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How to Screen a Community for PreDiabetes & DiabetesPosted: Thursday, October 05, 2006Evaluation of a campaign that screened a community of 95,000 via 530 pharmacies. We know that there are 42 million people in the US with prediabetes and if found early, we can possibly prevent them from getting diabetes by 70%, which comes from the results of the recent Dream study and the Diabetes Prevention Trials (DPPT). In the following abstract you can see that there is an effective way to screen a population that is cost effective. Sequential screening for diabetes—evaluation of a campaign in community pharmacies The purpose was to detect for early detection of persons at risk for type 2 diabetes, a combination of risk factor assessment and glucose measurement could be a promising approach and an opportunity for health promotion. The object of this study was to develop a sequential screening concept and to evaluate it in a national pharmacy based screening campaign. Method: Community pharmacies of the German speaking part of Switzerland participating in the national Self Care campaign "Stop diabetes-test now" offered a free of charge "sequential screening" with (a) diabetes risk assessment, (b) consecutive capillary blood glucose measurement and (c) assessment of the motivation for lifestyle change based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behaviour change. A 35 items data sheet served as a structured screening protocol and enabled quick and reliable documentation of all relevant data. Outcomes measures were: age, sex, cigarette smoking, total score of the ADA diabetes risk-factor questionnaire, family history of diabetes, body mass index, insufficient physical activity, blood pressure, capillary blood glucose, motivation for lifestyle change, counselling activities and triage decisions of the pharmacy team. Results: During the 5 weeks of spring 2002, 530 pharmacies screened a total of 93,258 persons (33.1% male, mean age 60.9 years ± 14.1 (SD)). Risk profile: family history of diabetes 26.4%; BMI = 25 kg/m2 49.3%; low physical activity 27.2%; elevated blood pressure 45.7%. Stratification into risk groups: < 2 risk factors 21.6%; = 2 risk factors 71.5%; borderline glycemia >95mg/dL- FG 5.3–6.1 mmol/l, confirmed in a second measurement) 2.5% and hyperglycaemia FG 109mg/dL (FG = 6.1 mmol/1 or NFG = 11.1 mmol/1) 4.4%. Of all persons screened, 6.4% were referred to a physician and 73.7% got targeted advice with respect to physical activity and/or nutrition based on their specific risk profile. Conclusion: The sequential screening could successfully be implemented into pharmacy practice. Of the generally elderly persons screened, 6.9% were detected with suspicion for diabetes type 2 and 71.5% had at least two risk factors. This provided an opportunity to initiate targeted counselling regarding therapeutic lifestyle change. Publishers Note: What are we waiting for? If we can prepare for the bird flu epidemic by stock pilling drugs for something that we don't even know will ever happen, why not actually do something for an epidemic that we know is happening right now? Source: Diabetes In Control: Pharmacy World & Science Publisher Springer Netherlands |
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One DeckThe following return tables show the possible outcomes of the banker, player, and tie bets for a single deck game. As the lower right cells in each table show, the house edge is 1.01% on the banker bet, 1.29% on the player bet, and 15.75% on the tie.
Liberal Banker RulesSign seen at the D casino. A less than 5% commission on winning banker bets has been known to happen. Currently, the only land casino I know to offer reduced-commission baccarat, at 4%, is the D in downtown Las Vegas. For a short time in 1989 the Sahara offered 0% commission. The Betfair Internet casino offers a 2.75% commision in their "Zero Lounge." The following table shows the expected value on the banker bet according to the number of decks and commission.
Liberal Player RulesThe "bonus casino" at the 5 Dimes Internet sports book pays 1.01 to 1 on the Player bet. Assuming eight decks, the house edge on that bet is 1.04%. Liberal Tie RulesThe tie has been known to pay 9 to 1 at some casinos. For examle Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas used to, and the Bovada online casino pays 9 to 1. Here is the house edge on the tie bet if it pays 9 to 1.
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Here are some Egalite bet groupings they have at some casinos in the U.K.
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Phase I of the Crawford Town Hall Renovation Project is more than $18,000 under budget, according to Susan Hansen of the Friends of Crawford Town Hall.
The original bid by Ridgway Valley Enterprises, Inc. was $196,165 for Phase I.
The State Historical Fund revised budget was $185,341. The actual expenditures were $166,679.
The sources of revenue for Phase I were $125,009 from the State Historical Fund, $16,670 from the Town of Crawford and $25,000 from the Friends of Crawford Town Hall.
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For the past decade, Hansen has been involved in university development and planned giving. Hansen, who was previously major gifts officer for the University of South Dakota Foundation, has a wealth of fundraising experience planning and implementing capital campaigns and planned giving programs.
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Hansen has extensive experience in university fundraising activities. At USD, Hansen worked with deans, department chairs and individual professors on fundraising projects. He was part of the campaign team that raised more than $134 million in three areas of emphasis: facilities, scholarships, and faculty support.
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Ok, so any definitive date for the ICS bionic download? Any news on the RAZR hd?
Official statement from Verizon: "Early 3Q"
Most would consider the month of July to be early third quarter so that's what I'm expecting. Now whether they meant early 3Q 2012, 2013 or 2014 is debatable.
A buddy of mine has the Razr, they got it last week. I asked and so far, he hasnt seen any bugs or any issues at all, and he is totally in love with his phone now lol so thats a good sign.
I could care less since it is now a snap to roll back and then to the newest release...thanks sam
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What if the nurse had lost her job? Surely that alone is bad enough, to play a stupid prank on someone knowing they could get into serious trouble, not nice in anyway. There is one thing having a joke at someone's expense, maybe telling a story that embarrasses them, we've all been the butt of something like this, you can laugh it off and usually no harm is meant, but even this pair of prxtts must have know that the nurses could have been disciplined over this. Would they have still been laughing if she lost her job, funny I don't think so.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Perhaps it was appropriate that West Virginia University's baseball team broke out the camouflage uniforms on Sunday at Charleston's Appalachian Power Park.
Because it was under attack all day.
Texas Christian roughed up five Mountaineer pitchers for 18 hits en route to a 16-6 victory and took the weekend series on a cool Mother's Day before a crowd of 1,820.
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I'm still having trouble with it. Kinda hurts with making my pick...
It just isn't loading. I tried clearing the cache on my browser and opening it in multiple browsers but it won't load.
Won't open on my phone browser either.
tried taking screen shots and sending them to you but can not get it to work
Theres the index in alphabetical order
Ah perfect. Thanks a lot prej
How do you get it in alphabetical order?
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Listening to offers for pick #13, would prefer to get a future 1st and dump Matt Geigers expiring, but open to any offers
Clippers looking to move up in draft. Will package 26th pick with points and second rounder(s) depending on the pick. Also have a 2005 first that I will trade for another 03.
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ReMix: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 'Chemical Blip'
- Game: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega, 1992, GEN)
- ReMixer(s): Anti-Syne
- Composer(s): Masato Nakamura
- Song(s): 'Chemical Plant Zone'
- Posted: 2011-12-02, evaluated by the judges
I'll be honest, I'm a huge sucker for PrototypeRaptor's ReMix of this source, but we're always open to different takes, and Anti-Syne follows up his TWO debut FF8 mixes by switching gears & taking on some Sonic:
"So this ReMix was a bit of a wonderful accident. It started life as an original track, until whilst playing round with it I accidentally played those first two chords of Chemical Plant Zone. Out of curiosity I played the Chemical melody into my original and it just seemed to work. This is my first ReMix to really offer a major tonality change from the source, and I'm extremely pleased with how it turned out. Out of interest it's called 'Chemical Blip' not in reference to the blippy, glitchy part, but in reference to a little blip sound that I couldn't seem to stop in early versions of this ReMix, blip is now gone, but hopefully not forgotten. Enjoy!"
Nice; I've personally started a few originals that ended up becoming VGM arrangements, and I think this process is more common than you'd otherwise think, and can yield great results. In this case you've got a slick dance/electronica arrangement of a source tune that completely yields itself to such treatment. halc writes:
"cool arrangement; reminiscent of PR's 'Chemixtrixx' in style at first, but does more than enough to set it apart. I really liked the glitched out, chippy part halfway through."
OA adds:
"Absolutely love the new chord progression with this theme - it makes it feel familiar and fresh at the same time, and that is definitely what I look for in a ReMix. Great breaks, great beats, and the counterpoint synth is perfect."
Whereas Jonathan's mix completely regulated swing & syncopation in favor of a more pulsing, devilishly relentless downbeat, this maintains a little bit more sway to it, breaks it down, and is generally less intense and more flamboyant. While both are, at the most universal level, electronica mixes, I don't have any trouble telling them apart, and Anti-Syne's take has definitely gone somewhere different AND worthwhile. Also nice to see Jack continue making a name for himself in 2011 & vary up his game selection a bit - definitely looking forward to what 2012 & beyond holds in store from him. In the meantime, get your chemicals flowin' and grab this most infectious blip!
- Martin Penwald on February 21, 2012
- ryankeeton on December 28, 2011
Draconiator;825033 wrote: Who picked up the Kefka laugh in here?
i did. i thought i dreamt the first time but no..it's there.
nice stuff with this mix anti-syne. i usually enjoy heavy electronica for chemical plant but the lighter tone is enjoyable here.
- Doulifée on December 13, 2011
Anti-Syne;827033 wrote: No one's picked up on where 'Get Ready" is from?
I'm very disappointed
Space Harrier.
In a Sonic remix? Well the main character does have blue pants...
- Garpocalypse on December 11, 2011
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Now this is certainly different than your house-driven takes on FF8 earlier this year; I can see the accidental nature with the fusion between original chords and the familiar Chemical Plant riff, and somehow it managed to work well in establishing the track's nature. Sure, there's still some house influences like the FF8 tracks, though I'd say it leans more towards the American definition of house rather than the French influences of the previous 2 subs. I'd see the little percussion breakdown at around 1:47 being a strong highlight in regards to building up the mood as well, one that really managed to provide some strong feeling of life to the track.
Generally a clean production work has occurred as well, though is that you doing the "get ready" samples there? It's a good way to go, though I am not too sure about the flimsy recording space there. Either way it doesn't detract too much from the track; in general it's got the setting that really upped your game since previous subs.
So all in all, way to go Jack! And keep representing us British, will ya :)
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Globecomm Systems CEO Discusses F1Q2011 Results ¿¿ Earnings Call Transcript
Globecomm Systems, Inc. (GCOM)
F1Q2011 (Qtr End 09/30/10) Earnings Conference Call
November 5, 2010 10:00 AM ET
Matthew Byron – SVP, Corporate OfficeDavid Hershberg – CEO and ChairmanKeith Hall – President and COOAndrew Melfi – SVP and CFOAnalystsJames Patrick McIlree – Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.Richard Valera – Needham & Company, LLCSarah Catherine Phillips – Stephens Inc.Richard Ryan – Dougherty & CompanyPresentationOperatorWelcome to today's Globecomm Systems Fiscal Year 2011 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. (Operator Instructions)
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Matthew ByronThank you, Katy. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Globecomm Systems Fiscal 2011 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. Joining me today from the company is our Chairman and CEO, David Hershberg; President and COO, Keith Hall; and our CFO, Andrew Melfi.
Last night, after the closing bell, Globecomm issued its fiscal 2011 first quarter earnings press release. In the event you have not received or seen a copy of the release, it is posted on the Globecomm System's website at www.globecommsystems.com or you can contact me at (631) 457-1301, and I will send a copy to you.
Comments made during this call may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of Globecomm Systems. These statements are only projections and reflect the current beliefs and expectations of the company. Actual events or results may differ materially. With that said, it is routine for internal projections and expectations to change as quarters progress.
All forward-looking statements are based on the information available to the company on the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update such statements. Please refer to the documents the company files from time to time with the SEC, specifically the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its current reports on Form 8-K and the Safe Harbor language contained in the company's press releases.These documents contain and identify important factors that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those contained in these projections or forward-looking statements, which the company urges all investors to consider. Globecomm undertakes no obligation to publicly release the revisions for such forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Please note that this call is being recorded on Friday, November 5, 2010, contains time-sensitive information and will be available as a webcast replay for at least nine months on the Investor Relations section of the Globecomm Systems website and as a phone replay at 1 (888) 203-1112 for domestic callers or (719) 457-0820 for international callers, with an access code of 8435331.
At this point, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Dave Hershberg. Dave?
David HershbergWell, thank you, Matt, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to our Fiscal 2011 First Earnings Conference Call. Despite a continuing challenging environment, Globecomm announced its 26th consecutive quarter of profitability and also record guidance demonstrating the diversity of the company's business model.
Globecomm's ability to provide complete end to end solutions for both infrastructure and service continues to provide good value to our customers. The company continues to invest heavily in new product and service offering across all our vertical markets and looks forward to making various announces to this front at various points throughout this current year, and I'll also – you can see by recent announcements a lot of these are paying off.As outlined in our Q4 conference call, we anticipated a live infrastructure segment revenue in Q1 with continued strength throughout the fiscal year. Infrastructure bookings have been robust as demonstrated by continued recent announcements further enhancing the company's ability to maintain our record guidance. Our backlog for both the infrastructure and service level are at record levels.
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Gary Vaynerchuk is back on the couch for a Laid Back Friday with a very interesting wine, Vin Jaune. This wine is made from 100% Savagnin and aged for 6 years under a veil of yeast.
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MIDDLEBURY – A steel parts galvanizing manufacturer is hiring management, maintenance and manufacturing personnel – creating up to 60 new jobs – for its move to a facility in Elkhart County.
That's according to a news release issued Friday morning by Indiana Galvanizing, LLC. They will invest $3 million to equip and renovate a 97,000 square-foot facility in Middlebury that will be operational by next summer.
"The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Indiana Galvanizing, LLC up to $400,000 in performance-based tax credits and up to $50,000 in training grants based on the company's job creation plans," according to the release. "These incentives are performance-based, meaning until Hoosiers are hired, the company is not eligible to claim incentives."
The release goes on to say Elkhart County will consider additional tax abatement at the request of the Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County.
"Elkhart County was a perfect fit for the new location," according to Ryan Monnig, plant manager of Bob Monnig – which shares common ownership with Indiana Galvanizing. "Not only did it meet the geographic requirements, but it also has the small town values and work ethic that we feel is vital to our success."
"I am extremely pleased to have Bob Monnig locate its new hot-dip galvanizing plant in Elkhart County," according to a quote in the release from David Foutz, commissioner of Elkhart County. "This facility will complement our rapidly growing metal finishing sector while adding high-paying jobs to our existing manufacturing base. We would be thrilled to have Bob Monning Industries as a partner in the dynamic industrial growth of Elkhart County."


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Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Brain's ECS by Minimum Configurational Energy Packing of Fluid Vesicles Biophysical Journal, Volume 92, Issue 10, 15 May 2007, Pages 3368-3378 Ravi K. Nandigam and Daniel M. Kroll Abstract The extracellular space of the brain is the heterogeneous porous medium formed by the spaces between the brain cells. Diffusion in this interstitial space is the mechanism by which glucose and oxygen are delivered to the brain cells from the vascular system. It is also a medium for the transport of certain informational substances between the cells (called volume transmission), and for drug delivery. This work involves three-dimensional modeling of the extracellular space as void space in close-packed arrays of fluid membrane vesicles. These packings are generated by minimizing the configurational energy using a Monte Carlo procedure. Both regular and random packs of vesicles are considered. A random walk algorithm is then used to compute the geometric tortuosities, and the results are compared with published experimental data. For the random packings, it is found that although the absolute values for the tortuosities differ, the dependence of the tortuosity on pore volume fraction is very similar to that observed in experiment. The tortuosities we measure are larger than those computed in previous studies of packings of convex polytopes, and modeling improvements, which require higher resolution studies and an improved modeling of brain cell shapes and mechanical properties, could help resolve remaining discrepancies between model simulations and experiment. It is also shown that the specular reflection scheme is the appropriate technique for implementing zero-flux boundary conditions in random walk simulations commonly encountered in diffusion problems. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (642 kb) |
A Mathematical Analysis of Obstructed Diffusion within Skeletal Muscle Biophysical Journal, Volume 96, Issue 12, 17 June 2009, Pages 4764-4778 P.R. Shorten and J. Sneyd Abstract Molecules are transported through the myofilament lattice of skeletal muscle fibers during muscle activation. The myofilaments, along with the myosin heads, sarcoplasmic reticulum, t-tubules, and mitochondria, obstruct the diffusion of molecules through the muscle fiber. In this work, we studied the process of obstructed diffusion within the myofilament lattice using Monte Carlo simulation, level-set and homogenization theory. We found that these intracellular obstacles significantly reduce the diffusion of material through skeletal muscle and generate diffusion anisotropy that is consistent with experimentally observed slower diffusion in the radial than the longitudinal direction. Our model also predicts that protein size has a significant effect on the diffusion of material through muscle, which is consistent with experimental measurements. Protein diffusion on the myofilament lattice is also anomalous (i.e., it does not obey Brownian motion) for proteins that are close in size to the myofilament spacing. The obstructed transport of Ca2+ and ATP-bound Ca2+ through the myofilament lattice also generates smaller Ca2+ transients. In addition, we used homogenization theory to discover that the nonhomogeneous distribution in the troponin binding sites has no effect on the macroscopic Ca2+ dynamics. The nonuniform sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase pump distribution also introduces small asymmetries in the myoplasmic Ca2+ transients. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1153 kb) |
A Model of Effective Diffusion and Tortuosity in the Extracellular Space of the Brain Biophysical Journal, Volume 87, Issue 3, 1 September 2004, Pages 1606-1617 Jan Hrabe, Sabina Hrabĕtová and Karel Segeth Abstract Tortuosity of the extracellular space describes hindrance posed to the diffusion process by a geometrically complex medium in comparison to an environment free of any obstacles. Calculating tortuosity in biologically relevant geometries is difficult. Yet this parameter has proved very important for many processes in the brain, ranging from ischemia and osmotic stress to delivery of nutrients and drugs. It is also significant for interpretation of the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance data. We use a volume-averaging procedure to obtain a general expression for tortuosity in a complex environment. A simple approximation then leads to tortuosity estimates in a number of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) geometries characterized by narrow pathways between the cellular elements. It also explains the counterintuitive fact of lower diffusion hindrance in a 3D environment. Comparison with Monte Carlo numerical simulations shows that the model gives reasonable tortuosity estimates for a number of regular and randomized 2D and 3D geometries. Importantly, it is shown that addition of dead-end pores increases tortuosity in proportion to the square root of enlarged total extracellular volume fraction. This conclusion is further supported by the previously described tortuosity decrease in ischemic brain slices where dead-end pores were partially occluded by large macromolecules introduced into the extracellular space. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (458 kb) |
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ζ-potentials of entities such as cells and synaptosomes have been determined, but ζ of brain tissue has never been measured. Electroosmotic flow, and the resulting transport of neuroactive substances, would result from naturally occurring and experimentally or clinically induced electric fields if ζ is significant. We have developed a simple method for determining ζ in tissue. An electric field applied across a rat organotypic hippocampal slice culture (OHSC) drives fluorescent molecules through the tissue by both electroosmotic flow and electrophoresis. Fluorescence microscopy is used to determine each molecule's velocity. Independently, capillary electrophoresis is used to measure the molecules' electrophoretic mobilities. The experiment yields ζ-potential and average tissue tortuosity. The ζ-potential of OHSCs is −22±2mV, and the average tortuosity is 1.83±0.06. In a refined experiment, ζ-potential is measured in various subregions. The ζ-potentials of the CA1 stratum pyramidale, CA3 stratum pyramidal, and dentate gyrus are −25.1±1.6mV, −20.3±1.7mV, and −25.4±1.0mV, respectively. Simple dimensional arguments show that electroosmotic flow is potentially as important as diffusion in molecular transport.


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In 2008 the initiative "Women at PwC" was initiated by the German Leadership team with the objective to enhance career opportunities for women and increase the number of female key talents in leading roles. The target group is comprised of about 900 women including female Young Excellence Program participants (key talent senior consultants) and all women from grade manager to partner of all lines of service.
The initiative "Women at PwC" focuses on encouraging female talents to be ready for leadership roles and has developed initiatives to achieve this, e.g., annual women's meetings, business networking contacts, Women Leadership Trainings.
Women at PwC facilitates Women's Meetings for female managers to get together in regional and national network meetings. At these network meetings, women have the opportunity to learn from successful female role models and external subject matter experts as well as to build and strengthen their network.
Mrs. Petra Justenhoven, Assurance Partner and member of steering committee, says, "We need a platform where women can enter the dialog to resolve individual questions. The yearly 'Women's Meetings' offer a good framework for that".
In the last few years the "Women's Meetings" focused on the topics "Networking and Self-marketing", "Power Competence and Power Play" and "Success Strategy". This year's theme will be "Successful – by being yourself".
In addition to internal networking, PwC encourages the participants to actively involve themselves in external business networks to expand their perspectives.
These regional and national network meetings are 'networks from women for women', where participants have contact persons and role models. Kathrin Kersten, Assurance senior manager and one of the role models, says, "This is a great opportunity to help other women build their networks by organising 'Women's Evenings', motivate them to be more courageous and support them as a mentor".
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It is a meeting place for people from all over the world to find and initiate peace.
Beautifully decorated guest rooms, a spacious lounge and dining area, a fresh water pool, several ponds and a large permaculture garden all situated within an abundant tropical vegetation make Jiwa Damai a perfect retreat place to relax in alignment with nature, learn about tropical flora und fauna and find time for reflection and contemplation.
We offer yoga and meditation classes for our guests and we regularly hold seminars and workshops with local and international participation. We also rent our facilities to workshop facilitators and organizers wanting to offer their own seminars and retreats. All income derived from Jiwa Damai is returned to the community through projects and programs run by Lagu Damai Foundation.
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EIBTM, the European Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings exhibition, which wrapped up in December in Barcelona, has just announced the winner of its 2009 Best Event Evaluation award.
Troi Helsinki, a Finland-based event-management company, took the prize for its measurement of the return on investment from the annual meeting of a data-security company client, F-Secure.
The meeting, F-Secure's Global Channel event, brought together 200 of the company's international distribution channel partners. Troi Helsinki used pre- and post-event feedback combined with on-site feedback to evaluate attendee satisfaction, learning, and application of that learning. Four months after the event, Troi Helsinki showed that knowledge gained from the conference was being used within organizations in areas ranging from client servicing to internal training.
Troi Helsinki used tools and techniques of the ROI Methodology. Both a planning strategy and an evaluation tool, the ROI Methodology is centered around designing for and then measuring specific actions that will be taken by participants as a result of conference attendance. First developed by Jack Phillips, PhD, and Patti Phillips, PhD, at the U.S.-based ROI Institute, the methodology is taught in Europe by the European Event ROI Institute.
"In these hard times, evaluation is more important than ever," said Dr. Elling Hamso, managing partner of the European Event ROI Institute, in a press release from EIBTM. "Everybody is talking about ROI, but many don't know how to move from the rudimentary measures of satisfaction to something more meaningful, perhaps even the financial return on investment. This award encourages companies that have this evaluation skill to show others how they do it, which is why I think it is such an important award. All meeting planners need to understand how their meetings create value for stakeholders and how to measure the effectiveness of the meeting for this purpose."
Mari Sylvia Wesanterä, senior marketing manager and event manager for the operator channel at F-Secure, said, "We know evaluating the event is a good and necessary investment. The evaluation planning made the meeting better, without a doubt. By defining clear objectives at different levels, the meeting format and content became more focused and the post-event evaluation told us how well we had succeeded in spending the budget effectively."
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So often in New Orleans, we write about the negative. Actually, the horrible, the gut-wrenching, the insane, the god-awful. And along with it goes the blame: the backwardness, the ignorance, the greed, the corruption, the incompetence which are often so easy to find, particularly in local governance.
But today I�d like to give some credit where credit is due. First award: to the NOPD. Yes, I said it. While I�m still disturbed about the shooting of Adolph Grimes, I need to give credit to the NOPD for catching the rapist/burglar who has been assaulting people in the 6th/7th wards.
Like anyone in this city, I have often doubted the ethics, tactics and culture of the NOPD. And for a variety of reasons, some of which are entirely out of their control, I also have concerns about their ability to actually find violent criminals. With so many unsolved murders in the city, I had very little faith that the creep who beat my friend in the head with a beer bottle while trying to rape her in her apartment would get caught. Starting with a tip from someone in the neighborhood, the NOPD found this guy and he�s now in jail.
Thanks NOPD.
Frankly, I know there�s a lot of good people in the NOPD, just like there were a lot of good people in the projects, trying to do their best in utterly untenable situations. And frankly, the NOPD doesn�t get paid enough to do such a stressful job.
Second: Kudos to Gambit writer Alison Fensterstock for her coverage of hip-hop in New Orleans.
This one is long overdue. I wrote roughly a year ago about the failure of (white) arts and culture periodicals and radio stations to cover New Orleans� huge and idiosyncratic hip-hop scene. Now you may like hip-hop, or you may hate it. You may find it vapid, regressive, crude, repetitive and/or uninspired. I�m not a big fan of a lot of hip-hop either, frankly. I get sick of bounce pretty quickly, and there�s only a couple of Mystikal songs that I don�t skip over on the CD player.
But hip-hop is here and it�s here to stay; more importantly hip-hop is the musical and lyrical expression of the lives of African-American youth, and we are still in a majority black city. It deserves to be examined.
Fensterstock (likely with no prodding from me) stepped up to the plate. Her articles in Gambit about the "sissy" scene and Lil� Wayne�s national success were excellent. Such attention has spilled over into the T-P: what prompted the hilarious Times-Picayune living section article comparing Lil� Wayne and Celine Dion?
And finally… a big thank you to LPSC member Lambert Boissiere, III.
(NOTE: The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) is the body that regulates utilities in the state of Louisiana, including our very favorite monopoly, Entergy Corporation. So if you wonder why your power bills are so high, I recommend that you start paying attention to what the LPSC and the New Orleans City Council Utility Committee, which regulates utilities in our city, are doing, and aren�t doing, in your name.)
The LPSC did two very important things on January 14, 2009, and both were spearheaded by Lambert Boissiere. First was to pass an ethics rule prohibiting commissioners and staff from receiving free meals from regulated utilities. For practical purposes, this is only a step; LPSC members need to stop taking campaign contributions as well. However in direction this was a major change, and I was impressed as all hell by Boissiere�s leadership on this one. Credit also needs to go to Foster Campbell, Commissioner from northern Louisiana, who has long championed this very sort of ethics reform to a mostly unsympathetic commission. For the record, Jimmy Field voted for the new ethics rule as well.
Second, the LPSC re-opened an inquiry into the feasibility of passing the state�s first Renweable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which, if passed, would require that utilities purchase a set portion of their power from renewable sources, such as wind, solar and biomass, a number that would increase modestly year by year.
For so many reasons- not only CO2 emissions but also energy independence and freedom from volatile fuel prices- this is huge. It may take a lot of political push to get it passed (thanks to the recalcitrance of our friends at Entergy) but if it does it means strengthening rural economies and the beginnings of clean, safe, reliable energy sources for the state.
That�s all for now. So before I start sounding like Sheila Stroup, be sure to check in next week when we will return to our regularly scheduled programming of terror and failure. We would not want to let you down.


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A custom that began 62 years ago was held April 24 as the Cedaredge Women's Literary Club honored Cedaredge High School senior girls with an afternoon tea. Other honored guests were Cedaredge Mayor Pat Means, speaker Verity Martin and the oldest member of the literary club, Grace Farmer.
The connection with the library and the literary club started 103 years ago with donated books and a box of books from a traveling library collection from Denver. In the early days of the library, high school senior girls worked as library assistants to shelve books, type cards, and check out library materials.
The first tea was held 62 years ago to thank the girls for their help. Since 1951, Literary Club members have looked forward to this annual event. Members plan and create the gifts, decorations, and menu. Green Valley Herbal donated lip gloss that was included in gift bags.
Fulfilling yet another tradition, each young woman stood and told of her plans following graduation.
Last year, the girls made up packets of Literary Soup that were sold during AppleFest with proceeds to benefit the Cedaredge Library. The bags are tied with raffia with an attached recipe card. The user needs only to add his or her choice of broth and meat for a tasty Literary Soup. That project was a huge success, so this year's seniors followed in their footsteps and made up the soup mix to be sold again at AppleFest, with the library again benefiting from the sale.
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Camillia City Civitans Bowl For A Cause, Helping Those With Special NeedsA group in Butler County spent the day bowling with adults with special needs...
They're bowling for a cause -- and it's all part of one group's main focus: to help people with physical and developmental disabilities. It's the smiling faces and hugs that make it all worth-while to Steve Davison. He's part of the Camellia City Civitan Club, a service group that helps people in the community whenever there's a need. As for this local Butler County group -- their focus on Wednesday? Helping adults with special needs. And Davison says it's spending moments like this that make him realize the Civitan Club is an extension of the church. "Because we're out helping others, helping the needy, helping those less fortunate than us, and I think that's important and I think that's what Jesus would have us to do," Said Davison. About 25 adults with special needs came out to bowl on Wednesday, including 57-year-old, J-B Hubbard Jr., who bowled for his first time. He tells us enjoyed the new company. "Well, they were good to me and I was good to them. At first I was shy!" Said Hubbard. The adults had everything from Down-Syndrome, to Autism, but after speaking with several Civitan members they tell Alabama News Network they feel like they got more out of spending time with the special needs adults more than anything. Club members say they've been sending money to UAB's research center in hope of finding cures for those who are mentally and physically challenged. In the next few weeks, the group will build a wheelchair ramp for someone's home. |
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