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| An e-Newsbrief from the Philadelphia Bar Association |
Vol. 10, No. 76
Chancellor's Forum Kicks Off
National Pro Bono Week Events
The Chancellor's Forum "Prisoner Pro Bono Projects" will kick off Pro Bono Week on Monday, Oct. 26...READ MORE
Pro Bono Celebration Week Begins Oct. 26
Nominations Sought for Wachovia Fidelity Award
Preparing for Chapter 11 Oct. 27
Networking Planning Session Oct. 27
Relationships with Physicians Oct. 27
Partnering for Career Success Oct. 28
IP Owners Rights in the Digital Age Oct. 28
Hamilton Award Nominees Sought by Oct. 30
Interviewing the Child Witness Nov. 2
Money Management Series Continues Nov. 5
CLE Examines Vincent Chin Murder Nov. 6
Brennan Award Nominations Being Accepted
Business Development Skills Series Starts Nov. 13
Gillen to Speak at Real Property Annual Meeting
AIDS Law Project Anniversary Event Nov. 5
Volunteers Sought for Penn Mock Trial Event
Get Free Web Access with Legal Directory Online
How to Handle a Child Abuse Case Oct. 28
Upcoming CLE
Hamilton Benefit Nov. 21
Philadelphia lawyers, judges and business leaders will gather as they have since 1978 at the Please Touch Museum in Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. for the Andrew Hamilton Benefit to support the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and the network of legal services organizations it funds...READ MORE
Zoning Code Update Oct. 30
The Real Property Section and the Zoning, Land Use and Code Enforcement Committee will present an update on a new zoning code for Philadelphia on Friday, Oct. 30...READ MORE
Chancellor's Forum: Prisoner Pro Bono Projects Oct. 26
The Chancellor's Forum "Prisoner Pro Bono Projects" will kick off Pro Bono Week on Monday, Oct. 26.
Chancellor Sayde J. Ladov will moderate the program, which will feature a discussion two innovative prisoner pro bono projects in Philadelphia – the Supervision to Aid Re-Entry Program and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Panelists include Marissa Bluestine, legal director, Pennsylvania Innocence Project; James Figorski, U.S. Magistrate Judges Timothy Rice and L. Felipe Restrepo and Philadelphia VIP Executive Director Sara Woods. Closing remarks will be presented by Amy Ginensky, president of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation.
Registration and lunch begin at 11:45 a.m. in the 11th floor Conference Center of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $5 for those members who RSVP in advance. Click here to RSVP.
Pro Bono Celebration Week honors the pro bono contribution of Philadelphia's lawyers and offers an occasion to learn more about the interesting and professionally challenging pro bono opportunities that exist with Philadelphia's public interest organizations. Click here to download the complete schedule.
Coordinated by the Public Interest Section's Delivery of Legal Services Committee and the Law School Outreach and Law Firm Pro Bono Committees of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Pro Bono Celebration Week is planned in collaboration with the ABA's National Pro Bono Celebration. The following is a list of Pro Bono Celebration Week activities:
Monday, Oct. 26
• Chancellor's Forum on Prisoner Pro Bono Projects: 12 - 1:30 p.m., Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $5. Register at philadelphiabar.org.
• Pro Bono Open House: 5 - 7 p.m., Duane Morris LLP, 30 S. 17th St. Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas President Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe will speak at 5:30 p.m. To register contact Nicole Friant at anfriant@duanemorris.com.
Tuesday, Oct. 27
• Philadelphia VIP Pro Bono Opportunities Day: 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, 123 S. Broad St., 28th Floor. For more information, contact phillyvip@phillyvip.org or call (215) 523-9567 to register. Two CLE credits are available for those who accept a VIP case within six months of the training.
• Homeless Advocacy Project Legal Clinic: 10 - 11 a.m., Kirkbride/Travelers Aid, 111 N. 49th St. Register with Marsha Cohen at marsha@philalegal.org.
Wednesday, Oct. 28
• Support Center for Child Advocates CLE training program on How to Handle a Child Abuse Case: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., The CLE Conference Center, Wanamaker Building, 13th and Market streets, 10th floor. Register with PBI at 1-800-247-4724. Six CLE credits, including 1 ethics credit, are available.
• Homeless Advocacy Project Legal Clinic, 6 - 7 p.m., UHCH, Penn Clinic, St. Agatha/St. James Church, 38th and Chestnut streets. Register with Marsha Cohen at marsha@philalegal.org.
Thursday, Oct. 29
• SeniorLAW Center HelpLine volunteer training program: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Fox Rothschild LLP, 2000 Market St., 10th floor. Register with Sue Wasserkrug at 215-701-3216 or swasserkrug@seniorlawcenter.org. Two free CLE credits are anticipated for volunteers. Lunch will be provided.
• Homeless Advocacy Project Legal Clinic: 6 - 7 p.m., Eliza Shirley Shelter, 1320 Arch St. Register with Marsha Cohen at marsha@philalegal.org.
• Capstone CLE Forum - Pro Bono: Where Do We Go From Here: 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 34th and Chestnut streets. 3 CLE credits (pending approval). Registration is $25 for public interest attorneys and $30 for all others. Register with Arlene Finkelstein at arfinkelstein@law.upenn.edu. The program will include an overview of the pro bono movement, utilizing resources, best practices and innovative solutions.
• SeniorLAW Center training program Personal Planning 101: Wills, Living Wills, and Powers of Attorney for Older Pennsylvanians: 12 - 3 p.m., Duane Morris LLP, 30 S. 17th St. Register with Roxane Crowley at rcrowley@seniorlawcenter.org. Three free CLE credits are available in exchange for handling a case. Lunch will be provided.
• Homeless Advocacy Project Legal Clinic: 1:45 - 3 p.m., St. John's Hospice, 1221 Race St. Register with Marsha Cohen at marsha@philalegal.org.
Poll Results Released for Judges Seeking Retention
The Philadelphia Bar Association's Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention is releasing the results (see www.electqualifiedjudges.org) of a poll made available earlier this year to all practicing Philadelphia lawyers.
More than 900 attorneys completed the poll. Under the bylaws of the Association, this poll is not binding upon the Commission's deliberations, though it must be published along with the Commission's findings. In addition to poll results, the Commission evaluates each candidate based on criteria including integrity, legal ability, judicial temperament and efficiency.
Sayde Ladov, Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association and a member of the Judicial Commission, says she hopes that "voters will understand why judicial elections are so important and why we invest so much time and energy in reviewing and rating these candidates."
Referring to the Bar Association's web site, www.electqualifiedjudges.org, she adds, "Judges have enormous power. This is one place where voters can find thorough, non-partisan, objective ratings of judicial candidates."
The following candidates have been rated recommended for retention to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas: Sandy L. V. Byrd, Ida K. Chen, Pamela Pryor Dembe, Richard J. Gordon, Glynnis Hill, Benjamin Lerner, Annette Rizzo, Karen Shreeves Johns and Sheila Woods Skipper.
The following candidates have been rated recommended for retention to Municipal Court: Frank T. Brady, Barbara Gilbert, Lydia Kirkland, Gerard Kosinski, Marsha H. Neifield and Craig M. Washington.
In addition to the judicial retention candidates, the following candidates (nominated in May's primary) have been recommended for election to the Court of Common Pleas in the general election: Daniel Anders, Adam Beloff, Robert P. Coleman, Angeles Roca, Diane Thompson and Donna M. Woelpper.
The following candidate (nominated in May's primary) is not recommended for election to the Court of Common Pleas in the general election: Roxanne Covington.
The following candidates (nominated in May's primary) are recommended for election to Municipal Court in the general election: Patrick F. Dugan, Charles Hayden, Dawn A. Segal, Joseph C. Waters, Jr.
The Commission consists of lawyers and non-lawyers including the President Judges of Common Pleas Court and Municipal Court, the Chief Public Defender, the City Solicitor, the Chancellor, Chancellor‐Elect and Vice Chancellor of the Bar Association and representatives of diverse interests within the community.
Earlier this spring, the Commission released its recommendations for judicial candidates seeking open seats on Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas and Municipal Court. Of the 17 candidates nominated in May's primary election, 16 were recommended by the Commission.
The Philadelphia Bar Association has issued its recommendations on judicial candidates for 33 years. Composed of 13,000 members, the Bar Association serves the public and the profession by promoting justice, professional excellence and respect for the rule of law.
For more information about the Judicial Commission, its process and recommendations, go to www.electqualifiedjudges.org.
Nominations Sought for 2009 Wachovia Fidelity Award
Nominations are now being accepted for the Philadelphia Bar Association's 2009 Wachovia Fidelity Award. Nominations should be made in writing. Please include a detailed statement setting forth information and reasons why you are recommending the nominee for this award. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Monday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. Nominations should be sent to Tracey McCloskey via e-mail at tmccloskey@philabar.org or by mailing to Philadelphia Bar Association, c/o Fidelity Award Committee, 1101 Market St., 11th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
The criteria for the award are:
• Significant accomplishments in improving the administration of justice (preferably in Philadelphia);
• The absence of prior recognition for this work by the Philadelphia Bar Association;
• Distinguished service consistently rendered over a considerable period of time or a single outstanding achievement in a particular year. (The fact that this single achievement may have occurred some years ago is not material so long as it has not been recognized.);
• The accomplishment must arise from voluntary activities rather than for service rendered as a paid professional; and
• It is preferred that the recipient be a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association not now in public office or directly involved with court operations or any other public service activity.
Barry D. Kleban and Larry G. McMichael are the featured speakers for the Tuesday, Oct. 27 Bankruptcy Committee meeting "Preparing for Chapter 11."
The meeting begins at 12 p.m. at the offices of Dilworth Paxson LLP, 1500 Market St., Suite 3500E. Lunch will be provided courtesy of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP. To RSVP for this meeting, please contact Anne M. Aaronson at 215-575-7110 or aaaronson@dilworthlaw.com.
The Women in the Profession Committee will hold a strategic planning session "Networking in 2009 and Beyond" on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
This meeting will serve as a strategic planning session to discuss the many nuances of networking, including more traditional strategies and more recent social and professional networking sites, to help increase visibility and enhance marketing efforts. The goal is to develop issues, questions, and suggestions for a panel discussion in the meeting that follows.
The meeting begins at 12 p.m. in the 10th floor Board Room of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $8 for those members who register in advance. Click here to RSVP.
John Washlick will lead a discussion on exploring pharma and device company relationships with physicians at the Tuesday, Oct. 27 meeting of the Health Care Law Committee.
The meeting begins at 12 p.m. in the 11th floor Committee Room of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $8.50 for those members who register in advance. Click here to RSVP.
The Attorney Career Development Committee will present "Partnering for Career Success" on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Have you thought how much easier it would be to make great first impressions on employers and clients if you had a partner or small group offering you advice, feedback and help presenting yourself to key decision-makers? "Speed intros" and "action exercises" will help you connect with the partner best for you.
The meeting begins at 12 p.m. in the 10th Floor Board Room of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $8 for those members registering in advance. Click here to RSVP.
The Cyberspace and E-Commerce Committee will discuss the continuing challenges for IP rights owners in the digital age at its Wednesday, Oct. 28 meeting.
The meeting will include a discussion of IP rights in e-books and e-newspapers, the music industry and virtual worlds. The meting begins at 12 p.m. at the offices of Duane Morris LLP, 30 S. 17th St., 12th Floor. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided. Please RSVP in advance if you plan to attend the meeting in person. Please RSVP to Linda Waiters at 215-979-1294 or ljwaiters@duanemorris.com.
Philadelphia Zoning Code Update Oct. 30
The Real Property Section and the Zoning, Land Use and Code Enforcement Committee will present an update on a new zoning code for Philadelphia on Friday, Oct. 30.
The meeting will features Zoning Code Commission members Darwin R. Beauvais, Richard DeMarco, Wendella P. Fox, Eva Gladstein (executive director, Zoning Code Commission), Councilman Bill Green, Peter F. Kelsen, Councilman Brian J. O'Neill and Stella M. Tsai.
The meeting begins at 12 p.m. in the 11th floor Conference Center of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $8 for those members who register in advance. Click here to RSVP.
The Public Interest Section is now accepting nominations for the annual Andrew Hamilton Award. The deadline for nominations is Friday, Oct. 30. Nominees must be a legal services advocate or public defender employed by, or associated with, an organization whose purpose is to serve persons who cannot afford to pay for legal representation, or be a public-interest lawyer working with a nonprofit organization serving a charitable or public interest purpose.
In addition, nominees must have substantial experience in legal services, indigent defense or public interest law and must currently be employed in one of these capacities. Members of the selection committee will consider such factors as personal vision and commitment; critical nature of the problems addressed by the nominee's advocacy; innovative nature of the nominee's work; outcomes and results achieved through effective advocacy; the difficulty of achievement; and community commitment.
Nominations are encouraged and should include the individual's name, address and a brief statement describing his or her qualifications. All nominations should be mailed to Tracey McCloskey, c/o Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market St., 11th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Doris Pechkurow and Master in Custody Fern Brown Caplan will present "Interviewing the Child Witness: A View from the Bench" on Monday Nov. 2.
Elizabeth Warner will moderate the program, which begins at 12 p.m. in the 10th floor Board Room of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. Lunch is available for $8 for those members who register in advance. Click here to RSVP.
The Women in the Profession Public Service Task Force will present the second part of its Money Management 101 progam "How to be Ahead of the Game for the Rest of Your Financial Future" on Thursday, Nov. 5.
Daniel P. Foley, a financial advisor with Delaware Valley Financial Group Companies, will lecture on building wealth, investing and planning for retirement. The meeting begins at 12:15 p.m. in the 11th floor Committee Room South of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St. The Women in the Profession Committee Public Interest Task Force would like to thank its lunch sponsor, DVFG Advisors, LLC, for its generosity. Click here to RSVP for this program.
The Philadelphia Bar Association Office of Diversity and Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania will present the CLE program "The Pursuit of Justice: The Murder of Vincent Chin and the Origins of a Civil Rights Movement" on Friday, Nov. 6.
The 1982 murder of Vincent Chin and its legal aftermath marked a watershed in the civil rights movement in America and is considered the genesis of the Asian Pacific American civil rights movement. Chin, a Chinese American, was beaten to death in Detroit with a baseball bat by a Chrysler plant superintendent and his stepson. The lenient sentencing of the two men generated public outrage, as the attack possessed many attributes consistent with hate crimes.
Through the re-enactment of specific portions of the actual transcripts of the state and federal criminal trials, attorneys will observe and discuss the actual criminal trial, including direct and cross-examination of witnesses, witness preparation, and the interactions between lawyers, judges, parties and non-party witnesses. In addition, the reenactment will reveal how the lack of resources and possible prejudices might have led to lenient sentences for this brutal homicide. Also addressed will be the practical challenges and limitations faced by attorneys in developing a case and substantiating legal theories. Furthermore, the re-enactment and subsequent dialogue will address the perceived limitations of criminal justice system and the civil rights laws, how this miscarriage of justice galvanized the Asian-American community, the numerous attempts to enact hate crimes legislation, and the unfinished business of this civil rights movement.
he program has been approved for 1.5 substantive CLE credits. Participants wishing to receive the CLE credit will be required to pay a fee of $48.50 for members of the Philadelphia Bar Association admitted for more than five years, and $43.50 for members of the Philadelphia Bar Association admitted for less than five years. Tuition fees include lunch. Interested parties not seeking CLE credit may attend and purchase lunch for the fee of $8.50. If you wish to register in advance please visit pbi.org or call PBI Customer Service at 1-800-932-4637.
The course planners include John D. Huh, Y. Jae Kim, May Mon Post and Stella M. Tsai. Speakers and cast members include Nadeem Bezar, DaLesia Boyd, Melanie Bunker, Wendella P. Fox, Carol A. Fritz, Yanni Guo, Joyce K. Hackenbrach, Nilmini Klur, Marisa H. Lattimore, Chancellor Sayde J. Ladov, Sarah R. Lavelle, Tsiwen Law, Sophia Lee, Maureen Rowley, John Savoth, Brian Sims, Divya Wallace and Su Ming Yeh.
Nominations are being accepted for the Philadelphia Bar Association's prestigious Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Distinguished Jurist Award. The award will be presented at the Association's Annual Meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue, Broad and Walnut streets.
The award recognizes a jurist who adheres to the highest ideals of judicial service. Any member of the state or federal bench, whether active or retired, who has made a significant, positive impact on the quality or administration of justice in Philadelphia is eligible for consideration. Examples of accomplishments worthy of nomination include innovations in court administration, implementation of pioneering case management techniques, assumption of a leadership role in areas affecting the administration of justice, publication of a significant opinion, article, or other scholarly work, or the like.
This year's Brennan Award Committee is chaired by John E. Savoth. Nominations for the Justice Brennan Distinguished Jurist Award should be forwarded to: Brennan Award, Attn: Tracey McCloskey, Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market St., 11th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107. All nominations should include the full name, address and telephone number of both the nominee and the person submitting the nomination, a summary of the nominee's accomplishments, and any pertinent supporting material the committee should consider. All nominations must be received no later than Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
The Training Resource Group will present a series of programs to introduce business development skills to attorneys beginning Friday, Nov. 13.
The program is designed for attorneys who are now expected to develop business for themselves or their firms. Learn these essential skill sets that were never taught in law school.
The sessions will be held in the 10th floor Board Room of Bar Association headquarters, 1101 Market St., from 12 to 2 p.m. The Nov. 13 session will cover building a network for business development and designing a business plan. The Nov. 20 session will discuss the basics of networking and building a memorable 30-second commercial. On Dec. 4, attendees will learn how to build a stronger network. The Dec. 11 session will provide an introduction to a systematic approach to client development.
The cost is $795 per participant which includes four training sessions, one individual coaching session and materials. For more information call (215) 320-4650 or visit trainingresourcegroup.com.
Gillen to Speak at Real Property Annual Meeting Nov. 19
Kevin C. Gillen, Ph.D., vice president with Philadelphia-based Econsult Corporation, will be the keynote speaker at the Thursday, Nov. 19 Annual Meeting of the Real Property Section.
Dr. Gillen works on issues related to local economic policy and real estate development. The meeting begins at 12 p.m. at Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 1201 Market St. The Section will also honor Joe Syrnick of Schuylkill River Development Corporation with its annual Good Deed Award.
The election of officers and new members of the executive committee will take place at the Annual Meeting. The Section's Nominating Committee has nominated the following persons for the offices indicated Vice Chair, Cheryl Gaston; Treasurer, Brad Begelman; and Secretary, Richard Vanderslice.
The succession of current Vice-Chair Alfred R. Fuscaldo to the position of Chair of the Section is automatic in accordance with the Section's bylaws.
The Section's Nominating Committee has nominated the following persons for the Executive Committee (three-year terms): Markita Morris Louis, Harper Dimmerman, Sherman Toppin, Kathy Keyser and Rachel Friedman (completing final year of a three-year term). The nominee for Young Lawyers' Division Liaison is Rachel Gallegos.
Additional nominations may be made in accordance with the bylaws of the Section, by written notice from any member, which is seconded in writing by no fewer than 10 members of the Section. Additional nominations must be received not less than 20 days prior to the Annual Meeting.
Additional nominations are to be mailed or delivered to Christine Paul, Chair of the Real Property Section, Women's Community Revitalization Project, 407 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19123.
Tickets to the Real Property Section Annual Meeting are $45 for Section members and $50 for nonmembers. Click here to purchase tickets.
Hamilton Benefit Nov. 21 at Please Touch Museum
Philadelphia lawyers, judges and business leaders will gather as they have since 1978 at the Please Touch Museum in Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. for the Andrew Hamilton Benefit to support the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and the network of legal services organizations it funds.
This will be a wonderful evening of food, drink and dancing. There will be a "Dancing for Justice" with surprise guests in a featured dance sequence. The contributions to those in need will be recognized through the presentation of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award and the Citizens Bank Pro Bono Award. But most of all it will be gathering of people who share a common purpose - to promote equal access to justice for all.
Lawyers have a special responsibility to help the poor, children, the disabled and those who are especially vulnerable in times of crisis have access to legal representation. The Andrew Hamilton Benefit is the public symbol of the Philadelphia legal profession's commitment to this notion and helps not only the public interest legal organizations and the clients they serve, but the legal profession itself. By showing that it cares about our justice system, the profession grows in stature.
Many law firms and businesses are supporting the Hamilton Benefit through sponsorships including Pepper Hamilton LLP; UPS; Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin; and Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney to name a just a few early sponsors. For more information, call Liz Pannulla at 215-238-6337 or click here and visit the Bar Foundation web site.
We ask you to continue to be there for Philadelphia's public interest legal services and join us on Nov. 21 as we celebrate the strength of our legal community and reaffirm together that Philadelphia lawyers care.
The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania will mark its 21st anniversary with Decades 2009 on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue, Broad and Walnut streets.
The evening begins with a cocktail reception from 6 to 7 p.m. (with open bar, extensive hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction and music by the Young Jazz Lions), followed by the presentation of a mock trial from 7 to 8:30 p.m. CLE credits (.5 substantive, 1.0 ethics) are available.
Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman will be presiding. The mock trial "actors" include well-known Philadelphia lawyers Tom Kline of Kline and Specter, P.C., and William L. Banton of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, as well as infectious disease specialist, Dr. Robert M. Swenson. The mock trial will re-enact an employment-discrimination case of an HIV-positive food handler.
VIP tickets are $250 (given preferred seating); regular subscription is $125. Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are also available. Tickets can be purchased by calling 215-587-9377 or on the AIDS Law Project's web site at aidslawpa.org.
The University of Pennsylvania Mock Trial Team is looking for judges, attorneys or law students to volunteer to serve as presiding judges or scoring judges for the 2009 Quaker Classic Invitational on Nov. 13-14, where some of the best college mock trial teams from across the country will compete.
All trials will be held on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Food will be provided to judges between Rounds 1 and 2, before Round 3, and between Rounds 3 and 4. The rules that govern tournaments require having one presiding judge and one or two scoring judges for each trial. A total of 40 volunteers per round are needed, to judge 20 simultaneous trials. Having actual attorneys and judges present in rounds shows students how professionals speak and comport themselves and also gives students better feedback for their roles. Real-life experience cannot be replaced.
On Nov. 13, judges will meet at 2:15 p.m. Round 1 runs from 3 to 6 p.m. and Round 2 is from 7 to 10 p.m. On Nov. 14, the judges meet at 8:15 a.m. Round 3 is from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Round 4 is from 1 to 4 p.m.
College mock trial is a unique opportunity for students interested in the legal process. If you have any questions or know a colleague who would be interested in participating, contact judging coordinator Doug Haefele at judges@pennmocktrial.com.
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The Support Center for Child Advocates volunteer training workshop "How to Handle a Child Abuse Case" provides certification for eligibility to receive court appointments for dependency cases in Philadelphia. Learn how you can make a difference in the lives of child victims. This 5 substantive, 1 ethics CLE credit hour program will be held Wednesday, Oct. 28, at The CLE Conference Center on the 10th floor of the Wanamaker Building, Juniper Street entrance (between 13th and Broad streets, opposite City Hall), from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. For additional information, or to register, click here. You must attend entire program to receive the ethics credit.
The following courses are cosponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. All courses are at The CLE Conference Center in the Wanamaker Building, except as otherwise noted. Registration begins 30 minutes before course start time.
11th Annual Legal Issues in an Age of Aging
5 substantive, 1 ethics CLE credits
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Compulsory Arbitration Seminar
2.5 substantive, 1 ethics CLE credits
9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
How to Handle a Child Abuse Case
14th Annual Bankruptcy Institute
Simulcast – Seventh Constitutional Law Conclave
*Earn as many as 4 credits on your computer, at your convenience at PBI's Online Campus, at www.onlinecle.pbi.org. More than 300 classes are available, including nearly 50 one-hour ethics programs. 24/7 CLE.
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Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders hints that a solo album is on the way
Far Out Staff· October 9, 2018
Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has today revealed that there is a solo record from him soon to be on the way to your ears. Although he did highlight that first he would need to start making a lot more music.
Having already been a part of side projects other than the behemoth train that is Arctic Monkeys, including working with Iggy Pop, QOTSA as well as his photography. It appears Matt Helders now wants to dip his toe into the solo stream.
He was speaking on the podcast The Trap Set when he opened up about his work away from the band and his concerns about going it alone. He was questioned about the 'confidence' surrounding finishing the album, he said "More and more I do, yeah. I feel like I've got to do a certain amount before it's deserved in way. I don't want to do it too soon and then regret it, like 'Oh, I shouldn't have made that kind of record'. You know what I mean? I want to make a lot of music and then like, 'Oh, that's the thing I like about this'."
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He continued: "I think I'm getting to a point now in which the style has developed and what I want to do is more clear to me than it was before. "
Speaking on having to earn his stripes in the solo music world before he can put out a record Helders said "I don't want to get caught out for cheating my way somewhere.
"I will do it. It's like figuring out why as well. Like 'Why do I even want to do that? Why do I want to make a record? What's it for? I just like the process of creating it. Maybe it's more because I'm not writing the lyrics, so it's fine that I do that. When you're writing a record and you're putting yourself out there, a lot of people need a reason to want to hear a 'message' or 'hear my opinion on this'.
"That's why I'm not that interested in the lyrics side of it yet. I want to make a lot of music and that sounds cool. "
Last year saw Helders offer some new music in association with a Sheffield bar which can be seen below.
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The Decade-by-Decade Guide to Exercise
By Carol Mithers
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There's a big difference between how we should work out in our 20s and how we should work out when...we're no longer 20. Experts tell Carol Mithers how to find the perfect fit at any age.
If there's a magic pill for staying youthful, it may be one that's hard to swallow: exercise. Daily doses have been proven to thwart a number of aging factors—stress, obesity, heart disease, diabetes—and the longer you're physically active, the less you'll notice getting older. The catch is that a 50-year-old's body is not the same as a 20-year-old's; you can't push it the same way you once did, nor should you if you want to keep it in working-out order. So listen to these coaches—they're talking not just professionally but also firsthand—on how to remain fit, and proud of it, through the decades.
In Your 20s: 30 minutes of weight training followed by 30 minutes of cardio 3x a week, plus 45 to 60 minutes of straight cardio 3x a week. One day of rest.
The great thing about being in your 20s is that your body is so strong, you can get away with abusing it. The bad thing is that you often do, punishing it with late nights and bad eating habits. And you routinely fail to appreciate what you've got. This is the decade of anxiety—frantic exercise, fad diets, the mad pursuit of pinup perfection and self-hatred when you fail to meet it. The fitness challenge of these years: Get over it.
"I tell my young clients, 'Forget looking like Jessica Simpson or Halle Berry, and forget weight; think health,'" says Jeanette Jenkins, a Los Angeles–based private trainer who has worked with rapper Queen Latifah and actress Taryn Manning. The mistake many 20-somethings make is simply opting for "endless cardio and crunches," adds Vanessa Carver, a personal trainer at Pillar Performance in Encinitas, whose clients include professional ice-skaters and dancers. Lots of cardio is great, she says, especially if you mix it up so you're really pushing the body. But it's weight training that builds muscle definition, not to mention bone density, which will be crucial for staying active later on and preventing osteoporosis. "You've got to lift more than just three or five pounds," she says. "If you can do 10 to 15 repetitions of a weight with no real effort, it's too light. The last 4 or 5 reps should be challenging enough that you feel your muscles getting fatigued." And put your mind into it, she says. "Lifting weights while chatting on the cell phone is a joke."
As for killer abs, "it's about subcutaneous fat, not how many crunches you do," says Carver. "There's no secret here: Eat lean meat, lean fish, vegetables, and fruits." She suggests forgoing thousands of bouncy, quick sit-ups for focused core work, which strengthens not only the abs but also stabilization muscles and lower back. One great exercise is the "plank." In a push-up position, balancing on your forearms and toes with legs stretched straight back, pull your belly button toward your spine and hold it tight, keeping your back flat enough for someone to eat off of. Work up to staying there for a full minute. Jenkins also pushes yoga, "which women this age are usually not very attracted to. I want them to learn to be still and to look at themselves from the inside out rather than the outside in."
Your 30s and 40s: Exercise is the #1 form of preventative medicine
In Your 30s: One hour of circuit training (cardio and resistance) 4x a week, plus at least one day of cardio for 45 to 60 minutes at a high intensity. Take one day off.
With the 30s, you start noticing that weight doesn't come off quite as easily as it used to. This is because after age 20, your basal metabolism drops by 1 to 2 percent every decade, and as lean muscle decreases and body fat increases, you don't need as many calories to sustain yourself. "Exercise is the number one form of preventive medicine," says Jillian Michaels, who is in her 9th season of NBC's The Biggest Loser and is the author of Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life. "You won't see that big a difference between 31 and 39 if you've been living a healthy lifestyle, but if not, you'll see a huge difference in muscle tone, weight, and shape."
In this decade, experts agree, keeping fit means working harder. Jenkins favors circuit training—a series of resistance and cardio exercises done swiftly and back-to-back. But however you do it, Michaels advises strength training each muscle group twice a week with two days of rest between sessions. Don't stick with heavy weights/low reps or low weight/many reps, she says; switch it around to keep your body from getting used to the routine. One day of rest a week is crucial.
After pregnancy a program like Pilates can be invaluable in "pulling everything back in and up," says Brooke Siler, whose re:AB studio in New York City has attracted famous figures like Amber Valletta, Madonna, and Liv Tyler. "I especially like exercises that involve standing, because they teach you to fight what nature wants you to do, which is slump," says Siler, the author of The Pilates Body. One of the best antigravity moves, she says, is to stand with heels together, big toes two to three inches apart. Drawing your lower abs and inner thighs in and up, rise onto the balls of your feet, making sure the heels stay glued together. Now slowly bend the knees into a plié, keeping the tailbone straight. Lower your heels to the floor and slowly straighten legs, drawing together your inner thighs and pulling up deeper into your abdominals. Do five reps; then reverse the sequence for five more.
Now is the time to make good fitness habits a part of everyday life. "You always want to be standing instead of sitting, taking stairs instead of elevators," says Siler. "I'm constantly aware of how I sit and stand and walk down the street. I'm forever pulling in and up. These invisible workouts are really important for a woman in her 30s. It's how you start preparing your body for what's to come."
In Your 40s: One hour of weight training 3 days a week if you do your whole body at once (4 days for half an hour if you split it up), plus 45 minutes of cardio five days a week (it's more than in the 20s and 30s but with less impact and intensity). Take one day off.
This is the decade of the triple whammy: gravity, hormones, and yet more slowing of metabolism as lean muscle mass continues to decrease and body fat increases. Even women who don't put on a pound may expand, according to Pamela Peeke, MD, author of Body for Life for Women. "After 40 and certainly after 50, virtually all women find that they gain fat more easily in the torso—below the bra, through the triceps area, on the back, and in the belly," she says. "You're not doing anything wrong; your body composition is changing."
Cardio work at least three days a week is still important for keeping weight under control, but resistance training is crucial now. "Women should be doing more weight training—and really going for it," says New York City–based celebrity trainer Kacy Duke, who is in her 40s. "You have to find the time to do it consistently and train hard." If you're just starting, says Peeke, "you must learn proper form—take a class, get a trainer, make sure someone is there to correct you so you don't get hurt. And add intensity. If you're doing a biceps curl, tense the biceps—squeeze them—as you lift. Just when you think you're all the way up, push another 10 degrees."
Certain body parts may call out for extra attention. "Pilates can help some with the midsection," says fitness veteran Karen Voight, who teaches and writes a workout column for the Los Angeles Times. To tone the back of the upper arm, she instructs, "get on all fours in a bent-knee push-up position, with fingers facing forward and hands directly under your shoulders. Make sure your elbows point backward when they bend, and lower only halfway, which works the muscle but avoids strain on the joints." Then there's the butt. "For that," says Voight, who is in her 40s, "I'd try squats with weights or stair-climbing. Exercise is different at this age, because everyone has some aches or pains. I hold positions longer and do things more slowly and with more control. It's about precision and form, not quantity."
It's also about enjoyment. "I find exercise that's satisfying on a deeper level," says Donna Richardson Joyner, creator of the video Sweating in the Spirit and a recent appointee to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "It's not just about moving my body—it's about strengthening my mind and my spirit."
Your 50s and 60s: Aches and pains shouldn't be an excuse for giving up on exercise
In Your 50s: 4 to 6 cardio sessions a week, 20 to 40 minutes each, with an intensity that lets you answer a simple question but not chat, plus half an hour of weight training twice a week, 8 to 12 repetitions of each exercise, or 15 to 20 using lighter weights. Always stretch afterward.
If your metabolism feels like it's slowing to a crawl, it's not in your mind. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh studying 541 midlife women found an average gain of 12 pounds eight years after menopause. We also tend to gain a little potbelly, what Peeke calls the menopot. And other places begin to droop noticeably. "At this point, loss of muscle mass and tone really shows," says longtime fitness expert Kathy Smith. "It can actually start to change your posture."
The classic shoulder slump from years of hunching over a desk or computer "will really age you," says Smith, who suggests this stretch: Clasp your hands behind your back at the level of your butt and squeeze your shoulder blades together, pinching your spine. Try, with straight arms, to stretch your fingertips toward the floor until you notice a tug between your ears and shoulders, then lift your hands as high as you can, feeling the stretch in your chest.
"If you haven't started weight training, you must," says Smith, "although if you're a beginner, I really recommend guidance. Women in their 70s have doubled their strength in nine weeks. If you feel intimidated going to a gym, you can rent videos to do at home. You want to hit all the major muscle groups, and you can do the whole cycle in 15 minutes if you keep some dumbbells around."
Peeke says you should be thinking of adding activity to your life in general. Programs like Shape Up America aim for 10,000 steps a day, about five miles of walking. Regular cardio sessions are important, too, but expect a change in recovery time. "Can I run like I used to?" asks Smith, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in her 50s. "Sure. But can I do the same run again the next day? No way."
Other additions to your program should include warming up (for instance, with walking or light yoga stretches) before exercise and more intense stretches (such as sitting spread-eagle and bending forward) after. "Many yoga classes have a heavy stretch component, making them perfect for the body that needs to maintain its flexibility," says Smith.
Yoga—along with tai chi, dance, and the Bosu ball (a soft half-dome used for standing and sitting exercises)—is also great for balance, which will become an increasingly important issue. While the physical changes this decade brings may be hard to take at first, ultimately, says Smith, "you shift into an acceptance mode. You change what you can, and live with what you can't. It's a gentler way."
In Your 60s: 3 days a week of challenging but not exhausting cardio, such as a slow jog, plus 3 days of weight training, using lighter weights and slower, more controlled movements combined with slow, sustained stretching. Walk whenever possible, and do daily balance exercises.
In the 60s, problems like arthritis, bad knees, and spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spaces between bones that can put painful pressure on the spinal cord) become common. "But aches and pains shouldn't be an excuse for giving up on exercise," says Marilyn Moffat, PhD, a professor of physical therapy at New York University and coauthor of Age-Defying Fitness. "We now know that a decline in strength and fitness isn't entirely a natural consequence of the aging process but is also due to lack of use. We need to push ourselves physically no matter how old we are—we just may need to alter the activity."
Adapting a workout routine for the 60s sometimes means giving up aerobic exercise that jars and stresses the joints—for example, replacing long runs with jogging one or two miles, jogging in a pool, swimming, or riding a stationary bicycle. (Women with bad backs may need to use a recumbent bicycle.) Moffat, who is in her 60s, says that, on average, she walks three to five miles a day because it offers both cardio and bone-strengthening benefits.
Resistance training is still important, "but I would not advise anyone to lift heavy weights if it aggravates your joints," Moffat says. And stretching and balance are absolute musts. If you don't stretch now, "by the time you're in your 80s, your joints will have lost their flexibility." One of Moffat's favorite stretches is holding the head tilted earlobe to shoulder for 60 seconds; another (if you don't have osteoporosis) is sitting on the floor with legs straight out in front of you, feet flexed, and lowering your head toward your knees. For balance, she suggests "rising up on the toes of one foot and trying to hold the position for a minute. You can do this while brushing your teeth."
In fact, that's a good image for any age—the sooner exercise becomes like brushing your teeth, the longer you'll feel younger than your years.
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If you create only the occasional label for files or objects, you can probably get by with one of the many sub-$100 label printers on the market. But if your business-labeling needs are more complex--for instance, you require support for bar codes or for multiple users who use different types of labels--the Dymo LabelManager 500TS could justify its admittedly high price ($200 on Dymo's site as of July 19, 2012, though you can find it for significantly less at some online retailers).
The new high-end entry in Dymo's line of electronic label printers, the LabelManager 500TS is roughly the size of a standard desktop office phone and functions capably either on its own or as a computer printer. The unit connects to a PC or Mac via its included USB cable, and it uses Dymo D1 tape cassettes (clear plastic and paper) in widths ranging from 0.25 inch to 1 inch. The labeling tape costs roughly $20 for a 23-foot roll (or less, if purchased in quantity).
Dymo's website provides free labeling software that includes the drivers required for computer use. In my tests, installation of the software on a Windows 7 laptop went smoothly and took only a few minutes. After that, I found creating and printing labels to be a breeze, whether I worked within the Dymo application or used third-party software such as Microsoft Office applications. During installation, the software lets you opt to set up QuickBooks integration, a useful feature if you're planning to label products that you sell.
Of course, you can buy a PC label printer for a lot less than $200. But the LabelManager 500TS's principal selling point is its bright 2-by-4-inch color touchscreen, which makes the unit easier to use as a stand-alone tool for label creation and management.
The LabelManager 500TS runs on a lithium polymer battery pack. When you power on the unit for the first time, pop-up windows ask you to specify your language and to verify the width of your labels; after that, the home screen displays an image of the most recently used label with six large icons underneath. From left to right, these icons allow you to begin a new label; edit the current label; open a previously created label; view labels or clip art that you downloaded from your computer when the device was connected via USB; adjust settings for language, fonts, label size, and the like; and manage user accounts.
The Dymo LabelManager 500TS's label-creation tools are impressive. In addition to making text labels that you type on the unit's hardware QWERTY keyboard and customize with a dozen or so fonts, borders, and graphic elements, the LabelManager 500TS can create bar codes to several standards, as well as automatically generate numbers, dates, and other such items. The display shows an accurate preview of your creation, and the 300-dots-per-inch printouts look exceptionally sharp. Once you press the print button, the unit takes only a few seconds to produce the labels.
You'll find a character map for adding symbols as well as letters with diacritical marks and foreign alphabets. You can save several dozen labels for repeated use, and even create different folders to save them in. You can register half a dozen or so user accounts, and save labels and label-format preferences to each account. I was surprised, however, at the lack of support for account password protection or any other settings.
You can set the LabelManager 500TS to snip completed labels automatically as you print them; otherwise, you can cut them manually simply by pushing the scissors button to the left of the display. When the unit is connected to a computer, you can set up an account for printing postage.
The LabelManager 500TS has a hardware navigation keypad underneath the display; sitting in between are buttons for powering on the device, bringing up the home screen, zooming in on labels, and initiating printouts. Note, though, that the hardware navigation buttons don't work with menus; rather, they primarily control cursor movement in label text.
I have a few minor quibbles. First, while the touchscreen navigation works very well for selection by tapping, I found it less easy to use for scrolling through menus. Scrolling smoothly and stopping on a specific selection was difficult. Fortunately, I encountered only one or two scrollbars in my tests.
Also, at a bit over 2 pounds, the device is a tad heavy for carrying around all day; I recommend going with a smaller handheld unit if you work on your feet. But the LabelManager 500TS does have a handle that you could use for hanging it on a wall hook. Finally, to save power, the LabelManager 500TS goes into standby mode after only a couple of minutes of inactivity, and I frequently had to restart it as a result.
Regardless, for serious business-label creation, the Dymo LabelManager 500TS's impressive features, speed, and general ease of use make it well worth considering. Yes, it's pricey, but if you use the 500TS frequently, the extra cost could prove to be a good investment over the life of the product.
The Dymo LabelManager 500TS offers an impressive range of business-labeling features accessible either with or without a computer, but you'll pay a premium for its handsome touchscreen interface.


Students who are enrolled in one state college or university, but take a course at another state college or university are called transient students. If you are enrolled and/or degree seeking at a state college or university, you can request approval to take a course at another state college or university by completing and submitting an online Transient Student Admission Application.
PHSC students must complete the transient application at Floridashines.org.
The Financial Aid Office must determine the student's eligibility and send the appropriate information to the "host" institution.
In most cases, PHSC students must be enrolled in at least one course at PHSC during the semester in which they are requesting financial aid for the transient program.
Students must make payments for their tuition and fees directly to the "host" institution by the due date set by the "host" institution. PHSC does not make payment arrangements to the institution on behalf of the student for tuition and fees.
Students must be enrolled at least half-time (6 credit hours or more) at PHSC in order to be eligible for Federal Direct Loans while participating in the Transient Student Program.
If there is an enrollment change after the student's financial aid has been disbursed, the student must notify the PHSC Financial Aid Office immediately.
Return to Title IV policies apply to students that fail to attend their scheduled courses at their "host" institution.
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Assembly committee ends marathon hearing on right-to-work bill
March 3, 2015 By Andrew Beckett
Lawmakers listen to testimony on right-to-work legislation. (Photo: Andrew Beckett)
Controversial right-to-work legislation now heads to the Assembly floor, following a nearly 12-hour long public hearing on the proposal at the Capitol.
The Assembly Labor Committee heard from a long line of speakers Monday, with the vast majority of those registering in opposition to the bill. In often emotional testimony, many who testified spoke about their fears that the legislation would weaken the role of private sector unions in representing the interests of workers, potentially leading to lower wages and unsafe working conditions.
Terry McGowan with the International Union of Operating Engineers argued that unions offer job training to thousands of workers, which many businesses rely on to make sure their employees know how to do their jobs safely. He worried right-to-work could reduce access to that training by cutting off funding, and urged lawmakers to vote down the proposal. McGowan said "let's not do this to Wisconsin. Don't do this to our training and safety."
Critics also questioned the motivations behind the bill and studies supporters have used to claim right-to-work could attract new businesses to the state. Marquette Economics Professor Abder Chowdhury said surveys of businesses have shown that right-to-work "isn't even in the top ten" of reasons why companies decide to expand in a state. He said "they look at the tax policies of the state, they look at the quality of workers in the state, they look at the infrastructure."
Only a handful of people registered to speak in support of the bill. Greg Mourad with the National Right to Work Committee sought to counter many of the claims being made by opponents that the bill would lead to lower-paying jobs, pointing to studies that have shown wages increased in Indiana after they became a right-to-work state. Mourad argued workers should have a say in whether or not they want to join a union because "independent minded workers are being forced to accept a union as their bargaining agent and are being forced to work under contracts that actually harm their interests. It is an outrage to force people to pay for this so-called representation that they did not ask for, do now want, and would be better off without."
Despite scattered applause throughout the hearing, Monday's proceedings moved at a steady and relatively peaceful pace. While the chair of a Senate committee cut off testimony suddenly during a hearing last week, state Representative André Jacque (R-De Pere) allowed all who registered to testify a chance to speak on the bill. The hearing ended just before 10 p.m., with several Democratic lawmakers offering brief testimony on the legislation to close out the hearing.
The full Assembly is expected to open debate on the bill Thursday.
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Masato Harada, seen here, is an actor, film critic, and director whose films include the award-winning Chronicle of My Mother (2011) and Return (2013). Harada also acted in the film The Last Samurai (2003) playing the film's main antagonist Omura.
It was another jam-packed opening night at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival with specials guests in attendance and festival goers ready to hand in their tickets.
The premiere night of this year's festival featured the international debut of Kakekomi onna to kakedashi otoko, a comedic film that focuses on an Edo-period Buddhist temple that was a sanctuary for women seeking divorces.
Director Masato Harada – who was in attendance – gave a pre-screening talk about what audiences should expect from his film's unique take on the Japanese historic film genre.
"This is totally different from normal Japanese period dramas or Japanese contemporary movies," Harada told attendees.
"It's quickly paced and it has a lot of dialogue in Japanese sort of mixed with the 19th century vocabulary … so if you understand Japanese basically read the subtitles… it's better," he said with a laugh referring to some of the old school colloquialisms used in the film's dialogue.
Harada hopes the film's screenplay will also appeal to younger audiences likening its story structure to Russian Matryoshka dolls. Also known as Russian nesting dolls, the wooden figures stack into one another with each layer revealing a new design.
He believes that the many subplots and storylines stacked on top of each other in his film will keep younger, Internet-oriented eyes more attentive as he says they normally gloss over while watching films that depict Japan's history.
"This structure of this film is similar to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as there are so many subplots and characters, but the main storyline is simple, so if you ever feel confused while watching… just think about Pulp Fiction," Harada said.
He also referenced the influence of director Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard on Kakekomi and other Jidaigeki – or period films – that helped establish the film genre.
Also in attendance at the night was Consul-General of Japan in Toronto Yasunori Nakayama who introduced audiences to some of the history behind the film's depiction of Edo-period Japan.
Edo, which would one day become Tokyo, was one of the world's largest cities with a population of over one million. It was a hub of samurai, craftsmen, and merchants, but it also had severe imbalance of men and women.
With so few women, the men of the city gave their female counterparts much more respect. And when faced with unreasonable husbands or untenable marriages women could seek divorce.
Buddhist temples like Tokai-ji, which is featured in the film, provided a sanctuary to these women giving them support as they sought out better lives.
This is the fourth annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival. It runs from June 11 to June 26.
On the closing night on June 26, attendees will be joined by director Masayuki Suo and actress Tamiyo Kusakari who will introduce Lady Maiko, which makes its Canadian premiere at the festival.
There are also a number of films playing from the 2014 and 2015 roll out of Japanese films including A Samurai Chronicle, Tokyo Tribe, and Maestro!


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Hats will be collected between May 1 and June 30, 2014, and all will be donated to Completely Kids. To find out more information about the charity hat drive, participating yarn shops and where to send completed hats please visit www.eweewe.com/hat-along.
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While many retailers struggle in today's Omnichannel economy, Tractor Supply Company continues to grow, with a plan to increase both its brick and mortar stores and online capabilities in 2019.
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A Tiny Gas Company's Big Lesson on Bosses' Pay: Liam Denning
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Jun 4, 2018, by Liam Denning
(Bloomberg Opinion)
Imagine you are a director at a small-ish exploration and production company in the middle of an oil-market crash. Would you:
A) Approve spending $1.68 million to buy out the CEO's and CFO's minority stakes in a private jet, of which the company owns 80 percent already?
B) Do pretty much anything else?
If you answered (A) then, in another life, you might have served on the board of Comstock Resources Inc., which signed off on that deal in January 2015. A month later, dividends were "temporarily suspended" in order to "preserve liquidity."
Water under the bridge, of course – except Comstock recently announced a deal to sell an 84 percent stake in itself to a company controlled by Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys. That sounds about as thrilling as it gets in Texan oil circles, until you look at this chart:
The deal will help Comstock handle its mountain of debt – a net 8.5 times Ebitda at the end of 2017, according to data compiled by Bloomberg – and the stock has more than doubled since its announcement. On the other hand, that has only taken the stock back to where it was in early 2017. And the price is that Comstock's non-insider shareholders get diluted down to less than 14 percent ownership. It's tough to call that a home run.
Meanwhile, CEO Jay Allison's total compensation doubled last year, according to Comstock's recently filed proxy statement. In the decade ending 2017, he was paid almost $26 million in salary and bonuses, according to proxy filings – coinciding with Comstock generating a total return of negative 94.7 percent, according to Bloomberg figures. He was also awarded a notional $37.9 million in restricted stock and stock-units, according to annual proxy filings, although some of that was eviscerated along with the share price. If the deal with Jones goes through, $7.9 million worth restricted stock and units held by Allison will vest immediately.
Across the battered E&P sector, investors and analysts have lately kicked up a stink about poor performance and managers' incentives. Even large, successful companies such as Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. have instituted reforms in response.
Comstock is much smaller (current market cap: $177 million.) I first got interested in it several months ago, when an anonymous Twitter account, @EnergyCredit1, posted a long, highly critical thread about the company's management. So I took a look at the proxy statements. Comstock didn't respond to several requests to discuss these issues.
One noticeable thing is how Comstock's bonus criteria move around. For example, in 2014, 30 percent of the target bonus was linked to growing the company's oil production. That changed the following year to overall production growth (including natural gas), but now at 20 percent. In 2016, growth disappeared altogether from the equation, before coming back in 2017 with a 30-percent weighting. Here's how those line up with Comstock's actual production:
Short-term incentives do change; they're short-term, after all. However, as Chris Crawford, president of compensation consultancy Longnecker & Associates, put it to me: "It's not healthy to have big changes year to year, especially when it yields a result of high payouts and low performance."
Focusing on absolute growth in production and reserves has damaged returns and balance sheets, not just at Comstock but across the sector – which is why so many are moving away from this. Goldman Sachs noted recently that 19 of 39 E&P firms it surveyed reported corporate returns or production growth per debt-adjusted share – which factors in capital discipline – as management incentives in their latest proxies, up from just four last year. Comstock, on the other hand, tied 60 percent of last year's executive bonuses to boosting production and reserves.
Meanwhile, controlling leverage, an objective in 2014's bonus plan, disappeared after that. Which is unfortunate, because ballooning interest costs more than offset savings Comstock made elsewhere on a per-unit basis:
Even in 2014, managing leverage was merely one element in a bucket labeled "other key objectives". A quarter of the bonus weighting in 2014, this bucket – including qualitative things like "leadership development" and "execution of strategic plan" – ballooned to 40 percent in the particularly hard years of 2015 and 2016.
Another element, total shareholder return, or TSR, is objectively quantifiable. But, like many E&P companies, Comstock judges TSR relative to a peer group, rather than just in absolute terms. Besides a small role in bonus-setting, TSR largely determines the number of performance-based restricted stock units awarded as part of executives' long-term incentive plan.
The key thing to note here is that 100 percent of the target number of those units is awarded, as long as Comstock's TSR is at the 50th percentile for the peer-group – even if all are down in absolute terms. Comstock's annual TSR has been positive in only two of the past eight years, according to its annual filings:
Comstock has actually improved on prior practices. Its proxy filings indicate that, until 2010, the CEO recommended his own salary and bonus. And in 2013, partly in response to criticism from Institutional Shareholder Services, Comstock enacted other reforms, including taking out the discretionary element of the bonus and requiring positive absolute TSR in order for future performance-based restricted stock-units to vest. Overall, Allison's annual compensation in the five years after 2012 averaged $3.6 million versus $9.6 million in the prior five years. And in 2015, executives didn't get their bonuses, given the suspension of dividends.
Then again, 2015 was also the year the board agreed to Comstock using precious cash to buy out the CEO's and CFO's interest in that plane. Meanwhile, the positive-TSR requirement related to those restricted stock units seems to have disappeared by the time the 2016 proxy was filed.
Doug Terreson, Evercore ISI's veteran oil and gas analyst, published a detailed report on c-suite pay last summer in which he wrote "the most pressing corporate governance issue in energy today involves CEO compensation structure." While higher oil prices have helped to perk up E&P stocks in recent months, fixing internal incentives is vital for long-term healing.
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Casino Royale Set Report: The Dunsfold Park Aerodrome
Written by Mark Murphy
CommanderBond.net recently received this set report from CBn forum user 'marktmurphy':
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** MAY CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS **
Blow me down if a quick trip out of my office 40 mins drive out of London a couple of weeks ago didn't get me all the way to Miami International Airport and back!
That week I had the pleasure of that rarest of things—a sneaky peek at a James Bond film set! And, rather pleasingly, it happened that the crew had decided to shoot this particular scene—apparently one of the largest in the movie—just a few miles away from where I work in deepest, darkest Surrey at a small airfield many viewers around the world will already be familiar with as home to the BBC's Top Gear motoring show: Dunsfold Park.
A 'CR' sign
Aerial image of Dunsfold Park
For a few weeks now I've been getting glimpses of those little flurorescent signs film crews pin to signposts to direct other members of their unit to shooting locations: you've probably seen them but missed their use as they often use cryptic letters and words rather than stating their intentions clearly (presumably to stop gaupers like me getting in the way!), for example 'UNIT LOC' or 'BASE'. But these particular signs have 'CR' written on them, and for us lot that can only mean one thing: James Bond's here!
After following the trail of CR signs from Guildford you arrive at Dunsfold Park, a smallish airfield but one whose celebrity status means a bit of security on the gate. Luckily I did actually have a valid reason to be there, so once past security a quick look around makes it clear quiet early on that there's a film crew here from the proliferation of lighting lorries and stunt vehicles ('Action Vehicles' based out of Shepperton were present judging by their lorry) and moving over to the easternmost of the airfield's three runways it becomes apparent that they're shooting right here. For one, the runways is covered in lorries, lighting trucks and a couple of camera cranes—hopefully present to catch some more epic high angles on some thrilling action! The runway has grown a lengthy line of impressive halogen lampposts, each over 40ft high, which makes the whole area seem like a much more professional outfit; although you can tell they're not real from the fact they're all powered by generators on the ground and that they only run in a couple of spots. Plus I'm not convinced a large runway would actually have lampposts that near, but… This area has also been dressed with the sort of paraphenalia you see at the very end of large international runways—a V-section of lights raised on a frame to indicate to planes where the runway begins, plus large red and white barricades. Presumably there's some action right on the edge of the runway for our man James! Other additions the crew have made include dressing what must be a bit of a bonus for making a small airfield seem like an international airport—Dunsfold's own 747 Jumbo jet. They've given this fuel tanks to make it appear more functional than it actually is and added rather strange double engines where normally there'd be only one, plus the background is bolstered even more with the addition of an Air Atlanticque Douglas DC6—a relatively small passenger propeller-driven plane which feels in keeping with the Miami location. With these in the background the illusion should be helped somewhat.
The 'prototype' Boeing 747 that will be featured prominently in Casino Royale
The previous week I've been lead to understand the crew were filming on one of the other runways, and vehicles had been tearing up and down the runway as part of the sequence: apparently they were at the time entering their third week of a five week presence. The most obvious item which told of the locations use was the line of baggage carts, each bearing the red 'MIA' logo, whose contents had been spilled across the runway, perhaps in the previous night's action (a big part of making the place look realistic is apparently the fact that the scene is being shot at night—I was told it looked amazing when all lit up).
Baggage marked 'MIA' of the runway at Dunsfold Park
Event-wise a Virgin Airbus had made a landing the previous weekend (which ties with a similar plane arriving at the Prague Ruzyne Airport, also doubling for Miami, which had road signs and palm trees laid on) and, in a rather spoilerlicious bit of info, I was told they were planning to drive a Mercedes through an articulated bus of the type often seen ferrying passengers around an airport the week after. This week just gone saw the local residents warned about a small number of explosions and Chris Corbould, the effects supervisor, has recently been talking about blowing up a 757! Who knows what's going on there!
The runway at Dunsfold Park
All in all a fun hour or two out of the office; you can't imagine how hard it is driving past a sign telling you to go to see James Bond filming on your way to work every morning! I've included some pics, which aren't terribly sexy and packed full of Aston Martins and 007 himself, but should give you an idea of the place.
And incidentally, for all you Top Gear fans; yes we did drive down the runway as fast as we could!
Discuss this set visit in this thread in CBn's Casino Royale forums.
Many thanks to Mark T Murphy


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| Deja vu, sans Beyonce: Awards rehash
Deja vu, sans Beyonce: Awards rehash
12:00 am, Feb 23, 2007
Two things make this year's Oscars ceremony worth watching: hostess Ellen DeGeneres and performer Jennifer Hudson. The rest is vanity and excess. Most of the surefire winners have already won tons of awards, from SAGs to Golden Globes to Name-Your-Hometown Critics' Awards, while the fashion trends set by recent ceremonies have been safe and boring: Angelina Jolie seems to be over her goth-and-incest phase, Celine Dion figured out the right way to put on a Galliano pantsuit and apparently someone took away Bjork's swan-hunting license. The only race that's not practically set in stone is the big one — "Best Picture" — but it promises to be the most disappointing of all, no matter what wins. Indulge me, then, while I make the all-too-easy predictions, and pray, for the sake of all our pulses, that I'm wrong in every case.
Nominees: "Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The Queen"
Not one of this year's nominees deserves the title of Best Picture of 2006. The recently released "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Children of Men" ought to be going head-to-head for the title, but then again the Oscars seldom get it right (see last year's winner, "Crash"). That said, "The Departed" probably comes closest to earning the title. Regrettably, "Little Miss Sunshine" — the critique of the American obsession with winning that is hypocritically making the biggest push for the award — will charm just enough voters into giving it the closely contested honor.
Nominees: Clint Eastwood, "Letters From Iwo Jima"; Stephen Frears, "The Queen"; Paul Greengrass, "United 93"; Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, "Babel"; Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"
At last, Martin Scorsese will have his Oscar. Expect a standing ovation, tears and headlines that read "Oscar the Grouch wins Oscar" (because of his bushy eyebrows). The only perceived threat is Eastwood, an Academy favorite and multiple winner for 2004's "Million Dollar Baby" and 1992's "Unforgiven," but Dirty Harry nabbing a fifth (or possibly sixth) trophy when Scorsese has yet to score one would be a travesty only Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband could capitalize on.
Nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"; Peter O'Toole, "Venus"; Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"; Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"
Any of these actors, in a less competitive year, could have won, but Forest Whitaker — who's won the SAG, the Globe and all-around underdog approval — is a lock. Leonardo DiCaprio ironically screwed himself over by delivering two strong performances this year, while Peter O'Toole may have given up his chance for a competitive award when he accepted an honorary Oscar three years ago. Every one likes being surprised, so here's to hoping either Gosling or Smith hears his name called, but usurping "The King of Scotland" seems just too tough.
Nominees: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"; Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"; Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"; Kate Winslet, "Little Children"; Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Helen Mirren has won nearly every major critics' award leading up to the Oscars, so to deny her the major prize would be just plain mean, not to mention hysterically funny. C'mon, give Streep DRA '75 her deserved third win for the delicious creation that was Miranda in "Prada." And what's Winslet got to do to finally win? Write a song about pimpin'?
Nominees: Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine"; Jackie Earle Haley, "Little Children"; Djimon Hounsou, "Blood Diamond"; Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"; Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"
Marky Mark is lucky to be nominated, though a surprise win wouldn't disappoint anyone except the other nominees. Eddie Murphy is the favorite, but it's difficult visualizing that golden statue in the hands of a man whose latest film was "Norbit." Besides, if Murphy takes this category, that could mean a historical three out of four acting prizes going to African Americans also a long shot when it comes to the historically racist Academy voters. Alan Arkin is an old white fart, and the best thing about "Little Miss Sunshine" (the film dies with his character), so he's got the best chance.
Nominees: Adriana Barraza, "Babel"; Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"; Abigail Breslin, "Little Miss Sunshine"; Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"; Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"
There's no hope for little miss ugly Abigail Breslin. And Cate Blanchett, though splendidly sexy in "Scandal," won in this category for "The Aviator" a couple of years back. The two little-known "Babel" stars may have stolen their respective, ill-connected scenes, but their few votes will be split between each other. That leaves Jennifer Hudson's memorable debut in "Dreamgirls" to tower above the rest. "And I'm telling you," I'm not going to be wrong.
Nominees: "Babel," "Letters from Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Pan"s Labyrinth," "The Queen"
"Little Miss Sunshine" will need this award to solidify its "Best Picture" win, although "Pan's Labyrinth" was the year's most imaginative creation and should win every category it's nominated in.
Nominees: "Borat," "Children of Men," "The Departed," "Little Children," "Notes on a Scandal"
"The Departed" is the clear frontrunner in this category, so don't expect Sacha Baron Cohen to nab it for the ridiculously titled "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (though wouldn't it be great to hear Jennifer Lopez struggle to read the name again, like she did at the Golden Globes?)
Not that it matters, two dozen other awards in categories such as "Best Sound Mixing" and "Best Documentary: Short" will go to non-celebrity nominees, most of whom will deliver lengthy, unimportant speeches from crumpled sheaths of yellow paper. Until the Academy decides to add more categories that people actually care about, it's up to the Ellen's comedic prowess and Hudson's vocal power to keep the show rolling — that is, unless there are top-secret plans for a "Best Bald Rehab Patient" honorary award.


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Despite facing early hardships at Daytona International Speedway, John Edwards and teammate Matt Bell fought hard to earn a sixth place finish in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge BMW Performance 200. During the second practice session of the event, the Camaro GS.R caught fire, forcing the Stevenson Motorsports team to conduct an emergency rebuild. In record timing and with the help of the GT crew, the GS team fixed the car in time for Matt Bell to qualify the No. 9 Camaro in eighth place. Bell took the green flag, and within 45 minutes he led the race before ending his stint. Edwards rejoined the field in 14th, and gained five positions in less than ten laps. Edwards consistently laid down solid lap times and worked his way up to battle back and forth with Lawson Aschenbach for fifth position. The 21 year old finished side by side at the line in sixth, just 0.059 seconds away from a top five finish. "The race was about what we expected," said Edwards. "Given everything that happened earlier in the week, we're definitely happy with the finish. The team did a great job getting the car ready and getting us back out there."
In the 51st Roelex 24 at Daytona, Robin Liddell qualified the No. 57 Camaro in eighth and in his first stint, climbed up to fifth place, before pitting in 12th place. Edwards got behind the wheel and rejoined the field in 17th. His first stint in the 2013 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona showed him climb up the charts to 8th before a caution grouped the field back together. Edwards had an epic restart, gaining four positions as the field went back to green. Within less than a half hour, the 21 year old found himself leading the field before pitting to hand the wheel over to Tommy Milner, followed by Jan Magnussen. Near the end of the first round of the driver rotation, the Camaro suffered break line issues and was forced to be taken back to the garage. Although the team made quick repairs, the damage put the team 16 laps behind the leaders in 24th position. For the remaining 13 hours, the team resisted fatigue and fought a grueling battle to climb up to 13th, only seven laps off of the lead lap. Just as Jan Magnussen made the pass for 13th, the gearbox gave out, forcing the team to retire the race with just two and a half hours remaining. "We knew the gearbox was going to be an issue this year, and we did all we could to prepare," said Edwards. "Stevenson crew is the hardest working and the best prepared team." Despite the disappointment of not finishing after the amount of effort put into the car and track position after the early brake issues, John and the team press on to focus on the next GRAND-AM event. GRAND-AM of the Americas presented by Gainsco and Total will take place in Austin, Texas March 1-2.