grew up on the Navajo Reservation near Shiprock, N.M., where her family raised sheep and grew alfalfa, corn, squash and melons on their farm. She visited Fort Lewis as a child when her father took classes there as a part of a Bureau of Indian Affairs education program.
After graduating from a parochial boarding school, she started college but dropped out after a year and a half. After a few years hiatus, she ended up at FLC and graduated in 1987 with a degree in Southwest studies.
Her work among books began as a student assistant at the colleges library. After graduation, she took a job at Durango Public Library and later worked at the University of New Mexicos Native American studies library.
A few years later, she came back to Durango as a librarian at FLCs Reed Library. She became the head librarian for Center for Southwest Studies when it moved to its newly constructed building in 2001.
She always has enjoyed the company of books, sometimes even more than people, Silversmith said. She sees a unique value in saving small scraps of history.
Despite devoting much of her career to the Delaney Library, Silversmith is uncertain about what role the library, and Center for Southwest Studies, will fill in the future.
The college recently eliminated the Southwest studies major, cutting off the centers direct tie to curriculum. She hopes the centers archives can be used by other departments such as environmental studies to research uranium mining in the area or past water-use conflicts. She also hopes the Southwest studies major someday will be redesigned and revived.
There is no way we can ignore the magnitude of the collections here, she said.
Beyond books, Silversmith has worked with diverse Native American groups on campus and is a strong advocate for improving Native American recruitment and retention at the college.
She served as chairwoman of the advisory committee for the newly formed Native American and indigenous studies major and was a member on the colleges intercultural committee.
Sometimes it was challenging to be a native woman at the college, she said. FLC still has work to do to truly live up to its mission in regards to native people, she said.
Silversmiths institutional knowledge and her connections to Native American groups and programs on campus will be hard to replicate, said Nik Kendziorski, the centers archives manager.
In every job she did, Silversmith was excellent at building consensus, said Richard Wheelock, a professor of Native American and indigenous studies who also will be leaving the college this year.
When she advised the NAIS major, she was great at marshalling the forces and trying to bring together diverse viewpoints, said Wheelock, who first met Silversmith when she was a student at FLC.
Im not surprised the national museum would recognize the kind of work she has done and see that as crucial to their development, he said. She is going to be a real player over there.


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As expected, catcher Brian Schneider has signed a one-year contract with the Phillies.
Schenider will make $800,000 with the possibility of another $200,000 in incentives for games played. That is a paycut from last season when he made $1.5 million.
Schneider, 34, made 36 starts for the Phillies last season and the team went 28-8 (.777), including 27-3 (.900) in his first 30 starts. From May 7 through September 6, the Phillies went 19-0 in Schneider's starts.
Schneider batted .176 with two home runs and nine RBI in 41 games.
With Schneider behind the plate in 2011, Phillies pitchers posted a 2.85 ERA and he threw out 13% (3-23) of potential basestealers.


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Strongest of them all
With an interest in engineering, Hendricken freshman Caleb George chose to test the strength of different bridge designs for his science fair project. The school fair, coordinated by teacher Jeremy Graney drew about 80 entries that was narrowed down to about 40 projects that were graded Thursday with the best 16 being selected for entry in the state science fair to be held March 17 at the Knight Campus of CCRI. In addition to George, the projects of Ryan Caldwell, Trevor Davidson, Walter Fitzhugh, Patrick Flanagan, Paul Hong, John Joy, Chris Leonard, Daniel Kim, Tim Madsen, David Neary, Eric Pfeiffer, Michael Potter, Kevin Sutyla, Ryan Torrealday and Anthony Zainyeh were selected. George found of the various bridge designs, the arch was the strongest.


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An MVC 3 example which uses the Radio Button helper twice on a page to create 3 radio buttons with the first radio button helper and 2 radio buttons with the 2nd helper. Both have validation to ensure 1 option is selected. And if the form fails validation the chosen radio option is preselected when the form is reshown.
The radio buttons can be shown on the page horizontally or vertically.
The Html Helper Method
Essentially all this helper does is loop round a list that you provide it and for each item in the list creates a html radio button and a label for it.
I created a new class with the following code:
using System;
namespace MVC3_RadioButtonList_Helper_Sample
if (listOfValues != null)
// Create and populate a radio button using the existing html helpers
// Create the html string that will be returned to the client
return MvcHtmlString.Create(sb.ToString());
I've added a div around the radio button and it's label with a class of 'RadioButton', this will let you in CSS position the radio button either vertically or horizontally. The default is vertically:
But you can switch this to horizontal with a bit of CSS
.RadioButton { float:left; }
The rest of this article shows how to use the RadioButtonForSelectList helper, you reference it in a view like this: @Html.RadioButtonForSelectList(m => m.TestRadio, Model.TestRadioList)
The Model
For this example I just created an empty MVC3 application and added this model.
using System;
namespace MVC3_RadioButtonList_Helper_Sample.Models
[Required(ErrorMessage = "You must select an option for TestRadio")]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "You must select an option for TestRadio2")]
public class aTest
The Controller Action
I added the following to my controller to populate the model with 2 different lists one for each of the radio button helpers. The first radio button help also has a default value set so the middle option ('Line2') will be pre-selected.
I also changed the Index HttpPost method so that if validation fails the same list of radio buttons is added to the model (obviously I have duplicated the list creation code, in a live example you should create a common function).
using System;
namespace MVC3_RadioButtonList_Helper_Sample.Controllers
List<aTest> list2 = new List<aTest>();
var model = new IndexViewModel();
return View(model);
// If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
List<aTest> list2 = new List<aTest>();
model.TestRadioList = sl;
return View(model);
The View
To test the html helper I added a view that is bound to the IndexViewModel.
I added a using statement so the helper method would be found by intelisence @using MVC3_RadioButtonList_Helper_Sample
I added the new helper RadioButtonForSelectList and passed in the TestRadio property from the IndexViewModel which is where the selected result will be put (the radio button ID value e.g. 2).
And the TestRadioList which is a list of SelectListItems for which a radio button will be created for each item in the list.
|@Html.RadioButtonForSelectList(m => m.TestRadio, Model.TestRadioList)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.TestRadio)
So the error message (as specified in the model 'TestRadio' property is shown when no radio button is selected I added a validation message helper.
I then added a 2nd radio button helper to the form like this, which is bound to a different list and it's return value will be in TestRadio2.
@Html.RadioButtonForSelectList(m => m.TestRadio2, Model.TestRadioList2)
The form below shows the validation in action:
Here is the source code.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Exploratorium, San Francisco's interactive science and activities museum, is set to open at its new $300 million digs along the bay with more space and new exhibits, including a rain chamber that will allow people to experience past storms.
The museum held a walk-thru for members of the media Tuesday. It is scheduled to open to the public April 17.
The new, 330,000-square-foot museum at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero has three times more space than the previous location at the Palace of Fine Arts in the city's Marina neighborhood, exploratorium officials said.
The new facility includes an all-glass observatory and a gallery with views of the waterfront and city.
"This is a great way to learn about the Bay Area. It's a place to launch your visit. We actually have exhibits about the two different bridges," said Tom Rockwell, director of exhibits at the museum.
"We have exhibits that help you understand the tide and the fog and all these things that are signature elements of the San Francisco landscape. You can learn about them here and then you can go out and experience them first hand," he said.
The rain chamber is among 150 new exhibits. Visitors select a past storm and the exhibit recreates the frequency, size, and velocity of its raindrops.
Another new exhibit, also part of the museum's outdoor gallery, explores the different colors of San Francisco Bay.
"The Color of Water" consists of 32 distinct color swatches suspended above the water, allowing visitors to match the day's water color and investigate what causes it to change from day to day.
Construction on the new facility began in 2010.


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NHL Game Night: 12-28-09 Bruins at Lightning
Back to .500 with the biggest win of the season.
Mike Smith allowed 1 goal on 32 shots for the win.
First Period
TB 18:59, Tanguay 6 (Lecavalier, Foster)
Second Period
TB 19:48, St. Louis 8 (Foster, Stamkos)(PP)
Third Period
BOS 12:30, Sturm 12 (Savard, Chara)
We're two games away from the midway point of the season and the Lightning have squared up their record at .500, just a few points out of 8th in the playoff chase.
Zenon Konopka had 5 penalty minutes in 7:20. Konopka is 3 games away from graduation here on Bolt Prospects.
Paul Szczechura had 2 blocked shots and was 58% on draws in 14:07.
James Wright had 1 hit in 6:28. Wright is now 3 games away from graduation here on BP.
Blair Jones had 4 shots, 1 hit, and 3 blocked shots in 14:42. I loves me some Blair Jones.
Victor Hedman was +1 with 2 penalty minutes, 3 shots, and 2 hits in 21:07. Hedman is now 4 games away from graduation here on BP.
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The cynic might argue that the fact that we even have a Veterans Day puts the lie to the idea that history is progressive. Or that we actually learn history's hard lessons.
The cynic might argue that the fact that we even have a Veterans Day puts the lie to the idea that history is progressive. Or that we actually learn history's hard lessons.
Clearly man's progress has been in fits and starts. Clearly if we were learning from our mistakes, there would be fewer bumps as we travel toward the goal of progress. Clearly there would be fewer wars.
That doesn't mean we don't honor those who put on the uniform for this country and did the job they were asked even if, in retrospect, history judges that job a fool's errand.
This country hasn't always treated our veterans well. We blamed the warriors for the war, most notably during the Vietnam War and in its immediate aftermath. Or we literally attacked them, as when Army Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur commanded infantry, cavalry and six tanks to drive thousands of veterans out of Washington in 1932 who went there demanding redemption of their World War I service certificates.
Those days, we hope, are past. Today military service is looked on as an honorable calling. Today we may hate the war but we love, respect and support the warriors.
Millions of Americans, from before the first shots at Concord to today's patrols in Kandahar Province, have stepped up and did what their nation said had to be done. Today, Veterans Day, we honor their service.
There are about 22 million living U.S. military veterans, including about 1.9 million in California and more than 37,000 in San Joaquin County. They are our neighbors, our relatives and our friends. We owe them much. The least we can give them is our thanks.
Today would be a perfect day to do that.


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We all know what Casey Anthony sacrificed, at least in our minds. As closing arguments in the Casey Anthony Murder Trial continue this afternoon, many of us with children reached our own conclusions long ago, as we heard every unbelievable detail of a woman who was too young and too messed up to be a mother making choices that most of us find unfathomable. Prosecutor Jeff Ashton said in his closing arguments today:
"The evidence in this case proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Caylee Anthony decided on June 16 that something had to be sacrificed ... She died because her mother decided the life she wanted was more important."
A mother who willingly traded her child for her own life. Now juxtapose Casey to the other "mother" featured prominently in this trial -- Casey's own mother, Cindy -- and the whole tragic mess becomes even more confounding.
For all her screwed up priorities, naivete, or whatever else you want to call it for defending her daughter, Cindy Anthony is the only positive example of a mother in this trial.
Cindy Anthony may not believe her daughter is innocent of the crime, and yet she's defended her. She's testified for the defense, possibly even committed perjury for her. Meanwhile, her father, a retired cop, has been working for the prosecution. Not that I blame him -- his daughter has not only accused him of sexually abusing her but of also helping to help cover up Caylee's story that Caylee drowned in the family's pool -- none of which there is any evidence for. He loved that little girl more than life itself, and tried to take his own over it. He wants justice for that little girl, like everyone else.
Cindy Anthony has somehow found a way to look past that. Despite all the lies, all the changing versions, all the false accusations, and the ultimate death of her granddaughter in the most cruel of ways -- she still believes her daughter should be spared the ultimate fate. She's willing to risk everything -- her sense of justice, ethics, reputation, morality, her marriage (because how on earth could that survive after something like this) -- all for her daughter. Her daughter, who was once an innocent little girl, just like her granddaughter Caylee. Her daughter, who in some confused way is still innocent. Her daughter who is still and always will be her daughter.
Our daughters are really just images of ourselves perfected. When I think of my own daughter, not much older than Caylee when she died, there are very few things I could imagine her doing now or in the future that would alter her image in my eyes. Because there would always be an explanation that could rationalize it, some outside force beyond any control that made the mistake, not the inherent nature of the child herself. That is what we as mother's do. Most of us.
We might look at Cindy Anthony as clueless, conniving, immoral, or whatever other way you might label her based on what she's done through the trial, but on some very distant theoretical level I get it. And I can't say for certain that I would not do exactly the same thing in her shoes.
If only Casey Anthony had learned from that example and had been capable of being even half the mother her own is.
Is Cindy Anthony a good mom?
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Weekend picks: Time's running out to see Charlie Brown at MSI
'Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit'
Get an up-close look at the life of "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz and the legendary comic strip characters that he created in "Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit" at the Museum of Science and Industry, at 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. General museum admission is $9-$15; the special exhibit requires an additional $3-$5 timed ticket. (773) 684-1414 or msichicago.org. 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Monday, Feb. 18
Elmhurst Artists' Guild
Members of the Elmhurst Artists' Guild showcase their newest works of art at the EAG Winter Members Show in the EAG Gallery at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 S. Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst. More than 50 entries in a wide variety of media will be on display with nearly all of the artwork for sale. Admission is $3-$5; kids younger than 5 admitted free. On Fridays, museum admission is free. Visit elmhurstartistsguild.org. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18 (final day of exhibit)
Walk with the dinosaurs
More than 60 museum-quality prehistoric beasts are on display in the family-friendly Discover the Dinosaurs experience, which returns this weekend to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 N. River Road, Rosemont. $17; $12 seniors and kids ages 2-11. (847) 692-2220 or discoverthedinosaurs.com. Noon to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19; and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday, Jan. 20-21
McLovin's band
The Young Rapscallions, an up-and-coming garage-rock band from California, will make a stop at the Montrose Room, located inside the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare hotel, 5300 N. River Road, Rosemont, this weekend. The band has attracted notice because its drummer is Christopher Mintz-Plasse, an actor best known for playing the character McLovin in the comedy "Superbad." But reviews of the band's earlier shows suggest this band is the real deal. Tickets start at $12. Go to montroseroom.com. 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18
'Bringing Up Baby'
In celebration of what would have been actor Cary Grant's 109th birthday on Friday, Jan. 18, the Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St., Waukegan, presents a screening of Grant's 1938 comedy "Bringing Up Baby." Katharine Hepburn co-stars. Admission is $3-$6 (cash only). (847) 782-2355 or geneseetheatre.com. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18
Students from North Central College perform "Float," a play about a woman forced to confront life's big issues, at the Madden Theater, North Central College, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville: Admission is $5 adults; $3 for students and senior citizens. (630) 637-7469 or northcentralcollege.edu. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18-19
Social satire at BTE
Next up at Buffalo Theatre, Carl Sternheim's early 20th-century farce "The Underpants," adapted by actor/comedian Steve Martin. The satire centers on a beautiful young wife living in Germany who to the chagrin of her husband, drops her drawers while watching the king's parade. Ensemble member Kurt Naebig stars in director Amelia Barrett's revival of this satirical examination of the price of fame. See it at Building K Theatre, northwest end of the College of DuPage campus, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. Tickets cost $25-$33. (630) 942-4000 or atthemac.org. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18-19, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20
Reiser returns
Acclaimed actor/comedian/writer Paul Reiser ("Mad About You," "Aliens," "Couplehood") comes back to Rosemont for a return engagement of standup comedy this weekend at Zanies Comedy Club, 5437 Park Place, Rosemont. $30. (847) 813-0484 or zanies.com. 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, and 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19
Heather Styka
Chicago singer-songwriter Heather Styka takes to the stage with folk and Americana tunes at the Two Way Street Coffee House, 1047 Curtiss St., Downers Grove. $7. (630) 969-9720 or twowaystreet.org. 8:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18
Home, suite, home
"Open House: Art About Home" is the first exhibit assembled by newly appointed chief curator Staci Boris at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst. See various artist interpretations of home for $5; $3 students/seniors; free on Fridays. (630) 834-0202 or elmhurstartmuseum.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19
'Snow White'
The Northbrook Theatre brings the classic fairy tale "Snow White" to the stage. The tale focuses on a young princess who is so beautiful, her jealous stepmother -- the queen -- plots to rid the world of her. See it at 3323 Walters Ave., Northbrook. $10. (847) 291-2367 or nbparks.org. 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19
Grand gospel
After a month of traditional "Messiahs," get warmed up with the return of "Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah." It features soloists Rodrick Dixon, Alfreda Burke and Karen Marie Richardson backed up by a 150-voice choir and a 50-piece orchestra and jazz ensemble. Catch it as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago. $30-$74. (800) 982-2787 or auditoriumtheatre.org. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20
Still rocking
Rocker Jim Peterick's World Stage event features Dave Bickler, Lisa McClowry, Jeff Adams (Starship), Toby Hitchcock (Pride of Lions), The Ides of March and more Saturday at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles. $29-$89. (630) 962-7000 or oshows.com. 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19
Remembering Ricky
Singers and musicians Matthew and Gunnar Nelson present a musical tribute to their late father, legendary 1950s singer Ricky Nelson, with "Ricky Nelson Remembered" at the Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. The concert features performances of many of Ricky Nelson's biggest hits, including "Travelin' Man" and "Hello Mary Lou." Tickets start at $31. (815) 356-9212 or rauecenter.org. 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19
Meet 'Super Immunity' author
Physician and best-selling author Dr. Joel Fuhrman discusses and signs copies of his book "Super Immunity: The End of Diabetes" at Pfeiffer Hall at North Central College, 310 E. Benton Ave., Naperville. The event is sponsored by Anderson's Bookshop of Naperville. Tickets are available with the purchase of Fuhrman's book at Anderson's Bookshop at 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. (630) 355-2665 or andersonsbookshop.com. 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20
Puppet play
Audiences can get a behind-the-scenes look at how theater productions come together when Blair Thomas and Company present excerpts from "Moby Dick" through a family-friendly puppet play at the Storefront Theatre, 66 E. Randolph St., Chicago. The presentation is part of In the Works, a Chicago arts residency program. Free, but reservations recommended. (312) 742-8497. 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20
Chamber music
The Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players perform Schoenfield's Cafe Music for Piano Trio and Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1 in a concertSunday at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, 205 N. Prospect Ave., Park Ridge. $15-$20; $10-$15 seniors. (866) 811-4111 or chicagophilharmonic.org. 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20
Music for MLK Day
Opera bass-baritone Eric Owens sings and makes his conducting debut at the Chicago Sinfonietta Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Also on the bill is Metropolitan Opera clarinetist Anthony McGill and the Mosaic Choir.Catch this concert at two locations: Symphony Center's Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, ($26-$50), then at North Central College's Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville, ($40-$50). Special $10 tickets available for students. (312) 236-3681, ext. 2, or chicagosinfonietta.org. 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, in Chicago, and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Naperville
Musical tribute to MLK
The Brotherhood Chorale of the Apostolic Church of God presents a concert in tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston. The concert features traditional and contemporary gospel and jazz. Free. (847) 905-1500, ext. 108, or visit musicinst.org. 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20
New plays showcase
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights, unveils the winning submissions to its New Play Festival with staged readings beginning with Chris Swanson's "The Principle of the Thing," about marriage and counseling; followed by Scott Glander's "Shakespeare Restored." Next up, is "Grin and Bear it" about three scouts attempting to earn a merit badge by teen winner Naomi Rawitz, of Buffalo Grove, followed by fellow teen winner Joey Lubelfeld's "Not Far from the Tree" a coming-of-age-story about a boy struggling with loss. The festival concludes with first-place winner Norma Simon's "Griffiths," about a boy's acceptance into an exclusive school. $15. (847) 577-2121 or metropolisarts.com. Live readings at 7 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 20-Feb. 17