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By LaMond Pope 648-3090 or firstname.lastname@example.com March 1, 2013 6:44PM
Fans rush the court after Minnesota defeated Indiana 77-73 in an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Olmscheid)
Updated: April 3, 2013 6:15AM
Are you still shaking off Indiana's loss to Minnesota?
Have you been waking up in the middle of the night screaming, "grab a rebound" to no one in particular?
Dreading the thought that IU is likely going to fall out of the top spot in the polls come Monday?
Well, I've got a bit of historical perspective that might ease the pain.
Guess how many times in the past 10 years that the No. 1 team in the final voting of The Associated Press men's basketball poll has gone on to win the national championship.
The answer is just once.
Kentucky accomplished the feat last season. Prior to that, one has to go all the way back to 2001 when Duke completed the achievement.
I think the stat speaks more to the unpredictability of March than the knowledge of the voters. And no, I'm not saying that just because I've been one of those voters in the AP poll since the 2008-09 season.
There isn't an AP poll after the NCAA Tournament wraps up. Voters produce their final ballots after the conference tournaments.
With March Madness right around the corner, I decided to take a look at how recent No. 1 teams have fared.
Louisville was No. 1 at the end of the 2008-09 season. The Cardinals lost to Michigan State in the regional final. The voters weren't all that far off. North Carolina, ranked No. 2 in the final poll, defeated the Spartans for the national title. Michigan State was ranked No. 8.
Kansas finished first in the final 2009-10 rankings. The Jayhawks were stunned by Northern Iowa in the second round of that year's tournament. Duke, which was ranked third, topped No. 11 Butler in a classic title game.
The Bulldogs returned to the title game in 2011 and faced Connecticut in what many consider the exact opposite of a classic championship contest. Butler was unranked in the final AP poll that year. Connecticut — the eventual national champion — picked up steam late in the season. The Huskies won the Big East Tournament to get to No. 9 in the poll. Ohio State finished at No. 1 in the final poll that season. But the Buckeyes lost to Kentucky in the regional semifinal.
Kentucky finally snapped the streak last season, beating Kansas for the championship. The Jayhawks were sixth in the final poll.
This all shows that even after a regular season full of data, we still don't know what's going to happen in the tournament.
And if the upcoming postseason is anything like this 2012-13 regular season, that is sure to continue.
The No. 1 team has lost seven times this season. That's actually happened eight previous seasons, the most recent in 2009-10, the year Kansas lost in the second round.
Indiana has lost three times as the No. 1 team this season (against Butler, Illinois and now Minnesota). IU remained No. 1 the week after the Feb. 7 last-second road loss to the Illini. Part of the reason I kept the Hoosiers at the top spot was the bounce-back performance three days later at then-No. 10 Ohio State, an 81-68 thumping of the Buckeyes. Another reason was because one of the next best options, Duke, had a shaky victory later Feb. 10 at Boston College.
I'd be surprised if the Hoosiers remain at the top of the poll this time.
It looks likely Gonzaga will be the team that will replace them.
Here is what's going on in the mind of one voter.
The Bulldogs are riding an 11-game winning streak and have won 19 of 20. Gonzaga has lost just twice (against Illinois and at Butler) this season, but the strength of schedule is a concern. In Gonzaga's favor, the Bulldogs have victories against Kansas State and Oklahoma State. I had Gonzaga at No. 2 in last week's poll.
Another option could have been the winner of tonight's Duke-Miami game. But the Blue Devils stumbled Thursday at Virginia. Miami might still be able to make a case if it beats Duke for a second time this season. Miami crushed the Blue Devils 90-63 on Jan. 23. The Hurricanes eventually made it to No. 2 in the poll, but the team dropped to fifth after losing at Wake Forest last week.
Kansas (23-4) and Georgetown (21-4) might even get a few votes. The Jayhawks and Hoyas sit atop the Big 12 and Big East, respectively. The Hoyas have won 10 in a row. Some voters could stick with the Hoosiers.
I'm leaning in the direction of Gonzaga. The Bulldogs just keep rolling. But I'm glad I have until late Sunday to figure it all out.
The variety of options for the top spot makes for a fun debate. And that's why I love the poll. It keeps people arguing about college basketball throughout the winter.
Just don't use it as a tool when it comes time to fill out your bracket.


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2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards: A Look at Finalist UnitedHealth Group
- April 23rd, 2012
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On May 17, 2012, winners of the 2012 VolunteerMatch Corporate Volunteer Awards will be announced at our annual Volunteer Match Client Summit in San Francisco, CA.
In this series of posts, we'll introduce you to the facts and folks behind the ten most effective employee volunteer programs in our family of corporate clients compared against our 2011 benchmarks.
VolunteerMatch congratulates UnitedHealth Group for its nomination for Employee Volunteer Program of the Year (Large Businesses).
UnitedHealth Group's employee volunteer program, United Volunteers, launched in 2006. In 2011, its employee participation rate is 79 percent, up from 77 percent in the previous year. In addition, employees recorded over 381,000 volunteer hours in 2011, exceeding the goal of 250,000 by 53 percent and nearly doubling the amount of time spent in the previous year giving back through volunteerism.
[long_ad_right]UnitedHealth's nonprofit partners include AARP Foundation, Alzheimer's Association, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care, Feeding America, KaBOOM!, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Project Sunshine, Sesame Workshop, YMCA, and Youth Service America.
United Volunteers 2011 highlights include:
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center awarded UnitedHealth Group with a prestigious 2011 Corporate Citizenship Award, in the category of Best Business Neighbor.
- UnitedHealth implemented several innovations in 2011, including, leveraging a "portfolio" approach to align volunteering with its strategic direction, piloting a successful "microvolunteering" web platform, and participating in a collaboration to launch and test the latest interactive "impact map" technology for showcasing its global volunteerism and giving.
- Particularly notable in 2011 was our "Do Good. Live Well." program, which promotes UnitedHealth's direct link between volunteerism, better personal health and well-being in the communities it serves. In 2011, over 2,000 UnitedHealth Group employees contributed 14,000 volunteer hours in support of major events around the country in which gardens and playgrounds were built, food and emergency supplies were donated, senior centers were beautified and more. In two years since it launched, "Do Good. Live Well." has coordinated 30 major projects in 17 cities and 12 states, recruiting employees enterprise-wide.
We commend UnitedHealth Group for its service in its community and for facilitating an excellent volunteer program!
Stay tuned for more finalist profiles in the coming weeks, and announcement of the winners on May 17, 2012 during the 2012 VolunteerMatch Client Summit.
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The U.S. signed a long-sought agreement with China on Tuesday that restricts 34 types of apparel and textile imports valued at more than $5 billion annually, creating a more stable business environment for importers, domestic textile companies and retailers.
The U.S. textile industry, which has shut at least 31 plants this year and attributes much of that decline to a flood of less-expensive Chinese imports, praised the three-year deal as a much-needed brake on China's manufacturing strength. Importers, who contend the plant closings are part of the evolution of global trade, were nonetheless pleased to finally be able to source goods from China on a firm playing field.
"This is a very good agreement for the American worker….This textile agreement is an example of how the U.S. and China do have the ability to resolve tough trade disputes in a manner that benefits both countries," U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said during a news conference in London with his counterpart, Bo Xilai, China's minister of commerce .
The USTR was in London engaged in Doha talks with Brazil, India and the European Union.
Over the first eight months of this year, apparel and textile imports from China surged 46.1 percent to 11.1 billion square meter equivalents, valued at $15.4 billion. The Bush administration in May began restricting those imports with a series of safeguard quotas, which held goods worth $1.9 billion to annual growth of 7.5 percent.
Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with China reached a record $162 billion.
The deal allows for a 10 percent increase in apparel imports and a 12.5 percent rise in textiles next year, based on imports for the 12 months ending in December or, in some cases, October. This would be followed by 12.5 percent across-the-board growth in 2007 and increases of 15 to 16 percent in 2008, with some exceptions.
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, it agreed to the safeguards, which need to be renewed annually and can be applied unpredictably, through 2008. In Tuesday's deal, the U.S. agreed to use safeguards with "restraint" on products not covered by the deal.
Except for socks, goods embargoed at U.S. ports this year will be allowed into the country soon and will not be counted against any quotas.


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Web 2, microblogging and the California Fires
Web 2 has always been about communication, not technology. About using all different methods of getting accurate information, collaboration, dissemination. What better time to put it to the test in an organic, non-rational, human situation: the california fires.
Mashups of maps, microblogging and user-generated video are some of the uses. Remember the London bombings 2 years ag, where mobile phone images where the first used? Virginia Tech bloggers? This is not mall-meetup technology.
I've written before about the LAFD and their despatcher-like use of Twitter before. What foresight by them.
Facebook: 10 lessons for the enterprise (so far)
Love it or hate it, Facebook and other social media are here and they're changing the online habits of your employees and customers. It would be churlish to dismiss social media as a fad with no impact on your organisation other than being a tool for employees to squander their billable time; at the same time, Facebook is not going to propel your company into an early listing just because it has the undivided attention of tens of millions of users. Right about now, you have a IT policy in place regarding use of social media or are undecided about what action to take.
Time to take a step back and do a business case on this phenomenon. The purpose of this article is for you to realise what lessons and habits your employees and online customers have learned in the last few months while being introduced to social media. Consider these , and then discuss them within your own organisations. Don't be stuck on Facebook, your employees are probably using other Web 2.0, or social media, applications on an hourly basis.
1 Web publishing is simple
Ten years ago the message was "anyone can publish a web page. Learn a little HTML, some Photoshop, some odds and ends about HTTP and web hosting and there you go!". This spawned a cottage industry of web designers and web design courses, but lets face it: it required a steep learning curve in languages and standards that were changing every few months.
Blogs are far easier to set up, but people from non-creative industries or non-media types have to think long and hard about design, posting, commenting and plug-ins. Its no surprise that most blogs reference "web 2.0″ or "social media". While blogging is a tsunami, it doesn't get everyone publishing.
Enter Facebook. A simple setup process, no level design playing field, click-n-play plugins and publishing in a manner more similar to text or instant messaging than email or word processing.
The business case: employees will finally be able to take short cuts and ask questions like: wouldn't it be simpler to put this online? Can't we create a mash up of our sales figures and geographical areas like the travel apps in Facebook? (The answer to both is Yes).
2 Facebook is a start page
Enterprise applications like SAP and Microsoft Sharepoint allow one to set personalised home pages on their intranet start pages or as their default browser pages. Facebook is similar, except the information on it is mostly of a personal nature.
The business case: you may want to consider pulling Facebook's notifications as an RSS feed into your existing employees' start pages. In that way they can keep abreast of friend's movements at a glance from within their business application. This may sound abhorrent to some policy makers, but ask your IT to do a test implementation for you and you'll see how innocuous it is. Will it keep employees of the phone and emailing? I don't know the answer to that question, but consider this option if you don't want to ban Facebook outright.
3 Social networking online
When you send your sales, marketing and client service to a conference, do you exhort them to network their buns off? Probably not in as many words, but that's what you want. Surely your enterprising employees will use online social networks to initiate joint partnerships or get valuable information, perhaps even to disseminate your company news in this channel (for free). If you manage IT staff you would be foolish to discourage them from joining sites like Experts Exchange, Slashdot or Tech Republic. When they hit a coding snag they can submit the question online or nose around the forums for the answer, rather than spend two days trying to reinvent the wheel.
Facebook has most likely informed your employees about how to leverage their social network (even though some will only use Facebook to organise parties and send chain mail!)
The business case: Social networking online is a way to make customers gather around product (Amazon), supply you with invaluable ideas (Dell Ideastorm) and engage with approved demographically-selected profiles (eons).
4 Naked communication
A person's personality comes through on Facebook more so than in any other medium. Those who boast offline, boat on Facebook. Those who sent chain letters with Hello Kitty drawings at age 8 do the same on Facebook at a more advanced age. That is the power of the medium, people manage not only their relationships but their personas through it. This naked communication builds stronger online and offline relationships.
The business case: like Amazon's recommendations, Digg's articles and del.icio.us bookmarks, users trust content generated by their peers, known or unknown, more than what businesses tell them to believe. This is evidenced in Facebook and other social media, and your business ought to have a strategy in place to interact and monitor this channel.
5 Friends
Can a 22 year-old be friends with a multinational car manufacturing corporation? Can Barack Obama be friends with thousands of potential voters? In Facebook you can. You can even have stronger relationships with entities than with friends you see every weekend for dinner. It may be a perversion of the concept of friendship, but its the term we're saddled with when we try and explain these relationships. Users and customers can be friends with your brand, usually around a competition, cause or campaign. This is free permission marketing, are you still complaining?
The business case: we learned that people trust the official line when published in a blog format more so than when it comes as a press release off the wires. In the same way, an intranet modified into more of a social network, a customer care section of your website or a graduate recruitment site will benefit from bringing your brand to the level of peer rather than patriarch.
6 Always-on culture
Generally speaking, the last two generations in the workplace don't like the commitment of formal telephone calls. They weren't taught telephone etiquette and the concept of "taking a message" is beyond them. Sometimes one uses a SMS or IM message as a status checker: are you in? can you make it? The pressure is taken off having to tell a white lie, which is not as easy when speaking to someone in real time over the telephone.
Facebook's status updates allow you to mention in a brief, pithy manner about your whereabouts, mood and recent events in your life. Friends are notified immediately, and will act thereupon by contacting you directly, leaving you alone, or not bothering to schedule a meeting for you as you have stated that you're ill or on leave.
The business case: Churches are increasingly blogging their sermons to their communities. Some people just don't want to attend church but they want the information, much like workers who hate meetings but want to participate in the project nonetheless. What if your board gave brief updates to the other members or subordinates in a secure environment once a day? They could pass on critical leads or thoughts that others could action or research the merits thereof. Teams could get rapid updates rather than gathering in time-consuming meetings, analysts could offer rapid assessments of stock and send out to subscribers in all the various formats.
When getting approval from a client around some material or dealing with a supplier, you'll find IM is faster than email. You can store the conversations for later reference. The stand out in this area is Rackspace, the hosting provider. After spending a few minutes on their site, a window pops up with a sales assistant asking if you need help. You can then ask questions and answers to them, with audio or simply through the IM interface.
7 The Internet is a raw document repository
Google taught us that you can find anything online. Wikipedia taught us that information about everything can be found online. Facebook taught us that anyone you would want to find is probably online. This is a simplification, as others have identified class differences between MySpace and Facebook, not to mention those who are not even online. If you are reading this, however, and can identify with the issues, then you know that your kindergarten playmates or high school sweethearts are a click away from discovery.
The business case: managers tried to block the internet and they tried to block IM. That was until they realised the benefits for productivity and communication inherent in both. Facebook and other social networks may have business applications that are not immediately apparent.
8 Microblogging
I believe microblogging will be the preferred communication method of the near future. The current providers allow one to text, IM, email, blog or phone updates to your personal blog. The updates are then disseminated by notifications like RSS, email, IM, text etc. Publishing and dissemination are therefore combined in one medium through many devices, something which standard websites and phones cannot replicate. This is where Enterprise 2.0 will be focussing its attention right now.
The status updates of Facebook and the wall posts as well as the notifications of your friends are just as in microblogging.
The business case: microblogging allows for sending and receiving key updates through all technical devices. Project updates or urgent information release (See the LA Fire Department's microblog) are native to microblogs.
9 Fad
Sure, Facebook is also a fad. Remember at school you had fads like marbles, collecting cards, hairstyles and clothes styles? They were great, then the powers-that-were moved on them and banned them. The fad usually went underground and the fad mutated into a cult. Feelings against the school management were probably soured for a while. Things may or may have not been written on lavatory walls. Tongues in cheek aside, the same is happening in corporates world-wide.
The business case: everything in social media is, for the corporate, a threat and an opportunity. What usually tips the scale into the overall positive side is that everything is measurable. People can blog about you, but you can blog about yourself and respond to them too. And you can track when somebody mentions you in a blog post. The same principle applies to Facebook and other social media.
10 Knowledge gathering
Since employees have been given internet access to perform their tasks better, they have usually been updated with links and jokes and websites and now Facebook. They've been exposed to more disparate information and interest groups than they would probably have found in that evening's newspapers. This is a part of the great tradition of the Enlightenment, and as mentioned above, they will place worth in content not only coming from the traditional news sources.
The business case: if you are in a creative field, I would suggest giving employees limited or unlimited internet access, underpinned with a performance contract. I would also set aside two hours for a meeting at the end of the week where everyone has to report on what they found online that could contribute to the business aims of the organisation. A reward of more access could be considered? Then your internet and bandwidth can be assessed as a valid business tool, and you and your employees will be reaping the benefits that social media is infusing into our traditional media channels.
Corporations have had to react to the phenomenon, ranging from banning use of Facebook outright, through to limiting use thereof to the marketing departments, to creating an official presence on Facebook and tying the company profile into graduate recruitment and news dissemination.
Don't base your Facebook decision on appearing cool to your employees or external stakeholders. Rather look at the points made above, distribute to staff and convene an open discussion with their own points of view. You could see financial or productivity rewards, or perhaps you may only establish a better dialogue with staff and your customer base.
Remember, this is social media. A top-down approach to information distribution usually lands bottoms up.
Tricky concepts
Concepts are funny old things.
One struggles to define Web 2.0 and social media to the uninitiated, even explaining Enterprise 2.0 and the Attention Economy to the initiated (unless you're Mike).
Then you get arcane and difficult concepts like Zeitgeist /ˈtsaɪtˌgaɪst/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[tsahyt-gahyst], Stream of Consciousness, Knowledge Management and Schadenfreude /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[shahd-n-froi-duh].
The first three are best explained by pointing to things like tag clouds, tumblr, social bookmarking.
The last is best explained by how you felt when Australia and New Zealand exited the Rugby World Cup
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Just like the first eight of engerland, Microsoft get to the loose ball slowly, but they drive on relentlessly, onward and on. Pardon the analogy, but that's how MS is being interpreted by my RWC2007-addled brain. They are johnny-come-lately (not Wilkinson) along with other ERM giants to the benefits of enterprise 2.0, but once they've arrived their presence is felt. SharePoint had already adopted blogs and wikis for internal use in its product, today they cemented that vision.
Taken from McManus' article:
Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. The partnerships link togther Microsoft's SharePoint product with Atlassian's wiki collaboration product Confluence and a new offering from Newsgator called 'NewsGator Social Sites', a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and middleware for SharePoint. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a key product for Microsoft – it has collaboration, business intelligence, content management, search and "social computing" capabilities (Microsoft's term for 'web 2.0′, according to this page on Microsoft's website).
The aim of the partnerships is to add more "social computing platform" capabilities to SharePoint, which up till now has mainly been promoted as an "enterprise productivity platform". In other words, Microsoft is adding more web 2.0 functionality (e.g. collaboration, personal publishing) to SharePoint, using best of breed web products from Atlassian and Newsgator.
Update: definitive article from Susan Scrupski.
An intranet for one
This article was first published in October 2007.
An Intranet start page is a valuable piece of real estate. You can decide who gets to see what based on roles and permissions, ensure that everyone is fed group-wide announcements and even get brand-buy in by exposing your employees to your products, messages or even corporate identity on that space. HR situations such as "I didn't get the email" or "that A3-sized safety warning must have fallen off the wall while I plugged my fingers into the socket" may be averted to some degree.
Web start pages target the individual user and aim to provide them with their favourite links, feeds and widgets. They have really come a long way from the days of Windows Active Desktop. Google, Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo! are playing in this space and making their start pages almost indispensable, much like the portal strategies of a few years ago wanted.
Google personalised start page
Intranet start pages and web start pages are quite different: one facilitates work for the enterprise, the other provides a launching pad into the web mostly for general interest. Now I like a CMS for my documents and I like web pages for their "Daily Me" functionality. How can they be merged?
I don't have access to an intranet full-time, I consult from my notebook. There is no point in setting up a start page in my browser saying "Me, do this!", "Well done I!", "Comment on this document and send to self for review". However, I do use a content management system (Drupal) to categorise my research, past articles and files related to my own bookkeeping. It runs online as well as offline when I may be somewhere with fluctuating or no connectivity (read: beach). Microsoft desktop applications have never made it intuitive to manage your own server on your desktop, and even the lag time with waiting for the native document format, Word, to open or close has turned me off it.
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I would like to see an online service that will be the first thing I open (after my eyes and the kettle) which acts as the current web start pages do. My RSS feeds, my widgets, probably some more interactivity with my own blogs. However, when I take my notebook offline, I would love it if I had that service on my own machine so that I could use it as a CMS for my articles, blog posts, get to read those RSS items that I'd starred but never got around to. Then when my wife says "No internet today!" I can concur but still take my essential reading along.
When I go online, the service would ask me what I'd like to upload to live, re-sync and all would be well with the world again. Perhaps when I view a page online I could select it for offline viewing, where the service uses some smart screen-scraping to provide me with just the post or article, not the visual gumph that comes with it. Go online again, and the screen scraping info gets submitted towards the semantic web project.
It would store my local files online as a backup or for sharing. That way, the web and desktop are both used as a platform, both with the latest copies. The application probably most likely to effect this is Google Gears, an open source browser extension that lets you create web applications that can run offline.
Essentially I want the freedom of a web start page with the structure and support of a local CMS. The two should be the same service. I know with a bit of working around one could get this working, and that one can theoretically achieve these aims with products like Google Gears and Google Documents.
I would probably accept cached advertising if it was a free service, so that when I view offline I still get the advertisements that were meant for my online experience. Otherwise I would pay for such a service in my personal capacity. For an enterprise? Syncing already works well or logging into your intranet via VPN, although you may have marketers without constant access to the network and they would do well to be able to display from their notebooks without relying on connectivity. Salesforce.com have done something along these lines using Gears. Their graph for depicting the process is as follows:
Salesforce.com process using Gears
I would like to the start pages vendors or the embedded service players like Google and Yahoo! step into this market. Other technologies flying around at the moment like Yahoo! Pipes (mashups), XUL, Google Office applications, MS Sharepoint (enterprise 2.0 enabled) and plain Open Source projects are all brilliant solutions looking for a problem.
Perhaps they can begin with the marriage of the desktop to the web.
eBay is now a social network too…
What better way than to get people to gather around Junk? Er, not talking about MySpace or FaceBook, but eBay who released eBay Neighborhoods the other day.
The design is great, coming hard on the heels of Amazon's new redesign.
eBay was one of the companies that did really well really quickly in the 2000 – 2005 period, along with Amazon and Yahoo! I think some cumulative laurels were being sat on by Yahoo! and eBay while everyone else got an idea, an API and some numbers behind them.
Some pennies have dropped since then, and I think this is a network going places. eBay is addictive to many people, and thousands make their living from it. That's an audience that you can't buy. Now if you could integrate their other offerings Skype and StumbleUpon into this it would be worth joining, even if only to get rid of my 1970′s Bobby Locke set of woods.
XBRL reporting mandatory by end 2008? | SEC
The "Office of Interactive Disclosure" has been set up by the US SEC to facilitate the adoption of XBRL by US companies, with a view to making disclosure via XBRL mandatory by the end of next year.
SEC chairman Christopher Cox says "Helping improve our capital markets through lower-cost, faster, and more useful information is the heart of this mission".
A good analysis of the ramifications for US disclosure appears by Dominic Jones. Many of this blog's readers are aware of XBRL and are ready to unleash the wild beasts of the audit department when it nears mandatory adoption. Take this as a heads-up.
Google buys Jaiku
Google buys out Jaiku, the microblogging platform that is a bit more serious than Twitter and Pownce.
Why? Well, Twitter is the popular kid and has all the gadgets and messaging interfaces, but you cannot extend it beyond its mass appeal interface. Pownce was always aimed at the teen market with its buzz and image-video upload.
No sirree, Jaiku is the effort of some Finns, the most always-on culture on the planet (this is an abysmal sentence…). Threading and an element of moderating allow it to be used in serious apps.
My interest in microblogging is across various theatres (of war), but especially for the enterprise. Real time status updates, always-accessible team members (phone, email, site, IM) and a bit of sharing on the side.
You know which microblogging service is really underrated? Tumblr. Its more microblog than the others. The others should really be termed something like Gadget-Bridge or PresenceBlogs.
Growth of online advertising and Microsoft | NY Times
Microsoft is, like SAP, rapidly conceding that Web 2.0 and E2 is a worthy model to deploy into their conventional businesses. Took a look at MS Live yesterday, where users can create a www for free (and paid) and plan an advertising model around it. Good idea, now I see that MS is moving rapidly into advertising. I paraphrase from this article:
Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, vowing that the company's $6 billion plunge into the ad business two months ago was not just an experiment, said today that advertising would become 25 percent of the company's business within a few years.
That, he said, would be about the same amount of time it would take for all media and marketing to go digital."Over time, all ad money will go through a digital ad platform," Mr. Ballmer told a gathering of European ad agencies and clients. "All media goes digital; all advertising goes digital."
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That is the lead-in to the main part of this post, which goes on to give telling stats (my emphases):
Mr. Ballmer's remarks came the same day that the British online advertising trade group, the Internet Advertising Bureau, reported that Internet marketing had grown 41.3 percent in the first half of 2007 and now accounted for 14.7 percent of the British ad market.
The total British market grew 3.1 percent during the first half of the year, to £9.1 billion ($18.2 billion). Without Internet advertising, however, total media spending would have fallen by 1.9 percent. "Once again the Internet has propped up the U.K. advertising economy and remains the fastest-growing advertising medium," the group said.


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Great Friend is a 6 x 8" set of 12 clear stamps. This set includes three solid and three outline image flowers, stepped out perfectly for layering, three sizes of a leafy sprig and three sentiments. Whether using these flowers as focal points or creating your own colorful backgrounds, this set is sure to make you smile. For mix and match options, pair this set with the smaller versions of these images in the Joyful Blooms stamp set. Please note, the Joyful Blooms Die set was NOT designed to be used with Great Friend. The largest die could be used with the smallest flower in this set, but it is not a perfect match. See below for approximate size references of images.
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makes 12
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 3" pieces fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- 12 lime wedges
- 6 cups soda water, divided
Combine sugar, red pepper flakes, salt, ginger, and 2 cups water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove pan from heat, cover, and steep for 30 minutes. Strain ginger syrup into a jar and chill. Fill a 12-ounce glass with ice cubes. Add 2 tablespoons ginger syrup, squeeze a lime wedge into glass, and top with soda water. Stir to combine. Repeat to make 11 more sodas.
Per serving: 74 calories, 17 g sugar
Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit
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recipe at a glance
type: Quick & Easy, Non-Alcoholic, Spritzer
main ingredients: Ginger
dietary considerations: Low Fat, Low Cal, Healthy, Low Cholesterol
holiday/celebration: Cocktail Party, Father's Day, Grilling, Spring, Mother's Day, Picnic, Summer, Shower, Engagement Party, Birthday


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Finding money to grow your company is as critical to the success of your business as securing customers. But it's probably 10 times more difficult.
The stumbling block is figuring out where to get it. Banks? Venture capitalists? Selling stock? Or something else? Business pundits agree-debt is not the best way to grow a business. Unfortunately, many businesses won't achieve growth that attracts venture capitalists, and angel investors may not provide enough. So who's left?
How about a Fortune 1000 company? Many corporations invest time and money developing partnerships with other businesses that can add value to their own. According to Venture Economics, a Newark, New Jersey, private equity research firm, there are 117 active corporate venture programs (including actual funds) in the United States. These corporate investors range from highly focused technology investors, like CMGI and Safeguard, to actual funds like Mustang Ventures, the venture-capital group of Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc.
Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Safeguard, for one, is looking for "companies in e-communications or e-business," explains Steve Andriole, senior vice president and chief technology officer. "Then we ask general questions about market size and trajectory."
For the more than $1 billion Siemens Mustang Ventures fund, the goal is threefold, says Vernon J. Stevenson, vice president of Santa Clara, California-based Siemens Information and Communication Networks. "We want to find innovative technology through hot start-ups. Second, and similar to any venture capitalist or firm, is achieving a nice return; and the last goal is to be a mechanism for internal business units-for ideas from employees that can spin off into start-ups."
How do you locate corporate investors? According to Stevenson, try a company's Web site. Look for offices of business development, corporate or strategic planning, or strategic or corporate alliances. Also, try the "contact us" section of the site or simply call them directly.
Another good strategy: Meet with corporate investors at conferences that bring investors and entrepreneurs together. The IC2 Corporate Investment & Strategic Alliance Conference is a good start. It's slated for October 31 in Dallas. For details, visit www.ic2.org/CISA.
Always remember that demonstrating how you add value to the bottom line will lead to success.
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WOOD VILLAGE, Ore. — Supporters to build a casino in Wood Village, called "The Grange", have suspended their campaign, they announced Tuesday.
Members tried to gain voters' support for Measures 82 and 83 in November, which would have made it possible for the casino to be built on private land. They said they knew it would be a challenge for the measures to pass.
The campaign will no longer run advertisements in support of the measures, according to a press release sent Tuesday.
The measures will remain on Oregon's November ballot.


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Betsy L. Salisbury, of East Providence, has been appointed the bank's vice president and residential lending operations manager. She will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the bank's residential lending including daily operations, special projects, product offerings, processes and policies.
Salisbury comes to BankNewport from BankRI in Lincoln where she served as vice president and retail lending operations manager. Prior to that she was vice president and regional operations manager at Citizens Mortgage Company.
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Five community leaders from varying professional backgrounds have joined the board of directors of this advocacy group of women and men working to eliminate gender bias in the state.
Adriana Dawson, of Providence, is a bilingual business and economic development executive whose experience spans more than 14 years of high-level business development, strategic development, strategic planning, project management and cultural program implementation. She was recently appointed state director of the RI Small Business Development Center.
Susan L. Farmer, of Providence, was the first woman in Rhode Island elected to statewide office when she became secretary of state in 1982. She has spent decades working to further the cause of women's issues both in politics and in the community.
Chris Fierro, of Woonsocket, is the current chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Review. He recently served as district director for Congressman David Cicilline and is a former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
Nicole Lagace, of Providence, is communications director at HousingWorks RI, where she develops messaging and outreach strategies, manages publications, and handles media relations. Prior to her current position, Lagace served as director of public relations at Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
As Providence city solicitor, Jeffrey Padwa is an attorney and chief legal advisor for the mayor, city council and all agencies, departments, boards and commissions. An experienced litigator, he previously operated a successful private legal practice that specialized in issues related to elder safety.
Ronald McDonald House of Providence
John L. Pucci, a partner in the accounting firm of Sansiveri, Kimball & Co. LLP, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Ronald McDonald House of Providence. In addition, he was also voted by the board to become treasurer or the organization.
Pucci, of Barrington, is a graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in business administration.
The board of directors welcomes three new board members.
Roy Galang is director for technology infrastructure and information security officer at Wheaton College and has been involved in higher educational computing for more than 23 years. He is a graduate of Boston College with a BS in Chemistry and an MBA.
David Porter is director of media & technology services at the University of Rhode Island where he is responsible for the voice, data and video networks as well as instructional technology, desktop support and helpdesk services for all university clients and constituents
John Spadaro serves as the interim CIO at Brown University and is the director of technical architecture and outreach.
In that role he is responsible for insuring that Brown's IT systems work together seamlessly.
Hinckley Allen
David A. Wollin has joined Hinckley Allen as a litigation partner in Providence. Listed in Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, he litigates a wide variety of matters, including commercial, products liability, environmental, toxic tort and insurance defense cases.
As lead counsel, he obtained a multi-million dollar judgment for a nonprofit hospital in a dispute with its former parent, establishing gross negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and intentional misrepresentations.
His substantial track record also includes securing dismissal of securities and products liability cases and obtaining one of the largest jury verdicts in Rhode Island in a commission dispute.
He received his J.D. from the Duke University School of Law.


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Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt Is a Huge ABBA Fan
The prog-metal mastermind divulges some surprising favorites
Spring and summer are shaping up nicely for Opeth frontman, Mikael Åkerfeldt. In April, four of his creatively restless Swedish band's classic albums got the deluxe reissue treatment. Then the band hit the road with their American metal brethren in Mastodon for a tour that wrapped May 12 in Atlanta. May also brought the release of the experimental, self-titled Storm Corrosion, Åkerfeldt's collaboration with Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson. Starting in June, Opeth will rain their astonishingly complex, emotionally gripping prog-hard rock-metal hybrid down upon European stages. In the wake of all that activity, the resilient singer-guitarist took a moment to tell us about the things that keep him going, from fire eels to a certain Swedish quartet.
Favorite thing to do on tour between shows:
On tour I go out and get records every day. When I'm [in the U.S.] I'm concentrating on collecting American records; American presses. On this tour I've probably bought 200 vinyls so far and we've been on tour for five weeks. I got a bunch of Kiss stuff lately. I bought Mountain stuff, too, and a few 13th Floor Elevator records from a friend of mine. Generally, I'm just collecting psychedelic progressive-rock from the '60s and '70s. They have to be from the country that they're from. I couldn't live with having a copy of [Free's] Fire and Water from a Spanish pressing, you know what I mean? It has to be the original. Otherwise I would feel nauseous.
Favorite music to listen to on tour:
When I go to bed, I still listen to ABBA for some reason. It just makes me feel comfortable. It makes me feel at home. But when we're drinking, I'm usually the power DJ. I'm very restless when I've had a couple of glasses of wine, so I play songs really fast, and I never play a whole song. It's like a compilation thing: everything from ABBA to bands like the Scorpions and Iron Maiden.
Favorite city to play:
It is really fun to play in Santiago, Chile. There are a lot of people coming out and they're fucking crazy. They're so loud. And it kind of detaches you from your role as a musician. You don't really think about what you're playing because you're enjoying the whole thing. The crowds are always good. Most of the night I'm usually just listening to how we're doing as a band as opposed to listening to how the crowd is reacting. But in Santiago it's just crazy.
Favorite fan encounter:
We played a festival called Desert Rock, which was in Dubai. I had never been to Dubai and it's mostly Muslim. We have a lot of fans out in the Middle East, but because of whatever restrictions, we can't play in some of those countries. After the show, I met with, like, 50 fans from all over the Middle East — from Saudi Arabia, to Iran, to Iraq, from Jordan, and from Dubai, obviously. We were talking and they were so fucking happy. It was amazing for me. I was a bit drunk I think. But I was standing and talking to them about what it's like in their countries. Like, if they want to listen to some of the records, they have to do it really secretly. Otherwise, they might be arrested. This music is forbidden. It's illegal for them to go to shows and they can't buy the record. It's such a struggle for them just to listen to the music. It was really profound.
Favorite ways to unwind at home:
I have two daughters, so I spend a lot of time with them. It's the beauty of this trade that I don't have to grow up so much. I was interested in playing video games and stuff like that, but I've become more and more restless with age. I also have a fish tank I take care of with all sorts of fish. One, the direct translation would be a "fire eel." I asked my daughters to name it but they just call it the eel. I have another big fish — I don't know what they call it in English but it's a big fucking fish that sits on the bottom just hanging out. I was sold when I bought it because I could eat it. When it's too dull to watch, I might just fry it up!
Favorite book:
I read a lot of musician's biographies. I guess it's not like fine literature if you're reading a Mötley Crüe book, but that's what I enjoy.
Favorite author:
I do read some poetry but I only have one favorite poet that I read all the time. It's a Swedish guy named Bruno K. Öijer. In the early days of the band, I got a lot of inspiration from him because his poems are a bit surreal, a bit twisted and dark. Very dark. I went to see one of his spoken-word shows once, and it was amazing. He's like a rock star to me. I saw him in a record store once and I just froze. I was like, "Wow." I love him.
Favorite food:
Italian food. I like carpaccio. I love it. I could eat Italian food every day. In Italy, you can go into pretty much every restaurant and it's going to be decent. When we're on tour — because we're always visiting these countries on tour and I never go on holiday — we're connoisseurs when it comes to food. We're not gonna run into McDonald's, you know? Most of the time we eat really good food.
Favorite TV show:
There's a couple of TV shows in Sweden that I watch. One is like COPS almost. They have cameras on the subway — so someone mugs this girl and there's just people acting fucking stupid. It's my favorite thing to watch. I also like cooking shows, especially if it's got a bit of a twist, like Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. I love that. I love that shit even if it's more produced. I still love it.
Favorite movie:
The first one that comes to mind is Smoke, the film with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt. I love that film. It makes me cry. I also love The Deer Hunter. It's my favorite film of all time. If we're talking newer films, I did love The Wrestler, it was a beautiful film. I loved Black Swan. That was fucking amazing. It's the best film I've seen lately.
Favorite guitar:
PRS built a guitar for Johnny Hiland, that he sent in for repair [to a guitar shop where Åkerfeldt once worked] and never picked up. It was just lying there so I played it. And I just — it was amazing. It was love. I didn't end up getting it, but they built another guitar almost like that one, that I love. But I'm a very nostalgic person so I love very old guitars. I got a guitar from a guy who worked at another store and it was basically in two pieces. It was a wreck. It was fucking broken so he gave it to me and I fixed it up, and I still have it. We've recorded a few records with it, so it's also one of my favorites.


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Being a notary public enhances a paralegal's chances of obtaining a job, according to a number of local attorneys and paralegals. So why not become one? The college district's Community Education Program provides you with an opportunity with a one-day notary public workshop, which combines training and then a chance to take the California Notary Public Exam on the same day.
The workshop will be offered twice this semester: At College of San Mateo (CSM) on September 20, 2014 and on November 15, 2014 at Cañada College.
For more details, please click here.
Cañada College Paralegal Program Advisory Committee
With the goal of always improving its paralegal program, Cañada College has an advisory committee comprised of lawyers, paralegals, business professionals, college paralegal and other faculty, legal research experts, non-profit organization leaders, and present and former paralegal program students. Advice and counsel result in relevant class offerings, courses that best equip students with the skills necessary to perform at the highest levels in the workforce; an ongoing plan to seek and create hands-on work opportunities for students, both while they are in the paralegal studies program and once they have graduated; and current and effective marketing, on and off the Web.
About the Program
The Paralegal Program at Cañada college was developed in cooperation with the San Mateo County Bar Association and the San Mateo County Legal Secretaries Association to train personnel to assist attorneys in both civil and criminal matters. Instruction centers on assisting the attorneys in interviewing clients and preparing legal documents. Courses must be evaluated by a letter grade, not by the credit (CR) nor a Pass *P grade.
Program Learning Outcomes:
Students completing this program will be able to:
- Use effectively both book and electronic legal research tools, and to identify and use primary and secondary law sources.
- Use California superior court judicial council forms, and at least one software program containing such forms.
- Understand, follow and apply ethical rules for attorneys and paralegals and to identify potential ethical issues in the legal environment


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with its brow grooming policy: Shave 'em or go
home. While that's wacky enough on its own, we
were concerned that there might be other ideas
out there that would "raise eyebrows". Heh.
That Would Challenge the Dress Code
8> Bodily fluid Rorschach pants
7> Prosthetic third nipple
6> Nose hoola-hoops
5> In honor of the principal: Comb-overs
4> Hitler-moustache tattoos
3> Clown suit, painted on by the art department
2> Prom dresses made entirely of pizza
Selected from 41 submissions from 13 contributors.
This week's list authors are:
Guy Reeves, Houston, TX — 1 (1st #1 – Woot!)
Judith Cottrill, Bronx, NY — 2
Trish Jensen, Reedsville, PA — 3
Michele Lord, Lincoln, NE — 4
Michael Cunningham, Woodridge, IL — 5
G. Griebenow, Johannesburg, S. Africa — 6
Jay Shuck, Minneapolis, MN — 7, 8
David Bowie, London, England — Banner tag
Barb McMullen, Ann Arbor, MI — Class Clown
(Gary O. Reynolds, Lafayette, IN)
Footie pajamas
(Michael Cunningham, Woodridge, IL)
Guys wearing a codpiece
(Jim G. Phynn, Horsham, PA)
Middle finger extension
(Jay Shuck, Minneapolis, MN)
Prairie dresses and Gibson girl hairdos
(Julie Nusbaum, Hamilton, IN)
Tattoo on inner thigh that reads "In case of emergency, please
pull handle"
(Jim G. Phynn, Horsham, PA)
Unshaven: all students, all body parts
(Michael Cunningham, Woodridge, IL)
Wearing your class ring as a nose ring
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New Delhi: Don't be surprised next year if during your Class XI final and XII board exams you find a question which does not strictly adhere to the subject. The Central Board of Secondary Education has decided to introduce 'value-based questions' of three to five marks in all the major subjects. Value-based questions will be introduced in 15 subjects.
'Aditya participated in a group discussion in his school on the ill effects of tobacco on human health. In the evening he goes with his family for dinner and insists on sitting in the 'non-smoking area' to which his father (who is a heavy smoker) objects . In this situation, who wins your support — Aditya's concern for health and environment, or his father's objection? Justify giving two reasons. Also, suggest any three effective propaganda campaigns for anti-tobacco awareness' . The aforementioned lines is actually a question sample that a biology student of Class XII can expect next year.
The chairman of CBSE, Vineet Joshi, said, "CBSE has decided to follow an interdisciplinary approach in value education where values are intermingled with the content of all the major subjects in Classes XI and XII . The Board has also decided to add 5% weightage in the major subjects (English, Hindi, mathematics, biology , physics, chemistry, accountancy , history, geography , business studies, entrepreneurship and economics ) in Classes XI and XII through questions which will be integrated with the content of the subject and analysed on the basis of the values it reflects."
The questions will be for five marks in a paper of 100 marks and three to four marks in a question paper of 70-90 marks, which will "come into effect from next year" .
According to the document announcing the introduction of the value-based questions, it has been widely felt that the existing educational ecosystem needs to be further strengthened to deliver values enshrined in the Constitution of India. The curricula cutting across all subjects need to articulate values in explicit terms and the assessment schemes, but at the same time must reciprocate by assigning weightage to value-based items.
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Agricultural Officials Announce Grants for Farmers' Markets to Assist Low-Income Residents
BOSTON - April 6, 2011 - With farmers' markets preparing to open for the season, the Patrick-Murray Administration today announced that it will be providing $50,000 in grants for equipment and support to help farmers' markets process Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits used by low-income residents.
These grants, made possible by an ongoing partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (DAR) and the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA), are for the purchase or rental of wireless point-of-sale terminals capable of processing SNAP benefits through the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system.
"No one should be deprived of the ability to feed his or her family a nutritious meal," said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr. "These grants will continue to ensure all Massachusetts residents have access to wholesome, farm-fresh food, regardless of their economic situation."
The grants also fund transaction fees, outreach programs for SNAP participants, promotional materials and incentives to encourage SNAP participants to use their benefits at Massachusetts farmers' markets.
"Continuing to expand opportunities for Massachusetts farmers to sell healthy, fresh food through this partnership is an exciting initiative," said DAR Commissioner Scott J. Soares. "Farmers' markets provide an ideal venue to enhance direct marketing of locally grown agricultural products - increasing business opportunities for our farms and improving access to healthy foods within communities throughout the Commonwealth."
As a result of DAR and DTA's cooperation, SNAP clients were able to use their benefits at 54 markets in Massachusetts last year - an increase from 31 markets in 2009. In 2010, the administration awarded grants to 22 markets and organizations serving 16 communities from Boston to North Adams.
"Access to healthy food is critical for every resident of Massachusetts, and DTA is proud to continue our collaboration on this important initiative," said DTA Commissioner Julia E. Kehoe. "In addition, this year we are piloting an exciting community service opportunity, where our clients can gain valuable employment experience by volunteering as SNAP Farmers' Market Ambassadors. Our Ambassadors will assist with operations on market day and conduct community outreach to make sure everyone knows they can purchase fresh, locally-grown produce by using their SNAP benefits at farmers' markets."
This effort also marks the continuation of a nationally unique and successful public-private partnership with a focused commitment to agricultural and community health interests. DTA provided $30,000 of funding to specifically support markets in Hampden County, with DAR contributing $20,000 to aid remaining markets statewide. The Wholesome Wave Foundation, based in Westport, Connecticut, has raised an additional $32,000 and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation has pledged $10,000.
SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, serves more than 755,000 individuals in Massachusetts - one in nine residents of the Commonwealth - by assisting low-income individuals and families with purchasing healthy food. SNAP households can access their benefits by using an EBT card that is similar to a debit card and is accepted at most grocery stores. This program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and serves as the first line of defense against hunger and poor nutrition.
Individuals, families with children, seniors, and people with disabilities who are having difficulty meeting their basic needs are encouraged to apply for SNAP by visiting www.mass.gov/dta, calling 1-866-950-FOOD, or visiting their local DTA office.
Farmers' markets not only provide shoppers with fresh, healthy, locally grown farm products, they also create community gathering spaces in cities and towns across the state. By purchasing products directly from the farmer, customers have opportunities to learn more about the how the produce was grown, where it comes from, when it was picked, and often get helpful tips on how to prepare it.
In recent years, the number of farmer's markets has more than doubled, from 101 in 2004 to 233 in 2010, with more planned to open this year. DAR continues to work to promote a direct exchange between farmers and consumers, and increase access to local, healthy food statewide.
DAR's mission is to ensure the long-term viability of local agriculture in Massachusetts. Through its four divisions - Agricultural Development, Animal Health, Crop and Pest Services, and Technical Assistance - the DAR strives to support, regulate and enhance the Commonwealth's agricultural community, working to promote economically and environmentally sound food safety and animal health measures, and fulfill agriculture's role in energy conservation and production. For more information, visit DAR's website at www.mass.gov/agr and/or follow at twitter.com/mdarcommish.


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We are in the Washington DC area. We have a new 66 gallon electric water heater in the basement, upper and lower are around 125 degrees. Average size, 2XXX sq ft house. Kids get a bath at 7:30, turn dishwasher on at 9:45, take shower at 10PM. We have a rain shower head, which I'm sure use sa lot of water, but we don't turn it on full blast by any means. We get maybe 6, 7 minutes of hot water. Then no more hot water in house. Our master bath is the farthest away from the basement, but it's not a huge house. Our bath is above the garage, but I did just insulate all the hot water pipes in the garage ceiling, plus the insulation and drywall. Is this really normal? We notice a dramatic difference during the winter months in water temperature. During winter we get like 5 minutes of hot water (and that's with not running the dishwasher, clothes washer, etc.) Either way, I really can't expect more hot water than this? Do I really need to get an instant hot water heater for my one bathroom? That seems crazy?!? Thanks for any info or suggestions!! |
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IIRC, the general rule is a tank water heater provides approx 2/3 of its gallon size in usable heated water. So a 66 gal tank gives you about 44 gallons of "usable" 125°F water ... although of course you get more effective capacity in a shower when the hot flow is tempered by adding cold. Don't guess at the gpm rate of that rainfall shower. Measure it by timing the fill of a 1-gal bucket at whatever is the flow rate you normally run. Also check the manufacturer specs for comparison against your timing test. All that being said, maybe your water heater should be checked for a bad element. |
dadoes, your general rule (which I think is more like 80/20) is just for electric water heaters, not gas. With an electric one, the area below the lower element is typically unheated (cold). With a gas unit, the burner is at the bottom so that the whole tank heats up. Additionally, the recovery (the time it takes to reheat a tank of cold water) is lethargic with an electric unit. While a gas one can often reheat a cold tank in an hour or less, an electric one can take 2-3 hours. So that when the hot water in an electric's tank is used, that's it for a long while. jb3710, once you've filled a bathtub or two and then started the dishwasher, there's not much hot water left to use from a 65 gallon electric tank. If you want to do all that usage within a period that's too short for an electric heater to recover (presuming gas is not available), you'll need either another heater plumbed in parallel or a larger sized tank. You'll get a bit more capacity by turning up the temperature setting. If your dishwasher has an internal heater for water, it'll work fine with cold water, start it after your shower and bathe the kids earlier. |
This post was edited by snidely on Sat, May 25, 13 at 17:32
- Posted by hollysprings (My Page) on Sat, May 25, 13 at 22:28
The kids will only get bigger and those quick tub baths will turn into long showers. You need to look at a long term solution. Like putting in an 80-100 gallon heater. Preferably gas. Or, doing a gas tankless for your master and still upgrading the tank size for the kids/utility end of the house. |
- Posted by bus_driver (My Page) on Sun, May 26, 13 at 7:17
Need more information. Children bathe at 7:30-- we get that. Do the children get only a few minutes of hot water or do they get all that they want? The next use at 9:45 should have plenty of hot water even if the heater was started from cold at 7:30. So is the few minutes of hot water at all times or only after 9:45? |
Have you maybe lost your lower element? I recently lost the function in my lower element. It meant that all of the sudden our hot water time in the shower was cut extremely short (5-10 minutes). We only have a 50 gallon tank, all electric. I noticed that if I left it long enough, we'd have hot water again, so knew my entire hot water tank hadn't failed. Turns out, the lower element does most of the work in a hot water heater and ours failed. Replaced it (not an expensive part, but the plumber to hire was expensive. Had I known how easy it was to do, I'd have done it myself. The next time though, we'll likely be due for a new tank). Ours happened to fail about the time of a remodel. Coincidental. Perhaps yours is the same. Maybe the rainhead has less to do with a drastically short shower time than you think. |
When the tank has had plenty of time to recover, run the nearest tap until fully hot, and measure the temperature. You may find that the tank setting isn't as hot as you think. I run my (gas) tank hotter than that, but I do not have any children in the house. |
Really good one question. And i really appreciate your thought. |
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I have an almost 9 year old Kenmore elite dishwasher which will need to be replaced soon. It was considered to be "ultra-quiet", but I can't find a decibel rating for it anywhere. My kitchen is open to the family room, so quiet is a very important consideration. When the dishwasher is running, I can hear it, but I don't have to raise my voice or turn up the volume on the tv.
The replacements I have been looking at are rated from 52 to 54 decibels. I know that 52 is considerably quieter than 54, but was wondering if anyone can give me an example of how loud 54 is. |
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The power of sound doubles at approximately every 3 db. However sound is somewhat subjective to the surrounding environment. In more realistic terms a machine rated at 51 db will sound to the ear to be about 20% quieter than a machine rated at 54 db. This is a rough estimate based on what my customers seem to notice and to my own ear. |
I have seen some good deals on some Kenmores that are now rated at 49db---KAids also. You might get a much quieter one by watching for a sale--maybe a 49 for what a 54 db would normally run. |
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ďż˝ Aircraft at take-off (180) ďż˝ Fireworks (140) ďż˝ Snowmobile (120) ďż˝ Chain saw (110) ďż˝ Amplified music (110) ďż˝ Lawn mower (90) ďż˝ Noisy office (90) ďż˝ Vacuum cleaner (80) ďż˝ City traffic (80) ďż˝ Normal conversation (60) ďż˝ Refrigerator humming (40) ďż˝ Whisper (20) ďż˝ Leaves rustling (10) ďż˝ Calm breathing (10) Perceptions of increases in decibel level The list below gives you an idea of how noticable a change in decibel level will be to you: ďż˝ 1dB - Not noticable |
It seems you know that DeciBel is a scale or comparative values, not absolutes. jakvis already mentioned that too. Since neither you nor I have a reference noise to start with, that would be deemed "X" decibels as a reference noise, we do not have the capacity to communicate about 54 DeciBels with respect to that reference noise. This is the fact about relative scales. The one and only fact that holds true for relative measurement "scales". |
My Kitchen Aid KUDC03IVBS is rated at 54DB. Water running in my sink is louder than the dishwasher. We cannot hear it over the TV. When it is running, the only thing I can hear is the swish of the water. No motor, pump or anything else. Just water. |
Sound pressure is normally measured with respect to a reference pressure, which for several years has been (IIRC) 2 micro pascals, rms. Factors that make appliance measurement comparisons suspect would be use of different filters (e.g., no weighting vs. A weighting), different distances from the unit, manner in which toe kick is installed such that some noise is attenuated, how well the side gaskets fit the adjacent cabinet, etc. kas |
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In the end, I would recommend Los Cerros for the excursions alone. It's nice to have a menu of activities to choose from, all well conceived and guided by people who know what they're doing, and to be sent out each day with a backpack stocked with just the right variety and amount of food to keep your energy up. The hiking around El Chaltén was the best I've experienced anywhere in the world. One full-day hike (excursion No. 6) took me through a thick forest of lenga trees growing from an ancient seabed, a flock of green parrots bursting into call as I passed, and on a steep climb up to the shore of Laguna de los Tres, a glacial lake in the shadow of Mount Fitz Roy, then along a red-rock ridge high above a broad valley cut by the twisting Río de Las Vueltas, as majestic as the Colorado. Suffice it to say, after hours on the trail, as I sank my tired feet into cool fine pebbles on the beach at Capri Lagoon, and watched the clouds moving above the mountain peaks in the distance, I was reminded that it was Los Cerros that afforded me the privilege of being there.
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In Chile, it is impossible to think about Patagonia without thinking of Explora, the homegrown hotel-adventure company whose important innovations included the integration of design into the adventure-travel experience. Much of the company's success, therefore, is credited to Germán del Sol, the great Chilean architect who designed Explora properties in Torres del Paine and the Atacama Desert. After a recent falling-out between del Sol and Pedro Ibañez, Explora's owner, observers suspected it was only a matter of time before del Sol struck out on his own with a new project.
That project is Remota—which quietly opened last year just outside Puerto Natales—conceived and designed by del Sol and paid for by a wealthy Chilean family who also operate a corporate hotel in Santiago. Puerto Natales is another Patagonian boomtown, a once sleepy, still scruffy port that has become a launching pad for hikers headed to Torres del Paine, a two hours' drive to the north. As Patagonian tourism takes off, Chileans see Puerto Natales eventually becoming the center of a tourist circuit that will move travelers from Torres del Paine south to Ushauia and even Antarctica, and on to El Calafate or El Chaltén in Argentina.
There is only one word to describe Remota's design: dazzling. Whether or not you like the look of it from the outside—a severe, angular U-shaped building clad entirely in black asphalt and topped with a multitude of gigantic curved exhaust pipes—within, it is a study in del Sol's brand of inventive modernism. The heart of the building is a soaring, sun-drenched, cathedral-like space facing a bay, Seno de Última Esperanza, with a series of intersecting ramps and staircases creating different spaces and levels for lounging and dining. Del Sol took his inspiration from Patagonian industrial buildings, and the materials throughout are willfully humble but used in highly stylized ways: the ceiling is a geometric tour-de-force of raw structural two-by-fours; enormous concrete columns punctuate the vertical space and have only a rough coat of white paint, their seams and ridges exposed; open fire pits in sitting areas are made from concrete and fieldstone, and vent into huge black metal ducts that descend from the ceiling. Juxtaposed with these consciously rusticated elements is furniture designed by del Sol's firm—heavy, angular modular sofas and full-size platform beds for lounging—as well as museum-quality Chilean artifacts, including Indian ponchos and headdresses, stone tools, and pottery on display in vitrines.
The guest rooms are less dramatic—for one thing, they're not oversize like everything else—but also more organic, with pizarra (slate) floors and lots of solid, untreated wood, used for a modular bench, table, and headboard, as well as decorative beams, each crafted from a single plank, a cross-section of tree, really, with the bark left on the edges. What the rooms lack in views (only public areas look onto the bay, which leads to the Reina Adelaida Archipelago and the Pacific), they make up for in comfort.
Like most hotels in the region, Remota offers a menu of excursions, and aside from the design, this is what the hotel is currently doing best. Max Salas, a former head guide at Explora, planned outings that allow guests not only to see Torres del Paine (though, frankly, if that is your main goal, you're better off at Explora) but also to get a more complete picture of this part of Chilean Patagonia. I certainly did things Explora guests generally don't: toured the impressive new Puerto Natales industrial museum and visited an organic vegetable farm; hiked up the nearby Cerro Benitez for an astonishing 360-degree view; and, in the remote Sierra Baguales, walked along a stream littered with fossils before having lunch with a cowboy who has lived entirely alone in this valley for 20 years.
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The surge produced between twenty and forty arrests in LoDo every weekend — mostly black or Hispanic males, on charges ranging from public fighting to owning a pit bull. Some critics complained that the cops were provoking confrontations by bum-rushing people, ordering them off public sidewalks, trying to empty LoDo like it was some kind of occupied zone. Club owners griped that the heavy-handed tactics were an overblown response to an overhyped and isolated event ("Where the Wilding Things Are," July 22, 2004). Worse, the crackdown was scaring away business and demonizing the hip-hop clubs, when many of the people causing problems weren't even patrons of the clubs; they were the cheap thugs hanging out in the parking lots.
By working with club owners and community groups, Dilley eventually was able to replace the riot squad with a more cooperative — and arguably more effective — approach. Denver has certain advantages over other cities trying to get a handle on their late-night entertainment districts, notably the availability of off-duty officers to work in the clubs. Although they were being paid by the clubs, Dilley ordered those officers to stick around until 2:30 a.m. to assist in maintaining some semblance of order. She encouraged club owners to stagger their Let Out times so the entire horde wasn't hitting the street all at once; Club Bash was one of the first to comply, moving last call to 1:15 a.m. And LoDo began to see more foot patrols and street closures, designed to discourage cruising, curtail simmering fights and steer the blottoed into cabs.
But the privately owned parking lots remained a sore point — especially the one in the 1800 block of Market Street, the lot closest to Bash. Hiring security guards and getting lot operators to file trespassing complaints "resulted in a decrease in shots fired and weapons-related offenses but has shown no significant decrease in general conduct-related infractions," Lieutenant Davis reported to Dilley in a 2004 memo. "Limited District resources have hindered the ability to adequately address the problem."
To Dilley's distress, the security guards soon disappeared from the lot. When she called a representative of the parking lot operator to ask why, she was told "that they felt it was too big of a liability issue," she later recalled in a deposition. "I then [asked], Did he not think that things that were happening, like fights and shootings and stuff in that parking lot, were also a liability for him? His response was no, that they were willing to accept that."
That fall, Central Parking System took over the lot from Interpark. The operator of more than 2,500 parking facilities across the country, Central didn't see any need for security guards, either. Instead, the company allowed its attendants to leave around 1 a.m. on weekends and eventually closer to midnight, essentially ceding the lot to whomever wanted to park there for free around Let Out. Central didn't join in the DPD's effort to develop a "no-trespass" program for the lots, and company reps were later conspicuously absent from task-force meetings discussing LoDo parking lot issues.
In her deposition, Dilley, who retired earlier this year, admitted that she didn't personally engage the new operators in conversations about security needs; dealing with the previous operator had been "like beating my head against the wall," she said. But other police officers had talked to Central employees about the incidents that went down in the lot after they left at night, and Dilley thought management surely had to be aware that the lot was a dangerous place at Let Out.
"I just can't believe that they would not know what was going on in the lot," she said. "It was in the newspapers...it was a buzz everywhere...plus with [the] comments of your own employees who were afraid of being in that lot, there had to be some discussion going on within Central."
Police gained access to a rooftop overlooking the lot and sometimes conducted surveillance from there. Once in a while, foot patrols or a SWAT team would sweep through the area. The DPD even parked its paddy wagon at the corner of 19th and Market, trying to discourage trouble in the immediate area. But Dilley couldn't devote full-time police attention to a single parking lot, and the violence continued. (At one point Bash's Bertinelli suggested that his club might pay for security in the lot, but the idea was never pursued.)
Not all of the weirdness in the 1800 block of Market ended up generating a police report; if there was no identifiable victim, no witnessed crime, there might not be an actual report. But Daren Ciempa, who took over as the graveyard-shift lieutenant in LoDo in 2007, found the bad juju there spiking just about every weekend. He'd barely started in his new post when a report came in of shots fired in the parking lot — while his officers happened to be patrolling the lot. Over the next six months, there were at least half a dozen reports of shots fired in the 1800 block of Market, maybe as many as ten.
The Central lot had become a place to hold an impromptu tailgate party if you couldn't afford the bar prices for liquor. It was also a useful weapons stash. And fights were frequent — sometimes several in the same night.