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The Hoboken Tech Meetup features printed name tags, sandwiches and soft drinks, public humiliation for anyone who RSVPs but doesn't show, and a more-or-less prompt start time of 6:30 (there's only so much discipline that can be imposed on people, and we have to get to Hoboken). On Monday, the featured speaker was Craig Kanarick.
Mr. Kanarick was once one of the Silicon Alley dot-com kings; he co-founded Razorfish, one of the first large agencies to make websites for major brands. Razorfish grew from two employees to more than 2,000 and its share price doubled on the day it IPO'ed. Two years later, the company's value had dropped from $4 billion to $8 million and Mr. Kanarick started working as a prep cook.
"When the business was failing, and all we were talking about was who we were going to fire tomorrow, I would look across the street and see the chefs in their toques taking a cigarette break," he said. "I thought, I should be over there learning how to make soup instead of decided who I was going to make cry today." He interned at the Institute Babbo across from his former office for nine months.
It would have been interesting to go to the 1999 equivalent of the Hoboken Tech Meetup. The members are dedicated–no wantrepreneurs here–and leader Aaron Price, a spectacled and fastidious self-starter punctuated by a pair of plaid TOMS, curates a careful lineup of speakers and demos to talk in the lecture room at Stevens Institute of Technology. This was the tenth such Meetup. The internet is slow and the start-ups represented by the audience are a little 2008. Most businesses Betabeat encountered were web-based, not mobile, and there was no location-based anything!
But that may not be a bad thing, because it means the Jersey entrepreneurs are well outside the Union Square groupthink. All the presenting companies chosen by Mr. Price had precise business models, none of which relied on advertising. The New York City start-ups Honestly Now relies on referrals to small business professionals. City-based Dealery is a daily deal curator that also does its own daily deals and Jersey-based Takeoff, a collaborative video editing service, will be a paid service.
The outpost gathering is also more intimate than its city counterpart. "New York Tech Meetup is just too huge," one attendee said.
Mr. Kanarick's Powerpoint was not actually about his own dot-com hell. He talked about the history of marketing and the state of tech today (it's Global, Social, Mobile, Digital, Live, Immersive and Integrated) with some inspirational aphorisms for entrepreneurs thrown in. "Who picked out their outfit this morning?" he asked the audience of 70 or so. We all raised our hands. "You're all designers. You all designed an interface." He indicated his dark grey blazer and jeans. He recommended we read Delivering Happiness by Zappo's CEO Tony Hsieh.
Afterward, the Jersey entrepreneurs repaired to a nearby pub where we discussed Foursquare and whether it would be possible or enjoyable to live without a cell phone for a year. Mr. Price told Betabeat about an encounter with New York City entrepreneurs. "I capitalize on the fact that you guys ignore New Jersey," he said.
Re: the Hoboken tech scene in 1999, people forget that Jersey City was pretty much the world capital of online brokerage in the 90s, thanks to Pershing/DLJ, Checkfree and a handful of startups.
Great article. Man your vocabulary is killer (but not overly so…lol)
re: "not mobile, and no location-based anything" –
– how about the mobile based voting that blew the socks off our speaker Craig (and me)
– Or all the people that checked in to the event via FourSquare – http://4sq.com/gbX5jI
– but i agree, we could use some more mobile startups….they have presented at a few previous meet ups though….make sure you come to the next one :)just bustin chops. great read Ms. Jeffries
One of the best meetups organized anywhere in NYC. Though I could not attend this one, I have been a big supporter of HTM and in particular Aaron Price. It is awesome to see NJ getting into the game with a real start-up tech scene.

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Would a Romney win prompt Cascadian secession?
"If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be."
— Kirkpatrick Sale, secessionist scholar and activist, New York Times, 2007
With a Romney bounce in the polls, now might be a good time to ask whether a Mitt win would give impetus to the Cascadia secession movement, for those Northwest Americans who don't take up JetBlue's offer of a free ticket out of the country.
While secession is usually the province of neo-Confederates, disgruntled Tea Partiers and those reviving nullification of Obamacare, it is not wholly a rumble on the far right.
In recent years, grassroots activists, bloggers, academics, and regional advocates have been giving voice to secession from the left. The desire is often expressed as wanting to re-divide the continent — or at least the U.S. and Canada — by bioregions. This is expressed in terms of creating an independent state that is more sustainable, sensitive to indigenous peoples, less corporate, more democratic, perhaps anti-globalist. A place where corporations aren't persons. Cascadian ideas and ideals have also been touted in terms of economic and trade cooperation.
Wisconsin, Vermont, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia all have their secession discussion groups, the latter three entities under the Cascadian umbrella. It certainly draws inspiration from Ernest Callenbach, author of the seminal eco-secessionist novel Ecoptopia (1975), who painted a picture of a region from Northern California to the BC border that had broken off the from the United States and sheltered itself behind a green wall while it re-made itself as an environmental utopia.
Bad elections often bring out a kind of secessionist urge, even if not expressed in Ecotopian terms. There's the Red-Blue political map, or concepts like "The Urban Archipelago," a classic rant in Seattle's The Stranger after the defeat of John Kerry by George W. Bush in 2004, that declared a culture war between Red (rural) and Blue (urban) America: "It's time to state something that we've felt for a long time but have been too polite to say out loud: Liberals, progressives, and Democrats do not live in a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. We live on a chain of islands. We are citizens of the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America."
That sense of alienation could amplify if Obama loses. As The Stranger wrote in '04, the Republicans have no urban agenda to speak of. Today's more extreme Republican party generally rejects many of the federal subsidies, earmarks and initiatives that have made our region boom: investment in infrastructure, public power, land reclamation, even defense initiatives. And, as a party, one wonders whether the GOP grassroots even believe in science anymore. The party is captive of too many climate deniers and Creationists.
Cascadians see things differently from the Urban Archipelago model in that their interests are less about cities and rural areas per se than about the whole ecosystem. Managing a bioregion is more than simply running bustling cities, though that's a key part. Frequently, it is fueled by a passion for nature and climate, not just high-rises and mixed-use developments. But there is a very urban version of Cascadianism too, as evidenced by green cities like Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and perhaps most of all, Portland.
An identity tied by the land and waters is one thing (the naming of the Salish Sea is pure Cascadianism), but our similar attitudes toward urban development are also binding us together: density, green buildings, bikes, mass transit, and economies not dependent on exploiting natural resources and despoiling the environment.
Interestingly, major league soccer has become a breeding ground for the new Cascadianism. Seattle, Portland and Vancouver soccer fans wave the Cascadian flag ("Old Doug"), wear the Cascadian colors (green, blue, white) and wrap their necks in Cascadian scarves. There is talk of creating a Cascadian Football Federation.
Much of the symbolic Northwest fits with Cascadian themes, but the reality is a bit more complicated, both ideologically and in terms of values. Where "Old Doug" might be a fitting symbol of the heart, a Boeing defense contract is a statement about the economic reality of Cascadia's ties to the federal government and subsidy, not to mention land ownership. In the novel Ecoptopia, a visitor to the isolationist new nation rides around in a high-speed monorail system built by Boeing, but would Boeing really stay if Cascadia seceded, if the connection to the flow from the federal teat was actually cut off?
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Posted Tue, Oct 16, 6:44 p.m.
I'm not sure if secession will ever come to pass, but raising the issue should foster discussion of where this country is going, and how regionalsim will impact our collective future. Even as the new technologies bring people together in many ways, differences persist, even widen, based on economic, cultural, racial, ethnic, age, and other demographic perspectives. Whether Romney wins or not, this question of secession will not go away, as the central government has to deal with an increasingly polyglot and segmented population, better organized and in communication with each other.
If Romney wins, then we will deal with other questions including the likelihood of an increasingly radicalized Supreme Court, and a central government reduced in its economic and political powers. How far these shifts go depends also on who controls both houses of congress.
I'm delighted that Berger raised this question and hope we hear more from others as we careen towards the future.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 6:04 a.m.
One the puzzles since the 1990s has been the simultaneous development of globalization and nationalism throughout the world, and those of us who believe in globalization are often puzzled why anyone would cling on to ancient ethnic prejudices over the benefits of a modern liberal capitalist economy. I say this coming from a "nation" (Cascadia) which is superior to all others in the world.
Daniel Rodger's book Age of Fracture is a good description of the situation in the US and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the world. Tracing my ideological lineage back to Alexander Hamilton and Robert Walpole, I am not willing to accept the notion of two Americas, either officially through secession or unofficially through some sort of cultural partition, but that does seem to be what we're up against.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 6:55 a.m.
what a crock. "Cascadians see things differently from the Urban Archipelago model in that their interests are less about cities and rural areas per se than about the whole ecosystem." As if "progressives" are any less selfish than anyone else. Jeez. No wonder no one believes in the Democratic party anymore.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 7:58 a.m.
Sorry little blulite. Kool-Aid woulden't do you in, only a stake in the heart. Sensitive comment, as usual, considering the number of people who died in Jonestown. Really man, what have you got for a brain, or rather, what happened to your heart? Hundreds of people died, families destroye, a country (Guyana) traumatized.. Nothing to joke about, but you don't really give a shit, as long as you can get your paltry two cents in.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 8:11 a.m.
This is a waste of your talent, Knute. An article about why Rob McKenna is a real threat to Cascadians and should be defeated at the polls would serve a greater purpose.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 10:55 a.m.
Interesting ideas. Of course, if the U.S. actually followed its Constitution - including the 10th Amendment thereto - we would truly have a federal republic. The central, federal government would have far less power and influence. Washington and Oregon would have far more power to govern themselves, and the election of a president that Washington and Oregon didn't like would mean less.
Which of the two candidates would be more likely to push such power to the states, and to reduce the power of the central, federal government?
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 12:51 p.m.
Yeah, let's secede, at which point the feds would tell Boeing to move everything to South Carolina or else, and tell Microsoft to get out of Redmond or else, and would tell Starbucks to get out of Seattle or else. And Amazon too. Followed by federal seizure of the Columbia River, and diversion of all its electricity out of the region. And cessation of air traffic control services to Portland and Seattle's airports ..
Now, what were you saying about succession?
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 4:12 p.m.
Yo, Swifty... if Cascadia tries to secede, there will be a lot more than 918 casualties. Really, man. What do YOU have for a brain?
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 4:22 p.m.
If who wins an election for a four-year term is enough to make you want to secede from the union, government is too important a part of your life. It's time to refocus on what's really important. Secessionist, heal thyself.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 4:59 p.m.
Nice try little blulite, but as always a little short on the wit, and long on the hate. Your colors are revealed once again and the gods still are rolling in the aisles. Good luck with your future of misanthropy, secession or none.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 9:12 p.m.
I have made the argument that the last six years were a kind of secessionist rebellion, with Obama playing the role of Jefferson Davis, head of the Confederacy. The parallels are that as the century turned, the liberal states were the ones finding their lifestyles threatened the most by increasingly Republican, suburban, and decentralized lifestyles that are taking over the country. So, they circled the wagons one last time, printed themselves a whole lot of funny money, and hijacked the Government with Obama plus a barrage of mainstream media to keep us under their boot. More and more it's looking like the whole thing is falling apart. Americans, even Washingtonians, don't want urban schemes, super expensive light rail and apodments. Now it is time for Romney/Lincoln to bring the rebels back into the fold. For these La Brea Liberals to give up the ghosts of 1946 and 1964 and end their Euro-socialist dalliances. It's the 21st century.
Posted Wed, Oct 17, 10:32 p.m.
I'd be happy to live in a country that ran from LA through SF, Portland and up to Seattle. Coastalia, not Cascadia.
Posted Fri, Oct 19, 9:57 a.m.
This scenario is about as likely as all the liberals moving to Canada if Bush was elected. However, should it occur the East Cascades Liberation Front would quickly send several divisions through the Snoqualmie Pass. Given Seattle's aversion to guns and hand-wringing over physical contact, they would easily crush the Cascadia communist rebels.
Posted Fri, Oct 19, 10:06 a.m.
Unfortunately our nation and our state aren't so geographically convenient to secession movements. King, Pierce and Snohomish might have enough liberal voters to demand a new nation if Romney wins however that makes Cascadia an island. To properly secede urbanites will have to rethink what a nation is. Perhaps Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Olympia and maybe even Spokane can form united city states like the Vatican City in Italy. They could all be connected by a giant tunnel system. After all Seattle will be in possession of a very large and expensive tunneling machine with nothing to do in 2015.
Perhaps the U.S. can divide into the United Blue States of America and the United Red States of America. It might make traveling to New Mexico or Florida hell, but they could allows change their minds in just four years.
Posted Sat, Oct 20, 12:24 p.m.
Secession isn't the only possible end result of the circumstances described in this piece. In Washington, here we are about to thumb our noses, in a big way, at Federal drug laws that we don't want to live with. That points toward a different way forward. If a right-wing Federal government were to outlaw abortion, or forbid teaching science in schools, I am sure we would adopt a similar approach.
It's true that our region carries more than its weight, and subsidizes the less productive economies of the south. But we still gain great benefits from staying united, that I doubt people would want to give up. As the Great Sort causes people to relocate to like-minded places, it seems inevitable that the bonds of Federalism will loosen, and some sort of cooperative regional relationship will take up some of the slack. So we'll be like a family that still manages to get by, in spite of the crazy uncle who lives in the basement.
Posted Sat, Oct 20, 11:01 p.m.
If that's what it takes to get rid of you folks, so be it. Vote Romney and go away.
Posted Sat, Oct 20, 11:09 p.m.
Mossback, as a commenter or two before me has noted, this makes me wonder if, come the rains, you misidentified and ate a fair sized batch of good old PNW hallucinatory mushrooms.
Posted Sun, Oct 21, 8:53 a.m.
You commenters here don't get it -- this is one of those "fun" columns at Crosscut. It is a parody, a spoof.
Knute has dressed up as an Evergreen State College alum for Holloween.
Can't you recognize his preachy tone and humorless recitation of "northwest progressive" dogma talking points for the jokes they are intended to be?
Lighten up -- in this column Knute is just acting a role. He's a guy in a costume taking a few good-natured pokes at the disingenuous government leadership around here that drones on about "Our Region's Exceptionalism" to keep people bored and distracted. Sheesh . . ..
Posted Sun, Oct 21, 10:37 p.m.
Since we pay more to the feds than we get back (thank you very much rural southern states), I'm all for secession. The sooner the better. And maybe blue light would actually move. That would make it worthwhile all by itself.
Posted Tue, Oct 23, 2:54 p.m.
If Mitt Romney wins -- and I am terrified he will -- the forces of oppression will pounce on us much as a cougar pounces on a lamb.
With a corresponding Republican victory here, Rob McKenna in the governor's mansion and a viciously conservative majority in the Legislature -- note for example the theocratic forces of misogyny and homophobia in the background of Jack Connelly's senate campaign in Tacoma -- there will be no refuge anywhere in Washington state.
Given the Gestapo powers provided by the nullifications of the U.S. Constitution imposed on us by the Patriot Act, the Trespass Act and various iterations of the National Defense Authorization Act, we can be sure anyone who dares advocate secession (or any other act of resistance) will quickly vanish into Guantanamo or some other concentration camp.
As to secession itself, it is clearly the only long-term solution to the re-emergence of regional hostilities that will only intensify as terminal climate change worsens. Which is no doubt part of what motivated the always-Machiavellian One Percent to select Bellingham (and the Salish Sea region in general) to be destroyed by the international coal port.
Bellingham is a genuine mini-Ecotopia, and as long as it survives, its implicit message is that resistance is NOT futile. Hence the Ruling Class intends to bury it in coal dust.
Meanwhile the near-unanimous participation of both political parties in the methodical destruction of our once-vaunted experiment in constitutional democracy proves the extent to which the Democrats and Republicans are merely factions within a single One Percent apparatus – an apparatus that, in its ever-more-brazen Ayn Rand moral imbecility, haughtily disregards any interests beyond its own.
In this context the only meaningful difference between Romney and President Obama is the speed with which each intends to facilitate capitalism's inevitable transition to unapologetic fascism. Romney favors the blitzkreig -- immediate post-inaugural transformation – while Obama favors the boiled-frog approach.
Thus under a continued Obama presidency the submergence of the United States into unapologetically fascist governance -- absolute power and unlimited profit for the Ruling Class, total subjugation and genocidal poverty for all the rest of us -- will (presumably) be more gradual.
Or so I hope, for now at age 72, all I can realistically yearn for is the possibility of dying from natural causes before the de facto Ubermenschen of the de facto Fourth Reich commands its de facto Gestapo to abolish forever what little remains of our liberty.
So descends the final darkness that precedes our species' extinction.
Posted Sat, Oct 27, 5:55 a.m.
Condemning the rest of the country to be ruled by the red states isn't exactly a worthy goal... let Texas secede.
Posted Sat, Oct 27, 4:10 p.m.
It's not only Texas. Everything south of Maryland and east of California show go also.
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I live in zone 6/CT and just purchased some tubers. The nights here are still in the 30's. I'm not worried about frost because I have an unheated hoop house...it gets very warm in there during the day...but drops right back to the 30's when the sun goes down. Is it too cold to start them out there?? I could start them in my basement if I need to, but I am running out of room there. How cold is too cold?? Thanks, Linda |
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It was like the wild, wild west in Chandler Wednesday night when a man on a horse rescued a cow that got loose near Chandler Fashion Center.
A viewer sent ABC15 pictures of the cow, after following the animal from Chompies to the Hobby Lobby store near the mall at the 101 and Chandler Boulevard.
The ABC15 viewer was able to corner the cow at the Hobby Lobby entrance with her car and two other vehicles until a cowboy and horse arrived and lassoed the cow.
The woman said the cow was almost hit by several cars while it was running around the high-traffic area.
A Department of Public Safety spokesperson said their office received a call around 4:30 p.m. about a cow on the roadway near Loop 202 and Kyrene Road, but they never had contact with the animal and did not get any further calls for assistance.
There is no word at this time who the cow belongs to, or how it got loose.


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The NBA season starts on Christmas — thank Jesus Shuttlesworth — so that means we only have three weeks to post things like this that are only tangentially related to the league we love. Lucky for us, this dude is wearing a Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys" sweatshirt, which makes it barely applicable. I think you'll agree that's enough because this is one of the funniest videos in internet history.
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1. Have you ever witnessed a disney proposal? Nope
2. Ever sang (or thought about singing) at the American Idol Experience? Nooooo way! haha
3. What resorts have you stayed at? Pop Century and the Beach Club (for one whole night! haha)
4. Ever been kissed during the fireworks? No, I don't like kissing in public... but I have watched them with my bf lots
5. What's your favorite spectromagic float? Chip and Dale
6. Must have disney food? ooooohhh... cream cheese danishes! No Way Jose! Ohana! I looovveee food :)
7. You have just won 1k in disney dollars...what's your splurge? It would go towards a trip for sure.
8. When is your next wdw vacation? The wdw radio cruise... we're staying for one night before the cruise and then 2 nights after. 75 more days!
9. Have you ever been within an hour of a disney park and not gone? Yep, my family has done an annual trip to Orlando for the past 12 years (our hotel is a 10 minutes drive of Disney) and we only ever do one park day per trip... and it isn't always Disney! (I go on the odd longer trip without my family now)
10. Have you ever been pooed on by a bird at disney? No haha
11. Do you collect anything? Jim Shore collectibles! I get one per trip and my boyfriend's mom buys me one for Christmas each year. I also buy a Disney mug every trip
12. What was your best subject in school? Ummm all of them? Everything but gym haha, I was a 90+ average type of student, but not so athletic. Math and English were my favourite.
13. Can you sing, dance, or draw? I can draw alright (my computer room is decorated with painting I did) and sing on key, but not very well haha. Not so great with the dancing.
14. What color is your mobile phone? Green
15. What pic is on your mobile background? It's the tiki's that squirt water in adventureland
16. Do you have a weakness? food. haha
17. What are you most proud of? Ummm... I dunno. Graduating 6 years of university with not a single penny in loans! (took a lot of hard work!)
18. Do you already have your summer vacation planned? No, I have a potential trip that we're talking about, and I my accompany my bf on a business to new orleans, but nothing planned for sure.
19. What's playing in your car right now? A cd with all sorts of randomness... there's glee, the canada song from epcot, wishes, eric clapton... seriously random.
20. Last concert you attended? Coldplay last summer


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Still do not want Wisconsin losing to Iowa. Best case scenario is Wisky to beat Iowa, then Minny, then OSU trounce Wisky in BCG. Wisky loss to Iowa and then win against Minny not as good for our playoff stretch. I think that was the point of the question regarding a loss to Iowa.
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"Strangely enough...."?
He never picks games he calls. C'mon kid, get your act together! :)
Absolutely love this coach's responses, real strong confidence with no arrogance; strong, strong interview.
Just have to be sure to distinguish between direct and circumstantial evidence. In the case of Gurley, the guy has stated that he paid Gurley for autographs; that is direct evidence that Gurley broke the rules (no inference need be made). The Winston signatures are circumstantial evidence of him breaking the rules, in that the media is inferring that he may have been paid by the guy since that guy has stated he paid Gurley. So direct on Gurley since no inference is necessary (guy has plainly stated he paid Gurley), and circumstantial on Winston (one must infer that Winston was paid). Whether any of it is true or not has no bearing on whether it is direct or circumstantial (the angry autograph dealer could be lying about paying Gurley, but his assertion that he paid Gurley is direct evidence of Gurley breaking the rules, regardless of it being true). Not a trial lawyer, but going off of memory from evidence class.
With these cable deals getting done, it is making sense to me for the long term health of the league.
One of the more disturbing pics I have seen in a while.
I am confident that the deal is not about whether people can get the network in the area, but what tier it is on. You can get the BTN essentially anywhere in the country (and Canada), if willing to pay for it through sports packages--have been able to for some time; the deals are about getting it to lower tiers (e.g., basic cable), so the network gets more coin in its pocket. Such as the case in other B1G footprint states where it comes on the basic cable package.
Talking about only cable providers here and not satellite providers (which seem to have it on basic everywhere, at least it is on DirectTV here in DC)
It certainly should, but the problem is with meat that isn't properly cooked that is also contaminated with a strain that makes humans ill. If everyone cooked meat to the proper temperature you would hear of quite few less occurrences of contaminated meat, as the first sign of contaminated meat is often someone getting sick after not cooking it properly (as opposed to identifying it prior to distribution, which you may never hear about).
Yes, it is discrimination, but its legal discrimination (OSU students are not a protected class; e.g., race, religion, etc.).
Doh, responded too late.
Well, people in prison have a history of making well thought through decisions, so I guess this guy must be an anomaly
I believe the criteria was what bands get listened to the most by people in that state, not what state the bands are from (hence the Nirvana/Rhode Island situation)
Isn't that the MSU commit that got in trouble for body slamming the Cass Tech security guard?
I am with you--catch-22; but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I know its a highlight reel and only a 7 on 7, but he certainly looks to be lock-downish in that clip.
This is true in a civil action, but in Ohio all criminal batteries have been classified as a variation of an assault by statute. So if he made contact, it would be an assault, not a battery.


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Audubon Gala Honors Leading Conservationists with Top Environmental Awards
Star-studded evening raises over $2.4 million for conservation efforts
Riding on Bette Midler's wings, The National Audubon Society soared last night, Jan. 17, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. For the first time, the organization awarded two of the nation's most prestigious environmental honors on the same night: the inaugural Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership and the Audubon Medal.
George Archibald, co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, received the first Lufkin Prize and its $100,000 award, and philanthropist Louis Bacon received the esteemed Audubon Medal.
The Moore Charitable Foundation, of which Louis Bacon is the founder, will provide a new gift to Audubon to create a resource center and powerful new advocacy tools for citizens who want to take action to minimize the impact of energy development on communities and wildlife.
"It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations," Bacon said. "Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work."
Of his achievement, Archibald said: "I am honored to be the first recipient of The Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, and I am especially grateful to Dan and Cynthia Lufkin for their loyal support and dedication to crane conservation. This award is recognition of the achievements of the entire International Crane Foundation staff, our colleagues around the world and the thousands of people who give annually to our global conservation efforts. I really can't think of a better way to kick off the International Crane Foundation's 40th anniversary."
Bette Midler performed a "People" parody, "Skylark", "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob, Bobbin' Along" and closed the evening with "Wind Beneath My Wings."
"Audubon is a visionary organization that has seen the importance of conservation for more than one hundred years," said Midler, founder of the New York Restoration Project. "We only have one planet, and by protecting the birds and lands that make up their habitats, we are protecting our future."
"The Audubon Medal and the Lufkin Prize celebrate men of compassion and courage, and it's pretty remarkable to be able to honor both of these leaders at one event," said Audubon President and CEO David Yarnold. "Not only that, it was the most successful fundraiser Audubon has ever had."
The evening raised over $2.4 million for the organization.
Tom Brokaw hosted gala."I had the privilege of serving as the emcee at the National Audubon Society's Centennial Gala in 2005, and am thrilled to be here tonight to celebrate the achievements of two of this country's great conservationists," Brokaw said.
Guests included Uma Thurman and Arki Busson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Maya Lin, Jane Alexander, Ambassador Ana Irene Delgado, Allison Rockefeller, Louis and Gabrielle Bacon, Cynthia and Dan W. Lufkin, Sonia and Paul Tudor Jones II and many more.
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How do postgraduate GP trainees regulate their learning and what helps and hinders them? A qualitative study
- Margaretha H Sagasser,
- Anneke WM Kramer,
- Cees PM van der Vleuten
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Self-regulation is essential for professional development. It involves monitoring of performance, identifying domains for improvement, undertaking learning activities, applying newly learned knowledge and skills and self-assessing performance. Since self-assessment alone is ineffective in identifying weaknesses, learners should seek external feedback too. Externally regulated educational interventions, like reflection, learning portfolios, assessments and progress meetings, are increasingly used to scaffold self-regulation.
The aim of this study is to explore how postgraduate trainees regulate their learning in the workplace, how external regulation promotes self-regulation and which elements facilitate or impede self-regulation and learning.
In a qualitative study with a phenomenologic approach we interviewed first- and third-year GP trainees from two universities in the Netherlands. Twenty-one verbatim transcripts were coded. Through iterative discussion the researchers agreed on the interpretation of the data and saturation was reached.
Trainees used a short and a long self-regulation loop. The short loop took one week at most and was focused on problems that were easy to resolve and needed minor learning activities. The long loop was focused on complex or recurring problems needing multiple and planned longitudinal learning activities. External assessments and formal training affected the long but not the short loop. The supervisor had a facilitating role in both loops. Self-confidence was used to gauge competence.Elements influencing self-regulation were classified into three dimensions: personal (strong motivation to become a good doctor), interpersonal (stimulation from others) and contextual (organizational and educational features).
Trainees did purposefully self-regulate their learning. Learning in the short loop may not be visible to others. Trainees should be encouraged to actively seek and use external feedback in both loops. An important question for further research is which educational interventions might be used to scaffold learning in the short loop. Investing in supervisor quality remains important, since they are close to trainee learning in both loops.
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- The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/12/67/prepub
- Title
- How do postgraduate GP trainees regulate their learning and what helps and hinders them? A qualitative study
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
BMC Medical Education
- Online Date
- August 2012
- 10.1186/1472-6920-12-67
- Online ISSN
- 1472-6920
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Self-regulation
- Workplace-based learning
- Postgraduate training
- Professional development
- Qualitative research methods
- Authors
- Margaretha H Sagasser (1)
- Anneke WM Kramer (1)
- Cees PM van der Vleuten (1) (2) (3) (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Radboud, The Netherlands
- 2. Department of Educational Development and Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- 3. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 4. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark


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Manchester United striker Robin van Persie says he has been playing through the pain of niggling knocks for 'the last five or six years'.
The Dutchman has endured his fair share of injury problems down the years, and has offered another scare ahead of the World Cup finals.
He was forced out of the Netherlands' final warm-up friendly against Wales with a groin twinge and appeared to be struggling in training over the weekend.
Van Persie has, however, declared himself fit and ready to face reigning champions Spain in a repeat of the 2010 final when Holland open their 2014 campaign on Friday.
He claims to have grown accustomed to nursing his way through fixtures and sees no reason why he cannot complete another major tournament.
Van Persie said: "I can't remember a game over the last five or six years where I haven't felt some pain somewhere.
"The groin complaint I had you can't even call an injury. I've had so many of those complaints.
"I'm no longer bothered by my groin and I have been able to give my all in the training sessions.
"I'm completely ready for the game against Spain.
"Spain are a good side, but so are we."


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Ursa wrote:mweir145 wrote:This is my projection right now for his year end stats:
.315, 20 HR, 80 RBIs, 90 R, and about 15 SB. Still very good, but I'm just not sold on him yet.
So we're now just over a third of the way through the season and Rios is over .350, 14 HR, 48 RBI, 42 R and 8 SB. While I think your BA projection will be fairly close, and the SB figures won't be too far off, the only way the rest of your numbers will be even close is if he gets hurt. He'd have to have a slump of monumental proportions not to sail past 20 HRs and 80 RBIs.
Remember I said I would enjoy being wrong, well so far I am.
We'll see how it goes the rest of the season, though. I never said that at the pace he was going he wouldn't be able to reach those numbers, I just didn't expect him to keep that pace up. He's impressed me by nearly doubling his walk total since the time of that prediction, and obviously he keeps hitting those home runs which he wasn't hitting last season.


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By Omar R. Valdimarsson - May 24, 2011 12:34 PM CT
U.S. President Barack Obama curtailed his visit to Ireland after ash from
an Icelandic volcano drifted over the northern U.K. Photographer: Jewel
Samad/AFP/Getty Images
A volcanic eruption under Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajokull, is
abating after ash grounded about 500 flights from British Airways, Air
France-KLM Group and a dozen other carriers.
"The activity has been reducing," said Bjorn Oddsson, a geologist with the
Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. "If
it continues in the manner it has, the death certificate of this eruption
could be issued this weekend."
BA halted services to Scotland, where Glasgow and Edinburgh airports were
closed, while United Continental Holdings Inc. scrapped three U.S.
flights. Ryanair Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest discount airline, said
there is "no basis" for cancellations and that it found no evidence of
dust in the atmosphere during a "verification flight" today.
Ash from another Icelandic volcano closed European airspace for six days
last year, halting 100,000 flights at a cost of $1.7 billion, according to
the International Air Transport Association. While limits on flying have
since been loosened, ash densities after the eruption of the Grimsvotn
volcano have been sufficient to close some airspace.
The height of plume has diminished to as low as 3 kilometers (1.9 miles)
from 20 kilometers, according to Oddsson. Iceland's Met Office has used a
new weather radar system to monitor the cloud.
Airports Closed
As many as 600 of the region's 29,000 scheduled flights may be affected
today, Brian Flynn, operations chief at Eurocontrol, which oversees
regional air traffic, said in an interview. The situation may be "a little
bit worse" tomorrow as the cloud drifts south, though no major airports
should close, he said.
Five Scottish airports and four in northern England are closed for the
rest of the day, the U.K.'s National Air Traffic Services Ltd. said on its
Aberdeen in Scotland, a hub for the North Sea oil industry, was also
closed earlier and helicopters serving rigs from Norway were grounded,
according to airport operator Avinor.
The potential for disruption prompted U.S. President Barack Obama to cut
short a visit to Ireland, the first leg of a six- day trip to Europe, with
Air Force One leaving a day early for the U.K.
`Real Risk'
Eurocontrol said the dust presents a "very real risk," with the U.K. Met
Office's Volcanic Ash Advisory Center predicting dense ash will drift over
Scotland today, mainly at lower altitudes, extending toward Norway,
Denmark and Sweden. A forecast shows ash stretching across Scotland and
northern England at midnight local time before drifting across the North
Sea to reach Germany and the Netherlands as of 6 a.m.
Areas worst-affected tomorrow may include parts of Denmark, southern
Norway and southwest Sweden, though the impact on flights may be
"relatively low," Eurocontrol said.
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has revised its rules to let airlines
fly in an ash density of two grams or less per 10 cubic meters of air.
They can also operate where the density is two to four grams, provided
they have had their safety case for doing so accepted, the CAA says, but
flights are still banned at levels above four grams like those predicted
over Scotland.
Ryanair said in a statement today that this high-density "red zone" is
"mythical" and based only on weather forecasts, not real readings. Europe
should instead adopt exclusion zones around volcanoes, typically of 150
miles (240 kilometers), as employed in Asia and North America, where
eruptions are more commonplace, Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Leary
The latest eruption began around 6 p.m. on May 21 about 220 kilometers
southeast of Reykjavik at the Grimsvotn chamber, which lies under
The volcano, the most active in Iceland, last erupted in 2004, a venting
that began to abate within three days. Iceland, with about 320,000
inhabitants, is one of the world's most volcanically and geologically
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Jack and a Beanstalk
Germinating seeds is becoming a lost art for some, but not for us here at Roots & Harmony. Despite the popularity of cloning, which we agree is very effective, we realize that many times the only way to acquire a new strain or to introduce new strains to an area is to germinate them from seed. With this easy guide, you'll be germinating your own seeds in no time.
Start with Good Seeds
Working with seed is just like working with anything else, you need to be reasonably certain that the seeds you have are still viable (usually whoever you get them from will vouch for them). Be careful with seeds from disreputable Internet sources; the phenotypes can vary greatly and you never what you are going to get. A good seed will be large, resembling the size of a peppercorn, often dark brown with black tiger stripes. Some seeds can vary from light-brown to black depending on the strain.
Soaking your Seeds
Fill a glass (approx. 8 oz.) with distilled or reverse-osmosis water, and place your seeds so they are floating on the surface. Let the seeds soak for 24 hrs in a dark space that doesn't go below 62 degrees F or above 90 degrees. Optimal is 75. We like to do this in a cabinet above the stove. After 24 hrs some seed should have sank to the bottom. Some may require a little push, poking the seed under the surface. If the seeds sinks, it's a good one. It's ready to go into the next phase. If after five days your seed is still floating, toss it out. It's a dud.
To begin, get a container that will comfortably house your seeds and 5 or 6 paper towels. You'll want to fold the towel up nice and thick so they are at least 6 to 12 layers thick. Place your seeds in the middle layer and soak the paper towel completely, draining off any excess water from your container. If you want to give the seeds a kick-start you can add one ml or drop of a liquid-gel (we use cloneX) rooting hormone per 8oz. of water. Put the container again in a dark place that will not go below 62 degrees or above 90 degrees, again optimal is 75 degrees F. Check the seeds every 24 hours, re-moistening the towel if it begins to dry at all. After 1 or more days, you will start to see a small shoot growing out of the seed. When this shoot is approx. a quarter-inch or more in length, the seed is ready to plant. After 10 days, if a seed has not sprouted, it should probably be discard as it will not be a vigorous plant.
Use a planting flat from your nursery (should have several seperated 1×1 inch square containers) and fill each section with soil. The soil should be heavily aerated and amended with extra pearlite. Moisten the soil thoroughly, without soaking it. Place the seed shoot-down deep enough that the head is approx. 1 quarter-inch deep in the soil after the seed is covered. Cover the seed with soil, and then apply a final moistening to make sure the additional soil is wet. Drain any excess water from this tray thoroughly and then place on a heat mat or heating pad, something that can regulate the temperature to around 75 degrees. This tray should then have a humidity dome placed over it, and a flourescent light source should be applied as close to the dome as possible. This light source will tell the plants which way is up and begin their growth. This light source will be sufficient for the first two weeks of growth. At this point the plants should be thinned again, discarding any unwanted or non-producing seedlings. As many as 50% of the plants may be discarded when carefully choosing the best phenotypes; i.e. the ones with the largest leaves, the thickest stalks, optimal internode spacing, and otherwise optimal characteristics. At this point, the seedlings need to be moved into 1 gallon containers.
Again mix some soil, amended with a light dose of Growilla Bud Food (1 cup per 1.5 cubic feet of soil) and Pearlite (1 to 2 gallons per 1.5 cubic feet of soil). Fill 1 gallon containers about three-quarters full, place your seedling into the soil and cover it, leaving an extra inch of space above the filled soil line. Water this in first with a light sprinkling only trying to moisten the first two inches of soil. Wait 15 to 30 minutes, then repeat the watering, this time wetting the container just long enough to see drainage. These seedlings can now be placed under a metal-hallyde or HPS bulb at approx 36″ distance from the light source. This light can be dropped to approx 18 to 24″ over the course of a week. Repeat your thinning and releasing of unwanted plants throughout your vegetative cycle, finding optimal mothers and fathers for your next round of polination.
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is no such thing as an indoor bonsai or an indoor tree. All bonsai
are naturally outdoor trees and as such are better cultivated
outside. The only exceptions are tropical species that can not
tolerate lower temperatures at certain times of the year and without
an artificial source of warmth would perish.
It is a relatively common sight to see indoor displays of Bonsai
in books and magazines but it should be understood that these
are only temporary. In Japan, Bonsai are commonly brought inside
for 1 or 2 days at a time and are shown as a part of a tokoname
display before being returned outside where they can recover.
There are two main reasons that temperate climate bonsai are not
kept inside for any length of time. Firstly, all deciduous and
coniferous trees need a period of dormancy which is only triggered
by cooler temperatures. Without this dormancy, trees can continue
to grow for anything up to 2 years before going dormant whatever
the season or temperature; this enforced dormancy can often be
Secondly, it is difficult to provide adequate growing conditions
for trees indoors. Inside, light levels are lower, humidity levels
are very poor and trees suffer from lack of air circulation. For
species that are hardy to frosts, it is far better to cultivate
them outside all year round where conditions are conducive to
their health and vigour.
Tropical species of bonsai on the other hand require temperatures
above around 10-15°C (depending on individual species). In cool
temperate areas of America and Europe this can mean that many
tropical bonsai can only be kept outside for 2 or 3 months of
the summer, the rest of the year adequate care must be provided
Indoors, light levels are very poor. Though imperceptible to the human eye, light levels drop rapidly the further you are from a natural source of light. It is said that light levels halve every 50cm further from a window you are. This means that for most tree species light levels are too low, even when stood on a bright window-sill. It needs to be understood that glass filters out many of the UV rays that plants require for the process of photosynthesis; many trees species can fail to receive enough light on a south-facing window-sill even though the heat of the sunlight is burning their leaves.
Trees that do not receive enough light will fail to grow strongly if at all. Any growth that is produced will tend to have long internodes and become 'leggy'. Leaves will be over-sized in an effort to catch maximum light.
Some tropical species however are used to growing on the forest floor (ficus/ Serissa/ sageretia amongst others) in their natural habitat where there is naturally little light and these will cope with lower light levels indoors.
Trees grown indoors should be placed on sunny window-sills and/or provided with overhead fluorescent lamps. This should be sufficient for many tropical species but will probably still be too dark for ordinary woody temperate species.
Ordinary fluorescent lamps or aquarium lights kept about 6 inches above the tree for 12-16 hours a day can be used to supplement light levels.
Do not place trees on window-sills that are closed behind curtains at night, the temperature in between the window and curtain can rapidly drop below room temperature during the night.


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How can I measure the heat/light produced by a lightbulb, so that I can measure the power input of a solar cell to find its efficiency?
Make a calorimeter from a nested pair of large polystyrene foam cups. Put in a known mass of water, Immerse the light bulb upside down into the water until it is almost completely covered with water -- not so deep so as to allow the socket to get wet. Use a thermometer to measure the temperature of the water with the bulb in place. Record this value as the initial temperature.
Wire the bulb circuit so that you can measure the volts and amps when the bulb is in operation. Turn on the light -- the bulb won't break because the heat will be absorbed by the water. After a measured time interval, shut off the bulb and immediately measure the temperature of the water. Record this value as the final temperature. It would be helpful if you could design your experiment so that the water could be gently stirred during the heating cycle. Subtract the initial from the final temperature to get the temperature change.
Use the relationship:
Heat absorbed by the water =
(specific heat of water)(mass of the water)(the temperature change in degrees C)
From this relationship you can calculate the calories liberated by the bulb during the heating interval.
You can calculate the watts of energy used by Power = (volts)(amps)
Now you have an expression for the approximate energy released from the bulb, and the energy consumed during its operation. Its just a matter of a little unit conversion and you are on your way to what you sought. I think this is enough to get you started. Good luck with your experiment.
Measuring the heat/light output over the entire range of wavelengths to get the total energy would be difficult. You might consider a couple of alternative ways to get the same info:
1. Put the power source in series with an ammeter and a calibrated variable resistor. You can use an electrical test set to measure the current. Both are available at a reasonable price from Radio Shack or some other place that handles electronic equipment. The energy, E, produced by the power source [in joules] is the square of the current, I, and the resistance R, i.e. E=I^2*R.
2. If you cannot put your hands on a calibrated variable resistor, you can use any resistor having the proper ohms [You will have to determine what "proper" is by some trial and error.] and measure the current with an ammeter in series with the power supply and the resistor, and the voltage drop across the resistor. Then the energy produced by the power supply is the current, I, times the voltage drop across the resistor, V, that is E = I*V.
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- Cultural resources manager: Data recovery, laboratory management, curating, small exhibit design, repatriation, public archaeology.
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English 7082: Show 'n Tell: Photography in 20th Century Literature
This seminar focuses on an interdisciplinary investigation of the role of photography in contemporary literature from the Western world, with particular emphasis on the post-war period until the present day. A critical overview of the state of research on photography in fiction from ekphrasis to the actual reproduction of photographs in literature will guide discussions about photography's relation to memory, identity, truth, death, and knowledge. We will think about how authors as diverse as Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, and Virginia Woolf have challenged some of the basic assumptions behind the understanding of photography since its invention in the late 1830s. In all instances, the photographic image will be considered as text.
Possible Primary Readings include:
Barthes, Roland. Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes. [1975] Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005.
Brossard, Nicole. Desert Mauve. [1987] Trans. Susanne de Lotbinière-Hartwood. Toronto: Coach House, 2006.
Chatwin, Bruce. In Patagonia. [1977] London: Vintage, 2005.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. Washington: National Geographic, 2005.
Lively, Penelope. The Photograph. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Momaday, N. Scott. The Names: A Memoir. [1976] Tuscon: U of Arizona P, 1999.
Sebald, W.G. The Emigrants. [1993] Trans. Michael Hulse. New York: New Directions, 1996.
Williamson, Janice. Crybaby! Edmonton: NeWest, 1998.
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. [1928] San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., [no date].
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Despite being known for leading the way when it comes to trends in consumer technology, Apple will not implement tap-to-pay functionality into the upcoming version of its smartphone. Does that mean that the mobile-payments movement will lose some of its momentum?
- Visa and Mastercard, the two largest payment processors in the U.S., are coming close to a lawsuit settlement that could result in lower interchange fees paid by merchants to card issuers. If the impact bears any resemblance to the changes that impacted debit card interchange fees, consumers may see negative changes to their card terms.
- President Obama has signed the bill that keeps the interest rate on federal student loans from doubling. If it didn't get passed, nearly 7.5 million students would have had to pay an extra $1,000 or more on their student loans.
- On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will release the minutes from its board meeting in June. It will offer a deeper view into what the central bank thinks of the reduced pace of economic growth in the recent months — which led to increasing speculation that the Fed will deploy a third round of quantitative easing to further spur economic growth.
- The next version of the Apple iPhone is unlikely to make a major contribution in the mobile-payments revolution. The tech giant is reportedly not planning to put near field communication (NFC) technology into the next iPhone iteration due to concerns about battery life and low adoption. Apple was granted patents to iWallet, a mobile-payment platform based on NFC tech in March.
- This upcoming weekend, KeyBank will convert HSBC branches and customers from upstate New York. Customers will officially be part of KeyBank starting Friday afternoon, when they begin to use their new debit cards. Branches will be operating extended hours with additional staff to ensure a smooth transition.


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I spend a lot of time at George Mason University for someone who doesn't teach or attend the school. I'm an alum, but I visit now to either pop into a friendly professor's class and spread the evils of marketing to impressionable minds or as a judge in the School of Management's case study competition.
While judging the latter in a small class this month, I asked the same question of each group that was posing as consultants to a Fortune 500 company.
What was our profit last year?
The groups didn't know, confused revenue with profit (a great coaching moment) or in one especially sad case, insisted that the "entire industry" was $187 trillion. Yes, with a "t". They were prompted to check the number, but confidently insisted the number was trillion.
There are stories of me as a college student too so I understand.
And students can mix their -illions because adults continue bemoaning Google's growth while ignoring Microsoft.
Google receives the majority of North American search queries. Google also rolls out new ventures right out of the Ready-Fire-Aim playbook. But as we crown Google and write about its search and advertising dominance, its still unproven forays into health, operating systems, telephony and more, I just have one question:
Has anyone looked at Microsoft's profit lately?
Even financial pundits are writing off Redmond for an anticipated year-over-year decline in fourth quarter earnings announcement due any day. Until 2008-2009′s "Worst Financial Crisis Ever [except for 1987 and 1973 and that Great Depression thing]", Microsoft consistently posted profit of more than $4 billion every quarter. Those of you scoring at home will note that the company generates profit — not revenue — of more than one billion dollars every month.
Profit slumped in 2009 and looks to decline again in Q4. But compare the two companies before crowning royalty. First, let's agree that 2009, the year that saw government bailouts and the destruction of many household names, isn't on the table. We'll go back to the end of 2008, when our current economic crisis was in full swing.
Google posted great growth numbers. Gross profit rose every year from around $3 billion in 2005 to more than $13 billion in 2008. As any good company in hypergrowth does, Google continually reinvested and still created net income of $4 billion in 2007 and 2008.
Or as we say in my family, Google earned as much in 2007 and again in 2008 as Microsoft did in any 3 month period during that time.
Laugh about Vista or say that Wii won the hearts and minds of console gamers or that Google Apps and SaaS spell the death of Microsoft. But remember that the company you dismiss continues throwing off profit that dwarfs many industries.
Another sound bite for you: between 2007 and 2008, Google earned about $8.5 billion while Microsoft earned double that in 2008 alone.
Pundits and other navel gazers ignore Microsoft at their peril. The company surely needs new cash cows. The on-again deal for Yahoo! may fall through once more. Even if Microsoft buys Yahoo!'s search business, Google will still hold a 3 to 1 margin in the free search market.
We teach business students that corporations exist to create profit and thus shareholder value. By that measure, Google isn't in Microsoft's class yet. And any company that can throw billions at R&D or M&A while retaining more profit than its competitors is a company profit-focused marketers should be watching.
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Purpose & Philosophy
The Lord charges parents with the ultimate responsibility of instructing their children in all areas of growth and development (Deut. 6:6-9, Prov. 22:6, Eph. 6:4). For those families who have chosen to obey this admonition in the form of home education, Chino Valley Christian Academy has been established. Our goal is to provide a structured support system to aid parents in obtaining the highest quality education for their children in terms of spiritual and academic excellence. Through home education, parents can have greater control over the character development and spiritual training of their children.
Our Independent Study Program allows for one-to-one teaching with individualized curriculum tailored to each student so that he or she can learn comfortably at his or her own rate. Parents are responsible to purchase curriculum that best suites their student's educational needs.
Three areas of home education that are continually stressed in our program are family support, parental education, and family accountability.
Family Support
Fellowship among member families is necessary to uphold and encourage one another, as independent studies can put strains on families, financially, emotionally, and socially. "Two are better than one…for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion." (Ecc. 4:9-12)
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Committed teachers always need to look for opportunities to improve their teaching skills. To ensure the strength, unity, and effectiveness of our program, we hold periodic Parent/Teacher Meetings. "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel." (Prov. 12:15)
Member families are expected to meet all school requirements and make consistent progress toward attaining set educational goals.