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Marketing is hard and you are too busy farming to keep it top of mind. There are too many options: email, facebook, and Twitter and there's not enough time in the day.
However, marketing is also vitally important if your farm sells directly to customers. A farm without customers is just a big compost pile.
We want to help your marketing easier, so you can get back to farming.
To that end, we will relaunch this blog as the Farm Marketing Minute in April 2015.
We'll send you one email every week during the growing season with:
This is a completely free service!
If you sign up now, I will send you our set of 140 vegetable stock photos. We took these photos and they are royalty free to use in your marketing in any way you see fit.
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See this as your weekly motivation throughout the season to keep your customers engaged.
-Simon Huntley
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The fall harvest is a time when food seems bountiful and we take the time to reflect and give thanks for what we have. Two "food days" in October remind us of the people who work hard to provide this bounty and they encourage an awareness of the issues that threaten their life's work.
Coming up on October 16th is World Food Day, an annual event organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to bring awareness to world hunger issues. Since 2014 is also the International Year of Family Farming, this year's World Food Day theme is: "Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth". The theme has a broad scope and, according to their website, addresses:
"the significant role of family farming in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, in particular in rural areas."
Check out the World Food Day website for videos, infographics and more information about how to get involved.
Later in the month, on Octber 24th, is Food Day, a national event hosted by a coalition of over 100 partner organizations. Food Day "envisions food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it." This year they are bringing a special focus to food justice issues like access & equality, farm & food service workers, hunger & obesity and even junk food marketing.
Check out the the Food Day website to find activities in your area, and to read more about the issues they are tackling. Their resources is filled with great information for sharing including infographics like this one about food justice:
We are adding a new position to the Small Farm Central team, Farmer Success Specialist. This position entails supporting our customers as well as developing and implementing a plan to reach out to existing customers to ensure they are having success with the software.
This is a Pittsburgh-based position at our East Liberty offices.
We have been working with an illustrator to develop some stock images of CSA boxes that look like this:
This is conjunction with a feature for Member Assembler which will allow associating an image with each member type to give members a better visual feel for what each box looks like as they are making their selections. You will be able to upload your own image or use one of these illustrations.
Do you think these illustrations will be useful?
In honor of National Farmers Market Week, The Farmers Market Coalition announced the winners of their first ever poster contest. Check them out below or click here:
The crew at Small Farm Central is especially excited for the winner of the Best EBT/Incentive Program Poster, Pittsburgh's own Just Harvest! Their Fresh Access program has been enabling Pittsburgh CitiParks Farmers Markets customers the ability to purchase tokens with their debit cards, credit cards, and SNAP benefit cards which in turn can be used to buy goods from the market vendors. Not only has it made shopping at farmers markets more convenient, but it's made the market more accessible for everyone!
Here are some other updates and articles that were written in celebration of National Farmers Market Week:
Thousands of Reasons to Celebrate National Farmers Market Week - USDA blog
Farmers' Market Values - New York Times Online: The Opinion Pages
Farmers Markets & Urban Agriculture - Sharing the Bounty - HuffPost Food: The Blog
FMC Celebrates National Farmers Market Week in DC - The Farmers Market Coalition website
And here's another smart infographic about farmers markets from The Farmers Market Coalition to share on your websites. Be sure to check out their website for more great resources to promote your market.
Keep spreading the word about shopping at local markets and be sure to keep on celebrating through the weekend!
The American Farmland Trust is running it's "I Love My Farmers Market" campaign again this summer in order to continue to raise awareness about supporting local farms. The campaign asks market-goers to pledge their commitment to their local market by recording what they anticipate spending that week.
Check out their infographic about the increase in Farmers Markets across the country and visit their website to learn how you can get involved in the campaign.
Check out these beautiful stamps that will be offered by the United States Postal Service in August:
The stamps were designed by artist director Greg Breeding and illustrator Robin Moline to honor "America's agricultural bounty" and to commemorate the long tradition of farmer's markets across the country. The following description of markets accompanied the amouncement of the stamps at the end of May:
"Stalls brimming with fresh produce, shoppers engaged in conversation with vendors, neighbors catching up on news—farmers markets are so much more than just places to buy fruits and vegetables. They are spaces that foster community, support small farms, and boost local economies, and they offer consumers the opportunity to interact directly with the people who produce their food."
The website USPSstamps.com is now featuring a full preview with more information. You can read it here: http://uspsstamps.com/stamps/farmers-markets
These stamps make the gang here at Small Farm Central want to stop sending emails and start sending more letters! We think they would be great to use in mailing campaign to your customers. For farmers using the FarmFan Rewards Program they could even be used as one of the incentives for your fans. For example: earn 175 points and trade them in for a book of 20 farmers market stamps!
1. Live Chat Support. When one of our support staff is available, you will see a chat option on the lower right of your control panel so you can ask for help with whatever you are working on at that moment.
2. Custom Form Answers on Member Assembler Pickup Lists. You can optionally include a column for any of the answers your members supplied during their signup process. This would be most useful if people marked themselves vegan, for instance, or noted any allergies.
3. Checkout Coupon Counts. With Member Assembler checkout coupons, there is a count of how many invoices are using each coupon along with a list of the invoices for you to track use or abuse of a code.
4. Archived User Groups. When you archive user groups now, they will move to their own list rather than staying on one gigantic list. This way you can more easily access whatever groups are currently relevant.
5. Payment Request Emails. You can save the text of a new payment request email to use as a default in future payment requests.
6. Deleted Members. If you've accidentally deleted a Membership you can type "Deleted" in your Search box on the upper-right of your control panel to find a list of Deleted Members. You also have access to all of the Member Notes for that member should you need to recreate their details.
7. E-Commerce Calculated Shipping. You can add on an additional Handling Fee to cover your costs when using the UPS/FedEx/USPS calculator for E-Commerce shipping rates.
We Love Our Farmers! And we love seeing photos of what's goin on "down on the farm". With April feeling more like March this year, we're glad that May is finally bringing us the weather we've been waiting for. Everything is blooming, hatching, and arriving. Here is a photo of a new lamb from The Farm Institute in Massachusetts.
"This is a Katahdin ewe and her lamb. Katahdins are heritage breed hair sheep that shed instead of needing to be sheared. The farm institute raises 100% grassfed lamb on their nonprofit teaching farm on Martha's Vineyard." - Julie Olson Scott, The Farm Institute
While it's still a little rainy and gray in some place on this first day of May, the weather's not stopping farmer's at markets across the country from beginning to open their stalls for the season. Eager customers have begun to pull their tote bags out of closets and dust off their favorite shopping baskets in anticipation of Spring's bounty. This year, however, they'll be sure to bring a new tool to market in their purses and pockets, their mobile phone. In their bags and baskets they may gather groceries, but their cell phone will help them collect something new from their favorite farmer: rewards points.
FarmFan gives farmers and vendors the tools to drive more traffic to their market with reminder text messages, a customer rewards program, and valuable sales data. You will more about who your customers are, what they like, and reward them for shopping with you! Learn more on the FarmFan website and by watching this short video:
FarmFan - Best Days from Simon Huntley on Vimeo.
FarmFan has been in a beta release period since January with 20 farms across the country, and we've been learning and tweaking to get FarmFan ready for Spring. As we tested the software at winter markets, the reception from farmers and customers was overwhelmingly positive! Check out some of the testimonials from fellow farmers here.


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Plan, direct, or coordinate compensation and benefits activities of an organization.
Sample of reported job titles: Benefits Coordinator, Benefits Manager, Business Manager, Compensation and Benefits Manager, Compensation Director, Compensation Manager, Corporate Controller, Director of Compensation, Human Resources Director, Office Manager
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Design, evaluate and modify benefits policies to ensure that programs are current, competitive and in compliance with legal requirements.
- Analyze compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage rates to develop competitive compensation plan.
- Fulfill all reporting requirements of all relevant government rules and regulations, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
- Direct preparation and distribution of written and verbal information to inform employees of benefits, compensation, and personnel policies.
- Administer, direct, and review employee benefit programs, including the integration of benefit programs following mergers and acquisitions.
- Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.
- Identify and implement benefits to increase the quality of life for employees, by working with brokers and researching benefits issues.
- Manage the design and development of tools to assist employees in benefits selection, and to guide managers through compensation decisions.
- Prepare detailed job descriptions and classification systems and define job levels and families, in partnership with other managers.
- Prepare budgets for personnel operations.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
|High capacity removable media drives — Universal serial bus USB flash drives
|Notebook computers — Laptop computers
|Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers — Personal digital assistants PDA
|Photocopiers — Photocopying equipment
|Read write digital versatile disc DVD — Optical disk drives
Technology used in this occupation:
|Accounting software — Deltek Costpoint; Intuit QuickBooks software
|Analytical or scientific software — Business analysis software; Media Professional software; Mediamix software; Relex Weibull
|Enterprise resource planning ERP software — Microsoft Great Plains software; Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne; Oracle PeopleSoft; SAP software
|Human resources software — Blue Chip Computer Consultants HumaNET; hSenid Business Solutions HRM Enterprise; Ultimate Software UltiPro; Vantage Point Software HRA
|Project management software — Experience in Software Webplanner; Microsoft Project
|Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
|Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
|English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
|Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
|Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
|Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
|Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
|Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
|Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
|Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
|Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
|Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Work Activities
|Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
|Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
|Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
|Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
|Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
|Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Work Context
|Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
|Telephone — 100% responded "Every day."
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 76% responded "Every day."
|Duration of Typical Work Week — 81% responded "More than 40 hours."
|Spend Time Sitting — 57% responded "Continually or almost continually."
|Structured versus Unstructured Work — 62% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Freedom to Make Decisions — 57% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 48% responded "Extremely important."
|Contact With Others — 62% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
|Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 76% responded "Every day."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Bachelor's degree
|Post-baccalaureate certificate
|Some college, no degree
Interest code: ECS
|Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
|Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
|Social — Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
Work Styles
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
|Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
|Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
|Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
|Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Work Values
|Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
|Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
|Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Related Occupations
|Human Resources Managers
|Human Resources Specialists
|Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
|Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
|Auditors Bright Outlook
|Budget Analysts
|Financial Analysts
|Risk Management Specialists Green
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2014)
|$51.96 hourly, $108,070 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|21,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Slower than average (3% to 7%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- Compensation and Benefits Managers . Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition.

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Mr. Buffie held several jobs during a 27-year career at Bank of America, the newspaper reports. Most recently, he served as its head of home loan sales and fulfillment. He's a Penn State alum and also has an MBA in finance and marketing from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
A Key spokeswoman says Mr. Buffie replaced former chief human resources officer Johnni Beckel, who left Key last November.
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I had a similar discussion with my 7yo the other day.
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Eddie Money revealed that his lowest point in his career actually inspired a few of his biggest hits. Money explained that prior to writing and recording his 1982 No Control album -- which featured such MTV classics as "Shakin'" and "Think I'm In Love" -- he nearly died: "The leanest period, was I guess, I wound up taking a bathtub barbiturate, which was horrible -- I thought it was blow, and I was drinking a lot and I would up having a really bad overdose on a drug called phenetole. A matter of fact, the guy's in jail right now for the rest of his life; he killed so many young people. And I couldn't walk for a year and I had my kidneys dialysis-ised -- it was a horrible part of my career. But then I came back and I wrote the No Control album, (laughs) which turned out to be double platinum. And the whole record is actually just about the overdose. The reason I wrote the No Control album was to talk. . . teach people, 'Hey, you don't have to be rich and famous to O.D. on somethin'."
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More devs would work
On the other hand, AMD could also just hire more devs, but we all know they can't afford that yet.
More devs would work
http://ati.cchtml.com are indeed platform-specific
issues (X, VT switching, GPU switching, XVBA), not related to the shared OpenGL portion.
The ss3 opengl speed issues are NOT linux specific, they are crossplattform, you can change the renderer to opengl on windows too (not via the menu however). The decreased speed affects nvidia as well, the flickering textures are ati only however. They can be fixed when you press alt+enter twice as soon as you are in the menu and NOT in a level, when you do it in a level you can forget everything, then it is unplayable slow.
Who said those OpenGL bugs are Linux specific?
Edit: My point was that the "apparently" little effort of Linux-specific code provide for most of the woes.
I don't think it's little effort. At least it doesn't look like.
Ok, it could be that only two guys hacking that X11-related stuff...
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I have not tried it myself, but the opengl performance is on windows as bad as on Linux.
A few steam on Linux users have tested it.
I only compared opengl on Linux with Dx on windows.
As soon as more enemies show up, I do not really notice a difference on windows,
on Linux however I have a total cave in, of the fps.
Something about Croteam, I posted problems I had with ss3, on the steam forum for serious sam3.
I got a reply within 24 hours..... They tried to help, and I am on openSUSE.
Some companies care about their customers.
If amd does, then they are damn good in hiding it.
And what really makes me sad, Valve has published a few articles, they explained why games should run faster on Linux.
Not by much though just a few fps.
The last line shows the advantage of opensource software.http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/
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When we started with Linux, the initial version we got up and running was at 6 FPS. This is typical of an initial successful port to a new platform.
Performance improvements fall into several categories:
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Modifying our game to work better with OpenGL
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You should know that intel+nvidia have got access to source engine code, if needed they could tell the devs how to increase speed that it works best with their drivers. I don't know if amd has got access and if they are willing to do the same.
I believe intel has the best Linux drivers, too bad they don't make vid cards.
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Jonathan Franzen's bestselling book "The Corrections" earned him a selection by Oprah Winfrey's book club. But after Mr. Franzen publicly disparaged Oprah Winfrey's literary taste, he found that he may have inadvertently damaged his own reputation in the literary world.October 29, 2001 artsNews
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Franzen, hunched over his keyboard in a scavenged swivel chair held together with duct tape, wore earplugs, earmuffs and a blindfold. For Franzen, this is the imagination's price, the arduous means by which he conjures a fictional world and reproduces it on the page.September 2, 2001 magazineNews
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September 21, 2014, Sunday
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October 13, 2013, Sunday
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October 2, 2013, Wednesday
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September 16, 2013, Monday
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
With two recent festival shows under his belt, Billy Joel fans are waiting to see what his next move will be. Billy, who hasn't toured since 2010, went on record as stating that his appearances earlier this month at Australia's Stone Music Festival and the New Orleans Jazz Fest would be the test to see whether he still had what it took to take his show out on the road. Billy, who's said he's interested in performing full album shows, was asked by Nola.com whether he missed the stage after such a long layoff, and admitted, "I don't know if I would say that I missed it. I just enjoyed it while I was doing it. I'm not someone who sits around and goes, 'Gee, I wish I was up on stage. I wish the audience was going 'Hooray.' When I got back on stage, I recognized, 'Oh, right, I know how to do this. This is my job. That's what I do.' So that came back."
Although he can't move around the stage like he used to following double hip replacement surgery, Billy said that he appreciates the way his voice has matured over the years, saying, "I actually like my voice better now. It's deepened. It's thickened. There probably is more of an edge to it, that world-weary thing going on. The trade-off is that you can't hit the same high notes that you hit in your 20's. I wrote a lot of these songs in my 20's and early-30s. I remember while I was recording some of these songs, thinking, 'I'll never hit that note again.' Especially on an album like An Innocent Man. So we've dropped some of the keys a half-tone, and some of them even a whole tone. It doesn't make that much of a difference, but it's easier for me to hit the notes."
Billy spoke about his six-song set at last year's 12-12-12 concert for Hurricane Sandy relief at New York's Madison Square Garden: "We didn't think that we were all that good. We did six measly songs. We've played Madison Square Garden maybe 50 times; we've played better there before. We came off stage and looked at each other: 'It was O.K.' And everybody else was making a big deal about it. What, did everybody else suck?"
As far as focusing only on classical compositions rather than writing rock songs, he explained the situation by joking: "It's almost like I broke up with me. The songwriter doesn't like the singer any more, and the singer can't stand the piano player, so the 'Billy Joel' thing broke up. And that's it, and it is what it is."
Billy Joel hasn't written a full album of rock songs since 1993's The River Of Dreams, but he told us that he hasn't turned his back on performing rock: "Look, I still love rock n' roll, I still love pop music. I haven't divorced myself from the material that I wrote before -- I mean, that's why I'm out here on the road playing this stuff -- and I still believe in it. But I don't feel compelled to write in song form anymore. That isn't to say I may not go back to it -- I have no idea."
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A syllabus is a document that you will receive on the first day of class from each instructor. It includes important information you will need for the entire semester. Keep it and read it as it will include all or some of the following:
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These will show you what is included in your final grade and how much each item impacts your final grade. See the examples below:
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Mid-term 30% Final 40% Group project 20% Participation 10%
In the example above, there are only four items impacting your final grade. Since the mid-term is worth 30 percent of the final grade, it has a big impact. If you get a D on your mid-term, the highest grade you can earn in the class is a 72 percent (C-), and this is only if you earn a 100 percent (A+) on everything else.
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Weekly journal 100 points Five page essay 500 points Term paper 1000 points Two tests 1000 points (500 points each) Final exam 900 points Total 3500 points
In the second example you need to understand the overall impact of each assignment. 100 points for the journal may seem like a lot, but it is actually just under 3 percent of the final grade. The items that impact your grade the most are the term paper (worth nearly 30% of the final grade) and the final exam (worth just over 25 percent of the final grade).
Why is this important? It is not so that you can think that the journal is unimportant (you would not be asked to do the journal unless it was important and helped you to be more successful. It is important to note because having an A on the journal does not necessarily mean you are close to having an A in the class.
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This is 2740 out of a possible 3500 points which is a 78 percent C+ final grade. In this example a C+ is earned even though there were only two C's earned on individual assignments.
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"The story of this young man emphasizes our responsibility to educate children about the dangers of underage drinking and driving. Brandon Silveria's powerful message of turning his tragedy into a triumph has touched millions of high school students across the nation," said Davis. "In 2002, 69 youths under the age of 21 died in alcohol-related traffic fatalities in Virginia. Until that number reaches zero, we must continue to battle against drunk driving and underage drinking. I'm pleased to lend support to The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility's efforts, and I'm grateful Brandon, and Tony could come to Virginia."
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Through educational efforts such as the Silveria lecture and video program, The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility educates students across the country about the hazards of underage drinking and driving. Since Brandon and his father Tony have become spokespersons for The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, they have addressed well over one million high school students nationwide and have been featured on such television programs as "Rescue 911," NBC's "Today," and "Leeza."
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Many of the Colorado Rockies fans were ready to turn the page from a failed 2011 season. Many were ready to give Tracy another chance to prove that he is a good manager. Many were ready to chalk up his losing ways to him managing a group of players who would rather have been doing something else instead of being at the ballpark. Many were ready for an April in which Tracy showed that with a group of veterans, he could push the right buttons.
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Instead, Tracy dashed the hopes of fans before the team ever arrived in Denver.
On Sunday, Tracy was in mid-season form. Three games into the brand new season, he decided it was a good time to give a couple of guys a rest. And by a couple of guys, he meant half of the lineup.
Todd Helton was on the bench, Marco Scutaro was on the bench, Chris Nelson, on the bench, Dexter Fowler, on the bench, Ramon Hernandez, on the bench.
With the Rockies up 2-1, thanks to a phenomenal outing by miracle-boy Juan Nicasio, Tracy pulled the trigger that ensured a loss.
Usually a manager brings in his top defensive players late in a close ball game in order to lock down the win. In the finale in Houston, Tracy baffled everyone watching the game. Instead of bringing in slick-fielding Chris Nelson to man third base Tracy stuck with still-converting-catcher Jordan Pacheco.
Then, instead of bringing in the arguably the best defensive first baseman in baseball, Todd Helton, Tracy chose to move right fielder Michael Cuddyer to first base.
The decisions proved to be fatal. With two runners on and two outs, a ground ball came Pacheco's way. He fielded it down the line and made a long throw to first. The throw should have pulled Cuddyer off the bag, but, clearly looking un-polished at first, didn't come far enough off the bag and let the ball skip passed him, scoring two runs and giving the Astros the lead.
It makes sense to give guys days off. Everyone realizes that Helton is no longer a 162-game per year player. With veterans close to Helton's age, mixing in different players is very wise. However, the way Tracy does it makes no sense whatsoever.
This is the third game of the season. The Rockies had a day game on Wednesday and a day off on Thursday before landing in Houston. The club also has a day off on Tuesday immediately following the home opener. With that in consideration, does it really make sense to put all of those players on the bench at the same time?
As painful as it may be, think back to 2011. Remember the Sunday losing streak? Remember when the Rockies lost on 17 Sunday's in a row? Was that just coincidence? Or was it the fact that Tracy decides to use a Junior Varsity lineup on Sunday's? Does he over think the idea of losing a battle to win the war?
The thing about it is that it seems as if Tracy doesn't realize that day games count the same as night games in the standings. Also, games in April are worth the same as games in September when it is all said and done. It certainly seems that the way Tracy manages would suggest that he isn't aware of that fact.
This Rockies team has a good chance to contend. They have veteran players who are hungry to win and know how to win. However, they have to play well early. This is not a team that is going to be crawl back from way behind in the standings late in the season. They have to stay within striking distance.
Losing two-of-three to the Astros, whether that happens in April or May or September, is something that a true contender shouldn't do. These Astros are a very bad team. They will probably lose in the neighborhood of 100 games. Certainly the Astros will take series from other good teams throughout the course of the season, but it isn't a good way to start a season.
The Rockies return home for the first time with their new cast of characters. The home opener is always a celebration of baseball's return. The Rockies have a chance to show the Giants that they are serious about contending. Winning a series at home would be a good way for the team to wipe away a bad first series in Houston.
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