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David, 46, said: "I have around my neck a little tiny locket and it has a lock of Elton's baby hair and a picture of him as a baby. I wear it for important occasions — when I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and on airplanes."


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Get Your Business Organized
61. Get Others Organized
You may have this organization stuff down pat, but what about your business partners, spouse or business associates? No matter how neat you are, the disorganization of others can impact your business. Try this to bring a little more order into the lives of those around you:
- Use positive reinforcement. Instead of focusing on other people's disorganization, praise them when they make an attempt to get organized. They knows they're disorganized and don't need to hear your criticism.
- Teach by example. You can't expect someone to listen to you extol the virtues of organization when you're a mess yourself. If you've changed your style from disorganized to organized, be willing to share the secrets behind your transformation.
- Be patient and realize everyone is organized to a different degree. Keep in mind that if someone changes one bad organizing habit, his or her productivity will start to increase. Give that person time to make changes and offer encouragement when he or she makes an effort to get organized.
62. Bit by Bit
Organizing projects are best done one piece at a time. Follow these tips to whittle down each step in your process:
- Determine the main areas you need to organize, and enter them on a list in your daily planner, handheld or contact manager.
- Break these areas into smaller tasks, and enter those tasks on the list. Make the tasks small enough that they're manageable but not so small that they're insignificant.
- Put a realistic deadline next to each task.
- As you accomplish each task and organize various areas, remove the task from your list.
- Avoid the tendency to bounce around your office from one area to another while organizing. When you focus on one area, you'll be able to accomplish more.
63. Clean Out Your Drawers
If you're buried under a pile of papers and your drawers are filled with more napkins, pen caps and sugar packets than usable office supplies, it may be time to clean out your desk. But where do you begin? Here are five steps to help you de-clutter your desk drawers:
- Remove. Whatever your situation, the first step is to remove everything-take out all the pens, pencils, clips, sugar packs, tea bags, photos, keys and dried-up candy.
- Sort. As you remove items, sort according to like items. Sorting shows that you have 87 pens and 830 clips. Ask yourself, "Do I really need so many?"
- Eliminate. After you've discovered that 54 pens don't even work, or that the sugar packets are rock-hard, then you can eliminate the items directly into the trash or into a box labeled "to go elsewhere."
- Contain. Stop and think-if you put all that stuff back into the drawer, it will soon be a jumbled mess again. Instead, keep those groups sorted and separated at all times by first containing them. If you put each group in a drawer divider or shallow box before placing them back in the drawer, they'll stay in one place.
- Assign. Don't just stick the containers in the drawer. Assign them a place. Unassigned items simply float from place to place.
64. Write It Down
Experts recommend entrepreneurs employ not one but two to-do lists. The master list contains a maximum of three items of long-term importance, like "grow sales" or "get new customers." The second list contains day-to-day to-dos that represent tactical steps to completing those strategic to-dos.
Once you have your lists written, categorize all items, tagging them as projects, phone calls, errands, agenda items, work to be done at your computer or desk, things you can do anywhere, and items that aren't urgent.
Review your list items frequently to see if items are listed correctly and should be there to begin with. Working over your list in advance daily and weekly means that, when you consult your list, you don't have to rethink your commitment and your plan right then.
Don't forget to cross things off once you've completed them. Checking off your to-do list not only keeps you organized, but also shows exactly how much you've accomplished.
65. Get in Control!
To work productively and efficiently, you need to create a work environment that supports you. Regain control of your work life by following these steps:
- 1. Create your vision of a clean work environment. Using your existing office space, sketch the ideal configuration of your office on paper. Remember to create a space for your old project files, financial statements and client information.
- 2. Take one day, right now, and organize. You will never have the time to organize unless you schedule it on your calendar. Using your sketch as a guide, go after your mess.
- 3. Unsubscribe from information overload. Throw away the magazines and catalogs you will never read-they just sit there and taunt you. Cancel unwanted subscriptions, and get off any mailing lists that do not help you achieve success.
- 4. Create a new project file folder. A new project usually generates a temporary mess. To avoid spillover, put all new project information, drafts and associated paperwork into an expandable file folder.
- 5.Schedule one cleanup day after every vacation. Add one day to your vacation to organize your thoughts, projects and priorities. A cleanup day lets you organize paperwork from previous projects, pay outstanding bills and answer client mail.
Take Your Sales Skills to the Next Level!
66. Dust Yourself Off
There isn't a salesperson alive who hasn't experienced a slump. If you find yourself coasting downhill, here are four steps to follow to pick yourself back up:
- Call on your satisfied customers. Look for additional ways to satisfy their needs or new needs you can meet. Learn about their new problems and challenges, and come back to them with fresh solutions.
- Concentrate on bread-and-butter accounts. Different accounts have different sales cycles, with some taking up to a few years. Sometimes, you get so caught up with landing big one that you forget about little accounts with shorter sales cycles that can bring in money now.
- Stay on top of business and world news, and how these events might affect customers. Look for sources that will give you new ideas on how to fine-tune your activities and target your customers more efficiently. Read materials that will help you speak to your customers in their language. Learn more about how other people grew their businesses.
- Be selective about the company you keep. If everyone around you is in a slump as well, you'll drag each other down. Surround yourself with people who are excited about what they do and ride on their momentum until you can build your own.
67. How'd I Do?
How can you improve if you don't find out where you went wrong and what you did right? Always ask for feedback. If you want to improve your sales presentations or your relationships with customers, ask them what you need to do to maintain and increase their business. While a great learning tool, asking for a customer's opinion is also a good way to show customers you care and are willing to work at solving problems. Asking for feedback can also save a customer relationship. While dissatisfied customers don't always complain, they very rarely buy from you a second time. 68. Listen Up!
One of the most important things you can do to become a better to seller is to become a better listener. You should be listening at least 50 percent of the time.
Improve your listening skills by taking notes, observing your prospect's body language, not jumping to conclusions and concentrating on what your prospect is saying. Also, track how much talking you're doing. If you're talking twice as much as your prospect, or more, it's time to take the backseat and listen.
69. Learn From Your Mistakes
While there's no way to completely avoid making mistakes, there are still plenty of ways to get the most out of the mistakes we do make. Here are three methods to deal with your mistakes:
- Put your ego aside. It's easy to get angry or frustrated when things don't go your way, and hold on to the idea that it's someone else's fault things went wrong. But there's only one way to find out what the problem was-ask the customer. Listen to what they have to say and see if there's still time to save the sale.
- Use a setback as a setup for future success. Let your errors be the motivation for making improvements the next time around. You've put in a lot of time and effort-and if you don't learn from what went wrong, all that time is wasted.
- Take a proactive approach. Read everything you can about your profession, industry, products and services. Meet with people who have particular skills and talents and share information with them. Keeping your mind fine-tuned helps you eliminate making future mistakes.
70. What Not to Do
To sell smarter you need to eliminate all those things that waste your, and your customer's, time. How can you work more efficiently? Try steering clear of these time-wasters:
- Dealing with people who can't make the buying decision. Make sure the person you're speaking to is a decision-maker. Don't be afraid to call the higher levels, even the president of your target company.
- Working without a priority list. Make a top 10 list of your biggest accounts and a top 10 list of your biggest prospects. Look at this list every day to keep yourself focused so you can spend your energy on getting the best return on your investment.
- Relying on technology rather than on relationships. Sales are made from relationships, and it's difficult to establish relationships on a computer screen. Keep e-mails short-remember they're great for passing information but can never take the place of one-on-one communication.
Protecting Your Business
71. Preparing for the Worst
In case of an emergency, such as a flood, fire or earthquake, it's tough for even the strongest of us to keep a level head. So why worry about what's going to happen to your clients, contacts and important documents in the heat of the moment? Why not start planning for disaster now? Here are four things to think about:
- Business-interruption insurance and records reconstruction are good policies to look into. Although disaster insurance can be costly, it may also be worth checking out.
- Be sure to back up all your crucial data and keep those files off site in a safe place. And be sure to check on them from time to time.
- Make copies of important paperwork such as customer contracts, employee information and legal documents, and keep those off site as well.
- Make sure that each of your outside vendors also has a disaster plan in place. You don't want your business adversely affected because one of your vendors hasn't planned ahead.
72. Peace of Mind
Just as you wouldn't drive a car without insurance, it's best not to open a business without some type of coverage. So where and how do you begin? Just follow the steps below to get your business covered.
- Find an agent. Locating an agent to help you identify the right insurance at the right price should be a high priority for every new business owner.
- Types of insurance. After you decide on an agent, sit down with him or her to consider what types of insurance you may need. These might include property, liability, auto, workers' compensation and business interruption insurance.
- Research your options. As with any buying decision, comparison-shop insurance policies and coverage and make sure you understand what you're comparing.
Lastly, here are some general rules for insurance coverage:
- Consider buying a combination policy that covers both property and liability coverage. This could save you some money.
- Look for a small-business insurance package that includes a full range of coverage. This is often much cheaper than buying coverage from several different companies.
- See what your trade or professional association, chamber of commerce or other business association offers for group insurance coverage. The buying power of a large group may mean lower rates for you.
73. Why Can't We Be Friends?
You just lost one of your employees-does that mean clients are soon to follow? It could if you didn't make employees sign a noncompete agreement.So what is this magic contract? What does it do? Who should sign it?
A noncompete agreement is a formal contract between you and your employees in which they promise not to use information or contacts pertinent to your business in a competing situation. This could mean going to work for a competitor or starting a competing business of their own.
Which employees should sign noncompete agreements? While the prerequisites vary from business to business, the following is a good general list. (The term "employees" in this list represents executive level, management, supervisory and non-management personnel that are relative to that example.)
- Employees involved in research or product development.
- Employees involved in the design, fabrication, engineering and manufacturing process.
- Employees who service products made and sold by your company.
- Sales and service employees who have regular contact with customers or sensitive customer information.
- Employees with access to sensitive business information or trade secrets.
- Most importantly, employees who have sufficient information about your business that would allow them to start a competing business.
74. Get It in Writing
If you're doing business with someone, whether as a client or a provider, you're going to need a contract. Ideally, you'd have a top law firm at your disposal to hammer these things out for you, but the reality for most entrepreneurs is that they have to do these things themselves.
So what should a contract say? Here are the essential elements of a business agreement:
- The parties to the agreement. In other words, your business name and the name of the other party, whether that's a customer or a vendor.
- What each party is going to gain from the agreement. This is referred to in legal vocabulary as consideration.
- The main terms of the contract. For example, what each party is promising to do. Obviously, it's extremely important that this part of the contract be very specific and include such things as the work to be performed, the price to be paid for the work, how and when payment will be made, when the work will be completed, how long the contract will be in effect, and whether either party is "warranting" anything.
- Execution. Be sure both parties sign the contract and that the person signing (if he or she is representing a company) has the authority to sign.
- Date. This is the date the contract is signed.
- Delivery. Make sure each party receives a copy of the final signed agreement.
75. It's the Thought That Counts
Assets such as intellectual property, trade secrets, pricing formulas, customer lists, business plans, recipes and the like are typically the foundation upon which a company is built in a business world full of copycat competitors.
Here are five ways to protect the ideas, designs and plans that make your business unique:
- Patents, copyrights and trademarks. These are legal filings that document your ownership and create certain legal protections to help you protect your property. Have your attorney assist you with these applications.
- Confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. These documents commit a party to keeping specified data and information confidential and out of the hands of unintended parties. Always consult an attorney on this.
- Employment agreements. These agreements stipulate that all company assets are proprietary and that unauthorized disclosure of confidential information such as pricing formulas, customer lists and other data and information is prohibited.
- Computer passwords, safes and locked file cabinets. When used properly, they can restrict access to proprietary information.
- Data backup. Back up everything that is important. Digital documents should be backed up on a server that's in a different location or on a zip disk or CD that's kept offsite along with copies of important physical documents. Absolutely do not attempt to store anything important in your head.

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Andy Kurovets pokes fun of the lifestyle of most people who work with computers with this watch. He has broken the day down into a few actions: Wake up, drive to work, go on your computer, go back to your car, watch tv, and then go to sleep.
I completely agree with his design; it seems that our obsession with technology has consumed our life and careers, leaving us with less time to enjoy all the great things that happen in between these basic tasks.
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Grow With Us.
Annual Plant Sale
When: Memorial Day Weekend 2015
Dates: Saturday, Sunday & Monday,
May 23 - 25
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. daily
Where: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
The Zoo Plant Sale Keeps Growing!
Annually the largest plant selection on the mountain, with incredible prices.
Proceeds from the event go toward supporting the Horticulture Department, and the Zoo's Horticulture Staff is on hand to answer gardening questions.
No Zoo admission is required to attend the plant sale, so stop by!
The Plant Sale features over 250 varieties of resource-wise perennials, grasses, and herbs that perform well in the Pikes Peak region.
Pre-order Plants Online
Online pre-ordering for the 2015 will open in spring! Please join us over Memorial Day weekend for the plant sale at the Zoo. For those of you that place online pre-orders, you can enjoy the convenience of avoiding the crowds with early pick-up and special early entry into the Memorial Day Plant Sale on Friday, May 22nd, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Orders of $500 or more shall have the option of free delivery within our local area (half hour drive from the Zoo).


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If you are moving content between page or domains on a permanent basis to maintain a seamless transition between your pages (hopefully) established rankings, there really is only one way of redirecting your existing urls.
Using a 301 redirect.
There are a number of ways of implementing a 301 redirect, my preferred method would be a command in the .htaccess file, but alternative ways are equally acceptable.
For a full low down on setting up and implementing a 301 redirect, this site has some great information.


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Looking for the best in new Halloween animatronics or, possibly, just for a great gag gift for April Fool's Day, then you need to get yourself one of these remote control tarantulas from online Amazon shop Uncle Milton. This store knows how to up the fear factor with its line of terror-inducing toys by incorporating realistic details. After all, they are the same company that created the remote controlled snake, cockroach, and rat.
This spider version, however, comes with a real hairy texture, light-up eyes and legs that move independently of each other, for a scurrying movement so creepy that it is sure to give you the shivers just looking at it. Get ready to scare all your friends with this ghoulish gadget from Uncle Milton.


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Movie News By Scott Beggs on January 11, 2010 | Be the First To CommentBrought to you by: The C-17 Globemaster 3 – when you absolutely, positively have to deliver an M1 Abrams Tank overnight.
This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, Rob Hunter decides to stop by to claim that every news piece I find important is as boring as his high school sex education class. We dissect the secret of life hidden in ancient religious texts, and wax philosophic on matters personal and universal while sipping brandy and smoking It's A Boy cigars.
Also, we find time to review Leap Year, Youth in Revolt, Daybreakers, and other films that aren't Avatar.
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- That's not creepy.
- Neil Miller still not cast in either film.
- And someone is foolishly remaking Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
- Neil Miller's Wacky, No Good, Very Bad Day Trailer Round Up: An 18th Kick-Ass trailer, A first A-Team trailer, and other hyphenated films, too!
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I reflect on that the next day during my long drive to Bardstown along Frankfort Pike, the road defined by open pastures, lyrical barns and lithesome mares grazing alongside their foals. After checking in at the historic Old Talbott Tavern, I head off to Kenny Rapier Golf Course in My Old Kentucky Home State Park. On a descent into the hollow of the par-three second, the unmistakable aroma of bourbon grows so intense that I think I'm hallucinating. At the fifth hole, I find its source: nearby Heaven Hill Distilleries. As I stand over my putt, I inhale the perfumed air, and in that instant golf and bourbon become one. Although the course, with modestly rolling hills, lacks the drama of all the others I would play, the golf is effortless fun. What's more, a creek bisecting the sixteenth and seventeenth holes offers a wonderful laboratory for observing the striations in limestone just above the stream bed: Bluegrass Country waterworks in microcosm.
Which got me thinking about another connection between golf and spirits: Scotland and the rise of single malts in the 1970s. With the cachet they commanded over blended whiskeys, single malts forced the bourbon barons to come up with new concepts just to compete. They devised small-batch bourbons—premium bottlings of a limited number of specially selected barrels. Elmer T. Lee took it further, devising the even fancier idea of single-barrel bottling. Both methods aimed directly at the palates and prestige meters of a generation of drinkers who wouldn't be caught dead sipping from the same jug as their forebears.
At age eighty-eight, Lee is part dean, part legend of the bourbon industry. Long retired, he was the master distiller at Buffalo Trace and is one of only two living masters to have a brand named in his honor, a fitting tribute to the revolutionary concept he came up with. Unlike Scheurich, Lee doesn't mind cutting his bourbon with soda. "I have a highball every night before dinner mixed with either Sprite or 7Up," he volunteers while leading me through one of the dark open-air rickhouses at Buffalo Trace. Whiskey has been distilled under one name or another on this site since 1775. Now a massive operation that comprises scores of buildings spread over 110 acres, the distillery produces fourteen brands and twenty-four variations, or "expressions," on them.
When his bosses wanted to create something with the mystique to rival the finest single malts, Lee remembered how his mentor, an industry giant named Colonel Albert B. Blanton who ran Buffalo Trace in the years after Prohibition, would occasionally wander through his favorite rickhouse, sample several barrels and tap the one he liked best for his own drinking pleasure. Lee thought the idea might work on a larger scale, and in 1984 he came up with Blanton's, the original single-barrel bourbon (its bottle capped with an eye-catching racehorse figurine). When he retired two years later—he remains the distillery's goodwill ambassador and sits on its tasting panel—Lee was asked by his successor if he would mind a label bearing his own name. Sure, Lee said, as long as he could choose the bourbon. "I like a traditional taste," he explains. "Vanilla, caramel, a little sweetness. Not harsh. No aftertaste. A hint of oak and fruit from the barrel. A balance, really."
As Doug Cauthen and I walk to our balls in the fairway of Kearney Hill's gently bending par-four seventeenth, he describes horse breeding in similar terms of balance. "It's mechanical science and it's an art. There are so many time-tested traditions, but we're always trying to improve things," says Cauthen, whose brother Steve won the Triple Crown astride Affirmed in 1978. "Golf's like that, too. It's all a balance between tradition and technology."
Two days later, I can't help but balance old and new as I navigate my way around the water-encroached fairways of Lafayette Golf Club. Once the homestead of a mid-nineteenth-century congressman named Willis Green, the farm, mill and manor house fell into neglect after the death of Green's great-granddaughter, known as Miss Jennie, in 1965.
Miss Jennie's old house has new life as a stylish nine-room bed-and-breakfast, perfect for traveling golfers and others who want to explore the region. The course, designed by architect Jodie Kinney, the rare woman in an almost exclusively male profession, celebrates the farm's natural lakes and streams, its mature hardwoods and its rolling topography.


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AbstractThis article aims to define the cultural context of a set of Visigothic metallic elements recovered from Patalou. Patalou is a site located in the county of Nisa, but it has not as yet been excavated. The artefacts of adornment, produced in bronze, and used over costume, are: three pieces of belt buckles, a simple buckle and an isolated component of a buckle. The analysis and interpretation developed in this text attempt to sort the artefacts according to a typology, in order to discuss their artistic, political, religious and chronological context. In doing so, I will compare the artefacts to those from well known Visigoth sites, namely burial sites located in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Trading Voices, et al. This juried show in the Lower Gallery at the Arvada Center was put together using a clever if obvious idea: Have a Coloradan judge the Arizona pieces, and an Arizonan pick the Colorado ones. In this case, the local was Denver Art Museum curator Dianne Vanderlip, who was matched with Marilyn Zeitlin from the Arizona State University Art Museum. The concept for the show, which compares artists from the two states, came from Arvada's gallery and museum director, Jerry Gilmore, who lived in Arizona and still maintains ties to the art scene there. Interestingly, the Colorado artists outnumber those from Arizona by a ratio of two to one. There are a few familiar names in Trading Voices, but most of the participants from both states are little known, something that's almost always true in juried shows. In the Theater Gallery is New Works on Paper, made up of prints by Chuck McCoy that combine fine art and commercial processes. Trading Voices runs through November 21, New Works on Paper through November 20, both at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, 720-898-7200.
Wyoming Expeditions. Gallery Roach is named for the late Otto Roach, a prominent commercial photographer in mid-twentieth century Denver. His lab, Roach Photography, earned a fine reputation for photo finishing. Dutch Walla, who became Roach's associate more than fifty years ago, now owns both the gallery and the lab. Wyoming Expeditions features Roach's photos of Wyoming done between the 1940s and 1960s. They're done in black and white, with Roach capturing many famous Wyoming scenes, including such remarkable Yellowstone National Park subjects as the surrealistic Jupiter Terrace and the majestic falls at Yellowstone's Grand Canyon. Roach repeatedly visited nearby Wyoming to take photos, so he was able to supplement the well-known Yellowstone attractions with shots of unknown backcountry views. Surely the standout is a gigantic mural measuring seven feet by ten feet. And if the tremendous size of the photomural were not enough of an accomplishment, the entire thing has been hand-tinted! Through January 27 at Gallery Roach, 860 Broadway, 303-839-5202.


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Shawna Keller
Shawna Keller grew up in East Tulsa and graduated from East Central High School. She attended the University of Tulsa, where she earned a B.A. in history. Keller is involved with a number of community organizations, including MADD, Standing in the Gap, Blue Star Mothers and Oklahoma Honor Flights. She is currently a teacher at an alternative school with students who need a more nontraditional approach to learning. Keller married her husband, Jeremy, in 2004.[2]
- See also: Tulsa Public Schools elections (2014)
Shawna Keller challenged incumbent Bobbie Gray-Elliott and newcomer William D. Bickerstaff for the District 4 seat in the general election on February 11, 2014. She defeated Bobbie Gray-Elliott in a runoff election on April 1, 2014.
Election results
Runoff election
Tulsa Public Schools, District 4 Runoff Election, 4-year term, 2014 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Nonpartisan | Shawna Keller | 65% | 1,044 | |
Nonpartisan | Bobbie Gray-Elliot Incumbent | 35% | 561 | |
Total Votes | 1,605 | |||
Source: Oklahoma State Election Board, "Municipal/Annual School Runoff Election — April 1, 2014," accessed April 2, 2014 These election results are unofficial. They will be updated once certified election results are available. |
General election
Tulsa Public Schools, District 4 General Election, 4-year term, 2014 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Nonpartisan | Shawna Keller | 49.8% | 220 | |
Nonpartisan | Bobbie Gray-Elliot | 36% | 159 | |
Nonpartisan | William D. Bickerstaff | 14.3% | 63 | |
Total Votes | 442 | |||
Source: Oklahoma State Election Board, "Annual School Election — February 11, 2014," accessed April 9, 2014 |
Keller did not report any campaign contributions or expenditures to the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.[3]
Keller did not receive any official endorsements for her campaign.
Keller ran in the 2012 election for Oklahoma House District 23. Keller ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on June 26 and was defeated by Terry O'Donnell in the general election which took place on November 6, 2012.[4][5]
Oklahoma House of Representatives, District 23, General Election, 2012 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Democratic | Terry O'Donnell | 58.4% | 6,202 | |
Republican | Shawna Keller | 41.6% | 4,412 | |
Total Votes | 10,614 |
Campaign themes
Keller's campaign website listed the following campaign themes for 2014:
Advocate for students
"We must ensure our children are the #1 priority with every decision we make. Shawna will ask the tough questions when it comes to day to day decisions that will directly impact our students." |
Voice for teachers
"Our teachers are the first line of success to ensuring our children are educated. It is vital that we provide the tools they need to educate our children. Those tools include textbooks, technology, professional development, and basic supplies." |
Expand partnerships
"Tulsa Public Schools has many partnerships that are vital to the success of our children. We must work to continue and expand the successful programs, as well as identify new partnerships that will work well in our district. " |
Improve communications
"As your school board member, Shawna will be a voice for the students, parents, and educators in East Tulsa. To be that voice, input from the community will be vital to the improvement of our schools." |
Note: The above quote is from the candidate's website, which may include some typographical or spelling errors.
Keller cites her top priorities as quality education, healthy communities, health care and jobs.[6]
What was at stake?
Two seats on the school board were up for election on February 11, 2014. District 4 member Bobbie Gray-Elliott sought re-election against newcomers Shawna Keller and William D. Bickerstaff. In District 7, newcomers Suzanne Schreiber and Gene Beach competed for Lois Jacobs' seat. Neither the President nor the Vice President of the school board were up for re-election in 2014.
Issues in the district
Tulsa Public Schools is addressing overcrowding in many of its schools. Since the school district began an ongoing efficiency initiative known as Project Schoolhouse, it shut down 14 school buildings with low enrollment. This left many schools operating at higher occupancy rates. District leaders say they need to pay close attention to ensure that schools don't cross the line between full and overcapacity. Each winter since Project Schoolhouse began, district administrators have conducted an annual site capacity review and the Tulsa school board has subsequently approved adjustments to school boundaries to help balance out student enrollments among sites. In 2013, Tulsa Public Schools reopened a closed elementary school building as a 7th grade center to help alleviate unexpected crowding at McLain Junior High School. Superintendent Keith Ballard believes that Project Schoolhouse is working and that the district could be eligible to pursue a new bond issue to address capital needs, including classroom additions, in late 2014 or early 2015.[7]
About the district
- See also: Tulsa Public Schools, Oklahoma
Tulsa County outperformed in comparison to the rest of Oklahoma in terms of higher education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 29.5% of Tulsa County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a Bachelor's degree compared to 23.2% for Oklahoma as a whole. The median household income in Tulsa County was $47,845 compared to $44,891 for the state of Oklahoma. The poverty rate in Tulsa County was 15.4% compared to 16.6% for the entire state.[8]
Note: The United States Census Bureau considers "Hispanic or Latino" to be a place of origin, not a race. Therefore, the Census allows citizens to report both their race and that they are from a "Hispanic or Latino" place of origin simultaneously. As a result, the percentages in each column of the racial demographics table will exceed 100 percent. Each column will add up to 100 percent after removing the "Hispanic or Latino" place of origin percentages, although rounding by the Census Bureau may make the total one or two tenths off from being exactly 100 percent.[11]
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- ↑ Tulsa Public Schools, "Board of Education Members," accessed January 16, 2014
- ↑ Shawna Keller: Tulsa School Board, "About Shawna," accessed January 17, 2014
- ↑ Oklahoma, "Candidate Information," accessed January 16, 2014
- ↑ Oklahoma State Election Board, "Candidates for State Elective Office 2012," April 13, 2012
- ↑ Oklahoma State Election Board, Unofficial 2012 primary results April 13, 2012
- ↑ Shawnakeller.com, "Priories," accessed October 2, 2012
- ↑ Tulsa World, Andrea Eger "Tulsa Public Schools considering options to alleviate crowding," accessed January 16, 2014
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 United States Census Bureau, "Tulsa County, Oklahoma," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "ELSI Table Generator," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ Oklahoma, "MESA - Current Registration Statistics by County," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ United States Census Bureau, "Frequently Asked Questions," accessed April 21, 2014
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The Devils' season is over, but the NHL playoffs are just beginning! What better way to enjoy them than to get together with your fellow Devils (and hockey) fans to watch some hockey!
The Devils Army will be getting together to watch Game 4 of the Montreal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins series on Thursday, April 21st at Cryan's Beef & Ale House in South Orange!
We will have our own private room, drink specials, and the Devils will be supplying some very cool giveaways and prizes!
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As we all know, those of us who become season ticket holders do so because we love our team, we admire our players, and we love being able to share the excitement of the season with our friends.
However, one very important group of people often go overlooked, and if not for them our experience in the arena would be very different. So, I wanted to take a moment to thank some of our unsung heroes who work hard every day to make sure we, the fans, are taken care of every time we visit.
For my family, those heroes are the staff in the Fire Lounge. Being in the Fire Lounge every game is truly an amazing experience and not just because the food is great! We've come to know many of the members of the staff, and they have gone above and beyond making sure we have a great visit, every time. We are always greeted with smiles and hellos, hugs and handshakes, great conversation, and outstanding service.
From the ushers and the security guards, to the cooks and food servers, bartenders and managers, everyone is outstanding.
Doc, Chico and Steve are there broadcasting, too! They often take the time to greet fans with a friendly smile, pose for photos or sign autographs!
We love our Devils, but the staff in the Fire Lounge have truly taken our Season Ticket Experience to a level beyond what we expected it would be!
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Saturday was one of the first nice days of Spring and it made for a great Fan Fest! Fans came out to enjoy live music, food, games and great photo opps with NJ and the Devils Army rig. There was a great crowd there, even the Montreal Canadian fans were out. Everyone, both young and not-so-young, loved taking shots at the nets and playing small pick-up games of hockey in the middle of Championship Plaza.
This Fan Fest had a unique addition, "The Tent," where Devils fans got the opportunity to buy some pieces of Devils history. They had rare memorabilia, discounted team merchandise and team relics that came straight from the teams storage vault. Printed towels, pucks, bobble heads and even a few autographed sticks were up for grabs. These items have never been offered to the public, so if you noticed a low attendance of Devils fans out in Championship Plaza, it's because they were all in "The Tent"!
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer easter eggDuring one of the dialogues between Anders and Isabella, Isabella mentions that abominations are easy to escape because they make loud noises like "Grr Argh". Anders refutes, saying "Abominations to not go Grr Argh". During the ending credits of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer television series, Joss Whedon's "Mutant Enemy Productions" credit screen shows a little monster which says "Grr Argh?" |
Isaac's armor from Dead Space 2Purchase Dead Space 2 (new) to receive a code for a suit of armor for Hawke that is designed like Isaac's armor. You can find this, and all other unlockables, in a chest at your uncle's house in Kirkwall. |
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The Mask easter eggDuring the "Prime Suspect" mission when you meet Mr. Dupries, have Varric in your party. Give the sarcastic response of letting Dupries talk his way out the situation. Varric will make the comment "I bet 20 silver it's 'it wasn't me, it was the one-armed man'", referencing The Mask when Jim Carey tries to defend his innocence when he gets captured. |
Recommended party configurationYou should have a damager, tank, entropist and healer. This will ensure you have one member taking all the damage and bringing the attention away from the rest of the party. Have an entropist (Merrill is recommended) to weaken and demoralize the enemy, a healer to strengthen and maintain the party, and a damager to inflict the pain. This will ensure a well rounded party that covers all aspects of combat. |
Potions hintIf you already have 15 health potions or 10 other potions in your inventory, the game is less likely to give you more potions as random loot drops. You can fool the game into thinking you have less potions by going home and dropping some potions into storage. After that, loot a dungeon and the game will give you more potions in loot until you reach the "cap." Repeat until you have the desired number of potions. Eventually you'll be rolling in health, lyrium, and stamina potions. If you don't need them, sell them for coin. |
Jade Empire easter eggDuring one of the dialogues between Fenris and Varric, Fenris asks Varric "Who is Bianca?" When Varric tells him it is a crossbow, Fenris says that he must have named it after someone. Varric replies, "Nope, Mirabelle was taken", referencing the rifle owned by Sir Roderick Von Fontlebottom The Magnificent Bastard from Jade Empire. |
Unlock Hindsight, Staff of Parthalan, and Hayder's RazorIn order to acquire this unique belt and its codex, sign up for the Dragon Age newsletter through Penny Arcade here (http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/info/pennyarcade/) using the EA account you use for the game. You can get this belt along with the Staff of Parthalan as long as you sign up for the newsletter using both methods. For Hayder's Razor and its codex entry, simply beat the Dragon Age 2 demo while signed onto the same EA account. Find these and other unlockables in a chest in your uncle's house in Kirkwall: |
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NCIS easter eggDuring the second act, when you first enter your Hightown mansion, Aveline will ask you to deal with a problem she has with the Templar Emmeric. During the conversation you will be able to question her about Emmeric's investigation. When you select the question that asks her why she would not investigate it with the guard, she talks about the Gascard de Puis house raid, then finishes it by saying "Why can't he just build a boat like other old men." This is a reference to the television show NCIS and the main character Leeroy Jethro Gibbs, an old federal agent who builds boats in his basement. |
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Sir Mixalot easter eggTake Isabella to the desire section inside the fade. A demon will seduce her with the prospect of a boat in the harbor. When Isabella turns on you, she will say "I like big boats and I cannot lie", referencing Sir Mixalot's "I Like Big Butts" song. |
Prequel bonusHave a saved game file from Dragon Age: Origins to unlock the Blood Dragon armor. |
Facebook UnlockablesUnlock the following items for Dragon Age II by performing the corresponding tasks on the Dragon Age facebook game:
Wizard Of Oz easter eggIn your home, when your mother says that her children should be nobles now, your uncle says "And if wishes were poppy we'd all be dreaming right now", referencing the Wizard of Oz. |
Boots of the Frozen WastesAfter registering your copy of Dragon Age II in your user entitlements on the Bioware Social Site, find a chest at Gamlen's house once you're in Kirkwall to obtain the Boots of the Frozen Wastes. |
Dead Anders stays with heroPlay through the game with a relationship with Anders. At the end of the game, choose to kill him for destroying the Chantry. In the end scene where Varric says that everyone had to leave the hero, he will say, "Everyone, of course, except Anders", even though he is already dead. |


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Pininfarina has highlighted the top of the Cambiano concept in the latest teaser image of the car that's set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show. Pininfarina's Cambiano could attract auto show onlookers checking out other debuts like Infiniti's electric concept and the 2013 Porsche Boxster.
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Pininfarina's latest concept takes its name from the Italian municipality of Cambiano, where the company has been headquartered since 1982. The year 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the Pininfarina Styling Center's opening and the 10th anniversary of the Pininfarina Engineering Center.
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101 | Freshman Success | 1 | This course is designed to assist students in the academic and social transitions associated with college life. Students will explore success skills including time management, note-taking, and study strategies. Career and academic guidance activities will be included. |
103 | Prior Learning Assessment (Janet Roberson, Coordinator) | 3 | This course is an introduction to prior learning assessment and the standards used to evaluate proper learning. Students will enhance the development of critical thinking and life-long learning skills through the creation of a learning portfolio of documentation, including an essay. Students will then be able to decide if they believe they have sufficient experiences to submit their portfolio for evaluation of further college level credits. |
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290 | Creative Expression in Art and Music | 3 | The music portion of this course will focus on elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, timbre, and form. Vocal, instrumental, listening, and movement activities will be incorporated to explore the creative process of combining these various elements of musical expression. The art portion of the course will focus on developing the elements and principles into two-dimensional and three-dimensional form. Various materials and techniques will be explored. Studio hours are scheduled for the art segment. Does not meet General Education requirements. Prerequisites: ART 103 and MUS 103. |
475 | Interdisciplinary Capstone Course | 2 | The capstone course in the Interdisciplinary Studies major provides the opportunity for the student to demonstrate the results of an in-depth research project involving two of the three areas of concentration. The course allows the student to work with two faculty members to determine the scope and depth of the project and to present to the academic community the results and implications of the project. This course requires a written paper and a formal oral presentation, both mentored by the faculty member of choice from the concentrations. |


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Home › Academics › Colleges › College of Engineering and Natural Sciences › About the College › News Events and Publications › News › Chevron contributes major gift to TU
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Bottom floor of Stephenson Hall will be named Chevron Center for Education and Research
The University of Tulsa has announced the naming of the Chevron Center for Education and Research, made possible by a generous $1 million commitment that stems from the success of TU's partnership with one of the nation's leading energy companies.
The donation, made through Chevron's University Partnership Program and announced during halftime at the Nov. 6 game against Rice University, will establish the Chevron Center on the bottom floor of the soon-to-be constructed Stephenson Hall, home to the McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering. The center will comprise the entire bottom floor of the new facility and will include 13 laboratories and two student lobbies.
"Chevron has been one of our key corporate partners for many years, and the successful outcomes of this relationship are testament to the benefits of industry and education working in collaboration," said Steven Bellovich, dean of the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences. "This generous gift for the Chevron Center for Education and Research solidifies the university's relationship with an industry giant whose global reach will benefit TU for generations."
Stephenson Hall, a 38,600-square-foot facility will house 16 laboratories, 33 faculty and graduate assistant offices, two large student commons areas and conference facilities. Its construction will be a major boon for the two TU programs whose growing enrollments have placed current laboratory and classroom space at a premium.
Ali Moshiri, President of Chevron's Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, is based in Houston and serves as Chevron's Executive Sponsor of the Chevron – TU relationship. He joined Chevron after earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from TU in petroleum engineering in 1976 and 1978, respectively.
"The University of Tulsa is important to me personally, but it's also important to the company. Chevron has numerous TU graduates working around the world and as our industry advances, there will be an even greater demand for top quality engineers and scientists such as those studying at TU. Chevron is proud to play a role in preparing our institutions of higher education to accommodate these students, and in turn, we hope to enjoy mutual success through its product," said Moshiri.
Perhaps the most high-profile example of the university's productive relationship with Chevron is the TU Center of Research Excellence (TUCoRE), which began in 2002 as a joint research partnership. Jim Sorem, the TUCoRE co-principal investigator and senior associate dean for the college, said the center acts as a research and development operation, supporting the creation or refinement of production systems technologies while providing critical hands-on educational opportunities for TU's petroleum engineering students.
On the field during TU's Nov. 6 football game, Moshiri presented TU President Steadman Upham with a check for $320,000, representing an initial payment toward the Chevron Center for Education and Research as well as an additional gift of $120,000 to support the engineering, science and energy management programs. With this commitment, Chevron's generosity to TU through its University Partnership Program now totals more than $11.5 million.
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When he was drafted in late April, Robert Griffin III was about to become very rich, and very well known. And that's more than good enough for Kim Kardashian.
The woman bent on ruining the existence of every man she touches crossed paths with RG3 shortly after the Redskins called his name and made him this year's second overall pick. Down the street "30 Rock" was doing a live taping of its season finale, and after he was done with his 37th interview of the evening, Griffin caught the west coast taping that started at 11:30 p.m. ET.
When he sat down, the world's most famous ass person for being famous was a few seats over. The show's executive producer Jack Burditt was beside Kardashian, and during an appearance on the Rich Eisen Podcast he described Kardashian's inquiries and her behavior as the fembot predator stalked her latest prey.
From the D.C. Sports Bog:
"She sat next to me while we were watching the show on the monitor and RGIII is a few seats down, and during the commercial break she starts asking me questions about him," Burditt said on the podcast. "Like, 'Now he's a football player, right?' I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And [Kardashian asks] 'And he just…something big happened, right?' And I'm like, well yeah, he just was the No. 2 overall pick tonight. [Kardashian asks] 'And what team?' Washington. [Kardashian asks] 'What's Washington?' Redskins. She goes, 'I don't know much about football, but, so what's his deal?' And I'm thinking, you stay away from him. This is a nice young man."
RG3 is engaged, but that's just a minor detail for Kardashian (any Kardashian). But what's especially surprising about this little exchange is that she knew nothing–nothing–about the NFL, even after a long relationship with Reggie Bush and a brief encounter of the sexual kind with Miles Austin.
Fine, she's not an NFL fan. That's permissible, I guess. She's allowed to not know the draft was that evening, although even that's debatable because I dunno, maybe she would have noticed some increased foot traffic a few doors down at Radio City Music Hall. But to have no idea what the Redskins are? That's pretty poor form, Kim.
Thankfully, Burditt blocked this blitz. It may have been the fiercest and most deadly pressure Griffin would face all season from an opposing man hunter.


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Shane's Wednesday 10/22/14 Evening Weather Update
Posted: 10/22/2014 - Shane's Wednesday Evening Weather Update
Posted: 10/22/2014 - Shane's Wednesday Evening Weather Update
Updated: 10/21/2014 - Shane's Tuesday 10/21/14 Evening Weather Update
Updated: 05/21/2014 - Attacks involving knives, rat poison and other weapons are reported regularly.
Updated: 11/08/2013 - Will winter be mild or wild? WBKO Weeknight Meteorologist Shane Holinde lets us know in his month-to-month forecast for the upcoming season.
Updated: 10/07/2013 - Dirt has been moving quickly at the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park. By Labor Day next year, the 184 acre site must be completed.
Updated: 01/07/2013 - The Franklin-Simpson Superintendent says it was the Columbine Shooting that struck fear and worry inside of our nation's schools. The 1999 shooting resulted in schools cracking down on safety. And more than a decade later, Sandy Hook would re-energize that need for safety in schools. Franklin-Simpson High School, City, and county officials discussed ideas today for a safer school environment.
Posted: 10/29/2012 - Sandy cancels two flights out and one flight into the Commonwealth.
Posted: 08/31/2012 - The remnants of Isaac are expected to produce much-needed rain in Kentucky, but the question is how much.
Updated: 07/06/2012 - Kentucky has placed 27 counties under a Water Shortage Watch.
Posted: 03/30/2012 - The bill would allow the state treasury to refund the sales tax on materials used to rebuild the storm-damaged counties.
Posted: 03/20/2012 - FEMA will reimburse county and local governments for storm damage.
Updated: 03/03/2012 - Kentucky emergency management officials say another body has been found in south-central Kentucky, raising the state's death toll to 17 people killed by violent storms.
Posted: 12/23/2011 - Winter is here, meaning the days are shorter, and the state Transportation Cabinet and Kentucky State Police want to remind motorists to make themselves visible by turning on headlights.
Updated: 07/22/2011 - Winds measured at 75 miles per hour flipped private planes over at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport Thursday afternoon.
Posted: 07/18/2011 - Another blast of heat and humidity will put air conditioners to the test across Kentucky and Tennessee this week, as forecasters are predicting heat index readings climbing into triple digits.
Updated: 06/23/2011 - A confirmed tornado smashed barns and sent horses running wild at Churchill Downs Wednesday night.
Updated: 06/07/2011 - Sweeping storms have some homeowners picking up the phone and dialing for help with the aftermath clean-up. The extra business from the storms has some companies hiring more people.
Updated: 05/06/2011 - District 3 Roads Closed as of 3:00 p.m. Friday May 6
Updated: 02/25/2011 - From traffic on I-65 to a quiet neighborhood in Indian Hills, the sweeping storms didn't miss an inch of Bowling Green.
Updated: 01/26/2011 - Weather Service issues WINTER STORM WARNING:
Updated: 09/02/2010 - BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP) -- More North Carolinians are leaving the coast ahead of Hurricane Earl as it heads toward the Eastern Seaboard.
Updated: 08/23/2010 - Good news this morning for local areas hit by the May floods.
Updated: 06/21/2010 - A 5-month-old baby girl has died, after being found unresponsive in a hot car in Lexington Saturday afternoon.
Updated: 06/10/2010 - LEXINGTON, KY-As the needs of Kentucky disaster survivors change, the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management (KYEM) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are making Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) changes to better serve those devastated by the early May storms.
Posted: 06/02/2010 - A Disaster Recovery Center has been set up in Bowling Green.


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Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates
Reality (706 comments)
"We don't know at what time that game becomes reality." I think this guy should speak for himself. I certainly know, and this isn't it.
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Reality (706 comments)
"We don't know at what time that game becomes reality." I think this guy should speak for himself. I certainly know, and this isn't it.
Re:Seriously? (240 comments)
Well, its really more about segments and last mile count than how much the fiber costs. I'll let it pass.
Re:Behavior shaping constraints (323 comments)
It is surprising to me that they didn't also have to be calibrated before flight. 2 lines of code could have checked to see that the rocket is indeed not upside down before launch. There are a million ways to make these things foolproof, and none of them were implemented. Closed loop design is not a part of the Russian way, apparently.
Re: Stay classy ./ (223 comments)
I seriously wouldn't put it past them. I absolutely loath EMC and its sales teams (and I know I'm not alone). I have been dealing with them for almost 20 years, and have never quite understood where they find exactly the same types of people to engineer and hock their products year after year after year. They are relentless, would whore their own mothers to get a sale, and actually have some of the worse technology integration in the industry. The only thing that has changed is the faces. Never the culture, technology or tactics. It is amazing that they can hold that together for so long...
Re:The inmates are running the prison... (412 comments)
Indeed these guys stole billions from the Greek government (and therefore the people) through unheard of levels of corruption. No doubt, that is what the site was about. Seems the priests are now defending themselves through that very same corruption. Greeks are unbelievable.
Re:Not an Oracle Fan (109 comments)
Neither company wants to continue down this path...HP knows no one will buy the platform with a gun to Oracle's head. This judgement merely forces Oracle to pay HP in an agreement not to have to port the code and then sales of everything will stop.
Re:US, nobody gives a shit (310 comments)
You haven't looked hard enough. http://www.entertainmentlawmatters.com/?p=1666
Re:Recourse? (189 comments)
I was contacted this weekend by my CC company about this. My card was one of them. They asked to cancel my card numbers and next day aired new ones.
Re:Give half the money to the 3 big stakeholders (570 comments)
I'm glad you aren't running my company. None of these things have any basis in reality for even the most green in managerial finance. Having excess capital, while generally a good problem to have, is still a big problem. Companies can bleed it through stock buybacks, dividends, or by investing it, but they cannot give it away. What Apple needs to think about doing is buying or creating other companies, be it by horizontal or vertical integration. For example, they could buy or build a competitor to Foxconn (or buy Foxconn itself, this is one I would seriously look at). Or they could take a controlling interest in Facebook. Or invest in the million other smaller start ups that could bring new innovations to Apple. Apple is seriously at a crossroads right now. Without an innovative product pipeline (or Jobs) and a supply chain that is costing a ton in PR, Apple is going to have to start putting their big boy panties on and start acting like a big boy company.
Re:I think your enterprise argument is flawed. (715 comments)
I was there in 1996 when Apple abandoned the server market. We had just bought 2 of the re-branded IBM/Apple servers for our graphics department. They ran AIX and a bunch of third party apps to make the Apples talk to one another in some sort of reasonable fashion. They abandoned those servers within a year, and pretty much screwed us and our $250,000 investment. I have never again even thought about Apple for an enterprise back end (despite their trying to get me to look on occasion). That's almost 20 years of a no-sale from me, and I have since bought millions and millions of dollars worth of I.T. equipment.
Re:10% Ethanol (556 comments)
Well, to be a pedant, backfiring has nothing to do with pinging or detonation. It is an entirely different phenomenon.
Re:How about going back to flat-rate data? (165 comments)
No no, its great.
Re:But not in VA (413 comments)
So does Indiana. Amazon got a special exception because of this, but no longer....
They will eventually go dead (90 comments)
A Bluecoat box, without updates, eventually ceases to operate properly if at all. So, Bluecoat can just chase down the offending machines and therefore the money stream, and stop updating them. Eventually they won't be able to run a report (to figure out who went where), block proxy avoidance sites, or do anything useful with it. How do I know this? I have a large customer that stopped paying the maintenance, and that is what happened.
Re:Wonder?!? (124 comments)
I agree. This isn't about doing anything for anyone but for themselves. Collectively, this is congress extorting money from the the telco's. Ideologically, the demos will line up on Verizon and Sprint side (and to a lessor degree consumer groups), the repubs on AT+T's side, and all of them will take huge contributions from both. After all, if they don't make some sort of stink, they won't get any money.
Re:Yey for solid-state memory! (116 comments)
This is kind of silly. Ok, maybe the first capturing of the data is important, but subsequent copies are trivial. And I'm sure they have software they can plug it all into that will show exactly what the plane was doing through the entire incident. This "weeks of analysis" stuff is bunk. Someone is BS'ing..
Re:Another salvo in the war (268 comments)
Isn't that exactly what the subpoenas are about? Throwing people in jail for criticizing the government? American exceptionalism is starting to sting a little.
Re:This is cool, but not revolutionary... (397 comments)
They put gasoline in with the ethanol (E85) because engines don't start very well in the cold when running on pure ethanol. The gasoline helps to cure that behavior.
Re:I wonder (371 comments)
IE had no interest, as usual.
Re:Four HD streams? (62 comments)
They are at a bandwidth limitation though. The number of streams you get is determined by how fast your local loop is. If you get more than 30 megabit, you get 2 streams, if you get over 60 megabit (I think) you get 3. You would have to be right on top of the DSLAM to get 4 streams. I have about 2000 feet of local loop and get about 38 megs, so my copper isn't too good.
They mix the internet service in with that available amount too so it just takes that right out of the total. If you sign up for super max internet speeds, it will kill the amount of streams you can get (when you are using it).


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CSS from the Ground Up - Steps 12 through 15
Step 12 – Styling Tables
Although tables have been used for page layout since the dark ages of the Web, I think I've shown in this series that CSS layouts offer much more scope and versatility. Tables are meant for displaying tabular data, the kind of thing you would usually do in a spreadsheet where you need to line-up rows and columns of figures or words.
In earlier times, (and older browsers), you could change the look of table and their cells using the various table properties - background colours, background images, etc. A lot of these features have now been deprecated and are no longer valid – even though they might still work, you can no longer count on them. In fact, you never could. If you tried to use a table background image in Netscape 4 and earlier, it would be repeated in each and every cell, like looking through some multiple image lens, making the whole exercise frustratingly useless.
It used to be okay to specify a table height in pixels or as a percentage of the window height but now you can't. Tables make their own height depending on the content.
Styling tables with CSS can be a bit tricky and not all that predictable. You can build your own table structure with CSS using display:table; and display:table-cell; where each cell is a separate div, but for most purposes, just providing style definitions for HTML table elements – table, tr, td, th, etc – is the easier way.
tr is a table row, a horizontal row of cells. td is a table row division. You might think of it as a column but it doesn't behave like a column and you can't set a column background colour or type style.
Tables inherit some styles from the divs they are within, but not all. If the body of your page has a font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif style and a color: #009, the table will inherit those but not the font-size or text alignment. Also, there is a hierarchy of importance. Any specification for a td will overrule the style for the tr, which overrules any general style set for table. You can use this to advantage. If you set the table background-color to black and the td background-color to white and give the table a cellspacing="2", you get a table with white cells with 2 pixel black borders around them.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Of course, you also have access to all the CSS border styles too so you are not lumbered with the nasty, default HTML table borders. You can also play with the border colours and patterns to give you only vertical lines or horizontal lines that can be solid, dotted, dashed or whatever.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Heading 1 | Heading 2 | Heading 3 | Heading 4 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Another trick you might like to try is to give the trs gradating background images.
If you make a small image file of sufficient height to fill the cell and make it very narrow, say 8 pixels, it can be made to repeat horizontally with background-repeat: repeat-x – more subtle and stylish than borders.
Row 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Row 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Row 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Row 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
If you want to style individual cells differently from the overall table, you can do that using inline style definitions attached to the appropriate  tags.
cell 1
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Using this approach does have the disadvantage that you can't do it from an external style sheet, it is effectively hard-coded into the page but it's okay for one-offs. A better way to style rows or columns is to put them inside their own divs and refer to them as...
#col1 td { ... }
#col2 td { ... }
That way, you can have a fair amount of control without getting down to building your tables from individual divs – which is the ultimate solution if you have the time and patience.
I haven't put all the style declarations on the page; there are too many of them, but if you view the page source, you will see what's going on.
There are lots of possibilities that will occur to you when you start styling tables. Who said that tables have to be boring?
Step 13 – Styling Forms
Styling Web page forms is not a great priority for many designers. The forms are usually left 'as is' – and for several good reasons.- The conventions used for forms by default work pretty well as they are.
- If a form doesn't look as expected, readers could be confused.
- Form styling support in the various browsers isn't all that good.
Let's examine these statements a bit more closely.
'The conventions used for forms by default work pretty well as they are.'
Maybe. Yet there are still a lot of badly designed forms out there, both in print and on the web.
Basically, I detest form filling and I'm know that others feel the same way.
But forms are a useful way of collecting information and do so in a way that makes compilation of that information relatively easy. So where do the form 'designers' go wrong?
The first big turn off is when a form 'looks' complicated. This intimidates the user and immediately puts them into 'defensive mode'.
Then they ask questions that seem irrelevant or intrusive. Why do they need to know my date of birth?
Looking complicated is a matter of layout. You can make a form look simple by presenting it in a clean and orderly way. Letting text sizes go uncontrolled and breaking the layout is probably the first thing to watch for.
The size and position of any captions or explanatory text also needs to be considered. It is best to put these above or below the input boxes, or to the right. If you do want to put captions on the left, use align: right; to avoid huge gaps that visually disconnect the caption from the box and increase the visual complexity of the layout. Also, try not to have too many different sizes of input boxes and don't fill spaces just for the sake of it. If a zip code box is shorter than the other address boxes, that's okay but don't put other different size boxes on the same horizontal line just to save space.
On a Web page, you don't need to save space. Rationalise input box sizes. Line them up vertically. Keep them tidy and uncluttered.
Unlike a printed form, thankfully, a Web form masks what is not immediately visible in the browser window so it doesn't overwhelm the viewer. Yet, a very long form on one page that requires lots of scrolling can be even worse. It is better to break long forms across a multiplicity of pages - as long as you make provisions for people to go back if they need to change something.
'If a form doesn't look as expected, readers could be confused.'
Yes, you can't 'blow your mind' with form design. A text input box does have to communicate its function, as does a pop-up or submit button. That is not to say that it absolutely has to be a black text on a white, indented background – except that some browsers won't allow anything else!
It would be a bad idea to confuse an input box with ordinary text, it has to be differentiated and still communicate its purpose.
The elements that you can style are input, textarea and select but you have to be aware that styling the input element affects not only the input text field but also the other input devices like radio boxes, check boxes and the 'Submit' and 'Clear' buttons.
It's reasonably safe to style the font-family and font-size. The text-color can be different if you like. The background-color is a little more contentious. Making it a paler tint of the page colour is acceptable and can make the form look less aggressive.
Changing the border of a text input box also changes the border on the submit button so it could look like just another text box if you are not careful. To get round this, you have to 'wrap' the text box in a div of its own and style just #typein input like this...
#typein { }
#typein input
color: #633;
font-size: 10px;
background-color: #ebebd9;
padding: 3px;
border: double 3px orange
If you want to make a textarea look like a text input box, then you can do this...
#typein input, #typein textarea
color: #633;
font-size: 10px;
background-color: #ebebd9;
padding: 3px;
border: double 3px orange
Select (popups) change in look from one browser and platform to another. Setting a font-family and size is about all that is worth doing. How they look when actually clicked is usually beyond your control anyway.
'Form styling support in the various browsers isn't all that good.'
This is best demonstrated with some screenshots.
The same styles rendered in Explorer (Win), Mozilla, Safari (Mac) and Opera show the variance you can get. More about browser rendering differences coming up.
The crucial point is that we are not trying to 'pretty-up' the forms. We are trying to make them easier to use and less intimidating with thoughtful visual presentation.
Improving the user-experience even further with helpful form validation scripts is another story completely and I won't go into those just now.
Step 14 – Browsers
Great. Where would we be without them? How many times have I heard people say that they wish there was just one. Which one though?
Each browser has its own built-in default style sheet. That's what you get when you don't provide your own. Naturally, the built-in style sheets are all different. They come from different companies and work differently on the various computer platforms.
It's amazing that they are so similar but the differences are not insignificant. If you just assume that other browsers are going to give 'similar' renditions of your carefully crafted Web page, you will quickly find out that 'similar' does not mean 'the same' and can mean 'quite different' in some circumstances - even with the same valid CSS style sheet.
I can't go into an exhaustive cross-browser comparison here and there are plenty of them published elsewhere. I will point out a few of the ones that bother me most. Usually, it's a case of Explorer Vs. The Rest – but not always. A list of links to current browsers is always available on the WPDFD News page. Most of them are free or can be test-driven at no cost.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most ubiquitous browser there is. In its various guises, it accounts for something like 85% of all browsers used. Unfortunately, it is a law onto itself and doesn't conform to the same standards as other browsers. It conforms to most of them but it is where this conformity diverges that the problems occur.
The CSS Box Model
In all versions of IE, the implementation of padding is different from all other browsers. The effect of this is that if you specify a CSS box width in pixels and it has left or right padding, the box will have a different width in IE and other browsers – and can break a tight layout.
IE assumes that padding is inside the box, thereby reducing the text width – which I must admit, seems reasonable to me. W3C standards call for padding to be added outside the box width keeping the text width consistent. Which is the more logical can be argued ad nauseum but we are still left with this fundamental difference that can catch you out if you don't check your pages.
What is 'Relative'
'Relative' placement of CSS boxes seems a fairly simple concept. Each box takes a place relative to the one immediately above it. Watch out! If you move a box out of its 'natural flow' by giving it a top or bottom value, what is supposed to happen is that the box moves but leaves its 'place' vacant – like a car does when it moves out of a car parking space. IE (Mac version) closes up that vacated space thereby shifting everything under it up or down.
Markup formatting shouldn't affect styling
Now, here's the one that really 'bugs' me because it IS most definitely a bug and not a misinterpretation of standards. Browsers are supposed to totally ignore the formatting of the HTML markup. It shouldn't matter if you type the whole thing in one long horizontal line or put double spacing between each line. A bug in IE (Mac) means that if you float boxes left in a horizontal line and have the corresponding markup on separate lines, it gets totally confused. You have to put the markup on one line to get the results you expect. Now, it would be no big deal to fix this bug, but development of IE (Mac) is effectively dead in the water and there are now so many better browsers to choose from – but like habits, old Macs die hard.
Step 15 – The future
Cascading Style Sheet specifications and abilities are continually being updated and browsers being updated to reflect the new possibilities. It is an ongoing and ever-changing process overseen by the folk at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).
Hopefully, the many differences in implementation that we have at present will be reduced if not eliminated but then there are other factors at play.
The concept of viewing Web pages on a computer screen is going to change. We are already seeing Web pages on devices that are not computers and Web-delivered content that is not viewed in browsers.
Expect more!
Companies are falling over themselves trying to identify ways to build 'communication hub' functionality into their products – telephones, televisions, cars, refrigerators, microwave ovens are all prime targets. Ultimately, the Web-enabled brain implant will hook us all together and bring the human race up to the same level of communicative sophistication as ants!
With CSS, it won't matter too much what device is being used to display the content. It can already accommodate a diversity of media types even though we mostly use only two – 'screen' and 'print'.
The upshot of all this is that you can't rest on your laurels, you have to keep up, or give up.
As I wind up this short Cascading Style Sheets from the Ground Up series, I hope it has whetted your appetite for more – and there's a lot more, believe me.


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