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One minute freezes
My Win7x64 home was installed recently by AVAdirect (the computer builder). I haven't seen any BSOD but perhaps a few times a day it freezes for 30 or 60 seconds and then merrily goes on its way as if nothing wrong ever happened. I see lots of warnings in the system health test (attached) but I don't know which if any of these are something to be concerned about. During the freeze the mouse will still move around but the active window says "Program Name (Not Responding)" in the title bar. The non responding program is usually Firefox or Thunderbird but that is probably because those are the programs I use the most. I have seen it happen once in the game solitaire as well. The system configuration information is also attached.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer about how to track down this problem.
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Perform a SFC Scan (System File Check)
1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow
2. Type the following command, sfc /scannow and then press ENTER:
(A message will appear stating that 'The system scan will begin'. Be patient because the scan may take some time)
3. If any files require a replace SFC will replace them. You may be asked to insert your Windows 7 DVD for this process to continue
4. If everything is okay you should, after the scan, see the following message "Windows resource protection did not find any integrity violations"
5. After the scan has completed, close the command prompt window, restart the computer. (TIP repeat scan 3 times)
How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7 >>> How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7
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|17 Jul 2011
Win 7 Pro 64-bit
You might also find some information in the Event Viewer to help figure out what's causing those freezes.
What information appears in event logs (Event Viewer)?
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|17 Jul 2011
You might also find some information in the Event Viewer to help figure out what's causing those freezes.
What information appears in event logs (Event Viewer)?
good call
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|17 Jul 2011
I looked at just the first problematic file which was fdeploy.dll which exsists in a few different folders. I tried restoring that file from the oldest acronis true image copy of the C drive, but the report was the same indicating perhaps that this dll was already bad. I can't follow the directions I found for fixing this type of error since I don't know where to get a good dll. I looked on my microsoft windows 7 dvd but I couldn't find it using a file search. I also tried booting to that dvd and selected the option to repair booting problems with the installed OS. However that apparently didn't do anything. I'm not sure if these errors are the ones causing my system to freeze temporarily, but they are worry some non-the-less. This file scan also reported many warnings of the form "Ignoring duplicate ownership for directory xxx". Is there a reasonably simple way to remove these duplicate ownerships?
> You might also find some information in the Event Viewer to help
> figure out what's causing those freezes.
Thanks marsmimar. That looks promising. There are some significant looking errors in there, although I'm not sure if any or all of them are important. Perhaps it would make sense to wait until the next time it freezes, then after it recovers I can check the event viewer to see if it will tell me the cause.
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The Fourteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress
The Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is suddenly a major topic of conversation in America and around the world. Activist movements have sprung up to push for it. Recent articles in the popular press have discussed it as a part of strategies to address recession, poverty, inequality, carbon pollution, and technological unemployment. In an economy forcing increasing numbers of people into precarious employment situations, is BIG a necessary and achievable part of efforts to retrieve democratic social stability? Can we afford it? How will it affect the economy? Will the new activist movements for BIG take off?
We invite participants to address these and other questions at the Fourteenth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress, which will take place in New York City starting Thursday, February 26 – Sunday March 1, 2015. The congress is organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG) in cooperation with the Basic Income Canada Network (BICN/RCRG). It will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA). It will also include free event(s) to be held at other venues and announced later.
Featured speakers at the conference confirmed so far include Marshall Brain, futurist and author of How Stuff Works and Manna; Peter Barnes, environmentalist and author of Who Owns the Sky?, With Liberty and Dividends For All, and Capitalism 3.0; Ann Withorn, welfare rights activist and Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston, author of Serving the People: Social Services and Social Change and co-editor of For Crying out Loud: Women and Poverty in the U.S.; Jim Mulvale, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba and Vice-Chairperson of the Basic Income Canadian Network (BICN/RCRG), and Mary Bricker Jenkins, Professor of Social Work, Temple University, and US Welfare Rights Union leaders.
A major focus of this conference is to introduce BIG to new audiences and to explain why it matters to so many. Therefore, we invite participants either to present a paper or to organize a dialogue or a workshop. For example, we suggest submitting proposals for a dialogue about BIG and today's social movements, which could focus on labor issues (full employment, minimum wage, etc.), on racial and gender justice, on environmental issues, on immigration concerns and so on. The goal is to engage an open conversation about the connections (and possible tensions) between movement activists and BIG supporters. A dialogue is not a debate, but an effort to promote discussion across movements. Alternatively, workshops might involve an exercise to bring out the group's thoughts and feelings about some issue relating to BIG.
Everyone attending the events at the EEA Conference must register with the EEA and pay their registration fee. If you register as a USBIG participant, you can register for the EEA members' price of $110 without paying the EEA's membership fee—saving $65. All registered attendees of the North American Basic Income Congress are welcome to attend any of the EEA's events. Participants attending only the free event(s) need not register. Details of those events will be announced later.
All points of view are welcome. To present a paper, to organize a workshop, or lead a dialogue at the congress, submit a proposal to the congress organizer, Karl Widerquist of USBIG, at email@example.com.
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For updated information on featured speakers, registration, and accommodations as it becomes available, visit the USBIG website: www.usbig.net. For more information about the Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, visit the EEA website: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/eea/41st-annual-conference/.
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The basic income guarantee (BIG) is a government insured guarantee that no citizen's income will fall below some minimal level for any reason. All citizens would receive a BIG without means test or work requirement. BIG is an efficient and effective solution to poverty that preserves individual autonomy and work incentives while simplifying government social policy. Some researchers estimate that a small BIG, sufficient to cut the poverty rate in half could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining incomes. Click here for more information.
The U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (The USBIG Network) is an informal group promoting the discussion of the basic income guarantee in the United States. USBIG (pronounced "U.S big") publishes an email newsletter (subscription 500) every two months, maintains an on-line discussion paper series, and has yearly conferences.
USBIG was founded in December 1999 by Fred Block of University of California-Davis, Charles M. A. Clark of St. John's University, Pamela Donovan of the City University of New York, Michael Lewis of the State University of New York-Stony Brook, and Karl Widerquist then of the Levy Economics Institute. The USBIG Coordinating Committee has nine members: Michael Howard of the University of Maine (Coordinator); Karl Widerquist, now of Georgetown University, Qatar (Newsletter Editor); Al Sheahen, author (Public Relations Coordinator, email@example.com); Steve Shafarman, author (Activist Coordinator, firstname.lastname@example.com); Michael Lewis, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College; Eri Noguchi of Columbia University; and Almaz Zelleke, BIEN Executive Committee, email@example.com; Dan O'Sullivan of Rise Up Economics email@example.com; Jason Murphy email@example.com ; Jeff Smith, Forum on Geonomics, firstname.lastname@example.com. Click here for more information, or email (email@example.com).
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Ladder of Consulting firms?O
What's the ladder at each consulting firm?
Deloitte Consulting:
Analyst (Undergrad) => Consultant = > Senior Consultant (MBA) => Manager => Senior Manager => Principal / Director.
Principal E => Principal D => Principal C = > Principal B = > Principal A.
Director should be (not 100% sure on this) => 1,2,3,4,5.
Deloitte also has the specialist route - for its technology folks that don't want to do Project Management and want to simply stay in the system.
Analyst => Specialist => Senior Specialist = > Specialist Master = > Specialist Leader
I know you can't make Principal this route but not sure about Director.
From memory, so I could beCO
From memory, so I could be off.
Business Analyst -->(MBA) --> Associate (Senior Associate) --> Engagement Manager --> Associate Principal --> Partner --> Director
Associate Consultant (Senior Associate Consultant) --> (MBA) --> Consultant --> Case Team Leader --> Manager --> Partner
Associate --> (MBA) --> Consultant --> Project Leader --> Principal --> Partner
(EDITED: Thanks for the corrections)
For McKinsey, the firstIB
For McKinsey, the first post-MBA position is Associate, not Consultant. Everything else above is accurate.
Bain is AssociateO
Bain is
Associate consultant
Senior AC
Consultant (not everyone does CTL)
OW (FS): Consultant -->CO
Consultant --> Partner
* apologies double postCO
* apologies double post
Consultant --> Partner
so OW only has two positions? consultant and partner ? that's hard to believe.
LEK: Associate --> Associate?
Associate --> Associate Consultant --> (MBA) --> Consultant --> Manager --> Partner (technically, the title is VP)
mckinsey has a juniorCF
mckinsey has a junior associate, tho i'm not sure what that means..
"... then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
What are the pay levels forAM
What are the pay levels for these positions? How about at a firm like Monitor?
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In the past several months, I've re-read a bit of Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, "Publius" and some others, including the following:
- Common Sense -- by Thomas Paine.
- Poor Richard's Almanack -- by Ben Franklin; (PDF version).
- The Federalist Papers -- the writings that pleaded the Federalist case.
- The Anti-Federalist Papers & The Constitutional Convention Debates -- edited combination of writings and debates that pleaded the non-Federalist case and documented the congressional debates.
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DELOITTE ADMINISTRATORS to DVD rental retailer Blockbuster have announced they will close up to 129 stores in the coming weeks.
Insolvency trade body R3 president and Deloitte partner Lee Manning (pictured) has been appointed administrator. Neville Kahn, also a Deloitte partner, joins him, although Kahn's hands are full as he has recently been appointed to high-profile and large administrations Comet and HMV. They are joined by Deloitte partner David Smith.
The joint administrators announced at the weekend that they planned to close 129 stores in the coming weeks as part of a phased closure which will see about 760 staff made redundant. This is in addition to 31 stores which have already been put on notice of closure by management just prior to the administrators' appointment – this has resulted in about 155 redundancies.
Blockbuster is headquartered in Uxbridge and has about 528 stores, employing approximately 4,190 staff.
The administrators confirmed the company has run into trouble in the last few years, facing increased competition in the rental market from online offerings such as Netflix and Lovefilm.
However, they believe that there is a profitable core business and hope to sell the company as a going concern. In the interim, they will continue to trade and, for now, gift cards will be honoured.
Manning said: "Having reviewed the portfolio with management, the store closure plan is an inevitable consequence of having to restructure the company to a profitable core which is capable of being sold. We would like to thank the company's employees for their support and professionalism during this difficult time."
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Bibliographic description inadvertently omitted the year the movie was released: 2012.
From a cultural prospective, I found this movie to be very interesting.
I hate to be the naysaying voice to the chorus of praise surrounding this slice of Israeli Orthodoxy, but….it is like watching paint dry, and when the picture is finally complete, there is nothing remotely ambivalent or interesting about it. It is a wholehearted endorsement of the patriarchy that comes with this belief system. That it comes from a female writer/director is hardly cause for celebration. Even My Father, My Lord, another entry into this very narrow sub-genre, allows for the presence of doubt. This movie's unquestioning acceptance of the status quo and the hermetic is disheartening. And the milieu, though picturesque, never manages to explain its allure. If you want to see a modern Jewish woman's take on the subject of Orthodox matrimony (and so much more), I suggest The Wedding Song. Fill the Void doesn't even begin to fill in the blanks.
This film provides a privileged look into a very private Hassidic Jewish culture. The characters are sensitively and artfully drawn. A very richly human story. Recommend.
An interesting look at another culture; however, it was sometimes too slow moving.
dvd scratched at critical conversation in the middle
But the whole movie was amazing, about the intersection of genuine feelings and social and circumstantial pressures. I liked the style,very natural soundtrack, beautiful light and composition.
I felt like there was a lot of focus on Shira finding/defining herself in distinction to the norms of her society, without rebelling against them. Lovely loving portrayal of Hassidic life.
Her first 'date' has her scoping out a guy with her mom in the supermarket and being excited that he's The One. But after being pushed to confront what she does and does not want and expect for herself, she pushes for emotional honesty and individuality on her later shidduch 'date' even though she has trouble giving those things or figuring herself out.
I feel like the blurb is a little misleading; one of the best parts of the movie is how the Rabbi and father and brother in law all emphasize the importance of Shira's own feelings. Feeling obligated to 'do the right thing' is not enough for any of the male characters.
I also liked the push for honesty and the tension between Yochay and Shira.
There was a lot of ambiguity regarding Shira's deepest feelings, which I felt made the movie richer. Wish the ending was a little less ambiguous though.
It's always interesting to see another culture. I enjoyed the subtle interactions.
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Accounting for Goodwill Under IFRS 3
In this essay I will be discussing the underlying problems with accounting for goodwill as a result of business combinations, which will include the comparison between the requirements of FRS 10 and IFRS 3 and also how this International standard affects the preparers and shareholders.
IFRS 3 defines goodwill as: "future economic benefits arising from assets that are not capable of being individually identified and separately recognised". The definition effectively confirms that the value of the business overall is more than the sum of the accountable and identifiable net assets. Goodwill can occur either internally or as a result of business acquisition that therefore results in purchased goodwill. It is relevant to note here that self generated goodwill is not recognised as an asset under IAS 38 as it would allow such companies to have unfair advantage by valuing their own assets and thus producing more favorable balance sheet. Where as the purchased goodwill is recognised as it has an identifiable "cost", being the difference between the fair value of the total consideration for the business and the fair value of all the other accountable and identifiable net assets. This difference can be attributed to factors such as business reputation, managerial ability, an established customer base and so on.
The treatment of goodwill differs between UK GAAP and IFRS in a number of respects, both regarding the initial measurement of goodwill and its subsequent treatment. First, the definition of goodwill and other intangible assets differs from the FRS 10,
Goodwill and Intangible Assets, (ASB, 1997) treatment in the UK. IFRS 3 requires that "all the acquiree's intangible assets at the acquisition date should be recognised separately in the consolidated financial statements if they satisfy the IAS 38,
Intangible Assets, (IASB, 2004) definition of an intangible asset." UK GAAP however is not as narrow in identifying intangibles and does not rule out the likelihood of many intangibles being subsumed within goodwill. The likely effect of this would be that on the adoption of IFRS, goodwill would be smaller, and other intangibles will be greater, than was the case under UK GAAP.
Secondly, in terms of the following treatment of goodwill after initial measurement, there is a main difference between UK GAAP and IFRS. "IFRS require that goodwill should be subject to annual impairment reviews, but should not be amortized. Under
FRS 10 there is a rebuttable presumption that that the useful life of goodwill does not exceed 20 years with amortization over the useful life." An infinite useful life is only permitted under exceptional circumstances. As a result, the expectation is that profit under IFRS will normally be larger (e.g. Vodafone profits increased by 6.8 billion) than under UK GAAP as there it is unlikely that impairment charges will arise in most years, but amortization will arise under UK GAAP systematically (annually), which in turn allowed managers to predict with greater accuracy the impact on earnings. In contrast, impairment losses will arise at irregular intervals, which mean profit for the year figure will become more volatile. This in turn will prevent management and shareholders to make decision in advance.
Furthermore, as intangibles are normally amortised, but goodwill is not, there is an incentive for directors, in areas of "classificationary uncertainty", to recognise goodwill rather than an intangible as this avoids the need to recognise annual amortization changes and therefore improves profit.
The new IFRS 3 standard, which is mandatory on all new transactions from 31 March 2004 for all quoted companies in the EU, has bought greater transparency to the acquisition process by disclosing the details of acquisitions including all the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, including contingent liabilities, to the companies shareholders. Under UK GAAP, the directors could talk generally about their "valuable customer base", "excellent technology" and "world-class brands" in justifying the premium paid for a purchase. IFRS has changed the rules. IFRS 3 is introduced due to the rising significance of intangible assets as an economic resource. As businesses in the UK turn into increasingly service-orientated, intangible assets will make up a growing percentage of the value of many acquired businesses. Nevertheless IFRS 3 is much more than an accounting convention. The transparency promoted by this standard will allow analysts extraordinary insight into the performance of the purchased business. Shareholders will be in a better position to understand what they have actually got for their money. The implications for preparers are that they must understand and be ready to meet the challenges that IFRS 3 signifies, by making sure they have the necessary provisions in place such as training and equipment.
One of the main concerns is that measuring intangibles is not simply a one-off process. When a business is purchased, a process known as a purchase price allocation is necessary to assign the purchase consideration across the assets of the business. Only once the fair values are calculated for the intangibles, the preparers can determine the extent of the goodwill. Business will now as a result have to carry out impairment tests to check and, if necessary, correct the value of goodwill and long-life intangibles. For example, if a brand name has not performed well in the previous 12 months, the management could possibly face a big hit to both their income statement, in terms of impairment loss, and balance sheet, by having written down the value of the brand. Impairment check takes place at the level of what is known as cash generating units, often at a level below an operating unit. This means that small units of poor performing goodwill will be difficult to mask or subsidise by better performing goodwill from elsewhere, unless part of the business is included in a significantly larger CGU in which case poor performing transaction would be difficult to isolate. This in turn could increase the risk of considering such accounts for future investors.
Interestingly, although the treatment of impairment appears to be correct according to the framework, it could be argued that the impairment approach is not correct as the charge occurs at the wrong time (i.e. when there is a loss in value, rather than when profits are being made). It is very difficult to estimate future economic benefit of the goodwill as it depends on future sales and profitability of sales and it is probable the those estimates are likely to be over optimistic (e.g. introduction of a new car model) and therefore increasing FEB and avoiding an impairment charge. In addition it means that the treatment of goodwill for IFRS 3 transactions is inconsistent from its treatment in IAS 38. Therefore they should only use one of the treatments.
The other main challenge of IFRS 3 is choosing appropriate amortisation periods for each finite-life intangible asset. While some assets, such as a strong brand name, may have a relatively long or even indefinite life span, others, such as customer relationships or technology, may be written down over few years. Evidently, where different intangible assets have varying life duration, the likelihood to manipulate the amortisation impact on earnings could be seen as attractive to management. It is suggested that "in attempting to soften the short-term blow to earnings, companies may attempt to shift some of the value of short-lived assets to those with longer lives." However, regulators could be suspicious of such an activity and due to the rigid nature of the IFRS 3 would ask the preparers to readjust asset lives. The result could be negative not only for the senior management but also for the reputation of the business as a whole. For shareholders, despite this may being a disadvantage, it could also be an advantage as they can be satisfied that the information audited is accurate. Another concern for the management when making a strategic decision on acquiring a decent business is the unpredictability of earnings (EPS), and could be negative as a result of IFRS 3. The management would needs to make the market aware that it is not an indication of poor purchase (in showing positive cash flow) as otherwise share price could well take a tumble as EPS rule is more supreme for shareholders than any other rule.
Other advantages for investors/shareholders include IFRS promise more accurate, comprehensive and timely financial statement information, relative to the national standards they replace for public financial reporting in most of the countries adopting them, including Europe. To the extent that financial statement information is not known from other sources, this should lead to more informed valuation in the equity markets, and hence lower risk to shareholders. In addition, by eliminating many international differences in accounting standards, and standardising reporting formats, IFRS eliminate many of the adjustments analysts historically have made in order to make companies' financials more comparable internationally. IFRS adoption therefore could reduce the cost for management and shareholders of processing financial information. However, these advantages are possible provided standards are implemented by the management consistently. On the other hand, increased transparency causes managers to act more in the interests of shareholders. In particular, timelier loss recognition in the financial statements increases the incentives of managers to attend to existing loss-making investments and strategies more quickly, and to undertake fewer new investments with negative NPVs, such as "pet" projects and "trophy" acquisitions.
Finally, we would also need to consider the implementation IFRS 3 to see how effective it has been in reality. "IFRS 3 was designed to demonstrate to investors how their money was being spent on acquisitions". However, recent research appears to indicate that "UK's major companies are systematically failing to comply with IFRS 3. As a result the accounting for business acquisitions is still opaque, and creative accounting is still occurring." "The specialist skills needed to undertake the implementation of IFRS 3 has cost these companies an estimated 80 million GBP." As this provision is still in early stages, I think it will take some time for companies to catch up with this provision. I agree with the article that the large amount of money spent is largely wasted costs given the information is directly opposed to the spirits of IFRS 3 and therefore this opportunity should used to consider how resources should be deployed in future that would ensure equal benefits to cost incurred. In addition, for IFRS 3 to have any significant effect on company reports then it will require input not from standard setters but also academics and industry.
In contrast it is evident that extraordinary success has been achieved in developing a comprehensive set of "high quality" standards and in persuading almost 100 countries to adopt them. In time people will appreciate that IFRS 3 focuses purchasers on what they are really buying and ultimately this should lead to the creation of shareholder value.
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Hi DFers -
It's been a while since I checked in here. Here are a few pics from a game a while back:
It was a romp through a wizards' tower - the sci-fi stuff at the end was sort of a hidden planar nexus.
Anyway, I help edit a fanzine for old-style fantasy roleplaying games called
Fight On!
We would be very interested in getting a primer for fantasy roleplayers using minis and terrain published in our mag sometime, if someone around here wanted to write one - nothing complex, more something to convince people it's easy and fun. If writing that interests any of you you can contact me at calithena at gmail dot com.
But the main reason I'm posting is that the fanzine is doing well right now and we have a chance to place in a contest on lulu. If we win we get an interview and it helps promote old school gaming, fantasy roleplaying, etc. Anyway, here's our current ad, and thanks for reading.
This weekend,
Fight On!
is going all out to sell as many copies of the magazine as we can. Until the end of the day on March 31, all our prices have been reduced by fifty cents or one dollar:
Issue #1…..Normally 7.50…
now 7.00
Issue #2…..Normally 9.00…
now 8.00
Issue #3….Normally 10.50…
now 10.00
Issue #4…Normally 10.00…
now 9.00!
There has never been a better time to check out the pioneering old-school fantasy fanzine than right now! These prices will revert to their old levels on April 1, so buy now or pay more later!
But that's not all. For a limited time only, we are offering
that will in all likelihood
. If any of these strike your fancy, grab 'em now, because as of April 1 they are
First and likely foremost is the hardbound
Fight On! Compendium
, featuring the entirety of issues 1-4 bound into a single hardcover volume! This product is identical to the four published issues in every way except (unfortunately) slightly smaller margins and greyscaled interior cover images. Own the whole magazine in one big book! Note that if you're a new buyer, it's actually still cheaper with shipping to buy all four separate regular issues and ship them together than to buy this 400 page hardbound behemoth.
If any retailers are interested in purchasing 2 or more copies of the compendium for sale, please contact me at calithena at gmail dot com; I will lower the sales price by $10 when you order and you can charge whatever you think the market will bear. Again, there are no plans to ever offer this compendium again after April 1!
Fight On!
are collaborating to bring you a book of art,
The Art of the Old School Renaissance
. This volume can be purchased from either of our lulu stores and contains exceptional works produced by many of the delightful artists you find featured in the pages of our respective magazines. 32 pages of glorious game art, and you can buy it here:
Finally, I have released a couple of quirky products of my own under the
Fight On!
banner to help boost this sales blitz. One,
Calithena's Campaign Compendium
, is basically a bunch of campaign notes and rules ideas from different games I've run. I can't promise brilliance, but at 54 pages of campaign ideas, magic systems, background systems, short adventures, cosmology and religion, calendars and coins, etc., it's hard to go too far wrong. This work would definitely be considered an idea mine for creative GMs rather than a finished product for consumption though.
The second is a short story called
Dhar the Dreamer
. A stylishly written dark fantasy tale (claims its author), I have never published it until now because although I wrote it I disagree with its probable moral viewpoint. Likely it will never see the light of day again, so if you're curious about the dismal depths of my psyche, you can pick it up now:
Again, NONE OF THESE FOUR PRODUCTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AFTER THE END OF MARCH.
Why are we doing this?
With just under 3 days to go, we are currently in third place in the lulu Author Sales Contest, which measures print sales through the lulu website only. A win means interviews and publicity for
Fight On!
, old school fantasy, and gaming more generally! We think this hobby is
and we want to support it any way we can. Right now we are only behind the National Hot Rod Association's publication arm and One Glance Ministries for the lead in this contest. Who's going to win this thing, I ask you? Is it going to be the NASCAR dads, the preacher from Washington – or THE PREMIER FANZINE OF CLASSIC FANTASY ROLEPLAYING?
Not since
Hawk the Slayer
has a chance for victory in the culture wars been so close to within our grasp! The time is now – buy print products through the
Fight On!
webstore by March 31 to do your part!
Thank you, and Fight On!
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Do these have to be in print or do the PDFs count too?
I already own Issue 3 and can testify that it is full of awesomeness.
Harneloot, there is a great chapter by Robert Conley in #3 that details The Wild North, an area just north of Valon (Map 2) of the Wilderlands Boxed Set. Robert Conley was one of the contributors on the boxed set and his work is always top shelf. The Formalhaut chapter is written by Gabor Lux, who wrote the killer Zothay city module too. Good stuff.
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Yup - picked that one up on your recommendation. Great Wilderlands stuff!
I also especially like the Devil's in the Details "Halfings of Otherness" article!
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At first, this reminded me of the advertisement for Sham Wow! or Mightly Putty. However, I did buy Mighty Putty and love it, so I'll have to check this out. The part about Hawk the Slayer was hilarious.
Best of luck on the contest... Most certainly I will chip in for something to support the cause.
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Thanks guys! Seriously, if one of you would like to write an article telling RPGers easy ways to work minis and terrain into their games, we'd love to print something like that. Only print copies count for the contest.
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U.S. Playing Catch Up in Health Care IT
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.S. Playing Catch Up in Health Care IT">Health care IT in the U.S. lags behind that of many other countries, such as Denmark and New Zealand, but the prognosis is for gradual improvement if the country continues a steady regimen of investment and development.
Dr. Paul Grundy, director of health-care technology and strategic initiatives at IBM Corp. in Armonk, N.Y., said the U.S. HIT (Health Information Technology) system is fragmented but is slowly progressing.
Grundy, who is a physician and a founding member of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, said, "I think were making some progress, but weve got a long ways to go."
Grundy said he spoke at a medical advisory counsel meeting in Washington on Aug. 6 where the issues of HIT were prominent among the 10 largest companies buying health care for their employees.
"What we really want in terms of the state of HIT is to enable improvements in collaboration and practice-based quality improvements," Grundy said. "We want providers to be able to utilize registries" and electronic records, he added.
Moreover, electronic records drive transformation and change in the system, fosters closer doctor/patient relationships and enables doctors to engage patients more easily, Grundy said.
Steve Shihadeh, GM sales, marketing and partners for Microsoft Corp.s Health Solutions Group, said the health care landscape is very complicated and often times very disjointed as hospitals and health systems, insurance and physicians, general practice physicians, and consumers all interact in a complicated ecosystem.
"The reality is that most hospitals have islands of data that cant easily be shared with other systems due to disparate data types," Shihadeh said. "Hospitals until very recently have lagged behind almost every other industry group in the percentage of revenue that is invested in IT [spending only three percent]. Thats up significantly in the last couple years. However, even hospitals at the high end of the spending curve in terms of IT investments are only doing transactional systems."
Grundy said, "We want to have the kinds of tools within the HIT infrastructure so that physicians can deliver safe medical care."
For instance, Grundy said Denmark is known for having the most advanced HIT system in the world. And on a recent trip to Denmark, Grundy said he was invited to witness a Danish doctor interacting with patients.
"The doctor had a full electronic medical record of each patient and the patient can view their medical record from home, Grundy said.
One patient came into the office and was diagnosed to need an aortic valve replacement. Using the integrated Danish HIT system, "the patient and the doctor looked at every hospital in the country that did aortic valve replacements," he said. They were able to get statistics and reviews on each facility and were able to choose one and to schedule surgery through the system.
In another instance, Grundy said a patient came to the doctor seeking a remedy for lack of sleep. The doctor filed a prescription through the HIT system with a pharmacist. Yet, before the patient left the office, the pharmacist returned a message to the doctor noting a possible relation to the patients asthma and the doctor was able to solve the patients problems by treating his asthma, Grundy said.
Moreover, in the Danish system, patients have greater access to call doctors for a fee and "patients can e-mail their doctor and the doctor gets paid for that" as well, he said.
Randall Oates, M.D., who is president of SOAPware Inc., Fayetteville, Ark., the company that sells an electronic medical record system known as SOAPware, said that what is missing from the U.S. HIT system "are patient-centered approaches to HIT. The patient has to be able to administer and monitor the exchange of their personal health information."
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SOAPware is an Electronic Health Record designed for clinics and developed with the goal of eventually replacing paper charts. SOAPware meets users where they are, on their own terms, by allowing them to continue using dictation and handwriting at the beginning, while still providing the capability to adapt and evolve into a fully digital system.
However, none of the top five hospitals has an electronic records system that connects into the community in any way, Grundy said. "Theyre siloed."
Added Grundy: "We need something portable, usable and with open standards, otherwise theres this big disconnect. The systems dont connect in any meaningful way."
Oates added, "The industry is fragmented with a lack of standards, information silos, and a near cartel approach to problem solving."
Indeed, "Health information exchange is in its infancy in the U.S.," Oates said. "The payers control a highly fragmented system where information is not shared."
In a keynote presentation at a conference entitled "Health IT Trends & Marketing: A Conference Designed for Health IT Vendors in Boston two years ago, W. Walter Wego, M.D., slammed the vendors involved in the HIT business.
"I see the HIT industry as being critical to solving some major problems my patients and I are having," Wego said. "We really need your cooperation and participation to finally solve some serious problems with health care."
He went on to say: " does your hypocrisy have any limits? I recently wanted to interface a practice management system from one of you to an EHR [Electronic Health Record] from another vendor. When it got right down to it, you were willing to interface your PMS [Practice Management System] to the EHR, all right, and only for a measly $27,500. And, this was for just your half of the interface. On the other hand, the EHR vendor required only $500 for their half and this seemed reasonable."
Moreover, said Wego in his keynote, "I wish this practice of overcharging for interoperability was unusual, but I have been checking around with my peers and discovered it is the norm for most of you HIT vendors to charge prohibitive fees in order to provide even a crude degree of interoperability."
Grundy said he believes the most important concept for the industry to consider is "dont delay good for the best." He said the health care IT system ought to "have enough information about you that if you should land in an emergency room somewhere, they can safely treat you."
To that end, the ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Internationals CCR (Continuity of Core Record) can play a part, Grundy said.
CCR was developed in response to the need to organize and make transportable a set of basic information about a patients health care that is accessible to clinicians and patients, according to the AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) Web site.
The CCR is intended to foster and improve continuity of care, reduce medical errors and ensure a minimum standard of secure health information transportability. Adoption of the CCR by the medical community and IT vendors will be a great step toward achieving interoperability of medical records, supporters said.
The CCR is a core dataset to be sent to the next health care provider whenever a patient is referred, transferred or otherwise uses different clinics, hospitals or other providers. And practitioners believe the CCR will prevent physicians and other health care professionals from having to act blindly, without easy access to relevant patient information.
"The real bright spot of actual progress in standards that is promising to quickly deliver some wins for docs and patients is the Continuity of Care standard from ASTM," Oates said in his own keynote address at the conference Wego also keynoted.
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The problem is not everybody has access to systems that support the CCR. SOAPware supports CCR as do other electronic health record offerings.
"Its going to be the presence of affordable electronic medical record systems in the marketplace that is going to drive uptake" of things like the CCR, Grundy said.
Meanwhile, a recent Commonwealth Fund/Modern Health care survey showed that 66 percent of 214 health care policy leaders surveyed said they think that rapid adoption of electronic health records and other IT systems is of primary importance. And 70 percent of the respondents said they think the federal government should play a leading role in backing providers IT investments.
In May, IBM pledged to dedicate its influence, technologies, services and knowledge base to help the PCPCC (Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative)the emerging consortium of employers, physicians and consumer groups that Grundy co-founded with Dr. Martin Sepulveda, IBM vice president, Global Well-being Services & Health Benefitswin its fight to revolutionize Americas ailing health care system.
Among its many initiatives, the PCPCC is pushing the use of Electronic Patient Health records and Web portals to connect patients to their own data, allow communication with PCPs (primary care physicians), renew their prescriptions and review information concerning their overall health situations. Such Web-based systems have driven scores of millions in savings in nations like Denmark, systems like the Veterans Administration and Medicaid in states like North Carolina, Grundy said.
"Were really a long ways behind [many other countries in health care IT] in many, many ways, with some exceptions like the VA [Veterans Administration]," Grundy said. "But in terms of my ability to buy health care across the country with connections and interoperability, were behind."
The PCPCC to date represents employers of some 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing some 330,000 medical doctors. And the group is working to effect change, but it is gradual.
In the United States, the health care industry is a $2 trillion dollar industry, with more than $100 billion spent on IT, researchers estimate. And health care IT spending is forecasted to grow at near double digit rates for the next decade, some say. For the United States, this represents 16 percent of GDP with annual increase projected at 7.7 percent through 2010. The largest health care provider in the United States is the federal government.
In a study entitled "Behind the Numbers: Health Care Cost Trends for 2008," PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts said: The deceleration in the medical cost trend is influenced by a number of short- and long-term factors. For 2008, our research has identified those factors as: Slower spending growth for prescription drugs; increased transparency and cost sharing with employees; total-health-management approach to benefits; and broadening of the digital backbone in health care."
The study by PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute, said, "The digital backbone that connects health providers, payers, and vendors is expanding. Connecting the health system electronically will aid payers in better managing both performance and compliance throughout the continuum of care."
For example, widespread adoption of electronic medical records and other health information technology is estimated to save $162 billion a year by improving care management, reducing preventable medical errors, lowering death rates from chronic disease and reducing the number of employee sick days, the Pricewaterhouse Coopers study said.
Yet, "Making the digital backbone a reality stems from progress on two issues that have long been cited as barriers to health IT adoption: lack of national standards and interoperability," the PwC study said.
Finally, the PwC study concludes: "While still in its early stages, the potential to improve quality and reduce variation in provider practice patterns will be strengthened as the digital backbone continues to strengthen."
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Microsofts Shihadeh said there have been great investments and improvements in HIT, "but rarely, if ever, have health systems been able to tie together all of their information sources. For years weve heard people in health care asking, Now that we have all this data, how can we use it to do a better job?"
Shihadeh said Microsofts Azyxxi is the answer to that question. Microsoft acquired the Azyxxi technology a year ago. It is an enterprise-wide clinical and financial data warehouse with built-in capabilities for viewing and analysis, that lets hospitals create knowledge from all the existing data.
"Azyxxi allows a health system to tie together these separate elements into a single viewtaking these IT systems, aggregating patient data [including computer generated, text, images, video, scan data, etc.] so that clinicians can get an instant picture of all the data in all the hospitals systems at any time," Shihadeh said. "It spans both user and business processes to provide customized data that spans clinical, financial and administrative systems, thus maximizing the value of information in order to make the most informed and timely decisions."
Meanwhile, higher health care spending does not guarantee better delivery or outcomes. Although the United States spends 16 percent of its GDP on health carethe highest in the worldit ranks only 37th in the overall performance of its health-care system by the World Health Organization. Moreover, more than 100,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, IBM officials estimated in a report last year.
IBM also has offered its 180,000 U.S.-based employees a Web-based EHR (Electronic Health Records) system.
IBMs Grundy said the Congress relaxation of the Stark laws, which limit physician self-referral, will allow large hospitals with strong networks, such as the Mayo Clinic or Johns Hopkins, to create silos.
"You might see evolving silos around certain hospitals, with connectivity among their network of providers," Grundy said. "The question is, is there any motivation to connect beyond that" to other health care facilities?
"I hope a utility-based solution might make it easier for vendors to have their solutions connected and interoperable," Grundy said.
IBM is working with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to transform its IT infrastructure into a utility-based, on-demand environment while consolidating and virtualizing operations. As part of a $352 million IT solution, IBM will provide UPMC with hardware, software, services, and financing.
Are there other effective solutions?
Oates said, "There is a multitude of various projects taking doomed, proprietary approaches [e.g. RHIO initiatives, NHIN] that are getting a lot of press." RHIO is a Regional Health Information Organization and NHIN is a National Health Information Network, which would be made up of a network of RHIOs.
"There are a select few projects working toward an affinity driven approach that is likely to not only succeed, but completely disrupt a currently highly dysfunctional system," Oates added.
In his keynote, Wego said the more promising approaches to health information sharing are ADHINsAffinity-Driven Health Information Networks. "I would describe their approach to be more national, affinity-based, open systems, standard Internet protocols/security, inclusive, and inexpensive," he said. "Affinity-based means they will bring together entities having a need to interact."
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He also noted that the bishops continue to be concerned about the obligatory nature of the course "Education for the Citizenry."
"It ought to have been designed as strictly civic and juridical teaching material instead of as teaching material that is moral in nature or based on a particular vision of man, as is typical of ideological or indoctrinating teaching."
Cardinal Rouco remarked that the Spanish school system is suffering from "serious problems," including high drop-out rates, the loss of authority of teachers and sexual education imparted without discretion. He said these problems must be addressed from an educational perspective but also keeping in mind "the human person."
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Animal Abuse - A Deadly Problem in Your Own Neighborhood This is a picture of the emaciated female dog that was brought to my home on Tuesday. I couldn't post sooner because I was so angry, I didn't know what might come out. This little girl is named Vayda and she was rescued from a home in Detroit, MI. Vayda is a prime example of the animal abuse that goes on everyday in homes across the country. Vayda is around 1 years old and has been used for breeding not once but twice. When the … [Read more...]
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Vietri & Paestum
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- Type:
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- Price from:
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- Phone:
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- Fax:
- +39065745900
- Payment Types:
- Cash
- Credit Card
- Cheque
- Travellers cheque
- Paypal
- Wire Transfer
- Duration:
- 8 hours
- Location Start:
- Naples/ Amalfi Coast
- Location Finish:
- Naples/ Amalfi Coast
- Start time:
- 09.00 am
- End time:
- 05.00 pm
- We Speak:
- English
Last updated: 06/21/2006
Driving southward to Paestum, a visit to the ancient Greek temples dating back to the 6th century B.C., and the Museum rich of a collection of Greek art and antiquities
Day 1
We will lead you along an 8-hour excursion to one of the most important centers of ancient Magna Grecia. This is the southern part of Italy colonized by the ancient Greeks and Roman civilizations. It was here that several cities flourished, such as Posidonian and Paestum.
Paestum: The town of Paestum will be the protagonist of our tour with its fortified walls and temples in excellent states of conservation.
Inside Paestum's city walls you will visit ancients temples such as that of Neptune, the Roman Basilica, the Forum, bathhouses, sacred wells, amphitheater as well as ancient homes and shops among the many archeological treasures.
Vietri: On our way back to Naples you will visit the seaside town of Vietri sul Mare, famous for its ceramics arts and crafts. Vietri also has a picturesque medieval borgo worth visiting, where you may tour a museum and shops dedicated to the local artwork.
If you wish to visit the countryside we can happily arrange tastings at wineries and for you try some of the best, freshest mozzarella in Italy!
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- We inform our clients that in order to ensure top quality service, our drivers are trained to give informative explanations of the local areas you visit .
Yet strict Italian tourist board regulations prohibit chauffeurs from commenting excessively at official tourist sites outside their vehicles. This is agreement with labour union agreements struck with licensed walking tour guides. They can, of course, speak to you from inside the vehicle anywhere organized tourism is in place.
Couldn't find what you're looking for? Check out more tours & excursions in Naples
1-day tours
- Naples Walking Tour - from 200 EUR
- Naples city tour - from 320 EUR
- Amalfi & Grotta Smeraldo & Positano - from 320 EUR
- Cassino and Caserta - from 360 EUR
Long tours
Email the tour operator - Vietri & Paestum
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Hello Christoph, You first have to checkout the entire source code from directory java/ classes/org/w3c/IsaViz in the CVS repository. Instructions on how to do that are available from http://dev.w3.org/ cvsweb/ You should checkout the code in IsaViz/src/org/w3c/IsaViz/ (get rid of the java/classes/ parent dirs). You will also need to update all the dependencies (JAR files) in the lib/. You will find more information about the latest dependencies, as well as built version of IsaViz 3.0-alpha at [1]. Don't forget to get the latest launch scripts, which contain updated classpaths as some libraries have changed. [1] http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga/IsaViz/ Before compiling with ant, you should copy src/org/w3c/IsaViz/ build.xml to your root IsaViz/ directory. Emmanuel On 13 avr. 07, at 16:44, Christoph Lange wrote: > > Dear IsaViz developers, > > I wanted to use the most recent IsaViz version and tried to > proceed from > this place on the homepage: > > Development version (IsaViz 3.0-alpha, February 2007): the latest > source code > is available through W3C's public CVS repository. > > OK, what is the next step? Can I check out something with the > command line CVS > client? Which files do I need to check out? The recent ones, or > also those > that are three years old and are available in the same directory? I > only > skimmed the build.xml file, but it refers to a "lib" directory that > is not > present. -- Could you give me a how-to? > > Thanks in advance :-) > > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, > ICQ# 51191833 > -- Emmanuel Pietriga INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66 Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86 91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE http://www.lri.fr/~pietrigaReceived on Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:44:57 GMT
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Constant Contact And Chadwick Martin Bailey Study Shows Word-of-Mouth Key To Success Of Daily Deals
Word-of-mouth is key to the success of daily deals for small businesses, according to the latest study from Constant Contact®, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCT) and research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey. The study, which details how and why consumers use daily deals, also found that over one third of consumers are more likely to buy a deal from a local small business than a national chain, and that consumers are willing to share deals that are great, regardless of whether they are a current customer.
"Two of the more important findings in this research were that word-of-mouth is key for the success of a deal and that personal endorsements drive deal purchases. This falls right in line with what we heard from merchants when we were developing SaveLocal: they wanted a tool that brought in new customers through word-of-mouth," said Dave Gilbertson, general manager, SaveLocal. "Half of the survey respondents said they are more likely to purchase a deal if it is recommended to them by friends or family – and that's why merchants are more than happy to reward people who recommend them and share their deals on social networks or through email. In fact, with SaveLocal we've seen that merchants who include sharing incentives in their deals increase their audience reach by 138 percent over those that did not use the feature."
The study analyzed the behavior of 1,433 consumers ages 18 and older in the United States and revealed 10 key findings:
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Frank Thomas was larger than life in Chicago
Frank Thomas was a slugger, not a fighter.
But Thomas did have one brief moment of rage, in the summer of 1996 in the visitors' dugout of old Yankee Stadium, where he shoved White Sox teammate Robin Ventura in the chest after Ventura tried to stop him from arguing with plate umpire Mike Reilly.
Teammates Dave Martinez and Lyle Mouton got between the two and quickly broke up the skirmish. Manager Terry Bevington told his players not to talk about it with the media, but Martinez wasn't listening, telling reporters "Frank snapped."
"When a guy 275 pounds snaps, look out," Martinez said.
"Frank Flips, Sox Flop," read the next day's headline in the Tribune.
It turned out to be a blip during Thomas' Hall of Fame career — which will be celebrated Sunday during the induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y. — and he and Ventura laughed about it soon after.
Ventura says it wasn't unusual then for Sox players to discuss things out loud.
"Siblings," he said. "When you're together that long ... there was plenty of other stuff that happened that you (media) guys didn't see. That was one of the few that happened close to the field."
Because of his stature as the Sox's biggest star, everything Thomas did during his Chicago days was magnified. That included his problems with manager Jerry Manuel and general manager Ken Williams and the day in 2001 pitcher David Wells ripped him on Wells' radio show for not playing hurt.
"If you don't have the guts to be out there, you know what, you don't need to be here," Wells said.
It turned out Thomas had suffered a season-ending triceps injury. Though Thomas and Wells ironed things out, it seemed like open season on "The Big Hurt," a constant topic on talk radio and in the newspapers.
Former teammate Tony Phillips believes one Chicago sports columnist constantly berated Thomas in an attempt to damage his reputation.
"Frank Thomas should be a fixture in Chicago because he was that type of person and that type of player," Phillips said. "Hopefully he'll get what he's looking for through his induction because he deserves it."
Thomas was never portrayed as a mentor to young players, but former Sox outfielder Mike Cameron recalled Thomas taking him under his wing when he arrived as a rookie in '96.
"Coming to spring training, we were staying in a hotel and he was staying in a big house, and he'd invite us over," Cameron said. "You don't ever see stuff like that. He was already a star when I got to the big leagues, and to be able to hang with him, and for Frank to share his insights on how to approach the game, it couldn't have been a better way for me to start a career."
Thomas was the centerpiece of a rebuilding project when he arrived in 1990 and one of the only remaining veterans during the next one in 2000.
"I think Frank started going crazy when Robin and I left (in '98)," Ozzie Guillen said. "He didn't know how to handle the media. He didn't know how to handle the other players.
"But when we were there (playing) together, Frank just worried about playing baseball and putting up numbers, and for a stretch of six to seven years, I never saw anybody better than him."
Ventura doesn't believe Thomas needed the old guard in the clubhouse. Thomas was going to be Thomas no matter who his teammates were.
"If he hadn't gotten another hit after we left and became unproductive, you could say that," Ventura said. "But he was fine. There's nothing further from the truth. Frank was going to hit."
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