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There are few things that are more annoying than waiting in line at the Post Office, so I'm all for anything that saves me from this. I have been a fan of the USPS Click-N-Ship (and the equivalent UPS and FedEx services) for a while now. It has not gone without incident, however, and I recently had a significant problem that is worth mentioning. I also have supplied the fix for the problem.
Last night when using Mac OSX and the Safari browser on the USPS Click-N-Ship site, I had trouble with the "printing the label" stage. At some point the websites asks you to agree to their legal mumbo-jumbo, you check the box and then the USPS site is supposed to launch your label in Acrobat Reader. Then a normal OSX print menu comes up and you send it to your printer (or use "propellor key" + p to bring the print menu up).
On multiple occasions something has been wrong with the label info, or acrobat reader did not launch the label correctly (i.e. there is no label to print). USPS offers a place where you can say "No, my label didn't print correctly" or "Yes, my label printed correctly" when this happens.
Last night the USPS site would not lauch the label in Acrobat Reader, so I could never print it. On each occasion I remember hitting the "no it didn't print" button (although I did it so many times I may have closed the menu instead on some tries). I figured I would not be billed for these, but was Iwrong. My credit card had a nice surprise on it. Check this out………
Yep, that's all to send one package.
How to get your money back
You can request a refund from the Post Office by doing the following:
- Log-in to Click-N-Ship
- Follow this trail : Shipping History >> Display All Transactions Button >> Click the Transaction Number >> Click the Label Number >> Request Refund >>> Submit
- Now do it for every one of the duplicates. Yes, you can only do one at a time.
- USPS promises to refund your money. We shall see.
To avoid this problem, you could try:
The current workaround for the problem is using Firefox with USPS Click-N-Ship. If you have started with Safari, though, and it doesn't print, you may still get billed for it.
The proper fix to avoid this problem would be for:
- The Post Office to make their software compatible with OSX and Safari.
- For you to use FedEx or UPS to ship your packages. My experience with their online system has been relatively trouble free, although I occasionally can't print a lablel on the first try. Nevertheless I was not billed for those mishaps.
- The real fix for this would be for the USPS to not charge people's accounts when the bill is printed, but for when the package is scanned into their system. That way you could print numerous labels incorrectly and not worry, because billing is not triggered until the package (with the correct label) actually goes to the post office.
Your results may vary. You may get billed twice or three times by the Post Office using Click-N-Ship from other browsers on other operating systems. Then again, it is likely that others have not had the problems I had and are using the exact same setup I was. If the Post Office has billed you multiple times for the same package, I hope this post helps you out.
Overall, I am generally happy with our Postal System, but this needs to be addressed. I'm much more likely now to use FedEx and UPS for online shipping until this is resolved.


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Examining the Efficacy of Sheep in Vineyard Management
If there was ever any question about the efficacy and efficiency of sheep in vineyard management, we think this photo sums it up quite clearly. Pictured above, is a vineyard row divided by a fence at the edge of a 2 acre vineyard block in which a group of Sheep were contained. The sheep eat grasses, weeds and other vegetation, offsetting the use of tractors and other farming equipment in the vineyard. The sheep are sequestered in one several-acre area like this for a few days and then rotated to a new vineyard block, ensuring we end up with a nice neat block chewed down to an even height. On the left, we have the evidence of a job well done by our mini-lawnmower friends, and on the right, a block yet to be visited by these extremely efficient farm animals.
If you missed the post about the sheep arriving at the estate, be sure to check out the video and photos below:

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Target candidates:
Graduate and Postgraduate candidates for study abroad wishing to:
·Pursue training;
·Undertake advanced research;
·Upgrade skills; or
·Attend specialized or refresher courses.
Priority attention:
· Women candidates;
· Candidates from LDCs (Lest Developed Countries), SIDS (Small Island Developing States) as well as from PCPD countries (post conflict/post disaster) and/or in transition.
Qualifications required:
·University degree, i.e. at least a B.A. or B.Sc.
·Be not more than 45 years of age.
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Curt was a very special gift from God. He made me, Martha Pilgrim Owens, a better person for having known him and loved him the past 15 years. He was not only my husband, but he was my best friend. A special friend wrote the following in honor of Curt. I think it sums it up very nicely:
Three points to remember when reflecting on Curt's life:
First, was Curt's enthusiasm. To say he was "gung-ho" about how he lived his life is an understatement. He always approached things with a high level of energy and a smile on his face. In Curt's eyes the glass was always "half full".
Second, behind that macho image he liked to portray, Curt had a heart of gold. He was a very caring person. Not very teary and outwardly emotional, but inside Curt had compassion for everyone. Whether you owned the company or swept out the office at the end of the day, Curt always had time for a kind word. He loved people and let them know it.
Third, was Curt's sense of loyalty. In a time when professional athletes void contracts at the drop of a hat and people move from one company to the next on a whim, Curt remained a person loyal to those he loved and with whom he worked. As successful as Curt was, he had many opportunities to leave Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina and see if the grass really was greener on the other side.
In the end, Curt was loyal to his lovely wife, Martha, to his family and to the legion of friends he had made over his lifetime. Work wise, you can sum it up by saying Curt was "true blue".


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Process Chemistry
While much manufacturing has moved overseas, significant amounts of process chemistry are still being conducted in the United States. With the growth of small chemical companies, there may be a small increase in demand for process chemists.
- Process chemists are needed at the bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degree levels.
- The majority of the training is done on the job, so internships and other hands-on experience is crucial.
Current salary data for this sub-specialty is not currently available.
- Median annual wage ACS members: $72,000 (March 1, 2013)
- Median annual wage for new bachelor's degree graduates: $40,000
While the research chemist may discover a compound that has amazing properties, it isn't a commercial product until it can be made in sufficient quantities at a reasonable cost. Taking that synthesis from the milligram scale to the manufacturing scale is the role of the process chemist.
Process chemistry is often described as scaling up reactions, taking them from the small quantities created in the research lab to the larger quantities that are needed for further testing and then to even larger quantities required for commercial production. Because some impurities cannot be detected at small scales, a synthesis that works well on a milligram scale may prove to be inefficient, or even impossible, at a larger scale; therefore, chemists must be knowledgeable not only about reactions but also about impurities that may develop from side reactions. The goal of a process chemist is to develop synthetic routes that are safe, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and efficient (in both time and atoms).
Process chemistry requires a blend of theoretical and practical knowledge. In addition to creating the desired product, the process chemist must always keep cost and safety in mind. For example, they will try to avoid mutagens and carcinogens (or use them early in the synthesis so they can be purged before the final product) and use costly reagents only later in the process (when there's less waste). Sustainable (or green) chemistry is increasingly important and adds another level of complexity to the system.
One advantage of working in process chemistry is that you are working on products further along the development chain, so the odds of working on a product that makes it to market is quite high. Many process chemists develop a great deal of satisfaction from seeing a product they helped develop on store shelves.
Typical Job Duties
- Develop synthetic plans and design and run experiments to test their suitability for large-scale use
- Use a variety of analytical methods to monitor reaction processes
- Troubleshoot existing processes—for example, determine what is causing the slime to appear in the scrubber stack
- Using design of experiments to change multiple variables simultaneously and identify acceptable ranges for all operational parameters
- Improve existing processes to reduce cost and increase reliability, purity, and safety
- Use simulation or modeling software to analyze extensive data sets and determine how changes in process affect the final product
- Maintain familiarity with, and operate by, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Occupational Safety & Health Administration regulations, including current good manufacturing practices and chemical hygiene plans
Process chemists may have a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree, and most companies use a mix of people at all educational levels. There are few schools that offer degrees in process chemistry specifically, so currently the vast majority of process chemists learn on the job. The best preparation is a strong understanding of synthesis and thermodynamics, as well as some chemical engineering courses.
Process chemists divide their time between the laboratory and the plant. They are the intermediary between the product development scientists who identified the new product and the chemical engineers who are building the pilot plant or manufacturing plant in order to make large quantities of it. They will spend part of their time at the bench, testing out new reactions on small scales, then move into the plant to implement successful outcomes at larger scales.
Is This Career a Good Fit for You?
Most classically trained chemists can adapt to the more commercially oriented world of process research and development. Process chemistry involves optimizing a large number of variables at the same time (i.e., balance purity, reproducibility, number of operations, cost per kilogram, etc.). Process chemists never find "the" right answer, but they continually tweak the manufacturing process as variables (such as prices and availability of raw materials) change. They work closer to the final product than research scientists, so they are more likely to actually see a product they worked on make it to consumers. If you're looking for a job that blends practical and theoretical chemistry and enjoy the continual process of learning, improving, and evolving chemical and manufacturing processes simultaneously, this may be the career for you.
Technical Skills
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of the relevant chemistry, reaction mechanisms, kinetics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and mass and heat transfer
- Ability to interpret data, draw conclusions, and present results
- Ability to develop new, creative solutions to obstacles in the path of creating complex synthetic targets
- Knowledge of software systems to design, analyze, and troubleshoot flow systems
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to simultaneously optimize many competing variables—for example, the short-term need for rapid product supply and the long-term need for a cost-effective synthetic method
- Knowledge in design of experiments and statistical analysis
- Experience with flow chemistry and taking analytical measurements under flow conditions is extremely valuable
- Technical communication skills, in order to present results in both written and oral report formats
- Technical writing skills to maintain excellent, thorough, and reproducible laboratory records
Career Path
Process chemists generally start out as interns or in other entry-level positions where they learn from more senior scientists. As they gain experience and knowledge, they are given more responsibility and eventually begin training new process chemists. Process chemists tend to stay in the plant longer than chemical engineers, so they often serve as the repository of information about how the plant works. A few process chemists move into management, but the majority continue working in process chemistry.
Future Employment Trends
Although some process chemistry is conducted overseas to be near outsourced manufacturing, there is still a great deal being done in the United States. Process chemistry will always be required in order to take products from the laboratory to the production line. As long as there is chemical production in the United States, there will be a need for process chemists, especially for specialty and small volume chemicals.
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- Sustainable Process Chemistry
- Process Analytical Chemistry
- From A Teaspoon To A Ton
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3. Use energy managers, management firms and committees – when and why!
The level of energy management expertise needed in each district will vary, depending on the size and organizational complexity of the district and the disposition of the board. But, without fail, someone within the district should be designated as the advocate for energy management. This person should understand the basic concepts of energy-using systems and energy accounting. Even more importantly, this person must be a strong communicator with excellent organizational skills.
Whether the energy manager is part-time or full-time, and whether they have a little or a lot of experience and knowledge of energy programs will often govern how much external expertise will be needed as the district seeks to control energy costs. The energy manager will need to compile energy consumption data and work with maintenance, facility management staff and other operational personnel to develop energy-efficient operation and maintenance procedures. This person will need to prepare regular reports to the board and assist in developing cost and savings information about new initiatives that are being considered.
If your district is small you might want to hire a part-time energy manager or share the expense of one with a neighboring district. In the smallest districts, a teacher or administrator from within the district is given this role in addition to their other duties. Their time will be limited. Therefore, help from inside and outside the district may be needed to produce the desired results.
Energy Manager. If your district pays a demand rate for electricity, which is an amount that utility companies charge for energy use that exceeds some predetermined amount, at one or more campuses and the energy expenses are more than $200,000 annually for the entire district, you should consider designating or hiring an energy manager. Demand rates need to be carefully monitored to ensure that energy use does not spike above the stipulated rate that triggers additional charges on the utility bill. And at $200,000 per year in energy costs, someone should be checking the bills for errors and making sure that everyone in the district is doing their part to conserve energy and dollars.
The energy manager should monitor the energy performance of the district's facilities. By tracking performance, this person will be able to identify potential problem areas and recommend solutions before they become urgent.
The energy manager can set up a system to monitor usage and track progress of any energy project. There are a number of commercially available software packages that will enable the district to maintain historic utility cost and usage data. This will enable the district to spot unfavorable trends and invoicing errors, improve the utility budget planning process, evaluate costs for proposed facility additions or deletions and assess the cost impact of various rates.
If the district does not wish to purchase and train on new software, it can use a spreadsheet to track energy use and cost.
In some cases, by simply reviewing monthly energy bills, an energy manager can more than pay for his or her salary.
Energy Management Firm. The Texas Education Code allows school districts to contract with energy management firms, which are companies that specialize in controlling energy costs, for energy conservation measures such as insulation, storm windows or doors, automatic energy control systems, efficient lighting fixtures and energy recovery systems. School districts are allowed to finance these conservation measures with a lease/purchase contract, more commonly referred to as a performance contract, when dealing with energy retrofits.
By contracting with an energy management firm to design and establish an energy management and accountability program, the Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) along the coast of Texas was able to conserve energy and save millions of dollars in energy use.
The 1995 CCISD contract was divided into four phases, each lasting approximately one year. CCISD self-funded all four phases and each phase provided additional savings for the district. As part of the contract, the firm installed an energy management system throughout the district, upgraded all lighting and replaced outdated and non-functioning equipment. The energy management firm guaranteed a savings of $76,989 annually for eight years. The first phase was completed in 1996, and the district reports that guaranteed savings were exceeded. The fourth and final phase began in January 1999 and is now complete.
CCISD also has a contract with another firm for audits of electric, gas and water/wastewater billings. The audits identify overcharges and secure refunds. An annual savings of $60,000 is projected.
Energy Management Committee. Support of the director of maintenance, custodial director, business manager, director of food services, school principals, key assistant superintendents, teachers and students is critical to program success. Strategies must be in place to convince these participants that they have a vested interest in the success of the energy program. An energy committee composed of representatives from these groups is frequently set up to guide the decision-making process and to enlist broad-based support for the program.
The Marshall ISD in East Texas has been very successful in saving energy dollars. Their energy costs decreased 50 percent, while their floor space increased by 134,559 square feet. In 1984 the cost of heating and cooling amounted to 95 cents per square foot. By 1997 the district was able to reduce the cost to 48 cents per square foot. Their actual energy savings have amounted to $2,834,859. This amount does not include additional dollars saved in cost avoidance.
Marshall ISD implemented several strategies to achieve an effective energy management program from 1984-1997. One of the strategies was to establish an energy management team. Every member of the maintenance staff who has anything significant to do with energy consumption is included on the maintenance energy management team.
Utility Companies. Utility companies can also be a good source of information. Most companies will send representatives to work with your district and provide tips on how to conserve energy. As a major user of energy in their service area, it is in the best interest of the utility company to ensure that you are efficient, so they will have the capacity to serve other customers.
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When Will This Retailer Turnaround?
Weeks before J.C. Penny ( JCP) shares dropped, analysts reduced their outlook in the company. Morgan Stanley (MS) cut its earnings estimates for the fourth quarter to negative $0.54 per share, and fiscal 2015 earnings from $1.75 to just $0.30. Credit Suisse rated the company as an "underperform." Shares raced as high as $22, as cost cuts of 300 jobs were revealed on February 22.
Things quickly turned south after the company reported quarterly results that missed estimates. In the fourth quarter, earnings dropped to -$0.24 per share, missing estimates by $0.06. Revenue missed estimates by $200 million, coming in at $3.884B. In the quarterly earnings video call, the company provided no guidance for this quarter, adding to more uncertainty.
Two negative points to highlight are: online sales declined 34%, while comparable store sales dropped 31.7%. Volatility for options was high, ranging from the 60's to 91.2%: J.C. Penny closed the quarterly with cash levels below its target $1 billion. Investors should expect cash balances to decline in the current quarter. Analysis and Conclusions The retail environment is no doubt getting tougher. Wal-Mart (WMT) experienced weak February sales, but J.C. Penny is need of fundamental change. Unlike other retailers in the midst of a turnaround, like Best Buy (BBY), J.C. Penny has yet to find a formula that will reverse declining sales. Electronics retailer Best Buy illustrates the reversal does not need to be drastic. The retailer combatted competition from online stores by making price-matching permanent. This improved sales, but Best Buy can build a base from there. Consumers must take the initiative to obtain a price-match. Best Buy could proactively introduce traffic-generating products that are competitively-priced to begin with. J.C. Penny may have a leadership problem, because the CEO's turnaround strategy is not working. Speculation that the company will find new leadership could help reverse the decline in shares.
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For those living in Southern California who plan to cross the Mojave Desert, going to (or coming back from) Las Vegas or other High Desert destinations, this could be a decent BRG to help break up the long drive! This motel is located just off I-15, at the Mojave Drive Exit in Victorville.
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Hotel Address: 15765 Mojave Drive, Victorville, CA 92394
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Occupancy: 2 Persons
Note: This BRG works for "Double Occupancy" (2 persons) for Fridays and Saturdays, but appears only to work for "Single Occupancy" (1 person) for weekdays.
Room Details: 1 King or 2 Doubles
Rate variation: For 11/7: $37.80 Orbitz $49.99 Knights Inn (1 King), $52.20 Orbitz $57.99 Knights Inn (2 Doubles)
Special Comments: Hotel features include: 75 channels of cable TV and 6 HBOs, unheated outdoor pool, continental breakfast, and microwaves and refrigerators in all rooms. Barstow is 28 miles away and Calico Ghost Town is 35 miles away.
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2 comments:
- BearlyAmusing said...
The BRG staff insist that the "Sunset Inn" and the "Knights Inn" are two separate properties, even though they have the same address. And, frankly, since Orbitz lists both the SI and the KI, maybe they are right (though I doubt it). Claims denied multiple times. Not worth arguing about.
- October 30, 2008 at 2:13 AM
- Dave @ The BRG Blog said...
Very strange - I'd call the property and ask what they currently are, and what the "Sunset Inn" is all about - if its a seperate hotel sharing the same building, or if its the old name of the property. If you get an answer for the latter, then contact Todd Tucker and it is almost guaranteed that you'll get your free room.
- October 30, 2008 at 6:59 AM
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The show I miss is the Sunday night ESPN highlights show that ran after the late game with Berman and Jackson for 20 years.
The NBC show is improved (it had nowhere to go but up) but is still not close to ESPN's show reviewing Sunday's games.
Tiki and Jerome are hopeless.
nfl primetime was a weekend staple for me. it was pure football. i can do without all the added commentary nbc provides. i want pure highlights and 2 people as experienced as tj and boomer to talk about it. hell i could handle it if they threw robin roberts back in the group (maybe that was countdown). while they still break down the games on sportscenter, nothing pisses me off more than a baseball game highlight in between nfl game breakdowns.
on a sidenote, ive heard an interview or 2 shannon sharpe did with cowher on sirius a few years back. they have good chemistry together. i see boomer and cowher trading barbs like terry and jimmy do in fox. of course james brown will be the perfect host. cowher seems much less pompus and more likeable than jimmy. this could be the year they run away with the ratings.
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Braelinn renovation targets golf cart traffic
Tucked away behind large pine trees off Crosstown Road, the Braelinn Village shopping center is more off the beaten path compared to Peachtree City's other shopping centers.
But efforts are underway for the shopping center to carve out another niche by catering specifically to those traveling on golf carts. As part of a $7 million exterior renovation, golf cart parking spaces have been added just off the sidewalk in front of stores.
The shopping center also has added charging stations so cart drivers can juice them up while shopping. That is likely to encourage those who live further away to pay a visit, since they won't have to worry about running out of battery charge on the trip home.
Even the entrance to the shopping center from the golf cart paths, which goes past the not-so-scenic rear of the stores, has been spruced up.
The changes are all the brainchild of marketing company The Shopping Center Group. Company representative Joey Crawford said the concept is to "cater toward golf carts."
Crawford said this week that the exterior refreshening is already paying dividends with four potential new tenants in the works, hopefully a couple of new restaurants and service providers.
The company held a formal "grand re-opening" ceremony Wednesday, but the work hasn't been a big secret, as the shopping center held a public event over the July 4 holiday weekend, attracting nearly 2,000 people.
The shopping center even had its own float in the July 4 holiday parade, which Crawford said wasn't a typical marketing tactic for a shopping center. Well, anywhere else except perhaps Peachtree City that is.
The center is hoping an increase in golf cart traffic will lead to more customers. The exterior renovations included a brand new facade, an all-new parking lot layout with more landscaping and decoratively-stamped sidewalks, all in an effort to catch customers' eyes.
The entire construction process took 11 months, and it was an uncomfortable period for many tenants, who had to reroute customer traffic and deal with temporary signage. But Crawford said the end result has been well received, particularly by long-time tenants.
As for the $7 million price tag, Crawford sized it up as a "massive, massive amount of money for ownership to put into a shopping center right now in a slow economy."
And as Crawford is pleased with the new buzz created by the makeover, only time will tell whether it is the much-needed shot in the arm for Braelinn. If nothing else, the new look has provided interest from the public, and a hope for better financial times ahead.
"We've had maybe one concerned resident calling to voice their concern," about the renovations, Crawford said. "Every one of the 500 others are calling to tell us how much they love it and how much Braelinn Village needed it."
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The renovation of the shopping center was much needed, but I am dismayed by their "catering to golf carts". There have always been lots more cars than golf carts there. Also, the parking lot changes were ill-advised. This shopping center is near more homes than any other in PTC; however, when I tried to enter from Crosstown and get gas, I was faced with a Do Not Enter sign. It might as well have read, "Don't buy gas here."
Hey, don't let a little sign deter you. I posted a while back that I had followed a pick up and SUV in the Crosstown entrance and they whipped right through that do not enter, no sweat.
Traffic Circles or turnarounds? Mr Crawford obviously did not have a civil engineer on staff. The design appears to provide maximum access to SOME small stores and maximum impediment to shopping at Kroger. I've shopped at Kroger since day one but now ..... I think I hear Engals singing my song.
Kroger management needs to demand a few changes before irreparable damage is done.
Massive amount of money? Yep, Crawford bilked em real good.
I find getting in to Kroger is pretty easy by just going around the first circle. Only thing a bit odd is the circle has a sign stating right lane must turn. It looks to me like the circle width right there is only one lane wide. Maybe the "left" lane into the circle is golf cart only.
I'm trying to figure out how golf carts and, in fact, some auto parking slots at the curb are suddenly safer than the old scheme of the ban on curbside (fire lane) parking. Believe more than a few were rousted or ticketed for that practice. Oh, I'm thinking of suing someone for replacment of my loose fillings from wheeling a grocery cart over the inverted egg crates at the border of the walkway.
I agree, Tin Can...what in the world were they thinking with the inverted egg crate design at the border of the walkway?? I'm afraid to buy eggs at Kroger for fear of them breaking when exiting the store.
I will give them props for use of the roundabout rather than a four way stop. Wish we had more of them around the area. Especially at the intersection of Crosstown and Peachtree Parkway.
and them not walking out into the roadway? That's my only thought. Sort of like Braille for the feet.
Why gosh, that's it.
And the noise your shopping cart makes rolling over them is sorta like hearing aids for your food.
Of course, The Shopping Center Group really doesn't care too much about the sight impaired customers walking in and out of the Garden Center at K-Mart. That first step off the sidewalk curb is a doozie.
Crawford...liar, liar, pants on fire.


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Both Dan Bloom '10 (top in photo) and
Greg Hurd '10 (bottom in photo) have made three straight appearances in
the finals of the three distinguished tournaments in which Wesleyan has
participated thus far. Starting in January, Wesleyan will get into the
meat of its dual-match schedule starting with a trip to Trinity Wed.,
Jan. 7.
In the final action for the Cardinals this semester, Bloom won his first four bouts to make the finals at 125 pounds at the R.I.T. Invitational where he placed fourth last year. While he lost in the championship match, 6-2, it was his first defeat this season and it came against a wrestler ranked fifth nationally. Bloom won the 125-pound crown at both the Doug Parker Invitational at Springfield and the Roger Williams Invitational in November.
Also holding two titles and three appearances in the finals is Hurd, who successfully defended his 174-pound championship at R.I.T. with a 4-0 mark. His closest decision was a six-point margin with a 12-3 win in the finals. He, too, won the Doug Parker title and was second at Roger Williams to a wrestler presently ranked third in the country. Hurd has debuted on the national Division III rankings as of Dec. 9, holding the #10 slot at 174 pounds.
Wesleyan had two other placewinners at R.I.T. where the team finished in a tie for seventh among 13 teams. Zach Rolfe '10 and Charlie Hoag '11 both placed at 157 pounds with Rolfe grabbing fourth and Hoag fifth. Three other Cardinals came within one victory of a top-six finish.


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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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1. Help interpret the meaning of events
2. Create alignment on objectives and strategies
3. Build task commitment and optimism
4. Build mutual trust and cooperation
5. Strengthen collective identity
6. Organize and coordinate activities
7. Encourage and facilitate collective learning
8. Obtain necessary resources and support
9. Develop and empower people
10. Promote social justice and morality
-Gary Yukl, Leadership in Organizations
A conceptual trap is to the thought world of the mind what the astronomers' black holes are to the universe. Once inside, there seems to be no way of getting out or seeing out…Margaret Mead said that when she journeyed in her anthropological studies from tribe to tribe she discovered that it did not matter what was done in a particular tribe–it only mattered who did it. If the weaving in a particular tribe was done by men, it was an occupation of high prestige. If twenty miles away weaving was done by women, it was of low prestige…It is interesting that [most economists] thought this way too. When they speak of labor creating value and about payment for that value, it is very clear the labor they are talking about is not the labor of women in the home. The labor that creates value and is "productive" is industrial labor and in most generations has been the labor of men. The labor of women in bearing and caring for children, for example, was not considered, despite it being absolutely fundamental to an entire economy and culture.
From "Patriarchy as a Conceptual Trap" by Elizabeth Dodson Grey
You know best who you really are by watching what you do rather than listening to what you say. The only way you can really know what you believe in comes from the times when one belief comes into conflict with something else you say you believe in. It does not mean much to say you believe in something if it is so far down on your list of cherished values that you never have to act on it.
Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, p 45
Fritjof Capra, in The Hidden Connections, poses a dual nature of business organization. (In the term "business" I am including any group of people that constitute a workplace both for profit and not for profit companies.)
Businesses are both 1) social institutions designed for specific purposes (such as making money, managing distributions of political power, transmitting knowledge, or spreading religious faith, and 2) communities of people who interact with each other, build relationships, help each other, and make their daily activities meaningful at a personal level.
Peter Senge (in Capra) characterizes one as a "machine for making money" and the other as a "living being."
The first type of organization is mechanistic. It comes from classical management theories of the early twentieth century. All the thinking is done by the managers and designers, leaving all the doing to the employees (Taylor, in Capra). A fast food chain is a perfect example of the first type of organization. It doesn't matter who is hired, they fulfill the same role each time. It is characterized by formal structures–clear lines of communication, coordination, and control. This approach has been successful in increasing efficiency and productivity, but workers in these types of organizations feel animosity and resentment to the organization.
At the same time, there exists the second type of organization in any business–the informal living organization comprised of human beings. This is a fluid and fluctuating network of communication. This is where the organization's flexibility, creativity, and learning capability reside. Skills are exchanged; tacit knowledge, "common sense", and meaning are generated. When new people join or leave the organization, the informal network changes or breaks down and restructures itself. Smart managers recognize that there is an interplay between the organization's formal structures and its informal living networks. Typically, they will allow the formal structures handle the routine work while relying on the informal structures to handle work that doesn't fit within the routines.
Interesting Quotes:
"People [in organizations] do not resist change; they resist having change imposed on them."
"If organizations were truly living communities, buying and selling them would be the equivalent of slavery, and subjecting the lives of their members to predetermined goals would be seen as dehumanizing."
"A machine can be controlled; a living system . . . can only be disturbed. Working wtih the processes inherent in living systems means that we do not need to spend a lot of energy to move an organization. There is no need to push, pull, or bully it to make it change. For or energy are not the issue; the issue is meaning."
"…intelligent, alert people rarely carry out instructions exactly to the letter."
On the profound conflict between biological time and computer time:
"People feel that they have hardly any time for quiet reflection, and since reflective consciousness is one of the defining characteristics of human nature, the results are profoundly dehumanizing."
"What to do with that spare time [created through technology and increased efficiency] becomes a question of values. It can be distributed among the individuals in the organization–thus creating time for them to reflect, organize themselves, network, and gather for informal conversations–or the time can be extracted from the organization and turned into profits for its top executives and shareholder by making people work more and thus increasing the company's productivity."
|In reading the book "Walk Out, Walk On: A Learning Journey Into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now", I am reconsidering the idea of efficiency and how it might be a hindrance to our ultimate success in organizations and communities.Author Wheatley talks of an unreachable "optimal state" and how this makes efficiency elusive. She advocates instead for a resiliency model. Such a system, "…has the capacity to rebound from disturbance…by increasing its diversity and redundancy, by forgoing growth and speed in favor of sustainability, and by engaging in a wide range of small local actions that connect to one another." A resilient agricultural system might be local so as not to rely on a single element like supply of oil to transport food grown far away, or it might practice a labor intensive form of agriculture like permaculture. A resilient community might use local herbs to treat disease rather than relying on access to pharmaceutical drugs that are made far away and are in short supply.
Similarly, a resilient business might embrace the "local" concept by cultivating leadership and a diverse skill set in its employees–and spread out decision making authority beyond its executive team so as not to rely on the "oil" to spread leadership from the executives to the other workers. It would consider the strengths of its workforce, and consider paths toward its purpose utilizing these skill sets. It would empower its employees to find ways to get their work done without relying too heavily on organizational policy or other departments.
In contrast, efficiency models try to get the most done in the least amount of time. Wheatley says, "The more you optimize elements of a complex system of humans and nature for some specific goal, the more you diminish that systems' resilience. A drive for an efficient optimal state outcome has the effect of making the total system more vulnerable to shocks and disturbances." An efficient organization tries to eliminate redundancy and streamline decision-making and processes through specialization and hierarchy.
In order for an organization to value resiliency over efficiency, there would need to be a shared understanding about the illusion of the optimal state. The optimal state does not exist!
When I am planning a project, I try to build in extra cushions of time to make up for the unexpected setbacks that are, in fact, to be expected. As the author said, "Life always bursts through the door–why not expect it?" When I try to explain my cushions in the project plan to someone who wants to or needs to believe in the idea of the optimal state, they want to decrease these cushions and get the project done faster and for less money. If I remove the cushions, then the project ultimately comes in behind schedule. The response then is that we need to work harder, do more, and next time make sure that nothing unexpected happens or gets in the way. Inevitably, something happens again the next time–someone on our team gets sick, our outside vendor is behind schedule, or a computer breaks, and the cycle continues. This leads to discouragement when people work harder and harder, but still see that they are not meeting the goals.
The optimal state illusion is embedded in our political systems, our agriculture systems, and our organizations. Is the drive toward greater and greater efficiency getting in the way in our organizations? How do we break out of this cycle and come to a shared understanding about the illusion of an optimal state so we can work towards resiliency?
After much deliberation about graduate school, it's official. I am starting my Master's degree in Organizational Development this fall.
"What is Organizational Development?" I can hear my friends, family, and colleagues asking this question for years to come.
Organizational Development is the process of helping organizations solve problems and reach their goals. The field is interdisciplinary and draws on sociology, psychology, and theories of motivation, learning, and personality.
I am interested in this degree because I want to help people and organizations by making work more enjoyable. When people enjoy what they do, they do better work. I'm especially interested in studying leadership.
I chose this particular program at Antioch University Seattle because I am excited to work with the professors and students there. My advisor Barbara Spraker is working on a project on international women's leadership, and I hope to become involved.
I will travel to Seattle one weekend a month for three and a half days of classes. The rest of the time I'll be reading and writing, working on community projects in Santa Cruz, and working on the management team at MAPS.
This semester I'll also be TA-ing a class on Leadership at Hult International Business School in San Francisco.
I've bought my books and signed up for classes. It's exciting to be in a structured educational environment again. I'm looking forward to meeting the other students and getting started!
In my last post I wrote about the world of measurement and how beyond it lies a universe of possibility. I promised a technique for stepping outside of the world of measurement. But first, I'll talk a little about the universe of possibility and how it is distinguished from the world of measurement.
In, "The Art of Possibility" the Zanders said, "In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold."
In the universe of possibility, "…we gain our knowledge by invention…We decide that the essence of a child is joy, and joy she is. Our small business attracts the label, 'The Can Do Company,' and that is exactly who we are. We speak with the awareness that languages creates categories of meaning that open up new worlds to explore. Life appears as variety, pattern, and shimmering movement, inviting us in every moment to engage. The pie is enormous, and if you take a slice, the pie is whole again."
It is a difference between a scarcity or survival mentality and one of abundance. There are enough resources in the world to go around for everyone, but if we act as if they are fixed and limited, then we will acquire more for ourselves no matter how much we have. We will treat all others as competitors. According to the Zanders, "Resources are more likely to come in greater abundance when you are generous and inclusive and engage people in your passion for life."
The practice that orients you to a universe of possibility does so by revealing the hidden framework from which the world of measurement springs. Once you can see how thoroughly that framework rules your life you will have located yourself in the realm of possibility beyond it.
The way to step outside of the world of measurement is to reflect on what it is.
How are my thoughts and actions, in this new moment, a reflection of the measurement world?
And how now?
And how now?
And how now?
Try it!
Generosity breeds generosity.
This is one lesson that stuck with me from SEOmom Gillian Muessig at the MIVA conference last weekend.
Evan Fishkin, her son, echoed this same lesson in his presentation on SEO. You share more, you get more.
On the train to Tucson after the conference with Josh, I contemplated this lesson. We arrived in Tucson at midnight, and I was thirsty. A woman was fumbling with her wallet in front of the drink machine, looking for a single so she could buy a soda.
"Do you have five 1's?" she asked me.
"No, I only have four" I said as I brushed past her to purchase a bottle of water.
I put in a dollar and 25 cents and pushed the button, but the water was sold out. I pressed the return button, but it didn't give me my change back–it only beckoned with a choice of soda, which I did not want. It also asked me for an extra 25 cents. Should I buy a soda that I didn't want or walk away and leave my money in the machine? The lady was still in the lobby, asking people for change.
"Hey, you can have a soda, there's already money in the machine," I offered.
By now she had found five singles, so she put her dollar in. I got 75 cents back, and she got a soda for only a dollar. Win-win.
We took a taxi to our hotel. The driver was exceptionally kind. In the eight mile ride, he shared with us his philosophy on life, his spiritual beliefs, and his religious practices. He didn't charge us the 15-minute wait time when he was parked waiting for our luggage at the train station. I pulled out the fare and a modest $1 tip. Then I saw an extra dollar in my wallet and I thought of the lesson on generosity–why not. I got the extra dollar out and handed it to him too.
By now it was almost 1AM, and I was really thirsty. We checked into the hotel, put our luggage in our room, and I headed to the vending machine with my last dollar. Luckily the water only cost $1 here instead of $1.25 because it's all I had left with the extra dollar I had given the taxi driver. I put the money in the machine and pressed the button: a water came out. Then the machine made a bunch of noise and a second water came out!
You share more, you get more.
With my $4, I could have lost a $1 at the train station, tipped the driver $1, spent $1 to get a water in the evening, and inevitably spent another $1 on a second water in the morning when I was thirsty again.
Instead, I bought a woman a soda, tipped the driver $2, and got two waters.
Win-win, win-win, win-win.
When was your last win-win situation? What has been your experience of "generosity breeds generosity" at work or in life?


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Beanstalk is great option if you need a fast lightweight message queue. The protocol is simple, and there are lots of examples and libraries online. (Here's a nice summary article.)
However, it does not come with a standard management UI.
Resque, a message queue built on top of Redis, has a great web management interface as part of its source base. It was implemented as a Sinatra app, that can even be embedded into a Rails app.
(See the Resque Railscast)
Being jealous of that interface, I decided to create a similar Sinatra app that can be used to manage and monitor your beanstalkd queues. The application is called beanstalkd_view, and the source code is available on github: https://github.com/denniskuczynski/beanstalkd_view
Since beanstalkd_view is a Sinatra app it can be embedded into a Rails app. Simply mount the application in your routes.rb file:
Alternately, beanstalkd_view uses the Vegas gem, so you can start the application from the command line on an available port. Just execute the beanstalkd_view executable which will be available after executing gem install beanstalkd_view.
To configure beanstalkd_view, you have to set the ENV['BEANSTALK_URL'] with the URLs of your beanstalkd daemons.
- If mounted in a Rails app, setting this variable could be done within an initializer.
- If running from the command line, you'll currently have to edit the bin file: beanstalkd_view/bin/beanstalkd_view, which is hardcoded to the default localhost address of beanstalkd.
beanstalkd_view is a simple two page application.
The index page shows the overall beanstalkd statistics: charts showing the counts of the different job types submitted and buried, and a basic form for submitting new jobs with JSON data.
A page providing specific tube statistics and actions can be accessed by clicking on a tube name at the top of the index page. This page shows the individual tube's statistics and also forms for kicking the tube, pausing the tube, and peeking at jobs.
Behavior with multiple beanstalk queues
Beanstalkd_view leverages the beanstalk-client gem to interact with the beanstalkd daemons. This library is great because it provides a ConnectionPool object to manage interacting with multiple beanstalkd daemons.
(Beanstalkd does not natively support any form of clustering, so multiple instances must be managed by the client.)
When using multiple queues:
|Queue statistic, tube listing, and pause commands
|Sent to all queue instances
|Kick and add new job commands (put)
|Sent to random queue instances
|Peek and delete job commands (put)
|Sent to each queue instance, looking for response
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"Charlie Rose" by Samuel Beckett (2008)
PBS favorite The Charlie Rose Show is recast as theater of the absurd.
SCREENINGS (selected):
"Cut Up," an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image
10th Artsfest Film Festival (Winner, Best Experimental Film)
15th Chicago Underground Film Festival
11th Boston Underground Film Festival
LIVE! at NYPL: "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy"
"Detournement: Critical Cinema and The Internet"
(3 min.; video; color; sound)
"Alternate Fictions & Realities" (Museum of the Moving Image; August 16, 2013)
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roksasa asked this question on the artcone forums: hi all
I want your support guys and girls to get this one please
its my First post in here and its about getting a GLITTER tutorial
its a very professional
For the people who donot know what is Glitter this is an example go to this like
LETS GET THIS TUTORIAL[b][/b]
February 26th, 2005 at 1:45 am
Well… wow… That's a pretty effect ! :bounce:
From the first view I'd say it was done with 3 layers (I can only see a 3-layer animation) of "noise". Then to get the noise into the picture I'd just use one of the blending options, overlay or screen or something…
Anyway… I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO IT
February 26th, 2005 at 2:55 am
Lombi, knows, but he's a machine. You won't be able to answer him with all his be incomprehensible words, like, peanut, or cauliflower. Who's ever heard of that?
February 27th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
I think Shanks answered your question perfectly here. The fact that I have a lot of work right now (professionally and on the new site) will have to postpone the creation of a tutorial like that but it will be made
February 27th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
I think it should go more over the lines of animated gifs and mngs. I don't think showing that (1st post) would take more than like 3 minutes…
February 28th, 2005 at 4:07 pm
Shanks Le Roux
اHi my friend
Yes what u said is correct
I tried to do it but I failed again and again
even when you know the steps
Its a very presice effect
thanks fro you support man
[sea][i]added through 6 minutes[/i][/sea]
u confused me by your reply
but thanks for come in here
[sea][i]added through 4 minutes[/i][/sea]
ThANKS MAN for accepting this mission
hope it will not postpone for long period of time
Cannot wait to see your tutorial
WITH all my best wishes to you to get luck in your work and website
thanks again
February 28th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
I was telling lombi with such a simple effect I think the tutorial would be like a minute so the tutorial should be more over general animations and stuff to that matter…
February 28th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Yes that i agree but the problem is that the tutorial covering general animations has already beeen done. Covering advaced b;ending in Imageready should be done in another tutorial and that shall be done. However … the majority of that requested tutorial would have to be made in Photoshop, not in Imageready.
It will be made and it's on the waiting list.
March 1st, 2005 at 8:38 pm
But that shouldn't be a problem as Photoshop comes with ImageReady… last time I checked you couldn't buy them seperately…
March 4th, 2005 at 10:15 am
tes maybe older ones can be found seperatelly
and thankks for explaining
yes after finishing fotoshop works we go to imageready but the proplem is by arranging the steps and I am sure there is a secret moves you have to get a fantastic GLITTER that u will learn us
March 4th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
Hehehe, okay, added to tut-request-list
March 4th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
How big is the tut-request-list?
Can we see it? So that maybe we don't make the same thread by accident ^_^
March 4th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
I think he made it up. He's so bluffing. There's not really a list…
March 5th, 2005 at 8:31 am
Well it's about 30% of the size of this forum (request-a-tutorial). The other 70% came trough the contact form on the site.
And Shanks, having duplicate requests is only a good thing, due to the fact that multiple requests mean that the effect is wanted more than some other effect.
March 5th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
Yeah, it shows its priority…
March 5th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
yeah I hope this subject will have the priority


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Single-game ticket prices will fluctuate based on demand. The team will also use a new system for fans selling on the secondary market.
Fans buying tickets to Angels games this season will find two significant changes:
Individual game tickets go on sale Saturday at 9 a.m. They can be purchased at the Angel Stadium box office, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers, online at angels.com or by phone by calling (714) 663-9000 or (800) 745-3000.
Thinking about heading to Angel Stadium this season for a few ballgames? You might want to look into hiring a personal ticket broker.
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Once prices are released today, they can change at any time up until hours before the first pitch.
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The team is also introducing a new ticket resale program, run through the Angels' official website in partnership with Ticketmaster that will implement a team-controlled price floor, similarly varying with the market trends.
Prices on the primary and secondary markets will be related and determined in part by a computer algorithm from an outside firm, according to Robert Alvarado, the team's vice president of marketing and sales.
The dynamic pricing system for single-game seats has been adopted to varying degrees by most Major League Baseball teams in recent years, including, most prominently, the Giants. San Francisco executives have credited the system with ensuring a 165-game sellout streak dating to September 2010.
As of Friday, the cheapest bleacher seat available on the Giants' official site to their home opener is $120. Tickets to a game three days later can be had for $8.
The Angels' ticket resale program is one of only two of its kind in the majors. In October, the Yankees and Angels opted out of a five-year agreement with StubHub, MLB's long-term secondary market partner, and signed with Ticketmaster. The league's 28 other teams will continue to use StubHub as their official reseller.
Alvarado indicated a number of growing trends prompted the move. Most notably, season-seat holders looking to sell unwanted tickets were getting far less than face value on the secondary market because of so-called speculative sellers, who would sell tickets before owning them. That inflated the ticket supply, enabling the speculative sellers to then buy at a lower price.
Ticketmaster can counteract that with its barcode verification technology, Alvarado said, allowing only sellers possessing actual tickets to list their seats on the exchange.
The Angels were worried they'd lose season-ticket holders if the speculative selling continued.
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Or I guess I'm just making a killing in the music industry. I'm playing Recordshop Tycoon, a Flash game that lets me run a series of record stores. I buy and sell records to little Sim-like people. Every time I tweak the formula a little better, I make more money and can expand my record store, until my cute little urban shop is a big ugly music warehouse.
While the plotline of this game isn't much more advanced than FarmVille, the number-tweaking gameplay will appeal to casual simulation fans of Lemonade Tycoon and the classic Gazillionaire. But a single screenshot that will consume much of the player's time shows a slick user interface that keeps the process entertaining, not grueling.There are three main phases of gameplay: Office mode (shown above), where you buy stock (shown below), set prices and track your results; building mode, where you lay out your shop; and daily mode, where you let customers into the shop and see how customers respond to your stock mix, store layout, marketing and prices. Every now and then, you can move to a bigger record store with richer customers.
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March 19th, 2014 08:52 PM #11Cheers,
My beautiful babies:
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waverly123- That's so cool! We haven't been back for almost two years now I feel bad, but it's just hard for us to get back there! Arianne had been popping up on my other threads and I'm just not sure. I feel like in the states it would always be said Air-ee-ANNE The name itself has been creeping up on me (in a good way) but that spelling issue just holds me back and I just don't know if Ariane looks right.
alphabetters- Juliette and Anais have both caused me some grief so even though I think they sound nice, it's just a no-go for me I like Alice and I'm not 100% sure, but isn't the pronunciation of Alice in French and English a little different? I don't know if it gives me that "French feeling" either...if that makes sense? But I may have to get over that if it means finding a name!
March 19th, 2014 09:03 PM #15
Madeleine - only if you're pronouncing it the correct French way - Mad-eh-LEN, which will give you pronunciation headaches I'm sure.
Josephine - it's okay. I think Josephine "Juh-roo" sounds fine!
Delphine - I like it in theory but I just see 'dolphin'.
Emilie - I know a few Emilie's, they don't seem to have problems. Emily is immensely popular, though.
Emeline - my favorite from your list! It's a sweet spot (fitting in while standing out) name and has the cutest nicknames.
Aurore - I don't like it, or Aurora either. I just don't think it sounds appealing and it's difficult to say next to "Juh-roo""I have found the one whom my soul loves"
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I was so excited. Oh well. Good luck finding the perfect name
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Amelie or Clementine?~Boys~
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