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Trimuph & Tragedy: The Steelers' Story
first Super Bowl championship in 26 years last season. But off the field, there has been much heartbreak, as 18 former players have died since 2000.
By Sam Farmer Times Staff Writer July 18, 2006 One was lifting weights at home. Another was training for a triathlon. A third was watching a game at a friend's house. Regular guys doing regular things. Then there were the others. One drank antifreeze. Another was in a high-speed chase. Two things in common among all: They were Pittsburgh Steelers; and they died in the last six years. Fresh off their first Super Bowl victory in 26 years, the Steelers have experienced the emotional gamut. The franchise has lost 18 former players ? age 35 to 58 ? since 2000, including seven in the last 16 months. "There is no explanation," said Joe Gordon, a Steelers executive from 1969 to 1998. "We just shake our heads and ask why." The numbers are startling. Of the NFL players from the 1970s and '80s who have died since 2000, more than one in five ? 16 of 77 ? were Steelers. "It's just an anomaly that we can't explain," said John Stallworth, who starred at receiver for Steelers teams from 1974 to 1987. "From an emotional standpoint it just makes you sad and makes you feel like the time we spent together was even more precious." Accidents led to some of the deaths, and at least one was a suicide. Others share hauntingly familiar details. Seven died of heart failure: Jim Clack, 58; Ray Oldham, 54; Dave Brown, 52; Mike Webster, 50; Steve Furness, 49; Joe Gilliam, 49; and Tyrone McGriff, 41. (In 1996, four years before the steady succession of Steelers deaths, longtime center Ray Mansfield died of a heart attack at 55.) There is speculation that steroid abuse could have played a role in some of the deaths, but no hard evidence. It's just as plausible that weight issues were a factor. Counting Mansfield, five of the eight heart-attack victims played on the offensive or defensive line. The circumstances surrounding some of the other deaths were unusual: ? Steve Courson, 50, was killed outside his Farmington, Pa., home in November while trying to remove a 44-foot tree from his property. The former guard was crushed while apparently trying to save his dog, after a gust of wind changed the direction of the falling tree. His black Labrador retriever was found alive, tangled in Courson's legs. ? In March 2005, David Little was bench-pressing weights alone at his Miami home when the coroner determined he suffered a heart arrhythmia, causing the 46-year-old former linebacker to drop a 250-pound barbell on his chest. The bar rolled across his neck and suffocated him. ? Terry Long, 45, an offensive guard whose eight-year career was derailed by a positive test for steroids, committed suicide in Pittsburgh in June 2005 by drinking antifreeze. Twice divorced, he had serious legal problems stemming from his failed food-processing business and had made two previous suicide attempts. ? The second-youngest of the Steelers to die was 36-year-old Justin Strzelczyk, a tackle who had a series of run-ins with the law after he retired. He died after a 40-mile, high-speed chase on the New York Thruway in September 2004. Driving his Ford F-250 pickup at speeds in excess of 100 mph, Strzelczyk made obscene gestures and tossed beer bottles at the police following him. The chase came to a fiery end when, while on the wrong side of the road, he slammed into a tanker truck. The string of deaths ? most recently that of receiver Theo Bell, who died June 21 of kidney disease and the skin disease scleroderma ? have reverberated through the Steelers, the city of Pittsburgh and beyond. "Just the fact that the Steelers are such an integral part of this community ? probably more so than most NFL cities ? it obviously hits home for a lot of people," Gordon said. "It's hard to accept." Men who won a combined 20 Super Bowl rings, the deceased Steelers were part of one of the most hallowed organizations in sports. "When I was young ? I convinced myself that I was going to do something with my life so that my death wouldn't be the end of me," Stallworth said. "In the lives of these men, they were a part of something special. People in Pittsburgh and around the country will remember them for that." Some were as much pioneers as players. Gilliam was among the NFL's first black quarterbacks. He started for Pittsburgh in 1974 before Terry Bradshaw reclaimed the job. When Gilliam's career ended, his life took a downward turn. He struggled with addictions to cocaine and heroin, and sometimes was homeless. In 1995, he was discovered sleeping in a cardboard box under a bridge in Nashville. But his life was on an upswing just before his death. Saying he was drug-free, he lectured children on the perils of drug abuse. In 2000, on Christmas Day, he died while watching a football game at a friend's house. Of the 22 players who were part of all four Pittsburgh Super Bowl teams of the 1970s, Webster was the last to retire and, after Furness, the second to die. An All-Pro center who played in a franchise-record 220 games, "Iron Mike" was known for playing bare-armed no matter how cold the conditions, and for dominating larger defenders. He paid a price, however. Doctors said that the battering he had taken damaged the frontal lobe of his brain, affecting his attention span and concentration. That likely contributed to the many setbacks he endured after his career, among them a failed marriage, a string of bad investments, and occasional homelessness. Also after his career, he admitted he tried anabolic steroids as a player but maintained they were not responsible for his condition. He died of heart failure in September 2002. "Webby was my hero," longtime Steelers tackle Tunch Ilkin said. "That broke my heart. I'd seen what was going on with his life at the end." For years, the Steelers have been dogged by rumors that several of them used performance-enhancing drugs in the 1970s. In an interview last year, Jim Haslett, then coach of the New Orleans Saints, admitted to experimenting with steroids as a Buffalo linebacker, and said the use of those drugs among NFL players started with the Steelers. The NFL didn't begin testing for steroids until 1987, becoming the first professional sports league to do so. Although Haslett didn't deny making those comments, he later apologized to Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who called the accusation "totally false." Former Pittsburgh receiver Lynn Swann agreed with Rooney, saying he was "very surprised" by Haslett's claim. "He's misinformed," Swann said. "He was not a part of that team. I was on that team, and I don't use steroids. And I couldn't tell you of who was on that team if anybody used steroids. Pittsburgh the epicenter of steroid use in the NFL? No. I find that very difficult to believe." However, Peter Furness told the Providence (R.I.) Journal last year that he suspects his brother, Steve, who played defensive tackle for the Steelers from 1972 to 1980, used steroids. Steve Furness died in 2000. In a 1985 interview with Sports Illustrated, Courson became the first NFL player to speak on the record about his steroid use. During his playing days, he had 20-inch biceps and could bench-press 600 pounds. He later said that contributed to a life-threatening condition that weakened his heart muscles ? though he also pointed to his hard-living lifestyle as a factor. For years, Courson was Mr. Steeler. He played in Pittsburgh from 1978 to 1983, when he was part of two championship teams. In the last few years of his life, however, he stopped wearing his Super Bowl rings and contemplated starting over in the mountains of Colorado. He felt betrayed, his girlfriend said, by his teammates' refusal to come clean about their steroid use. "He wanted them to come out and be straight, seeing as it wasn't illegal back then," said Denise Masciola, who dated Courson the last few years of his life. "None of them would. They thought it would hamper their reputation. He felt like they left him just hanging." Former Pittsburgh safety Donnie Shell, now director of player development for the Carolina Panthers, had hoped Courson would work with Carolina players last fall. A few months earlier, the former teammates had discussed getting together. "Then I saw it come across the crawl that Steve Courson is dead," Shell said. "You don't know why until you hear the results of the news. Sometimes it's just shocking to hear." Shell, like Gordon, sees neither rhyme nor reason to the deaths. Only a relentless drumbeat of tragedies ? and a reminder that life can be too short. "There's nothing you can do," he said, "except pray for the families, cherish the memories that you had with them ? they're good memories ? and move on." |
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Fallen Steelers Former Pittsburgh Steelers who have died in recent years. List includes date and cause of death: 2006 Name, Age: Theo Bell, 52 Pos: WR Year(s) with Steelers: 1976, 78-80 Died: June 21 Cause of death: Complications of kidney disease and scleroderma * Name, Age: Jim Clack, 58 Pos: G Year(s) with Steelers: 1971-77 Died: April 7 Cause of death: Heart failure and cancer * Name, Age: Dave Brown, 52 Pos: DB Year(s) with Steelers: 1975 Died: Jan. 10 Cause of death: Heart attack * 2005 Name, Age: Steve Courson, 50 Pos: G Year(s) with Steelers: 1978-83 Died: Nov. 11 Cause of death: Crushed by tree * Name, Age: Ray Oldham, 54 Pos: CB Year(s) with Steelers: 1978 Died: July 23 Cause of death: Heart attack * Name, Age: Terry Long, 45 Pos: G Year(s) with Steelers: 1984-91 Died: June 7 Cause of death: Suicide * Name, Age: David Little, 46 Pos: LB Year(s) with Steelers: 1981-92 Died: March 17 Cause of death: Suffocated while weightlifting * 2004 Name, Age: Justin Strzelczyk, 36 Pos: OL Year(s) with Steelers: 1990-99 Died: Sept. 30 Cause of death: Crashed truck while being pursued by police * Name, Age: James Parrish, 35 Pos: T Year(s) with Steelers: 1995 Died: March 10 Cause of death: Cancer * 2003 Name, Age: David Woodley, 44 Pos: QB Year(s) with Steelers: 1984-85 Died: May 3 Cause of death: Liver and kidney failure * Name, Age: Fred Small, 39 Pos: LB Year(s) with Steelers: 1985 Died: June 24 Cause of death: Traffic accident * Name, Age: John Rodgers, 43 Pos: TE Year(s) with Steelers: 1982-84 Died: April 22 Cause of death: Not reported * Name, Age: Ron Shanklin, 54 Pos: WR Year(s) with Steelers: 1970-74 Died: April 18 Cause of death: Complications of colon cancer * 2002 Name, Age: Mike Webster, 50 Pos: C Year(s) with Steelers: 1974-1990 Died: Sept. 24 Cause of death: Heart failure * 2000 Name, Age: Joe Gilliam, 49 Pos: QB Year(s) with Steelers: 1972-75 Died: Dec. 25 Cause of death: Heart attack * Name, Age: Dan Turk, 38 Pos: C Year(s) with Steelers: 1985-86 Died: Dec. 23 Cause of death: Cancer * Name, Age: Tyrone McGriff, 41 Pos: G Year(s) with Steelers: 1980-82 Died: Dec. 9 Cause of death: Heart failure * Name, Age: Steve Furness, 49 Pos: DT Year(s) with Steelers: 1972-80 Died: Feb. 9 Cause of death: Heart attack * 1996 Name, Age: Ray Mansfield, 55 Pos: C Year(s) with Steelers: 1964-76 Died: Nov. 3 Cause of death: Heart attack while hiking at the Grand Canyon * Source: STATS LLC SAM FARMER Los Angeles Times |
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The 'Teen Mom' star is accusing her new hubby of physically assaulting her while she is preggers! This sounds awful!
Jenelle Evans just can't seem to catch a break. She's filed charges against Courtland Rogers, her husband and her attorney, Dustin R.T. Sullivan, tells E! News that the charges are on an assault against a female with an unborn child.
Why Jenelle Evans Filed Charges Against Courtland Rogers
Jenelle's attorney says: "They are the highest level of misdemeanor you can get," he says. "He faces a maximum 150 days in jail per charge. She was physically assaulted over a period of time," Sullivan added. "She will be a victim in the case and will be represented by the State of North Carolina."
Jenelle Freaked Out On Twitter
Jenelle got really upset and tweeted that she wanted to divorce Courtland and said she was having a miscarriage.
"I am getting a divorce, ASAP. YOU F–KING LEAVE OUT OF TOWN AND I MIGHT BE HAVING A MISCARRIAGE?! F–K U, U F–KING PIECE OF S–T."
Jenelle Getting Back With Her Ex-Fiance
Gary told viewers on Stickam that Jenelle was coming to stay with him after her fight with Courtland.
"Jenelle said that she needed a place to like, hide… She told [her mom] Barbara [Evans] today that she was coming here and even Barbara approved of it," he said. "Barbara was like, 'I think that's great."
But Courtland is really angry over this news because on Jan. 21 he tweeted: "I am glad to know hat somebody has just sent me. A screenshot of jenelle and gary talking today ! TODAY."
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She's a slut, and EVERY TIME things don't go her way, she calls the cops. Girl needs JAIL! This guy needs to RUN AND RUN NOW! She doesn't even take care of her first kid, NOW ANOTHER ONE? This is where the LAW needs to step up. I'm sorry. She smokes weed, does heroin, (allegadley) lol, and the tax payers will pay for her housing, food, medical, school, ect….! Good ole US OF A!
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What's All the Mania Around SaaS Data?
It's no secret that the explosion of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps has revolutionized the way businesses operate. From humble beginnings, the titans of SaaS today include companies such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Marketo, and Workday that have gone public and attained multi-billion dollar valuations. The success of these SaaS leaders has had a domino effect in adjacent areas of the cloud – infrastructure, databases, and analytics.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), which originally had only six services in 2006 with the launch of Amazon EC2, now has over 30 ranging from storage, relational databases, data warehousing, Big Data, and more. Salesforce.com's Wave platform, Tableau Software, and Qlik have made great advances in the cloud analytics arena, to give better visibility to line-of-business users. And as SaaS applications embrace new software design paradigms that extend their functionality, application performance monitoring (APM) analytics has emerged as a specialized field from vendors such as New Relic and AppDynamics.
So, how exactly did the growth of SaaS contribute to these adjacent sectors taking off?
The growth of SaaS coincided with the growth of powerful smartphones and tablets. Seeing this form factor as important to the end user, SaaS companies rushed to produce mobile apps that offered core functionality on their mobile device. Measuring adoption of these mobile apps was necessary to ensure that future releases met all the needs of the end user. Mobile apps contain a ton of information such as app responsiveness, features utilized, and data consumed. As always, there were several types of users, with some preferring a laptop form factor over a smartphone or tablet. With the ever increasing number of data points to measure within a SaaS app, the area of application performance monitoring analytics really took off.
Simultaneously, the growth of the SaaS titans cemented their reputation as not just applications for a certain line-of-business, but into full-fledged platforms. This growth emboldened a number of SaaS startups to develop apps that solved specialized or even vertical business problems in healthcare, warranty-and-repair, quote-to-cash, and banking. To get started quickly and scale rapidly, these startups leveraged AWS and its plethora of services.
The final sector that has taken off thanks to the growth of SaaS is the area of cloud analytics. SaaS grew by leaps and bounds because of its ease of use, and rapid deployment that could be achieved by business users. Cloud analytics aims to provide the same ease of use for business users when providing deep insights into data in an interactive manner.
In all these different sectors, what's common is the fact that SaaS growth has created an uptick in the volume of data and the technologies that serve to make it easier to understand. During Informatica's Data Mania event (March 4th, San Francisco) you'll find several esteemed executives from Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, Microsoft, Dun & Bradstreet, Qlik, Marketo, and AppDynamics talk about the importance of data in the world of SaaS.
Amazon re:Invent 2014 Recap: "Cloud has Become the New Normal"
It's amazing how fast a year goes by. Last year, Informatica Cloud exhibited at Amazon re:Invent for the very first time where we showcased our connector for Amazon Redshift. At the time, customers were simply kicking the tires on Amazon's newest cloud data warehousing service, and trying to learn where it might make sense to fit Amazon Redshift into their overall architecture. This year, it was clear that customers had adopted several AWS services and were truly "all-in" on the cloud. In the words of Andy Jassy, Senior VP of Amazon Web Services, "Cloud has become the new normal".
During Day 1 of the keynote, Andy outlined several areas of growth across the AWS ecosystem such as a 137% YoY increase in data transfer to and from Amazon S3, and a 99% YoY increase in Amazon EC2 instance usage. On Day 2 of the keynote, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon made the case that there has never been a better time to build apps on AWS because of all the enterprise-grade features. Several customers came on stage during both keynotes to demonstrate their use of AWS:
- Major League Baseball's Statcast application consumed 17PB of raw data
- Philips Healthcare used over a petabyte a month
- Intuit revealed their plan to move the rest of their applications to AWS over the next few years
- Johnson & Johnson outlined their use of Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and referred to their use of hybrid cloud as the "borderless datacenter"
- Omnifone illustrated how AWS has the network bandwidth required to deliver their hi-res audio offerings
- The Weather Company scaled AWS across 4 regions to deliver 15 billion forecast publications a day
Informatica was also mentioned on stage by Andy Jassy as one of the premier ISVs that had built solutions on top of the AWS platform. Indeed, from having one connector in the AWS ecosystem last year (for Amazon Redshift), Informatica has released native connectors for Amazon DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce (EMR), S3, Kinesis, and RDS.
With so many customers using AWS, it becomes hard for them to track their usage on a more granular level – this is especially true with enterprise companies using AWS because of the multitude of departments and business units using several AWS services. Informatica Cloud and Tableau developed a joint solution which was showcased at the Amazon re:Invent Partner Theater, where it was possible for an IT Operations individual to drill down into several dimensions to find out the answers they need around AWS usage and cost. IT Ops personnel can point out the relevant data points in their data model, such as availability zone, rate, and usage type, to name a few, and use Amazon Redshift as the cloud data warehouse to aggregate this data. Informatica Cloud's Vibe Integration Packages combined with its native connectivity to Amazon Redshift and S3 allow the data model to be reflected as the correct set of tables in Redshift. Tableau's robust visualization capabilities then allow users to drill down into the data model to extract whatever insights they require. Look for more to come from Informatica Cloud and Tableau on this joint solution in the upcoming weeks and months.
A Guide for Using Cloud Integration to Load Data into Amazon Redshift: Establishing Connections
Amazon Redshift, one of the fast-rising stars in the AWS ecosystem has taken the data warehousing world by storm ever since it was introduced almost two years ago. Amazon Redshift operates completely in the cloud, and allows you to provision nodes on-demand. This model allows you to overcome many of the pains associated with traditional data warehousing techniques, such as provisioning extra server hardware, sizing and preparing databases for loading or extensive SQL scripting.
However, when loading data into Redshift, you may find it challenging to do so in a timely manner. To reduce the time taken to load this data, you may have to spend a tremendous amount of time writing SQL optimization queries which takes away the value proposition of using Redshift in the first place.
Informatica Cloud helps you load this data quickly into Redshift in just a few minutes. To start using Informatica Cloud, you'll need to establish connections from Redshift and your other data source first. Here are a few easy steps to help you get started with establishing connections from a relational database such as MySQL as well as Redshift into Informatica Cloud:
- Login into your Informatica Cloud account, go to Configure -> Connections, click "New", and select "MySQL" for "Type"
- Select your Secure Agent and fill in the rest of the database details:
- Test your connection and then click 'OK' to save and exit
- Now, login to your AWS account and go to Redshift service page
- Go to your cluster configuration page and make a note of the cluster and cluster database properties: Number of Nodes, Endpoint, Port, Database Name, JDBC URL. You also will need:
- The Redshift database user name and password (which is different from your AWS account)
- AWS account Access Key
- AWS account Secret Key
- Exit the AWS console.
- Now, back in your Informatica Cloud account, go to Configure -> Connections and click "New".
- Select "AWS Redshift (Informatica)" for "Type" and fill in the rest of the details from the information you have from above
- Test the connection and then click 'OK' to save and exit
As you can see, establishing connections was extremely easy and can be done in less than 5 minutes. To learn how customers such as UBM used Informatica Cloud to deliver next-generation customer insights with Amazon Redshift, please join us on September 16 for a webinar where we'll have product experts from Amazon and UBM explaining how your company can benefit from cloud data warehousing for petabyte-scale analytics using Amazon Redshift.
5 Ways Hybrid Integration Redefines Your Cloud Strategy
The mainstream use of SaaS applications as part of the cloud strategies in many enterprises continues to rise. Initially led by LOB IT (lines of business, apps IT), SaaS deployments now have central IT (such as Integration Competency Centers) personnel extensively involved. This shift stems from the need to develop strategies around hybrid application deployments – environments that include integrations between cloud and on-premise applications.
The entire breadth of cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground integration scenarios necessitates interacting with the publicly available APIs, cloud services, and internal web services. The end goal is to enable secure, consistent data access on enterprise apps wherein any cloud, or on-premise application is accessible through a tablet or smartphone, in an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
A key necessity for hybrid application deployments is the concept of "adaptive integration" within any integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS). Any cloud service integration that claims to have iPaaS capabilities needs to have integration features that connect data, applications, and processes, as well as have governance and API management functionality. The iPaaS must also run on a multi-tenant infrastructure and be available on-premise at times.
You can learn more about adaptive integration, how the iPaaS impacts it, and hybrid application strategies in our recorded webinar, Enabling Hybrid Application Strategies through Cloud Service Integration, featuring Gartner Vice-President and Fellow, Massimo Pezzini, and Informatica Senior Vice-President of Data Integration, Ash Kulkarni. Key topics covered will include:
- How SaaS adoption is driving the need for hybrid integration
- Why the mobilization of the enterprise means a stricter criteria for an iPaaS
- How Everton Football Club in the English Premier League gained major customer insights by using Informatica Cloud
- What "Adaptive Integration" and the Internet of Things have in store for us
How Parallel Data Loading and Amazon Redshift Redefine Data Warehousing Performance
As Informatica Cloud product managers, we spend a lot of our time thinking about things like relational databases. Recently, we've been considering their limitations, and, specifically, how difficult and expensive it is to provision an on-premise data warehouse to handle the petabytes of fluid data generated by cloud applications and social media. As a result, companies have to often make tradeoffs and decide which data is worth putting into their data warehouse.
Certainly, relational databases have enormous value. They've been around for several decades and have served as a bulwark for storing and analyzing structured data. Without them, we wouldn't be able to extract and store data from on-premise CRM, ERP and HR applications and push it downstream for BI applications to consume.
With the advent of cloud applications and social media however, we are now faced with managing a daily barrage of massive amounts of rapidly changing data, as well as the complexities of analyzing it within the same context as data from on-premise applications. Add to that the stream of data coming from Big Data sources such as Hadoop which then needs to be organized into a structured format so that various correlation analyses can be run by BI applications – and you can begin to understand the enormity of the problem.
Up until now, the only solution has been to throw development resources at legacy on-premise databases, and hope for the best. But given the cost and complexity, this is clearly not a sustainable long-term strategy.
As an alternative, Amazon Redshift, a petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud has the right combination of performance and capabilities to handle the demands of social media and cloud app data, without the additional complexity or expense. Its Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture allows for the lightning fast loading and querying of data. It also features a larger block size, which reduces the number of I/O requests needed to load data, and leads to better performance.
By combining Informatica Cloud with Amazon Redshift's parallel loading architecture, you can make use of push-down optimization algorithms, which process data transformations in the most optimal source or target database engines. Informatica Cloud also offers native connectivity to cloud and social media apps, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, LinkedIn, and Twitter, to name a few, which makes it easy to funnel data from these apps into your Amazon Redshift cluster at faster speeds.
If you're at the Amazon Web Services Summit today in New York City, then you heard our announcement that Informatica Cloud is offering a free 60-day trial for Amazon Redshift with no limitations on the number of rows, jobs, application endpoints, or scheduling. If you'd like to learn more, please visit our Redshift Trial page or go directly to the trial.
Cloud Day Tidings and Tidbits at Informatica World 2014
With practically every on-premise application having a counterpart in the SaaS world, enterprise IT departments have truly made the leap to a new way of computing that is transforming their organizations. The last mile of cloud transformation lies in the field of integration, and it is for this purpose that Informatica had a dedicated Cloud Day this year at Informatica World 2014.
The day kicked off with an introduction by Ronen Schwartz, VP and GM of Informatica Cloud, to the themes of intelligent data integration, comprehensive cloud data management, and cloud process automation. The point was made that with SaaS applications being customized frequently, and the need for more data insights from these apps, it is important to have a single platform that can excel at both batch and real-time integration. A whole series of exciting panel discussions followed, ranging from mission critical Salesforce.com integration, to cloud data warehouses, to hybrid integration use cases involving Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Cloud.
In the mission critical Salesforce.com integration panel, we had speakers from Intuit, InsideTrack, and Cloud Sherpas. Intuit talked about how they went live with Informatica Cloud in under four weeks, with only two developers on hand. InsideTrack had an interesting use case, wherein, they were using the force.com platform to build a native app that tracked performance of students and the impact of coaching on them. InsideTrack connected to several databases outside the Salesforce platform to perform sophisticated analytics and bring them into their app through the power of Informatica Cloud. Cloud Sherpas, a premier System Integrator, and close partner of both Salesforce.com and Informatica outlined three customer case studies of how they used Informatica Cloud to solve complex integration challenges. The first was a medical devices company that was trying to receive up-to-the-minute price quotes be integrating Salesforce and SAP, the second was a global pharmaceuticals company that was using Salesforce to capture data about their research subjects and needed to synchronize that information with their databases, and the third was Salesforce.com itself.
The die-hard data geeks came out in full force for the cloud data warehousing panel. Accomplished speakers from Microstrategy, Amazon, and The Weather Channel discussed data warehousing using Amazon Web Services. A first-time attendee to this panel would have assumed that cloud data warehousing simply dealt with running relational databases on virtual machines spun up from EC2, but instead participants were in enthralled to learn that Amazon Redshift was a relational database that ran 100% in the cloud. The Weather Channel uses Amazon Redshift to perform analytics on almost 750 million rows of data. Using Informatica Cloud, they can load this data into Redshift in a mere half hour. Microstrategy talked about their cloud analytics initiatives and how they looked at it holistically from a hybrid standpoint.
On that note, it was time for the panel of hybrid integration practitioners to take the stage, with Qualcomm and Conde Nast discussing their use of PowerCenter and Cloud. Qualcomm emphasized that the value of Informatica Cloud was the easy access to a variety of connectors, and that they were using connectors for Salesforce, NetSuite, several relational databases, and web services. Conde Nast mentioned that it was extremely easy to port mappings between PowerCenter and Cloud due to the common code base between the two.
What do CIOs think about when integrating Salesforce?
Salesforce.com is one of the most widely used cloud applications across every industry. Initially, Salesforce gained dominance from mid-market customers due to the agility and ease of deployment that the SaaS approach delivered. A cloud-based CRM system enabled SMB companies to easily automate sales processes that recorded customer interactions during the sales cycle and scale without costly infrastructure to maintain. This resulted in faster growth, thereby showing rapid ROI of a Salesforce deployment in most cases.
The Eye of the Enterprise
When larger enterprises saw the rapid growth that mid-market players had achieved, they realized that Salesforce was a unique technology enabler capable of helping their businesses to also speed time to market and scale more effectively. In most enterpises, the Salesforce deployments were driven by line-of-business units such as Sales and Customer Service, with varying degrees of coordination with central IT groups – in fact, most initial deployments of Salesforce orgs were done fairly autonomously from central IT.
With Great Growth Comes Greater Integration Challenges
When these business units needed to engage with each other to run cross functional tasks, the lack of a single customer view across the siloed Salesforce instances became a problem. Each individual Salesforce org had its own version of the truth and it was impossible to locate where in the sales cycle each customer was in respect to each business unit. As a consequence, cross-selling and upselling became very difficult. In short, the very application that was a key technology enabler for growth was now posing challenges to meet business objectives.
Scaling for Growth with Custom Apps
While many companies use the pre-packaged functionality in Salesforce, ISVs have also begun building custom apps using the Force.com platform due to its extensibility and rapid customization features. By using Salesforce to build native applications from the ground up, they could design innovative user interfaces that expose powerful functionality to end users. However, to truly add value, it was not just the user interface that was important, but also the back-end of the technology stack. This was especially evident when it came to aggregating data from several sources, and surfacing them in the custom Force.com apps.
On April 23rd at 10am PDT, you'll hear how two CIOs from two different companies tackled the above integration challenges with Salesforce: Rising Star finalist of the 2013 Silicon Valley Business Journal CIO Awards, Eric Johnson of Informatica, and Computerworld's 2014 Premier 100 IT Leaders, Derald Sue of InsideTrack.
The Need for Specialized SaaS Analytics
SaaS companies are growing rapidly and becoming the top priority for most CIOs. With such high growth expectations, many SaaS vendors are investing in sales and marketing to acquire new customers even if it means having a negative net profit margin as a result. Moreover, with the pressure to grow rapidly, there is an increased urgency to ensure that the Average Sales Price (ASP) of every transaction increases in order to meet revenue targets.
The nature of the cloud allows these SaaS companies to release new features every few months, which sales reps can then promote to new customers. When new functionalities are not used nor understood, customers often feel that they have overpaid for a SaaS product. In such cases, customers usually downgrade to a lower-priced edition or worse, leave the vendor entirely. To make up for this loss, the sales representatives must work harder to acquire new leads, which results in less attention for existing customers. Preventing customer churn is very important. The Cost to Acquire a Customer (CAC) for upsells is 19% of the CAC to acquire new customer dollars. In comparison, the CAC to renew existing customers is only 15% of the CAC to acquire new customer dollars.
Accurate customer usage data helps determine which features customers use and which are under utilized. Gathering this data can help pinpoint high-value features that are not used, especially for customers that have recently upgraded to a higher edition. The process of collecting this data involves several touch points – from recording clicks within the app to analyzing the open rate of entire modules. This is where embedded cloud integration comes into play.
Embedding integration within a SaaS application allows vendors to gain operational insights into each aspect of how their app is being used. With this data, vendors are able to provide feedback to product management in regards to further improvements. Additionally, embedding integration can alert the customer success management team of potential churn, thereby allowing them to implement preventative measures.
To learn more about how a specialized analytics environment can be set up for SaaS apps, join Informatica and Gainsight on April 9th at 10am PDT for an informational webinar Powering Customer Analytics with Embedded Cloud Integration.
The Typical Journey of SaaS Adoption
Within most organizations today, it is not a question of if SaaS applications should be deployed, but how quickly. The era of having to justify adoption of SaaS applications is long over, and the focus has shifted towards a deciding which SaaS applications to deploy, in which departments, and in what timeframes. With this view in mind, let us explore the typical journey that most companies take when deciding which SaaS applications to implement first.
Related: Learn more about customer facing processes vs. customer fulfillment processes in the March 25th webinar 'Accelerate Business Velocity with NetSuite and Salesforce Integration'
Customer Facing Processes
The main impetus behind switching to a SaaS application is because of the agility the cloud brings. Customizations that normally take weeks to get implemented take minutes or days, and can be performed by employees that do not possess an in-depth knowledge of the technical infrastructure of the SaaS system. With that being said, it is customer-facing processes that require application customizations almost immediately because optimizing these processes results in bringing in revenue quickly into the company, thereby enabling CIOs to show rapid ROI of a SaaS application.
It is no wonder that front-office applications such as Salesforce have become one of the largest SaaS vendors out there today. The entire process of converting a lead to a closed opportunity has several steps in between, and may require multiple workflows in parallel. But the journey doesn't stop there. To keep customers satisfied and retain them, their product needs to be fulfilled, and this is where customer fulfillment processes come into play.
Customer Fulfillment Processes
Once an opportunity has been closed, the process of getting the product to the customer begins. Traditionally, this role has been done by large-scale on-premise ERP vendors, but leading cloud ERP companies such as NetSuite are showing how the complex task of fulfilling orders and realizing revenue can be done faster. Processes such as applying category-specific price and quantity discounts, special tax regulations involving several regions and nations, and fulfillment through multiple delivery options all have several moving parts. Moreover, the task of invoicing the customer, collecting payment, and recording numerous financial transactions is an entire sub-process in of itself and the only way it can be streamlined is through cloud ERP applications.
Optimizing the Entire Lead-to-Cash Process with Cloud Integration
When looking at customer-facing and customer-fulfillment processes together, it is very clear that SaaS apps in both categories need to work hand-in-hand to ensure that an organization's customers are satisfied, and continue to engage in repeat business. This is why organizations that are starting the rollout of front-office SaaS applications also need to be thinking about rolling out back-office ERP SaaS applications along with a cloud integration solution to tie it all together. In the March 25th webinar, 'Accelerate Business Velocity with NetSuite and Salesforce Integration', we'll talk about a blueprint for integrating both these types of apps together and how the Australian Institute of Management deployed these apps as part of a multi-million dollar IT transformation project.
Combining Cloud Integration and Big Data in the Cloud to Accelerate Analytics
An explosion in mobile devices and social media usage has been the driving force behind large brands using big data solutions for deep, insightful analytics. In fact, a recent mobile consumer survey found that 71% of people used their mobile devices to access social media.
With social media becoming a major avenue for advertising, and mobile devices being the medium of access, there are numerous data points that global brands can cross-reference to get a more complete picture of their consumer, and their buying propensities. Analyzing these multitudes of data points is the reason behind the rise of big data solutions such as Hadoop.
Related: Informatica Cloud's Marketplace connectors for Cloudera Hadoop CDH 4.1 and Hortonworks Hadoop HDP 1.1
However, Hadoop itself is only one Big Data framework, and consists of several different flavors. Facebook, which called itself the owner of the world's largest Hadoop cluster, at 100 petabytes, outgrew its capabilities on Hadoop and is looking into a technology which would allow it to abstract its Hadoop workloads across several geographically dispersed datacenters.
When it comes to analytics projects that require intensive data warehousing, there is no one-size fits all answer for Big Data as the use cases can be extremely varied, ranging from short-term to long-term. Deploying Hadoop clusters requires specialized skills and proper capacity planning. In contrast, Big Data solutions in the cloud such as Amazon RedShift allow users to provision database nodes on demand and in a matter of minutes, without the need to take into account large outlays of infrastructure such as servers, and datacenter space. As a result, cloud-based Big Data can be a viable alternative for short-term analytics projects as well as fulfilling sandbox requirements to test out larger Big Data integration projects. Cloud-based Big Data may also make sense in situations where only a subset of the data is required for analysis as opposed to the entire dataset.
With cloud integration, much of the complexity of connecting to data sources and targets is abstracted away. Consequently, when a cloud-based Big Data deployment is combined with a cloud integration solution, it can result in even more time and cost savings and get the projects off the ground much faster.
We'll be discussing several use cases around cloud-based Big Data in our webinar on August 22nd, Big Data in the Cloud with Informatica Cloud and Amazon Redshift, with special guests from Amazon on the event.


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Rox is the money used in Moshi monsters game to buy food, seeds, furniture, decorate room and all objects to make your monster is always healthy, happy and to level up.
Here several ways to get more rox:
Scroll down at main screen, choose button say "Intive Friends, Get Rox" Enter your friend's email and your first name. Admin will send them a special Moshi email inviting them to sign up and visit your room! for this you will get 150 Rox.
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1. Go to Puzzle Palace, there are Daily Challenge. Just answer all questions fast and correct. I get 130+ rox for 6 right answers.
I don't like mini-games on Hall of Puzzles because only small earn 5 Rox a puzzle. Mostly because it take too long time, and earn you a ridiculously low amount.
2. Playing the Ice Scream game on Ooh La Land. Start 60 rox for Day 1
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4. Dig up rox flowers in your garden
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After computers were made of bronze cogs but before they were made of integrated circuits, they were made of paper, they were found in books:
The figure pictured above is called a volvelle or wheel chart; it's a series of circles held together that can be rotated in order to yield some string of information. On paper, the concept dates back to the 11th century Persia where it was used most frequently in astronomical texts to depict the movement of the planets and stars, or by astrologers to forecast the future in devices known as zairja. Based on its ability to yield calculations, however simple, the volvelle is considered an early example of a computer. But you can also find one that doesn't compute anything on the album sleeve of Led Zeppelin III.
From East to West
Volvelles were imported into the West in the 1270s by Raymund Lull (1232-1315, also possibly the first European novelist). The 'Quarta Figura' pictured above is a printed version of his 'Lullian Circle'. Lull marketed the idea as the Ars Magna or 'General Art', and provided a system of logic blending influences from Arabic mysticism, Egyptian hermeticism, and his own missions to Jews and Muslims, to power the movements of his little paper wheels. Ironically enough he had built a tool to debate Muslims – to debate the beliefs of the Arabic philosophers from whom he had poached the design concept.
Each letter of the circle represents a topic, and each circle represents one portion of a sentence: there are nine main subjects including God, Angels, and Man, each assigned a letter B-K. The same letters next are assigned to predicates: Goodness, Greatness, Duration, Power, Wisdom, Will, Virtue, Truth, and Glory. The relationship between these sets of terms is determined by three triangles in the middle that highlight their differences, similarities, and magnitudes of importance to one another. Sample statements include: "God is eternal" and "Angels are Wise". Lull worked under the assumption that there were basic, indisputable truths, and that his 'machine' could produce all of them. The concept of truth here is pretty limited, but theoretically this early computer is not far in its ambitions from more recent models, and unsurprisingly someone has tried to make a computer program for it.
The Ultimate General Art caught on in manuscript, then print, and then came the commentaries and how-to guides to ensure some trickle-down longevity for scholars of the 16th and 17th centuries (click here for a meticulous list of Lullians through the ages). Henrich Cornelius Agrippa's popular commentary on Lull's art reached several editions from 1530 – 1605, so unlike me, his readers must have agreed the system was "easy to learn for schoolboys and old men alike" as he claims in the Preface. This is the book that crossed my desk last week and introduced me formally to Lull, and the long history of paper computing.
Agrippa provides broken down diagrams of the circles, descriptions of their components, and an exhaustive list of all possible letters combinations and their values (BK, BC, BD, BE, and so on up to four characters), but he does not provide the volvelles, although you could cut-and-paste together your own:
From Philosophy to Poetry
In 'Raymund Lull's Thinking Machine', Borges' main concern with the Lullian circle is that its terms are outdated, not the machine itself: "We (who are basically no less naïve than Llull) would load the machine differently, no doubt with the words Entropy, Time, Electrons, Potential Energy, Fourth Dimension, Relativity, Protons, Einstein. Or with Surplus Value, Proletariat, Capitalism, Class Struggle, Dialectical Materialism, Engels."
In a sense that had already happened by the end of the 16th century: by Agrippa's time, Lull's combinatory art had already blended with poetic practices dating back the 4th century – centos comprised of cut and pasted fragments from poems and chance operations as with bibliomancy – and updating it to suit the latest tastes. Poetic 'machines' were used to piece together syllables into words, words into verse, proving that computer-generated poetry isn't just a child of the 20th century.
The poems might not have been any good, but the adaptation of the paper machine to new pursuits meant new audiences. As a poetic system it had more formal uses: in 1651 Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, equal parts poet and linguist, used volvelles to compute the limits of the German language:
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's Fünffacher Denckring der Teutschen Sprache, or the Five-fold Thought-ring of the German Language (1651), is composed of five nesting paper discs, each of which is inscribed with a set of word parts along its edge. The innermost ring contains forty-eight prefixes; the next ring, fifty initial letters or diphthongs; the middle ring, twelve medial letters; then, 120 final letters or diphthongs; with the outermost ring storing twenty-four suffixes. When spun, this simple mechanism can generate German words, producing as many as 97,209,600 different combinations. (Source)
For more on Harsdörffer and the Lullian connection see Whitney Trettian's dissertation: "Computers, Cut-Ups, and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms" which thoroughly covers the poetics in the age of mechanical reproduction and can be found here. It's both an amazing resource for material on the history of paper computing, and a computing device in its own right – as it focuses on the use of volvelles to produce poetry, so it practices its preaching and allows you to produce your own textual ordering of the essay.
From Poetry to Mathematics
At the close of the 17th century, there were really only two roads a paper computer might follow: the satirical and the serious. Luckily there was enough paper and time to travel down both.
Enter Jonathan Swift. On his travels, Gulliver is given a tour of the Academy of Lagado, and taken to the department of "Speculative Learning" where a professor aims to enable "the most ignorant person…[to] write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study" using a giant 'machine' ridiculous yet imaginative, adding wire and iron to the paper works:
It was twenty feet square, placed in the middle of the room. The superfices was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others. They were all linked together by slender wires. These bits of wood were covered, on every square, with paper pasted on them; and on these papers were written all the words of their language….The pupils, at his command, took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.
Did anything worthwhile happen other than what Jonathan Swift thought worth making fun of? Probably not. But if he acknowledged "My main purpose in everything I do is rather to enrage than to amuse," he also documented change. In this case, change of possibilities for the 'thinking machines': from religious debate and poetry to any field of knowledge, from a fixed set of 9 subjects to words on 40 six-sided cubes. Such a heightening of the stakes made the device, for all its absurdity, more recognisable as a computing machine, one that has to grapple with randomness and in terms of information science, one that makes a whole lotta noise.
It's no coincidence Swift lambasts a machine that mostly produces random babbling: it was an idea he had criticized over a decade before he wrote Gulliver in "A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind" (1711):
[H]ow can the Epicureans Opinion be true, that the Universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of Atoms, which I will no more believe, then that the accidental jumbling of the Letters in the Alphabet would fall by chance into a most ingenius and learned Treatise of Philosophy…
Swift's scepticism happens to form the basis for one early articulation of the infinite-monkey theorem – "that a half-dozen monkeys provided with typewriters would, in a few eternities, produce the works of Shakespeare" – traced by Borges in his essay "The Total Library". But his preoccupation with accidental jumbling is no accident: a few countries over it had been put to serious practice by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
There is too much to say about Leibniz. What a guy. You should probably just read Maria Antognazza's Intellectual Biography and in the meantime his Wikipedia page. Funny that Swift complained about a 'fortuitous concourse of Atoms' and the 'accidental jumbling of letters' in the same breath: Leibniz's doctoral dissertation on the Art of Combining (1666) had discussed just that, drawing a parallel between the random yet meaningful combination of the atoms of the universe into matter, and the particles of speech that comprise words and sentences. He concludes that language and the universe are similar in that they are the work of the same acts of mixing and re-mixing. Leibniz applied Lull's combinatory art to the idea of a universal human language, what he called an 'alphabet of human thought', the inspiration for which was drawn from Harsdörffer's German language wheel. He wanted to reduce all thought to a series of characters (like hieroglyphs), and a computer to order these characters in every possible combination. This would mean that the system would produce all possible ideas, old and new. Such a machine would eliminate the unknown.
Unfortunately he never elaborated on the actual alphabet he had in mind, although it is thought he imagined it to be a kind of algebraic language. By 1714 he had abandoned the project and distanced himself from his schoolboy ambitions, but not without reflecting on the merits of his resources for the in a letter to Nicholas Raymond:
"When I was young, I found some pleasure in the Lullian art, yet I thought also that I found some defects in it, and I said something about these in a little schoolboyish essay called On the Art of Combinations, published in 1666, and later reprinted without my permission. But I do not readily disdain anything—except the arts of divination, which are nothing but pure cheating—and I have found something valuable, too, in the art of Lully…"
He might have dropped the idea of universal language, but he kept the idea of a machine that could compute the language into each possible combination. The calculator. The value in 'the art of Lully' was that it contributed to the calculator Leibniz invented in 1694: the Stepped Reckoner. It was the first to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide (Blaise Pascal's calculator could not multiply and divide automatically). So from Arabic Astrology to Raymond Lull, Religious Debate to Poetic Composition and Language study, revolving paper wheels were finally put to the task of solving math problems, leading to the calculator, and setting the foundations for computing instruments of the 19th and 20th centuries – c.f. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing.
All of this adds just another dimension of the relationship between book and computer. More than containers that sometimes compete for the same information, they are on the family tree of a daunting ambition to compute and compile all that can be known. Each in their own time are the best-fit materials for the job, and the complexity of harnessing that ideal in some material form is as troublesome for Lull's paper machine as it is in digital terms.
If we look at these two technologies based on the loftiest ideals they're meant to serve, a universal library being one of them, things seem a little less tense. Thinking about each as instruments to aid and abet in that (as-of-today) impossible goal is one way of arguing on behalf of both, because neither serve the purpose. Both have failed so far. So one has not trumped the other. Like the majority of sibling rivalries, it produces all kinds of anxieties and behaviours that never truly resolve themselves but are never as life threatening as they seem.


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Jabari catches up with the infamous Pain in Da Ass on a New York City rooftop. Pain speaks about how he ended up on Jay-Z's albums and how he changed the game.
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Why am I supposed to care? Not to be a dick or whatever. It just seems like he's overestimating his contribution.
I concur
Seem like he was dissing Fabolous since he's making a CD called Loso's Way based on Carlito's Way
This dude is delusional
Lol people don't seem to understand this is pure comedy, nothing serious,ain't nothing wrong with some entertainment from time to time. Most videos feature artists who take themselves too seriously
hahaha this dude is a clown.
i feel bad for him. he could really do some good voice over work.
wow, this is the MOST ANNOYING DJ EVER. i remember a few years back hearing him on some dogshit mixtapes and he was actually making the worse by talking.
this is garbage, "pain in da ass" is the worst, fuck an appearance on reasonable doubt. you blow. "BLEEK IS THE FUTURE". yeah, hes the future. he's 40 and hes 1000 steps behind the rest of the game. good call.
this dude wants his respect. I see nothing wrong wit dat....
lol wtf is wrong with his tongue... also surpsised no one "smh white guy said nigga'ed" him


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nice song and great mv, non stop i hearing everyday.
really sad that christine kuo is sacrified in this video became stone and vanished. But sure it is a nice song
love this song, the tune is so nicw, especially his voice
The tune is very nice…he has a nice range in vocals. <3 it
I thought Ray turned into stone signifying that he is just as stubborn as the girl he likes for continueing to fall in love with someone you know will never like you. Cause the girl he likes is like a stone and unchanging or moving and then he finds out he is also like a stone.
But I don't know cause my chinese is really bad. I can't even read chinese, so have no clue what the lyrics are about exactly!
The last line of the song is that. He also turns into a stone and cant feel the hurt anymore.


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Sales support materials change every six months at ZEISS. This regular cadence helps the distribution network know when to update or order information. But ZEISS realized that there was an opportunity to accelerate the process. By listening to and delivering the distributors' top request of a tablet solution, they could update content far more quickly than print alternatives and guarantee that all salespeople were using current documentation.
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology is a leader in what's known as CNC coordinate measuring machines and complete solutions for multi dimensional metrology in the metrology lab and production. In layman's terms, their products perform quality control on manufactured parts in a variety of industries.
Their staff includes 2,400 employees from manufacturing sites in four countries and they have more than 100 sales and service centers supplying customers around the world.
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"We asked our dealers what they wanted and they said a tablet solution for sharing content," said John Lewis, marketing manager at Carl Zeiss. That set the company on a course of reviewing potential apps.
"A dealer showed us a custom app which didn't address our particular needs," Lewis recalled. "We wanted something that did not require us to become experts in app development and upkeep. We wanted to capitalize as soon as possible on the opportunity to support our dealer network in North America."
The IT group in Carl Zeiss Germany recommended Showpad as a good choice. Once selected, it was implemented far more quickly and paid off in an immediate savings in not having to print and ship as much sales collateral for North America.
"We are launching a lot of new products this year which will change 60% of our collateral material," said Lewis. "Now I can just organize our PDFs and videos on Showpad which is a huge time savings and gets our product information out there to our dealers."


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February 17, 2011 If you or someone you love suffers from heart or vascular disease, Bozeman Deaconess Heart Center is here to help. We have board-certified physicians, state-of-the-art technology and a full range of services to help you live a longer, healthier life. Diagnosing ailments of the heart and circulatory system is more precise and accurate than ever before thanks to continuing developments and improvements in imaging technology. Cardiovascular specialists now have the ability to see and study the heart and blood vessels in amazing detail with several minimally invasive procedures. According to Jennifer Kack, Bozeman Deaconess Heart Center manager, Its fitting that during Heart Month, Cardiology Consultants joined the Bozeman Deaconess Health Group; because of this partnership, weve been able to consolidate all our cardiovascular services under the banner of the Bozeman Deaconess Heart Center. Staying in Bozeman for heart attack care does not compromise patient outcome, in fact, it may improve outcomes. And, heart attack care in a rural non on-site surgery facility like Bozeman Deaconess results in significant cost savings compared to being flown to a nearby on-site surgery facility. Thats because quick response to heart attack care is paramount, not necessarily the size of the facility the victim presents to. Patients who present to Bozeman Deaconess with acute heart attacks have outcomes that surpass national survival rates for this medical emergency. Its standard of care for people who have any type of heart event or heart mending procedure to participate in cardiac rehabilitation. (Heart events include heart attacks and congestive heart failure and heart mending procedures such as bypass surgery, angioplasty, stent and valve surgeries.) Bozeman Deaconess Cardiac Rehabilitation is multi-disciplinary, American Association of Cardiovascular Pulmonary Rehabilitation accredited program that offers medically supervised programs for people with diagnosed illness, heart or breathing conditions along with adults who have lifestyle risk factors like obesity, high blood pressure or sedentary lifestyles. Blair Erb, MD, Bozeman Deaconess Cardiology Consultants, is medical director of the department. The rehab team, working closely with primary care physicians, tailors a program for each person. Everyones rehabilitation program involves a combination of education, exercise and intensive cardiovascular risk reduction.


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George W. Launchbaugh
George W. Launchbaugh. 97, Dresden, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, at Hays Medical Center.
He was born March 21, 1916, in Sheridan County to Tallis and Ella (Dedrick) Launchbaugh.
He married Carolyn Marie (Leist) Launchbaugh on Dec. 23, 1944, in Hoxie. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving during World War II.
Survivors include a son, Steven Launchbaugh, Dresden; a daughter, Carol Metro, Salina; four grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at McGraw United Methodist Church; burial in Dresden Cemetery, with military rites by Jennings American Legion Post No. 351.
Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mickey-Leopold Funeral Home, Hoxie.
Memorials are suggested to McGraw United Methodist Church or Sheridan County Rural Fire Department in care of the funeral home.
Condolences can be sent to the family at www.mickeyleopoldfuneral.com.


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"He shoots, he scores," screamed Foster Hewitt, when announcing Hockey Night in Canada games, first on old-time radio and then on television. Hewitt was the first in the world, March 22, 1923, to broadcast a hockey game on radio.
"He shoots, he scores," shouted Marty Young, announcing the old-timers' game at Preston Memorial Auditorium during the 55th annual Preston International Hockey Tournament.
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Keeping these old guys under control was a 25-year veteran of the National Hockey League, Bob Hodges. As a linesman and referee, he officiated 1,701 regular NHL games. His early hockey-playing days were in his hometown of Hespeler, playing in Hespeler Minor Hockey and graduating to the Junior C Hespeler Shamrocks. Assisting Hodges on the ice in black and white striped sweaters were linesmen John McCash and Justin Herod.
Oh, the winner of that game was Hespeler 5-4. Scoring for the winners were Higgins, Renton, Owens and Aucoin. Goals by Preston were scored by Chambers, Jamieson, LeClair and Conaway.
The goaltending was superb with Frosch and Wydeven for Hespeler and Fischer and Coates for Preston.
That exciting game is only half the story. Two teams of under 50-year-old players took to the ice to continue to thrill the large crowd. Many of these younger players from Hespeler and Preston had played in the Preston International Hockey Tournament when they were between eight and 10 years old. Now aged from the teens to 50, they played in a game to celebrate the tournament's 55th year.
Hespeler again was the winner in this younger age division. Hespeler scored seven goals against Preston goaltenders Peter Bauer and Gary Gignac. Preston put only five goals past netminders Dave O'Krafka and Jeremy Conway.
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Alan, you might be able to help. Am researching a Minnie Isabel Diener,b. c. 1880,Victoria and died 1945 in Heywood. Married a Frederick William Thomas. Her parents were Frederick Diener and Charlotte Pope. Have you come across these people ? Sandra
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St. Augustine
St. Augustine, FL
Welcome to the Freedom Boat Club of St. Augustine! The nation's oldest city and first seaport, St. Augustine has been linked to the sea for nearly 450 years. A truly historic destination for boaters, it was recently selected by ABC's "Good Morning America" as the city where Americans can most feel as though they are in Europe. Blue water boaters can access the city through St. Augustine inlet and proceed to the City Marina or the private Camachee Cove Marina, or you can anchor out in the shadow of the Castillo de San Marcos, the Spanish fortress built in 1672. These marinas, as well as several on the San Sebastian River, provide full service stops for boats traveling the Intercoastal Waterway.
St. Augustine's 144-square block historic district begins at the City Marina and more than 30 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places are within easy walking distance, as are more than a dozen distinctive restaurants offering everything from local seafood to upscale Spanish cuisine. Historic, narrated tours of the harbor are available from St. Sightseeing Cruises and sunset sails aboard the Schooner Freedom are popular attractions. Both depart from the City Marina. Also based here is St. Augustine Eco-Tours providing an up-close and fascinating look at the local marine environment.
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Effective October 1, 2001, a person 21 years of age or younger may not operate a vessel powered by a motor of 10 horsepower or greater unless such person has in his or her possession aboard the vessel photographic identification and a boater safety identification. From boats, bridges, shore or surf, there are plenty of opportunities to catch the big ones. But you will need a fishing license. Call the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at (888) 347-4356 for details and fees. All licenses are available from the county tax collectors offices and sub-agents located at tackle shops, fish camps, hardware stores and sporting goods stores.