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- Never miss a call again
- Faster mobile downloads
- Increase your battery life
- Easy plug 'n' play installation
- No broadband connection required
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Nothing is more annoying than being on an important call when your signal starts to flag!
Voices start to crack up and eventually the inevitable happens - your signal goes completely and the call ends at the worst time.
Cel-Fi RS2 from Nextivity is a simple mobile phone signal booster that takes one bar of 3G signal and makes it five. Installing this indoor mobile phone signal booster requires no technical knowhow, there are no complex manuals to read it's as simple as plug-in and play.
Finally there is a solution for poor signal strength at home and the office. No more going out into the cold to make a call or congregating with your colleagues at the one window that gives you a paltry bar of signal. Stay on the sofa or at your desk at work and make that call with peace of mind.
The Nextivity Cel-Fi RS2 signal booster is available for four networks. We have units available for 02, Three, Vodafone and EE (this box covers T Mobile and Orange as well).
FAQsWhat you can expect...
Never miss a call again
The Nextivity boxes will look to boost your mobile phone signal as much as possible so you can spend more time on the phone and less time searching for a signal.
Increased battery life
The Cel-fi RS2 boosters will work hard to improve your mobile signal so your device doesn't have to. This means less work for your phone and resulting in longer battery life, less charging and less expense.
Faster mobile downloads
With increased 3G connectivity you can ensure faster data transfer rates when downloading video, photos, email and data to your mobile phone.
Easy plug 'n' play installation
It is very simple to install the Cel-Fi signal boosters. Each of the two units requires only a small space. One unit sits on your window sill to pick up the signal, and the other somewhere inside to boost it throughout the building. The range of the signal booster depends on building construction. More about the range »
No broadband required
Some other mobile phone signal boosters require a broadband connection to work, but not the Cel-fi RS2 units from Nextivity. All you need is a 3G phone (on a compatible network) that can pick up at least one bar of 3G signal inside your house or office, a small space to store the two boxes and a standard mains plug for each. It's that easy... More about supported networks »
How it works...
The fully wireless, 'plug and play' system works simply by placing your Window Unit in the area of the building with the strongest signal. It will take this signal, as little as 1 bar, and amplify it to up to 5 bars.
By placing the Coverage Unit at the opposite side of the building this new, amplified signal will be distributed throughout.
How to setup the Cel-fi unit...
- 1. Place the Window unit by your window (or where you have the strongest 3G signal)
- 2. Place the Coverage Unit in the centre of your building, or in the room where you want the strongest boost
- 3. Plug in the Window Unit and wait for the green bars to appear
- 4. Plug in the Coverage Unit, once the unit gives you a number (8 or 9 are preferable) you are set up and should be experiencing a 3G signal boost throughout your home or office
The technical stuff...
Performance - The Cel-fi boosters will increase the 3G signal in an indoor area up to 1235 m2 (13,000 ft2). Nextivity's IntelliBoost Baseband Processor II gives the units unrivalled power and performance.
Power - Each of the two Cel-fi units run off 12 VDC power supply via the 2 plugs provided, and the power consumption is less than 12w per unit.
Operating - The optimum operating temperature of the units are between 0° to 40°C, and the optimum operating altitude is between -60m and 3,050m.
- Window Unit
- 207mm (8.14")H
- 144mm (5.66")W
- 144mm (5.66")D
- Weight: 0.9kg (0.2lbs)
- Coverage Unit
- 151mm (5.94")H
- 149mm (5.86")W
- 49mm (1.92")D
- Weight: 0.34kg (0.75lbs)
Who rates us?
The product delivers exactly what is promises and is simple and rapid to deploy
- T-Mobile U.K
What a machine! Instant 3G coverage right across the board in 18 different rooms � 5 bars in 5 minutes as George Lamb used to say!
- Premier Telecom, UK
It took less than 2 minutes to install and I had the full 5 bars on my phone. No drilling, no cabling and full HSPDA performance onto my phone.
- Leigh Geary, coolsmartphone.com


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Road Washes Out at Springbrook Prompting Closing of State Park
Posted: 06/01/2013
PANORA – Damage to the entrance road at Springbrook State Park north of Panora in Guthrie County has led to closing of the facility.
A hole in the asphalt near the entrance to the park was discovered Friday evening and, upon further inspection, it was discovered that a large cavity had developed under the road, likely due to the recent heavy rainfall. After consulting with the Iowa Department of Transportation, it was determined that the road was unsafe. All of the campers were safely evacuated from the campground and the park entrance was closed.
A full assessment of the damage will be done on Monday along with determining a plan for making the necessary repairs. The park will be closed until the repairs can be completed and travel on the road is safe.

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It's impossible to play punk-rock guitar without being influenced by Johnny Ramone. What he did was simultaneously complex and simple. He brought this blitzkrieg explosiveness to his playing and at the same time showed that you don't need to be an incredible musician to play this music that you can do more with less.
I got to know Johnny after I ran into him at a bar in Los Angeles in 1997, when Green Day was recording our album Nimrod. Even though he and I were very different on the political end of things, we could always sit around and talk music. It was mind-blowing to get feedback from him, because he was a hero of mine.
When Green Day played at the Ramones' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, he came backstage afterward and told us, ''That was great you guys sounded really good.'' Then he said, ''But you went a little bit out of tune at the end there.'' One thing about Johnny: He was always as brutally honest as his playing. (Ramone died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles.)


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5 years of low interest rates: an evaluation exercise
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The lack of confidence problem
Irrational Exuberance and Twitter shares
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Recovery and summer are in the air, but doom mongers still lurk
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AS Macro Key Term: Deflation
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AS Micro: What´s really behind the oil price rise?
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Macroeconomics revision - measuring Consumer Confidence
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Rise in investment could kick start recovery
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Timetric: UK Consumption as a Share of GDP
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Consumer sentiment weakens as double dip looms
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I have two fairly new--3-4 ft.--plums that seems to put out as much folliage at the base as at the top. Do I prune that out now, wait for June, what?
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Wait until they are actively growing, or else if you prune when dormant you risk getting water sprouts or other unwanted growth. I read this in the book "Backyard Orchardist" http://www.netwrite-publish.com/garden/prune-plum.htm |
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Mon, Dec 19, 11 at 17:52
We already have a good roasting pan, but are looking for a stainless steel rack to go with it. Online I've seen this:
http://www.amazon.com/Bull-24107-Stainless-Reversible-Roasting/dp/B00569JEIY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324331934&sr=8-1 and this:
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I don't know about the ones you link to, but we use an expensive one that we replace after a few years. It's adjustable and folds flat and works well for every thing we've used it with. We probably replace it every 7 or 8 years, but we don't use it every day. It takes up a lot less room in the cabinet when not used. ;-) |
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Once again, I find myself wishing I were a big fat man, one of those renowned, infamous gastronomes of old. I wish I were James Beard, who could put away a dozen oysters, a pound of Gulf shrimp, a whole chicken and maybe a few of its eggs, scrambled, as an appetizer. I wish I were Escoffier, who would sometimes serve a crown roast to his famous guests as a first course. I wish I were Johnny Apple of the New York Times, who was quite capable of "eating lunch at a three-star restaurant in the French countryside and, after an interval of only three hours, dinner at a brasserie in Lyon, narrating each dish as it came," according to Adam Nagourney, a friend and fellow traveler. And those were no small dinners, either. Two hours, three, with multiple courses and flights of wine — always the best of any house.
While I have known meals that lasted three, four and five hours and gone into extra innings with courses ten through fourteen, I have almost always staggered away from the table groaning, wanting to die — not expectantly looking forward to three hours hence when my body, having finished its work of digestion, will have me ready once more for another gigot of lamb, a whole roasted fish stuffed with mushrooms, a bucket of Puligny-Montrachet.
So it's not every restaurant that makes this desire for epic girth and appetite come over me. There are only a few — a very few these days. Jax Fish House in LoDo is on the top of my short list. It's been my guilty pleasure for years.
Why guilty? Because when I cruise downtown, there's always some new place, some hot chef whose fricassee of tongue sausage in crankcase oil or suffocated leeches in parsnip relish I ought to be trying. But instead, I'll often swing into Jax with a fistful of cash and eat a half-dozen oysters, so fresh that you can see the little suckers flex when you dress them with lemon juice. I'll order a bowl of PEI mussels in lemongrass broth, constantly bother the servers for more bread and appreciate it when they take my comfort and my demands as a challenge rather than an affront. When Jax was still serving brunch, I'd sometimes roll in late for truffled deviled eggs (which Jax had before everyone else started offering them) and a couple of beers and maybe a nice crab cocktail.
I've been here on nights when Jax is standing room only and three-deep at the bar, nights when I have to order over the top of the cold cases set near the door, full of fresh oysters, king crab and lobsters just off the plane. I've burned my tongue on shooters swimming in the house's five-pepper vodka (infused on the premises) and relaxed, either very early or very late, when the place has actually been quiet enough to hear the news or the game on the TVs above the bar.
There are newer, hipper restaurants, sure. There are restaurants with stranger histories or more unusual selections on their board. But still, Jax has become a kind of comfort to me — the brick walls and pictures of the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the crayons on every table with their paper covers, and the roadhouse classic rock (Jax plays more Led Zeppelin than any other restaurant in the world, hands down) pumping from hidden speakers all acting like a kind of coded message to my body to relax, leave the other restaurants for other nights and just be.
And eat.
Because in addition to being my occasional retreat, the place I go when I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be, Jax is a place that makes me want to be enormous, ravenous and bottomless. Here, I can never eat enough.
One evening I manage to get a table in Jax's cramped, comfortable dining room, and contemplate everything I can eat. Grilled oysters, California-style, with tomatillo, jalapeño and lime mignonette are passed over for the possibility of cornmeal fried oysters with sour buttermilk dressing, which in turn are dismissed because tonight I feel as though I can skip the oysters, maybe, and eat shrimp: by the pound, peel-and-eat, with horseradish-heavy cocktail sauce and that faint tang of the sea.
But I am conserving digestive real estate here, and though I want the shrimp so bad I can almost taste them, I order crab cakes instead, because Jax makes some of the best crab cakes around: big ones, flat-grilled, served with a horseradish Louis sauce and a blob of citrus jelly. I know that when I ache for boiled shrimp, what I'm really desiring is that kick of horseradish in the cocktail sauce, so the crab cakes kill two birds with one stone, with my horseradish fix pooled up beneath two fat cakes of lump crab, spritzed lemon and just a hint of roasted pepper. Beautiful.
My entree choice is more complicated. Damnably so, with the new fall menu in effect and all the efforts of executive chef Sheila Lucero seemingly turned exclusively to tempting me into exploding myself right in the dining room. Chicken-fried frog legs? I could eat those all night. Mississippi catfish, fried and served with a Yukon Gold gratin and candied pork belly? Pork belly is like crack to me. Candied pork belly is like candied crack — crack dipped in caramel and rolled in powdered sugar. There are filets of steelhead, grilled and served over chanterelle mushrooms with handmade gnocchi — which sounds like something I would've made for myself back in the day, back when I still had to go out of my way to find that perfect balance of fish and starch and mushrooms that the French have been serving for centuries. There's also a pork chop, maple-glazed and served with goat-cheese mashed potatoes, plum jam and golden raisins. Reading the menu description makes me drool; I wish I'd been smart enough to come up with that kind of combination when I was cooking. I love being in the house of someone smarter than me, more broadly engaged than I ever was with the food shed and flavors of passing seasons.


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22 And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Lord, why hast thou [so] ill treated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me? | 22 Moses returned to the LORD and said, "O Lord, why have you brought trouble upon this people? Is this why you sent me? |
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Georgia, one of the original 13 colonies, entered the Union in January 1788. The state has participated in every presidential election except 1864 (due to secession). From 1868 thru 1960, the state was as blue as can be voting Democratic in every election. Like many other southern states, its residents were conservative Democrats that went red in 1964 in response to unhappiness over the Civil Rights Act, which was effectively exploited by the Republicans in a tactic called the southern strategy. In 1968, Georgia voted for Independent George Wallace in an election that marked the last time a third-party candidate received any electoral votes. Georgia has been reliably Republican since, except when a southern Democrat was on the ticket Georgians sided with homegrown Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980 and Bill Clinton in 1992. In 2004, George Bush easily defeated John Kerry by 58% to 41%, but the Republican margins have been more narrow since then. In 2012, Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama by about 8%. Georgias population has grown rapidly in recent years, and the state could be more in play in future elections as the state's overall demographics evolve. As of the 2012 election, only 7 states will have more electoral votes.
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Economic Indicators
Gross Domestic Product
Updated November 8, 2011
British Columbia's real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.0% in 2010, making up lost ground after registering a contraction (–2.1%) in 2009. The pace of economic growth in the province was primarily driven by a 5.3% increase in final domestic demand (total personal, business and government spending) with business investment (+13.9%) and consumer spending (+3.8%) spurring much of the growth.
While residential investment by the business sector was only moderately higher (+4.9%), investment in non-residential structures (+27.1%) and machinery & equipment (+11.9%) saw double-digit growth.
In the government sector, purchases of goods and services advanced only slightly (+1.6%) in 2010. However, total government sector spending in the province rose 10.6% with infrastructure spending rising 15.4%.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
B.C. Employment Rate
Updated August 10, 2012
British Columbia's unemployment rate rose to 7.0% (seasonally adjusted) in July, compared to the previous month. The higher rate of unemployment was due to a contraction in the labour force (−0.2%), together with a 0.6% drop in employment.
Total employment in B.C.'s goods sector fell 2.0% (seasonally adjusted) in July. There were fewer people working in agriculture (−2.8%), construction (−3.3%), and manufacturing (−2.5%), but more jobs in utilities (+9.2%) and forestry, fishing, mining quarrying, oil & gas (+9.2%). Employment in the service sector edged slightly lower (−0.3%) in July. Declines were reported in educational services (−5.8%), followed by transportation & warehousing (−4.0%). The largest service sector employers, trade (+0.3%) and health care & social assistance (0.4%) took on more workers.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey)
Wages in B.C.
Updated August 10, 2012
Average weekly wages in B.C. were $848.01 in July, below the national average of $867.33. British Columbians worked an average of 31.7 hours weekly, just below the national average of 31.8 hours. Of the provinces, Quebec recorded the lowest average hours worked (29.4), while workers in Newfoundland & Labrador spent the most time on the job (34.1).
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey)
Inflation rate in B.C.
Updated August 17, 2012
Inflation in British Columbia eased to 1.1% in July, following a 1.5% increase in consumer prices during the previous month. Energy prices climbed 1.8% and while food prices rose 2.3%. Minus the effects of the increases in food and energy, the consumer price index for B.C. rose just 0.8%. Shelter costs edged lower (−0.7%), while prices related to household operations (+3.0%), furnishings (+3.2%) and clothing & footwear (+5.0%) jumped.
The increase in consumer prices in Victoria (+1.0%) was slightly below the provincial average, while advancing at a somewhat faster rate in Vancouver (+1.4%).
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
Price of New Housing
Updated August 10, 2012
The average selling price for a new home (house and land) in British Columbia dipped 1.0% in June compared to the same month a year earlier. This decline in new housing prices was reflected in both Vancouver (−0.9%) and Victoria (−2.6%), two of B.C.'s most high-priced housing markets. Nationally, housing prices rose 2.3% between June 2011 and June 2012.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
Retail Sales
Updated July 27, 2012
Retail sales in the province were up slightly (+0.2%, seasonally adjusted) in May, mirroring a loss recorded in April (-0.2%). Canadian sales also inched up (+0.3%), partially reversing a downturn in the previous month (-0.6%). Declines in Manitoba (-0.6%), Quebec (-0.4%) and parts of Atlantic Canada were offset primarily by gains in Ontario (+0.2%) and the westernmost provinces. Saskatchewan (+2.0%), Alberta (+1.3%) and BC all posted increases.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
Manufacturing sales
Updated August 17, 2012
Manufacturing sales in British Columbia remained largely unchanged (seasonally adjusted) in June after rising in the previous month. While the three largest sources of manufacturing sales, wood (+3.6%), paper (+3.1%), and food (+2.0%) producers, all recorded increased shipments, these gains were offset by weaker sales for makers of machinery (−5.7%), primary metal products (−4.2%), as well as other kinds of manufacturing.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
Wholesale Sales
Updated June 29, 2012
Wholesale sales in British Columbia rose 1.6% (seasonally adjusted) in April, recovering all of the ground lost during the previous month. Wholesalers of personal & household goods (+2.9%), food, beverage & tobacco products (+2.5%), and building materials & supplies (+1.1%) posted increases, offsetting flagging sales (–1.6%) in the machinery, equipment & supplies sector.
At the national level, wholesale sales were up 1.5% in April, primarily due to higher revenues in the agricultural supply industry (+48.5%).
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
International Trade (Exports)
Updated August 10, 2012
The value of exports originating in B.C. dipped 0.5% (seasonally adjusted) in June, the fourth decline registered in the past six months. Weaker shipments of energy products (−6.2%) were responsible for much of the slowdown, offsetting gains made in industrial & consumer goods (+3.7%), forest products (+1.9%), and machinery & equipment and automobiles (+0.4%).
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: BC Stats)
Housing Starts
Updated July 13, 2012
Housing starts in the province continued to surge in June, climbing 29.0% (seasonally adjusted), following an 18.4% boost in the previous month. Canadian starts were up a moderate 2.4%, with seven provinces posting increases, the most notable of which was seen in PEI (+85.7%).
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Residential and Non-Residential Building Permits - B.C. Regional
Updated August 10, 2012
Year-to-date, the value of building permits was 18.9% higher than in the first six months of 2011, with seven regions posting increases. Permits jumped 884.5% in North Coast, due to a surge in planned spending on industrial projects. In Mainland/Southwest, where the bulk of the province's building activity occurs, a 21.1% increase in the value of permits reflected significantly higher spending on residential, industrial and institutional projects.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Sources: BC Stats and Statistics Canada)
Tourist visits
Updated August 10, 2012
Visitor entries to BC dropped (–0.8%) in May, due to reduced visitor traffic from the United States (–1.8%). Overnight visitor entries were down (–3.7%), while same-day visits rose (+1.4%). Overseas entries picked up in May (+2.6%), following three consecutive months of decline. Entries from Asia (+4.8%) and Europe (+2.1%) both contributed to the rise, while entries from other major regions fell 0.9%.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
Updated June 29, 2012
British Columbia's population was estimated at 4,606,451 on April 1st, an increase of 1.0% over April 2011. This marks the fifth consecutive net increase in BC's population. The Prairies continued to lead the way in population growth as Alberta (+2.4%), Saskatchewan (+1.9%), and Manitoba (+1.3%) all posted increases above the national average (+1.1%). BC's population growth ranked fifth among the provinces, behind Ontario (+1.1%), but ahead of Quebec (+0.9%). Newfoundland (–0.2%) was the only province to record a decline in population during the first quarter.
(Prepared by BC Stats, Source: Statistics Canada)
Independent Economic Forecast Council on economic growth
B.C.'s economy is expected grow moderately over the next year according to B.C.'s independent Economic Forecast Council. On average, the council forecasts B.C.'s GDP growth at 2.7 per cent for this year. This is down from Budget 2010, when economic growth was projected at 3.1 per cent. For 2012, the council's forecast is unchanged at 3.0 per cent. The council's average annual forecast for 2013-2015 is 2.8 per cent.
B.C.'s top credit rating reconfirmed
The Dominion Bond Rating Service, Standard & Poor, and Moody's Investment Service have all reconfirmed B.C.'s strong credit rating. The most recent report from Moody's notes the Province's debt reduction efforts of the past few years have put British Columbia in a stronger position to face the economic downturn. DBRS rates B.C. AA (High); Standard & Poor, AAA; and Moody's, AAA.


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Dominic Orr was named President and CEO of Aruba Networks in April 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Orr served as the company's Chairman of the Board. Previously, Dominic Orr was the president of Nortel Networks, Intelligent Internet Web Systems. He previously served as the president and chief executive of Alteon WebSystems which was merged with Nortel Networks in Oct. 2000. Mr. Orr has more than 20 years of experience in the computer systems and communication networking industry and has held senior positions at Bay Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Hughes Aircraft. Mr. Orr. is a member of the Sciences Board of Visitors at UCLA. He holds a BS in physics from City University of New York and a MS and PhD from California Institute of Technology.
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Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana. He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8 billion), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a consultant with Bain & Company, Jurvetson developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking, and semiconductor industries. At Stanford University, he finished his BSEE in 2.5 years and graduated #1 in his class as the Henry Ford Scholar. Jurvetson also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He received his MBA from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Jurvetson also serves on the Merrill Lynch and STVP Advisory Boards and is Co-Chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He was honored as "The Valley's Sharpest VC" on the cover of Business 2.0 and chosen by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Examiner as one of, "The ten people expected to have the greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st Century." He was profiled in the New York Times Magazine and also featured on the cover of Worth and Fortune magazines. Jurvetson was chosen by Forbes as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors"; by the VC Journal as one of the "Ten Most Influential VCs"; and by Fortune as part of their "Brain Tr
As Senior Vice President of Hardware, Matt Hershenson brings a wealth of experience to Danger. He is responsible for Danger's hardware engineering, development and design efforts. Before co-founding Danger, Matt managed the hardware group at Mainbrace Corporation, a Windows CE systems integrator. Prior to Mainbrace Corporation, Matt served in various roles at Philips Electronics. During his tenure with the Philips Mobile Computing Group, he was responsible for the hardware of the Velo-1 handheld PC, one of the first Windows CE devices. While at Philips Semiconductors, Matt served as a systems architect, where he played an integral role in the design of numerous consumer handheld devices, including the Sharp Mobilon, Philips Nino, and the Compaq C-series. Before Philips, Matt was a hardware engineer with Catapult Entertainment, since acquired by Hearme. He was part of the team that turned the vision of multi-player gaming over the Internet into a reality. He handled all aspects of product development and design for the XBAND Video Game Modem. Matt also played a key role in the product development and design of the Apple Powerbook 150, then Apple's most affordable PowerBook computer. Matt also co-founded MOTO Development Group, a product design consultancy firm specializing in product development. MOTO aided in the design of many technical products, such as remote controls for Apple Interactive TV.
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Fern Mandelbaum, is a Partner at Monitor Venture Partners. Ms. Mandelbaum is an entrepreneur and CEO who specializes in creating and growing technology focused businesses. Since 1998, Ms. Mandelbaum has worked with CEO's helping them develop and refine their business concepts, recruit management teams, key advisors and board members, implement fund raising strategies and establish strategic alliances. Her portfolio includes: New Vine Logistics, CaseCentral, Informative, NapaStyle, WetFeet, Care2, and LiveAdvice (merged with Keen). She has worked with, and secured funding for her companies from many of the leading venture capital firms, including: Mohr Davidow; ATV; Kleiner-Perkins; Draper Fisher Jurvetson; ThomVest; and Carlyle Ventures. Between 1991 and 1998, Ms. Mandelbaum was co-founder and CEO of Skyline Products, one of the premier toy invention firms that was sold to IDEO Product Development, the largest design firm in the U.S., in 1998. Skyline achieved annual growth in excess of 200%, becoming one of the top toy invention firms in the U.S. She was responsible for all marketing, business development, financial, legal, and strategic planning aspects of the company, and licensed over 80 products to 50 companies during her tenure. Between 1988 and 1991, Ms. Mandelbaum was a General Manager at Metcal. She created and managed a division to develop and commercialize foodservice equipment incorporating Metcal's proprietary heating technology. Prior to, and while, attending business school, Ms. Mandelbaum worked at Bain and Company, SRI International as a research analyst in the financial industries center, Hewlett Packard, creating the used equipment vendor program, and the Kyoto Shinyo Kinko, managing the initial stages of a new product introduction. Ms. Mandelbaum received her M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1988 and her B.A. in Economics from Brown University in 19
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To complicate matters, I attempted to start a ground cover from clippings from my grandmother last year. It never seemed to take, but maybe that's what's coming up. Her ground cover (and she doesn't remember what it's called) also had small white flowers. So, now I'm really confused and hoping you can help me! http://photos.gardenweb.com/garden/galleries/2007/04/weed_or_ground_cover.html |
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- Posted by jeannek_nepa z5 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 1, 07 at 18:38
I hope it's a weed. I pulled lots out last year. Jeanne |
I think this is what my mom called chickweed. I have tons of it, and pull it up. It forms mat like roots, so sometimes I have to resort to Round-up. I'd pull it up if I were you. Good luck. |
- Posted by singingwendy 6 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 1, 07 at 20:27
Thanks! As I said, I felt really stupid even asking, but it didn't look like the "chickweed" pictures I'd found online. I've been having a hard time with weeds in this bed, so I wanted to get a good start this year. I never got to clear this bed the way I really wanted to. The hedge roses I'd ordered came MUCH earlier than I had planned. I was afraid they'd die, so I quickly dug 5 holes and stuck them in. Then I was afraid to put anysort of Roundup or other grass/weed killer down because I thought I'd kill the roses. I just chalk it up as a "I'll never do that again" experience! Thanks again for your time! |
- Posted by earthlydelights Z6 PA (My Page) on Sun, Apr 1, 07 at 23:26
definitely a weed and keep pulling it. this is one that comes up in nice clumps. here's a great site to ID plenty of weeds we have in this state. |
Here is a link that might be useful: PA weeds
A weed is just a plant that is growing where you don't want it. If it comes up by itself, it is a wild flower. If it was here before Europeans came, it is a native plant. If it spreads rapidly, it is invasive. One native plant is invasive, northern spice bush (Lindera benzoin), because deer won't eat it. The USDA has a good website for looking up plants. If you look up chickweed, it lists many different plants, but I didn't see one that looked like this. |
Here is a link that might be useful: USDA Plant Database
- Posted by pipersville_carol z6 Bucks PA (My Page) on Mon, Apr 2, 07 at 17:12
I think of "weeds" as "volunteers", and let them live if they look pretty and don't crowd out the cultivated neighbors. It's much less work! |
On the plus side, chickweed usually colonizes in moist, rich, neutral soil, and is most luxurious when nitrogen levels are high so you know your soil is good! |
- Posted by westhighlandblue z6 PA (My Page) on Tue, Apr 3, 07 at 8:45
I have had a great deal of success controlling weeds and the really invasive grass in my yard by putting down a layer of landscaping plastic (the kind with lots and lots of holes) on my ground often right on top of the grass) -- cutting holes -- or running around my plants -- and then putting four inches of cedar mulch on top of that. I keep the plastic in place with landscaper staples which are $10 for a box of 75. A year later I lift up the plastic, work the mulch into the earth, and then put down new plastic and mulch. After two or three years, I stop putting down the plastic, but keep up with the mulch. By this time, the plants grow so large that weeks simply don't have room to grow. |
- Posted by singingwendy 6 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 3, 07 at 12:05
Thanks again for all the responses! "The USDA has a good website for looking up plants. If you look up chickweed, it lists many different plants, but I didn't see one that looked like this." You don't know how much better this made me feel! I thought I was missing something! Does chickweed tend to start in "rosettes"?? Because that's how this starts. I think, that along with not really clearing all the weeds from this bed originally as much as I'd have liked to, I didn't put down enough mulch last year. I have a VW bug and could only bring home so many bags at a time! LOL! I was considering looking at having a place deliver some to me this year, but I'm not sure where I'd put it. I'm only in a townhouse, so I don't have tons of space. "On the plus side, chickweed usually colonizes in moist, rich, neutral soil, and is most luxurious when nitrogen levels are high so you know your soil is good!" The roses I have growing in this bed I literally do NOTHING to...except cut a few for display and dead head the spent flowers.....and they are beautiful! I was told that the previous owners had a rose bed there too, and they always did well. |
- Posted by scrappyjack pa 5 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 3, 07 at 15:24
could it be purselane or crown vetch? Jackie |
This is definitely a weed. It is in the mustard family as someone earlier guessed (four petals, cruciform shape, compound leaves) and will seed itself prolifically. It resembles garlic mustard which is a noxious weed around Pgh. chickweed has paired petals and smaller leaves. |
Portulaca oleracea (Common Purslane, also known as Verdolaga, Pigweed, Little Hogweed or Pusley) is a succulent with characteristic red stems which this plant didn't have. It is a vegetable and a weed. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea The mustard family is huge family with around 90 members in the US. One mustard in particular slightly resembles this plant. It is Nasturtium officinale, watercress. There are several watercresses. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cress |
Here is a link that might be useful: Nasturtium officinale, watercress
There are two A-something plants (both called Rock Cress) that bloom in spring and are low growing ground covers similar to chickweed. both are sort of 'grey-green' foliage One is Aubrieta which, I think, is the prettier of the two. It comes in white though I've only seen the pink or purple. It spreads somewhat but, in my yard, barely enough to survive. Another is Arabis. My mother gave me some of hers 10+ years ago. It is a pretty white blanket in May and does like to spread out but is easy to pull. I knew (from her garden) that it was fairly invasive so I put one bunch in a shady spot and another in the back corner of my yard where I stick all of the pretty invasives. They keep each other in check, each taking their turn to shine. In case you have either of these, I sure hope you didn't pull them all out. Google images of these. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Arabis
the best weed site: WWW.weedalert.com |
Apparently chickweed has some value as an herb; you might want to look it up and spare some if that is what it is. |
I found this thread when I Googled chickweed. I plan to grow it between stones in a natural pathway we recently built. I think it is just lovely. |
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My son is having his wedding reception at his friend's home (backyard). We went to see it and there is a lot of work to be done. We have 3 months. There is a gopher, (that is a whole nother problem), and therefore a lot of soft loose soil up on the grass. There are also a lot of old gopher holes. The yard looks like swiss cheese and my husband is concerned about the tables, chairs and the guests. Should we use the same dirt that has been dug up to fill in the holes? I am concerned the holes won't fill since they are tunnels. Any other advice for filling in the holes and firming the soft soil would be appreciated. Thanks! |
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Where does his friend live and what kind of grass are you dealing with? |
- Posted by baileyandbella (My Page) on Mon, Apr 23, 12 at 22:07
Hi. It's in Southern California. I am not sure of the grass, maybe an old Fescue sod. Here are 3 pictures, you may need to copy and paste them into your browser. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/GardenMom2005/weddingyard1-1.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/GardenMom2005/weddingyard2-1.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/GardenMom2005/weddingyard3-1.jpg |
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When in need of something to blog about, turn to Twitter. There is so much being Tweeted, ReTweeted and linked to, it's sort of fascinating…
Anyway, while sifting through Tweets this afternoon, I came across a link to a great blog posted on BrightMove, a provider of Software-as-a-Service applicant tracking and talent management solutions.
Nanci Lamborn, the blog's author, wrote about an applicant who effectively ruined his chances of getting hired, despite his impressive qualifications. It touched on some things we've talked about recently, like employers getting back to you, the "resume black hole" and the things employers consider before deciding to go forward with an interview.
Lamborn talks about how she was sorting through hundreds of applications and sending out a quick reply that basically said, "We got your resume; don't call us, we'll call you." (Much more professionally, obviously.) She assumed this was better than hearing nothing at all, but it seemed that one applicant did not agree.
The subject line of his e-mail was one word, which I can't republish in its entirety, but I'll give you hint: "BS!" Lamborn paraphrases his e-mail nicely:
"Please allow me to paraphrase the flipper's dissertation (my editorial commentary in italics for your amusement): I know your position isn't real (then why did you email me?). You posted it to cover your arse. And schmucks like me trying to support a family waste allllll this time and energy responding to the job, only to get a BS reply like this (so writing this reply isn't wasteful?). Why don't you have the decency to call and tell me if I'm seriously a candidate or not? (Maybe since I'm not Superman I cannot effectively screen 528 resumes in 36 hours?) I am sorry for being so unprofessional (Oh, um, thanks?), but I am perfect for this job (Sure you are! Why ever did I not see it before?). I keep getting responses like this, and you high and mighty HR jerk offs deserve a piece of my mind. (…crickets… I got nothin'…). You better hope this Karma doesn't catch up with you (Why, did he apply too?). Best Regards, Mr. Nicely Wonderful, Managing Partner. (Managing Partner of what, Psychotic Inc?). There was more, quite a bit of it. But his point is made."
The worst part is, Lamborn notes that this person was actually pretty qualified for the position, but due to his less-than-appropriate bedside manner, she decided against moving forward with his candidacy.
The way some people behave in their job search never ceases to amaze me. Read Lamborn's full blog here to learn a few lessons and see how she responded to the situation.
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