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Evangelos Simoudis
Managing Director at Trident Capital focusing on investments in Internet and software businesses. Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
Using Corporate Incubators and Accelerators To Drive Disruptive Innovation
By Evangelos Simoudis on August 13, 2014
Corporations are establishing incubators, e.g., Samsung, and accelerators, e.g., Orange, in order to advance their disruptive innovation initiatives. They are doing so on their own, e.g., Samsung, Swisscom, or in partnership with independent accelerators, e.g., Disney, Microsoft, and Barclays have partnered with Techstars. Many corporate incubators and accelerators are established in Silicon Valley, but not […]
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IBM-Apple Deal: Mobile Enterprise Applications
By Evangelos Simoudis on July 21, 2014
On July 15 IBM and Apple announced an exclusive partnership. There are several components to this partnership that have been addressed elsewhere (here and here) but of most interest was the commitment to develop 100 industry-specific mobile analytic applications. As I had written, the broad adoption of smartphones and tablets by employees, customers and partners, […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytic application, apple, Big Data, corporate innovation, enterprise applications, ibm, innovation, Insight as a Service, mobile applications, mobile-first applications, mobility, startup | Leave a response
Acquiring Innovation
By Evangelos Simoudis on July 7, 2014
In 2001 Apple introduced iTunes based on the IP of a company it had acquired in 2000. By 2003, after the introduction of the iPod and of the iTunes Store, iTunes had become the de facto disruptive innovator of digital music. More recently Apple itself started being disrupted by Pandora and Spotify. These streaming music […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, android, apple, google, ibm, innovation, SoftLayer, WhatsApp | Leave a response
Measuring the Performance of Corporate Innovation Initiatives
By Evangelos Simoudis on April 30, 2014
The business models of large corporations are being disrupted faster than ever before, e.g., Netflix is disrupting the video distribution industry, while new lucrative markets being created by innovative startups, e.g., Uber, Nest, and SpaceX. As a result of these developments, corporations are starting to realize they will need to re-invent their disruptive innovation model. […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged corporate innovation, disruptive innovation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, intrapreneurship, KPI, Silicon Valley, vc | 1 Response
Choosing Between Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures
By Evangelos Simoudis on April 29, 2014
Since 1999 we have been investing in companies that develop SaaS applications targeting the mid-upper and global enterprise. Through these investments and the hundreds of other SaaS companies, targeting these and other segments, we have considered during this period, we have started to notice a transition in the way companies utilize cloud computing infrastructures platforms […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged hybrid cloud, iaas, PaaS, Private Cloud, public cloud, SaaS, SaaS/Cloud Computing, startup | 1 Response
Big Data and the Internet of Things
By Evangelos Simoudis on April 23, 2014
The physical world (from goods to equipment) is becoming digitally connected through a multitude of sensors. Sensors can be found today in most industrial equipment, from metal presses to airplane engines, shipping containers (RFID), and automobiles (telematics devices). Consumer mobile devices are essentially sensor platforms. These connected devices can automatically provide status updates, performance updates, […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, Big Data, data integration, Internet of Things
Silicon Valley's Role in the Re-Invention of the Disruptive Corporate Innovation Model
By Evangelos Simoudis on April 14, 2014
Corporations from industries as diverse as agriculture, manufacturing, logistics retail and financial services are being disrupted at an unprecedented rate by a variety of innovations: technological, e.g., cloud computing and big data analytics, startup creation, e.g., lean startup, investment model, e.g., crowd-funding, business model, e.g., offering software as a service, marketing, e.g., social engagement, product […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged corporate innovation, corporate VC, disruptive innovation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, intrapreneurship, Silicon Valley, startup formation, vc | 2 Responses
The Bright Future of Online Video Advertising
By Evangelos Simoudis on March 28, 2014
Online video advertising is the fastest growing sector of adtech. In addition to various analyst reports supporting this claim, our extensive adtech portfolio that includes companies like Brightroll (online video advertising), Turn (demand side platform), Jiwire (mobile advertising platform) and Exelate (data management platform) provide us with additional confirmatory data. Today online video advertising represents […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Online advertising, Venture Capital
Mobilizing Enterprise Applications
By Evangelos Simoudis on February 3, 2014
Because mobility is starting to impact so many parts of the enterprise for some time now we have been considering how enterprises should be thinking with regards to mobile applications for their customers, employees and partners and have been formulating relevant investment theses. Based on input we have received from several senior IT and business […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged mobile, SaaS | 2 Responses
Mobile-first vs Mobile-Only: Additional Thoughts on Mobile Enterprise Applications
By Evangelos Simoudis on January 8, 2014
In a previous post I discussed how the adoption of mobile devices by customers, employees and partners, as well as the desire of these constituencies for a mobile-like experience even in their desktop devices, is leading to the emergence of mobile as the next enterprise software platform and causing enterprises to accelerate their mobile application […]
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waste of money,
This review is from: Samurai Zen (Paperback)
I was one of the unfortunate people who spent money on it. The author is called a 'preeminent Martial Art Master', however he does not appear to have any grades in the arts that he talks about. The Publisher's review also states that he is 'at the forefront of the integration of spiritual understanding into Martial Arts' - eh? Anyone practicing more or less seriousely knows that spiritual understanding is the foundation of MA, it was there for thousands of years before Mr.Shaw was born.
I have been practicing Aikido since 1991. From my point of view this is a very strange and bizzare book. I don't know where the stances came from, but they are not correct Iaido stances. His face looks like he just swallowed a wasp. I have neevr seen anyone talk about Zen with a facial expression like that.
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Anglo Belgian Corporation has been manufacturing diesel engines since 1912 and is headquartered in Gent, Belgium. The company has a century of engine-building expertise, founded in 1912 by a group of Belgian entrepreneurs soon after building the first licensed Rudolf Diesel engine. ABC has the reputation of building robust and simple engines, with low fuel and lubricating oil consumption, long lifetime, low maintenance cost and easy accessibility.
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10 Employee Engagement Ideas That Get Serious Results
Posted on September 26th 2013
Idea #1: Concentrate High-Engagement Leadership At The Employee Management Level
Employee surveys consistently show that the single most important factor in employee engagement is an employee's relationship with his or her direct manager. In fact, employees don't leave companies; they leave their managers. And they're willing to do this despite tough economic conditions.
According to HR Magazine, engaged employees perform 20% better and are 87% less likely to leave an organization. So, managers and team leaders need to become expert relationship builders and they need to learn how to nourish and sustain those relationships over time.
Managers can build and maintain strong relationships at the employee level by:
1. Leading and coaching employees to success. Without employee performance coaching there can be no sustained employee engagement. Coaching is all about helping employees to become more effective in their roles both strategically, culturally and through performance.
2. Aligning employee goals to business outcomes. It's also about aligning and facilitating each employee's professional development and learning goals to the goals of the team and the organization.
Employees need to know that they are working for their own goals as much as the organization's when they come into work each day. When they have this understanding, they also realize how their individual role impacts business profitability overall.
Idea #2: Live Your Organization's Core Values
Your organization's core values should be conducive to creating a work environment that enables active employee engagement and provide employees with opportunities to demonstrate the company's core values through their daily work.
In high performing organizations, employees and leaders regularly refer to and use their core value statements as a real time compass and positive shaper of both formal environment and work life behaviors.
For true leaders at every organizational level, the organization's core values are the moral, ethical and even spiritual law of the land. High engagement employees thrive on being treated fairly and honestly.
Ask yourself:
- Without checking, can you list your organization's core values — the ones that are most related to building trusting manager/employee relationships?
- Do your employees know these core values and understand their importance?
- What values would you and your direct reports add to or change about that list?
- What concrete steps are you taking to put these values into actions as a means of rewarding and recognizing your employees via formal and informal performance management processes?
Idea #3: Recognize and Reward Your Employees
The strongest organizational science is clearly teaching us that employee recognition simultaneously builds and maintains healthy employee/manager relationships and greatly impacts bottom-line performance. Organizations who actively recognize their employees see a 6% higher net profit margin over companies who don't. [ Towers Watson Study ]
Doing effective employee recognition is all about implementing the "3 R's of employee rewards and recognition:"
R1: The Right Kind of Behaviors – Role Behaviors proven to meet clearly stated performance goals. Examples of clearly defined and communicated performance goals include:
- Mastering a new work process or procedure,
- Demonstrating a core cultural value in relation to co-workers
- Meeting or exceeding work quality and quantity metrics
- Solving a problem or challenge in a way that creates value for the organization
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Idea #4: See Your Employees as People Not as a Number
Feeling valued, confident, inspired, enthused and empowered are the key emotions that lead to employee engagement. These emotions can't be fostered unless you build strong relationships with your employees and by seeing them as human beings.
Actively engaged employees are fully aware and secure in the knowledge that their managers really know them and care about them as human beings. Employees thrive when managers really understand and connect with them through the lenses of their personal values, goals and passions.
Aligning individual goals and organizational goals through shared values is one of the most important distinctions between real leadership and management. Key questions here include:
- Do you or your team leaders really know what your employees are passionate about?
- Do you know what they most value in life?
- Do you know their most heartfelt career aspirations?
- What steps are you taking to acknowledge, validate and coach towards the realization of these personal goals values and interests?
Idea #5: Take a Genuine Interest in Employee Well-being
The bottom line: A healthier happier employee is a more productive and engaged employee who sticks around for years and rarely misses work.
Heightened employee well-being directly translates into increased employee engagement and performance. The world's leading organizations are growing and sustaining employee well-being through integrated work-life balance and innovative employee assistance programs.
These wellness and support initiatives provide everything from personal money management to professional counseling with relationship, parenting and stress management experts. They also provide employees with flex time planning and work from home options towards maximizing work life balance in an ever increasing world of stress and responsibility.
Can you think of a better way to show genuine interest and concern at the employee manager interface than to help solve serious stress, parenting, marriage, family and money problems?
Idea #6: Support and Facilitate Workplace Giving
Many employees have a shared need to know that their work is making a positive difference in the world and to their fellow human beings.
High performance organizations identify and facilitate ways for their employees to give back to the community as a function of their work – running employee driven community assistance, volunteering and go-green programs.
The most effective workplace giving programs allow individual employee's and teams to define the why, the how and the when of giving back. They also provide solid tools and processes for formally meeting co-created community giving goals.
Idea #7: Channel Positive Relationship Energy into Performance Supporting Structures and Processes
Now that you understand the importance of building strong positive relationships and organizational bonding at the employee/manager level, the next question becomes what do you do with all this new positive relationship energy and employee motivation to generate results driven organizational performance?
Again, help employees understand how their behaviors align with performance goals. It's really a cascading effect: senior leadership identify the over-arching business objectives for the organization, managers then take these objectives and create more focused goals for their teams, and then employees, in partnership with their managers, need to establish their individual goals. The performance management process is crucial to facilitating this process.
SMART Goal: In general, help employees establish personal goals by using the using the SMART methodology:
Specific — Goals are objective, clearly stated and very specific.
Measurable — The goal's progress is measurable in terms of objective and easily share-able quantity quality and time measures.
Attainable — It's one that you can actually achieve and is realistic. High performing organizations don't reward goals attainment that is outside of the control of employees or team members. They primarily define, recognize and reward goals that are within the complete control of a given employee's control.
Relevant — This is where the organizational performance dimension comes into play. Goals need to be clearly linked to meaningful business or positive organizational outcomes. Key questions here include:
- To what extend is this goal creating value?
- To what extend is it reducing costs or increasing product and service quality to internal and external customers?
Time Bound — The question here becomes: When will the particular task, project or goal be completed? Not only does time-limiting a goal facilitate performance by reducing wasted time, but it enables for time based process and quality improvements as well.
Setting time bound goals also enables managers to precision target their recognition and reward efforts on employee behaviors that approximate, meet and exceed clearly predefined expectations.
Idea #8: Increase Employee Involvement
Only 27% of employees feel they are involved in the important decisions made by their organizations. Yet the bottom line is that increased employee involvement = increased employee engagement.
Employees are more likely to buy into and feel a motivation-enhancing sense of ownership for goals when they play a major role in creating them versus feeling that they are simply executing someone else's vision. In short, it evokes a sense of ownership and shareholder stake in the success of the business.
Idea #9: Harness the Incredible Power of Teamwork Whenever Possible
The essence of operating as a high-performing team and using team-based organizational design is that you already have all of the basic ingredients needed to capitalize on active employee engagement. For example, effective teams must communicate, collaborate and interact with each other in order to meet their goals and objectives.
Effective team leaders know how to instill trust in their teams so that each employee can work with each other and share work, they also know how to reduce conflict by helping each member of the team to get to know one another better and to understand each other's personalities, and finally, good leaders know how to increase collaborative efforts by conferring with each other and valuing each other's opinions.
Really high performance teams actually distribute the leadership role among team members, taking on and relinquishing the leadership role based on the team's current performance goals and by recognizing and leveraging the "superpowers" of each team member.
Idea #10: Hire Based on Core Values and Leadership Skills First and For Optimal Work-Role Compatibility or Management Skills Second
The world's leading high engagement organizations hire for leadership potential as expressed in individual values that align with core organizational values. Finding employees who will fit into the company's culture is more important than hiring based on work role competency.
For example, a high performing team is a direct result of the leader who manages it. The best managers have personalities that are predisposed to the role: strong work ethic, natural leadership, genuine interest in helping others, and intent on finding the right solutions.
Underperforming, low-engagement organizations, on the other hand, continue to hire managers primarily based on their work skills rather than their demonstrated capacity for leadership effectiveness. These are the organization's who are most likely to be hemorrhaging top talent.
These are the same managers who can't tell you what their organization's core values are or why each value is most critical in continuously guiding and shaping a real high-engagement organization through expert relationship building and maintenance.
What are your organization's core values? What is the best example of when you consciously made a leadership decision today, that was in complete alignment with those values?
A version of this post originally appeared in The Person 2 Person Engagement Blog
Much good fundamental engagement leadership advice here. The biggest problem related to sustained employee engagement is fuzzy measurement. Are we testing/surveying against a list of pleasant leadership behaviors or are we testing for engagement intensity of the workgroups so leaders can get better?
The desired outcome we want from leaders is high employee engagement intensity that delivers superior effort, innovation, productivity and quality advantages. Without precision measurement of engagement intensity, the chance of creating great leadership across the organization is zero. We get what we measure.
Most employee surveys nip at bits and pieces of bona fide engagement metrics but most surveys confuse organizations and leaders regarding their priorities, skill development necessities and behavioral changes needed. Result: net loss on total survey cost, distracted leaders and lower ROHC (proof of engagement intensity).
Conversing about and measuring employee engagement does not have to be anecdotal.There are 15 drivers of employee engagement that can be measured via employee surveys so each leader can have their own solid & unique engagement leadership profile in which to focus their improvement efforts. Leadership advice is good but reliable engagement leadership metrics are best.
Great article Elizabeth and valuable advice. But what executives and managers need is what exactly they are to do. Having created a few fully engaged workforces, here is the essence of what I had my executives and managers do.
Rather than spending its time trying to control employees with goals, targets, orders, bureaucracy, visions, directives, corporate value statements, mission statements and the like, all of which mainly serve to disengage employees, management listens to whatever employees have to say. Management does this often enough to more than satisfy the employee's need to be heard. Management then responds to what was said in a timely and respectful manner to the satisfaction of the employee or better thus satisfying the employee's need to be respected. Once employees realize this will always be done, they realize that they can influence everything in the workplace. This ability to influence everything begets a sense of ownership - that this is just as much their workplace as it is anyone's. In the same way, a sense of ownership begets commitment. This process will also satisfy the employee's needs to have autonomy, competence, and relatedness and with all needs satisfied, they will choose to become engaged.
I admit that there are a lot of details such as how to listen, how to conduct sessions (both one-on-one and group) to listen to employee complaints, suggestions, and questions, how to respond to what you hear, the values employees have and how they use them, and most importantly how to convert the ~95% of employees who are followers into non-followers. Most of these can be learned by trial and error as I once did. But it may not be possible to learn about followers and non-followers or how to convert followers through making mistakes, but it is easy to do and does has a huge positive effect on productivity, innovation, and creativity.
Hope this helps, Ben


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Guido Galla: "I was with Elizabeth for 17 years. She was my soul mate."
Her family and her friends say, if you knew Elizabeth Sanchez, you loved her, even more so now that she is gone.
Miguel Sanchez: "I miss my sister. I just miss her, and my whole family's been devastated."
In June 2012, Elizabeth was with a friend on the Turnpike near Caribbean Boulevard when their car was in an accident.
Guido Galla: "And someone came onto the highway on Caribbean and the Turnpike and sideswiped their vehicle, causing their vehicle to spin out of control."
Elizabeth survived that. She would not survive the next few seconds.
FHP Trooper Jose Sanchez: "The tow truck which was driving northbound in the center lane was not able to stop, and struck the vehicle on the side of the passenger, in this case Mrs. Sanchez, and she was deceased at the scene."
What caused the car Elizabeth was in to spin out of control? Her friend, who was driving, said he heard a pop, thinking a tire blew -- a witness said no -- and they were sideswiped by a PT Cruiser.
Miguel Sanchez: "They saw him stop -- they saw him press the brakes -- and then he just took off again."
The next day, a woman in the Keys said her PT Cruiser had been taken by a friend without her permission. When she woke up, she saw it had been in a crash.
She said her friend told her, "He saw a vehicle spinning on the roadway. He said someone hit him from behind. He said he didn't know if anyone was injured/deceased from the collision because he left the scene due to having a suspended driver's license."
Troopers could not find the driver of the PT Cruiser to talk to him...
SunPass records showed the car was in the area when the accidents occurred. Investigators then confiscated the Cruiser and compared the paint on Elizabeth's car to the Cruiser.
Trooper Jose Sanchez: "We sent it to the labs, and it came back negative. There wasn't sufficient evidence to say that was the car in that accident."
Was the witness correct, that the PT Cruiser that SunPass showed was in the area, in the accident that led to Elizabeth's death? Or were the lab results correct, the car was not involved? With so many unanswered questions, the state attorney could not file charges against anyone.
Guido Galla: "How can you cause an accident where a life has been taken and just keep going?"
So many questions unanswered, but one fact is clear: A wonderful woman died that June night.
Miguel Sanchez: "This has been just devastating. Last year has just been a terrible year."
What troopers need is some information. Maybe the person driving the car that hit Elizabeth told you something. Maybe you were on the Turnpike near Caribbean Boulevard around 10 p.m. on June 22, 2012 and saw something you may think is not important.
Guido Galla: "There's been no arrest, and there's really no closure in our family, because this person is still out there doing what they like to do, and our loved one is gone. My children won't ever have their mother."
If you know anything that happened that night, even if you don't think it's that important, give Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers a call at 305-471-TIPS. Elizabeth's family will forever be grateful.
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Mark Melton, Director of Fine Arts, is pleased to announce that a record number of band students to competition this year; 81 band students have qualified for Texas UIL State Solo & Ensemble contest, to be held May 24th in Austin, TX. Most of those students will be competing in more than one event, …
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Pine Tree musicians awarded
Joseph Schaetz, Pine Tree High School Band Captain has earned a place in the prestigious 5A all-state band of Texas. Morghan Parker, also of Pine Tree High School, earned 2nd Chair in the All-State Women's Choir at the Area Choir Auditions. These students have earned the opportunity to perform with the Texas All-State Band or …
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Pine Tree ISD hires new director of bands
The Board of Trustees of Pine Tree Independent School District approved Mark Melton as the new Pine Tree High School Director of Bands at the regular board meeting Monday, May 9, 2011. PT's previous Director of Bands, David Rollins resigned in February. "I am very excited to have been selected Director of Bands for Pine …
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The first explorers to descend to the deepest part of the ocean were Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard in the bathyscaphe Trieste, January 23, 1960. 52 years later, James Cameron's DEEPSEA CHALLENGER journeyed to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below sea level.
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Nora Ephron
She lived a long and full life, but she would have found lots to do with a little more time. I'll miss her.
Two things I remember her for. One is that, thanks to her, no one will be able to think of award-winning investigative journalist, Carl Bernstein, without recalling the phrase 'capable of having sex with a venetian blind.' If a man is foolhardy enough to marry a writer and break her heart, he can end up with a bad case of 'Heartburn'.
Another thing, about ten seconds of the movie, 'Michael'. William Hurt, playing a reporter, is walking through the streets of NYC in the wee hours. A couple of guys with Spanish accents walk up to him. They ask him if he needs help with his car. He says no thanks. And that's all that happens.
In a Hollywood that has trouble making a movie without gratuitous wrenching emotion– of the violent or sentimental kind, that small moment struck me as original and even kind of brave.
I'll miss Nora Ephron, but she really lived, and that's the best anyone can do.
Rhode Island made the list. I'm not proud.
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Which states lead the nation is fiscal unfairness to poor children and their public schools?
Bruce Baker, the invaluable social scientist from Rutgers, the one who has actually taught in schools, has figured it out by analyzing Census data.
Bruce has a terrific blog, where he asks important questions and has the data to support his answers. I wish that every corporate reformer would read him. You should too.
These are the states that are most unfair to poor children and their public schools:
Nuclear Risk in Japan
Japan is on track to re-start two nuclear plants despite warnings…
Seismic modeling by Japan's nuclear regulator did not properly take into account active fault lines near the Ohi plant, Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist at Kobe University, told reporters.
"The stress tests and new safety guidelines for restarting nuclear power plants both allow for accidents at plants to occur," Ishibashi told reporters. "Instead of making standards more strict, they both represent a severe setback in safety standards."
Experts advising Japan's nuclear industry had underestimated the seismic threat, Mitsuhisa Watanabe, a tectonic geomorphology professor at Tokyo University, said at the same news conference.
"The expertise and neutrality of experts advising Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency are highly questionable," Watanabe said.
After an earthquake in 2007 caused radiation leaks at reactors north of Tokyo, Ishibashi said Japan was at risk of a nuclear disaster following a large earthquake, a warning that proved prescient after Fukushima.
The neutrality of nuclear industry experts is highly questionable everywhere. The damaged nuclear plants at Fukushima are still hot, and the danger continues. As Germany moves to other energy sources, Japan has a chance to change course. In the best case, the world will move beyond large, centralized polluting power sources and wasteful consumption before the next inevitable tectonic shift.
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Like it's not enough to lure us into hours of time wasted laughing at our friend's funny pix? Now they want to divert our mail? I'll be watching out for this. The fix is posted on All Tech Considered at NPR.
The Right to Peaceably Assemble
I grew up in the Sixties, era of assassinations. Even before the people's choice of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was undone in 2011 by a madman's bullet, I always respected the courage our politicians show when they make themselves available to their constituency.
Newly elected interim congressman Ron Barber is starting his service with a courageous stand for the constitutional right of the people peacefully to assemble. The citizens who came out to meet their representative were are saying 'no' to the culture of fear and pre-emptive violence that drives and divides us. This simple act of meeting freely in public is a powerful nonviolent testimony of faith in the American people and the democratic process. From the AZ Central…
TUCSON — Newly sworn-in congressman Rep. Ron Barber, who was injured in a mass shooting last year along with then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, held his first "Congress on Your Corner" event with southern Arizona constituents on Saturday.
Giffords conducted 21 of the informal meet-and-greet events during her more than four years in office, including one on the day of the shooting — Jan. 8, 2011. The rampage left six dead and 13 wounded, including Giffords and Barber, her then-district director.
Giffords relinquished the seat in January to concentrate on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head. Barber, a Democrat, won a special election to replace her earlier this month. He was sworn in Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
About 300 people showed up at Saturday's event outside a Tucson grocery store as temperatures topped 100 degrees, Barber spokesman Mark Kimble said. Visitors ranged from other survivors of the mass shooting and well-wishers to people who had concerns about their federal student loans or veteran's benefits, he said.
The democratic process was violated by the murderous attack that took the lives of six innocent people and wounded thirteen. Ron Barber is showing physical and moral courage by refusing to let the gun rule our politics.
2012 Storm Season Breaks Record
I saw a tweet from Bill McKibben, author of the climate change book, Eaarth and speaker at Netroots 2012, that we were about to make weather history with the first-ever fourth named storm before July…
Here's the news from Pennsacola,
Tropical Storm Debby formed on June 23rd about 220 miles SSE of the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Central Gulf of Mexico. Debby was the 4th named storm to form…making history. It was the first time in recorded history that a 4th named storm has ever formed before July 1st.
There are many in the Sunshine State who see these kinds of things as signs of The End Times, so it might be a good time to sell them Rapture Pet Insurance.
Kmareka's readers know that anomalies happen. And anyway, what is meant by 'recorded history'? NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is studying records from the mid-1800's, which is piddling in geographic time.
NOAA is predicting a relatively mild hurricane season. Whether this early start is an outlier or a result of climate change will take a few decades to evaluate.
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Early guess at who Mitt Romney will choose for a running mate from The Daily Beast…
The Bachelor, Republican vice-presidential edition? Mitt Romney is meeting with several top vice-presidential favorites this weekend while on a private retreat with top fundraisers in Utah. At the retreat: former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Senator Rob Portman, Congressman Paul Ryan, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal—and they will be joined by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Is Marco Rubio totally out of the picture?
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That article links to this one about 'confirmation bias'.
Punditry is a whole industry built on confirmation bias.
Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, Glenn Beck and Arianna Huffington, Rachel Maddow and Ann Coulter – these people provide fuel for beliefs, they pre-filter the world to match existing world-views.
If their filter is like your filter, you love them. If it isn't, you hate them.
Whether or not pundits are telling the truth, or vetting their opinions, or thoroughly researching their topics is all beside the point. You watch them not for information, but for confirmation.
It's contrary to human nature to approach life with a blank slate, but it never hurts to air out your assumptions and apply some scientific method now and then.
Jerry Sandusky Guilty
So the alternate reality that Jerry Sandusky constructed for himself, the one where he was a nice guy helping troubled boys, has collapsed. The justifications of his defense lawyer failed to convince a jury of his peers.
I find Jerry Sandusky less interesting than the communal culture of Penn State. There's no place on earth that is safe from bad individuals doing bad things. There are places where bad individuals would not be able to hide in plain sight and continue to commit crimes for decades.
Penn State is not on trial, but there needs to be an examination of that institution, and all the forces in society that work against safety and justice for vulnerable people.
Wind Power 2.0
All that free energy flowing over the seas, it's time to re-visit ancient technology…
Yes, this "futuristic" vessel, as CleanTechnica describes it, would sport giant vertical beams outfitted with humongous cloth wind-catching devices, known as "sails." It must be said that these elaborate mechanisms look rather ungainly, and skeptics might wonder whether an energy source as unreliable as the breeze could ever actually power something as bulky as a seafaring craft.
But just imagine if it worked! "If it proves successful," the blog enthuses, "the new B9 cargo ship could usher in a new era of fossil fuel-free technology at a critical time for the shipping industry."
The whole notion sounded almost too ingenious to be true. So I called up the good folks at B9 Energy Group to make sure this wasn't some kind of a hoax.
Not at all, managing director David Surplus assured me. Applying wind power to ships might sound far-fetched today, but if oil prices keep rising, it might well make economic sense in the not-too-distant future.
The cargo is biowaste pellets, a green fuel that can be used for heat and power electric turbines.
To generate electrical power sustainably and environmentally friendly, we can no longer rely on fossil fuels alone as their supply is diminishing. An interesting alternative to coal, oil and natural gas – which in principle are biomass resources with an origin dating far back millions of years – is the use of self-replenishing biomass as a source of renewable energy.
Maniwa, Japan, is already putting energy back into the grid by using lumber industry by-products in its generators. They used to just burn the stuff as waste.
What makes economic sense is to start with that politically incorrect word, 'conservation'. Add smarter use and multiple, local power sources and we might someday have a few 'small oil' corporations running honest business instead of Big Oil trying to run our country.


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Download Exchange Server Recovery Free for fast and effective Microsoft Exchange server data recovery. When you lose your data and files you need a solution you can turn to immediately which is simple to use and yet powerful enough to quickly get your business back to work. Powered by a simple GUI backed by our error detection algorithm and a comprehensive error database, you're assured fast recovery. Download Exchange Server Recovery Free.
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Recover Exchange 2003 Files 4.1
In market user can find lots of Exchange recovery software. But finding a standard tool is really typical task to recover Exchange 2003 files along with taking these file in use. The exchange 2003 file recovery software is best for those users who find standard sans any barriers. Recovery tool repair the Exchange EDB data such as emails, tasks, journal, calendar, contacts, etc.
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Exchange 2003 Recovery Mailbox Database 4.1
Exchange 2003 recover deleted mailbox task is easy to performable with Exchange 2003 mailbox recovery software. This tool can also perform Exchange 2003 recovery mailbox database, in which it can recover all emails, journal, notes, task, contacts, calendar & etc in an ease way. To save or convert Exchange 2003 server data you have to use licensed version. You may download free demo version to know how to recover Exchange 2003 mailbox data.
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Recover 2003 Exchange Database 4.1
A sophisticated way to recover 2003 Exchange database is by using Exchange 2003 mailbox recovery tool. Software comes with free online demo version which lets them check out the running of the software without investing any amount. Exchange 2003 email recovery is no more a trouble as users have Exchange 2003 mailbox recovery tool to restore entire corrupted database.
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Exchange 2003 Repair 11.05.01
This Exchange recovery software is an ideal tool for rebuilding the entire EDB database so that it can be easily mounted to MS Exchange Server. The tool also provides you the ability to optimize Exchange 2003 repair process with its Advanced Setting options. Exchange 2003 repair software easily repairs large EDB and STM database files.
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Isinteg Exchange 2003 11.05.01
Isinteg Exchange 2003 is a command-line utility that comes as a built-in tool with Exchange Server 2003. When Exchange Server 2003 is installed, it gets automatically installed where Exchange Server is installed. Use Isinteg Exchange 2003 tool in case of disaster recovery and resolving other integrity issues. It allows system administrators to run an integrity check on Exchange database Information Store, determining errors, and resolving them
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Exchange 2003 Export Mailbox to PST 4.1
Exchange Database to PST utility restore exchange EDB database 2003 within short span of time as well as it doesn?t harm meta stuff through conversion process.
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Exchange 2003 Recovery 4.1
When Exchange database been infected by the server errors like Jet engine, dirty shutdown, log file error, synchronization error, server failure or virus attacks etc then situation is easily handled by the Exchange 2003 recovery tool. It used to restore Exchange 2003 mailbox database (single or multiple) to new/healthy Exchange server. It also converts recovered mailbox data into Outlook PST file.
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Move Exchange 2003 Database to 2007 4.5
If you have some corrupt mailboxes in your Exchange server and you want to repair them then you can use Exchange EDB recovery software. With this tool users get safe and easiest way of recovery and they can view their database in healthy file format.
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EDB to PST 10.08.01
EDB to PST tool makes it easy to deal with problematic situations like Exchange server crash, EDB corruption or damage. It helps the Exchange server administrator to extract Outlook mailboxes from corrupt EDB file and saves them to PST.
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Export EDB to PST Tool 11.05.01
When MS exchange EDB files get damaged or corrupted due to any reason then users becomes unable to access their account mailbox which may be the beginning of huge amount of data loss. For the proper functioning of Exchange server, it is very essential to keep EDB files in smooth state. EDB corruption issues can be resolved with the powerful EDB to PST conversion tool like Kernel for Exchange server.
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Priv1 EDB to PST 11.05.01
No matter whatever be the reason for 'Priv1.edb' file corruption, with efficient EDB recovery software such as Kernel for Exchange Server recovery tool you can always fix EDB file corruption in just a few minutes. The utility is very easy to use and at the same time has got an excellent ability to recreate the entire EDB database files. In addition the tool is compatible with all versions of MS Exchange Server and Windows operating system.
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Advanced Exchange Recovery Tool 4.1
Advanced Exchange converter software effectively uses to perform Exchange server recovery task for getting emails, journal, contacts, notes, task, calendar & etc back. Advanced Exchange recovery tool is able to recover Exchange data while it inaccessible during Exchange server failure or database corruption. The tool can convert public as well as private folder data into Outlook PST.
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Exchange 2003 Offline Mailbox Recovery 4.1
Exchange 2003 offline mailbox recovery software is safe & secure utility for recovering offline Exchange server mailbox database data of public and private folder of Exchange 2010, 2007, 2003 & etc. Exchange 2010 offline repair tool is capable to repair corrupted Exchange data and recover them into Outlook PST file format or you may convert them into running or live Exchange server without any alteration.
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Exchange Server 2003 Mailbox Repair 4.1
Are you facing problem with Microsoft Exchange server? Don?t frustrate because Exchange Mailbox Repair tool helps to repair corrupted or damaged EDB file. This tool easily recovers all Exchange Mailbox items with complete whole process.
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Recover Exchange 2003 to New Server 4.1
When Exchange server goes down because of internal server errors or virus attacks then quick recovery is carried out with the help of Exchange database recovery tool. It recovers corrupt data from Exchange 2003 into new Exchange server environment as well as into healthy data. Application also has an advance option to recover highly damaged EDB files very safely. It supports Exchange versions (5.0 to 2010) etc.
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Convert Exchange 2003 Database to 2007 4.1
Exchange 2003 convert public folders to 2007 process is carried out with the help of excellent conversion software i.e. Exchange EDB conversion tool. It helps to transfer contacts from Exchange EDB files (including corrupted EDB files, encrypted or password protected EDB files) into Exchange 2007 server. Application supports Exchange versions (5.0 to 2010) etc.
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