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Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley was re-certified as carbon-neutral, for the eighth consecutive year since opening, in the carboNZero certification programme and remains the only resort in Australia with this standard of accreditation. This ongoing achievement is a true testament to the resort team who are committed to sustainable and carbon-neutral operations.

Nestled in a private valley with soaring bush escarpments, Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley is located between two national parks; the Wollemi and Gardens of Stone National Parks in the World Heritage listed Greater Blue Mountains area. A short 2.5 hours drive from Sydney and occupying just one per cent of a 7,000-acre wildlife reserve, the secluded resort combines ultra-luxury with a quintessentially Australian outback bush experience, and continues to be a world-leading example of carbon-neutral conservation and sustainable design within a hotel or resort.

Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley is also proudly supporting a member of its Field Guide team and current University of Sydney student, Emma Spencer, to undertake her three-year PhD research project investigating the dynamics and interactions between prey and predator species across several key biodiversity regions in Australia. A significant portion of Emma’s research will be conducted within the 7,000-acre conservation reserve and will focus on examining relationships between introduced predators (such as the feral cat and red fox) and Australian endemic carnivore species that call Wolgan Valley home, including the spotted-tailed quoll, goanna and wedge-tailed eagle.

Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley continues to work collaboratively with the University of Western Sydney as they utilise drone technology to survey wombat burrows and macropod populations within the valley and also supporting critical research into the devastating condition of Sarcoptic mange in wombats.

Additionally, the success of the resort’s ongoing revegetation efforts is gradually becoming very apparent. Since opening in 2009, the Field Guide team have planted several thousand trees and native shrubs along the riverbanks and in many key areas of the reserve and the results speak for themselves. Resort guests remain actively involved in these projects through the scheduled Conservation Activity programme.

Detailed planning is also well underway to develop a propagation facility at Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley to further support the revegetation programme. Over the past two years, guests have been busily helping the resort Field Guides collect native seeds and the team are excited at the prospect of including guests in the process of growing the resort’s very own native stock.

“Conservation and sustainability lie at the very heart of our resort, and we are extremely proud of our environmental practices and credentials,” says General Manager James Wyndham. “We are committed to sustainable best practice and our dream is to show the world a tourism model that is at one with the environment and providing an ultra-luxury experience for our guests to discover.”

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Online Alcohol Class offers the most comprehensive online alcohol and drug course available in Athol Idaho. We offer a Level 1 (8 hour), Level 2 (16 hour), and Level 3 (24 hour) online Drug and Alcohol Awareness and Education Courses.

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When you sign up for our Athol Idaho online alcohol awareness class, you can use any major credit card, including MasterCard, Visa or Amex. All your credit card information is completely encrypted and secure when you enter it our registration forms and when we communicate with our credit card processor.

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The cost is just $149 for the Athol Idaho 8 hour level one course. The longer Athol Idaho alcohol education classes are $199 for the 12 hour course, $249 for the 16 hour course and $319 for the 24 hour course.

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"There’s a point at which you’ve got to ask yourself, 'what are we doing here? What’s the point?”"

That’s Elaine Kamarck, a former Clinton administration official and advisor to at that time Vice President Gore and she’s talking about the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill. In order to garner enough votes to pass the House of Representatives, policymakers made promises that have groups like Greenpeace questioning the environmental effectiveness of the bill.

One of the most contentious provisions in the bill is the use of offsets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, in which, “a manufacturing plant in, say, Gary, Ind., that is exceeding its “permitted” expulsion of CO2, could continue to commit this sin against humanity by paying for a Brazilian farmer to plant some trees in the rain forest. A more patriotic company might achieve the same result by paying an Iowa former to implement more “Earth-friendly” farming practices. Of course, to guard against some nefarious polluter trying to cheat Uncle Sam and the world by claiming bogus “offsets,” there must be a monitoring mechanism. Enter the “Offsets Integrity Advisory Board” — yet another group of scientific “experts” that would be tasked with compiling a list of qualifying offsets around the globe.”

Cap and trade is a regulatory nightmare that would hand over more power and money to the government with the intention of reducing global temperatures. The problem with that, however, is the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill will only reduce temperatures by an amount almost too small to measure. The bigger problem is consumers’ pocketbooks will be hit hard by this bill. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis found that by 2035, gasoline prices would increase 58 percent, natural gas prices would increase 55 percent, home heating oil would increase 56 percent, and worst of all, electricity prices would jump 90 percent. After all, the goal of cap and trade is to drive up energy prices so high that people will use less. Yet in Missouri, state legislators are considering a bill that would charge consumers for saving electricity.

The lingering question is: How on earth did this bill pass? Through the back door: “At a time when some still saw Obama as too inexperienced to adapt to Washington’s backroom ways, Waxman found the president perfectly ready to accept the only strategy that offered hope of success: Sitting down with each group affected by the bill and trading concessions for support.”

Yet many of the same companies that hired lobbyists to help shape the 1,200-page bill and will receive handouts in the short-term will inevitably face significant amount of economic pain in subsequent years from drastically higher energy prices. They will have to shed jobs or ship them overseas.

As the climate change debate moves to the Senate, it’s important to remember Elaine Karmarck’s two questions. What are we doing here? What’s the point?

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OUTREACH If your tech startup releases a quirky new app and wants to get some high profile PR coverage, do you know the quickest way to target and approach key publishers and influential bloggers? A water-tight outreach strategy should be devised with a detailed influencer analysis performed, designed to define exactly which media outlets should be targeted. Once you have built a database of publications and websites, get yourself a subscription to Pitchbox, a great tool that lets you to automate the outreach process allowing you to email all the target publishers en masse and manage their responses accordingly. Make sure you tailor your pitch email to each individual outlet by addressing them personally, referencing the outlet in question and telling them you loved their recent blog posts or articles. A good base to start from with outreach is around 200 outlets if you are aiming for a target of up to 20 article placements. Remember, an article on an authoritative website relevant to your industry, will boost your backlink profile and can count as a vote of confidence in your brand. The more of these relevant links you get, the greater the effect you will see on your overall search visibility, not to mention relevant referral traffic opportunities.

SOCIAL STRATEGY Building your brand online is just as important to building your brand offline, after all if you’re a tech or digital startup your primary goal is to increase website visits or app downloads. A comprehensive social media strategy should accompany your PR efforts and act as promotional tool to share news and updates about your brand. Far from just posting the odd update on Twitter or responding to a customer complaint on Facebook, social media should be taken very seriously in order to reap its full PR potential. Often journalists will visit your website before heading straight over to your social profiles to tot up your followers, scrutinise your posts and examine how you engage with your customers and peers. Give yourself some practical objectives as part of an overall social media strategy. Be clear about what you hope to achieve in terms of positive PR for your brand and be realistic about how you will work towards this. Focus less on the narcissism of high follower counts and consider how to make your brand sound human to the media who are tasked with sharing its features with their readers.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Do you long to be the authority in the tech industry, regularly called on for your expert opinion on issues pertinent to your sector? Then you need to invest plenty of time and effort into thought leadership to build your credibility in the media as well as amongst your peers. Ensure you have authored several guest articles on high profile websites as well as some comprehensive reports and whitepapers that should gain traction in the media if it uncovers some interesting insights within your industry. The fantastic thing about successful thought leadership is that it can be done both online and offline whether that’s fronting a heated discussion in a LinkedIn group or speaking at an industry conference attended by well connected members of the trade press. Make yourself readily available for last minute media opportunities and use them wisely not just to blindly promote your business but to speak with authority about the changing face of the tech sector and where your brand fits into it.

Letitiah Obiri is an experienced and seasoned content marketer and copywriter, who has worked with some of the UK’s biggest brands including Tesco, Hiscox, Three Mobile, TK Maxx and Littlewoods. To see content marketing campaigns she’s managed for clients, check out her portfolio and follow her @TheDigitalChic for musings on content, digital, social, freelancing, start-ups and small business.

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Dine & Imbibe Organically

Organicology conference registration comes with three, delicious meals each day. We've put together an amazing menu replete with organic ingredients and various varietals that will appeal to the epicurean in you.

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Slow Food Ark of Taste

Slow Food’s Ark of Taste is an international catalog of foods that are threatened by industrial standardization, the regulations of large-scale distribution and environmental damage.  The Ark was created to point out the existence of these products, draw attention to the risk of their extinction within a few generations, invite everyone to take action to help protect them. In some cases this might be by buying and consuming them, in some by telling their story and supporting their producers, and in others, such as the case of endangered wild species, this might mean eating less or none of them in order to preserve them and favor their reproduction.  Since its inception in 1996, more than 2000 products from over 50 countries have been added to the International Ark of Taste.

To qualify for the program food products must be:

Domestic species (plant varieties, ecotypes, indigenous animal breeds and populations), wild species (only if tied to methods of harvesting, processing and traditional uses) or processed products

  • Of distinctive quality in terms of taste. ‘Taste quality', in this context, is defined in the context of local traditions and uses
  • Linked to a specific area, to the memory and identity of a group and to local traditions
  • Produced in limited quantities
  • At risk of extinction

At Organicology 2015, we are featuring these Pacific Northwest foods from the US Ark of Taste:

  • Line-caught Marbled Chinook salmon from Jeremy Brown in Bellingham, WA
  • Alaskan Birch syrup from Kahiltna Birchworks in Palmer, AK
  • Lower Salmon River squash from Tom Lively in Eugene, OR
  • Inchelium Red garlic from Cloudview Farm in Ephrata, WA
  • Gilfeather turnip from Sauvie Island Organics in Portland, OR
  • Ozette potato from Ralph’s Greenhouse in Mount Vernon, WA
  • Black Republican cherry from Tamiyasu Orchards in Hood River, OR and Peak Forest Fruit in Banks, OR (served during the Friday Reception; voucher in your registration bag)

Black Republican Cherry Shrub

Inside your registration bags you will find a voucher for one free, Black Republican cherry shrub cocktail or mocktail. The shrub drinks will feature the Black Republican cherry, a Slow Food Ark of Taste product, which were grown organically at Tamiyasu Orchards in Hood River, OR, and Peak Forest Fruit in Banks, OR, and have been preserving in a shrub syrup since being picked in July. Chef Timothy Wastell from Firehouse Restaurant in Portland, OR, preserved them as a shrub. It will be served with organic whiskey from Koval Distillery.

Learn more about this exciting project here.

Heirlooms of Tomorrow

For the first time, we have expanded this Pacific Northwest themed dinner to include the impressive organic breeding work being accomplished in the region, which we refer to as ‘Heirlooms of Tomorrow’.  These products include:

  • Quinoa, squash and kale from Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed
  • Kale and cabbage from Nash Huber of Nash’s Organic Produce
  • Barley from Pat Hayes of Oregon State University
  • Abundant Bloomsdale spinach and sweet corn from Organic Seed Alliance
  • Mild Habanero peppers from Jim Myers of Oregon State University
  • Squash from Carol Deppe of Fertile Valley Seeds

The Port Townsend Food Co-op is privileged to support the Organic Seed Alliance Heirlooms of Tomorrow program and sponsor Abundant Bloomsdale Spinach seed for Organicology participants. This variety was bred with OSA and 8 organic farms over the last 10 years. We also partnered with the OSA to develop an open-pollinated, short-season, cold-tolerant, organic sweet corn seed—a divergent population of the “Who Gets Kissed?” sweet corn developed by Minnesota farmer Martin Diffley with OSA and University of Wisconsin.

Café  Mam

Returning once again to freshen up our mornings and energize our days will be Café Mam! Each day they will provide organic coffee, tea and water and will serve espresso drinks during meals. Café Mam (say `mom`) is grown by fair-trade cooperatives of native Mayan farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. It is 100% organic, fair trade certified, shade-grown, high altitude arabica coffee.

Our partnership with Café Mam honors both of our mutual goals:

• Honoring and healing the earth

• Self-sufficiency and political independence

• Sustainable development of rural communities

• Child welfare, including education & nutrition

• Defense of indigenous cultural identity

• Education in organic agriculture

• Promotion of progressive groups

B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery is a Portland-based, tricycle delivery system.  They use electric-assisted “freight bikes” that can deliver 700lbs of goods in a 45-square foot-trailer to local businesses. In 2013, we collected 3,000lbs of food to go to the Portland Rescue Mission, so watch for their trikes and give their riders a high five! Visit b-linepdx.com

Utilizing B-Line and implementing other sustainable practices are part of our Zero Waste philosophy! Zero Waste supports sustainability by reducing extraction from, and eliminating waste to, nature, improving economic efficiency and making more resources available to all.  www.zerowaste.org

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Team Oscar Mike will take to the course for the Spartan Honor Series at Ft. Carson, CO.  This course is as challenging and inspiring as it gets — you’re at high-elevation and you’re surrounded by Spartans on a military base. This is an experience you’ll be sure to appreciate long after you conquer the course.  You’ll be tested against tough obstacles and of course, you’ll do your burpees to earn your finisher medal on the same terrain and crucibles that have continued to test this country’s finest servicemen and servicewomen.  Spartan Race with a military twist; it only seems fitting to host Special Ops variations of Spartan race distances on military bases where overcoming obstacles is part of their job to fight for our freedom.  You’re surrounded by the Rocky Mountains; combine that with the unique Military obstacles and medals, you’re gonna look and feel like a complete badass.  Visit a military base, see heavy artillery, interact with some American heroes.

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The Hold Out has fast become one of Cold Steel President Lynn C. Thompson's favorite folding knives.

Ideal for military and law enforcement personnel, or just law abiding citizens who may find themselves in harm's way, the Hold Out series provide the comfort and peace of mind that comes from carrying a high performance folder but in an astoundingly lightweight and easy to carry package.

Ounce for ounce, they may well be the strongest folding knives in the industry! Their beautiful, minimalist design is a wonder of functionality; while deceptively simple in appearance, they represent a huge array of design breakthroughs and a staggering amount of performance!

The Hold Out's beautiful satin polished blades are extremely broad; they are flat ground from the spine, with a shallow "V" cross-section culminating in a razor sharp hand-honed edge. Continuously curved from the heel to the needle-sharp tip, the blade cuts and shears through tough and fibrous material with ease and makes short work of tasks that would challenge many of the folding knives on the market today.

Its American G10 handle is a wonder of ergonomic design. Allowing a full and secure four-finger grip. The Hold Out is wonderfully secure in hand and will not roll or twist with use. The grip enhancing G10 and handle holes further aid traction in a wide range of grips, working equally well tip up, down in an ice pick grip or even held like a push dagger!

Incredibly thin and flat, with an ambidextrous pocket clip designed for deep carry, even the largest of the Hold Out series is easily concealed in a pocket, clipped into a waistband or tucked into a boot. The blade and handle geometry and the positioning of the Tri-Ad lock in the Hold Outs came together perfectly. Working together to create a knife whose strength versus weight ratio stunned even Cold Steels own research and development team!

We believe that the Hold Out may well represent the future of multi-functional, high performance every day carry knives.

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  • Cutting Edge: 5.50 in.
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LISLE, Ill. - Jennie Finch made her first start for the Chicago Bandits since June on Wednesday, but she was too much for the Mid Michigan Ice.

After representing the United States in both the World Cup Games and the Pan America Games recently, Finch faced only one batter over the minimum in her return to Chicago, leading the Bandits to a 3-0 win over the Ice in the second game of a four-game series.

Mid Michigan's lone baserunner came when Meaggan Pettipiece beat out an infield single on a slow roller to shortstop.

Finch struck out 16 in getting the complete-game win.

Ashley Hamby took the loss despite allowing only five hits.

Jamie Clark was 2-for-3, including a solo homer, to lead Chicago.

In the series opener on Tuesday, the Bandits scored twice in the second, then added single runs in the third, fourth, and sixth innings to win 5-0.

Jessica Sallinger allowed only two hits over six innings to get the win, while Mid Michigan starter Shaina Ervin took the loss after giving up four runs on five hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Gina Oaks was 2-for-3 for Chicago, while Amanda Jensen had two hits and a walk for the Ice.

In the third game of the series Thursday, Stephanie Brown and Kristie Fox both hit two-run homers in the fourth inning to lead the Bandits to a 5-0 win.

Oaks pitched six innings for the win, as Chicago outhit the Ice 13-4. Keli Harrell took the loss, giving up three runs on nine hits in 3 1/3 innings.

Auriel Jenkins was 3-for-3 with a triple for the Ice.

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Cuban soccer player Alberto Delgado was ready to follow his teammate and friend out of the busy hotel lobby, into the streets of Los Angeles County and the freedom of the United States.

But he forgot his wallet.

Delgado and his countryman, Rey Angel Martinez _ forwards on the team Cuba sent to the CONCACAF Gold Cup _ still managed to defect Jan. 25, but only after Delgado sprinted upstairs to his hotel room to get the wallet and the list of important phone numbers it contained.

"Thank God we're here," Martinez said.

Martinez, 20, and Delgado, 22, spoke publicly for the first time Friday about their dash out of the lobby of the Burbank Hilton and their successful escape during the tournament, the championship of soccer's North and Central American and Caribbean region.

"We realized that we had the possibility of reaching the dream of every young Cuban, which is to be free," Martinez said in Spanish. "Though we were playing in the free United States, we realized that clearly we were not really free."

Flanked by Cuban-American National Foundation executive director Joe Garcia and Tony Sanchez, an uncle of Martinez who helped them defect, the players said they told no one of their plans.

"We traveled here with many security people," Delgado said. "We couldn't call any family members, we couldn't write letters … We had to be in the hotel 24 hours a day."

Added Martinez: "It would have been an enormous risk to have someone find out that we were going to stay, because if they caught us, (the Cuban authorities) would make us disappear."

On the morning of the defection, Martinez left the team breakfast and told Delgado that it was time.

While Delgado hurried upstairs, Martinez ran out of the lobby. Delgado soon followed, and they both met up and managed to call for help.

"When we were out of the hotel, we called Rey's uncle from a public phone and he got in contact with people from the foundation in Los Angeles," Delgado said.

Delgado said the pair spent the following days moving from one safe house to another. Representatives from the Cuban soccer team reported the men missing, and it was mentioned that the men had been kidnapped, an allegation that later was proved false, Garcia said.

"Rey and Alberto's fear was not with the American authorities," said Sanchez, who has provided both with a place to stay in Miami. "The danger was there were Cuban authorities still in Los Angeles, and that was the worry because they were still in danger of being caught."

They eventually left Los Angeles, and, because their passports were in the hands of the Cuban authorities, flying or taking a train to Miami became an untenable option. Sanchez ended up driving the two to Miami, taking a "circuitous route" that took a week, he said.

"We had traveled to other countries before as athletes, but we never had the chance to go to the United States," Delgado said. "We came here, saw how beautiful it was, and we decided to stay."

Delgado, who left behind his wife, mother and other relatives in Cuba, said Cuban athletes have almost everything they need in Cuba _ but only while with the team.

"The athletes have diets in which we received enough food, but what happens when you go home?" said Delgado, who is shorter and stockier than the tall, wiry Martinez.

"We had to invent ways to get food, even a piece of meat for my family," Delgado said. "The conditions there aren't good enough, there's no money. I had to sell a shirt or a pair of pants for food."

Martinez, who also left behind some family in Cuba, and Delgado want to play for Major League Soccer but said they hadn't yet heard from MLS officials. They may experience trouble receiving clearance to play in the United States, Garcia said.

Regardless, the two are happy that their ordeal is over and said they want to get their families to the United States as quickly as possible.

"We're prepared for anything," Martinez said. "If we can't play soccer, we're ready to work or to study, knowing that living in this country will give us a better future than in Cuba."


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St. Mary's of Michigan will host a public community education event presented by Dr. Steven Jensen of Tri City Urology on Monday, Jan. 16.

The lecture is entitled "A New Advancement in Prostate Surgery - Robot Assisted Prostatectomy." The da Vinci Surgical System will be on site for hands-on demonstrations. The event is open to the public and free of charge. It will be held at St. Mary's of Michigan Health Education Center located at 800 South Washington Ave. in Saginaw from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. Those interested are asked to call 1-800-STMARYS (786-2797) to RSVP.

St. Mary's of Michigan recently became the first hospital in the entire state north of Flint to purchase the da Vinci Surgical System, a sophisticated robotic device designed to enable complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. State-of-the-art robotic technology translates the surgeon's hand movements into even more precise and exact surgical capabilities.

The da Vinci Surgical System is used for prostate removal at St. Mary's of Michigan.

For the patient, a da Vinci procedure will offer all the benefits of a minimally invasive procedure, including less pain and less blood loss, a shorter hospital stay, a quicker recovery and faster return to normal daily activities. In addition, the da Vinci will mean a smaller risk of incontinence and impotence following prostate surgery.


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The Foreign Ministry on Friday told Japanese citizens living in Iraq they must leave the country, issuing its highest level of alert ahead of a possible U.S. attack.

The ministry issued the alert after receiving word that it was becoming increasingly difficult to leave Iraq, with people experiencing delays of up to a day at the borders, ministry spokesman Matahiro Yamaguchi said.

On Jan. 24, the ministry began urging Japanese living in Iraq to leave. It had previously issued an evacuation advisory for areas outside of Baghdad and had also warned people against traveling there.

There are currently 36 Japanese residing in Iraq, 29 of whom are based in the capital, he said.

Two staff members will remain at the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad, but plans are being made to evacuate them soon. The embassy was officially closed in 1991, but two staffers have been assigned there on a rotating basis for the past year.

The alert came as U.N. weapons inspectors prepared to give a crucial report to the Security Council on Iraq's alleged program to build weapons of mass destruction.

The U.S. has threatened to use force to disarm Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Japan's Foreign Ministry has also warned Japanese to be cautious about traveling to Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.


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Midland resident Terry Gilstad puts his knowledge of football to the test each week when he plays the Midland Daily News football contest.

It paid off for him last week as he picked 16 of 20 games correctly to win the $50 prize.

Gilstad says he knows the college game the best.

"I think I usually do pretty well picking the college games," he said. "That I think is where I make my most ground on other people."

Gilstad, who teaches for the Midland County ESA at Midland High School, said he’s been playing the contest ever since it began and this is the second time he’s won.

Gilstad correctly picked six out of eight college games.

He picked his alma mater, Central Michigan University, to beat Western Michigan, but the Broncos won 31-24. He also picked Northwood to beat Saginaw Valley State, but the Cardinals prevailed 31-16.

Gilstad’s only other mistakes were the New York Giants, who were upset by Minnesota, and Saginaw Nouvel, which lost to Reese.

Gilstad enjoys college football the most because he has watched it since he was a little kid.

The Michigan Wolverines are his favorite team on Saturdays. "And whoever Notre Dame is playing," Gilstad added.

Gilstad is looking forward to the Michigan-Ohio State game Saturday, as he says it is one of the biggest rivalries in college football.

"There are few others you could compare it to," he said. "I remember the days of Bo (Schembechler) versus Woody (Hayes). You can throw out the records when those two teams play."

Gilstad is also a fan of the Detroit Lions, even though he knows watching a game can be torture on Sunday.

"You see the Boston Red Sox win the World Series and say to yourself, ‘Why can’t the Lions win (a Super Bowl)?’" he said.

The Daily News football contest appears each week during football season. First prize is $50.


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Some of the furnishings from the old Midland County jail are about to find a second life, not housing prisoners but in teaching those who intend to watch over inmates.

Former Midland County undersheriff and now Ferris State University professor Mike Vasicek visited the soon-to-be-demolished jail, attached to the courthouse, for an unusual shopping trip last week.

The State of Michigan, which used to have full powers over training of state corrections officers, relinquished that authority and began allowing colleges to teach the programs. That meant colleges had to begin programs of their own, similar to the ones students interested in law enforcement careers attend, and Ferris is in the process of building a corrections curriculum.

“So it’s pretty exciting for us, we’re starting a new academy at Ferris,” Vasicek said. “We need to have the equipment now to do it properly.”

On his shopping list were bunks, a toilet and sink combination, tables and other odds and ends.

During an escorted trip through the jail, with two representatives of Bierlein Construction, Vasicek wound from the work release holding area up a dark stairwell to the women’s holding cell, and back down to booking. In each space, Vasicek looked for items to create a cell at the college for students to practice extractions and other skills they need to learn. After choosing a combination of furnishings from different areas, Vasicek ended up with a complete set, right down to the stainless steel mirror.

The items will be pulled from the building before it is demolished, and stored for Vasicek to pick up.


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Midland law enforcement officers responded to some out-of-the-ordinary calls this weekend.

They included:

* A call about a small child, later discovered to be age 3, walking near M-20 in Homer Township who was found by EMS staff about 9:30 a.m. Friday. The mother, age 20, was located and interviewed, and a report is being sent from the Midland County Sheriff's Office to the Department of Human Services.

* About 7 p.m. Friday, two Traverse City residents were driving on U.S. 10 near East Ashman Street when a chunk of wood flew through the vehicle's windshield. The passenger in the vehicle, Denise Renee Peppler, 34, was injured by glass, according to the police report. Her condition was unavailable.

* Students were caught at Bullock Creek High School, 1420 Badour Road, about 11:15 p.m. Friday rearranging the wording on a school sign to spell profanities. The students changed the wording back to its original state, and were to speak to the school's principal Monday morning, according to a MCSO report.

* Deputies were sent to a report of an elderly woman riding a golf cart through her neighbor's yards and on a Jerome Township roadway.

* Just after 3 p.m. Saturday, deputies were sent to a Porter Township home after a woman, 43, and man, 45, were thrown from the horses they were riding when a mini-van passed them on a dirt road at a high rate of speed. The woman suffered injury to one of her arms, and $150 of horse tack was damaged.

* A golf ball was thrown through a rear window of a truck as it was being driven off M-20 in Lee Township about 4 p.m. Saturday. No one was hurt.

* A hit-and-run accident occurred on U.S. 10 near Stark Road at 11:41 p.m. Saturday, in which the motorcycle Aaron Allen Engel, 18, Sanford, was driving was hit from behind. According to the police report, Engel was thrown from the motorcycle, over the hood of the other vehicle, and rolled about 50 feet along the roadway. His condition was unavailable at press time.


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COUNTY FAIR TIME!: Many local agencies are looking for teens and adults to volunteer time with their display booths at the Midland County Fair Sunday, Aug.13 through Saturday, Aug. 19. Many shifts are available. Volunteers will help with brochure distribution, or helping with an activity with the children that visit the booth. Minimum age 15 unless accompanied by an adult.

SUMMER SAFETY: Local agency is now taking sign-up for teen volunteers for its summer safety program. This program is designed for pre-K and Kindergarten age children to help them learn a variety of safety related topics. Volunteers must have completed 7th grade by June 9 and enjoy working with younger children. Sites include: Midland , Bullock Creek, Coleman, Sanford and Gladwin. Volunteers must complete a mandatory orientation June 19.

YOUTH PROJECT: Youth groups are in need to assist on a local project. The coordinating foundation is inviting groups and providing up to 200 participants partial scholarships to participate in this youth mission work camp June 11 through June 17. Adult men and women are invited to participate as chaperones for each youth group. Adult chaperones must be 21. Youth participants must be 14 to 20 yrs of age and/or entering the 9th grade in the fall of 2006

ON THE PATH: Act as a course monitor to help with set-up or teardown, refreshments or awards, block traffic and cheer runners as they race by. Walk\Run is scheduled for Saturday, June 3, from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Community Center. All volunteers will receive refreshments, a free t-shirt and be entered to win great prizes! Min. age 16. May be younger if working with a parent or guardian. Many other walk and ride a thons are requesting volunteers! Call the Volunteer Center for dates and times

HOTDOGS, POPCORN: Local agencies are in need of teens and adults to help in their concession stands this Summer. Help sell popcorn, soda, and other items during the Fourth of July, Midland County Fair and other events in Midland. This could be a one time opportunity or you may help more often. Min. age 16 unless accompanied by an adult

ROOM SERVICE: Volunteers are in urgent need in Midland City and County to help deliver meals to seniors. Must have a dependable vehicle, clean driving record and be at least 21 years of age. Only need 1 -2 hours once per week. Mileage is reimbursed

GIFT WRAPPED: Local hospital is looking for adult men and women who would like to volunteer in its Gift Shop. Volunteers can become involved in buying, selling, pricing and displaying merchandise. Gift Shop has openings from 3:45 - 6:30 Monday through Thursday. A minimum of two regularly scheduled shifts per month is all the time that is required!

LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU: Musicians, singers, actors, etc., needed at assisted living facilities, nursing homes and senior dining sites throughout Midland County. Entertain seniors with your charm and talent(s). Looking for volunteers to play piano, guitar, violin or accordion. Flexible schedule. This could be a one-time visit or more. Wonderful adult and/or youth group activity!

BLOOD PRESSURE: Many Senior Sites are in need of volunteer Blood Pressure Nurses to accurately take and record blood pressure. Mileage is reimbursed. Especially needed during the summer months!

SUMMER ART FAIR: Local agency hosting its annual art fair in Midland is in need of volunteers! You can help with artist registration/check-in, arts and crafts with the children's corner, directing traffic or assist with hospitality. Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4. Many shifts are available. Volunteers are also needed on Friday, June 2 for pre-event work as well. Minimum ages vary depending on the volunteer job.

PATIENT SERVICES: Local hospital is looking for adult male and/or female volunteers to assist in its Surgery Center. Volunteers would assist with patient care services such as stocking shelves, preparing patient rooms, changing beds, providing wheelchairs and discharging patients.

For more information about these and other volunteer opportunities contact the United Way Volunteer Center of Midland County at 631-7660, or visit us at The United Way Volunteer Center office is located at 220 W. Main Street, Suite 100 in the Strosacker Center downtown Midland.


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The following list includes reports from the Midland County Sheriff’s Office and the Midland Police Department.

Thursday, Feb. 16

12:17 a.m. — A motorist was arrested at Crescent Drive and North Saginaw Road for drunken driving.

9:44 a.m. — Property was stolen from a vehicle while it was parked in the 600 block of East Patrick Road.

Wednesday, Feb. 15

12:16 a.m. — A Midland woman, 46, was arrested for resisting and obstructing police, drug possession, unlawful entry and a probation violation at a West Carpenter Street apartment.

2:44 a.m. — Deputies assisted police in looking for a person who was wanted on warrants and ran from a home in the city.

1:57 p.m. — Property was stolen from the 3000 block of Isabella Street.

3:51 p.m. — An East Lansing woman, 42, was arrested at Isabella and Alamando roads for driving while her license was suspended.

4:50 p.m. — Deputies assisted Michigan State Police with the arrest of a domestic assault suspect at an East Isabella Road address.

7:35 p.m. — A 44-year-old man was arrested for domestic assault at a West Fike Road home.

7:43 p.m. — Deputies responded to a Greendale Township home for a report of a 16-year-old who tried to overdose by consuming aspirin.

7:48 p.m. — Property was stolen from the 2200 block of Jefferson Avenue.

8:50 p.m. — Two snowmobiles were driven through an East Gordonville Road crop field.

8:58 p.m. — A South Shannon Avenue mailbox was knocked down.

10:33 p.m. — Deputies investigated a hit and run traffic accident that occurred at an East Saginaw Road address.


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OSCODA -- Melanie Smalley scored five goals in three games to lead Gladwin's soccer team to a second-place finish at the Oscoda Invitational on Saturday.

The Flying G's beat Oscoda 3-1 and Grayling 3-1 before falling 3-0 to champion Birch Run.

"I thought we played well. Birch Run was the best team there today, and I thought they deserved to win," said Gladwin coach Jerome Smalley. "All of the teams were pretty even, and it was nice to get two wins. It was good experience for us."

Kamah Ellena scored Gladwin's other goal, while Alicia Coats had two assists on the day. Katie Gorman was Gladwin's goalkeeper in all three games.

The Flying G's (12-2-0) host Houghton Lake on Monday.


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Undergraduate Research Can Bridge the Divide Between Faculty Teaching and Research Priorities

In a climate with strained university budgets, a dichotomy is often formed between teaching and research, with these two priorities pitted against each other and portrayed as in direct conflict. While there is undoubtedly a struggle in finding an appropriate balance for university faculty to divide their time between teaching and research capacities – particularly at U15 schools – undergraduate research can bridge this divide between university priorities.

Many universities are home to world-class faculty conducting ground-breaking research, but these are often professors inaccessible to students. With increasing portions of teaching responsibilities being taken on by adjuncts, whose own research capacity is limited by job instability and a lack of resources, the often-cited notion of the ‘scholar in the classroom’ is largely untrue. Students are not necessarily being lectured by those researchers who perhaps have the most scholarly experience to share.

With 26% of Canadian undergraduate students going on to complete a Masters – especially with higher portions at U15 schools (37% of Queen’s undergraduates) – undergraduate education must begin to equip students with these research skills. If the goal of the university is to prepare students for future success, they cannot do so without building these capacities in undergraduate students.

Several steps need to be taken at the course, institutional, and provincial level to advance undergraduate research. First and foremost at the institutional level, we need to foster the notion of the undergraduate scholar. Universities must take the research capacities of undergraduate students seriously. This can be done many ways, but even just starting by changing the language surrounding undergraduate researchers. Departments and institutions honour the work of their faculty researchers, dedicating publicity and resources to their efforts. Why are we not doing the same with our students? Students who complete research projects in class are seen as simply having completed a project, but when we begin to refer to them as undergraduate researchers, this signals a shift in attitude. Language is powerful, and this subtle change in rhetoric can foster a much more supportive environment to student researchers, signaling how seriously we take their contributions.

Research skills can be built and developed from the beginning of the undergraduate career. These skills need to be developed at the course level, scaffolded from first year to fourth year, perhaps with a cumulative project as these skills are strengthened. We need to utilize and apply these skills by including undergraduates in research in several capacities. They can be involved in faculty research as research assistants, and they can work in research centers on campus, bridging the teaching-research dichotomy. Even simply addressing perceived barriers, such as competitiveness, or lack of information about existing positions or courses can provide students with greater opportunities to foster inquiry and conduct undergraduate research. This hands-on, real-world learning will help students develop these skills at all points of their education, making these opportunities accessible to all students.

A much more systemic issue, but provincially, universities need sufficient operating budgets to allow for greater faculty renewal. This commitment must also take place within the institution. Undergraduate research often requires time and resource-intensive mentoring and supervision. Thesis supervision, for example, is an outstanding opportunity for students to apply the research skills they have gathered throughout their undergraduate degree to produce original work to contribute to their field. This can only take place if there is enough faculty with the capacity to take on this supervisor role, despite a widespread lack of recognition for these contributions. With strong competition in obtaining a supervisor in many schools and programs, this is an issue hugely inhibiting students from taking on capstone research projects. Faculty mentorship can bridge the divide between teaching and research, because this emphasis on relationship building allows students to directly benefit and learn from their supervisor’s research work.

Canadian universities, particularly U15 universities, are well-poised to establish undergraduate research as a flagship pedagogy, and better prepare their students for future success. This isn’t going to happen by accident. To establish universities as places where inquiry and research is encouraged and fostered, substantial commitments need to be made by institutions and the province. If we dedicate the time and resources needed, we can educate a generation of students who are equipped with the research and inquiry skills to find new and unique solutions to problems in a rapidly changing society.

Leah Brockie
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Academic Affairs Commissioner, Queen’s AMS


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Brett Favre (29 Minutes)

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    May 30, 2005
    Brett being Brett. He is going to tell it as it is. This press conferance is the perfect illustration of why I love Brett.

    The thing I take out of it most is Brett is not expecting a Super Bowl run. I think he knows that it is just not going to happen and he's ok with that. Not that he isn't going to give it his all but I think that he has accepted the fact that he cannot be 22 players at once. Hopefully Brett will just relax and enjoy perhaps his last year in the league.
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    Jan 29, 2005
    He seems ready to go out and play. He sounds optimistic about this season but not overly optimistic if you know what I mean. He's going to go out there and make plays. Will the Packers make a Super Bowl run this year? Maybe, maybe not. That's why they play the games.
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    Aug 13, 2005
    I had changed my opinion of Favre, as to how he handled his retirement issue, after a poster enlightened us on our past heroes and how they handled retirement. I came to the conclusion that Favre is owed consideration even if it does include some waffling.

    That said, I am beginning to think our next season won't be unlike any of our previous six or so. Hopefully it won't be anything like last year but perhaps we'll win more than we lose and maybe, just maybe, squeak into the playoffs. With any key injuries, a repeat of last year is entirely possible.

    Every year I think that this is the year that Favre is going to calm down and take what he's given by the defense. Every year he proves me wrong and, with his recent comments about taking chances, this year will be no different. It more than likely will be a high interception year. Some will be the fault of the receivers but we will no doubt hear the announcers mutter something like, "only Brett Favre would make that pass."

    I do think the Packers are a better team this year with Favre - if only because there still is not the team concept. Hopefully, we're getting there. In the meantime, win or lose, I'll be watching.

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The way we talk

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    Technology has brought many wonderful inventions over the years notably the telephone on March 10, 1876. No longer did our ancestors have to sledge through hundreds of miles of unpaved roads and spend countless hours and days just to communicate with their relatives.

    Fast forward to 2013 where social networks drive daily communications for a good share of Americans 40 and under and at increasing levels on those older.

    Facebook having the largest user base of the social networks had it origins in late 2004 and was originally designed as a social network for college students.

    Facebook exhibited great promise but alas to become profitable had to monetize their user's for profit. Which brings us to today where facebook just recently removed yet another privacy option for their users.

    Facebook removes another privacy option
    Necessary Internet Safety/Privacy not being taught

    No matter the frequency of ones social network usage or whether you have an account in the first place shouldn't change the fact at how wrong the trend (lack of available privacy) is becoming

    Instagram? Candy Crush? Sponsored Stories? 500th friend? Nope... Nope.... Nope...and Nope!!!

    A Sunday drive with some treasured close by friends and later on a long anticipated call to a cousin in South Dakota.

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    The best social network is the phone book. Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc = data mining made easy.

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Winner! (2006) Melissa Casarez, Lowell, MA

Melissa took the grand prize with her bellyÃ¢Â?Â?s artistic depiction of the classic scene from The Wizard of Oz.

Humpty Dumpty

Finalist: Sarah Lingwall, West Valley City, UT
SarahÃ¢Â?Â?s burgeoning belly helped her hatch a plan to paint her tummy as the famous fairy-tale egg.

Bowl of Fruit

Finalist: Marigold Haske, Santa Ana, CA
MarigoldÃ¢Â?Â?s belly is a wonderfully-styled classic oil painting Â -- with lots of painstaking detail.Â

Buddha Belly

Finalist: Julie Kukreja, Algonquin, IL
Every mom-to-be hopes her baby will be serene and easygoing Â -- looks like those thoughts were channeled into JulieÃ¢Â?Â?s belly painting!

Officer Mom

Finalist: Chrystal Steffen, Oak Lawn, IL
Looks like this baby-to-be is going to get an early start on discipline Â -- MomÃ¢Â?Â?s already got the rule-maker role down pat.

Ready for Landing

Finalist: Stacy Landis, Ft. Wayne, IN
By the looks of momÃ¢Â?Â?s belly, StacyÃ¢Â?Â?s baby-to-be is coming in for a landing very shortly...

Creative Self-Expression

Finalist: Julie Goduto-Hogan, Lombard, IL
Not only is JulieÃ¢Â?Â?s abstract belly art vivid and visually arresting, but she painted her own belly Â -- unassisted!

StorkÃ¢Â?Â?s Delivery

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GingerÃ¢Â?Â?s belly pays homage to the most-recognized symbol of childbirth Â -- the stork, making a much-anticipated delivery.

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Finalist: Kristen Fowles, West Columbia, SC
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Now that I have a blog called "Everything Pregnancy," people think I must know, well, everything about pregnancy—including throwing an awesome baby shower. I've always loved a good theme party (from tequila and mezcal tastings for Cinco de Mayo to Mad Men-style '60s costume and cocktails), so when a friend recently wanted baby shower ideas for her sister's fete, I told her two words: Dr. Seuss!

Whether you are—or someone you're giving a baby shower for is— having a boy or a girl, a Dr. Seuss-themed party is always a big hit. Who doesn't love Dr. Seuss? Not only are favorites like The Lorax and Green Eggs and Ham gender-neutral, but some Dr. Seuss characters are perfect for twins too, like Cat in the Hat's Thing One and Thing Two and the red and blue fish from One Fish, Two Fish.

IMHO every party should have a signature drink. So here is a Blue Hawaiian mocktail recipe I like to call Thing One for a Dr. Seuss-themed party (but this could also be used for any baby shower for a boy).

Serving size: 1 drink. To make large batches, multiply recipe by double the amount of guests you expect.

  • 5 oz. blue fruit punch drink (like Kool Aid or Hawaiian Punch)
  • 1 oz. coconut milk
  • 1 oz. pineapple juice
  • 1 oz. ginger ale

Mix all ingredients and pour into a plastic glass filled with ice. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

For the non-preggo ladies at the bash, add 3/4 oz. vodka and 3/4 oz. rum to each drink to create Thing Two. Make sure each is clearly labeled "Thing One Mocktail" and "Thing Two Cocktail" so there's no confusion for your guests.

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  • 11.6in screen with a 1366x768 resolution, long battery life, large keyboard

  • Keyboard is bouncy and keys are too stiff, lots of unused chassis space

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The Joybook Lite U121 Eco is a good option for anyone who wants a big netbook with long battery life. It has an 11.6in screen and a mostly full-sized keyboard, and a 6-cell battery. However, its build quality could be better and we'd like BenQ to include options for a 3G module and a solid state drive.

Would you buy this?

BenQ's Joybook Lite U121 Eco is more than a typical netbook. It has a large 11.6in screen with a 1366x768 resolution, and this has allowed BenQ to install a full-sized keyboard on the wider chassis.

But while the bigger screen and keyboard go a long way to making this netbook more desirable than most, it's by no means one of the best models on the market. Despite the bigger keyboard and therefore bigger keys, the keyboard is a little bouncy, the keys are too hard to press and their response is not crisp. As such, they can feel uncomfortable to type on, plus a couple of keys are so small they can be hard to press without hitting the adjoining — especially if you're a touch typist. The colon, comma and forward slash keys are 13mm wide compared to 17.5mm for the alphanumeric keys.

The good news is that Benq has designed the keyboard with the keys are in the customary positions, so you won't have to hunt for the location of the delete key or press the function key instead of the control key when copying and pasting content.

At 11.6in, the screen size of the BenQ Joybook Lite U121 Eco represents a good balance between portability and usability, so if you can get the hang of the bouncy keyboard and stiff keys, you won't get tired when typing on it for long periods of time. The higher screen resolution also allows you to work on more than one window at a time; so you can easily have a Web browser open alongside a document window. That's not something you can do with most of the other netbooks on the market.

When it comes to speed, the Joybook Lite U121 Eco is not especially fast compared to other netbooks. It ships with an Intel Atom Z530 CPU, which runs at 1.6GHz and has a 533MHz front side bus; it has 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM, and a 160GB, 5400rpm, Serial ATA hard drive (a Seagate ST916031 4AS model). In our MP3 encoding test, the Joybook recorded a time of 8min 20sec, which is a middle-of-road result. Its hard drive transfer speed of 16.56 megabytes per second (MBps) is faster than the previous BenQ netbook we tested (the Joybook Lite U101) yet it's slower than the 20MBps we expected.

Overall the Joybook Lite U121 Eco felt responsive when launching programs and switching windows. It has an Intel GMA 500 graphics adapter, which is a little more powerful than the GMA 950 graphics present on most netbooks on the market, as it gives the netbook a little more oomph when it comes to playing videos. You can play high-definition content (720p) without noticing any tearing or stuttering in the video.

If you regularly use your laptop while travelling, you'll appreciate the large, 6-cell, 56.94 Watt hour battery that's available for the U121 Eco. It lasted 4hr 51min in our video rundown test, in which we loop a video while the screen brightness is full and the wireless radio is enabled. This is a good result and one of the main reasons you may want to consider this netbook over others available at present.

BenQ touts a Quick Charge feature for this netbook, saying that the battery can be charged in one hour to provide up to six hours of life. In our tests, it took us 1hr 29min to fully charge the 56.94Wh battery, which then provided us with just less than five hours of life. But the life of the battery will depend greatly on how you use the netbook. We sometimes ran into a quirk with the battery when trying to charge it; the battery would not accept a charging signal until we removed it and re-inserted it.

The 6-cell battery gives the Joybook Lite U121 Eco a weight of 1.45kg, which is a little on the heavy side for a netbook, but the added battery life and big screen are worth the extra grams. The netbook's build quality is adequate (apart from the keyboard, which we think could be improved) and it balances nicely on your lap. It also doesn't feel hot when you use it over a long period of time — primarily because the large chassis gives the internal components plenty of air circulation.

In fact, there is plenty of room in the chassis due to a couple of empty slots — one is for a solid state drive, the other is for a 3G module (there is a SIM reader in the battery compartment). Unfortunately, neither option is available for purchase in Australia. BenQ does include an 802.11n wireless networking adapter, Bluetooth, 10/100 Ethernet, a built-in webcam, three USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot, a D-Sub port and microphone and headphone jacks in the Joybook Lite U121 Eco.

BenQ could have added a lot more feature wise to this netbook — especially when you consider the free internal space — but the Joybook Lite U121 Eco doesn't differ greatly from the other netbooks, save for the bigger screen and keyboard. Nevertheless, this offering is a good option for anyone who feels that a 10in netbook is just too cramped to use.

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Director Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks on the set of “Saving Private Ryan” as part of the HBO documentary “Spielberg,” premiering Saturday.

Lore can become fact, especially in Hollywood.

As one famous story goes, a teenage Steven Spielberg sneaked off the Universal Studio tour one time, and then once he realized he could get away with it, he began sneaking onto the lot regularly, even setting himself up in an empty office and pretending he worked there.

In fact, the filmmaker tells the story himself in HBO’s “Spielberg,” the revealing new documentary from Susan Lacy.

So is it true?

“It’s potentially apocryphal. I don’t actually know,” says Lacy. “I think it’s absolutely true he got off the bus, but whether he set up an office? That may be apocryphal.”

Lacy worked for three decades on PBS’s “American Masters” and knew Spielberg from interviews she did with him about other artists. “He knew I wanted to make a film about him but wasn’t ready. Then one day he was and called me up and said he would do it if I made it.”

Lacy conducted nearly 30 hours of interviews with Spielberg for the two-and-a-half-hour documentary, which airs on HBO Saturday.

Others she spoke to include J.J. Abrams, Christian Bale, Drew Barrymore, Cate Blanchett, Francis Ford Coppola, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian de Palma, Laura Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Dreyfuss, Ralph Fiennes, Harrison Ford, David Geffen, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ben Kingsley, Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, and Robert Zemeckis.

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Last year, Spielberg turned 70, and Lacey thinks that may have been why he decided to do the documentary.

In it, he talks about how approaching age 40 made him feel like he should be tackling more serious subject matter, such as his 1985 film, “The Color Purple.”

“For the most commercially successful filmmaker in history, the box office has never been what’s driven him,” observes Lacy. “I think what’s driven him is what interests him. And what he thinks is important to say has changed, has matured, has grown up as he’s grown up.”

Even if you think you know a lot about Spielberg, Lacy’s documentary touches on a number of aspects about his personal life that have ended up in his films, such as his parent’s divorce. His mother left his father to marry his best friend.

Lacy did a lot of research for her film and going into it she says the most interesting thing for her as an admirer of his movies “is that he by and large isn’t thought of as a personal filmmaker, but he is hugely a personal filmmaker and I wanted to show that.”

“Of course, the biggest thing in Steven’s work is family, and I wanted to show that,” she adds. “This aspect of a family breaking apart and coming back together is in almost every film.”

There is a scene from “Catch Me If You Can” shown in the documentary where the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio is told his mother is marrying his father’s best friend.

“There is no artifice in Steven,” notes Lacy. “He is the person you’d imagine him to be. He’s straightforward and smart and kind. I think that bullied kid who was the child of divorce is still there, which is why he can talk so eloquently about it.”

While the personal aspects in the documentary are surprising, Lacy didn’t want to overlook the director’s craftsmanship.

“Spielberg” digs into a number of his famous works – including “Jaws,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “The Color Purple,” “Schindler’s List,” “Jurassic Park” and “Saving Private Ryan” – with the director himself discussing his thinking behind them.

“He always wanted to be a workhorse director from the ’40s, tackling different genres.” observes the documentarian.

A fascinating part of the film is seeing Spielberg hanging out with his wunderkind contemporaries – George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Brian De Palma – and seeing how they influenced each other.

Lacy knows a two-and-a-half-hour documentary is not going to capture everything about someone who has had a career as successful, varied and long as Spielberg. “I could have made a 10-part series,” she sighs.

“He’s not reluctant to talk about anything,” she says, including his failures. “If it isn’t in the film, it doesn’t mean he didn’t talk about it. It meant that I had two and a half hours.”

What: New 2 1/2 hour authorized documentary about the famed filmmaker that includes in-depth interviews with him.

When: Premieres 8 p.m. Saturday.

Where: HBO.

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Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California and a Research Associate of the NBER. He is a Julian Simon Fellow at PERC. Siqi Zheng is a professor and the director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University. She is also the deputy head of the Department of Construction Management at Tsinghua University. They are the authors of the new book “Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China” (Princeton University Press, 2016).

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REPORT CARD - Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star) - January 6, 2017 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines – The year 2016 will go down in Philippine history as a year of successful cyber heists following two major hacking incidents that rocked the country in the first half of the year.

In February, hackers siphoned off some $101 million from the account of the Bangladesh bank at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York after gaining access to the bank’s security credentials that enabled the fraudulent money transfer.

News of the heist broke in the Philippines a month later after it was learned that as much as $81 million of the stolen money were transferred to various accounts at the Jupiter Street branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) in Makati City.

Also in March, an alleged voter database stolen from the website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was released following a breach on its online portal.

The poll body initially downplayed the breach, but concerns from various sectors grew when a user-friendly version of the database went online in April, a few weeks before the elections.

On the heels of the cybercrime incidents, the Philippine government continued to improve the country’s cybersecurity systems with the creation of the National Privacy Commission (NPC) and the passage of the law that created the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).

Recently, the DICT said it was crafting the National Cybersecurity Strategy Framework 2022 to address online threats and ensure security of the Philippine cyberspace.

The Bangladesh heist

Various investigations were opened in connection with the Bangladesh bank heist, including those conducted by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Reports on the heist showed that hackers gained access to the credentials of an operator at the Bangladesh bank, enabling them to authorize fraudulent payment orders amounting to over $1 billion from the bank’s account at the Federal Bank of New York.

A total of $101 million were transferred ($20 million to Sri Lanka and $81 million to the Philippines) before the Federal Bank stopped the transfers.

The money transferred to Sri Lanka was recovered, but not all of those sent to fictitious bank accounts in RCBC.

The Senate investigation revealed the money was transferred to remittance company Philrem, where it was converted to Philippine pesos, before being sent to various casinos.

Some $18 million have since been returned to the Bangladeshi government, with one report saying the AMLC has already accounted for around $60 million of the money, including those returned to Bangladesh.

Charges were filed against the Comelec in June after the supposed leak of sensitive personal information of over 50 million voters, including names, addresses, birth dates and biometric information.

Jose Ramon Albert, a senior fellow of the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, filed a complaint before the privacy commission months after a searchable website ( containing the information was created.

Albert, who served as secretary general of the National Statistical Coordination Board and a member of the advisory council of the United Nations Global Pulse, said Comelec failed to comply with the Data Privacy Act when it failed to disclose the nature of the breach.

Albert asked the NPC to compel Comelec to notify all affected subjects on the nature of the breach, information released and measures taken by the poll body to address the matter.

Security software company Trend Micro said cybercriminals can use the information gathered from the data breach to perform acts of extortion.

The security firm alleged the data leaked following the hacking of the Comelec website included sensitive personal identifiable information that puts every registered voter susceptible to fraud.

The Comelec later apologized for the breach, with the National Bureau of Investigation arresting hackers supposedly behind the incident.

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Several hacking incidents related to the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea were also reported last year.

In July, at least 68 Philippine websites were subjected to cyber attacks after the release of the ruling on the arbitration case filed by Philippines against China.

A high-level government source said the attacks included attempts of hacking and defacement, slowdowns and distributed denial of service attacks.

Also in July, a security firm traced a malware to China that supposedly tried to spy on the Philippine government and other parties related to the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea.

Finland-based cyber security firm F-Secure identified the malware as NanHaiShu (translated as South Sea rat), a Remote Access Trojan that can access information from infected computers to its command server.

F-Secure noted the malware was discovered to have attacked the websites of the Department of Justice, the organizers of the 2015 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and meetings held in Manila, and an unidentified international law firm involved in the Philippine case against China.

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Meanwhile, the government has officially established DICT and the NPC to address issues relating to ICT and data privacy.

Headed by former science undersecretary Raymund Liboro, the creation of the privacy commission was mandated by the Data Privacy Act signed in 2012.

The commission was tasked to develop and constantly review rules and regulations covering data privacy in the country, as well as serve as an advisory body on matters affecting the protection of personal data.

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