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Technical Help
1. Channels available on 900 Mhz systems are:
CH1-910Mhz CH2-980Mhz CH3-1010Mhz CH4-1040Mhz (USA customers will have only CH1-910 MHz available) Click here for transmitter channel configuration.
2. New Lawmate 1.2 GHz 1W (1000mW) transmitters available channels an DIP switches settings.
US version
International Version
3. Channels available on Lawmate 2.4 Ghz systems are:
4. What else do I need to know about flying a FPV system?
1- Don't fly too low when your model is too far. It migh cause your model to crash.
2- When installing your system into a model, try to keep your wireless video system as far as possible from the R/C system.
3- Always keep your a/v transmitter in a well ventilated place. NEVER confine the a/v transmitter where air flow is scarce, otherwise it can overheat and permanently damage it .
For more useful information visit our FAQ page.
5. What is the best FPV system?
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The differences between a Plug & Play and Combo set system or individual parts, (ex. TR524 vs FPV524)
6. The differences between SMA and RP-SMA.
7. Plug and Play Transmitter Functions:
8. Do not force the connectors of your plug and play transmitter pulling them out without properly unlatching them. This may slide the connector house to slide off shortening the pins inside causing the camera not to work, or intermittently lose video.
9. Poor video reception or range can be caused by many factors such as
Stock whip antennas must to be in the same position straight vertical. If one antenna is straight vertical and the other is leaning to any direction, it will aftect the performance.
Multipath is a very common issue.
10. Examples of Multipath. (Click on the pictures to enlarge). A good set of circular polarized antennas is the best way to deal with multipath issues.
11. Eagle Tree OSD Pro - Except for the integrated connectors and the version with leads everything else is the same.
14. How make make connections for your "non-plug" and play 12v transmitter with 12v cameras.
15. T512 and T524 transmitters. It's not plug and play version, you will have to use the heavy RCA connectors or customize your own. See next illustration below. The cable has a built-in voltage regulator with that can be powered using 5 - 12 VDC MAX! Using 2S 7.4V lipo is more adequate.
16. How to remove the RCA connector from the transmitters (not plug and play version). Test your transmitter before cutting the wires. * Make sure the wire are well insulated.
17. Transmitter module wires configuration and proper way to use them? (some transmitters uses 12 v others 5v to be powered on, any voltage above 5v will damage the unit, see picture above)
18. If you want to connect the camera to the transmitter without messing with soldering, see the two illustrations below. Here is an example with our FPVCAMs with a built-in microphone
19. Here is an example with our SN555, SN777, PETITE, KPC650 without built-in microphone. - No plug and play version -
20. How to change your heavy camera stock connectors to servo type connector. This precedure is for cameras that don't have plug and play cable.
21. This illustration applies for all the TR (transmitter + receiver) - No plug and play combos -
1.7mm lens has approximate 170 degree field of view
2.1mm lens has approximate 158 degree field of view
2.5mm lens has approximate 147 degree field of view
2.8mm lens has approximate 130 degree field of view
2.9mm lens has approximate 127 degree field of view (Natural Human eye)
3.6mm lens has approximate 92 degree field of view
4.3mm lens has approximate 88 degree field of view
6.0mm lens has approximate 78 degree field of view
8.0mm lens has approximate 58 degree field of view
12 mm lens has approximate 28 degree field of view
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ASU hosted its 2nd annual Night Vision Awards ceremony on February 12, recognizing law enforcement, EMS, public safety and transport operators. Travis County STAR Flight took home the Mark of Excellence, with Texas DPS awarded for Community Awareness. Five-Year Service awards were given to REACH Air Medical Services, STAT MedEvac in Baltimore, Md., and Florida's Collier County MedFlight. LA County Fire Department's Air Operations Unit received a 10-Year Service award and Helicopters Otago from New Zealand was given the International Advancement award.

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Politically outspoken rapper M.I.A. had an unusual guest lined-up for her concert in New York on Friday – she opened the show with a live video transmission via Skype from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
M.I.A. decided to use her gig at Terminal 5 to give Assange a new platform to air his views on press freedom and online privacy, as he urged the sold-out crowd to fight the "military occupation of cyberspace."
He then recalled lyrics from M.I.A.'s 2010 track "The Message" to get his point across, reciting: "'iPhone connected to the Internet/ Connected to the Google/ Connected to the government' – it turns out she was right."
Assange also praised the British star as "the most courageous woman working in Western music."
M.I.A.'s choice of guest should come as no surprise to her loyal fans – she teamed up with Assange to compose the soundtrack for his TV show "The World Tomorrow" last year.
Assange was unable to appear in New York in person as he continues to hide out at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been given political asylum for over a year. He faces immediate arrest and extradition to Sweden to face accusations of rape and sexual assault if he leaves the building.


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Senate candidate David Dewhurst's campaign announced the formation of a Veteran's Coalition Friday.
The coalition, comprised of a a handful of ex-servicemen, will reach out to the veteran community and serve as a "steering committee" for getting out the vote. "They're putting a face to a cause," said campaign spokesman Matt Hirsch.
Dewhurst and opponent Ted Cruz are set to face off in one final debate in Houston Monday.
Though voter turnout is expected to be low in the Senate race, Dewhurst's spokesman said the campaign was not concerned.
"We're not worried about projections; we're trying to get out as many voters as we can on July 31st," said Hirsch.
Dewhurst also received the endorsement of Hall of Fame pitcher and native Texan Nolan Ryan.


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Occupy Movement News Update of the Day: Just under 350 people were arrested in twin raids on Occupy encampments last night.
In Los Angeles, more than 1,400 LAPD officers dismantled the Occupy LA encampment that had been set up on the south lawn of Los Angeles City Hall since early October.
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May 23, 2007
Dear Julian,
Happy half-birthday, buddy! Today you are six months old.
It is hard for me to believe that six months have already passed since your amazing entrance into the world. And yet, at the same time, it feels like you have been a part of our lives for so very long.
You've changed so much in six months. You no longer look like a baby. You look like a little boy.
You smile, flashing us your delicious, darling dimple. You laugh often, especially at your big sister Ava, and more recently, at your favorite stuffed animal – the wolf blanket Aunt Carrie got for you. You sit up by yourself, roll over and are quite the little backwards scooter when you are on your tummy.
You are a very content baby and cry only when something is really bothering you. You recently started making the cutest "bbbbbbb" sound through your lips when you are really tired and trying to go to sleep.
You love to suck on mommy's chin, chew on daddy's nose, and grab fistfuls of Ava's hair.
You drool like crazy and we constantly have a bib on you, but there are no signs of any teeth yet.
You love your mama milk, and, with the exception of a small piece of cracker Ava tried to feed to you a month or so ago, that's all you've had so far to help you grow big and strong. We haven't been to the doctor lately, but I think you are around 20 lbs.
You recently moved into Ava's old Marathon convertible car seat (I think it was a bit overdue) and are riding in style and comfort now. And Ava graduated into a Regent car seat.
The one thing that's remained constant from your birth until now is your big, beautiful blue eyes. I find myself gazing into them often, especially when we are outside and the light reflects brilliantly in them. They amaze and entrance me.
I'm looking forward to watching you continue to grow and learn these next six months, as you approach your first birthday.
Thank you for choosing me as your mama, Julian. We couldn't have asked for a better addition to our family. I feel so blessed to have you in my life.
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I used to be organized. I really was.
Every Saturday morning I would sit cross-legged on the sofa, coffee on the side table, cookbooks piled beside me, scrap paper on my lap and pen in hand. From this happy perch I would flip through my cookbooks, while writing, scratching out, tweaking and, ultimately, jotting down exactly what meals I would cook the next week and precisely which ingredients I required. Mark and I would then collect our shopping bags and head off for
Sure, I occasionally varied from my set schedule. Spontaneously inviting friends over might require a quick ingredient top-up at the Vietnamese grocery downstairs. Or, while trudging between the ferry stop and our flat after a late day at school, the oompah music and sidewalk-table conviviality of Lefkas Greek Taverna (and the adjacent bottle shop) might draw me in. Passing that siren call, the cocoanut-curry smells of Thai Dream would sometimes entice me to walk just a few steps past my stairs for takeaway. And, even if I made it safely to the apartment, laziness could always trump my menu plan and encourage me to boil the spinach and cheese ravioli made across town by Italians and sold at the Greek store down the street, which was always fabulous with an easily-concocted sauce of good-quality tomato paste, toasted pinenuts, parsley, basil, parmesan, and olive oil.
But, usually, I stuck to my plan. Ah, those were the days.
Now, I live in
Eventually, I developed a new menu-planning scheme. I go to the stores with the best fruit and veg, buy whatever looks fresh and beautiful, and figure out what to do with my cornucopia when I get home. The result? I love recipes that can adapt to the whims of my fridge's most recent arrivals.
And, so, I love African Peanut Stew. You could probably throw any vegetable in here and it would taste just fine. Eggplant, corn, green beans, squash, peas, tomatoes – bring it on. Even tofu would be a welcome addition. I made this recipe last night with what I had in my fridge. This included some dried shrimp that a friend brought us back all the way from
African Peanut Stew
Serves 4
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 medium onion, chopped
1 large leek, white part only, well-cleaned and thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 medium sweet potatoes, diced
1 carrot, diced
2 green chilies, deseeded (if you wish) and minced
1½ teaspoons salt
2 cups vegetable broth
1 medium pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
1 green pepper, diced
¼ cup dried shrimp/prawns (optional)
½ cup smooth, natural peanut butter
½ cup crushed peanuts, toasted
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, leek, garlic and ginger and cook for five minutes. Stir in the ground cumin and ground coriander and cook for one minute. Add the sweet potatoes, carrot and chilies and cook, stirring occasionally, for another 5 minutes.
Add the salt, vegetable broth, pineapple, green pepper and optional dried shrimp. Bring the stew to a boil, then cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook for 8-10 minutes, or until the sweet potato and carrot are soft. Mix in the peanut butter and cook for a final five minutes. If you want a thinner or thicker stew, you can add more peanut butter or, alternatively, more broth.
Serve the stew hot, with the toasted peanuts either sprinkled on top or stirred through. Fresh coriander/cilantro also makes an excellent garnish, if you have it.
This post in an entry in the inaugural Waiter, There's Something in My…, a monthly food blog event organized by Cook Sister!, Passionate Cook and Spittoon Extra. Janaury's theme is stews.


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Sept. 5, 2007
Bill Taylor has been named as the new cross county and track coach for both the men's and women's programs at Lipscomb University.
He is entering his 11th season as a head coach, having excelled at Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash., for 10 years.
"We are pleased with the addition of Bill Taylor to our dedicated group of coaches," said Dr. Steve Potts, director of athletics. "Bill built the Northwest University cross country and track program into an NAIA national power, competing successfully with NCAA Division I programs along the way.
"Bill is a man of great Christian faith and integrity and has a passionate commitment to coaching. We are confident that he will be a great fit for our program."
His Northwest women's team won the 2002 NAIA National Championship in Cross Country. His women's team finished in the top seven nationally four straight years from 2000 to 2003. His women's teams won four consecutive Cascade Conference Championships and two Region I Championships.
His women's teams finished in the Top 20 nationally five times in women's track and field. His women's cross country team posted a 98 percent winning percentage against all competition and an 84 percent winning percentage against NCAA Division I teams from 1999 t0 2003 including victories over Washington State and Bradley.
He was the 2002 NAIA National Coach of the Year and has won 16 other Conference and Regional Coach of the Year honors.
Taylor, 38, has coached 52 athletic All-Americans, 31 Academic All-Americans and 201 National Qualifiers.
He spent last year as an assistant at Belmont University working with the women's cross country and track teams.
"I believe in total personal development," Taylor said. "Even though my goal is to win, it is just as important to develop each person and to help them become leaders, help them to have a great experience and help them learn to grow in academics. I am interested in developing every aspect of a student-athlete. I care about every athlete."
Taylor sees a bright future for the cross country and track programs at Lipscomb.
"Lipscomb is a terrific school," said Taylor. "It is an incredible environment. It is the kind of environment I want to be in where you integrate Christianity with athletics. It is also a great academic school.
"Lipscomb has everything I would want in recruiting athletes. I already know I can succeed. It is just a matter of time here. I think I can bring in the right people and help them do amazing things."
He and his wife, Tabetha, have tow daughters, Isabella, 3, and Ellie, 4 months. They reside in Nashville.


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The following is a copy of an article that is published in the Jan. 2, 2007, Tomahawk Leader.
County department head constructs own analysis of child support issue
Refutes article by Tomahawk Leader
By Abigail Wix
Tomahawk Leader Reporter
One month following publication in the Tomahawk Leader of a summary article concerning a state and federal investigation into Lincoln County's child support enforcement billing, a county official is indicating the information relayed is "misleading."
Federal subpoenas were issued to Lincoln County Administrative Coordinator John Mulder, Finance Director Dan Leydet, Corporation Counsel Nancy Bergstrom, Clerk of Courts Cindy Kimmons, Clerk Bob Kunkel and former Social Services Director Jim Bestul in August, commanding they provide documents to a grand jury of the United States District Court.
Sought were all written or electronic documentation between county employees and/or County Board supervisors regarding child support services rendered to the state from 1998 to 2005.
The investigation was sparked by an October 2004 audit by the Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support, which concluded the county had not appropriately documented work it did for the state on child support cases. Counties perform child support enforcement services and claim federal reimbursement for that service. State officials wanted $282,000 in restitution for unsubstantiated charges incurred between 2002-04. Following negotiations, that total was reduced to about $30,000, a number the county is still disputing.
Lincoln County was represented at a closed hearing before the federal grand jury in late October.
On Nov. 28, 2006, the Tomahawk Leader printed a summary article of events leading up to that federal hearing. Information printed was previously reported without errors reported by any agency.
On Dec. 21, Mulder issued a 15-page memorandum to the County Board of Supervisors, stating he felt "compelled to provide … better information and proper analysis regarding Lincoln County's child support enforcement program" having read a Nov. 28, 2006 article in the Tomahawk Leader. The article was "misleading at best," he added.
Mulder noted graphs printed in the Leader portrayed a narrow focus and showed only part of the cost of the child support enforcement program. He therefore compiled his own "objective analysis" using state data, revealing that overall cost per case is similar or less than similar-sized counties.
Graphs in the Nov. 28 edition of the Leader, for which, prior to publication, the county did not return requests for comment or clarification, were based on information provided by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD).
Two years ago, that department issued a graph with "comparative county cooperative agreements and budgets." The counties in that graph were not selected by the Leader for comparison. These same counties were again compared for 2005 and 2006, utilizing numbers from the DWD, and printed in the Nov. 28 edition. The graphs showed that since 2004, Lincoln County's child support program budget had steadily declined.
Mulder indicated the counties selected in those charts had no "discernable common characteristic" and based an analysis on a category of only "small agencies" comprised of 47 counties. The graphs in the Leader compared "small" and "medium" agencies, he said.
Mulder added that the significant drop in budgeted amounts was due to re-organization of the child support program.
"It should be noted that Lincoln County has used the same basic organizational model in excess of 15 years until the re-organization which became effective on Jan. 1, 2006," he said.
Furthermore, the state – which was the first to question how the county bills in its child support program and ask for reimbursement due to alleged incorrect billing in 2004 – has never proscribed or prohibited any organizational model for enforcement of child support. Counties have been free to choose the model that best fits the county, Mulder said.
In response to the memorandum, the Leader has noted it has worked to accurately and objectively report all information provided regarding the county child support investigation.
"The summary article printed in the Nov. 28, 2006 edition of the Tomahawk Leader consisted of previously reported information, all which were published without any contention from the county that it 'contained errors' or was 'misleading.' The information printed was based on data provided by the county and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
"Mr. Mulder has contested that
the counties compared in charts in the Nov. 28, 2006 summary article are 'comparative'. The Tomahawk Leader did not choose these counties for comparison, rather, they were chosen by the state. These same counties were compared in a November 2004 article without any contention on part of the county.
"Prior to the printing of the Nov. 28, 2006 summary article, a request to further explain charts displaying information provided by the state was not answered by the county. If there was an error in the articles, the Tomahawk Leader needs to be made aware at the time the article was printed so that the correct information can be reported.
"The Tomahawk Leader's intention has only been to keep the public informed with as much information as is made available regarding the child support investigation. We appreciate Mr. Mulder providing this additional information."
Mulder's analysis concludes that a reasonable result is that Lincoln County's cost for cooperative agreements may be higher than that of other counties because the County Board chose to establish a child support program relying heavily on cooperative agencies instead of putting those employees directly in the child support agency.
"The facts are that the Lincoln County Child Support Agency has consistently performed well as measured by the federal performance measures," Mulder observed. "It has done so in a cost effective manner with average overall cost per case similar to or less than comparable counties."
The subject remains at the forefront of county operations as the county defends itself against accusations for reimbursement, Mulder said.
Mulder stated that David Chapleau, former Social Services director, and Dave Haka, former Child Support Agency supervisor, are "directly responsible for all operational and billing aspects of the child support program."
"That they now claim that billings made at their direction were false is outrageous," Mulder said.
Analysis of child support
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Yak, yak, yak. What is needed is not an evaluation of social services/welfare, but an effective program that prevents people from having babies. 90% of the woemn/couples that are having babies are in no position to have them in the first place!!!
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wow Northwoods, you need to get a clue, or at least learn how to read and comprehend what you read. This post has nothing to do with welfare. Child Support is NOT welfare. Perhaps it's not about teaching people to NOT have sex, perhaps it's about teaching biological fathers to be responsible AND accountable! Not all children who need child support are born from NON-married partners. A LOT of them are born within a marriage and for whatever reason, that marriage ends in divorce. It has nothing to do with welfare. Get a Clue
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---Berenice Abbott---
Berenice Abbott was born in Ohio in 1898, and first established herself in commercial portraiture in Paris and later in New York. Besides creating masterful bodies of work of the changing face of New York, scientific phenomena, Route 1, and Maine, Abbott was an inventor of photographic equipment, a pioneer in the teaching of photographic techniques, and the first and most committed person to champion the work of the turn-of-the-century French photographer, Eugene Atget.
She first began taking images with a compact Kurt-Bentzin camera, but soon returned to the large-format cameras little favored by Americans but favored instead by her European peers. The results were immediately striking. Abbott documented the 1930s-era of Modernism in the city, which paralleled an intense period of skyscraper building. She documented the city from above and often shot off the rooftops of skyscrapers. Many of her images use stark contrast as a design device, such as shooting buildings and other structures during early-morning and late-day hours when the shadows from the sun are at their most severe, a quality she adored in Atget's images.
Abbott was a highly skilled photographer who planned her images carefully. For instance, in one famous photo called Nightview, New York (1932), which was taken out the window of a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, Abbott utilized a special developer to accentuate the contrast of the interior lights of a spectrum of skyscrapers set off against a dusky sky. The image could have only been taken on one night a year, when the days darkened early (around 4:30 pm) and the office lights came on at five o'clock. The result is a strikingly original photograph that to this day remains an iconic image of New York.
As she had for Nightview, Abbott constantly exploited dramatic patterns, lighting, and high degrees of contrast in her work. Odd camera angles and unusual viewpoints typically categorize her images, often creating a look of imposing severity.
Abbott believed that photography was a medium based entirely around facts that could be measured, adjusted, and changed, and that none of it was based on emotion, unlike painting.
She felt that photography, unlike all other arts, could be used to see the beauty in truth. Her street photography from this period also showcases a variety of studies in contrasts and complex compositions, often with layers of detail in the foreground and background, such as in images of tenement apartments with endlessly crisscrossed laundry draped through the frame, shots of grocery market exteriors absurdly dominated by signage, and the complexity of contrasting light and dark lines made by elevated train tracks, sunny streets and shadowed buildings, ironwork fences, and more.
To work in Abbott's style is to embrace both night and day shooting, preferably with a large-format film camera or at least a high-quality DSLR coupled with extremely wide-angle lenses. Explore unusual camera angles, high degrees of contrast, complex patterns and repeated lines, especially those created by harsh shadows.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework-that to me is the art of photography…
"I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it," Berenice Abbott once recalled. In 1917 Abbott went from her hometown of Springfield, Ohio, to Columbia University, intending to study journalism. Disappointed by her courses, Abbott soon switched to sculpture, which she studied in New York, Berlin, and Paris. It was only in Paris in 1923, when the avant-garde American expatriate Man Ray was looking for a darkroom assistant, that Abbott discovered her love and natural ability for working with the camera. She began taking portrait photographs and in 1926 opened her own studio. Abbott had the first of many one-woman exhibitions that same year…
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1. Introduction – Four steps of motor learning and motor learning concepts
2. Practice planning, organization and execution
3. Carl Christensen – Duke Sports Performance
a. How and why Duke does what it does in the weight room
4. Reference points, vocabulary, drill emphasis
a. Importance of developing a specific vocabulary
b. Establishing reference points or non-negotiables (i.e. Duke players never pick up a ground ball with one hand)
a. What your mindset needs to be in practice
b. Be concise
c. Have a focus and avoid tangents in drills
6. Individual group and team drills that Duke does every year and you can do
7. Practice organization – Going skeleton, thud or live
8. Advice for breaking down the game into teachable segments
9. Part/Whole Theory – In the box offense with the ball
10. Video clips of Duke's practice drills – in the box offense
11. Game film of what Duke wants to see in the offensive box – shooting, passing, etc.
a. Film from Duke vs. Rutgers in 2013 to demonstrate positives and negatives in an offensive set
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Messaging in the stream. Not a new Kenny Rogers / Dolly Parton collaboration, rather the aspiration of marketers wishing to bathe in the warmth of earned media. The idea goes like this. The brand creates a social home that people can join, like or check in to and as a consequence allow the brand to join their news feed and the streams of those they know. This feels good. "N" people take an action and "N x friends of N" are potentially exposed to the resultant flow of comments or messages. This makes for a fine CPM calculation and thus one rather "media like" basis for valuing a friend or a follower.
Am I alone in finding this a little unsatisfying? It pays to spend a little while in brand sponsored social environments, before gifting your client virtual Kool Aid, simply to follow the type and volume of exchanges that take place. The sad fact is that most of it is somewhere between lame and prosaic and its disemmination is unlikely to be of any real value.
The wise Miles Young CEO of Ogilvy has taken to quoting Abraham Lincoln on the subject of social media. Lincoln posited that "character is like a tree, reputation is like its shadow". This is a useful reference and pushes one towards the necessary question "what does your tree look like?".
If you are Pepsi (Refresh Everything) or American Express (Members Project) you have a pretty good answer to the tree question. You have created participation with purpose. The same is not true for everyone and suggests that more time and energy needs to be devoted to developing a real social strategy in which participation in the stream creates value for the participant and the interlocking streams of their social graph.
This brings us to the question of "what is social creativity?" put simply it's creativity that people want to keep and share. It does not have to be social as in socially responsible but that's as good a space to start as any. It can also be socially valuable; inside information that it's worth being on the inside of (Bergdorf Goodman for example) or service / experience enhancing (Best Buy, Dell, Jet Blue, Macy's, Starbucks). All these cases are ones where the value exchange between the brand and its friends are clear.
The attraction of these strategies is also that they support long term marketing effect objectives in a channel that has been dominated by short term strategies and the pursuit of the last click. The good thing about trees is that they live long lives and cast long shadows.


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FAIRBANKS, Alaska --- The University of Alaska Fairbanks women's basketball team outscored Lees-McRae College by a 43-27 margin in the second half, rallying from a 38-34 halftime deficit for a 77-65 victory on the second day of the Nanooks' North Star Invitational.
Alaska (6-1) posted a field goal percentage of 48.2 percent in the contest, including a clip of 63.6 percent in the second half, while holding Lees-McRae (2-4) to a percentage of 36.6 from the floor on the night. The teams each pulled down 41 rebounds, as Lees-McRae won the battle on the offensive glass by a 17-10 margin.
Layana De Souza (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) led the way for Lees-McRae with 17 points on 8-of-15 shooting, adding five rebounds and three assists, while Lauren Lewis (Concord, N.C.) chipped in 16 points. Alyssa Munson (Summerfield, N.C.) tallied 10 points and tied Natalija Cakarevic (Belgrade, Serbia) for the team-lead with seven rebounds. Kabrina Truesdale (Wilmington, N.C.) dished out a squad-best four assists.
Benissa Bulaya paced the Nanooks with 18 points, going 10-for-14 at the free throw line, as Jordan Wilson and Kaillee Skjold added 12 and 11 points, respectively. Bulaya and Victoria Milton each dished out a game-high five assists, while Skjold grabbed a contest-best nine rebounds.
The Bobcats opened the game with a 7-3 run before Alaska responded, evening the tally at 11-11 following a Wilson layup at the 14:29 mark. Lees-McRae would counter with a 5-0 spurt, reclaiming the advantage at 16-11 on a bucket by De Souza.
The Nanooks answered once again with a 9-2 run, taking a 20-18 lead on a jumper by Autumn Childers. The Bobcats quickly countered with a 5-0 spurt of their own, claiming a 23-20 advantage on a Lewis triple with 8:24 left in the half. After Alaska fought back with a 7-2 run, Lees-McRae responded with a 13-7 stretch, taking a 38-34 lead into the intermission following a Lewis jumper and a Kerri Belcher (Roanoke, Va.) freebie.
Alaska regained the momentum into the early moments of the second half, opening the period with a 14-6 run to claim a 48-44 advantage on a Wilson lay-in with 14:34 to play. After a put-back by Icey Patterson (Seneca, S.C.) brought the Bobcats to within two at 48-46, the Nanooks responded with 10 straight points, pushing the margin to 58-46 on a jumper by Wilson at the 8:18 mark.
The Bobcats would cut the lead to five points on a trio of occasions down the stretch, including a clutch triple by De Souza that closed the gap to 62-57 with 5:04 to play. Alaska managed to keep the Bobcats at arm's length for the remainder of the contest, widening the margin to 70-63 on a Wilson jumper, before closing out the victory with some critical conversions at the free throw line in the waning moments.
Lees-McRae returns to the court on Saturday when the Bobcats take the floor against Dominican University of California at 2 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on the final day of the North Star Invitational.


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The Nomad is a modular system for creating partitions designed by Mio. What sets them apart from other partitioning setups? Well they're made up of tons of little recycled-cardboard pieces that fit into one another in order to create your desired wall shape. You can even create openings that you can walk through, ala a door.
The pieces, that are extremely light and fold flat, are made out of recycled-cardboard and come in six different colors. However, 24 pieces cost a whopping $56.
So if you were to create a wall similar to the one in the picture (which contains somewhere in the vicinity of 112 pieces) it would end up costing around $280. Although after checking out the prices for wardrobe screens at Cost Plus this doesn't seem quite as bad and they're portable.
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Choke On DVD! Details Here
Our friends over at JoBlo.com just posted a helluva story. CHOKE is coming to DVD on February 17th, 2009, and here are all the details:
- Featurettes:
- My Name is Victor and I'm a Sex Addict
- A Mother's Love, From the Los Angeles Film Festival
- Fox Movie Channel Presents: Casting Session
- Audio commentary with Writer/Director/Actor Clark Gregg and Actor Sam Rockwell
- 5 deleted scenes with optional audio commentary with Clark Gregg and Sam Rockwell
- A conversation with Clark Gregg and Chuck Palahniuk
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No. 94,266
NATURAL PARENTS OF DUSTIN ATCHISON, A MINOR, et al.,
1. An insurer owes to its insured the duty to act in good faith and without negligence. This duty arises under the contract.
2. Generally, third parties who are strangers to an insurance contract cannot maintain an action against an insurer for the failure to negotiate and settle a third party's claim against the insured because the duty of good faith and fair dealing in the handling of claims runs only from the insurance company to its insured.
3. If a trial court reaches the right result, its decision will be upheld even though the trial court relied upon the wrong ground or assigned an erroneous reason for its decision.
Appeal from Franklin District Court; JAMES J. SMITH, judge. Opinion filed August 4, 2006. Affirmed.
Robert E. McRorey, of Olathe, for appellants.
J. Franklin Hummer, of Shawnee Mission, for appellee Benchmark Insurance Company.
Before McANANY, P.J., MARQUARDT and CAPLINGER, JJ.
CAPLINGER, J.: This is an interpleader action filed by Benchmark Insurance Company arising out of a single-car accident in which its insured, Candi Atchison, was the driver of the vehicle. The accident killed one passenger and injured three other passengers including Kayla Mell. Mell appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Benchmark on the issue of whether Benchmark was negligent or acting in bad faith in refusing to accept a settlement offer from Mell.
Because Benchmark owed no duty to Mell and the insured did not assign her rights under the insurance agreement to Mell, we find Benchmark had no duty to negotiate and settle with Mell, and we uphold the summary judgment in favor of Benchmark for that reason.
Factual and procedural background
This action arose out of a tragic traffic accident in Franklin County. The following summary of the accident is derived from the investigation report of the accident by Benchmark's claim investigator.
On September 3, 2003, Candi, age 17, was driving a vehicle on a gravel road in rural Franklin County, traveling approximately 80 miles per hour. The four passengers in the vehicle were: Candi's brother, Dustin Atchison, age 12; Christina Vega, age 14; Kayla Mell, age 14; and Levi Oakes, age 15.
Richard Hale had stopped his pickup truck on the gravel road and was observing nearby hunters to insure they did not hunt on Hale's property. When Candi attempted to drive around Hale's truck, she lost control of the vehicle and hit a bridge abutment, causing the car to catch fire and turn over, landing on its top. The initial impact killed Vega. Oakes crawled out of the vehicle and then pulled Mell and Dustin out of the vehicle as well. Two hunters who rushed to the scene pulled Candi from the vehicle.
Oakes sustained second-degree burns to both forearms and his neck and fractured his left shoulder. Oakes' medical bills were approximately $19,000.
Dustin suffered third-degree burns over 60% of his body, his left arm and his pelvis were broken, and both feet were amputated because of severe burns. He was fitted with prosthetic legs and will require future surgeries for scar revisions and modifications of the prosthetics. His medical bills are in excess of $500,000.
Candi was severely burned over 40% of her body, her pelvis and her right ankle were crushed. She will require more surgeries in the future for scar revisions, and her medical expenses will exceed $500,000.
Mell was severely burned on her backside, and her medical bills have exceeded $400,000.
Candi was insured by Benchmark with a $25,000 bodily injury per person limit and a $50,000 bodily injury per accident aggregate. An independent adjuster filed a detailed report of the accident investigation on October 19, 2003, and at that point, Benchmark was aware it was dealing with a death and serious injuries to multiple persons who continued to receive treatment for their burns and injuries. Further, Benchmark was aware that the claims resulting from this accident would likely exceed the $50,000 policy limit.
On January 7, 2004, Mell's attorney sent a demand letter to Benchmark, offering to settle the case for the individual policy limit of $25,000 and giving Benchmark 30 days to accept the offer.
In a letter dated January 23, 2004, Benchmark responded to Mell's settlement offer, confirming the policy limits of $25,000 bodily injury per person and $50,000 bodily injury per accident. The letter which was sent to Mell's attorney, as well as to the parents of the other three minor children, stated:
"We believe that the total sum of all damages exceeds the available policy limits. We have an obligation to attempt to settle all of the claims presented against our insured, Candi Atchison. We are hereby advising you that our total policy limits of $50,000 are available to settle claims that you or your child may have against Candi Atchison. We will require releases to be signed.
"We would encourage all of you to communicate with each other to see if you can arrive at an agreement as to how these funds should be apportioned to each of you. We will also need you to provide to us all available bills and medical reports. If you need assistance with this, we can provide you with a medical authorization that will permit us to gather these ourselves.
"In the alternative, if an agreement cannot be reached, we will have to consider filing an action with the court and ask the court to decide how the $50,000 should be apportioned."
Mell's attorney responded by letter dated February 6, 2004, stating he was not "qualified" to "contact the other injured claimants and develop an agreed settlement proposal."
On February 24, 2004, Benchmark filed an interpleader action in district court against the parents of the three injured minor passengers and the one minor killed in the accident. Benchmark submitted a sum of $50,000 as the policy limits of Candi Atchison's coverage and requested the court's direction in allocating the funds among the three injured minors and the heirs of Vega. Mell answered, asserting Benchmark acted negligently or without good faith in failing to accept Mell's settlement demand, thereby exposing Benchmark to liability in excess of the policy limits.
Benchmark filed a motion for partial summary judgment, disputing Mell's claim of negligence or bad faith and requesting discharge from further liability. Mell also filed a motion for partial summary judgment. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Benchmark, finding there were no disputed facts and Benchmark did not act negligently or in bad faith in failing to accept Mell's settlement offer.
Following Mell's appeal of the grant of summary judgment, this court issued a show cause order stating the appeal might be interlocutory if the claims of all parties had not been determined. After receiving Mell's response, this court remanded the matter to the district court for the limited purpose of conducting a hearing on the propriety of certifying the case as final for appeal purposes pursuant to K.S.A. 60-254(b). The district court certified the issue on appeal as a final judgment, holding there was no just reason for delay.
Standard of review
"Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The trial court is required to resolve all facts and inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in favor of the party against whom the ruling is sought. When opposing a motion for summary judgment, an adverse party must come forward with evidence to establish a dispute as to a material fact. In order to preclude summary judgment, the facts subject to the dispute must be material to the conclusive issues in the case. On appeal, [an appellate court must] apply the same rules and where . . . reasonable minds could differ as to the conclusions drawn from the evidence, summary judgment must be denied. [Citation omitted.]" Bracken v. Dixon Industries, Inc., 272 Kan. 1272, 1274-75, 38 P.3d 679 (2002).
The trial court found no disputed facts. Where there is no factual dispute, appellate review of an order regarding summary judgment is de novo. Roy v. Young, 278 Kan. 244, 247, 93 P.3d 712 (2004).
Existence of duty
In their appeal briefs, both Benchmark and Mell address the issue of whether Benchmark was negligent or acting in bad faith in failing to accept Mell's settlement offer. Mell argues that because her medical expenses clearly exceeded the $50,000 aggregate policy limit, Benchmark acted negligently and in bad faith in failing to settle with Mell by paying the policy limit of $25,000. Benchmark responds it did not act negligently or in bad faith because in filing the interpleader action, it followed the procedures set out by the Kansas Supreme Court in Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Schropp, 222 Kan. 612, 567 P.2d 1359 (1977). Benchmark further alleges Mell's argument was prompted "only out of greed" and showed bad faith on her part.
The case law cited by both parties discusses the legal principle that an insurer owes to its insured the duty to act in good faith and without negligence. This duty arises under the contract. See Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. v. Americold Corp., 261 Kan. 806, 845, 934 P.2d 65 (1997). However, in this case, Mell is a third-party claimant, not an insured of Benchmark; nor is there evidence indicating Candi assigned her claims to Mell.
Thus, following briefing but before oral argument, this court issued an order requesting the parties to address the issue of whether Benchmark owed any duty to Mell directly or whether the insured, Candi Atchison, had assigned any rights under her insurance policy with Benchmark to Mell. The court requested that the parties either file supplemental briefs or be prepared to address the issue in oral argument. Both parties submitted supplemental information to the court and responded to the issue at oral argument.
In considering the issue of whether Benchmark owed a duty to Mell, it is instructive to review the cases cited by the parties in support of their arguments as to the merits of the negligence/good faith issue settlement and, particularly, to consider the status of the insured in each case.
Both parties cite Schropp, 222 Kan. at 613-14, in support of their opposing arguments as to the existence of bad faith. There, a two-car collision killed the driver of a vehicle, Clint R. Sohl, an insured of Farmers, and injured several passengers including Schropp. Schropp incurred medical bills exceeding $26,000 and made formal settlement demand to Farmers for payment of the policy limits with a 10-day time frame. As in this case, the policy limits were $25,000 per person and $50,000 for each accident.
Farmers made no settlement offers to any party, even though Farmers was aware its insured was at fault, there was no evidence of contributory negligence, and Schropp's medical expenses alone exceeded its policy limits; instead, Farmers claimed that Sohl was not negligent and denied Schropp's claims. Farmers then filed a petition for declaratory judgment in district court, naming the injured passengers in the vehicle as well as the parents of a minor passenger as defendants. At the time it filed the declaratory judgment action, Farmers paid $50,000 into court and asked the court to determine its rights and those of the defendants.
Significantly, in Schropp, the district court found Sohl's estate to be a necessary party and granted Schropp's motion to join the estate as an additional party defendant. Additionally, Schropp counterclaimed against Farmers and cross-claimed against Sohl alleging Farmers handled his claim in bad faith in violation of its duties to the insured. The administrator of Sohl's estate also filed a counterclaim against Farmers alleging Farmers acted negligently and in bad faith in handling Schropp's claim.
The jury ultimately found Farmers acted negligently or in bad faith "toward its insured" in handling Schropp's claim, and the court awarded damages in favor of Sohl's estate and Schropp. On appeal, the Kansas Supreme Court concluded that "there was substantial competent evidence to support the jury's finding that Farmers acted negligently or in bad faith toward its insured in the handling of the claims arising out of the collision." (Emphasis added.) 222 Kan. at 621.
Benchmark points out that it followed the procedures recommended by the court in Schropp when it filed this interpleader action and payed its policy limits into court. Thus, Benchmark urges us to find as a matter of law that it did not act negligently or in bad faith in refusing to settle Mell's claim. However, the facts here are unlike those in Schropp, where the insured (1) was a party to the declaratory judgment action, (2) was the subject of a cross-claim by Schropp, and (3) had counterclaimed against Farmers alleging breach of the duty owed to the insured under the policy.
In contrast to the procedural setting in Schropp, the insured here was not a party to the interpleader and had not assigned her rights to the claimant. Further, the issue of whether Benchmark was negligent or acted in bad faith toward the insured in refusing to settle with Mell was never raised or argued. Moreover, while Schropp was awarded damages in the declaratory judgment action filed by Farmers, the basis for the judgment was Farmers' negligence and bad faith toward its insured in handling the claims arising out of the collision.
The case relied upon by Mell with respect to her claim that Benchmark acted negligently and in bad faith, Levier v. Koppenheffer, 19 Kan. App. 2d 971, 879 P.2d 40, rev. denied 255 Kan. 1002 (1994), is similarly unpersuasive.
In Levier, a car driven by Koppenheffer collided with a truck driven by Levier, who was seriously injured in the accident. Koppenheffer's insurer, AEtna Casualty and Surety Company (AEtna), concluded Koppenheffer was 95-100% at fault. Levier's claim was estimated to be $2,120,000, and the other passenger's claim was approximately $50,000.
AEtna settled with the other passenger for $25,000 but failed to respond to Levier's settlement offer for $100,000. AEtna paid the balance of its policy, $71,900, into the district court in an interpleader action, and the sum was eventually paid to Levier. Levier obtained a consent judgment against Koppenheffer for $600,000, and Koppenheffer assigned all claims against AEtna to Levier. Levier then filed a garnishment action against AEtna.
The district court in Levier held AEtna was negligent in two respects: preferential treatment of the other passenger claimant and failure to timely advise Koppenheffer of Levier's settlement offer. This court affirmed these holdings, finding AEtna breached its duty of good faith to its insured and was liable for the full amount of Koppenheffer's resulting loss. 19 Kan. App. 2d at 975-80.
Significantly, Levier was awarded damages, not because of any breach of a duty owed to him but because Aetna breached its duty to its insured, Koppenheffer, who had assigned his rights to Levier. Here, Candi Atchison did not assign her rights under the insurance contract to Mell, and Candi was not a party to this interpleader action. Simply stated, an insurer has no duty to reasonably negotiate and settle with a third-party claimant where there is no contract (or assignment of policy rights) between them.
Other jurisdictions have held as a general rule that third parties who are strangers to an insurance contract cannot maintain an action against an insurer for the failure to negotiate and settle a third party's claim against the insured because the duty of good faith and fair dealing in the handling of claims runs only from the insurance company to its insured. See, e.g., Linscott v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co., 368 A.2d 1161, 1163-64 (Me. 1977); McWhirter v. Fire Ins. Exchange, Inc., 878 P.2d 1056, 1058-59 (Okla. 1994); Larocque v. State Farm Insurance Company, 163 Vt. 617,618-19, 660 A.2d 286 (1995).
In this case, the trial court found no negligence or bad faith in Benchmark's dealing with Mell, apparently assuming Benchmark owed a duty to Mell. However, because no duty was owed as a matter of law, summary judgment was appropriate. See Hall v. Kansas Farm Bureau, 274 Kan. 263, 273, 50 P.3d 495 (2002) (the reason given by the trial court for its ruling is immaterial if the result is correct).


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Question: What can a backpacker do in Methven?
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Over winter Methven is a snow sports magnet with Mt Hutt Ski Area on our doorstep, some of the world's finest heliskiing country and six Canterbury ski fields all within close distance.
Over summer people head to Methven to interact with the outdoors, attend local events or to simply refresh and relax in our Amazing Space which is rural and rustic, yet funky and modern.
The region offers visitors an array of hiking & walking experiences; from a short walk suitable for the whole family, to challenging multi-day hikes for the serious tramper.
Other popular outdoor activities range from fishing, hunting, golf and hot air ballooning to skydiving, horse riding, jet boating, mountain biking and 4WD high country adventures.
Methven's farming backbone also comes into its own during summer. Tractors roll in and out of town and as you drive around, combine harvesters, irrigators and fields bursting with colour are common sights.
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Readers' Choice: More of the Movies People Need to Stop Quoting
So come to find out, people are very attached to their movie quotes. Last week, we wrote a post that gently suggested there are some movies that everyone's heard quoted back to them quite enough times, thank you very much. As the comments rolled in, many readers disagreed, often in colorful language! But let's not focus on them — many of you not only agreed, but had your own suggestions for movies that others (and yourselves) should put lid on.
We combed through the hundred or so comments the piece received (both here and on our partner site The Atlantic), and while several additional titles were nominated for inclusion in the "stop quoting club" — Fight Club, Scarface, 300, Menace II Society, Blue Velvet, Team America, Jaws, Spider-Man, Psycho, Airplane, Tropic Thunder, Full Metal Jacket, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Caddyshack (I'm sorry, I just can't diss Caddyshack; we all have our weaknesses) — several fine readers not only had suggestions, but mounted a case for the title at hand. After the jump, over a dozen more movies that you, the readers, insist we all stop quoting.
Pulp Fiction
Tarantino's indie blockbuster was oft-mentioned in the comments sections; Reader "Adam J. Smith" insists that "anything from Pulp Fiction has been repeated to a burning, smoldering, dry, hateful, cliché." True enough; there was a weird period where people were quoting that (misquoted) Bible verse a lot, to say nothing of "Royale with cheese" discussions and "Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?" (Full disclosure: your film editor has a T-shirt with that last one on it. Still.) "Brian D," however, was more hesitant: "I would lean towards saying that Pulp Fiction might deserve to be on the list, although 'What does Marcellus Wallace look like?' never gets old."


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Baltimore, Md.-051613-- After Walkwithapurpose's final gallop this morning in preparation of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, she took a bad step and bruised her foot making her unable to compete in the race tomorrow. X-rays have been taken and showed up negative, but we want to take the necessary precautions. We will find another race for her down the road after her foot has time to heal, and we are confident she has a great racing career ahead of her.
This is very disappointing for the entire Sagamore Racing team after putting in so much hard work over the past few months to get us to this point. We were very excited about the opportunity to have our homebred filly in one of Maryland's most prestigious races.
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Release Date: 1991 |
Aaron W. STAFF (4.5)All behold the spectacle....thesystemisdown (3.5)Executed brilliantly and written excellently, this album's chief problem is the monotony t...fearrising10 (4.5)Quite possibly the best album on earth....Leperous (5)This album breaks every rule of music that existed. It has fused things that should not be...
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Nice review, you make it sound promising.
Hah. I heard Squeeze Me Macaroni and enjoyed about the first 30 seconds before I got a bit uneasy. This was great writing as usual, Ent. Maybe I'll check out Girls Of Porn but other than that I think I'll try to stay away from this one...
You submitted this on the right day as well. God forbid you would have submitted yesterday. There was an explosion of about 5 reviews every 20 minutes. Washed away my Damaged from the home page in less than a half-hour. :upset:
Excellent review. Easy to read, nice and short.
This album is weird as hell. It's as if somebody put every form of music available in a room, and compressed it all onto one cd. Styles on this album change faster than a metro kid goes through clothing.
Overall, though, it becomes promising with time.
[quote= Grateful Dead]
Especially good job saying his imagination is imaginative really good variation there. [/quote]
*goes and fixes it*
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffYour writing is so easy to read, very good review.
This is my 2nd favorite Bungle album, at times it can be very hard to handle.
Album Rating: 3.0This has to be one of the weirdest album covers I've ever seen. The song titles make me laugh, too.
Zebra, my writing is easy to read? I use big words ON PURPOSE.......0_o
Anyways.....it's a pretty good album, if you don't mind pure spaz music.
I missed this somehow. Cool review. This album's my second favourite Mr. Bungle album...Disco Volante is an album I can't love although I like it, but this is experimental Patton at his best. Really good stuff.
I agree with you on Mike Patton. He is a tremendous singer, and I think this is most evident in Tomahawk. I think Jonathan Davis emulated his voice.
Album Rating: 5.0I love this cd. I notice alot of people saying how the songs are wierd or uncomfortable to listen to at first, but I really didn't have a problem with that. And the songs on this album really show where Incubus got their influence for "Fungus Amongus" from
I almost got this for $10 bucks at a record store but apparently I didn't buy it. Bow I feel lonely....
Album Rating: 3.0I heard "Carousel" yesterday and I love it. I really want to hear more of these guys now.
Mike Patton is the man.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off'Carousel' is my least favorite off the album. Nothing really stands out on here, every song is solid but I think that this album is a bit...gimicky. It's hard to describe but sometimes I just can't even listen to this. That being said this is still an excellent album.
Album Rating: 3.0Yeah just for the record, Mike Patton is god.
I'm a complete Patton whore. I'll listen to any Patton Project and like it, even if i don't like it, just because of him. It doesn't really make sense, but neither does most of his music, so it's a win-win scenario.
yeah you just had to better my review huh? Nice, I didn't have much time writing this one so it suffered, but this does it justice!
Album Rating: 5.0I think it's a decent review but it is definetly lacking in a few areas. First of all, the review concerns Patton a little too much. I think he is amazing vocalist, probably the best ever, but what he does COMPLIMENTS the music, doesn't totally overpower it. Patton also had less writing of the music then your review makes it sound. Trey Spruance (guitar) and Trevor Dunn (bass) had just as much (and probably more) writing of the music as Patton did. Fantomas is what is in Patton's imagination, NOT Bungle. Mr. Bungle is his high school band. He was in it way before he was in Faith No More, and way before he was any good at singing. These songs were all written before the 'What is it?' of Epic. Personally I think this is Mr. Bungle's best album, while each 3 of them is unique in their own way.
Album Rating: 4.5It sounds interesting, what band sounds similar to this (if there's any), because i've never heard of them before,,,
Incubus is heavily influenced by them on their first two records.
^^ A lot of bands are
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Lehigh Valley student selected for three-year NSF research program
Lehigh Valley student selected for three-year NSF research program
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Chibuzo Anojulu, a sophomore at Penn State Lehigh Valley, has been selected to participate in the Society for Developmental Biology's (SDB) Choose Development program. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Choose Development pairs undergraduate students from across the United States with leading researchers in developmental biology for a long-term professional development and research training project.
Born in Nigeria, Anojulu moved to the United States when she was 9 years old and currently resides in Allentown, Pa. Her love of science, and biology in particular, reached a new level when she began taking undergraduate courses at Penn State Lehigh Valley with Jacqueline McLaughlin, associate professor of biology and a member of SDB. When she heard about the Choose Development program, she encouraged Anojulu to apply.
"Chibuzo is one of the hardest-working and most congenial students I have ever taught," said McLaughlin. "Her quest to carry out undergraduate research and cultivate a career in scientific cell and developmental research is real, and sets the standard for work ethic and achievement for the other students in her classes."
As a selected participant in this program, Anojulu will receive a stipend in support of three summers as a full-time research intern in the laboratory of her chosen academic mentor. She has chosen and been accepted to work with Celeste Nelson, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey. Nelson's research group at Princeton studies the dynamic processes that control tissue development.
"I am so excited to be accepted into this prestigious program," said Anojulu. "Asking questions about the scientific processes behind cellular events like cell division and motility has fascinated me as an undergraduate. This will be an important stepping stone in my journey towards a career that involves scientific inquiry at an even higher level."


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Last fall I figured out that running is the one sport that is easy to train for when you're constantly on the road leading bike tours. So it wasn't hard for Andrew Lockton to talk me into signing up for the LA Marathon. I actually had a good base of running fitness, and a few of my training buddies in Seattle were looking for a spring marathon. Fast-forward to March and while I missed a few weeks of training due to illness and work and travel and family stuff, I felt like I was reasonably well prepared for my first marathon.
The best part about this race was the large number of friends and acquaintances who were all targeting a similar pace. I had done most of my training with Ari Schorr and Tahoma Khalsa, and we all planned to start together and run together. Andrew Lockton would be running, too, but at a slower pace after breaking his toe in a motorcycle accident and missing 6-8 weeks way too close to the race. Cyrus from Denver and Justin from Seattle were also likely to be in the mix.
The big pre-race highlight was our trip to the Goodwill store to buy warm-up clothes. We knew that the air temperature on race morning could be a bit chilly, and thought it would be fun to bring throw-away outfits rather than putting our clothes into our gear-check bags and claiming them post-race. Plus we weren't sure how early we would have to line up in our assigned A corral, and how cold we might get between lining up and starting the race.
Ari found an excellent Macklemore-style long coat with a fur lining. I found a way-too-small pink puffy coat with a fur lining and some blue jeggings. It was $%#$ing awesome!
My spandex Bacon Suit and handlebar mustache were also awesome, and I got extra crowd support the whole way. Gotta try to find a photo…
I wanted to go out conservatively and we over-achieved. I ran the first mile with Lockton, Tahoma, Cyrus and Jesse Williams's friend Craig. We knew that Craig & Lockton were targeting a slower time, but figured we were still pretty close to 6:00-6:10 pace while Ari was running like an idiot, nearly 30 seconds ahead of us at the first mile mark. We hit the mile a few seconds after 6:30. Oops. Looks like I was the idiot.
But after that we split up a bit and Tahoma/Cyrus/I strung together 12 miles that were each between 5:55 and 6:10. We took turns leading. We reminded each other to eat and to drink and to relax. We talked about how our legs and stomachs felt. We steadily plugged away, mile after mile, and hit the half-marathon mark together, at a 1:19:xx split. At that point, Tahoma was feeling good and dropped the pace a bit. Cyrus and I stayed at 6:05s. Somewhere between mile 10 and mile 12 we saw Ari come out of a port-a-potty up ahead of us. He had been 2-3 minutes ahead of us, but was now back to 30-45 seconds ahead of us. I was hoping we would catch up and run together for awhile, but Ari was clearly "on a mission" after his pit stop, and took off at sub-6 pace for a few miles before settling in again.
Cyrus helped me open a bag of clif blocks around mile 14.5. My hands were a bit cold/useless so it was great to have some help. All in all, I was pretty good about eating throughout the race. I had 3-4 blocks before the start, then 1-2 in the first mile. I had a gel at mile 4 or 5, then maybe another at 9-ish. I was starting to feel tired at 14-15 and may have waited too long between snacks. Cyrus got a few steps ahead of me at the mile 15 water station and just sort of dangled out in front of me for the next three miles. I could still see Tahoma and Ari up the road, especially on the longer straightaways.
Mile 15 to 18 was probably the biggest "dark period" that I had all day. I'd been through plenty of these in triathlon racing, so even though I felt a bit physically drained I tried not to lose confidence. Sure enough, at mile 18 everything started turning my way. The sugar from those 5 blocks got into my bloodstream. (I had given Cyrus one block.) I decided that it was okay for things to hurt from there on it – I knew/expected the race to get hard eventually, but I had subconsciously been afraid of it feeling too hard too early. At mile 18, I was less than an hour from the finish, or I was a "daily easy run" distance away from the finish, so I could start to dig or press a little. I didn't have to stay so conservative. The Bon Jovi song "Living on a Prayer" got stuck in my head. I reeled off two miles that felt like 5:40s even if they were really still in that 6-6:15 range. I caught and pulled away from Cyrus, and thought I might catch Tahoma and Ari. I hit mile 20 at 2:01:30 and calculated that I only needed to run a 38:30 split for the final 10K in order to break 2:40. A good bit slower than my average pace so far. Hooray!
But then things turned south again at 20. The route from mile 20 to mile 22 was deceptively uphill, and was a bit desolate crowd-wise as we twisted and turned our way through the VA hospital campus. I felt like I was really struggling, and running 7+ minutes per mile. Seeing my 6:30ish splits at mile 21 and mile 22 didn't help my confidence much. But I knew that the course would start sloping downward for the final four miles, once we reached mile 22. I took a gel around 20.5 and in retrospect I probably should have taken one at 18 and another at 22.
At 22 I started to get my energy back but my legs were starting to get crampy. I tried to ingest a bit of extra water and gatorade at each aid station, but once you start feeling twitchy pre-cramps, you are on borrowed time. My calves seized up a few times in mid-air, leading to a really terrible-looking stride, but somehow I managed to maintain a 6:20ish pace. Tahoma was suffering, too, and I caught him around mile 24.
Tahoma fell back about half a mile later, as cramps & fatigue hobbled his stride. I was really waddling/shuffling at this point, to minimize the strain on my calves, and I must have looked like a wreck when I passed Jesse Williams and Danny Mackey on the sideline at mile 25. They yelled encouragement, and later said something about my "gutsy" performance. "Gutsy" is better than wimpy, but it means that you're not looking smooth & relaxed & fast!
The last mile was touch-and-go with the leg cramps. A video of my final quarter mile would probably be quite entertaining. I was hobbling. But I crossed the line in 2:42:01, which feels like a respectable-if-not-phenomenal time for a guy with a rather expensive background in endurance sports.
I struggled to step on and off curbs for the rest of the day, and walking down stairs hurt for about a week.
Lockton and his girlfriend and I ate about $75 worth of sushi after the race, and it was a 50%-off happy hour!
Tahoma and Ari and I went out in Hollywood and in Santa Monica after the race, but nothing too crazy happened. It was St Patrick's Day, but it was also a Sunday night.
I barely ran for 2.5 weeks to give my legs a chance to recover, and didn't resume regular daily runs until April 19. I attempted my first workout on April 24 and it was downright ugly. But the fitness will come back!
No other races on my calendar yet. Will have to see how the bike tour schedule shapes up, and how much I am able to run during the tours. Another marathon or triathlon next spring could be a lot of fun. Boston has been floated around as an idea. A bunch of our training buddies are running Chicago in October first, which won't work for me training-wise.


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In this ongoing series, we ask executives, entrepreneurs and business leaders about mistakes that have shaped their business philosophy.
Ray Sedey
Ray Sedey is regional president of McCarthy Building Companies, a nationwide general contractor that builds everything from hospitals and colleges to performing-arts centers and solar farms. Sedey has been with the employee-owned company for 18 years after following in his father's career footsteps. Ray Sedey's job took him all over the country before he settled in Dallas.
The Mistake:
I grew up in the construction business, and it's always been my passion. Early in my career, I was ambitious and eager to learn, which is great. But that dedication to your job often comes with a price.
Finding the right balance between working hard and having a family life can be difficult. Even in the workplace, you will miss out on so much if you always focus on that one thing and don't look around.
I recall one job in particular where I was the project superintendent, and I became hyper-focused on one thing. We were adding three stories to the top of an existing hospital. During the day, I would oversee the construction and all the contractors. But because we were building onto the roof of the hospital, the electrical and plumbing had to tie into the existing facility. I really wasn't familiar with that part of the job. And we did that work at night, so I would wear regular work clothes and learn about the mechanical and plumbing side of the business at night. I was even willing to get [the workers] food or do whatever was needed.
I was working day and night on this job, missing time with my family that I can't get back.
I look back at those days now and think of everything I missed in my eagerness to get the job done. I needed to take the blinders off and look around at my work and my home life.
Don't take on too much.
The Lesson:
Experience has made me wiser over the years. I have learned that my number one job isn't to build buildings; it's to build up the people around me. If you put people in the right position, you can achieve extraordinary results at work. Be good at what you do, and pass that on through peer development.
I have a wife and two boys. For my home life, I make it a point to shut off work as much as possible over the weekends so I can enjoy my time with them. Work/life balance is the popular buzzword these days, but I look at it as a work/life success. Don't take on too much.
I think everybody goes through this learning process if they are high achievers and dedicated to their career. Now that I'm in an upper-management role, I think it's even more important. Focus on the people around you at work and at home and you will have better success in life. Slow down and enjoy what's around you.
McCarthy Building Companies is on Twitter: @McCarthyBuild.
Photo courtesy of Ray Sedey


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Welcome to Custom Katana, supplier of quality Budo equipment, Japanese samurai swords (katana) and weaponry since 2003.
Welcome to our site, at Custom Katana we aim to bring you the very best in Budo / Martial Arts equipment. Over the last 10 years we have managed to source the very best in Japanese Weaponry including Japanese swords (Katana) Bokken, Jo Staff, Keikogi and many related accessories from throughout the world.
Our team are high grade practitioners themselves and we are not in the business to supply cheap inferior product, such as seen on our competitor sites. If we are not prepared to use it ourselves we will not sell it.
Custom Katana aim to be the best value UK supplier, If you find the same item available cheaper we will be happy to beat their price. Don't hesitate in contacting our Customer Service team.
Tsuba-shi Jon Meikle is now offering custom made Tsuba to your own requirements. These are custom designed and hand crafted using traditional methods. Real works of art.
Custom Katana is now offering a unique service to re-house your swords. Contact us for further details. Please note we can only sell traditionally forged or iaito blades.
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Travel Sales Consultant Latin America
- Recruiter
- TMS Talent
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £25k - 32k per year + bonus
- Posted
- 26 Feb 2018
- Closes
- 26 Mar 2018
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- Elena Ktori
- Sector
- Tour Operator
- Job function
- Sales
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
This highly successful luxury travel specialists are looking to recruit within their sales team for Latin America sales team - Travel Specialist / Travel Agent / Luxury Sales Consultant / Travel Sales Consultant. This is an exciting opportunity due to expansion of the sales team.
To be considered you MUST have a wealth of experience in the travel industry Knowledge and passion for selling tailor-made holidays for South America
You will be:
Provide outstanding customer service.
Provide packages that are "tailor-made" to suit the individual needs of our clients.
Ensure quality control for all documentation, ensuring the content is accurate at all times.
Liaise with ground suppliers in your spec list market area
Work towards and strive to exceed sales targets
To be considered our client is seeking :
Proven Experience exceeding sales targets.
Excellent written and Oral Skills.
Strong geographical and product knowledge of the relevant destinations.
Attention to detail.
Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written.
The ability to prioritise workload and demonstrating good organisational skills.
Latin America Knowledge through sales OR travelling
Working knowledge of any GDS
To apply for this Luxury Travel TailorMade / Travel Specialist Consultant Job, please contactElena Ktori.
Due to the number of applications – ONLY successful applicants will be contacted.
PLEASE NOTE! It is unlawful to employ a person in a UK-based job who does not have permission to live and work in the UK. You should make yourself aware of how immigration laws apply to your situation before applying for any jobs.
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