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Simpson's-in-the-Strand will be the venue for the first FIDE Grand Prix, starting September 20th. This was announced (or rather: confirmed) in a separate press release by Agon this week. Simpson is one of London's oldest traditional English restaurants and also the place where the "Immortal game" between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky was played.
Agon, the company that was recently accorded the commercial rights to the World Chess Championships by FIDE, has announced that the game is to return to Simpson's-in-the-Strand, the spiritual home of chess in Europe.
Simpson's will be the setting for the forthcoming Grand Prix event between 20 September and 3 October. The tournament will have a prize fund of 240,000 euros.
The event, the first Grand Prix in the new World Chess Championship Cycle, was originally scheduled to be played in Chelyabinsk in the Russian Ural mountains, but unresolved issues between FIDE and the Russian Chess Federation led to Agon's decision to transfer the event to London.
Andrew Paulson, the Chief Executive and Founder of Agon, said: "I am delighted to confirm that Simpson's-in-the-Strand will be the venue for the September Grand Prix. As possibly the best-known chess venue in the world, it is the perfect place to kick off the new Championship cycle. However, the requirement to transfer the event to London from Chelyabinsk at this relatively late stage means that it will be a smaller, invite-only event.
"Agon's stewardship of the World Chess Championships really only starts with the London Candidates tournament in March 2013, but I felt compelled to support FIDE when it became apparent that Chelyabinsk wasn't going to work. "
CJ de Mooi, the President of the English Chess Federation (ECF), said: "I am delighted to welcome the Agon Chess Grand Prix to London in our Olympic year. The ECF looks forward to a long partnership with Agon, an innovative company that has proven itself on both the world stage and the chess board."
Simpson's originally opened in 1828 as a chess club and coffee house and soon became known as the "home of chess" after attracting the patronage of such chess luminaries as Howard Staunton – the first English world chess champion.
Raymond Keene OBE, chess columnist for The Times newspaper and The Spectator magazine and one of the world's most respected commentators on the sport, said: "I am relishing the return of the World Chess Championships to Simpson's. It is the home of the immortal game and the Grand Prix in September represents the start of a long journey to restore chess to its rightful place in the public imagination after decades in the media wilderness."
The announcement of Simpson's as a venue is indicative of Agon's ambitions for the World Chess Championships.
Agon will be bringing the World Chess Championships to European capital cities, as part of its commitment to bring a sustainable business model to the sport.
Mr Paulson added: "We will shortly be announcing a number of illustrious and historic venues for the World Chess Championship cycle. We are also in discussions with a number of global companies that want to be associated with the pinnacle of this wonderful game."
In 2013, the Championship cycle will be hosted by London, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Paris and Tromsø.
The press release was distributed by Mission, a global PR company for brands in different markets. It was sent soon after the news about the GP participants was published. Thus, we know the participants of the first Grand Prix in London:
Sergey Karjakin (2779), Hikaru Nakamura (2778), Alexander Grischuk (2763), Veselin Topalov (2752), Wang Hao (2739), Boris Gelfand (2738), Peter Leko (2730), Ruslan Ponomariov (2726), Shakriyar Mamedyarov (2726), Leinier Dominguez Perez (2725), Anish Giri (2696) and Rustam Kazimdzhanov (2690).
The first event of the current World Championship cycle is the Candidates Tournament which will take place in London in March 2013. The winner of this 8-player double round-robin will play the reigning World Champion, Viswanathan Anand, in the World Championship Match in November 2013.
1 year 8 months ago
Are ALL monies necessary for hosting/prizes deposited "in the bank"?
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1 year 8 months ago
'Raymond Keene OBE, chess columnist for The Times newspaper and The Spectator magazine and one of the world's most respected commentators on the sport...'
*Cough, cough*
Never met anyone yet who respects him.
A universal loathing.
1 year 8 months ago
Agon writes "it will be a smaller, invite-only event."
Apparently this means that spectators will be by invitation only.
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Former West Aurora High School science teacher Jim Pittman is remembered for putting students on the path to success.
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The West Aurora High School community said goodbye to one of its most dedicated fans on Sunday, when long-time coach and teacher James "Jim" Pittman lost his battle with cancer.
Pittman spent nearly four decades molding young Blackhawks throughout the district.
"He was one of those people that really made an impression on you," said West Aurora School Board President Neal Ormond. "(Decades later) people still say they remember the way he would teach. You can't say that about everyone, but you could say that about Jim. He was so committed to seeing you be successful. He made his mark both in the classroom, and on the coaching sidelines."
Pittman was born June 5, 1930, in Aurora where he spent his entire life. He attended Bardwell Elementary School, Immanuel Lutheran Grade School and East Aurora High School, where earned letters in track and football. He went on to attend Indiana State University, but later transferred to Aurora College where he graduated with a bachelor of science degree.
Ormond said he remembers watching Pittman play ball on AU's football team.
Upon graduation, Pittman began his teaching career at the junior high level before taking a position at West Aurora High School where he taught biology for 34 years.
While at West, Pittman coached golf and sophomore basketball.
"The nickname 'Sarge' really personified his image," Ormond said of Pittman's coaching style. "He was tough, but very knowledgeable... He turned his boys not just into basketball players, but into very disciplined young men. He had a lot of pride."
Ormond said that Pittman would often joke that you should never smile during the first month of school.
"He wanted to impress upon (his students) that he was all business," Ormond said. "In the classroom he had a real impact because he was such a disciplined teacher. He really prided himself on conveying to students to pay attention to details."
Following his retirement from West Aurora in 1992, Pittman went on to work part-time at the Orchard Valley Golf Course for more than two decades, where his passion for the sport continued.
"Golf was a particular joy of his," Ormond said.
Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at The Healy Chapel, 332 W. Downer Place in Aurora. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Olaf Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1233 Douglas Road, Montgomery.


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Does it really matter if a child misses school in kindergarten or...
Does it really matter if a child misses school in kindergarten or the early grades?
Absolutely! School attendance is particularly important at the kindergarten and elementary grades. Early educational services are critical for establishing life-long skills.
Does this change better align DoDEA with the Interstate Compact on Military Children?
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Recognizing the powerful link between successful learning and classroom attendance, the DoDEA policy establishes mandatory attendance of 180 instructional days per academic year for all students enrolled in a DoDEA school. We believe that school attendance promotes establishment of life-long positive habits that are critical for developing the skills necessary for career readiness and success in college.
This policy establishes the expectation that students must attend school, and that school attendance is equally as important during the kindergarten years as it is during middle school and high school. There are normally between 181-183 days scheduled in the school year for students.
The new policy mandates school attendance, requires 180 instructional days per academic year, and recognizes the reality of unavoidable absences such as illness, emergency situations, and other excused absences. Excused and unexcused absences are outlined in the attached policy. The DoDEA policy establishes a balance between the needs of our military families and the importance of education by requiring a student educational plan to mitigate the absence from school while maintaining high expectations for student learning.
Is there a difference between excused and unexcused absences?
Is this policy worldwide?
Yes, this is a system-wide policy. It applies to all 194 DoDEA schools, in DDESS, DoDDS Europe, and DoDDS Pacific. This policy is aligned with attendance policies in many stateside school districts attended by military dependents, which should ease the challenges of transitioning during the year.
The DoDEA Attendance Policy is also aligned with the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which recommends that schools consider the unique needs of the military by allowing extended absences from school for families to reunite following a deployment.
Some of the excused absences are subjective. Who will make...
Some of the excused absences are subjective. Who will make... the decision about unique family circumstances, etc?
Parents are encouraged to speak with school administration regarding the reasons for school absences.
Was there a previous policy?
Mandatory school attendance has always been addressed in local, district and area policies across DoDEA. The new policy will formalize the expectations for attendance into a single, comprehensive policy system-wide that applies to DoDEA schools worldwide and mirrors policies of the public schools that also serve military children.
What about when a parent is deploying or coming home?
What about when a parent is deploying or coming home? Will you make allowances for those kinds of absences?
Those circumstances would fall under unique family circumstances.
What are some examples of excused absences?
DoDEA considers the following conditions to constitute reasonable cause for absence from school for reasons other than school related activities. The principal has final authority to identify an absence as excused from school and institute a Student Educational Monitoring Plan to be completed during absences when appropriate.
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What are the main components of the new policy?
The main change is the requirement that a student must be in school a minimum of 180 days of the school year. This is in line with most of the public schools in the United States. Another change is that the principal has final authority to identify an absence as excused from school and institute a Student Educational Monitoring Plan to be completed during absences when appropriate.
Other key components of the new policy include:
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- Increased communication with parents about the effect of absences on student performance;
- Referral of students with 5 days of absences to the Student Support Team and with 7 days of absences to the local Command for appropriate intervention and support; and
- Daily record-keeping, review, analysis of attendance.
When did the attendance regulation become official?
The regulation was released on September, 1, 2011 and will go into effect immediately. Principals will begin the process of informing parents and students and making changes to school handbooks and other references at the school level. Recognizing that this is a new policy for DoDEA, we will elicit community and school feedback in early May 2012. If needed, the policy may be revised based upon an analysis of this feedback.
Who can provide additional information regarding the new policy?
Your local DoDEA school principal can provide additional information.
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Why was it done?, was there a problem with attendance or trying to make kids ready for switch to stateside public schools?
School attendance issues have been identified as a serious issue for children throughout the U.S. and military children are no exception. Multiple absences can impact considerably on a child's educational standing depending on state and local laws.
This system-wide policy is based upon the foundational principle that regular student attendance promotes higher levels of student achievement, school-connectedness, and readiness for colleges and careers. The new policy mandates school attendance, requires 180 instructional days per academic year, and recognizes the reality of unavoidable absences such as illness and emergency situations. The policy also aligns with the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children standard that school systems respect the unique the needs of military families when considering requests for excused absences.


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Companies' spending on meetings and events can be hard to track and varies by industry, says a new study from travel-management giant Carlson Wagonlit Travel. But before you stop reading thinking you've heard it all before, the study also finds that certain best practices can save companies up to 25 percent on that spending over three years. It comes down to smart sourcing, centralized policies and processes, and senior management support. And if that sounds daunting, the report's 131 pages also include detailed steps to help companies implement those best practices.
"Meetings and Events: Where Savings Meet Success" is the fifth report in a series of research projects conducted by the CWT Travel Management Institute. The report is based on research, carried out between September 2009 and March 2010, that included a survey of 222 meeting planners and requestors from 15 countries across North America and Europe; an online attendee survey, completed by more than 2,300 respondents from six countries; interviews with more than 40 meeting experts from full-service agencies, hotel chains, trade associations, and corporations; a quantitative analysis of CWT client data; and two comprehensive corporate case studies. CWT's technology partner in the research project was StarCite, whose "Strategic Value Analysis" tool was used.
CWT created a model to estimate the savings that would be realized when companies put best practices in place in three areas: sourcing, processes, and policy/compliance. Also critical, of course, is full buy-in from senior management. And the report is careful to suggest that a meeting management strategy based solely on price is not the goal. Rather, "in addition to making processes more efficient and achieving savings, organizations must consider how meetings and events can best serve business objectives." Doing that means involving a wide range of stakeholders in the decision-making process.
Step One: What Are You Spending?
A basic approach to estimating total meeting spending is to use accepted average revenue percentages by industry. For example, CWT estimates that companies overall spend between 0.5 and 1.5 percent of revenue on meetings, while companies in the pharmaceutical, banking/finance, IT, and consulting industries spend up to 4 percent of their revenues on meetings and events. CWT also offers its breakdown of the main line items in meeting budgets:
Accommodations/venues/meeting space: 37.5 percent of total meeting spending
Transportation: 32.5 percent
Food and beverage: 12.5 percent
Other (attendee management, onsite support, design, marketing and communications): 17.5 percent
Design a Policy
Surveyed respondents said that creating a meeting policy is the single biggest way to improve meeting management. Yet only 13 percent of those same respondents reported having a global or regional meeting policy in place. Elements of a successful policy include: use of standardized contract terms, use of preferred suppliers, centralized meeting registration, and use of an online attendee registration tool.
Strategic Sourcing: What it Means
Survey respondents ranked using preferred suppliers and improving negotiating leverage as the second and third biggest ways to improve meeting management. But while most work with preferred suppliers, the survey found, only 31 percent have worked to pre-negotiate rates with some suppliers at a local, regional, or global level. According to CWT, that's when sourcing shifts from being ad-hoc to being strategic.
Centralized Management
One-third of respondents said their meetings are centrally managed, and these respondents tended to be from industries with the most mature meeting and event programs. Central coordination of meeting planning is a best practice, according to the report, which also acknowledges the barriers to centralization and suggests ways to overcome them: involve a diverse panel of stakeholders in decision-making, implement a continuous change management program, and leverage technology.
Use Your Transient Travel Leverage
The survey puts transient travel spending at roughly twice that of meeting spending on average. Yet only 29 percent of respondents systematically use transient travel volume as leverage when negotiating with airlines and hotels for meeting programs. And most companies (58 percent) reported that they manage meetings and business travel separately.
The report covers many more aspects of meeting management, from the broad, such as environmental responsibility guidelines and an exhaustive guide for choosing a third-party meeting planning company, to the detailed, such as the benefits of online attendee registration and the different ways of using payment cards.
Details of Survey Respondents
Meeting planners' and requestors' job functions broke down as follows: 21 percent were in procurement or finance/accounting; 20 percent in meetings departments; 18 percent in travel management; 16 percent in marketing or communications; 6 percent in sales; 4 percent human resources; and 15 percent in other departments. The breakdown by industry is as follows: energy/chemicals (19 percent), pharmaceutical (17 percent), banking/insurance/financial (10 percent), IT/technology/telecommunications (10 percent), automotive (7 percent), consumer goods/retail (5 percent), and other (32 percent). "Other" includes food/beverage, consulting, heavy industry, manufacturing, aerospace/defense, and other sectors.


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GEORGETOWN, Texas -- Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst has spoken out about the phone call he made to the Allen Police Department on the night of August 3. He made the call on behalf of his nephew's wife, Ellen Bevers, whom Allen police had arrested for allegedly stealing $53 worth of groceries.
Dewhurst made the statement after speaking at the Texas Conservative Leadership Symposium in Georgetown on Saturday.
"How would you feel if you had two family members call and they were so distraught that they could barely talk?" Dewhurst said. "And so I simply wanted to know what the procedures were, what could be done, if anything."
Dewhurst said he's never had a family member arrested and didn't know the rules.
"I'm the type of guy that I care for family," Dewhurst said. "I care for my friends. I care for the people of Texas and I'm going to fight for them."
Several of Dewhurst's opponents in the running for the lieutenant governor position and other Texas lawmakers spoke out against Dewhurst's actions. Texas Senator Dan Patrick called the phone call "highly inappropriate."
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Alaska Airlines' Chief Riding Out the Turbulence
Bill Ayer has weathered a reorganization, safety worries and economic challenges, but he feels the worst has passed and customer loyalty will keep his company on top.
Bill Ayer has weathered a reorganization, safety worries and economic challenges, but he feels the worst has passed and customer loyalty will keep his company on top.
Alaska Airlines Chairman Bill Ayer spent an hour fielding questions about operational mishaps, flight delays, laid-off ramp workers and pay cuts for pilots.
Then, asked how he's enjoyed leading the Seattle-based airline since 2003, Ayer laughed. Hard.
"You know what? We've got a great team," he said during a one-on-one interview Monday, flashing the tired but relieved smile of a man who believes he's put a crisis behind him. "We are faced with a challenge, and I think everyone really has stepped up to the challenge."
Ayer has reason to be upbeat. Alaska earned $55 million in 2005, making it the second-most profitable U.S. airline behind Southwest.
Yet since Christmas, a rash of problems in the air and on the ground has put Alaska's operations, and Ayer's leadership, under a microscope.
In the interview, Ayer defended the company's decision last May to lay off 472 union workers and hire Menzies Aviation to handle its ground operations at Sea-Tac Airport. He acknowledged the timing of the switch was lousy, and that nine months later Menzies continues to have trouble hiring and retaining enough qualified people.
Ayer also said Alaska's investigation into last month's spate of five pressurization-system problems within 10 days has found no connections among the events, calling them a "coincidence."
He is not happy that Alaska finished last in on-time performance in 2005, and admitted it's been a "bumpy road" as Alaska has tried to make changes to remain profitable.
But he is optimistic that, for passengers and employees alike, the worst is over.
"It's been hard on everybody. It's been a lot of work," he said. "We're all looking forward to things settling down here a bit, and I think that's coming."
Trying times
Perched on the edge of an armchair in his large but simple office overlooking Angle Lake Park in Sea-Tac, Ayer is by turns stern, conciliatory and enthusiastic.
Tanned from a recent ski trip to Colorado, he exudes energy and, at 51, looks younger than his age.
Yet the challenges have been relentless during Ayer's time in Alaska's executive suites.
He was president when Flight 261 crashed off the coast of California in 2000; became CEO three months after the Sept. 11 attacks, and rose to chairman in May 2003, just before fuel prices began a two-year climb to crippling record highs.
Ayer has worked in the airline industry without interruption since 1978, when he finished his M.B.A. at the University of Washington. He has been in the Alaska Air Group family since 1982, when he joined the operations staff at Horizon Air. (Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group).
As he prepared to succeed John Kelly as chairman in May 2003, Ayer realized that Alaska had reached a critical inflection point.
"We looked at the landscape about three years ago now, and said the track we're on, the track the industry is on, is not a viable one," he said. "What we need to do is figure out how we change our business plan to be successful."
The answer was complicated.
If Alaska wanted to keep pace with the likes of Southwest and offer the lowest possible fares, its costs would have to be cut dramatically.
Yet Alaska's growth to that point, and the fierce loyalty of its frequent fliers, were largely due to its reputation for superior customer service.
"We know that our employees, our people, are the critical differentiator. They are the only long-term, sustainable competitive advantage we're ever going to have," Ayer said.
"The challenge that we have here, on the leadership side, is to make changes that will ensure our viability and long-term success, and do it in a way that keeps people engaged and maintains that [customer service] difference in the marketplace."
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(March 1, 2011) The grand task of all Halls of Fame is to make the induction ceremony a memorable event. The honored guests will always remember their day in the sun, the unique and special honor bestowed, the moment of a lifetime; but what of the audience? Can a Hall of Fame create a ceremony that provides such unique and lasting value that it is truly memorable? Every part of the program needs to be evaluated toward the goal of making it so special for all that the ceremony becomes the experience of a lifetime for everyone in attendance and for others who might view it later via the wonderful world of technology. The core target is to capture people's hearts. No induction ceremony can be considered a truly successful one unless we meet the lofty goals that Jim Valvano presented in his speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards on accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award: "If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. "(It actually brings tears to my eyes just remembering it!) That's what we are charged with searching for!
I suggest there are two major elements that must be right for an induction ceremony to have a chance of becoming memorable: 1) the introduction or presentation of the inductee, and 2) the inductee's acceptance of the honor. The other elements of the program recede in importance to these two, though they can clearly have a pejorative effect on the memory of an event if, for example, the setting or seating is distracting or uncomfortable. But these two core elements can overcome minor annoyances if they are done well.
As the creator of the induction ceremony, the challenge is to balance those elements under your control with the advice given for the elements outside of control. For example, the induction/presentation can include a video component that can truly be a significant part of making any event memorable and one over which control can be exercised. The video, if used, must be well crafted with exciting and emotional action paired with an audio track that captures the highlight moments presented. That audio can be an announcer's call of the action or music, usually in combination, that makes important moments jump off the screen into the hearts of those attending.
If video is paired with a spoken introduction, there is incredible importance in coordinating the two. At the National Soccer Hall of Fame we learned to use this technique by highlighting the soccer career via video and asked the presenter to speak about the inductee as a person. This spoken introduction is critical. I strongly suggest limiting this presentation to three minutes at most – it calls to mind that oft-repeated idea: "Anyone can give a 20 minute speech, but it takes real work to give a 3-minute one." This is surely true. While the Hall of Fame does not control this aspect in total, working with a presenter to refine and re-refine this element can have real rewards. First, it is important we make clear to the presenter that it is not about you! This is a simple idea that I have often seen forgotten. Remember, our goal is to speak to the heart of the audience, not necessarily to their brains. Make it full of the truly important elements that make the life being celebrated. Paring this to just a few truly emotional moments will provide the audience with the core of the inductee. That's what is needed and required. Getting this speech right with the Hall of Fame's active engagement is critical to success.
The same can said of the acceptance address by the new inductee. While the time limit can be more flexible – I continue to believe it is the inductee's day and the Hall of Fame, while providing guidelines, should not present a hard limit. At the same time, I believe every speech needs an editor and questioner, someone who helps the inductee say exactly what needs to be said and helps him/her do it well. I believe you need to offer that assistance. I'd even suggest that you ask the inductee to send you a written copy and a DVD of a practice session. You can help them refine and redraft, focusing on the key moments of importance to the greater world, emphasizing those elements which are emotional. This will be accomplished by stripping some parts away and adding to others. It can be a challenging, fun, tedious, and ultimately, extremely rewarding process.
While all the associated parts of an induction ceremony are important, they will never overshadow the central importance of the presentation/introduction and the acceptance speech. Working hard at these is well worth the effort expended.
Jack Huckel, Founder & Principal of J.R. Huckel & Associates, offers election and induction consulting services to Halls of Fame. More information is available at the firm's web site. Jack can be reached at email@example.com or 518/852-3033. He has observed more than 100 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies and been a participant in more than 25.


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Drupal Give: Recent Activity
We organized a Drupal 8 core sprint at the Burlington office as part of the Global Sprint Weekend. Participants from Acquia and the regional community worked to review and document Drupal 8 API changes, begin Drupal 8 module upgrades to test core APIs, and experiment with improvements to the user interface for the Blocks and Layouts Initiative.
Compiling xhprof binaries for MAMP on OSX can be a pain. I provided pre-compiled binaries to make it easy for Drupal and PHP developers to profile their code.
This patch involves removing hook_url_outbound_alter() and replacing it with a series of outbound path processors. It is the final step towards the goal of unifying the url generator from the routing system with the url() function for generating urls from paths. As the latter is one of the most widely used functions in Drupal, changing how it works is not without many consequences. The work today focused on fixing outstanding test failures - the number of failures is now at 5.
I helped patch and test Drupal 7 core to fix a vulnerability in the Image module described in SA-CORE-2013-002. In addition, I prepared the first backport patch to the Drupal 6 imagecache module.
I was one of the lead organizers for DrupalCamp NJ, as well as a speaker. This was the 2nd annual camp in Princeton. We had approximately 90% of the 246 registered attendees show up, and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. Sessions, slides, and audio or screen captures are posted at http://www.drupalcampnj.org/sessions
Worked on reviewing the security team processes and progress. Assigned several issues and tried to keep Drupal secure.
I worked on the core patch "Allow to override the image toolkit's global JPEG/PNG quality value" and it finally passed the automated test.
Participated as a panelist (in the end the only one representing Drupal out of three panelists) at the Princeton Public Library to discuss the relative merits of Drupal and WordPress.
Of course, the key point I emphasized that either (as GPL software) are better than proprietary solutions.
The Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) for Drupal 7.x is still being built and a number of features present in the Drupal 6 version are not yet re-built for 7. Since I wanted to be able to show a session grid for our upcoming DrupalCamp NJ, I dove in to try to understand how to build that. After long discussions with one of the maintainers (and fellow Acquian) Jacob Perry in IRC, I finally understood the data model and was able to build a module with an appropriate view and a custom View style with lots of preprocessing to make the grid. You can see some documentation I wrote at http://drupal.org/node/1884428 and the module code at http://drupal.org/sandbox/pwolanin/1884410
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To be considered a competent life coach, most countries will require NLP training and include it as an essential part of a life coach training program. In the United States, this training affords you the opportunity to be a leader in the field of life coaching — meeting more stringent international standards, advancing your skills, increasing your confidence, and being more effective in serving your clients.
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The techniques in our Neuro Linguistic Life Coaching Program provide you with skills, which reveal this critical information and the ability to change your client's, and your own, programming at a subconscious level. This makes your client's achieving his or her goals and your own a natural process instead of one where we find ourselves struggling.
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Sunday Matinee Series | Andris Nelsons conducts Strauss and Beethoven
Sunday Matinee Series | Andris Nelsons conducts Strauss and Beethoven
Tonight's programme features three highly autobiographical masterworks. The 'Pastoral' Sympony, is Beethoven's ultimate musical response to nature, his most cherished and dependable companion in life. In Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche ('Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks') the exuberant young Strauss clearly associates himself with the main character as he gleefully wreaks havoc in a market place and upsets a group of passing nuns, disguised as a clergyman. Berg's Violin Concerto, composed to 'the memory of an angel', is a heartbreaking lament for Manon Gropius, the hauntingly beautiful daughter of Alma Mahler (composer Gustav's widow) by her second marriage.
- Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
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Taiwanese researchers say that a technology that uses sound waves to stimulate healing in diabetic foot ulcers is almost three times more effective than conventional hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The technology, called dermaPACE®, is manufactured by SANUWAVE Health Inc., a medical device company located in Alpharetta, Ga.
If the study results can be duplicated, the new therapy would be a significant new tool for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. The malady is one of the leading causes of the estimated 80,000 foot, toe, and leg amputations that U.S. hospitals conduct each year. Loss of sensation in nerves that have been deadened by diabetic inflammation often leads to severe undetected foot injuries that are slow to heal and prone to infection.
The randomized study, conducted at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, tracked 77 patients who had chronic, non-healing diabetic foot ulcers of at least three months duration. The wounds, mostly grade III and IV on the Wagner Ulcer Classification Scale, often were infected, had pus, bone inflammation, and even gangrene. The patients were considered at risk for eventual surgery, including possible amputation.
Thirty-nine patients, with 44 diabetic foot ulcers among them, were treated with dermaPACE, while the remaining 38 patients, with 40 diabetic foot ulcers among them, received conventional HBOT therapy. The dermaPACE group received two 20-minute procedures weekly over a three-week period (two hours total). The HBOT group received five 90-minute treatments weekly for eight weeks (60 hours total). Aside from their different therapies, patients received exactly the same standard wound care treatment after each session.
The study included a second course of treatment for patients whose ulcers did not improve under either therapy during the first session.
Results from the study showed a distinct difference in results between the two therapies:
Overall, 57 percent of the diabetic foot ulcers in the dermaPACE group completely healed, versus 25 percent in the HBOT group.
After one course of treatment, dermaPACE completely healed 24 ulcers, compared with 10 ulcers using HBOT.
After a second course of treatment, dermaPACE completely healed a combined 31 ulcers, compared with 11 ulcers for HBOT.
Sixty percent of ulcers treated with HBOT remained unchanged in size and depth, compared with 11 percent of ulcers treated with dermaPACE. Eight ulcers-47 percent-in the HBOT group showed no clinical improvement after a second course of treatment, while only one ulcer (seven percent) remained unchanged in the dermaPACE group.
Researchers noted a great difference in the time and sessions required for the two therapies: dermaPACE required only 15 percent as many sessions as HBOT and only three percent as much time.
How the Two Therapies Work
The difference between the two therapies is large. In HBOT, therapists subject a wound to high levels of oxygen under pressure. Many bacteria cannot metabolize when oxygen levels are high. That inability slows or blocks their reproduction, lessening infection and giving wounds a chance to heal. But the treatment, while it can slow deterioration in a diabetic foot ulcer, in many instances does not lead to total healing.
The process used by the dermaPACE device is "Paced Acoustic Cellular Expression," where high-energy sound waves are directed at the ulcer. The waves, which reach the wound like a shock wave, create stresses that actually stimulate the growth of new blood vessels and an inflammatory response that induces healing. Diabetic foot ulcers are so-called chronic conditions, in which the body has ceased responding urgently to the wound. By inducing an inflammatory response, dermaPACE turns the condition into an acute one where the body starts a robust healing process.
One outcome of that accelerated bodily response is increased perfusion, a term that means increased blood flow, which is crucial to the healing of a chronic wound. In the Taiwan study, perfusion increased 27 percent in the dermaPACE group after treatment, while perfusion remained statistically unchanged in the HBOT group.
The abstract of the study is available online at the Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice website.
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Sgt. David D. Aguina IV autographs the sleeve of a well-wisher during a surprise welcome-home event on Saturday in Elgin. | Romi Herron ~ For The Courier-News
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ELGIN — After three tours of duty, Elgin resident Sgt. David D. Aguina IV returned home to Elgin Saturday.
A graduate of Lake Zurich High School and Western Illinois University, Aguina greeted more than 100 guests at the Grand Victoria Casino, where welcomers included family, community members and the Warrior's Watch Riders.
"The only injury I had was when I kind of fell and dislocated my shoulder descending a mountain in Afghanistan," said Aguina, smiling continuously as he shook hands and posed for photos with his mother, Iris Hernandez by his side. "But I didn't have any combat injuries."
Tim Norman of West Chicago arrived at the event wearing his own military jacket, which he asked Aguina to autograph. A U.S. Air Force Vietnam veteran, Norman said he wanted a chance to connect with another soldier and thank him for his service.
Aguina returned to the U.S. on Sept. 11 after being stationed in Afghanistan. Next, he'll head to Fort Bragg, N.C.
Warrior's Watch Riders, a group of volunteers who escort soldiers home once they arrive in their local area, organized the presentation at Grand Victoria Casino. Cary Levin, ride coordinator for Aguina's event, said the group escorts about 40 soldiers per year. Usually, the escorts arrive in a caravan of motorcycles, cars and emergency vehicles, as they did for Aguina.
Aguina's grandfather, David Aguina III, and his grandmother, Andrea Aguina, were among several family members at the casino when the caravan pulled up. Dozens of American flags waved from their posts on the motorcycles and cars, and guests shouted, "Welcome Home!" as Aguina and his mother arrived in her car.
"He pretty much grew up with us, he spent so much time at our place," said David Aguina III. "His great grandfather, David Aguina Sr. was a Marine in WWII; and since David (the fourth) was little, he was always interested in the military."
Whether playing with toy soldiers or reading books about the military, his goals seemed apparent to both his grandfather and his aunt, Daneen Aguina of Burbank.
Over the years, Daneen was concerned about his safety in a military career. It was the events of 9/11 that inspired him to enlist, and he left on his first tour one year and one day after 9/11, she said, adding the Internet enabled them to stay in touch.
"We communicated online, and I let him know his great-grandfather died last March, when he was in Russia," she said. And for David's birthday, she and David's father sent their birthday wishes via the online program Skype.
"A lot of times we just wished he could have gone for shorter periods of time," she said. "With everything that's going on (in combat), we worried. But as you can see, he is doing fine."
Sgt. Aguina said his sister Diana Aguina spent time in the U.S. Army, and he understands the apprehension some family members feel when a loved one goes into service.
"For people worried about their safety, the military is a very safe profession," he said. "There are a lot of procedures and policies in place that keep us safe."
Warrior's Watch presented him with a banner to sign, and he posed for photos and talked with well-wishers before joining some of the group for lunch.
To the crowd who applauded him for his service, he said, "You all really made this homecoming very special, and I deeply appreciate it. I look forward to sharing some of my experiences with my family, and then I'll go back to doing what I do."


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It's very, very, very likely that his original leak was fake, regardless of whether his admitting to it is real or fake (and frankly, who cares?). He actually joined this forum last night and made a simple post cursing you all for making no one believe him and that he "wanted to be famous". I quickly killed the post and banned him - so it's obvious that all he wants is "internet fame", so let's not give him that. We'll find out on Tuesday if he was making it all up (which I'm betting he was).
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NIS America is known first and foremost for their Disgaea games, so it always comes as a shock when they try to do something new. First we had last year's Grim Grimoire, and now we have Puchi Puchi Virus, a deceptive little puzzle title for the Nintendo DS. The seemingly cutesy graphic style belies an innovative "Destroy 'em all" kind of system akin to that of Puyo Pop or Planet Puzzle League. Puchi Puchi Virus does a few interesting things that makes it stand out amidst the swollen market of puzzle games on the DS. But the competition is stiff and Puchi Puchi Virus does have some issues that make it seem less appealing than the current reigning puzzle champ, Tetris DS.
Puchi Puchi Virus developer Jaleco has created a clever little story to go along with the game; Puchirus are turning people into cutesy monsters and as the only doctor in town, it's time to blast the viruses and restore the people to their natural form. Some of these characters are an interesting play on words like Hybear Nate or famous people like Cluck Norris (please tell me I'm not the only one sick of hearing Chuck Norris jokes).Of course that's the extent of a story and while it's minimal, it feels a lot better than just moving through a bunch of menus to enter the game. The graphical styling of Puchi Puchi Virus is obviously very anime-esque and it fits the game just fine. Audio on the other hand is very limited to just a few tracks, with the main musical theme being used in every puzzle stage you play. This music gets old really quickly and eventually becomes grating.
After an extensive introduction on how to play the game and learning how to crush the Puchirus you are given a grouping of patients to deal with, all of these patients have a pre-requisite to clear the stage, and if you meet certain hidden criteria you'll be rewarded as well. Now in order to get rid of the Puchirus in the first place you must link three of them together on a field that is populated with other Puchirus. But you have to be quick, for if they are not cleared they will turn solid and cannot be used until they are turned back in to normal Puchirus. To get them back to normal get them inside of a triangle, any normal Puchirus in the triangle will become activated and must be linked up with more Puchirus to form another triangle. This is how you create chain combos which will lead you to a higher score. The use of the stylus makes this an easy game to pick up and play at a moment's notice.
The difficulty level in this game ranges from pathetic to challenging, and it's a gradual climb thankfully. After a while you'll be figuring out the trick to creating massive chains, but with the higher level of difficulty comes the reduced amount of time you have to catch viruses, which can be frustrating because after you've selected a virus, and moved on to the second, by the time you've reached the third you'll find that you first virus has already turned solid, so you're pretty much better off starting over at this point. You can get solid viruses back to normal with power-ups attained for every fifty that you knock out, and if you're in a rush you can speed up the rate at which the viruses appear.
Puchi Puchi Virus is a good effort as a puzzle title, but it's a long ways from toppling the puzzle behemoth of Tetris DS. It has its fun elements but it's very one dimensional, you've got a time limit to clear a requirement, and beyond that there isn't much else to do. You've got multiplayer, which allows you to share the game with someone who doesn't have the cart which is nice. In the end Puchi Puchi Virus will push and shove with other puzzle titles on the store shelves and it deserves a spot in your collection if you're looking for something new, but that new game smell quickly wears off.
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