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Hello Expressionists, Ratin8tor here to give the Outstanding Content of the Week.
Another week down, another week full of brilliant videos and blogs. No need for over-complicated introductions, scroll down and read the runner-ups and winners. Onto the videos:
Outstanding Videos of the Week
In Fifth Place: Yippiekiyayfilms takes a look at the latest time-travelling science-fiction noir film Looper: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/videos/videos/show/17149669-looper-review
In Fourth Place: Madhog's Guilty Pleasure is, in his words, "In his 50th video: Madhog reviews the pony-fied version of Stanley Kubrick's classic." http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/videos/videos/show/17160828-madhog-s-guilty-pleasures-2012-a-pony-odyssey-
In Third Place: ParadiseandFaries brings us another episode of Fanservice Fiesta, showcasing loli vampires in Dance in the Vampire Bund: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/videos/videos/show/17151270-fanservice-fiesta-dance-in-the-vampire-bund
In Second Place: E-Dog Reviews reviews Beyond Good and Evil HD to see whether it's worth buying in HD: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/videos/show/17143340-e-dog-reviews-boyond-good-and-evil-hd
And the winner, of Outstanding Video of the week, is...
You know what shocks me. That according to the video description down at the bottom of the video, there have been three Kung-Fu Panda clones. And the other two can't have been nearly as bad as the one that was reviewed, a film so god awful that it barely deserves to be named. So instead watch Whyboy's review of the film in his Cartoon Corner series to see if it's really as bad as I've made it be (the movie, not Cartoon Corner): http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/videos/videos/show/17149484-cartoon-corner-chop-kick-panda-review
So congratulations Whyboy. Now, onto the blogs:
Outstanding Blogs of the Week
In Seventh Place: We have yet another tie for seventh place. First up is richb as he lists the five things he dislikes in the otherwise brilliant Superman II: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19185837-five-things-i-hated-about-superman-ii-
Meanwhile Ratin8tor takes a look at post-modernism and explains how that God is not dead, but has instead been saved by none other than Daffy Duck: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19150366-in-too-deep-did-daffy-duck-save-god-
In Sixth Place: Dark Jak takes a look at country musician George Straits and the top 9 songs he has made: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19178117-top-9-george-strait-songs
In Fifth Place: Newcomer Ryan McCarthy reviews the 2D side-scroller Rayman Origins to see if it's worth buying: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/19203420-video-game-reviews-rayman-origins-xbox-360-
In Fourth Place: SomeJerkFromBoston takes a look at This Island Earth (no, not the awful movie, but just mindbogglingly amazing the Earth is): http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19223069-this-island-earth
In Third Place: Jason on the House takes a look at the fantasy series Redwall and explains it to all those new to the books: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19180090-redwall-month-redwall
In Second Place: Growing old sucks as Les once again talks us through the "joys" (there are not qutation marks big enough to exhibit the amount of sarcasm) of getting a colonoscopy: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19188355-ground-zero-the-moment-i-d-dreaded-on-the-countdown-to-colonoscopy-by-les-
And the winner, of Outstanding Blog of the Week, is...
Nostalgia is a funny thing, and it isn't as good as it use to be. But week after week pbmiranda has been looking at classic 90s Nickelodeon television, the good and the bad. Thus leading to the ultimate conundrum: Was it really that good, or do we look back too fondly to really notice its faults? Has nostalgia blinded us, or does it still hold up today? Well read the blog and find out: http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/blog/show/19226918-90-s-nickelodeon-classic-or-overrated-
And there you have it. This weeks picks for Outstanding Content of the Week. A toast to both Whyboy and pbmiranda. You can nominate your work here (http://manicexpression.webs.com/apps/forums/topics/show/8162538-6th-12th-october-nominate-your-work-for-outstanding-content-of-the-week-?page=last) and view out previous winners in the upcoming Platinum edition. Until then Expressionists: Express Yourself.
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fetched PW and his jolly crew of expectoraters to almost the same spot.
Then I dropped my armor to prove a point. You see the dog in front of
me is doing nothing, not moving, not spitting. PW is the bright square
just behind doggy a. Why dont they attack? Look closely one rank
north/12 oclock. See the half of a fence section? Well, there are
no half sections in Diablo. That is a logical solid wall. The fence actually
starts at the post. The dog is in the square with the pseudo-fence/rock,
I am one square south. It cannot see me, Yet, for me, the game lets me
see him. Poor doggie. Heres another shot that I lit up to illustrate
the point. Casting directly in front of me, the FW on the back row lights PW up (thanks Charis and KoP for showing me how to cast this). I skip a row with the visible dog in it, then cast another on the next row closer to me to show how the game is treating that half fence square. Solid, eh? This is one way to wipe out PW and his pack in Hell/Hell with no armor and no physical weapons . That covers caves
monster ai and optical illusions part one. How about a bonus topic? Here is headbanging in caves, part 1. Red screen about to come, you say? Actually, no, I am near invulnerable here. I rounded up a couple of rooms of nasties after I saw this sweet spot just to get this picture. In all other level types (church, cats, hell) you always want to face a mob with the small end of the funnel in front of you to cut down the number of simultaneous attackers and the wide end behind you for retreats. Look at this, though. Even with a mixed melee/ranged level in hell/caves, I have only 2 monsters against me. The toad demon directly in front and the spitter at my 6 oclock who is in the danger spit zone and is about to open up. Still, there is a direct (though blocked) path to me, so he will only spit about 4 times then start wandering around. Right now I could plink or slash this crowd down one by one with only a couple of pots spent on defense. OTOH, when you have a bunch of friends over, a barbecue is always nice Pass
the sauce. (Thanks again Charis and KoP Note also how being on a spit
makes roasting yourself virtually impossible). Did I do that? Virtue
wall The picture on the right illustrates just that...a hole in the wall that I can walk through and shoot through but the monsters do not see. Note the targeted Obsidian Lord is walking *away* from me. Hehehe This is a lousy screenshot to explain why, though, due to the angle. A better example is the pic below. Note that the dogs in PW's pack are in range, yet the spits are being blocked by the virtual wall. OTOH, I can see and shoot through it perfectly, as you can tell by the bodies and gold on the ground. The
effect is caused (this is all theory from here on out) by the way the
game treats out- croppings in caves. The"point" that I am standing
by covers all but one "sub-square" of the "square"
I am in. Magical Still to be tested
is the effect of virtual walls on player spell effects. I know it blocks
area spells, like FW. I've never tested other spells much, as I usually
only use this tactic in IM, and in IM I don't have the spells or mana
to play around 8-). I did do a brief test in cats one night (with Simba,
iirc, who politely stood by while I flirted with disaster playing with
Deathspit's mob testing projectile vs Fireball blocking by a Cats virtual
wall). In that case, it seemed Note also that this
kind of spot is useless against storm riders, as their AI says "If
you know where the hero is but can't reach them directly, mill around
and try to find a direct route." Half the pack would move up and
attack from the front while the other half of
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Looking Ahead: 2012 Forecasts Dec 15th
Looking Ahead: 2012 Forecasts
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More Social, More Data, More Job Boards, More Acquisitions
Here are my forecasts for the coming year.
- Social Technology
This is the biggie and really transcends the HR and Recruiting category. End users will continue to bring better technology in the pockets than they have on their desks. The dissonance will drive early adopter organizations to look for real enterprise level social technology. They will find that the market is only offering unimaginative data aggregation and distribution.Customers will begin to understand and clamor for technologies that cause actual social interactions in their organizations.Meanwhile, the 59% of companies that prohibit or aggressively control the use of social media at work will discover that they are the incumbents and employees are the empowered ones. Expect a few surprising clashes as the silly notion that you can control what's in an employee's pocket falls flat.
- Social Media
We are in the Compuserve-Prodigy-AOL stage of social media evolution. It's after Netscape and before Google in equivalent internet time. Any of the current industry leaders is vulnerable to the next big thing (it might look like Path). No one has a lock on the social media marketplace.Like our currencies, Social Media companies are completely dependent on the faith and trust of their customers. It's a pretty fragile thing. Investors know this.Expect a flurry of really interesting offerings that don't quite develop a head of steam as entrepreneurs try to figure out the next level of the game. The incumbents won't be standing still. The coming year will be infuriating for people who are tired of learning new aspects of social technology.
- Social HR and Recruiting
Social HR and Recruiting offer the opportunity to turbo charge our organizations from the inside out. The tools are available to relentlessly eliminate internal friction. Now that LinkedIn knows more about the insides of your company than you do (ie who's connected to whom and what they are good at), there will be lots of activity trying to capitalize on that historical knowledge.The real time internal social web is where the long term money is.Replacing bureaucratic mobility programs with instantaneous access to the right people will create crazy logjams at first. As we learn to decentralize the internal mobility question (more like 2015, really) we'll recover some of the agility that has been lost to low price, low capital thinking.In the long run, Social HR and Recruiting are the tools that make Human Capital a viable alternative to financing.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Public companies are sitting on war chests and can't effectively innovate. Small companies need money and are agile. M&A activity will look like the streets of Amsterdam's red light district in 2012.But, acquisitions in HR always produce more competitors, not less.There is a hydra like phenomenon that happens as key players (think SAP and SFSF) are taken out of their markets. M&A is the opposite of market consolidation. Cut off one head and seven grow back. Expect the number of new entrants to explode as the acquisition pace get frenzied.
- Conferences
2012 is the year of the micro-conference. A combination of forces are driving the explosion of teensy weensy regional conferences.
- The baby boomer power brokers who run the big operations simply aren't going to retire
- The next generation of leadership is creating its own alternative forums
- Travel expense continues to climb. One small oil price mishap and the national conferences are history
- Social media is proving that local expertise often trumps the advice of national celebrities.There's something endearing and stimulating about the church pot-luck supper feel of these smaller gatherings. The pace is slower, the learning deeper and the networking more effective. By this time next year, we'll be reporting the emergence of several ne conference companies and the failure of one or two.
- Analysts
It turns out that no one knows exactly what the term means. In 2011, smart vendors started addressing 'influencers' as an audience. This broadened the definition of analyst to include a variety of industry observers.The need for a class of professional filterers is driven by the relentless explosion of data about and for the industry. No working professional has the time or the perspective to make sense out of all of the new options that are arriving on the scene.The rate at which shiny new toys come to market is accelerating still.The need for analysts and observers is structural and permanentIn 2012, we'll start to see some tough questions emerge about who is paying whom to do what. Careful observers will notice that the analyst business has become a chummy game of softball where few tough questions get asked (and where the response to tough questions is outrage from the vendor). Notice the rise in vendors who have simply given up on Analysts and taken to publishing their own self-validating statistics.Transparency will sneak its little head into the Analyst quadrant in 2012.
- Software Companies
Definitions are changing. In the 1990s, software meant something like 'process automation'. Today, you simply can't deliver coherent software without embedded Subject Matter Expertise. Increasingly, software companies are repositories for expertise in a particular area and new software companies begin with that expertise.Operations like Sonar6, Achievers, RiseSmart, HireVue and Rideaux Systems all get better at their work the longer they are in the market. Each of the firms offers a deconstructed view of a formerly central process. Their value increases as they do more work.Old fashioned software valuation metrics penalize firms like these for keeping services internal. The investment community would rather see pure software revenues. But, the key to long term market innovation is to keep the services in house. One learns the value of the offering by installing it.
- Life Tracking
Personal technology is expanding to include a lot of self-monitoring technology. SmartPhones are becoming vast repositories of personal behavioral data from the passively collected location data to call logs and email. This flow of data is a source of insight for analysis and evaluation. Keys to productivity and individual improvement are contained in the data we already collect about ourselves.Life tracking technologies amp this up to the next level.Already popular amongst performance athletes, the instrumentation of one's self is a key to unlocking creativity and synergy.2012 will be the first year that companies offer (a few, at any rate) wellness programs that focus on the use of personal monitoring. The lawyers will have a field day and then, a little later in the decade, we'll get on with the new reality.
- Influence Measurement and Management
It's still in its infancy but Influence Measurement and Management is going to get internal attention. Surprisingly, the first usages will be all about understanding which of the grassroots people are most influential about social technologies in the organization. Properly framed, influence measurement and management is the key to successful change initiatives. - Reinvigoration of Job Boards
While job boards have been having pretty good years financially, they've been taking it on the chin from a PR perspective. As the market discovers that social tools are not really competitive, some of the bloom will return to the job board rose.
- Performance Management
As performance management finds its way, we're going to see a lot of experimentation. The first wave of performance management software was all about automating a process that most folks would agree was screwed up. Annual and quarterly reviews miss the whole rhythm of the business. One generation later and we've come to understand that performance management software didn't manage performance.The next iteration will involve so much real time performance information that it will make your head spin. Expect to see systems that allow instantaneous evaluation of bosses, subordinates and peers on a transaction to transaction basis. Expect case studies that demonstrate the power of always on performance evaluation. Expect it to blow over.
- Big Data
When incumbent vendors discuss "Big Data", they mean that they have a lot of customers who could learn from each other. Infohrm (the company bought by SuccessFactors last year) was the original player in this version of the Big Data question.By anonymizing lots of data, vendors can create databases that help customers benchmark themselves.Everyone who sells HR software will have an offering that does this.
- The Actual Data Question
The real issue facing HR Departments and all of the systems that process HR and Recruiting data is the torrent of data that doesn't fit predefined notions. It was appropriate to have the plodding development of data structures when data types and content evolved slowly.In 2012, people will start to understand that old enterprise data frameworks are handicaps.Imagine the difference, for example, in the requirements associated with a performance management schema that has 8 to 10 inputs per day versus one that was updated quarterly. Imagine further that the 8 to 10 daily inputs are spread around a network and need rapid analysis to understand the health of the network.In 2012, HR data shifts from static to real time.
This year, on Naomi Bloom's recommendation, I'm going to take a look at last year's forecasts and give you an assessment of whether or not they turned out to be true. Look for that early next week.
HRCarnival: Forecast Edition Dec 16th
HRCarnival: Forecast Edition
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Social Media, Bill Boorman, Naomi Bloom, Free Reports
This edition of the HRCarnival is focused on the coming year. It looks like 2012 will be full of opportunity. If you take some time to scan through the various forecasts, trend analyses and soapbox standupons, you should be able to develop your own set of tea leaves for gazing.
Of course, your day wouldn't be complete without a review of the HRExaminer's Forecasts for 2012.
If you're not a Naomi Bloom fan, now would be a great time to start. She's offered up a piece called Eight Characteristics of HRM and Effective HRM Delivery Systems. Generally speaking, HR folks shy away from the deepest aspects of HR Technology. Naomi makes a clear and compelling case that you can not do effective HR without a thoroughly integrated software system. You might think of her forecast as: if you don't get tech savvy (and we're not talking social media), you're at risk of becoming irrelevant. You can often find Bloom with her key coconspirators, Bill Kutik and Jason Averbrook.
John Hollon (at TLNT) weighs in with 14 notions. It's a summary of Bersin's Forecast report. The Bersin offering also formed the basis of this piece at HR.com
One of the most interesting pieces comes from SHRM. Future Insights summarizes the work of a series of expert panels who have identified key trends in the major HR Silos. While it reads a little like a series of manifestos created by committees, the work is though provoking and conveys the complexities facing HR Departments. Definitely take a look. SHRM also publishes an interesting Trend Book.
John Sullivan predicts that 2012 will be the year of the mobile platform. Sullivan sees social tools becoming more data driven.
One of the best kinds of forecasts is the kind that talks about your salary and your future. Take a look at this gem from Michael Page International
This outline, from About.com, will give you a sense of the critical issues facing a standard HR Department
Audio and Video Forecasts
Workday has a great webinar featuring Kutik, Bloom, Averbrook and Ray Wang called Predict and Prepare. Take a listen.
From TRU Dublin
If you look at this video carefully, you'll see that Bill Boorman managed to integrate a few vampires (you can tell by their eyes) into this Irish forecast-a-thon. Everyone who attended TRU Dublin this week was given two word with which to predict the coming year. Apparently, the predictions were extremely dangerous for the vampires who turned the music up to prevent the secret from getting out.
From SharedHR
This is the traditional HR forecast with an emphasis on the legal issues.
From Leo Burnett
Super Ad Agency Leo Burnett starts with the demographic, economic, technical and social realities of 2011 to build its view of 2012. The darkness begets an avalanche of collective action in a commercial context.
Consumers (who show up in our organizations as employees) have more power in their pockets than ever imagined. Burnett suggests that a new form of joint behavior will start to drive social change. Is it coming to your shop?
They call it "the transformation of aspiration".
Following Tail Lights Dec 20th
Following Tail Lights
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Best Practices in HR
"our market is large enough to entertain a huge number of mutually contradictory ideas"
- John Sumser (circa 1997)
The idea that one form of HR or Recruiting will work for all players has more lives than a cat. The notion that generalizing about the topics leads to fruitful debate persists in spite of its ridiculousness. The only truism that makes sense is "What's best for your company may not work very well somewhere else and vice versa".
As noted in the groundbreaking psychographic study, What HR Thinks and Feels, the Human Resources Department is often a conservative voice. In the subset of companies that depend on benchmarking, innovation is the opposite of what HR does. A large percentage of those HR professionals depend on documentation, certification and other observable qualifications for credibility.
Best Practices means, "it worked like this for someone else so there is little risk in adopting it." In environments where HR practice is a question of keeping up with the market and staying competitive, Best Practices are perfectly appropriate. They are the organization's way of saying, "we don't innovate in HR. We wait for someone else to take the risk."
The combination of vast generalizations and deep dependence on Best Practices is at the root of the lack of respect for the work of HR. By implementing off the shelf solutions, the function operates like the organization's own 'Men's Wearhouse'- all off the rack suits with only minimum tailoring. Anyone who looks closely can see the problem with the fit.
The truth is that every organization has to carefully consider where and how it innovates. It simply isn't appropriate, in many companies, to make risky investments where the workforce is concerned. Companies that are busy protecting market share and mining incremental growth don't need or want to turbocharge results.
There is a subset of companies, no more than 10%, who view HR as a weapon. They mine competitive advantage wherever they can find it. They compete hard in the traditional HR silos. They turn their HR advantage into market performance.
They are not typical. They probably shouldn't be emulated until all of the risk is gone from their approaches. They sometimes prioritize Human Capital over business performance. This is risky business for most companies.
It's important to identify Best Practices for what they are: ways to limit risk taking in an area where innovation is not desirable.
The Rare Find Dec 19th
The Rare Find
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Rethinking Recruiting
I spent Saturday afternoon in a bookstore chatting with George Anders. He was finishing up this years promotional tour for his book, The Rare Find. (You might recall an earlier review of the Rare Find in these pages).
The peak of holiday shopping time, 4pm on a Saturday afternoon, brought a small crowd. As a result, the conversation was a remarkable interchange between George, a startup mechanic, and me.
Anders is a reporter with a reporter's bent. His work took him into a variety of industries around the United States as he tried to understand the ways that people find excellent work. It was great to get a chance to hear him push around the concepts in the book.
The Rare Find is both an exposition on the best recruiting methods and, as a result, a critique of contemporary Recruiting.
George rightly notes that hiring is one place where you can easily see the organization's risk tolerance. The more averse to risk, the more that hiring looks like an attempt to align job requirements and candidate credentials. This is, in his words, great for buying lawn mowers, but not so great for hiring people.
Organizations that can tolerate more risk in hiring decisions reap the rewards of acquiring people who can go far beyond the immediate opportunity.
He is quick to acknowledge the places in which matching makes sense. "You don't want to hire for creativity and entrepreneurial bent when you're picking commercial pilots. You really want them to land the plane one way."
Anders advocates and reports on hiring methods that focus on resilience, self-reliance, creativity, and efficiency. He urges an approach that identifies "leaders with the skills and resolve to succeed rather than getting sidetracked by the short-lived allure of glittering resumes and charming personalities." He suggests that recruiting take more account of what could go right.
Without overtly saying it, Anders suggests that the culprits are recruiters and the established methods of recruiting. He notes that the best hirers are people who harness their experience in the job that they are recruiting for. The typical corporate recruiter is a technician who pushes the internal process. Great hires come from having dirt under the fingernails in the profession under consideration.
As next couple of weeks bring a relaxed schedule, take some time to read The Rare Find. Get copies for your hiring managers. It will be the best investment of time you made in 2011.
Social Technology In Context Dec 21st
Social Technology In Context
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The 2012 Index of Social Technology in HR and Recruiting
By now, you've probably heard a little about the latest report from HRxAnalysts. The 2012 Index of Social Technology in HR and Recruiting is a comprehensive look at the new technologies that are entering the organization in the 21st Century. While they are generally lumped together under the rubric of social media, a lot more is happening.
The report documents the 16 different kinds of social technology and their ultimate place in the various HR Silos. While the organizational focus seems to be on the control of these grassroots technologies, what's really happening is pretty interesting. There is very little that is actually social about social technologies.
The 2012 Index provides a coherent baseline for managing and planning the adoption of social technology by your organization. Useful for vendors, HR Departments and Recruiting operations, the report covers the following terrain:
- Defining the Technologies: There are 16 discrete kinds of tools that are moving into a dozen HR modules. Get a good understanding of how the technology will impact your operation.
- How Technology Flows in HR and Recruiting: Knowing how innovations move around the industry helps you understand when it's time to execute.
- The Tech Adoption Curve and Competitive Benefit: Adding new technology is always a risk – benefit trade off. While early adopters harvest the greatest return, they always experience the highest level of failures. Learn how to judge when it's appropriate for your organization to get on board.
- HR and Recruiting are Local: This chapter helps right size social technology and employment branding strategy. The audience for an employment brand should be no larger than necessary,
- The Networks: There are several major contenders for use as a foundation for your organizations approach to social HR and Recruiting. This section offers an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities associated with Twitter, FAcebook, LinkedIn, Branchout and BeKnown.
- The Landscape: Social Technology providers range from traditional advertising agencies to Enterprise Software operations. The report showcases the unique perspectives of each type of provider and identifies the emerging companies that blend events and consulting.
- The Vendors: 70 companies are reviewed in detail. Ideas are praised and panned
- Forecasts: The next moves in Social Technology are chronicled.
The current offerings in social technology are early demonstrations of ideas that will mature in the coming years. Data collection and distribution are currently far more important than the supposedly social aspects of the technology.
The report provides competitive intelligence for solution providers, a detailed look at options for buyers (HR and Recruiting operations) and a way of understanding the evolution of these powerful technologies. Employment websote operators will find the information particularly useful.


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Sweredoski MJ, et al. (2011) LogViewer: A Software Tool to Visualize Quality Control Parameters to Optimize Proteomics Experiments using Orbitrap and LTQ-FT Mass Spectrometers. J Biomol Tech 22(4):122-6
Abstract: Visualization tools that allow both optimization of instrument's parameters for data acquisition and specific quality control (QC) for a given sample prior to time-consuming database searches have been scarce until recently and are currently still not freely available. To address this need, we have developed the visualization tool LogViewer, which uses diagnostic data from the RAW files of the Thermo Orbitrap and linear trap quadrupole-Fourier transform (LTQ-FT) mass spectrometers to monitor relevant metrics. To summarize and visualize the performance on our test samples, log files from RawXtract are imported and displayed. LogViewer is a visualization tool that allows a specific and fast QC for a given sample without time-consuming database searches. QC metrics displayed include: mass spectrometry (MS) ion-injection time histograms, MS ion-injection time versus retention time, MS(2) ion-injection time histograms, MS(2) ion-injection time versus retention time, dependent scan histograms, charge-state histograms, mass-to-charge ratio (M/Z) distributions, M/Z histograms, mass histograms, mass distribution, summary, repeat analyses, Raw MS, and Raw MS(2). Systematically optimizing all metrics allowed us to increase our protein identification rates from 600 proteins to routinely determine up to 1400 proteins in any 160-min analysis of a complex mixture (e.g., yeast lysate) at a false discovery rate of <1%. Visualization tools, such as LogViewer, make QC of complex liquid chromotography (LC)-MS and LC-MS/MS data and optimization of the instrument's parameters accessible to users.
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Imperial High's Ashley Caro delivers a pitch against Brawley Union High during the first inning of Tuesday's game in Brawley. (FERNANDO ACOSTA JR. PHOTO / April 24, 2012) |
BRAWLEY — Powered by two three-run home runs and solid pitching, the Imperial High softball team assured itself a share of first place in the Imperial Valley League standings with a 13-3 victory over the hosting Brawley High here Tuesday night.
The Tigers' victory avenged a 5-4 loss to Brawley last week at home, a week that saw Imperial lose two IVL games, its first two losses for the season.
"This is the team I know; they had everything with them today," said Imperial head coach Andrea Horton, who noted her team had lost two players to injuries last week. "We overcame the injuries and the losses and we just had a great game."
Imperial's Janelle Sandoval, who was injured in the Brawley game last week, made her comeback to the lineup a payback as she hit a towering three-run homer in the top of the second inning to give the Tigers a 3-1 lead.
"The injury was in my mind and I struck out the first time up," Sandoval said who also had an RBI single. "So I was thinking that the first good pitch I saw I was going to hit hard and I knew it was out when I hit it."
Imperial scored two more runs in the third inning on an RBI single by Karinn Arballo, then added three more runs on Andrea Sotelo's three-run blast in the fourth.
"She was trying to pitch around me," said Sotelo, who walked three times. "She got one inside and over the plate and I just drove it … we wanted to try to put the game away early."
Imperial put the game away in a five-run sixth inning that featured a two-run single by Ashley Caro.
Caro, herself coming off an injury, picked up the victory on the mound for Imperial and kept the Wildcats at bay despite giving up run-scoring singles to Jo Karla Jimenez and Cassi Mendoza.
"I'm coming back so I was off a little bit," Caro said. "I was trying to throw strikes but the umpire had a tight strike zone."
Caro struck out two and walked just one while Brawley's losing pitcher Justine Gonzalez struggled with her control, walking nine batters.
Brawley coach Chris Velasco was as perplexed at the Wildcat offense as well as her pitcher.
"I think she may have been trying too hard, too nervous … it's different when you pitch at home," Velasco said. "We needed to hit better, we had some good ones but we weren't able to get anything going consistently."
Both teams will be at home on Friday as Imperial (19-2-1, 6-2 IVL) hosts Palo Verde Valley while Brawley (12-11, 4-4 IVL) welcomes Central. Both games begin 6:30 p.m.
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Reports on two CEPA training/workshop initiatives (27/10/06)
Good afternoon everyone:
Here are two reports recently posted on our web site illustrating CEPA in action.
1. Do fish producers annoy nature conservationists? Do nature conservationists annoy fish producers? Apparently yes! Finding solutions to help fish producers and conservationists deal with their differences was the purpose of a training seminar in the Trebon Basin Landscape Protected Area in the Czech Republic where two Ramsar sites are located, the Trebon fishponds and the Trebon peatlands. Jointly organized by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic and the Wetland Training Centre operating as part of the NGO ENKI, this seminar ran from 16-18th October. Read more about it here http://www.ramsar.org/training_czech_fishponds.htm.
2. Nearly 100 participants from 8 Asian countries came together in Viet Nam in the seaside town of Nha Trang, close to the Hon Mun Marine Protected Area (MPA), for a workshop on education for marine and coastal wetlands. Sponsored by IUCN and the Vietnam Ministry of Fisheries, the International Workshop on Marine and Coastal Wetlands: Education Network, Capacity Building, and Training took place from 30 August to 1 September 2006. A key area of discussion was the creation of a network of marine and coastal wetland educators to promote the conservation of marine and coastal wetland ecosystems through CEPA action. Read the full report on the outcomes of this meeting here http://www.ramsar.org/mtg/mtg_vietnam_nhatrang2006.htm.
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Scare the heck out of your liberal friends ----make them THINK!
Kitty Werthmann is 85 years old.
America truly is the Greatest Country in the World.
~ By: Kitty Werthmann
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.
Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.
The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.
We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria.
We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.
We were overjoyed, and, for three days, we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.
After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.
Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.
Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.
Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.
My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday, when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first, but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant, if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.
Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.
Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.
Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna. After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research, as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.
We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.
We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the livestock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
"Mercy Killing" Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day, I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.
As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.
The Final Steps - Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law-abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long afterwards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.
Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little, eroded our freedom.
After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, pre-teen to elderly. The press never wrote about this, either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.
"It's true those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
America truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!
"After America, There is No Place to Go."
The author of this article lives in South Dakota and is very active in attempting to maintain our freedom. I see so many parallels in this country; are we going to sit by and watch it happen? Spread the word; also contact your congressional reps; vote them out if they don't do what they should. If you don't want to be bothered, then you're part of the problem! Google Kitty Werthmann and you will see articles and videos.
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All the "useful idiots" think that the current crop of Leftist Geniuses/Socialist/Marxist/Communist leaders in the US government know better, and are much smarter than those people that caused their utopian ideas of the past to fail, and know how to make these ideas succeed now. Fracking idiots!!!!
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
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This time it's worse.
There is a full spectrum dominance, technological control grid that has been built up around us.
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very interesting read
but aren't almost there now??
so close u can feel it
buying up all the guns and ammo i can just to PISS OFF the douche bag liberals
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But wait... That can't be true becasue they don't teach that in high school or college. Nope I'm not going to believe it. i'm just going to keep my nose burried in my iPad and find out who Kim Kardashian is screwing this month...
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-
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Just as physical exercise and green coffee extract keeps us fit and mobile as we age, so a mental workout can hold off senility and dementia. Mental inactivity prompts us to shed brain cells like shriveled leaves, but memory games, crosswords or flapping our arms at bingo can keep our minds evergreen. Even the tortuous task of untangling that metaphor may have delayed the onset of senility.
According to studies conducted by Dr Florence Shadlen, from the University of Washington, "Puzzles, board games and activities like dancing seem to be protective against dementia." She's clearly never heard of Richard Whiteley.
"Treat the brain as a muscle – it needs exercise to stay toned," agrees Mensa chairman Sylvia Herbert. But don't wait until you qualify for a bus pass to fight future marble misplacement: get back to school now.
Researchers at the University of Columbia found that people who had received eight years of education or less were twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's as those with eight or more. Similarly, subjects who had been employed in menial jobs were more likely to develop the disease than those who'd worked in more mentally challenging positions.
Master your memory Over to memory champion Tony Buzan, inventor of Mind Maps, president of the Brain Foundation and author of Master Your Memory (BBC, £7.99). "There are 12 techniques to assist memory," says Buzan: Synaethesia: To increase your memory, you have to become more aware of your hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. All great mnemonists (memory masters) develop extra sensitivity in each of their senses and blend them for enhanced recall. Movement: With any image, movement adds a giant range of possibilities to 'link in' and thus remember. As you remember, make your images three-dimensional, and so more vivid.
Association: Whatever you're memorizing, associate or link it to something stable in your mental environment. Try linking to your friends and family as these are consistent.
Sexuality: We all have virtually perfect memory in this area. We are more likely to remember images through this as it incorporates all the senses. Humor: The more ridiculous, absurd and funny you make an image, the more memorable it is.
Imagination: Knowledge is limited, imagination embraces the entire world and stimulates progress. The more you apply imagination to memory, the better yours will be.
Sequence: If you combine sequence with other principles, it allows a much more immediate reference and increases the brain's possibilities for random access.
Positive images: Better for memory, as the brain wants to recall them, while E it may block negative images.
Exaggeration: In all of your images, exaggerate size, shape, colour and sound, as it will make the image more memorable.


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First and foremost, check on the other Girl Scouts in your Troop and check on the other Girl Scouts in your Association. See if there is anything they need.
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Intergenerational activities for the elderly!! These programs or visits can be ½ hour to 1 hour long.
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What a big let down. I placed a cake order with Wild Flour Bakery in July for my fathers 60 Birthday, I was very excitced to have this cake. The Friday before the Party I called to confirm my order and the pick up time, Now on the party day my cousin went to pick up my cake..GUESS WHAT, no cake, nor do they have my cake order.The 1 i called the day before to confirm, the party was in less then 3 hours and no cake , and the bakery enpolyees telling my cousin that i must of placed the order with different 'wild flour'. then with my call log I gave then the excat time I called...Now I did get get a free cake, one that was way to small for the party size, and the frosting was horrible... I guess calling the day before to confirm a cake is not good enough, maybe I should of stood there while they made it.....What a disappointment
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