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Welcome to the Institute for Human Resources – Technology Enabled Learning.
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Regardless of a yes or no answer you should definitely mark your calendar and join Dan Cox, CEO of Cox eLearning Consultants and Chairman of HR.com's Institute for Human Resources Technology Enabled Learning as he takes a look at the Institute and the educational curriculum for 2012.
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The impact of new technologies on Training isn't just about converting classroom powerpoint slides into self-paced eLearning courses. And moving to eLearning is not as simple as teaching your instructor-led course online. And being an Instructional Designer is more complicated than simply following the ADDIE model. New understanding in brain research changes much of what we know about learning. New technologies in the hands of corporate employees changes how we deliver training content. New trends in social media, story-telling, serious games, virtual environments, and mobile learning change just about every aspect of what a training department did a decade ago. It cannot be overstated that training has changed into something beyond eLearning.
These are not merely industry fads that you can dismiss as just another scam or bottle of eLearning snake oil. The same technologies disrupting the publishing industry, the music industry, the television industry, and education, are also disrupting the enterprise both large and small. Your IT department is dealing with it. Your marketing department is dealing with it and so is the Human Resources department. It's time to start understanding how your training department is going to deal with it.
In this webinar we'll look at many technologies disrupting the eLearning industry. We will also look at how these same disruptions impact not only what we design, but how we design different learning solutions. Understanding what's happening in the training industry will help you better leverage your department's skills and talents. Do you see a learning department? Or do you still see a training department?
Why do only a few people truly excel? Some point to innate talent. Others suggest education. Research doesn't support either. In this Where's the Gift? webinar, you will discover the secret that few have learned: The ability to capitalize on feedback, in all its forms, will do more to drive success than IQ, education or talent will. We define feedback as "information about your behavior or performance that can help you align your actions with your goals." Sometimes this information will sound like a reminder, a suggestion or helpful advice. At other times, it may come across as criticism, a rebuke or even an insult. Regardless of its form, feedback can help you make better decisions about how to reach your goals. Even the most talented people need regular feedback to reach their potential. Feedback will help you make smarter decisions, accelerate your learning, attract and retain more customers, achieve world class performance as well as provide additional benefits. In this brief session, we will discuss the incredible power of feedback. We will start with specific tips on how get more feedback. We will learn strategies on how to receive it so that people will readily provide it. For many of us, the way we receive feedback prevents people from freely providing it. Feedback gives you the power to change, build stronger relationships, achieve more of your goals, and to do so with fewer bumps and bruises. Nan Macleod, a Targeted Learning trainer/facilitator with over 25 years experience helping organizations and individuals increase their effectiveness, will lead this webinar.
Scientific research has given us insights into the secrets of learning and memory. This highly interactive seminar will provide dramatic examples of factors that increase (and sometimes decrease) learning and memory. The presenter is an internationally renowned cognitive psychologist. In the first section, we will present illustrations of how advertisers and politicians effectively incorporate psychological principles into their campaign. In turn, we provide concrete examples of how you can build these same principles into your eLearning in order to maximize learning and behavior change. In the second section, the presenter and audience will use the psychological criteria to critique examples of e-learning materials. In turn, trainers will be develop a critical eye that will allow them to identify the most effective eLearning content. In the third section, we explore a emerging from of training known as immersion learning that greatly increases both learning and memory. Immersive learning delivers a video-based performance and surrounds it with powerful pedagogical and community building tools. -- Please come prepared to have fun... and learn.
Art Kohn earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science at Duke University. His research explores how to present information in order to maximize learning and memory. He was awarded the National Professor of the Year award from the American Psychological Association. He won a Fulbright Fellowship in cognitive psychology and a second Fulbright Fellowship in distance education. He consults with the Centers for Disease Control on the use of social messaging for addressing HIV in the developing world. For 20 years, he has developed highly interactive media products for higher education and for corporate training.
Social learning, mobile and video technologies are powerful tools that are coming together with gaming concepts in the Gamification of Learning. We get far more benefit from learning yet we spend our free time on Facebook or playing Angry Birds, why? Engagement is the most critical component of all higher cognitive and emotional learning so are there better technologies to improve engagement?
This session looks at the overall state of online learning in relation to the key elements needed to create and preserve engagement. We will address immersion, how it can be achieved, its value to the learning outcome and why it matters so much. Immersive learning spaces capture the sense of presence and social realism needed to engage learners beyond the superficial knowledge transfer of webinar technologies. New technologies are returning power to online learning by giving individuals the ability to vote with their attention, use gesture and innuendo in online communication as though they were there in person.
Noticeable improvements in neurocognition are evident when comparing brain activity of the passive observer to the active participant. Through the suspension of disbelief, immersive technologies place participants in purpose based environments that add context to learning content. Context significantly improves recall by relating the content to its useful application. By developing learning materials that take advantage of these improvements educators evolve from a traditional pedagogical approach to a more useful andragogical model.
We will look at the influence game technologies are having on the evolution of online learning and how to incorporate these tools into learning programs.
Games and gamification are more than the latest buzz words in learning and training. Games are design structures that create an intersection of practice, problem solving and fun. Because of the unique characteristics of games, the use of games for learning can accomplish more than introducing content or keeping learners more interested in training curriculum. In experiential games, learners must synthesize what they know to take action, the results of those actions lead to learners succeeding or failing and trying again. Games can create context through storyline, providing both situational feedback and insight into consequences and outcomes of failure or success. Through repetitive practice and failure, learners improve incrementally and gain experience applying their knowledge in a risk-free game environment.
Organizations are beginning to understand the powerful opportunity that games provide to go beyond achieving learning objectives and tackle performance objectives, both on an individual and organizational level. Business issues like sales performance, customer service, leadership development and project team communication are all complex performance environments where games can allow individuals or teams of learners to practice applying their knowledge and skills in context. Onboarding, process training and skill practice are also ideal business challenges that are ideal for game-based learning because of the repetitive nature of games.
Organizations as diverse as Grainger, Constellation Academy of Wine and Defense Acquisition University have successfully applied a variety of game strategy to tackle their organizational learning and performance challenges. This presentation will focus on how these and other organizations have been using games and game mechanics to engage learners, improve employee performance and achieve organizational performance objectives.
New methods of capturing learner behavior data can provide some of the same valuable information as live teacher observation and can permit richer more fine-grained evaluation of learner performance online. The separation in space and time between the learner and teacher (or instructional designer) in distance learning contexts, first characterized as 'transactional distance', is routinely positioned as problematic. In online learning environments this exact condition of relative isolation may permit revelation of the learner's "true self" and allow individuals to express "phenomenally real aspects of self not often or easily expressed to others." In the un-monitored isolation of a self-directed online course, the supposedly unobserved actions of a learner may reveal behavioral information that is much more reliable than data collected via self-reporting and self-evaluation mechanisms.
Classroom based Teachers can't predict where problems in a lesson plan will occur. Instead they watch challenges reveal themselves during the presentation and then respond accordingly. Instructors allow students to interrupt the flow and request clarification to support individual or group comprehension.
What if the behavioral tendencies and learning styles of the student became collected data to be mined in real time to assist in personalizing the learning experience? Consider a web-based course that prepares the online environment by making the necessary adjustments for you because it already 'knows' what makes you more comfortable.
This possibility should start us thinking about the experience of enhanced web based training when it is built with the type of knowledge gleaned from more conventional classroom based student/teacher interactions. This new generation of online training can provide as much insight into the psyche of the student as it can deliver training in the most palatable and personalized format.
I will perform a live demonstration of an online course capturing student/course interactions in real time, and invite others in the audience to participate if they have access to laptops, and review the results using the reporting tool of the LiMS application.
According to Training magazine's most recent Training Industry Report, 7.2 percent of learners now use social networking or mobile training methods, an uptick of 1.5 percent versus 2009. The report also notes that 13.6 percent of trainers purchased mobile learning products and services in 2011, a number slightly behind the 14.3 percent of those who plan to buy talent management tools. Businesspeople are looking to launch and track training courses from smartphones, including Droid, iPhone and Blackberry. New training platforms are serving up e-learning, transcripts and other features of learning management systems optimized for a smartphone, and savvy companies want to ensure they understand how to provide this for their learners.
Therefore, it is critical to guarantee that access to an LMS is optimized for a mobile workforce in the same way that it has been for conventional desktop and laptop users.
That said, organizations are continuously challenged to maintain and improve workforce efficiency through traditional training offerings like instructor-led training and desktop e-learning courses. When a global workforce is constantly on the move, however, having a strong foundation with a mobile training strategy will become imperative to the success of a fast-growing organization that evolves to elevate their product and service offerings. This presentation will provide an overview targeted specifically at organizations that need a strategy to train their "Learners on the Move." The overview will consist of a comprehensive mobile training strategy towards developing training modules, delivering training modules and measuring mobile training effectiveness. Attendees will learn how to capitalize on this strategy and put learning into the hands of their workforce wherever they might be.
Current eLearning standards like SCORM, AICC, and IMS are increasingly becoming impediments to introduction of new training technologies rather than their enablers as they once were. Their basic assumptions are dated and their lack of flexibility is frequently a problem which needs to be overcome. Presumption of a single learner, that all content and student data is local on the LAN, and that the LMS hosts all learning sessions stand in the way of implementing more recent advents of social, mobile and other forms of learning for individuals as well as groups. Management applications relaying on the existing standards are hampered from easily linking to new offerings like:
• content as a service -- web-hosted learning activities
• multiplayer rehearsal games and simulations
• mobile learning and augmented reality
• immersive activities where the instructor observes or participates
• real-time monitoring of students and teams
• intelligent tutoring systems that develop significant data about learner's state of knowledge and misunderstandings
• social learning
• semantic web
Newly emerging trends and how people use computers and the Web in particular will change how people learn tomorrow. New generation of technologies is needed to facilitate and enable those new eLearning trends. Fortunately there are new and exciting developments afoot in that area. New upcoming specification from ADL and AICC as well as work at LETSI and IEEE aim to break the barriers and impediments which have increasingly become thorns in the sides of content implementers, vendors as well as organizations trying to roll out eLearning technology.
Relatively sudden emergence of such on-line services as Facebook and YouTube and massively successful adoption of mobile devices as indispensable personal gadgets are some of the drivers behind demand for change in how people prefer to experience eLearning. Mobile and Social Computing paradigms are quickly becoming dominating trends and eLearning in the near future will embrace rather than grudgingly acknowledge the way most people choose to interact on-line. In this session you will learn about the challenges often faced by eLearning technology implementers. Have a quick overview of the technologies and standards used to build eLearning solutions today and what are the trends and newly emerging technologies and specifications from organizations such as ADL, AICC, IEEE, IMS and LETS most likely to drive eLearning tomorrow.
Cloud-based technologies are emerging that create new methods for organizations to rapidly develop and deliver training materials to their employees. These new platforms provide opportunities for businesses to deliver training using content uploaded by non-technical users. The question remains, 'Is this a good idea'?
This presentation discusses the pros and cons of using Cloud technology as an effective vehicle for online training. Supporters of Cloud training argue that the technology is a 'game-changer' because it is an enabler: Virtually anyone can now create online courseware by uploading content into the cloud for easy distribution and consumption. They conclude that the value of this technology lies in its ability to let content creators become instructional designers by removing the complexity of typical content authoring tools and environments.
Opponents of Cloud training argue that "data dumping" into the Cloud does not equate to androgogically-sound training. Who needs to waste time with mapping competencies to business objectives when you can simply push content to the Cloud and hope that some of the information sticks? Is instructional design based upon sound training principles and educational delivery modalities an antiquated expectation?
These questions were posed on E-Learning 2.0—a LinkedIn professional group with over 18,000 active members. Respondents, most of whom currently work as professionals in corporate or academic education, participated in a heated debate, presenting their arguments for or against Cloud-based training based upon their opinions, thoughts and experiences.
In this presentation, I will address a few of the most provocative of my group members' responses, and will provide my "spin" on the topic for your thoughts and consideration.

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Christine Comaford, Contributor
I write about leveraging neuroscience to create remarkable leadership.
Why do so many businesses struggle with ramping up sales?
It's because they're pitching, not educating. Seems obvious, right? Wrong.
Comparing notes with one of my sales guru pals, Chet Holmes, I knew I had to write this blog.
Let's say you sell telephone systems, like Company X does. Company X practiced sales by cold calling prospective companies to ask if they were interested in talking about a new telephone system (yuck—this is a standard product pitch). They had four salespeople making hundreds of calls per day. The result? A whopping three appointments per week. Ack.
First of all, every company that has a phone system more than five years old could benefit from a new phone system. Heck, more than 15 of the major providers of phone systems from just 10 years ago are now out of the phone system business. But inertia is a powerful force–and the enemy of business building and good choices. If the phone system isn't broke—why fix it?
Ready to double sales? Consider taking the following steps.
Step 1. The first thing Company X did after discovering the education-based marketing concept was target bigger companies. The bigger the company, the bigger the phone system. The bigger the phone system, the bigger the sales potential.
Step 2. The salespeople called the 2,000 largest companies in their market with two simple questions: "Hi, we're doing our annual telephone system survey. I just need to know two things: What is the model of your phone system and how old is it?" In two days, the salespeople had a list of 508 companies with old and often obsolete phone systems.
Step 3. Now for the best part: Education-based marketing. The sales reps called on these larger companies with one offer: "We have a new educational program entitled The Nine Ways You're Wasting Money on Your Voice and Data Spending." They continued, saying: "We've been in the telephone business for 10 years now, and we've found that every company wastes money on voice and data spending in at least nine areas. We've put together a white paper to teach companies how to stop wasting—and start saving–money. If you ever need any help at all with your voice, data or telephone system needs, we want you to know about us. So we're sending you our white paper."
This approach increased their appointments ten fold, from three per week to 30 per week. This company's revenue was $3 million the year prior to using the education-based marketing approach. After six months, Company X's sales pipeline was $9 million strong. I've used these techniques for companies much larger—in the ten and hundreds of millions in revenue. They're solid.
To drive my point home about the power of education-based marketing, let's review a few ineffective education-based marketing approaches, alongside more effective ones.
Great article. You've just made me feel better about the time I spend writing my blog.
Great Article.
This further trumpets the 'new consumer' that wants to know their product and its features, rather than be blindly manipulated into a purchase.
With information readily available through internet research, if your company isn't educating its customers and earning customer credibility AND favour (since you have given your customer a 'free' service, whilst your competitors have not), you can be assured that someone else will be educating them.
Thanks Christine!
"education-based marketing", interesting, you put it this way. For our student software, actually Google ranks it #1 ("free download best student software"), we also give students (target market) free advice on effective learning…
I guess "All roads lead to Rome"…
Thanks. Nice to learn.
Very clever approach Christine. By offering to educate the prospect you automatically position yourself as trusted adviser and thereby being able to created an atmosphere of buying. Extremely helpful!
Great article Christine.
After thinking about this concept more, I think it works two-fold. As a young professional about to enter the sales industry, I feel that if a company took the time to analyze competitors and develop educational material that specifically points out how their product out performs the competition then they would open up the ability to improve their current product as well. They would be able to potentially realize where they may be missing the mark and improve their current product. Likewise, they could develop material to educate their consumers on how they need to really use their products/technology to its full advantage.
Thanks for sharing this and look forward to future posts.
great article christin,can you post another article about selling software product like ERP,CRM


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Watching Rihanna's performance at the Grammys made me happy she was going home with Chris Brown.
I'm craving the pain of unrelenting public abuse. I need a fix. I need something banal to go horrendously bad.
It's the gift of Reality TV, which has made life infinitely better by transforming the most tedious of formality into a Shit Show.
Did you see John McCain browbeat Chuck Hagel at his Must See Reality TV Confirmation Hearing?
Confirmation Hearings for Defense Secretary have been gleefully transformed into "Survivor Washington DC."
Chris Brown could stand to take some lessons from John McCain. Especially when it comes to browbeating your bitch.
Chuck Hagel is John McCain's bitch.
There was a time, 2006, to be exact, when John McCain, a candidate for president, praised Chuck Hagel as the kind of man he'd be honored to have in his white house, "In Any Capacity," or more specifically, "Secretary of State."
Somewhere between the false accusations of fathering an out of wedlock black child and the undeniable reality of losing the white house to a black man, John McCain snapped.
He could survive the Hanoi Hilton, where he was physically tortured in a 6-by-3 foot cell. But he couldn't survive the emotional torture of being upstaged in the light of day.
Dark: good. Light: bad.
This all makes for great ratings, but a terrible life. John McCain needs to resign from the Senate. And get a life.
He's running out of time. It might be too late. From the looks of him, John McCain is already dead; he just doesn't know he's already dead.
Zombie John McCain is wandering blindly through the Media Bloodbath, moaning into very small microphones, in 5-minute increments.
He needs blood. So do we. We need blood.
What else are we supposed to do? It's taking too long. We need another school shooting. We need to bow our heads. We need an offering of thoughts and prayers.
Otherwise, for the love of God, someone tell RiRi to piss-off Chris Brown.
I'm bored. I need blood.


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SEYMOUR, Mo. — Eleanor "Jean" West, of Seymour, Mo., passed away Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, in her home surrounded by family.
She was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 1941, to Joseph H. and Eleanor Mae (McFarland) Jones.
In addition to her parents, Eleanor was preceded in death by a grandson, Mathew James Gast.
Jean, as she was known to her family and friends, leaves behind four children; sons, Joseph Johnson and wife Tammie of Pierpont, Ohio, and Daniel Johnson and wife Linsey; daughters, Christina Strong and husband Jimmie, and Roberta Terrill and husband Donnie, all of Seymour, Mo.; grandchildren, Tiffanie, Regina, Courtney, Brandi, Kayla, Lacy, Danielle, Brandon and Clint; great-grandchildren, Dixie, Matthew, Madisyn, Kinsley, Payton, Hunter, Bentley, and two more on the way; her sister, Joanne Rocco and husband Al of Geneva, Ohio; as well as several other family members and dear friends.
Jean enjoyed spending time with her family, reading and doing genealogy online. She had worked at Trans Plastics in Ohio, and spent time as a waitress and a caretaker in an adult handicap group home. She will be dearly missed by many.
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Final -- Pacers 82, Grizzlies 81: George Hill's free throw with 1.4 seconds remaining lifted the Pacers to an 82-81 win over the Grizzlies in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day game at FedExForum today.
Rudy Gay's long jumper at the buzzer banked in, but it was about a half-second too late. Officials reviewed the play to confirm.
After trailing for much of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies took the lead on a Mike Conley 3-pointer with 2:10 to play. It set off a see-saw sequence that was highlighted by Tony Allen's steal and Zach Randolph's lay-in with 10.5 seconds to play that tied the game at 81-81. But that just set up Hill's drive into the lane, where he was fouled and made the second shot.
Given the opportunity to set up a game-winning play, Griz coach Lionel Hollins said he drew up a plan to get the ball to reserve guard Wayne Ellington in the corner. Ellington had made all three 3-pointers he had attempted (and led the team in scoring with 17). But Ellington couldn't break free and the inbounds pass went to Gay, who took a dribble and fired the late shot.
Unprompted by a question about him, Hollins singled out Allen after the game for his hustle plays. "I just want to commend Tony Allen," he said. "His will and effort down the stretch nearly got us the win."
David West led Indiana, which shot 49 percent, with 14 points. Paul George had a 12-point, 10-rebound double-double.
"I think you got two teams that are successful because they both play extremely hard, and that team plays with great heart and effort," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "So do we most of the time. We made a lot of plays down the stretch, some awesome plays. As a day, it was a fun game. That game was something else. Watching them scratch and claw, just happy we got the win."
The Guts of It: Memphis fell to 26-14 after winning two straight. ... Indiana improved to 26-16. ... An announced 17,508 paid to see it. ... The Grizzlies host the Lakers Wednesday night.
Be sure to check Ronald Tillery and Geoff Calkins at later today at commercialappeal.com and in Tuesday's Commercial Appeal. Catch up on the game by following our running coverage below. And here's a video of Rudy Gay with the leadoff question about that final shot:
Grizzlies' Gay discusses final shot
End 3rd quarter -- Pacers 65, Grizzlies 63: In a quarter of quick bursts, Indiana closed with one of its own and took a two-point lead into the fourth quarter. A potential good sign for the Grizzlies: Rudy Gay knocked down a couple of jumpers, but remains 6-for-17. Wayne Ellington is Memphis' leading scorer with 14.
Halftime -- Pacers 43, Grizzlies 39: After not scoring for the first three-plus minutes of the second quarter, Indiana took over midway through the period to take a four-point lead into halftime. Memphis' starters aren't on top of their game today -- Rudy Gay, for instance is 2-for-11. Memphis scored just 12 points in that quarter.
End 1st quarter -- Grizzlies 27, Pacers 26: For a game between two teams known for their defense, the scoring pace of the first quarter was fairly brisk. Wayne Ellington was the story for Memphis, making two 3-pointers and a nice reverse layup. Indiana is shooting 57 percent; 20 of its points have come in the paint.
11:14 a.m.: You'll note below that I headlined one of my three things to know as "Beware of Paul George."
Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins would certainly agree, but not necessarily on the scoring side.
"His defense is the thing that's really come along this year," Hollins told a group of reporters outside the locker room moments ago. Hollins said part of what makes him hard to deal with is his length, which he said goes for essentially all of the Pacers.
Hollins also had plenty to say about the Martin Luther King Jr. Day game and his experiences encountering racism as a player in the NBA in the 70s. He called the Grizzlies' celebration of the holiday "a perfect match" and said "if the pro sports team here wasn't involved in that, it'd be something wrong."
Outside of his locker room a few moments earlier, Pacers coach Frank Vogel said his team wants to play faster, "trust the pass" and have better ball movement.
10:26 a.m.: It's that annual special day in the life of the local NBA franchise, as the Grizzlies host the Pacers for the nationally televised Martin Luther King Jr. Day game.
Tipoff is at noon. An important note here: ESPN will televise the game nationally, which means no local telecast -- sorry, no Pete Pranica -- on SportSouth. Just some helpful information for your remote control hand today.
Pacers coach Frank Vogel and Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins will meet with reporters in a few moments, and since this is our live coverage, we'll update momentarily with what they have to say.
Until then, here are three things you need to know before today's game:
1. Beware of Paul George. Beware of all the Pacers, really. They're talented. But keep a special eye on the 6-9, 215-pound forward. George scored 31 in the Pacers' win over the Rockets Friday night, marking the third time this year that he's scored 30 or more. Included in that total: seven 3-pointers.
2. Indiana is on a roll. When we think of the Eastern Conference's elite teams, we think of Miami, obviously. And this year, we think of New York. But guess which team is right behind those two? The Pacers, of course. And it's a tightening race. Thanks to wins in 15 of their last 20 games to follow a ho-hum 10-11 start, the Pacers are 2.5 games behind Miami and a game behind the Knicks. Scanning their starting five, it's easy to see why. Oh, and one other thing to note, which doesn't bode well for a Grizzlies team with offensive struggles in the past month or so: The Pacers are holding almost half of their opponents to under 40 percent shooting. Opponents are collectively shooting 41.3 percent against Indiana, which is the worst such mark in the league.
3. It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and it's Memphis' time for the spotlight. For a small-market franchise that doesn't get the attention that others do, this isn't a day to take for granted. So forget about the stats and the matchups and all every so often and reflect on the meaning of the day, the greater meaning, not the basketball one, won't ya?


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Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a particular set of skills stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.No show times found for selected day.
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The term anal retentive (also anally retentive), commonly abbreviated to anal,[1] is used to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, potentially to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudian psychoanalysis.
In Freudian psychology, the anal stage is said to follow the oral stage of infant or early-childhood development. This is a time when an infant's attention moves from oral stimulation to anal stimulation (usually the bowels but occasionally the bladder), usually synchronous with learning to control his or her excretory functions. In other words, toilet training. Freud theorized that children who experience conflicts during this period of time may develop "anal" personality traits, namely those associated with a child's efforts at excretory control: orderliness, stubbornness, a compulsion for control.[2] If these qualities continue into later life, the person is said to be "anal-retentive". Conversely, those who reject anal-retentive characteristics are said to have "anal-expulsive" personality types.
While Freud's theories on early childhood have been influential on the psychological community, research suggests that the overall pattern of parental attitudes has a much more concrete effect on how an infant will grow up. There is no conclusive research linking anal stage conflicts with "anal" personality types.[3]
Although the term "anal retentive" survives in common usage, the concept, along with much of Freud's theories of psychoanalysis, is largely regarded as unscientific "pop-psychology" and therefore discredited by the majority of psychologists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.[3] Chicago psychoanalyst Robert Galatzer-Levy speaks of how this theory of Freud is mostly a product of its time when indoor plumbing was new and less numerous per household, and families were large, causing "much more control of defecation than was necessary in a world of chamber pots and outhouses."[4][unreliable source?]
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- Psychosexual development
- Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Oral stage
- Anal-expulsive
- ^ "anal-retentive". Memidex/WordNet Dictionary/Thesaurus. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Hall, Calvin S. (1954). A Primer of Freudian Psychology. New York: New American Library. p. 108. ISBN 0-452-01183-3.
- ^ a b Berger, Kathleen (2000). The Developing Person. New York: Worth Publishers. p. 218. ISBN 1-57259-417-9.
- ^ The Straight Dope: How to tell if you're anal retentive[unreliable source?]


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A Northfield man facing , has surrendered to Northfield Police.
James P. Harvey, 21, turned himself in on Dec. 19 on a $15,000 warrant out of DeKalb County for hazing not sanction by institution and hazing with bodily harm, police said. Harvey was released after posting $1,500 cash bond, or 10 percent of the bond, and was issued a Dec. 28 court date in DeKalb County, police said.
Harvey, of 1717 Colonial Ln., Northfield, is vice president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity where NIU freshman Bogenberger was found dead on Nov. 2. He was among the five fraternity leaders who were issued a Class 4 felony arrest warrant.
. The NIU freshman's death has been determined to be alcohol and hazing-related. Autopsy results showed that Bogenberger had a blood alcohol content of 0.351, close to five times the legal limit for drivers, Northern Star, the NIU daily paper reported.
- Alexander M. Jandik, 21, of Naperville, fraternity president
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- Omar Salameh, 21, of DeKalb, fraternity pledge adviser
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In response to a proposal made to the Marin County Board of Supervisors to close the Marin County Public Health Lab, the Keep Marin Marin project — a joint effort of the Marin Association of Public Employees and the Marin County Management Employees Association — has launched a public petition to save the lab.
The lab, which handles the testing of everything from agents of bioterrorism to sexually transmitted diseases, provides vital public services that keep Marin safe and healthy. The proposed closure would cause Marin's testing work to be outsourced to other counties — which could delay test results and compromise residents' safety.
Further, there is concern that Marin residents would not be the first priority in the event of an emergency or an outbreak.
Marin is a great place to live because its citizens recognize the importance of investments in our environment, education systems and public health. Supporters of the petition urge the community to get involved in protecting public health by signing the petition to save the lab. The petition also is available at KeepMarinMarin.org.


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Apple and other smartphone device makers will increasingly rely on China growth to drive sales this year, according to market research firm Canalys. The ones who gain market share will be the ones with the most affordable devices.
This year, China will cement its lead as the world's largest smartphone market in 2013 with expected sales of 240 million smartphones, nearly one-third of all global shipments, Canalys estimated on Thursday. That means China will increasingly dictate the fate of companies like Apple when it comes to the expansion of their smartphone business outside the U.S.
Analysts at Canalys said they expect that Chinese and Taiwan based manufacturers will dominate the domestic market and are well positioned to expand into overseas markets as well.
"The Chinese smart phone market will be dominated by domestically based vendors in the coming quarters," said Nicole Peng, Research Director for Canalys' Shanghai offices. "Domestic brands are rapidly moving their businesses toward smartphones and winning consumers with their competitively priced devices. This will continue to put significant pressure on international vendors in 2013. With smart phones starting to penetrate lower tier Chinese cities, international brands lack real competitive advantage in those areas," Peng said in a press release.
That kind of analysis bodes poorly for high priced Apple iPhones. Phones using the Google Android operating system lead the Chinese market, with Samsung brands in the pole position. Microsoft's Windows phone is only now starting to take market share away from the iPhone, according to market research firms like Gartner and IDC.
This year will also see more Chinese vendors expand their smartphone businesses entering other emerging markets, particularly Asia. Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, is trying desperately to enter that tablet and smartphone market as the laptops future remains in question. It announced plans for international expansion in September, following in the footsteps of much larger rivals HTC, Huawei and ZTE. More bad news for Apple iPhones is that even cheaper smartphones from smaller vendors, such as Gionee, Yulong and Meizu, have been launched in Russia, India, Taiwan, Southeast Asian and Latin American countries.
Apple has been hinting about making lower cost smartphones. In the U.S., older iPhone models usually come free with wireless service contracts. That is usually not the case abroad, particularly in markets like Brazil, where cell phone costs can be three times what they are in the U.S.
China isn't much different. And as a result, many players there are replicating the successful smartphone products and going down market.
"Only very few Chinese smart phonemakers have comprehensive or long-term international expansion plans in place," said Canalys Research Analyst, Jingwen Wang. "Their goals are straightforward: to grow economies of scale or fulfil production capacity and to increase profit margin as pricing pressure is lower in overseas markets. Nonetheless, it is time to think beyond Huawei and ZTE in terms of Chinese vendors with the potential to be disruptive internationally."
Low-cost smart phones have drastically accelerated the decline of feature phones in China and this trend is expected to be seen in more emerging markets in the next three years, Canalys researchers said. They warned that companies like Apple should not only worry about the Chinese vendors, but also the increasingly capable and credible home-grown brands in Brazil, India, and Indonesia making good headway in their respective domestic markets.
However, while Apple may always remain a third place player in China, iPhone sales will undoubtedly increase as China dominates the world smartphone market.
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@radrthekat is totally right. Many IT Analysts and Wall Street investors, journalists and bloggers and CNBC talking heads completely misunderstand how premium designer brands work. They make the big mistake of thinking of smartphones and tablets as mere commodity devices competing on price. That is totally untrue!
It is easy to buy cheap rip-offs of Channel, Gucci, Louis Viton, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and countless other premium brands, but very large numbers of consumers prefer to pay the extra for the quality and prestige of the real thing.
Exactly the same applies to popular premium brands which consumers prefer to pay extra for, such as real Nike, Adidas, Ralph Lauren etc. etc. etc.
Exactly the same applies to Apple products including iPhones, iPads and iPods, which are by far the most widely recognised and sought after quality Brands. They always score highest in every survey for user satisfaction, retention and buying intention ratings. Only Apple is able to excite and stimulate lines of eager buyers every time they release a major new device, much to the envy of Samsung and lesser brands.
Consequently iPhones keep gaining market share in emerging markets like China, (see my earlier post) and in mature markets like the US where they now totally dominate all the combined cheaper but much less satisfying Android brands.
Kantar research shows that that Apple's US market share of iPhone sales has risen from 35.58% in November 2011 to 53.3% in November 2012 following the release of the iPhone 5.
A similar rise in US market share is shown in Statcounter OS internet usage
Another thing IT Analysts and Wall Street investors, journalists and bloggers and CNBC talking heads fail to take into account is that the ownership costs of iPhones can often be cheaper than Android.
That is because used iPhones command premium prices, anything up to $400 for an iPhone 4S, whereas most Androids end up being worthless within a year or two.
There is such strong demand for used iPhones because older models such as the 4 and 4S can be loaded with the latest version of iOS, whereas most Androids cannot because of Android's fragmentation problems
The way you people think it's a wonder how Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche managed to stay in business as long as they did considering all the lower-priced automobiles in the world. I'm sure there's enough business in China for Apple to take the higher-priced smartphone market in China. The Chinese seem to like Apple products and there's no indication that will change overnight. Apple is supposedly offering two iPhone long-term payment plans for Chinese consumers (one at zero interest and the other low interest). Apple can certainly afford to do that and it might prove rather useful for iPhone sales.
So what if Apple doesn't have major market share in China? It's a huge market. Apple still has the opportunity to take the most profit share for smartphones considering all those smaller Chinese smartphone vendors each taking a tiny cut of the whole pie.
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Memorial services for Liz Uhl, age 55 of Pleasantville, were held on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at the Mason Funeral Home with Danielle Bertrand, Celebrant. A musical selection of "Eagle's Wings" was shared.
Lizette Marie Uhl was born Aug. 22, 1957, in Verona, N. J., the daughter of Charlie and Madline (Deitl) Schmidt.
Liz was raised in New Jersey and following high school, she attended Montclair State University, obtaining a B.A. She then attained her Master's degree from George Washington University and her Doctoral degree in Audiology from the University of Phoenix.
Liz took a job in Cherokee, Iowa, where she met her future husband, James Uhl. She and James were married on July 10, 1982, in Oldwick, N. J. To this union two children were born: Jessica and Charlie. The couple lived in New Jersey for a few years, before moving to Knoxville. Liz has worked for the Area Educational Association since 1990. She loved her job because it allowed her to be with, and help children. Her greatest joys in life were her family and her pets.
Liz passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, at the Knoxville Hospital at the age of 55 years.
She was preceded in death by her father.
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By Marjorie Nesin
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---- — More than a half dozen Gloucester High School football players are believed to have contracted a form of viral meningitis in August, but school and city health officials believe the virus has cleared up, that none are or were considered serious, and that there is no health threat to other students or to the public.
The city's public health nurse, Lianne Cook, said today that there has only been one confirmed case of the viral meningitis, but others are likely, awaiting laboratory test results. Multiple members of the football team were admitted to the hospital in August, she confirmed. The football team began practice in August, more than two weeks prior to Wednesday's first day of school.
All potential cases of the virus were reported to the state's Department of Public Health in Boston, according to school district nurse leader Cindy Juncker.
Viral meningitis spreads through saliva and mucus, making students who play team sports particularly susceptible to the virus. It is usually characterized by symptoms including a high fever, stiff neck, headache sensitivity to light, nausea, vomiting, and lack of appetite that last 7 to 10 days.
Unlike the potentially deadly bacterial meningitis, symptoms of viral meningitis usually clear up without antibiotics in about a week's time.
The school handed out information fact sheets to the entire football team, and lectured players on the importance of not sharing water bottles and proper hand washing. The football team's equipment was all cleaned too, according to Juncker.
Since the school has seen no new cases since August, according to Juncker, school officials have only addressed the students on the football team, not the student population at large.
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In case you haven't done so already, now is the time to plant those spring flowering bulbs.
The best time is usually after Thanksgiving when the soil temperature is at or below 45 degrees. In doing so, the newly planted bulb will not put any of its stored energy into producing any green foliage, but instead will only produce some roots if it chooses to start to grow while the temperatures aren't too low.
If bulbs are planted sooner while the soil temperature is warmer, they have a strong chance of using some of their precious stored energy producing some foliage that will die off from the cold temperatures before there is enough time to produce flowers for reproduction.
Then, in the spring, when the temp rises and it begins to grow, there is that much less stored energy for the bulb to produce its roots, foliage, and flower, which can result in a smaller or a less healthy plant that growing season.
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Hello. I have been working on a book about "shock cinema" including extreme horror, psyhological horror, pseudo-snuff, actual snuff (and the possibility of its existence), death films such as Faces of Death and other "real" death on video, and generally disturbing films. I am looking at the reasons why people choose these films for entertainment, watching flims and reviewing them, interviewing directors, doing surveys of fans, etc.
If you would be willing to fill out a survey consisting of 13 short answer questions that ask about your thoughts and preferences. You will remain anonymous, however I will acknowledge all participants at the beginning of the book. I have not decided if I am actually going to use the surveys in their entirity, pieces of the survey, or if I am going to just use your answers to further theoretical ideologies. If I go for the latter and use an exact quote from your survey I will reference you as the author of the idea; unless you choose to remain completely anonymous.
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Dire Straits: Whitla Hall, Belfast
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IN THE foyer they flog T-shirts, programmes and all the paraphernalia of a rock band's promotional department bar embossed wellingtons and inflatable underwear. Rumours that future Dire Straits' gigs will see the distribution of tuinol, sleeping bags and copies of Rolling Stone should be taken with a pinch of salt and a large measure of tequila.
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Some people hear the voice of god Whenever thunder booms— (They might have missed a science class, One cautiously presumes.) A summer storm impresses them, And leaves them filled with wonder— They hear the mighty voice of god… I only hear the thunder.
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This Verse Could Save Your Life
The new advice for modern masses: On your feet, and off your asses! The hours you're spending on your rears Can cost your lifespan several years! The sofa, couch, or beanbag chair On which you rest your derriere Is slowly, surely, killing you. And so, of course, what you must do Is walk. Or run. …
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The Cross On The Hill (Is There For Everyone)
Stephen Colbert takes Justice Scalia to task, and (importantly, if we are to convince religious believers that separation of church and state is for their benefit) shows the desecration of the cross inherent in Scalia's view. Video, after the jump:
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A small handful of commenters on my Rainbow Connection poll said they knew what I was getting after. Could be, actually. If you know me well, I'm pretty predictable. As a clue, a hint, to those people (and anyone else who wants to guess), I'll refer back to a favorite verse, and my all-time favorite …
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Thank you so much for your responses to the previous post! It may take me a while to throw together the post I have planned and for which I needed your input. In appreciation of your comments, I give you a video which moved me to tears, because neither Kermit nor Jim Henson were part …
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I am seriously looking for your input on this; I assure you it is not a trick question, but what I think to be a very simple and straightforward one. That said, I am not doing this as a multiple-choice poll, but open-ended, for reasons which I will reveal at a later date. Please do …
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Politicians, of course, serve us shit, Since they're lacking in substance or wit– Still, I just have to smile When I read of the pile That is Rudy's endorsement of Mitt Headline: Giuliani endorses Mitt Romney, shelving animosity
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Who needs wool? SpongeBob's using his eyelashes to make a sweater for Squidward!
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Will Patrick ever learn how to open a jar?
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Charity ball in Taunton raising cash for NSPCC (From Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News)
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A CHARITY ball is being held on Friday, March 8 in aid of the NSPCC at the County Ground in Taunton.
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Fighter jets were forced to intercept a wayward plane over Suffolk County Monday night after the small aircraft pierced a temporary no-fly zone, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
The plane was escorted to MacArthur Airport by two F-15 jets around 7 p.m. and landed without incident, according to a NORAD statement.
The no-fly zone over the island was in effect because President Obama was campaigning in Connecticut Monday.
Officials have not released the identity of the pilot who was flying alone on a home-built Kitfox, the Daily News reported.
A second aircraft also flying in a restricted area in New Haven, Conn., was intercepted by the fighter jets around 7:30 p.m. That plane was allowed to continue to its final destination, NORAD said.
Many local residents said they saw the jets soar over their homes.
"I watched it fly over my house several times," Dan Olawski of Lake Ronkonkoma wrote on Facebook. "Was a little nerve-wracking."
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"Deloitte" is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory and tax services to selected clients. These firms are members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), a UK private company limited by guarantee. Each member firm provides services in a particular geographic area and is subject to the laws and professional regulations of the particular country or countries in which it operates. DTTL does not itself provide services to clients. DTTL and each DTTL member firm are separate and distinct legal entities, which cannot obligate each other. DTTL and each DTTL member firm are liable only for their own acts or omissions and not those of each other. Each DTTL member firm is structured differently in accordance with national laws, regulations, customary practice, and other factors, and may secure the provision of professional services in its territory through subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or other entities.
Deloitte Central Europe is a regional organisation of entities organised under the umbrella of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited, the member firm in Central Europe of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. Services are provided by the subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited, which are separate and independent legal entities. The subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited are among the region's leading professional services firms, providing services through more than 3,400 people in more than 30 offices in 17 countries.
In Hungary, the services are provided by Deloitte Auditing and Consulting Limited (Deloitte Ltd.), Deloitte Advisory and Management Consulting Private Limited Company (Deloitte Co. Ltd.) and Deloitte CRS Limited (Deloitte CRS Ltd.), (jointly referred to as "Deloitte Hungary") which are affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited. Deloitte Hungary is one of the leading professional services organizations in the country providing services in four professional areas - audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services - through approximately 400 national and specialized expatriate professionals. (Legal services to clients are provided by cooperating law firm Deloitte Legal Szarvas, Erdős and Partners Law Firm.)


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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Central hopes to end a five-year regional tennis title drought today.
The Trojans enter play in the 11-team Division 1 field at the Midland Tennis Center as the favorite.
Central had won 12 Division 1 regional championships in a row before dropping down to Division 2 five years ago. That's where the Trojans ran into powerhouse Forest Hills Northern, finishing second in the regional all five years. During that span, Forest Hills Northern won four state crowns and placed second the other year.
"They kept us off the board," Central coach Larry Nykerk said. "We were only two points off last year."
Now back in Division 1, the Trojans appear ready to reclaim regional dominance. Central is seeded No. 1 in five of the eight flights. The Trojans are the No. 2 seed in the other three flights. Dow earned two No. 1 seeds and Traverse City West one.
"I'm really hungry to get a regional (today)," Nykerk said.
Central comes in ranked No. 5 — the 10th consecutive year the Trojans have been ranked in the top 5.
Earning No. 1 seeds are Paige Cooley (23-3) at No. 1 singles, Kelly Milliken (22-4) at No. 2 singles, Leah Potter-Katie Raymond (23-3) at No. 2 doubles, Devon Dotterrer and Abby Palisin (23-3) at No. 3 doubles and Amelia Pezzetti and Molly Whiting (25-1) at No. 4 doubles.
Drawing No. 2 seeds are Christi Druskovich (20-6) at No. 3 singles, Taylor Weckstein (22-4) at No. 4 singles and Kitty Mast and Elizabeth Pappas (21-5) at No. 1 doubles.
"We have a lot of depth," Nykerk said. "We're pretty solid all the way through our lineup."
Druskovich and Weckstein both lost three-setters to the No. 1 seeds in their flights — Dow's Afoa Ofori-Darko and Nicole Dobrzelewski.
West's Monica Hessler and Sydney Diss are seeded No. 1 at No. 1 doubles. Hessler and Diss beat Mast and Pappas earlier this week to lock down the top seed.
Meanwhile in the Division 4 regional at Traverse City Central, Ludington and St. Francis are expected to battle for the crown. Harbor Springs could also be in the mix. Ludington is the defending regional champion.
"Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to see them in the regular season," St. Francis coach Jeff Hughes said. "But they always have a great program.
"I expect it will be a barn-burner. I think a year ago it came down to the last couple of matches."
Coaches will meet prior to the 10 a.m. start to seed the field. Hughes thinks the Gladiators will be seeded in every flight.
"Everyone of our lines is going to be a force," he said. "I think from top to bottom this could be our strongest team."
The Gladiators have five freshmen in their lineup, including Amanda Bandrowski at No. 1 singles. She's 22-1 with her only loss to Traverse City Central's Paige Cooley.
"She's been tearing it up," Hughes said.
Two other freshmen, Carlee McCardel and Bethany Richey, will be a team to watch at No. 4 doubles.
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"Johnny Saturn," it's like mythology, with superheroes, in the Midwest.
Welcome to the world of Johnny Saturn, a street-level avenger at the end of a long, brutal career. This is a world of high-flying, trendy superheroes who live like celebrities, and a shadowy, back-alley world where mystery men, those old-school vigilantes who rely on their fists and indomitable wills, wage lonely wars on crime. "Johnny Saturn" is a heady blend of horror, conspiracy theory, superheroes, classical mythology, and the paranormal.
"Johnny Saturn" has been in print and running as a webcomic continually since 2005. This comic is PG 13, containing fantasy violence and, occasionally, rough language.
Thematically, "Johnny Saturn" is based on the question of which is superior: great intellect and the will to succeed at any cost, or martial arts and superpowers?
In the 2008 Webcomics Readers Choice Awards, Dr. Synn won 1st place antagonist, and Johnny Saturn won 3rd place protagonist.
"Johnny Saturn" has been widely reviewed, and here is what some of them say:
- Kurt Anthony Krug in "The Comic Buyers Guide" gives "Johnny Saturn" 3 ½ stars out of 4, and states "You'd swear this title were published by one of the larger companies instead of by Scott Story and his wife, Benita."
- Brant Fowler in his column Indy-Pendant on Comic Avalanche writes that "Story's writing is classic and timeless, and fun yet smart. His art is beautiful, dynamic and energetic."
- John Wilson in his column Graphic Content on Comic Related says that "In an era of over processed, over rendered and generally overblown art, it is refreshing to see line work and style that harkens back to the best days of the Silver Age."
- Joshua Pantalleresco of Indy Spotlight wrote "As for the art, Story is amazing. His pencils are crisp and are some of the best I've seen."
- According to Ariel Carmona Jr. on Silver Bullet Comics, "…Saturn is a tour de force and well worth reading."
- Bob Freeman on Byte Marks gives Johnny Saturn 4 out of 5 stars, saying "Johnny Saturn, in summation, rocks."


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July 29, 2014
HARRISONBURG -- The Massanutten Regional Library collected more than 1200 pounds of canned goods in January from people wanting to get out of paying fines.
The Food for Fines campaign collected non-perishable items to pay for overdue materials. When a customer donated a can of food, it erased a dollar from their late fees.
The campaign only ran for one week in January, but it was enough to beat last year's totals by 100 pounds. Community Relations Manager Cheryl Griffith said in 2011, the branches received 1100 pounds.
Griffith said it was a rewarding experience.
"We love to help out our area food banks because we know there are a lot of people in need, so obviously is very gratifying to call the food pantries and say we have lots of food for you to pick up."
She said some people donated to the cause at the main branch, even if they didn't have fines. The seven library branches donated the food to seven local pantries.
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Louis Columbus, Contributor
I cover CRM, Cloud Computing, ERP and Enterprise Software
Relying on cloud computing strategies to free up dollars and time that can quickly be re-invested in product and service innovation emerged as the highest priority for respondents in a recent Rackspace survey.
While cost reductions were significant, the greatest contributions were seen in investments in innovation (48%), new product & service development (45%), and boosting sale efforts (38%).
Rackspace recently commissioned a study with market research firm Vanson Bourne, who surveyed 1,300 organizations in the UK and the U.S., including 1,000 Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) and 300 enterprises with 1,000 employees or more. The methodology included coverage of Financial Services, Retail, IT/Technology, Manufacturing, Business and Professional Services, Media, Logistics, and Mobile Telecommunications sectors, with a further small representative group from other sectors. Rackspace also partners often with the Manchester Business School to complete qualitative research, which they also did on this project. You can find an executive summary of the study here, Cloud Computing Research. In February, Joe McKendrick's post titled Cloud Computing Boosts Next Generation of Startups, Survey Shows covered the findings from this survey from a start-up standpoint.
Key take-aways from the research include the following:
Bottom line: Using the cost and time savings from cloud computing to free up up resources for product innovation is giving these companies a long-term competitive advantage in the market.
Hi Louis and thanks for this post – very informative
do you know who in the respondent organizations were asked? (CIO, CEOs, CFOs…)?
thanks for the clarification
much appreciated
Thanks Louis for making effort and given us this informative article.
I think cloud automation and managing product life cycle with new cloud framework is enabling new dimensions. Which is reducing cost and mostly i think time and efforts.
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A Seat at the (Picnic) Table For Fox News?
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Is there space for Team Fox & Friends at that presidential picnic table for tomorrow night's "teachable moment" with beer?... More
If You Hold It, They Will Come
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I guess the publicly-released 911 tape didn't say it all. "911 caller in Gates case to hold press conference." Well,... More
In My Spare Time? I Scrapbook, Jog, Do a Little Journalism…
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The Birth Of Politico…
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Shep Smith: Newcasting is Not Complicated
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The Boston Globe profiles Fox News anchor Shep Smith, who "describes himself as a newscaster," adding: "All we're really supposed... More
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Media Matters in South Korea
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Questions and exercises for journalism students.
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Lawrence Kudlow is a CNBC senior contributor.
Previously, Kudlow was anchor of CNBC's prime-time program "The Kudlow Report" (7 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET).
He is also the host of "The Larry Kudlow Show," which broadcasts each Saturday on WABC Radio and is syndicated nationally by Citadel Media. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of "American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity."
During President Reagan's first term, Kudlow was the associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, where he was engaged in the development of the administration's economic and budget policy.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including Extraordinary Commitment Award from St. Patrick's Church of Redding, Conn.; Bishop's Humanitarian Award from the Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens; Humanitarian Award from Pregnancy Care Center of New Rochelle, N.Y.
In addition, Kudlow received the Spirit Award from Hazelden Foundation of Center City, Minn.; Exemplary Achievement Award from Covenant House of New York; Ethical Angel Award from the Guardian Angels of New York; the Reagan Great Communicator Award from the New York Young Republicans Club; Discovery Award from Sacred Heart University; Visionary Award from Council for Economic Education.
Kudlow received an honorary degree (Doctor of Laws) from Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., in 2009.
He is on the Board of Directors of Hazelden New York, Mountainside Treatment Center, Catholic Cluster School of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., and a former Fordham University Board of Trustees member.
Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic research firm. His blog, Money Politics, can be found at kudlow.com.
He was formerly chief economist and senior managing director of Bear Stearns & Company. Kudlow started his professional career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he worked in open market operations and bank supervision.
Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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August 1, 2014
Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2012 --- 7:25 a.m.
From the UW-Madison Police Department:
Madison, Wisconsin – The UW-Madison Police Department is reporting an increase in thefts of bicycles on campus.
The UWPD is asking you to be aware of suspicious activity and report the behavior to police.
If you have a bicycle in the downtown area, please use a heavy duty bicycle lock to secure your bicycle to an approved bicycle parking rack. Also, be sure to lock removable wheels to the frame and the rack with your lock.
If you have information about these thefts, please contact the UW Madison Police Department or Madison Area Crimestoppers.