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You call that summer? Seriously? You used to be so much fun.
You disgust me.
You call that summer? Seriously? You used to be so much fun.
You disgust me.
…don't you sometimes wish they had more imagination than a five-year-old?
For supposedly creative people…, originally uploaded by bitrot.
As a responsible member of the press I wholeheartedly condemn the disgraceful behaviour of the party I don't support in consorting with Russian oligarchs on their yachts in warm climates and there conducting all manner of underhand and quite probably illegal activities. I am determined to get to the bottom of it.
At the same time, I am delighted to hear that the party I do support has conducted a thorough review of all its dealings with Russian oligarchs on their yachts and has found all allegations of impropriety to be entirely groundless. I trust this will be the end of the matter.
I hate to say I told you so but I think you'll find I was warning you of the Icelandic terrorist threat back in December.
Of course it's too late now. You just had to go flocking round Peston instead, didn't you?
Peston my arse.
Hang on a minute… Obama's just stated he "loves the people of this country". God, this is so confusing.
John McCain's just confirmed he "believes in this country". What more do you people want?
A man with a plan, not a miracle cure. A striking change of tone. A speech delivered with gravitas and conviction, but shot through with a rich vein of humour. A natural born leader seizing the mantle of Mrs Thatcher. A man for all seasons. Nice totty for a wife. Our next Prime Minister.
That's how a demented, blue-haired, swivel-eyed, octogenarian maniac might have described David Cameron's smug, vapid, nauseating, disingenuous, pointless, dessicated husk of an address to the Tory party conference yesterday.
I, on the other hand, might have described it rather differently.
Darling pledges action on economy
Honestly, you'd think he was Chancellor of the Exchequer or something.
Just a heads up: if you live near a late-night shopping centre you might want to pop out pronto for some shorts. Just heard on the radio that the FSA is clamping down on them from midnight so if we have an Indian summer you'll be up shit creek.
Sorry, my mistake: it's short selling they're talking about. About time too: imagine if they'd dithered until a big bank went pop.
A hedge fund chap popping into the FSA for a pair of shorts earlier today. He thought it said C&A.
Senator Obama's pig comment may be raising eyebrows in the States, but over here in the UK it's raised the spectre of an all too similar comment made almost 30 years ago. I am of course referring to Jim Callaghan's fateful remark in the run-up to the 1979 general election:
You can give a pig a big hairdo and a blue handbag and elect it leader of the Conservative Party: it's still a pig.
Ever the opportunists, the Tories were quick to seize on the comment as an alleged slur on their leader, Mrs Thatcher. And despite Callaghan's protestations that he'd used the pig as a metaphor for the opposition's shameless policy recycling, the accusations stuck and Thatcher romped to victory just two months later.
And the rest, as they say, is history: Thatcher reigned for a thousand years, presiding over a slew of policies that would change the face of Britain forever: the outlawing of milk; the war with Denmark; the unilateral withdrawal from the Eurovision Song Contest; the invasion of Mars.
I trust the moral is clear, America: vote for the pig woman and you're looking at no end of trouble.
But I'll be watching Extreme Fishing With Robson Green on five. If there's one thing I love more than Robson Green it's fishing, and there's no fishing like extreme fishing. Did you see it last week when he caught that fish and then put it back and then caught it again and then put it back again? TV magic.
Robson prepares to catch a tiddler "the extreme way". That son of a gun won't know what's hit it! Yee-ha!
…it's because I'm typing it on my iPhone. I do everything on my iPhone these days. If there was a job where you could get paid for buggering about on an iPhone I'd be filling in the application form right now – provided of course that I could fill it in on my iPhone.
I'm also on the toilet. This, my friends, is the future.
Apologies if that last post sounded a bit bleak. Southendcockneyboy has just cheered me up immensely with this piercing bit of what the BBC is calling "debate":
Get in there! United, United!
Seasoned commentators including Christopher Hitchens, George Monbiot and all those smart-arses with their blogs have so far been unforthcoming with a counterpoint, so compelling is Southendcockneyboy's argument.
Nothing cheers me up like a good bit of debate.
Word reaches me that the Tory armies, fresh from their capture of Lundun, are on the march northwards and have now laid siege to Crewe. Dark days indeed. They say that the fool Brown sits sulking in his bunker, blind to the inevitable, while Darling has been seen eating his own young. This afternoon I climbed to the top of a nearby hill and heard cannon fire coming from the Cheshire hinterland. Later I helped my wife and children to pack their things and waved as they set off for the safety of Scotland, where they will stay until this horror is over.
I promised them that I would be joining them soon, but I could not look them in the eye. It's the end, my friends. We're doomed.


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Miami's Ten Best Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend
Via Facebook.com/talibkweli Party with Talib Kweli at Will Call this weekend.
Alright, so all of that Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Conference madness left you with nothing but a giant hole in your pocket.
To help you recover your wallet, we've provided you with some of Miami's best things to do this weekend that won't cost you more than a Hamilton, from a free party at the Electric Pickle, to Nirvana covers at Churchill's Pub, and rap vibes from Talib Kweli.
Check 'em out.
See also: Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week
Ketchy Shuby. With A-Train and Rob Riggs. Friday, April 4, 10 p.m. Bardot, 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-576-7750; bardotmiami.com. "Long Live the King[s]" of Miami soul, Ketchy Shuby.
See also: New Times' Concert Calendar
Peachfuzz. With DJ DZA. Friday, April 4, 11 p.m. The Garret at Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-377-2277; grandcentralmiami.com. Free. Free double cross Vodka cocktails for the ladies from 11 p.m. till midnight, old school dance jams from DJ DZA, and no cover ... Guess that's why Peachfuzz is "your girl's favorite party."
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I want you all to check out www.schradermotors.com. Schrader's Motors is a big supporter of women's motocross; in return show your support of Schrader's. You should also become a fan of Schrader's – click here: http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Schraders/94509564581?ref=ts
In the Yorkton, SK area? Stop by and check out Schrader's awesome selection of moto gear. Schrader's carries Fox, Thor and Troy Lee and other major brands.
Schrader riders Denaye Giroux and Shawn Maffenbeier have made a deal with Troy Lee Canada and Pace Sports for the 2010 season. They will both be on the Pro Sponsorship with Troy Lee gear and Gaerne boots, thanks to Derek and Lori at Troy Lee Canada.
So as you already know, DMX was at the International Motorcycle Show in Toronto a few weeks ago. Our booth was decked out and showed off a sweet Victoria Hett replica bike, with the number 1 plate, Lime Nine/DMX graphics and all, thanks to KTM Canada!
Tory's replica bike at the International Moto Show. Dan Paris photo
The CEC champ was in Mexico recently spending her days off-roading some renta-scooters. Tory's been super busy planning her 2010 schedule. First off her 2008 KTM 250 is for sale (send me an email if your interested).
Tory sent me this message last week:
I pick up "Poppy" my trials bike this week. It's been having some work done on it in Vernon. Now it's ready to rip though so I'll be hopping along in no time! I'm going down to the Vancouver Motorcycle show and plan on doing some trials riding while I'm there. Still stoked for the CEC series this year and plan on hitting up all east and west rounds. I think I'll be racing the A class against the guys just to punish myself and prepare myself for the ISDE in mexico later this year.
...Speaking of the ISDE, Tory is putting together a women's team for 2010. More on that next column. In the meantime, check out her blog: http://victoriahett.blogspot.com/
Women's Nationals Update
At the moto show, CMRC's Brett Lee was telling me how the 2010 women's nationals will have shorter motos. Prior to this, I had some Out of the Blue readers send me messages asking if the rumour they heard was true. Well, it is. I know that's gonna piss a lot of you off, but I know it will make the rest of you really happy, since some of you had asked the CMRC for shorter motos. Brett also mentioned that he's hoping that the shorter motos will help more ladies come out to race and will work towards full gates. As you noticed last year, the gates were definitely lacking riders.
Brett: "It may also make the racing closer, more exciting and a stronger draw. Motos will still be 15 min long..."
The motos will be 12 minutes + 2 laps.
Getting to Know: Courtney Stelter
At the International Moto Show I met Edmontons Courtney Stelter. She was in Toronto with her brother Dylan and their father Dave. Dylan was one of the riders showcased in the MX Stars of Tomorrow display at the show. Since Courtney is new to the nationals this year, I thought we should get to know her.
Courtney Stelter
Age: 14
Bike: KTM SX 105
Number: 30
Home track: Castrol Raceway Alberta
DMX: Since this will be your first year racing the national series, what club were you racing with prior?
Courtney: I was racing in the Alberta CMRC Provincial Series and the Southern Series.
What made up your mind about racing the nationals?
The chance for better exposure, tougher competition, and to ride the different tracks.
Will you race all rounds?
Kamloops, Calgary, Edmonton…possibly Manitoba and the Quebec and Ontario races. We will definitely be at the Walton Trans Can for 2010.
What rider would be your biggest competition?
I don't really know where I stand in the ranks right now, as I broke my femur in May of 2009, I was in the top 20 at the 2008 Castrol Pro National, but I am shooting for top 10 results this year.
Courtney broke her femur last spring, but the injury hasn't damaged her ambitions. Martin Hansen photo
What are your long term goals?
For racing, I am hoping to become a smarter, stronger and overall a faster racer. I am training hard this winter to ensure that I am in top physical and mental shape for this season. As for school, I am finishing grade nine online and hope to maintain my honours level.
Other racing plans for this year:
For the 2010 season, I am racing Supermini and Junior B in the Alberta Series as well as Ladies A. I hope to place top five in the ladies class, at least top 10 in Supermini and to just ride Junior B for experience.
My top supporters are my mom and dad for sure. My brother Dylan for teaching me everything I know, and all the rest of my family and friends for supporting me the last couple of years. I would also like to thank Cycleworks, Iron Brothers, Horseshoe Diesel Repair, and DDS Welding and Fabrication.
Look for Courtney Stelter at the national rounds this year. Photo by Martin Hansen
If you haven't heard of the photo book Endurance, then I doubt that you have been reading DMX lately. So if that's you, here's the low down: New York's Theresa Ortolani followed American pro GNCC rider Nathan Kanney at races for about three years and shot almost every moment encountered.
What I think is fabulous about Miss T's moto photo book is that she wasn't even a fan of dirt bikes when she first arrived at a race, camera in hand. So her photos are presented from an "outsider's" point of view. Her shots are not just race clips, but lifestyles and emotions. She showcased her books at the International Motorcycle Show and will also be at the DMX Toronto Supercross Pre-Race party at the Loose Moose. Her book is a fabulous piece of art and if you missed her at the moto show, she'll have books at the pre-race party. You can also purchase her book at the DMX online store.
You should check out the pics from her artsy-fartsy (and I mean that in the best way!) book party on her Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3844362&id=126295425795#/pages/ENDURANCE-by-Theresa-Ortolani/126295425795
Posing with T at the International Moto Show. Dan Paris photo
Alexy Dube turned three months old the other day and mommy – Quebec racer – Isabel Rouillard loves every moment of mommy-hood. I checked in with Isabel and she mentioned that Marco, Alexy's father has been quite busy maintaining and developing his already successful Forma Boots operation and will be at the Montreal Motorcycle Show this weekend.
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Sooooo, wattabout the A99?
Posted 11 November 2012 - 11:54 PM
with some great shots in it, but nobody seems to care much about the A99 - or am I just not checking the right forums?
Posted 12 November 2012 - 02:12 AM
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 10:34 AM
And considering image quality - I just haven't seen enough from the A99 to make final judgements - have you guys?
Moire still seems to plague most cameras...
The A99 won´t sell like hot cake at the current entry price, but this should change soon, when units start collecting on the shelves;)
If low light and dynamic range proof to be on par with the D800 and 5DIII, the IS alone could be a selling point for me...
The sensor crop function is also nice, the articulating screen too and the pricey XLR option is, well, pricey but unique and at least by looks, more elegantly solved than using a Beachtek/Juicelink adapter.
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 05:53 PM
Once the BMC gets off the ground, cameras that don't offer RAW will be dead in the water with the indie guys. One could argue that RAW is more important to small budget productions than it is to big budget productions because it can compensate for bad lighting.
Gotta agree with this..
Adorama has the deal with the Switronix kit for $3095. A crucial SSD for $200. Rock & Roll. There's probably a dozen arguments here somebody could make for the A99, but for me if your concern is video, just stretch a little further and be done with it. No moire, no aliasing, no 8 bit limit, no same old codec, etc.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:41 AM
The video you posted does look quite incredible.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:06 PM
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Posted 14 November 2012 - 01:16 AM
The CPU isn't responsible in most cases for down-sampling from the full megapixel count, as it is done on the sensor side.
Posted 14 November 2012 - 07:07 AM
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 02:23 AM
Okay, I see what you are talking about.
GH2 sensor is 18MP total to support multiple aspect ratios.
Not that it matters (I didn't even know this myself until I looked it up) but, according to this image:
It looks like the full sensor might be 18MP but the different aspects only use a reduced area of it so in 16:9 it's only 13.9MP.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 02:53 AM
Posted 16 November 2012 - 02:55 AM
You will see the VG-900 (same sensor as A99) in my shootout vs the Blackmagic and GH3 it is a total embarrassment and I feel bad for all the Sony people on this one because it showed such promise and it was pretty brave to put a full frame sensor in a video camera. This coming from a big fan of the RX100, NEX 5N and NEX 7 which all shoot better video and have better ergonomics than the VG series. The menus and buttons are just horrible on the VG series and can only assume image quality is either compromise because the sensor is designed predominantly for stills or crippled to protect the FS100.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 05:47 AM
Posted 16 November 2012 - 08:41 AM
It's exactly the same sensor as in the A99 and RX1, 24MP.
Did they ever mention how many MP the VG-900 sensor is?
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I started to write a quick post about the IRS giving extra filing time because of the recent weather and discovered that Taxgirl has a great post about just that. I can't think of anything to add to her post, so read all about it here.
McIntire Tax Center - on Facebook - on Google+ - or Twitter @ mactax.


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Jim Carrico (Red Gate) and Irwin Oostindie exchange comments and questions.
Culture spaces in Vancouver are under attack. This forum and fundraiser for the W2 community was hosted by the Waldorf Hotel - itself announcing on the day of the event that Waldorf Productions was being forced to abandon the hotel.
From the event flyer: Let's get together to shake down some ideas, build bridges to unite the arts community in the face of a passive City and aggressive developers / gentrification, and shake it on the Tiki Bar dance floor.
We get things started at 8pm with a Discussion on Vancouver's Cultural Spaces, and we've invited experts on the subject to talk about The Red Gate, W2's struggle for respect in the Woodward's complex, and The Waldorf Hotel's sell-off by their landlord to Solterra Development. What can be done to support these vital Vancity cultural institutions, and where to from here more united!
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HTC Is Open to Using RIM's BlackBerry OS
HTC Director of Product Management Graham Wheeler didn't rule out a possible partnership with Research in Motion when recently asked about RIM's plans to license out its BlackBerry OS. "I don't have any knowledge, but that is not to say we are not looking at it," he said. "But from my point of view, we are not saying we are closed to a new operating system.


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Please provide your opinion on current U.S. climate and weather modeling capabilities relative to overseas efforts. Please describe where differences in capabilities exist and what you feel are the causes for these differences.
If you stated that U.S. climate and weather modeling capabilities are behind those of other countries, do you have any suggestions to remedy this deficiency?
Resources currently in use
What are the manufacturers and models of the computer systems you rely on for your modeling efforts?
What was the year of installation or of the last major upgrade to each of these systems?
How many processors are currently operating on each of these systems?
What is the estimate of sustained system performance (Gflops) of each of these systems?
What is the central memory (GB) and secondary disc storage for each system (GB/TB)?
How many CPU hours are used per month? What is the cost of this time?
Is computational time shared with the wider community? If so, how is this interaction organized?
Future requirements needed to improve climate and weather modeling efforts
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If you hadn't noticed, everything surrounding the Versace for H&M launch tends to go the extra mile. Ahem, Prince performed at the after party for the runway presentation. Of course, the new commercial promoting the line is no different. Featuring Lindsey Wixson and Daphne Groeneveld, the girls play automated fembots and puppets, they're chased, they run on hampster wheels and there's a creepy big brother element with cameras and video screens all in a gorgeous gilded environment, of course. As Donatella says, "my house, my rules, my pleasure." Watch the video and fall in line, ladies.
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December 20, 2014
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Martin Truex Jr. is on the pole in Texas, followed directly by two drivers from the Roush Fenway team that has had so much success here.
Truex had a qualifying lap Friday of 190.369 mph in his Michael Waltrip-owned Toyota. His seventh career pole is his second at Texas, where he finished third five years ago.
Matt Kenseth starts second Saturday night in his Roush Ford, just ahead of teammate and series points leader Greg Biffle.
Jack Roush has won eight of 22 Cup races at Texas.
Mark Martin qualified fourth, followed by Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Marcus Ambrose, Brad Keselowski, Jamie McMurray and Jimmie Johnson.
Kahne and Johnson are the top qualifiers for Rick Hendrick, who is looking for his 200th career win as an owner.
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What are beta blockers used for? What are common side effects of these medications?
- Q: What are beta blockers used for? What are common side effects of these medications?
- A: Beta-blockers (atenolol, metoprolol, nadolol, propranolol) affect the heart and circulation. They are used for many indications such as high blood pressure, chest pain, cardiovascular prevention after a heart attack, heart arrhythmias and flutters, prevention of migraine headaches, and certain tremors. Common side effects include fatigue, dizziness, constipation, decreased blood pressure, depression, lack of sleep, nausea, diarrhea, hair loss, impotence, fever, and swelling of ankles or feet. If you are taking a beta blocker, do not stop taking it suddenly without talking to a physician first. Avoid taking alcohol. It is important to use a proper diet and exercise along with beta blockers.
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Top Destinations in French Polynesia
French Polynesia Information
Population: 245 405
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Driving side: Drivers drive on the left hand side of the road.
Languages: Tahitian, French, English
Religion: 55% Protestant
30% Catholic
6% Mormon
2% Seventh-Day Adventist
2% Buddhist and Confucianist
Emergency #: Police: 999
Fire: 996
Ambulance: 998
French Polynesia Culture
The Polynesian concept of family is much broader than that in the West. Cousins, aunts, uncles are all considered as one family, including adoptive children and children are often entrusted to relatives and childless women. They are all brought up collectively.
As in most of Polynesia food is still cooked in the traditional way by wrapping it in banana leaves, then burying it on top of coals made in the ground, covering it and leaving the food to slow cook for hours.
French Polynesia Popular Destinations
Bora Bora - Said by many to be the most beautiful island in the Pacific with its lush green volcanic peaks, lagoon and sandy beaches, it is the ideal place for diving, fishing, exploring the coral filled lagoon and travelling inland to climb the impressive peaks.
Hiva Oa - Atuona, the capital of the island is set against the backdrop of Mount Temetiu and Mount Feani. Having many archaeological sites and giant stone temples, it has relics and monuments to Gauguin, the painter, and Brel, the songwriter. It is here too that both men were laid to rest.
Rangiroa - This is the second largest atoll in the world and the most populated island in the Tuamotu Archipelago. The lagoon which is more like a huge inland sea, brings divers from around the world for its abundance and diversity of marine life. Important to the local economy is the pearl farming and mother-of-pearl production on the island.
Tahiti - The largest and most populated island in a group of 118 islands, it is home to the capital, Papeete, with its thriving waterfront, high-rise buildings, modern shopping malls which sit side by side with its fascinating history.
French Polynesia Beaches
French Polynesia is all about beaches, sea and sun. Huahine and Moorea - These two islands offer surfers clean consistent swell in warm and uncrowded waters. Rangiroa - Famous as a diving location, experience the vibrant and wonderful underworld by just strapping on a snorkel.
Moving Around French Polynesia
The best way to get between the islands is to use the inter-island boats which are a fun way to get around and meet the locals. Huge catamarans sail between Tahiti and Moorea and the very modern Ono-ono services the rest of the islands.
The local bus services are cheap and reliable. There are also scooters and bicycles for hire around the towns and 4WDs to carry one inland. Forget the taxis, they are extremely expensive.
National festival and holidays
Heiva i - This festival held in July is very much what Carnaval is to Brazil. Lasting for a month, great party time is had by all with floats, dancing and singing in the streets, much drunkenness and revelrey.
Recent French Polynesia Travelogue
Mutiny to Tahiti and French Polynesia, by David Stanley
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Kurt Warner Working Exclusively For NFL Network
NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner signed a new multi-year extension that will have the former MVP working exclusively for the network.
Warner will work on NFL GameDay Morning, NFL Total Access, and Thursday Night Football.
"I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network," said Warner. "I look forward to contributing my thoughts from a quarterback's perspective on the Sunday morning and Thursday Night Football pregame shows as well as on NFL Total Access. NFL Network has given me the opportunity to be on their marquee shows and I can't wait for the 2011 season to begin." Read more


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This is Cannoli! We adopted her after we lost our kitty "Cupcake" on Christmas Eve. :( We thought we should stick to the dessert theme & so we named her Cannoli. To celebrate her homecoming, we had family over for cannoli's & coffee. :)
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- Release Date 10/27/2009
- Publisher Activision
- Platform Wii
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- Number of Players 4
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Here's your chance to join the iCarly show! The Nickelodeon show about Carly and her web-casting friends invites you to join the crew and create new webisodes of your own. A series of exciting mini-games shapes the storyline, giving you a chance to help Carly, Sam, Freddie, and other characters through their hilarious adventures. Experience almost endless possibilities in iCreate Mode, where you can swap out props, characters, audio, and other elements to shape each webisode exactly how you want. Complete skits and score some Web-Cred you can use to buy new items from in-game sites.
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|City approves funding for PARD Grant
The City of Bamberg Recreation Commission can now proceed with the upgrades to the basketball courts at the Ness Sports Complex. Bamberg City Council members approved at the February 13th meeting a request from the commission that they spend $3,625 or half of a 25 percent match, required to secure a $29,000 PARD Grant the commission received. The other half of the required match ($ 3,625) will come out of the Recreation Commissions own account bringing the total award to $36,250.
Our committee is pretty excited, Nancy Foster, City of Bamberg Parks and Recreation Committee Chair said before the final voted was taken by the full Council. Weve gotten what we asked for. We got the funds to do it all, she stated, adding the full court could now be extended to 90 x 100 feet.
Foster first made the announcement of the PARD Grant to Recreation Commission members at the February 6, commission meeting. Weve been working long and hard on that, Foster said. It was noted during the meeting that the $29,000 PARD Grant plus the $7,250 match would bring the total grant to $36,250, which would allow the basketball courts which would be made of a versa covering to extended to 90 feet by 100 feet (with the basketball goals moved by 10 feet) and would allow for some landscaping and water fountain to be put in. Foster noted that the next step to receiving the grant would be to ask Bamberg City Council to fund half of the matching funds with the other half coming out of the citys Parks and Recreation Commission budget, which was done Monday night.
Commission members Buck Fralick and Cynthia Summers thanked Chair Nancy Foster for all the hard work she put in soliciting bids and working to get the grant for the basketball courts. Councilman Bo Griffin and council members also expressed their gratitude to Foster for her efforts in securing the funds for the basketball courts.
Also during the meeting:
Police Commissioner Bo Griffin reported that the commission has made recommendations for a new School Resource Officer (SRO) and asked Police Chief George Morris if he was ready make the announcement of the new officer at this time. Chief Morris acknowledged that the selection of a new SRO has been made, but he would rather not give the persons name at this time: Were in the process of taking care of that situation, the Chief said, adding Id rather not say too much as that person hasnt come on board yet. Were in the process of filling that slot.
On a recommendation by Fire Chief Timmie Taylor at an earlier meeting, that the City of Bamberg adopt an ordinance against burning in its city limits; Fire Commissioner Buck Fralick reported that the committee to study an ordinance on burning in the city of Bamberg met last Thursday and came to the conclusion some backing was needed for a burning permit and having some laws on the books saying that if someone does burn and it gets out of control or becomes a nuisance, there is really nothing the police department can really do. So were looking at that, Fralick said, the fire commission will have another meeting this week and should bring a recommendation to council at the next meeting.


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Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.Friedrich Nietzsche
The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad nightFriedrich Nietzsche
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.Francis Quarles
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.Rebecca H. Davis
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.Buddha
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.Benjamin Britten
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.John Milton
Does the bowl in the garden mock nature when night after night green frogs gather to prove it a pool? Who says you canít make a pond out of a bowl?Han Yu
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day. (2 Timothy 1:3)Bible
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."Crowfoot (Blackfoot)
How deep our sleep last night in the mountains here, beneath the trees and stars, hushed by solemn-sounding waterfalls and many small soothing voices in sweet accord whispering peace! And our first pure mountain day, warm, calm, cloudless, -- how immeasurable it seems, how serenely wild! I can scarcely remember its beginning. Along the river, over the hills, in the ground, in the sky, spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm, new life, new beauty, unfolding, unrolling in glorious exuberant extravagance, -- new birds in their nests, new winged creatures in the air, and new leaves, new flowers, spreading, shining, rejoicing everywhere.John Muir
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.Crowfoot
Their situation is similar to what we faced. It was all Kentucky fans. Last night, it was almost all Duke fans. Hopefully, it won't be as off-balance Saturday with Texas.Dale Brown
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.Leo Rosten
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse.Gwendolyn Brooks
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.Heinrich Heine
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.Will Rogers
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.Virgil
There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She started one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine.William Cullen Bryant
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.Joseph Joubert
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The evening darkens over After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover That wild will be the night.Robert Seymour Bridges


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2012 NBA Finals: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Miami Heat
Posted 12 June 2012 - 10:50 PM
Posted 12 June 2012 - 10:56 PM
Heat were competitive. Game 2 will be interesting.
Not as close as it seemed. If Miami doesn't knock down sll those 3s this game is a bliwout.
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:04 PM
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:05 PM
Durant is that dude next Kobe boy!! King can keep his LBJ stats, Durant is that dude.
Out scores him 17-7 in 4th.... Props Durant! LBJ fails again
LeBron is such a lame wouldn't even guard Durant??? No wonder no one respects you.
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:08 PM
lmao.... KD had at least 15 in the 4th. He took over like Jordan, Kobe, etc. LeBron was timid with his shots. Third straight Finals LeBron will fail to carry his team in the 4th.
Durant > LeBron
Seriously dude, do you just look at stats when watching basketball or the game? Westbrook laid the platform for Durant to explode in the 4th. Westbrook was critical. Miami's defense was also subpar throughout the game.
I agree that KD was better tonight but LeBron had a good game but his jumper was off today so he was limited to mainly driving the ball.
DWade was awful in the 3rd and improved slightly in the 4th. He has to play better. Bosh also need to realize he's not fuggin spot up shooter GG.
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:13 PM
Kevin Durant beasted tonight. 36 points, 8 boards and 4 assists. More importantly, went 6 for 10 shooting in the the 4th quarter during crunch time. The NBA appears to have a bright future.
Then on the other side you have Lebron James. As many turnovers as he had assists tonight. 4th quarter shooting in the clutch? An embarrassing 2 for 6. Vintage NBA Finals Lebron going 11-24 for the night.
Nice work #6.
The Heat have one shot in the Finals. Somehow steal game 2 and hope to sweep at home in this 2-3-2 home/away/home series.
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:13 PM
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:16 PM
Tough loss for the Heat, but not unexpected. 30 and 9 for LeBron tonight. Heat will need to defend better if they want a W.
LeBron can average 50 & 20 & it won't mean poo if he keeps choking in the 4th.
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:19 PM
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Did Lebron even play in the 4th quarter? He probably shouldve just pitched a tent on the court, because he sure as hell didn't do anything. Nothing new there though.
There was a point midway thru the 3rd when OKC tied the game. LeBron dribbled down the court & went straight to the rim for a layup on two straight possessions. He is so dominant. Yet in the 4th he is timid & scared to take over.
If he loses his 3rd NBA Finals, again failing in the 4th, anyone who defends him is a moron.
Wade isn't King James, Bosh isn't Chosen 1, the other Heat players aren't the MVP, & Spoelstra isn't the best player in the world.
LeBron James is a 3X NBA MVP in his 9th season & 3rd Finals. Time to man up or stfu.
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:39 PM
Right on cue. Thank you guys.
same geniuses that were writing the thunder out of the picture in game two vs san antonio
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:52 PM
Posted 12 June 2012 - 11:57 PM
Hey KG, you know 11-24 is a great shooting night for Kobe.
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Bubbly Water Slide
We make a 'water slide' for the July Fourth weekend … kids love it! The water comes right from the well so it's freezing cold, but even so, the kids just love it and line up. To add a little bit of fun, we add bubble-bath mix to the water so when the kids reach the base of the water slide, there is a small catchment pool with loads of foamy suds.
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Each Friday is a party day at Camp Kent, Kent Park and Recreation's summer day camp program in Northwestern Connecticut. The program's eight themed weeks culminate with a noon barbecue. Campers' families donate watermelon, veggies, chips, juice boxes, homemade cookies, brownies, and cupcakes. Campers pay $3 each to offset the cost of the hamburgers and hot dogs, buns, condiments and charcoal for the grill. The camp and lifeguard staff members are an integral part of the fun, manning the grills and helping serve the picnic lunch. The Friday BBQ has become a camp tradition.
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Hollywood Theme
On the first night of camp, to help create cabin cohesiveness and teamwork, we had a Hollywood Fashion show. Each cabin drew a volunteer counselor's name and the counselor was assigned as that cabin's contestant. Each cabin was given a bag of items/clothing, etc. that the contestant MUST wear or use in the show and they were given a piece of paper with the instructions:
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After each cabin finished with the prep work, the contestants came on stage and as each one was presented, a camper from each cabin came on stage to present them and read their bio.
This was a wonderful activity that got all the kids involved and the counselors were awesome 'sports' in allowing the kids to dress them up!
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How Wrong Was Churchill?
Churchill: Strategy and History
Bound in Duty: The Memoirs of a German Officer, 1932-45
The New Year had scarcely dawned in London when the Times1 carried a review of a book identifying a new culprit responsible for Britain's decline. It was Winston Churchill's fault. The reviewer was Alan Clark, a former junior minister of defense, who resigned when Margaret Thatcher was deposed, and who in appearance is a brutalized version of his famous father, Kenneth Clark.2
Churchill, he says, had forgotten that the Conservative Party exists to conserve, and the conservation of the British Empire should have been his first priority. Obsessed by his hatred of Hitler, he refused to hear what Hess had to say when Hess flew to Scotland in 1941. He should have made a "stand-off agreement" with Hitler in the spring of 1941, insisting on a demilitarized Norway and a demilitarized coastline from Holland to Spain. Then he could have sent the Fleet and the Spitfires to the Far East to preserve the Empire and forestall Pearl Harbor. Churchill did not do so because he wanted Japan to attack America. So he licked Roosevelt's boots, and the war ended with Britain destitute, a client state, and its colonies ripe for revolt.
This twaddle has been evoked by a book of revisionist history written by John Charmley, who by a stroke of irony is this year a visiting professor at Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill had made his speech in 1946 warning that an "iron curtain" was falling in Europe.3 Aged thirty-seven, Charmley prides himself on not carrying the cultural baggage that impedes those who lived during the war. (He considers them therefore debarred from criticizing him.) Britain, he implies, should have cultivated Goering and persuaded him to get Hitler to stand down. That Goering was every inch a Nazi but had little influence with Hitler; that to abandon Europe to the Nazis would have been to install brutality and tyranny in every country; that a negotiated peace would have lasted only for as long as Hitler considered necessary, none of this troubles Charmley a whit.
Clark and Charmley remind one of clever schoolboys who have discovered what fun it is to shock their teachers by praising Realpolitik. Neither seems to realize that for the British people the war had a moral dimension without which they would never have accepted the need to fight. Churchill's crucial political strategic decisions cannot be faulted. German hegemony over Europe had to be opposed; whatever its ideology and past behavior, the USSR had to be accepted as an ally because its army alone could wound, and perhaps destroy, the German army; and the Anglo-American alliance was Britain's best hope of preserving Western civilization.
Serious revisionist history about the Second World War, however, continues to be written and it is a relief to turn to the work of an Israeli historian, Tuvia Ben-Moshe, who is a stern critic of Churchill's military strategy.
Churchill was not a warmonger but he came after 1937 to believe war was inevitable. For him it also fulfilled a lifetime's ambition. He remained at heart the Hussar lieutenant who had charged the dervish army at Omdurman in 1898. He had planned the disastrous Dardanelles expedition of 1915. This had ruined his reputation as a strategist, but he found justification for his brainchild when he came to write the life of his illustrious ancestor Marlborough. Marlborough had refused to fight a war of attrition in Flanders: he marched to Bavaria and fought a war of maneuver. What else, he argued, was the Dardanelles but an attempt (bungled by incompetent admirals and generals) to break the nightmare war of attrition on the western front? Had he only had plenary powers it could have succeeded. Now at last in 1940, minister of defense as well as prime minister, he had those powers and the chance to put his grand strategy into operation. Was he successful?
Ben-Moshe does not think so. He says Churchill's strategy was consistent. It was also consistently wrong. Whether in the First World War, when he urged a landing on the island of Borkum in the mouth of the Ems on the Dutch-German border, or in the Second, when he planned the invasions of Norway, Greece, and Italy, he was always trying to evade the only place where the main German forces could be defeated. So he dragged America into his Mediterranean campaign and did all he could to scupper plans for the invasion of France. He failed to appreciate that the best way to destroy the German army was to bring the enormous weight of American industrial production to bear upon it. Obsessed by the string of British military failures in the Middle East and Far East, he lost faith in his generals and in the courage of their soldiers, and in so doing underestimated the fighting spirit that American troops had already displayed in the Philippines and at Guadalcanal.
Unlike Clausewitz, Ben-Moshe argues, Churchill forgot that war is related to politics. He became so engrossed in military operations that he neglected the Soviet threat to postwar Europe. When at last Churchill became alarmed by the Soviets, he wanted Allied forces deployed to take Vienna, an operation quite beyond their power. He later blamed America for allowing the extension of communism over eastern Europe, although he himself had agreed to it at Yalta. And had he not decided to back Tito in Yugoslavia? Churchill's history of the Second World War is a long study in self-exculpation. The best that can be said of him is that he knew how to avoid defeat: but not how to win.
My own experience in the war cabinet office during World War II confirms nearly all of Ben-Moshe's account. Churchill was by nature bellicose. What more astonishing proposal can ever have been made by a British cabinet minister than that of Churchill on October 5, 1914, when he told Asquith he would resign from the admiralty if he could be given senior military rank and the "full powers of a commander of a detached force in the field" in order to reinforce Antwerp where the Belgian army was still holding out? (In the end he formed a naval division and sent it there: Antwerp fell to the Germans five days later with heavy losses.) Yet although he urged his generals in World War II to take absurd risks, he was dogged by the memory of the casualties in World War I. So he would backtrack and declare that Germany could be defeated by saturation bombing.
His restless mind, which fired off instructions to his ministers for "action this day" to remedy some malaise, bred one military scheme after another. As a member of the joint intelligence staff in the War Cabinet office, I would arrive in the morning wondering which rabbit had jumped out of the hat during the night. "Oh God, not Norway again"—and down we would sit once again to work out how many German divisions and air squadrons could oppose a landing near Trondheim while the Joint Planners next door tried to find ever more reasons why such a venture was impracticable. Later it would be Churchill's plan to land at Bordeaux, or on Spitzbergen or on Sardinia or on the tip of Sumatra. What such expeditions were expected to achieve, where they were to advance, and how they would escape annihilation by superior forces was clear only to Churchill: he was like a schoolboy drawing arrows on a map, one pointing south from Norway, another north from the Balkans, oblivious of mountains or logistics.
Not all Churchill's military strategies were wrong. He admired France and it went against his nature to refuse to send Spitfire squadrons to France in June 1940, when they would have been of no use, but he did so; nor did he shrink from destroying the French fleet at Oran in order to keep it from falling under German control. But Ben-Moshe is right to say that Churchill's worst mistake of all was to send forces to Greece in 1941 instead of allowing General O'Connor to capture Tripoli and thus possibly forestall German reinforcement of the shattered Italian army in North Africa. Churchill was a romantic. The victories of the Greek army in the Epirus over that hyena Mussolini, and the Serbian coup that overthrew Prince Paul in Yugoslavia, convinced him that Britain had a duty to support the Greeks. General Wavell held out for weeks against the proposal. So Churchill sent Anthony Eden and General Dill, the chief of the General Staff, to Cairo to soften him up. British defeats in Greece and Crete followed and Rommel drove the British from Libya. The same impetuosity made Churchill send two battleships to reinforce Singapore in 1942: both, without air cover, were sunk at once. Had Churchill had his way the list of British defeats would have been even longer.
But he did not have his way. The man who saw to it that he did not, Alan Brooke, had succeeded Dill in October 1941.
This is not Ben-Moshe's view. He has no use for the British Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Pound was "too sick and apathetic," Air Marshal Portal too much under the spell of his bomber chief, Arthur Harris. But his full contempt is reserved for Brooke, the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, whose "nerves, which had never been very strong, were torn to shreds by the Prime Minister's vacillations." When Churchill tried to get landing craft to capture the Dodecanese Islands, he writes contemptuously, "even Brooke objected" (my italics). The "distress and mental tension [which] are apparent from both his behavior and his diaries" unfitted him for high command.
To insinuate that Brooke was a wimp is astonishing to someone who observed him in action. Brooke was the only man to stand up to Churchill, tell him to his face that what he was proposing was disastrous and to endure night after night being kept up until one in the morning listening to Churchill's reminiscences and countering his schemes that would have dissipated the Allied Forces. "I do not want any of your long-term projects, they cripple our initiative," Churchill growled. "I told him," said Brooke, "that he must know where he was going to which he replied he did not want to know."
Alan Brooke had a brusque manner, a sharp tongue, and a razor mind that held all the facts and figures that govern strategy—about shipping, landing craft, transport, and reinforcements. William Cavendish Bentinck, the elegant Foreign Office chairman of the joint intelligence committee, who looked like Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey (and in fact ended his days as the Duke of Portland), thought Brooke a bully. "I flatly disagree," Brooke would bark not just at his subordinates but at the American Chiefs of Staff. They did not warm to Brooke. The staccato voice; the rapid speech; the lack of bonhomie or consideration for the views of others, they found unattractive. In his diaries written late at night, Brooke would explode with rage at Churchill's inconsiderateness and, as he saw it, imbecilities.
January 2, 1993.↩
Clark recently behaved with honor when he saved some businessmen from a jail sentence for selling arms illegally to Iraq during its war with Iran. Clark admitted that the Ministry of Defense had connived at the sale. Why lose a profitable market? The case for the Crown collapsed.↩
Churchill: The End of Glory (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993).↩
January 2, 1993.↩
Clark recently behaved with honor when he saved some businessmen from a jail sentence for selling arms illegally to Iraq during its war with Iran. Clark admitted that the Ministry of Defense had connived at the sale. Why lose a profitable market? The case for the Crown collapsed.↩
Churchill: The End of Glory (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993).↩


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Course at a Glance: * 18-hole, par 71 course * Total length of 6,075 yards from the back tees * Three sets of tees per hole
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Welcome to the Symposium on the Western Arts of Swordsmanship
SWASH is the flagship event of the British Federation for Historical Swordplay, and is considered one of the most prestigious Historical Western Martial Art events in Europe.
About this Event
The Royal Armouries in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom will once again serve as the magnificent backdrop for the next Symposium on the Western Arts of Swordsmanship through History (SWASH).
This BFHS event is open to all practitioners and interested parties:
Attendees will by no means be limited to residents of the UK. On the contrary, we expect visitors from many other European countries as well as attendees from throughout the United Kingdom.
There will however be a discount for those who are members of the BFHS through their group.
What the BFHS is trying to achieve with SWASH is an interdisciplinary approach to Historical European Martial Arts by bridging boundaries which exist between the various groups and disciplines throughout the UK and Western Europe.
Over the course of the Symposium, delegates will get the chance to take part in workshops conducted by some of Europe's leading instructors of Historical European Martial Arts. Additionally, there will be classes and demonstrations as well as private one-to-one training. if that were not enough to tempt you, how about hands-on access to some of the Royal Armouries impressive collection of historical artefacts? Furthermore, there will be opportunities to interact, free-play and exchange ideas, knowledge and methodology with swordsmen from throughout the UK and Europe.
SWASH. is not exclusively about work, research and training, it is a very social event as well. There will be an informal drinks reception on Friday evening which all are welcome to attend. On Saturday evening SWASH will host a Gala Dinner, which will be a grand evening with an elaborate meal shared by a veritable who's who of the western martial art world in the UK and Europe. So polish your shoes and get out your glad rags, because it will be an evening not to be missed.
Please use this site to find out more about the event and associated logistics as well as to book your place as a delegate. Every attendee will need to book his or her place individually.
A feel for SWASH
This video was produced by Herbert Schmidt of Ars Gladii from his attendance at SWASH 2011. It nicely captures the atmosphere of SWASH.


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Papers presented at the POMS' annual conference in a given year and those under review by Production and Operations Management were eligible for this award from 2001 to 2009. However, beginning in year 2010, the award are given for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management during the previous year. Papers are judged on overall quality with careful attention given to both relevance and rigor.
The affiliations of the winners listed below were at the time of winning the award. The hyper-link provided in the name of the winner points to her/his current affiliation.
2013: Assortment Planning for Vertically Differentiated Products, Production and Operations Management Vol. 21(2), 253-275.
Xiajun Amy Pan, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Dorothee Honhon, School of Industrial Engineering, Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2012: Regulatory Trade Risk and Supply Chain Strategy, Production and Operations Management Vol. 20(4), 522-540.
Yimin Wang, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Wendell Gilland, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Brian Tomlin, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
2011: Dynamic Assignment of Flexible Service Resources, Production and Operations Management Vol. 19(3), 279-304.
Yalcin Akcay, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koc¸ University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Anant Balakrishnan, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Susan H. Xu, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
2010: Co-opetition and Investment for Supply-Chain Resilience, Production and Operations Management 18(6), p 583-603.
Nitin Bakshi, London Business School, London, U.K.
Paul Kleindorfer, INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France.
2009: No Awards
2008: Multi-Period Remanufacturing Planning (First Place)
Meltem Denizel, Faculty of Management, Sabanci University, Orhanli-Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.
Mark Ferguson, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Gilvan C. Souza, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.
2008: Offshoring and the Location of Innovation (Second Place)
Brian Fifarek, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Francisco Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Cliff Davidson, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
2007: Efficient Take Back Legislation (First Place)
Atalay Atasu, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Miklos Sarvary, INSEAD , Fontainebleau, France
Luk N. Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France
2006: Category Captainship: Outsourcing Retail Category Management (First Place)
Mumin Kurtulus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S. A.
Beril Toktay, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
2006: How Should a Firm Manage Deteriorating Inventory? (Second Place - Tie)
Mark Ferguson, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Oded Koenigsberg, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A
2006: Inventory Signals (Second Place - Tie)
Richard Kum-yew Lai, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
2005: The Effect of Competition on Recovery Strategies (First Place)
Mark Ferguson, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
L. Beril Toktay, INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France
2005: You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours: The Mechanism of Round-way Outsourcing (Second Place -Tie)
Bin Jiang, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2005: Managing Customer Outrage: Focus Organizational Learning Efforts on Service Failure or Recovery? (Second Place - Tie)
Michael A. Lapre, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
2004: An Analysis of Selection Criteria for Grocery Home Delivery and Effects of Operational Execution of Repeat Purchasing (First Place - Tie)
Kenneth K. Boyer, Eli Broad Grad. School of Management, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Markham T. Frohlich, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
2004: Coordination of a Supply Chain with Risk-Averse Agents (First Place - Tie)
Xianghua Gan, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, U.S.A.
Suresh P. Sethi, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, U.S.A.
Houmin Yan, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, U.S.A.
2004: The Effects of Just-in-Time/Lean Production Practices on Worker Job Stress (Second Place)
Jannis Angelis, Cambridge University
Robert Conti
Cary Cooper, Lancaster University
Brian Faragher
Collin Gill
2003: Airline Performance Improvement Paths: Linking Trade-offs to Asset Frontiers (First Place)
Michael A. Lapré, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Gary D. Scudder, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
2003: Information Sharing to Improve Retail Product Freshness of Perishables (Second Place)
Michael Ketzenberg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.
2002: The effects of severity of failure and customer loyalty on service recovery strategies (First Place)
Christopher Craighead, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
Kirk Karwan,University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Janis Miller, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, U.S.A.
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Ok, I can't really talk to anyone around me, so you guys get my vent. Kick me to the curb if you want, I need to get some things out.
As the vets here know, I married my Dh and we are 2nd time arrounders. I sold my big McMansion in 2006 before the big crash, but it was still a short sale for just the realtor fees. Before that I always could make ends meet, saved for DD's college, retirement, had life insurance, etc.
Since I married DH, moved into his home (bachelor pad for 9 years) because it was in a better school district for the kids (my DD and his DS are just a year apart,) I just feel like my desires have been on permanent hold. I saved for DD for her college and use that to pay her bills. DH did not save for his son, or when he did, he made bad investments that he never looked at and he had $0, so we need over $500 a month to pay our DS's school.
DH's house is now underwater, due to the fall of real estate in our area. IT is a 1600 sq foot 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, with a small galley kitchen, the master bath is the main floor bath and you have to walk through it to our bedroom and the main room is small.
Beyond that, the house needs major upgrading. I did paint most of the house before I moved in (sages and tuscan gold colors), we put on a deck in 2008, and new carpet on stairs and living room in 2010. Back room carpet is still bad (pet stains, so we are talking horrid bad), the kitchen needs the floors sanded and refinished, countertops and cupboards are ok (oak and formica) but a backsplash would add some life there, our master bath needs to be gutted, I redid the counter in the kids bath and our laundry room with simple low, cost changes. Our driveway is caving in on one side, flower beds are now weed beds, and don't get me started on the basement junk heap and backyard disaster, let alone the messy garage.
I have worked two jobs most of the time we have been married and DH does have a stable 6 figure income. I get about 35% of his gross pay for our household budget, the rest is health insurance, taxes, 401k savings, and his spending on gas, etc. He does not spend much to his credit.
My recent job change to an independent has made my income less secure, but possibility for much higher income. We do have emergency savings in place, as well as a term ahead saved for DS's college and the last of DD's 2 years put away.
We are in the process of refinancing to a 15 year loan on our house at 3.375%, but it will escrow taxes and insurance, so we have to come up with savings for that at closing. DH's credit is good because we have worked hard to pay off most of his debts except the house, and one small credit card. Our house payment will be about $90 more a month, but should save us $65k in total interest in the 3 years and we will take 6 years off the loan (now 21 years left on his 30 year loan.)
We paid off a lot of debt so far, and my health payments for my gall bladder will be paid off this month, so we can pay for the extra on the house pretty easily.
We also have a couple cabins for vacation/recreation. One is the one DH had he bought in his 20s, he plans to sell to DS when he is old enough, the other we are purchasing from DH's parents and we will have that for the rest of our lives. So we did not plan on buying the 2nd cabin a few years ago, now we are, which impacted my planning since late 2010, with a mortgage, taxes and insurance on that.
Car insurance is insane at $2200 every six months, even though the kids have beaters. Cell phones are $255, and I can deduct some for my business, but DD users hers to connect for school, and Dh needs data when he works remote. We have shopped it and saved, but it is just insane.
We are getting carpet in the "sun room" this week for $325. I would rather tile or something, but cheap berber it is. DH won't consider my glass tile backspash in the kitchen (another $225 plus install ?) I know, I know, one thing at a time. But I found the tile I want and wish we could get it before the holidays.
We have paid down a lot of debt, DH is driving his truck another year, our kids are getting educated, we do go out and have a nice log cabin on a lake...
BUT I just wish I had $25k to redo this house and make it a place I WANT to live in, instead of a place I dread coming home to.
Arggh, like I said, a vent!! Sometimes this road is so hard and we have been on it since 2008 - 4.5 years now. I just wish for a time when I don't have to worry so much - will that EVERY happen?
|Sun, 10-07-2012 - 12:51pm