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A comparison of School and Freelance teaching.
|Most teachers will, at some time or another, teach in some sort of language school. The other usual way of teaching is as a freelance teacher.
In many ways working for a school has advantages especially for those who are new to the profession - but it also has its downsides and this article tries to weigh up the pros and cons. Somewhat ironically, the purpose of most language schools is not to teach languages. This often comes as a surprise to people new to the profession, but many of the actions of language schools can only be fully understood once this point has been grasped.
The purpose of most language schools is, naturally enough, to make money - and most of their activities are geared towards this primary goal. Teachers and their salaries are a necessary evil, and schools will do all they can to employ them minimum number of staff at the minimum possible salary. This may mean regularly changing teachers if the "old hands" start to realise their worth and demand more money. It also explains why some schools are keen on their students learning via computers. Computers don't need to be paid, take time off sick, get pregnant or need holidays. Whether they are the best solution for students is another matter.
|Working as a freelance teacher is the obvious alternative to working in a school. This article explores the positive and negative sides for teachers working freelance. It should be clear that this way of working is not for the faint-hearted, and is probably not the best course for inexperienced teachers. Nevertheless, for those who make a go of it, it can be a highly rewarding venture both in financial and emotional terms.
If you do not have an acceptable command of the native language then this is a difficult route to follow.
Your monthly/weekly salary should be guaranteed. Emphasis is on the "should" here, are there are many horror stories of teachers having to fight for their pay. So try to check out a school beforehand.
|If you chose the market segment properly then your potential hourly rate could be many times greater than the hourly rate paid by a school.
Your income will depend on the number of students you are able to find, your ability/reputation as a teacher, and local competition; it will not be guaranteed. You
|Many schools will give you a "bookend Schedule" - a schedule where you have to work from seven to ten in the morning, and then seven to ten in the evening. While at first it may seem pleasant to have your afternoons free, this type of schedule is very trying. It is impossible to have any sort of social life in the evening and get enough sleep.
|In theory you should be able to create your own schedule, although in practice you will also be constrained by the needs of your students. If your classes are mostly in businesses then you can expect to have classes early in the morning, at lunchtime and after work. The definition of these time periods will depend on the society.
If your clients are mostly private individuals then things change somewhat and evening or weekend work is more likely.
|You won't have to find students but you have no control over the selection of the students you have to teach. If you don't like them or they don't like you there is not a lot you can do about it.
|In theory you will only need to teach students you want to teach, although if there is a shortage of students your choices may not be quite so free. You will possibly have to learn a new skill: marketing. You will need to go out and find students - at least initially. It may take some time to build up a good clientèle.
Holidays and sickness
|The school should give you paid holidays and sick leave. Check your contract thoroughly before commencing employment; see here.
|You will not be paid for these. Look at insurance.
|Students who are paying their own money for individual classes will usually be highly motivated. On the other hand they are also likely be highly demanding.
|You will be accountable to nobody but your students for the quality or content of your classes. Naturally, this also means that you had better give good classes as your students will be free to vote with their feet whenever they like.
|You will probably have little control over the coursebook chosen by the school. You may love it or hate it, but you (probably) won't be able to change it.
|You will be able to decide whether or not to use a coursebook. At first, some students - especially if it's their first experience with a class outside of a language school - may feel uncomfortable about not having the "support" of a coursebook should you decide not to use one. This is likely to change as they come to realize the benefits of a more personalized approach to the learning process.
|You will need to consider how to deal with cancellations. If your students have paid in advance than you may wish to be pretty ruthless about this, but on the other hand you will also want to keep the student and your reputation.
Typically teachers use a sliding system along the lines of:
(Times are illustrative only.)
|You may need to budget for travelling expenses and travelling time. You may have to spend a considerable period of time travelling between classes, although the same thing may sometimes happen if you are sent to work offsite by a school. You might be able to adjust individual fees to allow for travel distance.
If you are reliant on your own vehicle, make sure that you have a replacement in the event of accident or breakdown.
Materials and equipment
|Unless you intend to follow a coursebook you will have to create your own topical classes, materials, handouts, listenings, etc.
Liability insurance
|If you are conducting lessons in your own premises, you will probably need liability insurance of some kind depending on local regulations.
|Working for a school should give you the opportunity to make contact with other teachers of your nationality, start some networking and exchange opinions and class ideas in a social setting. If you are fortunate one of the "old hands" will be prepared to show you the ropes if you are a new teacher.
|Your opportunities for social contact with other teachers may be reduced, as will the ongoing exchange of material and ideas. Partial solution: sign up with Teflpedia!
|You will be responsible for things like your own invoicing and tax records.
Location of classes
|If you are a good teacher your reputation should spread by word of mouth. You may, however, need some way to start things off.
Opinions vary over whether you should go for niche marketing and aim for a particular group, or go for the shotgun approach and claim that you are a specialist in "everything". If you decide to be more targeted, the method of marketing you use will depend on that market. For instance, if you are trying to "sell" yourself as somebody specialising in giving expensive classes to executives, your marketing literature will reflect this.
Try to maintain a list of satisfied past and present pupils who will agree to give you a (good) reference. Similarly, if possible and appropriate, keep in touch with ex pupils both to use as examples and to promote your teaching.
Your language ability
|Not knowing the local language is no big impediment if you are working in a school as the arrangements are made by the school authorities. Indeed, some schools maintain that they prefer their native English teachers not to know the local language as this means that they are obliged to use total immersion.
|Unless you are confident in your ability to negotiate and explain things in the native language (or have somebody to do it for you) then you will have a lot of problems going down this route.
|The price you charge for your classes will vary depending on the country in which you are working, the amount and nature of the competition (if any) and the sector you are targeting.
Some teachers like to charge private students in advance to reduce students' tendency to cancel classes.
|You may wish to obtain a PC and encourage your students to use one as well. For example students can also use memory sticks to record "homework" on if they are coming to you or are in a business environment. (You could even use the internet to conduct lessons.)
Preparation time
If you are lucky the school will pay your lesson preparation time. Check this out beforehand.
Social contact
Working for a school should give you the opportunity to make contact with other teachers of your nationality, start some networking and exchange opinions and class ideas in a social setting. If you are fortunate one of the "old hands" will be prepared to show you the ropes if you are a new teacher.
If you are new to the profession then working in a school should give you a lot of valuable experience of teaching a wide range of abilities, group sizes and ages. You may also get an opportunity to practice teaching English for specialised purposes.
The school should ensure that appropriate tax deductions are made.
Negative factors
These are the negative factors of working for a school.


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The RA, the top decision-making body for the more than three million member NEA, sets Association policy for the coming year. Delegates adopt the strategic plan and budget, resolutions, the legislative program, and other policies of the Association, and they vote by secret ballot on proposed amendments to the NEA's Constitution and Bylaws. They will also take up issues to support NEA's new action agenda, announced this past December, that will help transform the teaching profession and improve student learning. NEA's Representative Assembly is also the world's largest democratic deliberative body.
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Irondale Youth Hockey Association
Board Meeting: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
at the New Brighton Family Service Center, New Brighton, MN.
Address: IYHA, PO Box 120114, New Brighton, MN 55112 Website: www.iyhaleague.org
From President (Tom Lucarelli):
Please remember to come to the Q & A for the candidates on April 8th and then vote on April 15th. Thanks to the departing board members for their years of service and thanks to the new association members who have volunteered to run for a position.
See you at the rink,
President – Kevin Bourassa:
My name is Kevin Bourassa. I am running for President of Irondale Youth Hockey Association (IYHA). I currently have two children playing hockey in IYHA.
I believe strongly in the MISSION of IYHA which is "provide an environment that is Positive, Fun, and Competitive." Every player is different and we need to give ALL the players the tools required to continue to succeed at every level. The more players that we can give tools to the better we are as an association. I believe that we have an outstanding group of players, coaches, and families within our association.
I believe the only boundaries our players have is the boundaries that we put on them. At the Initiation level we need to continue to make it fun and exciting, making them come back for more. We need to continue to teach them the fundamentals of hockey. As we move up in levels from 10U to 12U or Squirt to Pee Wee, whatever it may be. We need to continue to nurture the fundamentals of hockey at a higher level. We need to not place boundaries on success, but give the players goals and expectations that are beyond their current skill set. I believe the Players want to compete and by giving them the necessary tools, ie… skill development, team development, and coaching, we can COMPETE at every level. If we are able to set expectations and goals beyond where they are currently at, our players will fear nothing and expect to be in regions, win regions, and win championships.
As a board, we need to have a common goal which should be for THE PLAYERS! There needs to be differing ideas and opinions but the end result needs to be for the betterment of THE PLAYERS. As President, I would be committed to continuing the development of players, coaches and parents while raising expectations and challenging everyone at there own level. Making the environment "Positive, Fun, and Competitive" will keep THE PLAYERS coming back. Creating a culture and commitment to excellence will "insure the Irondale Hockey Community" for years to come.
Thank you for considering me for President of the Irondale Youth Hockey Association.
President – Paul Dulin:
Greetings to All,
My name is Paul Dulin and I am running for the President position of the Irondale Youth Hockey Association (IYHA).
I am married with 4 children. 3 of my children are involved in one degree or another with IYHA.
I was born and raised in Edina, MN where I played hockey under some of the greatest coaches around. I continued my playing time in college and was fortunate to play some minor league (IHL) hockey. I have coached all levels of hockey from mites to high school and also reffed at a level 4.
I am currently a level 3 coach and have been coaching in IYHA for 4 years.
My family has been a strong supporter for this association. I'm proud that we have been a creative source behind breathing new life into the IYHA parade atmosphere which helped bring in a record number of initiation players this last year.
Also, I have taken part in everything from "Back to School Night, "Give Hockey a Try" Knight, "Welcome Knight at Moe's", to serving pancakes at the fund raising breakfast this past fall.
I want to see our association grow and thrive and to help guide IYHA in the direction of giving kids a great opportunity to learn the game that I cherish. I also want to see the players that we have continue to grow in this game and to not lose their passion for hockey.
I think I have a lot to offer this association.
Pass, Shoot, Score! Coach Paul Dulin
Secretary – Brent Eilefson:
First, I would like to resign from the Nominating Committee. Please replace me with Phil Herbert if you need to. He would love to volunteer for this position so that we follow our bylaws.
My statement of intent:
I would like to be considered for the IYHA Board position of Secretary. As a former IYHA and collegiate player, IYHA coach for the past 8 years (doubling up the last 4 years), and with 2 current (and potentially 3 total) kids in the association, seeking a position on the Board would allow me to contribute to an association which has provided me so much benefit and pleasure. In addition, IYHA is facing numerous challenges over the next several years and with my vested interests in the association and background in hockey, I believe that it is important to contribute a voice and vote to these important matters. Thank you for considering my nomination.
Brent G. Eilefson
Initiation Coordinator – Nina Dojan:
My name is Nina Dojan and I am running for the position of Initiation coordinator. I have a son in the Mite program who was a second year skater this season. My husband Jon has been the Mini-Mite coach for the past two years, and I have been the team manager. Our family came into IYHA two years ago not knowing much about youth hockey. We've been learning as we go, just like any other family. We have developed close relationships with coaches and other families in the association and I would like to take the opportunity to serve them and the program. The future of this association lies with it's youngest players, our ability to attract them in greater numbers and retain them, and their families. As initiation coordinator it would be my mission to continue to building and strengthening the program from the ground up, for the kids and the future of IYHA.
Registration Coordinator – Beth Soberg:
My name is Beth Soberg and I am interested in the Registration Coordinator position. My family and I have been part of IYHA for the past 8 years (this season I had two Peewees). I have been team manager for the past 4 years (this year I was crazy enough to manage two teams!) and I think that my experience will be beneficial to the association.
From District 1 Representative (Chris Drews):
A big thank you to the volunteers for the regional and state tournaments and an extra special thanks to Michelle Parrish for helping to coordinate the regionals while I was out of town!!!
From Registration Coordinator (Jeanne Falconer):
Two Lake Region Announcements:
There are 2 board positions up for election in April. They are the Vice President and Secretary. If anyone is interested, they should let Mark and Mary Ann know at email@example.com and they should plan on attending the April board meeting on the 21st.
People need to write to the state legislature to lower the taxes on charitable gambling. If not, it will go away and there will be no revenue for the state and no help for youth activities which is a lose-lose situation.
From Boys Coordinator (Mark Rupp):
Boys Coaches
Calling all boys coaches: If you coached during the 2008-2009 season, or if plan to coach during the 2009-2010 season; please plan to attend the following meeting.
Date: Tuesday evening April 7th, 2009
Location: New Brighton Family Service Center
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
We will be wrapping up the 2008-2009 season as well as plan for the 2009-2010 season coming up. Please come prepared to share in the dialog.
Mark Rupp
Irondale Boys Coordinator
IYHA Board Meetings are open meetings.
Please feel free to come to the meetings. If you wish to have a copy of any information which is distributed at any meeting, please email or call Jean Aukee and it will be mailed to you. Upcoming dates for 2009 Board meetings are the
third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Our meetings are held at the New Brighton Family Service Center.
Meetings will be: May 21, June 18, July 16 and August 20.
NOTE: If you wish to be on the agenda for the meeting, please contact the IYHA President.
Lake Region Board Meetings:
Lake Region Hockey meetings are open meetings. Contact Theresa Spiering for dates and times of the next meetings.
Sponsors for teams are listed below. This part of the newsletter will continue throughout the rest of the IYHA season. Please notify Jean Aukee of any additions or corrections. (Please forward information about websites and addresses, etc.) Many thanks to our sponsors!
IYHA: **Lake Region Hockey Association**, **Moes**, **Champps**, **Meisters**, **Big 10 Tavern**, **Make It Big Photos** and
**Dave's Sport Shop**.
Team Sponsorships:
Bantam A: **Response Fire Protection**, **WW Goetsch Assoc**, and **MN Conway Fire**
Pee Wee B: **Jensen, Bell, Converse and Erickson, PA**, **Western Bank** and **Dr John Hollerud, MD of Fridley Children's and Teen's Medical Center**
Once again, many, many thanks to our sponsors! Please support them!
When you see them, please tell them you are from Irondale Youth Hockey.
Irondale Youth Hockey Association (IYHA) Board Members 2008-2009
Tom Lucarelli
Vice President
Monica Crandall
763-234-9316 (c)
Theresa Spiering
763-780-4548 (h)
Jean Aukee
763-783-8561 (h)
Ice Commissioner
Kara Chamberlain
Boys Program Coordinator
651-269-3027 (h & c)
Girls Program Coordinator
Mike Nundahl
651-633-8287 (h)
Initiation Coordinator
Bob Gabler
651-697-4708 (h)
Tom Johnson
Jeanne Falconer
763-458-5946 (cell)
651-486-1235 (w)
District Representative
Chris Drews
651-329-3124 (cell)
Non-Board Positions:
ACE Coordinator and Player Development Committee
IYHA Meeting Board Meeting: March 26, 2009. Note: These minutes have not been approved. They will be reviewed, corrected as needed, and approved at the next regular Board of Directors Meeting.
Called to order at 6:35 p.m. by President Tom Lucarelli.
Board members present: Tom Lucarelli, Monica Crandall, Theresa Spiering, Mike Nundahl, Bob Gabler, Kara Chamberlain, Tom Johnson and Jeanne Falconer.
Webmaster present: Torri Johnson
Guests: Tyler Fitzel, Ray Mularie, Mike Bridgeman, Mark Hentges, Cindy Anderson, Chuck Ferraro, Rich Sonterre, Doug Loahr, Brent Eilefson, Paul Dulin and Steve Clark
Reviewed agenda and minutes. BG made a motion to accept, TS seconded, motion passed.
Chris Drews not present to make apparel presentation – will have to wait until next meeting.
Mike Nundahl – 14U lost in O.T so the team didn't make it to state. Congratulations for getting as far as they did. Do we have to amend the by-laws before it can be official for the association to pay for regional's and state? Torri found the minutes from the May 2008 newsletter which represented the April 2008 board meeting. It was made official by a vote of the board that the association would pay for regional's and state.
Coach Tyler Fitzel presented his perspective on this past season and offered some suggestions. Other coaches present also had some input and it was decided to bring more of the same up at another board meeting and at the coaches meeting.
This is a community that is engaged in Irondale Hockey. There were steps taken and learning this year that should send IYHA and IHS forward in looking for more continuity between high school and youth. Tryouts were disappointing in that the coaches were lied to because they were told they would also be able to rate and evaluate the skaters and be able to choose a few players at the back end and this didn't happen. The tryout process needs to be looked at. It's great to have outside evaluators because there is no bias. However, it is also good to have some coaches also evaluating and to get their input because they know the players and hopefully there won't be any repeats of a skater being put on a team that he/she isn't ready to be on. It was strange that there were no 'bubble kids'. It was interjected here that tryouts is the responsibility of the Boys' Coordinator. Hopefully the BC will take input from people. Coach Fitzel wants to continue to coach and would like to see a few changes. Understands the cost savings of sharing ice, but it's difficult on a standard sheet and splitting at the Bantam level isn't always so good. Realize it was difficult with the ice commissioner stepping down. Bantam As had 52 practices and 35 games. They should have at least 120 hours of ice. 9 additional hours were purchased by the team. Discussed ice and when to put out info about the tryout process and about putting the right groups together in practices and skills clinics. Discussed having coaches chosen by Aug. 1st and about paid evaluators and IYHA evaluators. 'Bubble' needs to be explained. Mission of the program in general is to have a fun, competitive and safe program. Player coach development committee – job descriptions for 2 separate issues here. Skills clinics are a great idea, especially for Mites, Squirts. PeeWee level needs to be changed. Bantam level needs to concentrate more on game skills – general scenarios. There were common game situations that the kids didn't know. A goalie clinic was held ½ way through the season. That needs to be earlier on. There was no coach development. A lot of things were said, but not done. Need better communication. Need a coaching plan – put together by and for the association, not something copied from USAH. It's easier for the players if they understand how the skills they are learning (have learned) fit in the game. If anything is left to just one person, that person can change the rules as he/she goes and that isn't always good. The board needs to okay the tryout process before it is published. Also, publish skills clinics in advance.
A motion was made by Bob G. that the Boys' and Girls' tryout process be published by the May board meeting. Theresa seconded the motion – it passed.
A motion was made by Bob G. that the coaches be chosen by the August board meeting for Boys and Girls. Tom J. seconded. Motion passed.
The skill and development committee should have a recommendation of what's needed at the skills clinics and present it at the June Board meeting. A motion was made by Bob G. and was seconded by Theresa. Motion passed.
Fund raising – Rich Sonterre and Cindy Anderson – presented the idea of putting together a hockey cook book by hockey families. A publisher has been found – will entertain another if the cost is right. This would be an association wide fundraiser. First, there has to be interest – will see if enough recipes can be collected and if there is interest in purchasing the books. These could be sold at the tournament and other events as well as each year at registration and they could be periodically updated. But again, the first thing to do is to collect recipes and see if there's interest.
Board Roundtable:
President: Looking for the money from selling programs at the Wild game – the check had been received and was brought to the meeting - $750.00. Now to check into Treasure Island because it is supposed to match the funds. Rec'd. a call back from Greg K. – MVYHA – they've formed a task force to look at co-oping, etc. The reception from Spring Lake Park was lukewarm. There might be some interest – parents are grumbling about the distances that are traveled in D10. They are probably receptive to co-oping. Roseville – their meeting is tonight, so will get feed back after tonight. Dave's did well for us last season; we're hoping it will continue. Tom Mickus is running for District Director again. He will be having a meeting sometime in April. If it is after our elections, someone from the 'new' board will have to attend the meeting. It is about St. Louis Park and Southwest staying together and having their Bantam As and PeeWee As play in District 3. The rest of the teams would play in District 1. Tom Mickus is trying to fight that – feels there's been too much work done to have that happen and that is what the meeting will be about. The rebate from Make it Big Photos was received and presented.
Vice President: Presented a $22,000.00 check from the tournament. The tournament committee issued a refund check for ½ the entrance fee for the B Bantams – because at the beginning of the season a check was issued for the C Bantams at full price and since we changed to a B level and the B Bantam bracket was filled up until the last minute – when we were given a tourney slot at ½ price to play and that is why we received a refund check for $312.50. Has a list of 31 families that she has no record of their having fulfilled their 12 hours. The deadline is the 28th of March to log hours. Discussed what to do if any of the volunteer checks that are cashed, bounce.
Secretary: On a wonderful vacation and no report
Treasurer: discussed what to do about bounced checks from registration
Boys' Coordinator: Absent, Monica read his report:
Clothing – I think nothing should be done until we figure out what direction we are headed as an association. Hockey is already expensive enough for our families. If this is not the choice of the board, I want to be involved in the clothing "process". I have extensive background in this area.
Election – 3 things for the board.
1. How are we going to handle the logistics of the election night? If we are going to stay open late, who will man the posts for the duration of time? I will volunteer to be a part of this.
2. If we have another candidate who is willing to attend the "meet the candidate night", I say they should be allowed to run. We have enough problems finding qualified folks who want to step up and be part of the solution.
3. Our bylaws have not been updated on the website with the new election process. I personally do not have a copy, but have requested one from Jean.
Comment to Mark's report - no one else can come in at the last minute to run for a position. The bios have to be published in the March newsletter.
Girls' Coordinator: Congratulations to the 10U Girls – Districts 1 and 2 champions. Will be scheduling a coaches meeting shortly. Plan to have two 12U teams, an A and a B next season. RECRUIT, RECRUIT, RECRUIT!!!
Initiation Coordinator: The year went well – it was a good season and the kids had fun. Got good comments. 17 of 18 B Mites signed up to play spring hockey. The A Mites played in-between periods at the Boys High School State Tournament.
Ice Commissioner: the ice from Ramsey County is out and she's going to meet with MVYHA. Needs to know from each level – how many hours. This should probably come from the coordinators after the coaches meeting. Have the try-out ice. Comment pertaining to ice from Mark H. Ice is a high priority. He, Bob G. and Cheryl M. will help Kara and meet with MVYHA with her.
Equipment Manager: need to send an e-mail to get clean jerseys back.
Registration Coordinator: At this time have only 2 team books back. Will send e-mails to get the remaining books. Want them ready for the new registration coordinator.
Steve Clark: Sunnyside will open its unused rink 3 nights a week for IYHA. It has lights and it will be groomed. Want to charge $40 per hour. Tom J. commented that at Hanson it's $10 per hour. Steve will talk to Sunnyside about getting the price down. Will put info. about these 2 outside sites on the web. USAH insures all players and coaches even outside.
Lake Region: Received a $2000.00 check payable to the SSR – picked up the invoice from the PO box. LR will pay $500 toward the banners (will reimburse IYHA since they have already been paid for & the paper work is complete). Also there is information so people can write to the appropriate state agencies, legislators in an effort to get the taxes lowered on charitable gambling.
BG made a motion to adjourn. TJ or TS made a second and meeting was adjourned.
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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in a sales competition for the AMA regional conference in Whitewater, Wisconsin. I learned a lot about myself and my education in the process and feel compelled to share it with you all by way of this post. But first, I should preface that with some information about the conference!
The conference played host to phenomenal guest speakers and numerous networking opportunities. What I really went for, however, was the sales competition.The competition had two rounds. The first was an appointment call where we played the role of a sales rep for College Pro Painters (the sponsor of the competition). On our call we were to speak with the owner of an event planning company who had submitted an estimate request online.
My call went very well and my judges gave excellent feedback. My approach on the call felt so fluid. I worked through objections, built solid rapport, and made the appointment to meet face to face with my prospect. I had a quiet confidence about me in the role play and my judges reinforced this in their comments following my call. It was very odd to hear such positive feedback, however, because up to this point my experiences in sales usually come up short of a "win"; especially in the NIU sales program. I am bruised and bloodied in the sales track here but my goodness I'm proud to take the hits if this level of performance is the outcome.
I saw people from other schools walk out of the role play rooms complaining how the objections they received didn't match the ones they expected based on their preparation. I couldn't help but laugh. I have been groomed to expect the unexpected and with only an hour or so worth of preparation I was able to field any and all objections that were thrown at me. I have been trained to think outside the box and understand the needs of the customer. I know to listen before I speak and I understand that if a buyer has a problem that you NEED be the solution in order to make the sale.
Most people that know me well understand that I maintain an extreme and sometimes unhealthy level of modesty. I must deviate from that on this post to help you understand how incredible our sales program is. When it came time for results to be posted from round 1, I didn't even feel the need to look. I already knew I moved on. I walked out of that room knowing that I nailed the call. The only reason I even went to see the results sheet that they posted in the hall was to see what time my second round face to face appointment with the prospect was. It was scheduled a few hours away and I needed to begin preparing.
I prepared until my scheduled time and walked into the room with confidence. In this final round, I was meeting face to face with the business owner to close a deal to paint his business. I used tools I had learned from professors here at NIU and I credit them alone to how well my entire experience at this regional conference went. I felt like a sales "monster" in that final role play. Not a single thing went wrong. My judges were spellbound and had nothing to say when I invited them to give any constructive criticism. They looked to each other and simply shook their heads. They said they loved my process. They said it was clean, consistent, and focused on the needs of the customer. I believe that the judges thought the same about our other students who participated because the NIU AMA chapter ended up taking home two runner up prizes and one first place (which I'm proud to have accepted on behalf of our NIU chapter and the NIU College of Business).
I've gone through so much rejection, had so many missteps in MKTG 450 (the highest level sales course at NIU) but all the mistakes have been worth something. It finally hit me at the competition, just how much I've learned in the past nine weeks. The value of participating in MKTG 450 is undeniable. It is no wonder why I hear recruiters consistently say that 450 alum are a cut above. Up to this point I haven't had anything to validate these claims and the competition really just opened my eyes. When a single school takes home half of the cash prizes (each winner was a MKTG 450 student), there is something to be said about that schools program and its attention to detail. I am sure that I'm not alone in my thinking and other 450 students and alum can attest to the growth they've seen in themselves; both personally and professionally based on their experience in Advanced Professional Sales.
I feel that it is appropriate within the context of this blog post to take a moment to thank Dr. Weilbaker, the founder of our sales track here at NIU, for his exceptional work in making this program the powerhouse it is today. I am certainly not alone in saying that I appreciate what he's done. Thank you for your years of service to this institution. We wish you nothing but the best when this semester reaches its end. 2.0out


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Via a GeekoSystem feed, and from the folks at Rock Paper Shotgun, World of Warcraft – Plants vs Zombies….like in the game! Darn cool.
Incredible, awesome, and I'm still thinking this could be a hoax. Just because total-biscut did a vid doesnot mean its not 100% legit, or at the very least it might be a trick or bonus for the beta folks. But if its not a hoax, this would be a great way to swindle away serious hours as the raid starts. The in-game mini-games is something that is kind of odd.
If the WoW game is good enough, do we need mini-games?
Or if you're paying to play wow, is this extra? Where is the line?
It would have to be phased though? Griefers watching the fields for new players might have a field-day.
And please tell me that their is a flight point, or inn nice and close, so I can bind my hearth to that Inn, and port back to play anytime.


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Police: Teens steal candy, threaten employee with knives
Teens arrested at nearby bus stop
MADISON, Wis. — Three Madison 13-year-olds were arrested on a Metro bus after police said the trio stole candy and condoms from a Walgreens store and threatened an employee with knives.
Police were called to the Walgreens at 606 S. Whitney Way at 8:52 p.m. Friday for a report of a robbery.
The store manager told police he spotted the teenagers stealing candy and condoms and offered to keep them from getting in trouble if they would put the items back.
The teens set off the alarm as they left the store and the manager followed them into the parking lot, where he gave them a chance to return the items, according to police.
The manager said he called police after at least two, but maybe all three teens brandished knives.
Police arrived and the suspects were arrested on a bus at the West Transfer Point nearby.
Officers said they found three steak knives on the teens, including a 7-inch, 5 1/2 –inch and 4 ½-inch blade.
One teen told police he carries the knife for protection and another said he had been cutting food and forgot he had the blade in his pocket, according to officers.
Police said candy was found on the bus where the teens had been seated.
The three were taken to the Juvenile Reception Center on suspicion of armed robbery, retail theft, carrying a concealed weapon and intimidation of a victim. Two are suspected of disorderly conduct while armed and one is suspected of disorderly conduct.


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(Pocket-lint) - The MSI Wind Top AE2400 is a touchscreen, Windows 7-based, all-in-one PC, which is promoted as "the ultimate multimedia package".
The specs are quite impressive for a machine that retails at a penny less than £950. You've got Windows 7 Home Premium running via an Intel Pentium Dual Core E5400 processor (clocked at 2.7GHz) backed up by an ATI Radeon HD 5730 3D GPU with 1GB DDR3 VRAM, as well as the machine's 4GB of DDR3 RAM. There's also a 1TB HDD to store all of your media and game data.
So how does all this hardware perform? Well, for starters, the machine has a pretty swift boot up time which is handy if you're planning on using the AE2400 as a family centred PC - maybe even replacing your dining room TV setup. From the time you click the power button everything is loaded and ready to go in just over a minute and a half.
Basic tasks like word processing and surfing the web are almost instantaneous and more strenuous activity like photo editing is dealt with efficiently and without much trouble at all. HD video on the AE2400 is excellent via the 23.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 screen. It handled 30fps, 1080p, downloaded content without any stuttering using VLC and Media Player Classic.
With streaming HD content there was a tiny amount of stutter with World Cup footage on the iPlayer (and CPU usage seemed a little high at around 70-80 per cent), but an episode of Dr Who looked very sharp and played back nicely. Downloaded HD content from the iPlayer played back using Adobe Air was also stutter-free.
YouTube 1080p content was seamless and CPU usage was down to around 30 per cent indicating that YouTube is more efficient at offsetting HD video processing to the GPU -which probably says more about the BBC's encoding than the AE2400's ability to stream HD.
Blu-ray playback looked absolutely stunning (as Blu-rays should do) and the remote control was very responsive when using the built-in Blu-ray player software. The remote also worked completely with Windows Media Player and Centre, and basic commands also worked with VLC and Media Player Classic.
Sound on the AE2400 is very good, much better than a TV of similar size. It has two 5-Watt speakers backed up by a 10-Watt subwoofer and it played films and music loudly with little vibration or distortion.
We also tested the AE2400 on a couple of games from the Steam network - Iron Grip Warlord and Mass Effect 2 (both demos) - and gameplay was fluid and the graphics looked great. There was no lag and no instances of slow-down.
When it comes to connectivity with the AE2400 you've got VGA out, six USB sockets, an eSATA port, HDMI and SPDIF. It's got a 6-in-1 card reader located on the bottom left-hand side and you've also got a 1.3-megapixel webcam and built-in mic. There's also a TV tuner built-in (although we couldn't fully test this as there was no roof-top aerial at the test location - the included mini-aerial didn't pick up any signal as is often the case).
So we've covered the pros, but what of the cons? Well, firstly it isn't the best looking all-in-one that we've seen. It looks a bit plasticy and square and isn't really as aesthetically pleasing as some of its rivals - most notably the Acer Aspire Z5610, the Sony Vaio VPCL12MIE or the HP TouchSmart 600. The remote control is very ugly - it works well as described above, but it has the square look and feel of a TV from the 1990s.
The multi-touch features are also pretty poor. After using an iPhone and and iPad regularly, the screen seemed pretty sluggish and it was impossible to accurately click on a link or a small button. The included stylus improves accuracy, but who wants to use a stylus? The MSI MultiTouch Gadget software is a nice inclusion, which makes the touchscreen experience a little bit easier, but it almost feels as if you're using it just for the sake of it to get your touchscreen money's worth.
The wireless mouse and keyboard might make things a little more efficient, although the review sample we received had no mouse and no USB sensor to get these working, unfortunately, so we can't really comment on how well they performed. We did plug in and use our own wireless mouse and keyboard setup though - and found the machine to work fine with these. We can't see there being any issue with the MSI supplied mouse or keyboard.
As stated the AE2400 has a bit of a plasticy feel to it, and it looks a bit, well, cheap - but that's only really when you're up close to the machine. From a distance it looks quite shiny and sleek and it wouldn't be out of place as a replacement for the TV in a dining room for example.
Obviously noise is a factor when using any PC as a media player but the AE2400 uses a low-power TDP 65W CPU, so fan noise is kept to a minimum. The optical drive didn't make any more noise than a traditional Blu-ray player would either. Although it has to be said that the machine does make a heck of a din when you first turn it on and it boots into life - but this only lasts about a second so it's not the end of the world.
Deciding what score to give the AE2400 was difficult. If the machine didn't bother with the touchscreen features, which we found to be unresponsive, and instead was marketed as a simple sub-£1000 multimedia all-in-one PC, then it would have probably scored an eight. But, as the multi-touch features are a key part of this machine's make-up, it has to lose a mark.
It is still, however, a decent, solid, multimedia machine, even if it doesn't look quite as slick as some of its rivals. If you're looking at performance and the specs alone, then you're definitely onto a winner.


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Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Traveler Update on Coronavirus
Airports Authority Board Elects 2012 Officers
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors has elected Michael Curto as its new Chairman and re-elected the Honorable Thomas Davis III as Vice Chairman and Quince T. Brinkley, Jr. as Secretary for 2012.
Mr. Curto was appointed to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board in 2011. He is the Deputy Chair of the Business Department of Patton Boggs LLP, a global law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Mr. Curto also is a member of the firm's Management Committee and head of the firm's ERISA and Employee Benefits practice, representing corporate, nonprofit and government sponsors of pension and welfare benefit plans, and insurance companies in all aspects of retirement, health and compensation issues. He currently is the Chairman for the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Committee for Montgomery County, Maryland and a member of the Annual Fund Committee for the Georgetown Preparatory School, which he previously chaired. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Family Caregivers Association. He is an appointee of the Governor of Maryland.
Mr. Davis was appointed to the Board in 2010 and has served as Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since April 2011. He is the Director of Federal Government Affairs for Deloitte LLP. He represented Fairfax County as an elected official for 29 years at the local and federal levels. From 1979 to 1992 he served as the supervisor for Mason Magisterial District. From 1992 to 1994 he served as chairman of the county board, after which he represented the 11th Congressional District of Virginia in the U.S. Congress until his retirement in 2008. During Mr. Davis' congressional tenure, he accumulated a number of legislative accomplishments important to the National Capital Region. These include the D.C. Control Board Act, the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, which resulted in the closure of Lorton Prison, and the National Capital Transportation Amendments Act, which authorized much needed capital reinvestment in the Washington Metro system. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of Virginia Law School. Mr. Davis is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
Mr. Brinkley was first elected Vice President and Secretary to the Airports Authority in 2008. Mr. Brinkley comes to the Airports Authority with a distinguished career in public and private service and has extensive experience in banking, airport consulting, real estate development and finance. He has worked for the City of Chicago in the Office of Management and Budget and has served as a Senior Airport Consultant with Unison Consulting Group, Inc. in Chicago, where he provided consulting services to airports across the nation. Mr. Brinkley has also worked in the real estate development and finance arena in the Washington, D.C. region, Atlanta, Ga. and Charlotte, North Carolina with the Urban Residential Development Corporation, the Freddie Mac Corporation and Wachovia Securities. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
The 13-member Board of Directors is appointed by the Governors of Virginia and Maryland, the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the President of the United States.


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Last nights Indiewire Filmmakers party was a bit of a whirlwind. I had to explain my moniker to a few people when they asked, "So are you a socialite?" "No," I clarified, "I'm the Brooklyn Socialite." Big difference, indeed!
I ran into filmmaker Joe Brewster who I know from many Stranger than Fiction's ago, and from seeing his film, Slaying Goliath at the African Diaspora Film Festival. He was excited to see me and took me on a fast-paced, arm pulling tour of the entire party. Determined to introduce me to all the filmmakers of color who are involved in the Tribeca all Access program and everyone else he knew along the way, including his wife, Michelle Stephenson.
Some of the highlights of these rapid fire meetings, included a guy named James? who is opening a 3-plex art cinema in Williamsburg in December (more info on this when I figure out his last name and actually get a contact for him!), Molly Charnoff of the Lava Dance company, who's performance, We Become I saw at the Lyceum back in December, Lisa Lucas, who I haven't seen since we went to High School together and who turns out to now work for the Tribeca Institute, small world! She looked great. I also met numerous filmmakers who seem to have great projects in the works like The Kivalina Project , Wam!Bam!Islam! and Binawee by Australian Aboriginal filmmaker, Sam Saunders.
Plus I ran into filmmaker, Ian Olds, who I had met at Full Frame and who's feature documentary, Fixer:The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, I am excited to see next week. The film is about a Afghan fixer hired by a Italian journalist to help navigate Afghanistan, who is then kidnapped by the Taliban and ultimately executed. More on this after I see it.
All in all the party was fun for meeting and self-watering, there was a lively dj but not much dancing, they did have great sugar covered chicken triangle things going around in trays and in true Freegan style I ate as many as possible!


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RCMP are investigating the case of two teens who were allegedly taped together by their teacher as punishment for not getting along in class, an incident that has infuriated the mother of one of the girls at the Moncton, N.B., school.
The mother, who is not being identified, said her daughter came home from school on Wednesday with a bruised wrist.
She alleges the girls' hands were wrapped in paper towel, and then her daughter's right hand was taped to the other girl's left arm with hockey tape.
The mother said they were left taped together for an entire class because they weren't getting along, and she's livid about the method of discipline.
"I said, 'You're kidding me right? There's no way a teacher would ever do this to a child,'" the mother said.
If the girls were not getting along in class, the teen's mother said the teacher could have found a different way to punish them.
"There's a way to deal with it and taping or whatever happened is not the way to resolve it. You send them to the principal's office and let them deal with it."
Codiac RCMP confirmed they're investigating the alleged incident at Lewisville Middle School.
CBC News reached the teacher accused in the matter at home on Friday morning. He said he appreciated the call, but could not discuss the situation during the investigation.
The mother said she doesn't believe the school is properly dealing with her complaint, which she calls corporal punishment in a public school.
She said the teacher will be back in the classroom on Friday morning.
And as long as he's there, the mother said, her daughter will not be going to school.
"That … teacher should be out of the school until the investigation is done," the mother said.
Carol Murphy, an official with the Anglophone East School District, said the district is unable to comment on the allegation.
"The school district is committed to ensuring the well-being of every student and we are looking into this situation," Murphy said.
Allegations only, says teachers' group
Heather Smith, president of the New Brunswick Teachers' Association, said she could not comment on the case because of confidentiality and because she doesn't have all of the facts.
But she said she finds it "quite disturbing" that there appears to be a growing tendency for allegations against teachers to be publicized as facts in social media.
"The Department of Education has a Policy 701 that if there is a complaint against a teacher, then there is an investigator that is appointed, and then the whole situation is investigated," said Smith.
"This investigator, of course, has access to all the facts in a very confidential nature. And what has happened today is certainly not confidential, so I do find that concerning. It's only one side of the story," she said. "We can't assume that every allegation is factual, and that's what those investigations are for, to make sure the facts come out in a fair manner.
"There is a process that is set up for anyone who has complaints, whether it be students or parents. The process is they speak to the teacher first to get the other side, or other facts. If they're not satisfied there, they can go see the principal. After that, they can go to district office. So there is a step by step process in place that we really need to follow so that everyone is treated fairly."
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* Barilla says he would not feature gay family in commercial
* Gay, lesbian groups call for consumer boycott
* Barilla apologises, emphasises women's "central role"
ROME, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Guido Barilla, chairman of the world's leading pasta manufacturer, prompted calls for a consumer boycott on Thursday after telling Italian radio his company would never use a gay family in its advertising.
"I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don't agree with them. Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role," Barilla, 55, said in an interview with Radio 24 on Wednesday.
Barilla - one of the best known pasta brands around the world - is one of Italy's biggest advertisers, and for many years has used the image of a happy family living in an idealised version of the Italian countryside, with the slogan: "Where there's Barilla, there's home".
In the interview, Barilla said he opposed adoption by gay parents, but was in favour of allowing gay marriage, which is not legal in Italy. His comment about advertising was in response to a direct question about whether he would ever feature a gay family in his company's commercials.
If gays "like our pasta and our advertising, they'll eat our pasta, if they don't like it then they will not eat it and they will eat another brand," he said.
Aurelio Mancuso, head of gay rights group Equality Italia, said Barilla's comments were an "offensive provocation" and called for a boycott of the company's pasta, sauces and snacks.
"We accept the invitation from the Barilla owner to not eat his pasta," Mancuso said. Many Italians used social media to voice support for a boycott.
Alessandro Zan, a gay member of parliament, said on Twitter: "You can't mess around with consumers, including gay ones."
Barilla issued a statement on Thursday apologising, explaining that he was trying to say "simply that the woman plays a central role in a family."
"Barilla features families in its commercials because it embraces anyone, and they have always been identified with our brand," he said.
Spanish film star Antonio Banderas features in the latest publicity campaign for Barilla's Mulino Bianco cookies and breakfast cakes. They feature him baking biscuits with children and talking to a chicken called Rosita. (Reporting by Steve Scherer; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


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In St. Petersburg, considered to be Russia's cultural capital, you'll visit the Hermitage museum, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Nevsky Prospekt and the Peter and Paul Fortress. Treasures to see in Moscow include sweeping Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral with its candy-colored onion domes, and the crown jewels of the Armory Museum in the red-brick Kremlin.
Many cruises visit Kizhi Island, known for its unique collection of wooden structures, including a cathedral of 22 domes that was constructed without the use of a single nail. Uglich is one of the oldest towns in Russia, and here you'll see the Church of St. Dmitry on the Blood, built on the site where Ivan the Terrible's son was killed. Disembark in Yaroslavl to shop for handcrafted souvenirs and view the detailed frescoes and icons of the Church of St. Elijah the Prophet.
You'll gain a deeper understanding of Russia's culture and history, as guides in each destination share expert knowledge and point out significant sights. Often, a performance of Russian folkloric music is provided on board the ship. Itineraries typically include hotel stays in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Your hotel and riverboat accommodations, many meals and sightseeing excursions are covered in one rate.
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Beejive 3.0 goes live, supports push notifications
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Our favorite instant messaging app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Beejive (pronounced bee-hive,) just got updated to version 3.0. While there are a few nice additions, the biggest is that Beejive now supports push notifications on the iPhone. If you are unfamiliar, this means you can tell Beejive to stay persistently connected to Apple's push servers, even when you close that app. So you can keep a conversation going, while you also check your email, surf the Internet, and more. If you get a new IM, you will get a text notification telling you so, which you can simply close, or use to launch Beejive and take you directly back to the conversation.
Seriously, if you want a downright amazing IM app on your iPhone, consider BeejiveIM.
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Twitterific 2.0 for iPhone is fantastic
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Social Networking, App Updates, Videos, $3.99, Free Apps,
Twitterific 2.0 hit the App Store yesterday, and it is a huge leap forward in terms of being a fully-integrated Twitter client when compared to the preview 1.x version. Hit the video above for a quick visual walkthrough of the interface. The Iconfactory has two versions of Twitterific 2.0 available, a free version with ads, or a premium $3.99 version which removes all ads.
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Genkii Sparkle Virtual World
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Entertainment, Social Networking, Videos, $4.99,
While most applications are meant for only the user, this should mark a change in the way they can be utilized. Tokyo based Genkii has created an app that lets iPhone users connect with others. Sparkle is claimed to be the first virtual world that links your phone to Second Life and OpenSim grids. Send teleport requests and IMs or chat with others. Sparkle is available for $4.99 now but plans include a 3D version to come with personal space, social networking, virtual games and goods, and more.
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Emoji frostyplace Emoticons
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Entertainment, Social Networking, $0.99,
Emoji were such a hit in Japan that the emoticons are now available for everyone. The app is called Typing Genius. After you download it, you should play with it for a few minutes to activate it, then hit your settings "> General > International > Keyboards > Japanese" and click on the Emoji option. You are ready to text any other iPhones. No jailbreak is needed and the application is only $.99. Happy happy, joy joy.
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Tweetsville: Our new favorite Twitter app
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Social Networking, App Updates, Reviews, Tapulous, $3.99,
Being the big fans of Twitter that we are here are Gear Live, we are always looking for the best way to interact with the service. We've used apps like Twitteriffic, Twinkle, and Twittelator, but we think we've found one that we will be sticking with for a while. It's called Tweetsville, and it's an app that Tapulous purchased from an independent developer, and then incorporated into their umbrella. Here's the description:
The ultimate dedicated Twitter client for iPhone! Send tweets and direct messages with ease. Check out the latest trends on Twitter and do powerful searches. Favorites, History, Replies… it's all here! Tap on a tweet to reply to the user, send them a message, check out their profile. From their profile, you can also see their history, their favorites, and their friends and followers. See the number of unread direct messages in your inbox right in the tab bar. Supports inline links, bold and italic automatically in tweets by treating words like *this* as bold and like _this_ or /this/ as italic. All of this in a clean, iPhone look and feel with two looks for your tweet lists: balloons and simple.
Since release a couple of weeks ago, the team has already released an update, bringing it to version 1.1. This includes support for international formats and encodings, along with significantly enhanced stability. As I said, we've certainly enjoyed the app, and currently feels it's the best thing available as far as Twitter clients are concerned. The only improvements we are looking for are faster syncing and downloading. Once they get that fixed up, this thing will truly rock. You can pick up Tweetsville on the App Store for $3.99.
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Central Massachusetts residents stocked up on supplies, public officials mapped response plans and utilities began mobilizing crews today as they braced for the harsh winds and potentially devastating impact of Hurricane Sandy.
The large and lumbering storm, which could affect up to 60 million Americans, is expected to hit Massachusetts early tomorrow.
Gov. Deval L. Patrick asked all schools and colleges to close tomorrow. Speaking to reporters this afternoon from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Framingham, he said all non-essential public employees should work from home and urged private-sector employees to do the same.
Power outages during this megastorm could be worse than the widespread outages experienced last year after Tropical Storm Irene, the governor noted.
Wind damage is expected throughout Massachusetts, but the south and east coasts also could see severe flooding. MEMA Director Kurt N. Schwartz urged coastal communities to order evacuations "if necessary."
Forecasters expect the weather system dubbed "Frankenstorm" to hit Massachusetts around 2 a.m. Monday, at Martha's Vineyard. "By tomorrow afternoon," the governor said, "the entire commonwealth will feel the effects of the hurricane."
Many customers flocked to local stores over the weekend to stock up on storm supplies. At Home Depot in Worcester, 60 generators sold in less than two hours yesterday. Today, customers snatched up flashlights, batteries and other supplies as they waited for the retailer to receive new shipments of generators.
"People don't want to be without power like they were last year," said Aaron Johnson, department head of hardware.
David Goparian browsed the aisles of Home Depot this afternoon for the second time in two days. He is as prepared as anyone can be. "I finished chopping firewood," he said. "I prepared my generator … I fueled up all my vehicles... I cleared all the furniture off the deck … I got 10 gallons of water. I got toilet paper. I got some more canned goods … I made sure we had all the laundry done. All the phones are charged. All the flashlights are ready to go …"
Grocery stores were also busy. Customers at the Northboro Wegmans bought water and bread, and simple packaged foods like peanut butter and jelly.
"Lots of people are buying staples for their family," perishables manager Matthew Finewood said. "We're in stock, and we have the products our customers need."
The National Weather Service is forecasting heavy rain and strong winds tomorrow, with gusts as high as 55 miles per hour. The wind will likely bring down trees and power lines.
Hurricane Sandy is expected to move on by late tomorrow, but if previous storms are any indication, power outages could last for days.
National Grid, which supplies power to most of Central Massachusetts, vowed to be better prepared for Sandy than it was for two severe storms last year. The utility may have to pay millions of dollars in fines for its response to the 2011 storms.
Spokeswoman Charlotte McCormack said the company has summoned hundreds of workers from as far as Oregon and California to help with storm response. Some of the crews were setting up at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel in Marlboro today.
To foster communication with local officials, National Grid will have representatives stationed in all 172 Massachusetts cities and towns it covers, Ms. McCormack said.
Worcester City Manager Michael V. O'Brien warned that the process of finding downed wires and restoring power still may be long and arduous.
Worcester could see 2 to 5 inches of rain in a 30-hour period, he said – less than what it received during Tropical Storm Irene. "But we expect higher winds than we did with Irene," he said.
The city has established an Emergency Operations Center on Grove Street, where department heads will convene during the storm.
President Barack Obama today officially declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts, which makes the state eligible for federal aid. The governor said state police and National Guard troops are ready to respond to the storm.
The American Red Cross is also prepared, said Janet K. Warren, regional development officer in the agency's Worcester office. "We have shelters all ready to open, volunteers ready to staff them, we're getting food ready," she said.
She urged smartphone users to download the hurricane app at redcross.org to get more information and find help.
Massachusetts residents can call 211 for storm-related information. To report power outages, National Grid customers can call (800) 465-1212. Customers of Unitil Corp. can call (888)-301-7700.
Schools and colleges across Central Massachusetts will be closed tomorrow, as will state office buildings. Worcester plans to follow the normal Monday schedule for trash and recycling collection, and trick-or-treating in the city is still planned for Wednesday.
Commuter rail and subway service will run on the normal weekday schedule, but transportation officials are warning customers to be prepared for major delays.


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Seth Greenberg's lemonade stand of a basketball roster isn't what he envisioned, though it does provide him with familiar slogans and marketing opportunities.
No one would suggest that Virginia Tech's coach feels better about the team he has, compared to the one he was supposed to have.
What the present group permits him to do now, however, is tap the vein that he's mined his entire time in Blacksburg, indeed for his whole coaching career.
Underdog. Respect. Us against the world. Nobody believes but the people in this room. The only way we win is to work harder than the other guys.
That was a tougher sell with a 25-win team that returned everybody and was picked to finish just below defending national champ Duke in the ACC.
Remove 36 percent of the workforce due to injury and absence, including a couple of the more productive members, and suddenly Greenberg is doing Gerard Butler as the Persian army approaches Thermopylae.
"We always create causes," Greenberg said earlier this week when asked to take his team's temperature. "That's who we are. I think coaches, in general, try to create a cause."
This particular cause is in Greenberg's wheelhouse. Pundits and casual observers have re-calibrated the depleted Hokies' chances and find them destined for the middle of the ACC pack, like most every other year they've been in the league.
Greenberg's mantra since he arrived at Tech: We're not Duke and Carolina, selecting McDonald's All-Americans. We have to be tougher and work harder than the swells to earn respect.
Same at South Florida, when the Bulls were looking up at Conference USA and national powers Louisville and Cincinnati and DePaul. And at Long Beach State, which wasn't UNLV or New Mexico State in the Big West at the time, and certainly wasn't UCLA.
"No one thinks we can pull this thing off now," Greenberg said. "I think our guys feel like, the guys that are healthy feel like they're going to get their chance. Our starting lineup is a little bit affected, and obviously our frontcourt depth is affected significantly. But they're looking forward to the challenge (and) excited about it."
In case you've been otherwise occupied by holiday revelry, or you don't much engage college hoops before the New Year, Tech is down to eight scholarship players and will be for the remainder of the season.
For sure, there's quality in All-ACC guard Malcolm Delaney and talented, if chronically mercurial, forward Jeff Allen. Terrell Bell and Victor Davila are veteran presences.
Guard Erick Green has begun to fulfill his promise. Underclassmen Manny Atkins, Jarrell Eddie and Tyrone Garland have potential.
That's where it ends.
"We're not the same team we were three weeks ago," Greenberg said. "Three weeks ago, we thought maybe we'd have Cadarian Raines and Dorenzo Hudson. We're sure not the same team we thought we were going to be in the summer, when we thought we'd have JT Thompson and Allan Chaney."
Then the conjunction that you knew was coming.
"But, I like my basketball team," he said. "I think that we're developing a really good chemistry. I think we've been really unselfish. We're taking better care of the basketball in the last five games. We're making some shots. I think we're developing a good chemistry, and a good trust for each other, so that's been positive."
The Hokies shot 53.4 percent from the field during the current five-game win streak, compared to 42.9 percent in their first eight games.
They flip-flopped their assist-to-turnover ratio, as well. They have 32 more assists than turnovers in the past five games, where they had 29 more turnovers than assists through the first eight games.
Granted, some of that is the level of competition, which wasn't ACC caliber. The pace picks up considerably Saturday, when Florida State comes to town, and the Hokies hope to avoid an 0-2 conference start.
"I'm more concerned about just getting our guys, keeping them in a good frame of mind right now," Greenberg said. "I think that right now, we're in a pretty good place. We really are. But winning puts you in that place, and you've got to continue to win."
Odds are against the spartan Hokies meeting preseason expectations. But it won't be for lack of effort or inspiration from the man who preaches it daily.
Dave Fairbank can be reached at 247-4637 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more from Fairbank, read his blog at dailypress.com/fromthetarpit.


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'Starch Madness' to benefit Hunger Task Force
Bracket-style contest run by The Equitable Bank
The Equitable Bank launched an initiative Friday to help fill area pantry shelves.
"Starch Madness" features several starches going head-to-head, bracket style. For instance mashed potatoes are currently taking on peanut butter.
As the public votes for their favorite online or through donation, the starches will move forward in the "tournament."
"We asking people to go to our Facebook page and Twitter and vote for their favorite food," said Rachel Schwab with The Equitable Bank. "Each food moves up in the brackets."
Schwab said The Equitable Bank will make a donation of the winning food to the Hunger Task Force.
Food is also being collected at all Equitable Bank locations in the Milwaukee area, as well as at their booth at the Home and Garden Show at State Fair Park.


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Let's pick up where we left off. Last week, we published a rematch of the classic battle between the Radeon HD 7950 and the GeForce GTX 660 Ti. We tested with a host of the latest games, including Borderlands 2, Hitman: Absolution, and Guild Wars 2.
Going into the contest, we thought the Radeon HD 7950 was the heavy favorite for a number of reasons. Among them is the fact AMD released new graphics drivers in recent weeks that promise a general performance increase. Also, the firm has worked closely with the developers of many of the holiday season's top games, even bundling several of them in the box with the Radeon HD 7950.
To our surprise, though, the Radeon didn't fare particularly well in our tests. Although it cranked out FPS averages that were competitive with the GeForce, the 7950 produced those frames at an uneven pace—our frame time plots for the Radeon were riddled with latency spikes. As a result, the Radeon's scores were rather poor in our distinctive, latency-oriented performance metrics. Not only that, but our seat-of-the-pants impressions backed that up: play-testing on the GeForce felt noticeably smoother in many cases.
We noted we'd taken various steps to ensure the Radeon's disappointing results weren't caused by a hardware or software misconfiguration. Confident that our results were correct, we concluded the most likely cause of the 7950's poor showing was our transition to all-new games and testing scenarios. Our tentative conclusion: playing the latest games on the Radeon HD 7950 just isn't as good an experience as playing on the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.
However, we did note the possibility that having upgraded our test rigs to Windows 8 might have played a role. I suppose we should have known that many of our readers would call for more testing in order to confirm our results. Quite a few of you asked us to run the same tests in Windows 7, to see if the Radeon's performance problems are the product of the transition to a new operating system. Others asked us to re-run a familiar test scenario from one of our older articles to see whether the Radeon with the latest drivers would experience latency spikes in places where it previously hadn't.
Those seemed like reasonable requests, and we were curious, too, about the cause of the 7950's unexpected troubles. So we fired up our test rig, installed Windows 7 with the same drivers we'd used with Win8, and got to testing.
The results, naturally, are enlightening. Read on to see what we found.
Wait, er, latency what? What about FPS?
If you're confounded by our talk of latency-focused performance metrics, you're probably not alone. Gaming performance has been measured in frames per second since the dawn of time, or at least since the 1990s, when today's PC enthusiast scene was first starting to form. However, FPS averages as they have been used tend to have some very big, very fatal flaws. We first explored this problem in the article Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking. I recommend you read it if you want to understand the issues well.
For those too lazy to do the homework, though, let me extract a quick section from that article that explains the why FPS averages don't tell the whole story of gaming performance.
Of course, there are always debates over benchmarking methods, and the usual average FPS score has come under fire repeatedly over the years for being too broad a measure. We've been persuaded by those arguments. For quite a while now, we have provided average and low FPS rates from our benchmarking runs and, when possible, graphs of frame rates over time. We think that information gives folks a better sense of gaming performance than just an average FPS number.
Still, even that approach has some obvious weaknesses. We've noticed them at times when results from our FRAPS-based testing didn't seem to square with our seat-of-the-pants experience. The fundamental problem is that, in terms of both computer time and human visual perception, one second is a very long time. Averaging results over a single second can obscure some big and important performance differences between systems.
To illustrate, let's look at an example. It's contrived, but it's based on some real experiences we've had in game testing over the years. The charts below show the times required, in milliseconds, to produce a series of frames over a span of one second on two different video cards.
GPU 1 is obviously the faster solution in most respects. Generally, its frame times are in the teens, and that would usually add up to an average of about 60 FPS. GPU 2 is slower, with frame times consistently around 30 milliseconds.
However, GPU 1 has a problem running this game. Let's say it's a texture upload problem caused by poor memory management in the video drivers, although it could be just about anything, including a hardware issue. The result of the problem is that GPU 1 gets stuck when attempting to render one of the frames—really stuck, to the tune of a nearly half-second delay. If you were playing a game on this card and ran into this issue, it would be a huge show-stopper. If it happened often, the game would be essentially unplayable.
The end result is that GPU 2 does a much better job of providing a consistent illusion of motion during the period of time in question. Yet look at how these two cards fare when we report these results in FPS:
Whoops. In traditional FPS terms, the performance of these two solutions during our span of time is nearly identical. The numbers tell us there's virtually no difference between them. Averaging our results over the span of a second has caused us to absorb and obscure a pretty major flaw in GPU 1's performance.
The bottom line is that producing the highest FPS average doesn't prove very much about the fluidity of in-game animation. In fact, even fancy-looking graphs that show second-by-second FPS averages over time don't tell you very much, because tools like Fraps average the results over one-second intervals. Those plots simply make the same mistake over and over again in sequence.
Once we realized the nature of the problem, we decided to test performance more like game developers do: by focusing on the time in milliseconds required to produce each frame of the animation—on frame latencies, in other words. That way, if a momentary slowdown happens, we'll know about it. This sort of analysis requires new tools and methods, which we've developed and refined over the past year. This article and other recent ones here at TR show those methods in action. We think they provide better insights into gameplay fluidity and real-time graphics performance than a traditional FPS-based approach.
The question of the hour is: Why does the Radeon HD 7950 struggle on this front in the current crop of games? Can switching back to Windows 7 alleviate the problem? Let's have a look.


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Going out on the weekend in Santa Monica doesn't have to break the bank....With free art parties and openings, many young people are taking advantage and enjoying an inexpensive night out.
Friday, July 12th the work of Michael Temple will be featured in a group show at hale ARTS P A C E in Santa Monica.
In addition to being an artist, Temple is also known as the founding member and percussionist of the famous world beat band "The Bonedaddys." He has actively pursued both music and art throughout his long career.
He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute with a BFA in Painting and Printmaking. Temple's work has been a part of many exhibitions in cities such as Kansas City, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. He recently participated in several group shows at Trunk Gallery and was a featured artist in the Santa Monica Airport Art Walk.Temple was most recently part of a group exhibition entitled "Rose Retrospectives" at the Rose Café.
The opening reception will be held on Friday, July 12th from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm at hale ARTS P A C E (2443 Main St. at Edgemar Complex, Santa Monica 90405. The exhibition will be on view through July 24th.
To find out more about Michael Temple, see http://miketempleart.com/
Santa Monica Restaurant, Upper West hosts an artist reception for Imelda Healy on Sunday, July 14th.
Originally from Dublin Ireland, Healy now lives in Santa Monica with her family. Healy is looking forward to her upcoming opening at Upper West.
"I am very happy to show my Santa Monica series here, the work of three years in my studio painting the light - the Los Angelinos relaxing in the idyllic parks by the ocean," says Healy.
Healy has worked in many mediums, such as silk-screen and engraving. She talks about her process, "I use oil mostly, though I like the vibrant fun of acrylic colors, there is more poetry in the way oil on linen, or canvas ages…it seems to deepen with resonance over time."
She adds, "Matisse said a painting should be like an armchair, to ease and relax the weary mind after a demanding day."
The opening reception will be held at Upper West (3321 Pico Blvd. in SM), on Sunday, July 14th from 4:00pm to 7:00 pm. http://www.theupperwest.com/ http://imeldahealy.com/


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cower from
cower (away) from (someone or something)
To move away from someone or something, usually out of fear. I cowered from the snake and prayed that it wouldn't see me.
cower (away) from someone or something
to pull away from someone or something in fear. The coyote cowered away from the fire.
cower from something
to drawback from the fear of something. The wolves cowered from the flames. Some excited hyenas cowered from the lions as they passed by.