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They are wreaking havoc on the streets of big and small town U.S.A. The likes of Dallas, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Jacksonville, New York and Chicago have been invaded and terrorized. The sometimes weapon wielding thugs have made front page news as they shun the laws of the civilized society to do as they please at the expense of those who want nothing more than to enjoy their evenings uninterrupted by stray gun shots, bar room brawls, drive-by shootings and posse gang wars . Welcome to the world of the Gridiron Gangsters. The dark side of professional sports. Who are some of these gangster types? The list is long and distinguished:
1. Adam "Pacman Jones", former cornerback for the Tennessee Titans and Dallas Cowboys. Pacman has not done any jail time yet but his non-stop off field troubles qualify him for gangsterhood. He was suspended by the NFL for numerous gangster like activities including his alleged role in a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club(his preferred venue of choice) that left one person paralyzed. He pleaded no contest to one charge of conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. He was given a suspended prison sentence of one year, probation, and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service The sum total of Pacman's brushes with the law could fill an entire season of Law and Order. It is now being reported that he is being investigated in Georgia in an alleged shooting-for-hire scheme.
2. Plaxico Burress, former wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and NY Giants. Plaxico carried an unlicensed loaded handgun into a NYC nightclub. Fortunately the only person he shot was himself. While Plaxico was not seriously injured, he is facing some serious personal freedom injury with mandatory jail time required under New York's Sullivan Act. While Plaxico had always skated on the edge of the gridiron gangster lifestyle, he can now consider his initiation complete.
3. Micheal Vick, former quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons plead guilty to federal and state dog fighting charges. He is currently in federal prison. He will be eligible for release in June of this year. He is expected to apply for reinstatement to the NFL upon his release. Will anything change?
4. Jamal Lewis, running back for the Cleveland Browns. Jamal led the NFL in Rushing in 2003. He served four months in federal prison as the result of a plea bargain stemming from federal drug charges. While there is evidence that he is a good guy who made one terrible error in judgment, his four months in federal prison related to drug activity get him the Gridiron gangster tag. The jury is still out on his continued membership in the elite fraternity.
5. Marvin Harrison, wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. Marvin was allegedly involved in a brawl and shooting outside of his Philadelphia car wash that left 3 people wounded. Marvin admits fisticuffs but denies being armed. He was not charged despite two witnesses who state that he was armed. The local district attorney has questioned the credibility of the witnesses in the decision not to charge. Has Marvin entered the gridiron gangster ranks? Not yet but give him time.
6. Tank Johnson Defensive Tackle for the Dallas Cowboys. Tank's gangster kung fu is strong. Numerous scuffles, arrests and a jail sentence culminating in his eventual suspension from the NFL. He has since been reinstated and is currently playing for the Dallas Cowboys. You can read his gangster resume here.
7. Rae Carruth Former wide receiver for the Carolina Panther. Rae would be considered the Godfather of the Gridiron Gangster lifestyle. His almost 19 year prison sentence for conspiracy to murder his girlfriend qualifies him as the Don. He must have had some of the John Gotti Teflon going during his trial. He slid though the crack of reasonable doubt on a 1st degree murder conviction and possible death sentence down to a conviction on a lesser charge sparing his life and guaranteeing that he will be eligible to play in the just announced annual NFL All Con Reunion game.
These are a few of the high profile incidents. There are countless other examples of NFL gridiron gangster conduct of high profile and lessor known players ranging from drunken altercations to drugs and sexual assaults. In all fairness to the NFL, it is not like gangsterism has just suddenly sprung upon the NFL scene. The history of the NFL is replete with athletes in trouble. It can certainly be argued that the only thing that has changed is the media exposure. There were no cell phone cameras to catch Paul Hornung and Alex Karras placing bets when they were suspended indefinitely from football by commissioner Pete Rozelle for betting on NFL games and associating with undesirable persons. Gangsterism is certainly of function of the era we live in.
The gangster lifestyle often also outlasts football careers with tragic results. Athletes who had the protection o the posse fame and agents lacking any sense of identity outside of their stardom find themselves in the real world alone, unskilled, uneducated in real life business concepts, broke, and still gangster. Nothing good is going to happen. The NFL alumni gangster fraternity includes Darryl Henley, Byron Bam Morris, Lawrence Phillips, Dave Meggett, Maurice Clarett and Art Schlichter to name a few.
What is going on with present day athletes? Are they getting into trouble at greater rates or in greater percentages to the general population? Does it just seem that way due to the social media, cell phone video, instantaneous news delivery world we live in? The gridiron gangster is certainly not the standard of behavior in professional sports. The majority of NFL players live their lives by the rules of civilized society. NFL stars such as Donovan McNabb, LaDainian Tomlinson Brett Farve, Tom Brady, the Manning brothers, and other high profile professional athletes manage to get by day to day and night to night without guns, possess and drunken altercations. Their evening activities do not become TMZ, TNT and ESPN fodder. They do not have criminal attorneys, bail bondsmen and posse henchmen on speed dial. Instead Michael Vick, Pacman Jones, Plaxico Burress and other law breaking professional athletes become flash points for the public perception of everything that is wrong with professional sports. The perception of athletes as prima-donna selfish, self-entitled thugs. Why do athletes who seem to have everything put everything at risk as they engage in conduct that qualifies them as a Gridiron Gangsters? I asked some people on the front lines.
Marc Roberts is no stranger to the gridiron gangster lifestyle having represented numerous high profile athletes. He is the author of "Roberts Rule! Secrets From America's Most Trusted Sports Agent" Marc had this to say:
"Athletes get in trouble because they think they are invincible. They have been pampered in every aspect of their life"
Patrick Johnson is a wide receiver for the Toronto Argronauts of the Canadian Football League. He has also played for the Baltimore Ravens, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Washington Redskins. He earned a Super Bowl ring when the Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV. He follows-up on the points raised by Roberts.
"The psychology of why athletes get in and out of trouble can be a very complicated, but very simple at the same time. First of all, what do we define as trouble? I firmly believe that if the athlete has a good support system around him/her other than the agent, it can minimize most of the issues they face. Many times however, athletes from a certain demographic don't have individuals around them who know very much about the business. They have to rely on their agent who in many cases is only interested in what their client can give them financially. They are best of friends as long as the player can bring in money but quickly disappear when the cash flow stops. That is where the real trouble begins. Without an advisor willing to give the athlete the time after it's all over, the reality of life sets in as the issues that were put on the back burner pop up. That's the trouble with all of this. Contrary to the many stereotypes held about athletes, it's not about homeboys, posses, fighting dogs and the like. Its the people who you put your trust in at the beginning when the say they can get you a dynamite contract. What if an agent introduced his players to Mr. Madoff? What's bigger?"
Jordon Woy is a nationally known sports agent and a principal in the firm of Schlegel Sports, publisher of Replay Sports Monthly, He has represented high profile athletes such as Donald Driver of Green Bay and Flozell Adams and Roy Williams of the Dallas Cowboys. He had this to say:
"I feel the main reason that players stay out of trouble in the NFL or any other sports is they have a strong parental figure in their lives as they are growing up. That person can be a Mom, Dad, Uncle, Grandmother, coach, etc. It is the first question NFL teams ask me about any player who I am representing…What kind of a character kid is this? When I recruit a college player they usually have someone who is helping them make their agent choice. You can learn a lot about the player by who they are choosing to help them make their decision. Some have no one to help them. Some have a really smart, caring relative who has played a big part in helping them get where they are.
I think the other reason so many athletes get in trouble is they start to believe their own "press clippings". The one characteristic that I see in a lot of players who really stay on the straight path is that they are still humble as people. It is always impressive to me when I meet a world famous athlete who is still humble and considerate of others. He or she may know that have skills that set them apart from everyone else but they still treat people the way they want to be treated. The reverse is also true, the athletes who begin to think they can act any way and do anything they want are usually the ones who find trouble. I have always marveled at athletes who come down to earth after they retire and the glory fades. They "find" their humbleness again. I have heard a lot of them say they feel bad for the way they acted and they realize it was wrong. I think it is a part of growing up that everyone has to go through even the most talented athletes in the world."
Does living the gangster lifestyle automatically spell lifetime doom for professional athlete? Not necessarily. There are examples of athletes who were able to leave their gangster toys behind them and live productive law abiding lives. Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor and former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson are notable examples.
There you have it. Do you know feel any sympathy for athletes who must grow up and "put away childish things" when their careers are over. Is there a difference between a reason and an excuse? You decide.


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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – A group of activists are protesting against Peabody Coal on Thursday.
They're picketing outside the company's annual shareholder's meeting at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Clayton. They're upset about tax breaks for fossil fuel companies like Peabody, among other issues.
The United Mine Workers Union are not part of the protests. They reached a deal with the company last year over health care benefits for retirees of Patriot Coal.

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i do like SOE games but i dont agree with them charging per character for this feature
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5. How do we acquire additional Hero's Forge items in game?
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this isnt a rip off from RIFT or LOTRO
EQ2 has had appearance slots since Sept 2007 -- before LOTRO or any other mmo i know of
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Charging 1200sc per character ($12!) killed it for me. I can't support this company anymore because they appearantly don't appreciate long time loyal players. SOE keeps on coming out with decent stuff, but they just always end up with bad execution. They could've net a lot of money from someone like me, I have 5 accounts between me and my g/f. We have tons of characters, on many servers. I would've flagged my accounts with this feature if they came out with a reasonable price and didn't charge per character. It would cost upwards of a thousand dollars if I was to flag all my characters with this feature. And before people saying to just not flag all the characters, then I respond... eh, where's the fun? It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. It makes no sense for me to logon one character with new armor, then logon another to see them in old armor.
This is on top of them stripping our abilities to pay for subscriptions and expansions using the existing station cash we have. I have stock piled sc over the past year, subscribed monthly so I could get 500sc per month. Plan was to save up enough to pay for future expansions and pay for subscriptions. But they've done a bait & switch there.
This is all just too much in one year for me. Good luck to those that still enjoy EQ.
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By the by, if you haven't been in EQ since they put this in I can tell you these "Hero Forge" armors look like ASS.
I can't even believe they're charging $12 PER CHARACTER for this nonsense.
Also, the reason it is per-toon is because the population is so low in EQ1 now that per-account they'd lose money based on how much it cost to develope this "new feature".
To be clear, THIS IS NOT AN APPEARANCE TAB, and only "Hero Forge" armor drops can be used instead of other types of armor graphics.
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This is just SOE's way of bleeding out whatever money it can on a dying game. EQ was my first MMO and it was astonishing and I miss it. I put in about 4 years on this game for my enchanter. I was in Triality one of the best guilds and we conquered every expansion. It was great seeing all the raids but SOE is just money hungry and really has killed the game even 6+ expansions ago.
This games time has come on gone which is unfortunate but SOE knows it and they will continue to bleed money from people as long as they can keep the servers up. I really wonder what is going to happen the day they decided to shut down EQ1. To some people especially a few people in Triality still this game is thier life. I wouldn't be surprised if they can't live without this MMO. Still shocked it is around though I know it was hurting pretty bad recently.
I hate SOE but im torn because of EQ Next. I did not care for EQ2 so hopefully Next can bring back the nostalgia. I really want to play Next but with SOE I just don't know. Crappy game company full of greed and some of the worst customer service around. They do create good games but they just cannot maintain them well.


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Matt Birk announces his retirement
Ravens center Matt Birk, a former sixth-round draft pick from Harvard who went from NFL long-shot to six-time Pro Bowl choice, announced his retirement from the NFL today after 15 seasons, the last four with Baltimore.
Birk made the announcement while visiting Battle Grove Elementary School in Dundalk to help dedicate a community reading center.
"I have absolutely nothing to complain about and a lot to be grateful for," he said.
Birk, who had signed a new three-year, $8.5 million deal with the Ravens before last season, never missed a start in his four seasons with the Ravens and made 136 straight regular-season starts since 2006.
"From the beginning, the organization and the city just welcomed us with open arms," Birk said, adding that it was "truly an honor" to play for the Ravens.
Coach John Harbaugh said, "We were all so fortunate to have Matt Birk as a Raven – the team, everyone in our building, the community. It was a privilege to coach him and an honor to have him as a friend. We are better people for being around Matt, blessed in fact. Young players could watch Matt and know that was how to be an NFL professional. He took notes like a rookie, he owned the weight room, and we would have to push him to take some plays off in practice. There are reasons he played at such a high level for 15 years. We will miss having him here every day, but we look forward to always calling him a friend and a Raven."
Birk contemplated retirement last offseason, but speculation grew that he would retire after helping the Ravens to the Super Bowl title in New Orleans earlier this month.
Birk had joked before the Super Bowl about the difference between the pending retirement of Ray Lewis, which became one of the major storylines of the playoffs, and that of Birk.
"A guy like Ray Lewis, you send him off properly — press conferences, all that stuff," Birk said. "Guys like me, I just disappear, and then you're sitting around one day wondering, 'Hey, whatever happened to that guy whose locker used to be over here?' That's how it goes."
Don't let Birk's self-deprecation fool you. He was definitely noticed and widely respected in the locker room.
"Life without Matt Birk is going to be a very Difficult challenge," tackle Michael Oher tweeted. "can't imagine not playing with him. Best leader ever. Will be missed!"
Birk, 36, was a veteran mentor for many young players, but particularly for linemen such as rookies Kelechi Osemele and Gino Gradkowski. It is Gradkowski, a fourth-round pick by the Ravens last season, who will become the early favorite to take Birk's place as the Ravens starting center.
Birk's retirement frees up about $2 million in salary cap space for the Ravens.
Birk was the 173rd player taken in the 1998 draft, selected by the Vikings in the sixth round. He told the Baltimore Sun that "my first two years, I was just fighting to prove I belonged as a backup."
He became a starter with the Vikings in 2000, and started every game for four straight seasons. He missed the entire 2005 season because of sports hernia, but started every game since, three seasons in Minnesota and four in Baltimore.
A father of six, Birk is one of the Ravens' most active players in the community. He was named the 2011 NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year, which recognizes community service contributions as well as play on the field.
Birk said he wanted to make his retirement announcement at a school because he loves working with kids. He announced that he will build the Larry Brown Reading Oasis at Battle Grove Elementary.
"I've enjoyed playing football," Birk said at his retirement announcement. "But as much as playing football I've enjoyed doing this (community service with kids.)"


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By Army Staff Sgt. Jon Cupp Special to American Forces Press Service
VICTORY BASE COMPLEX, Iraq, March 4, 2009 A flood of memories and emotion rushed through the mind of the executive officer for the 1st Cavalry Division's Headquarters Service Company, Division Special Troops Battalion, as she reflected on the sacrifices it took to achieve her dream of becoming an American citizen.
Along with 250 other servicemembers -- soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines -- Army 2nd Lt. Memorina Edwin Barnes recited the Oath of U.S. Citizenship to become a naturalized citizen during a Multinational Corps Iraq naturalization ceremony yesterday at al-Faw Palace here.
Amid a sea of servicemembers who represented many different countries and cultures, Barnes -- a native of Pohnpei, an island of the Federated States of Micronesia -- received a U.S. flag and her certificate of citizenship at the ceremony.
"I was overwhelmed and felt a surge of pride," the lieutenant said. "When I was presented the flag, a million things were floating through my head -- so many memories about growing up and getting to where I am today. I couldn't believe this moment was actually here.
"I was trying hard not to cry, and wished my family could have been here to see this," she continued. "I could finally say, 'I'm fighting for MY country.'"
Though her husband -- a soldier stationed back at Fort Hood, Texas -- and her 4-year-old son, Darren, and 2-year-old daughter, Olivia, could not take part in the ceremony, Barnes said they were there in spirit and that she leaned on support from her unit.
"I am surrounded by people here who I call family," she said. "Everyone has been very supportive, and almost my entire unit was there for the ceremony."
Her husband was able to congratulate her over the phone. "He's very proud and wishes he could have been here for the ceremony," Barnes said.
The significance of getting her citizenship in Iraq is not lost on Barnes.
"I'm going to give 20 years of service to the U.S. Army, and I would give my life so my kids can be citizens of a free country," she said. "This reinforces the reasons I'm here in Iraq in the first place."
Still, she said, she realizes she was only a small part of the ceremony. "Every soldier who received their citizenship today took steps long before this to get their citizenship, and we all served our nation even before we could call it home."
Many years prior to her service in the Army, the seeds of Barnes seeking the American dream were planted during her difficult early years as a child on Pohnpei.
"Life in Micronesia was hard. We went to school, but not every day, and we always wore hand-me-down clothes, but half the time we didn't have shoes," Barnes said. "We always had to share, and food came in very small portions."
With no running water, her family bathed in a creek, she added. "We had to live off the land, growing vegetables, and there was no money most of the time," she said. Along with this, Barnes walked three miles to school over rough terrain where there were no paved roads.
With all the hardships of living on the island, Barnes said, her family saw something special in the United States, and wanted to be part of it.
"My grandfather was always a great admirer of the U.S., and always spoke very highly of it," Barnes said. "He'd be really proud of me if he were still alive."
Even before she was a U.S. citizen, Barnes said, the U.S. national anthem always sent a chill up her spine.
In 1988, when she was 13, Barnes and her family left Pohnpei for Kaneohe, Hawaii, where she spent her teenage years and first tasted the American dream -- a dream that promised more freedom and better opportunities for her family. Through the years as an immigrant in Hawaii, Barnes said, she overcame prejudice and unfair, false and negative stereotypes.
"A lot of people don't understand that it's not money [immigrants] are seeking, but rather the opportunity to better themselves," she said. "The majority of immigrants [who come to the United States] are hard-working people, willing to make sacrifices for the freedoms they don't have in their own country."
Barnes, who now has 15 years of military service, said she worked hard throughout high school and then entered the Army at the age of 19 as a private.
"I worked my way up, and I did a lot of the jobs no one else wanted to do," she said. "I didn't have a plush job, and just had to keep soldiering on."
By the time Barnes reached 13 years of service in the Army, she had achieved the rank of sergeant first class, completed a bachelor's degree and turned in a packet to become an officer. In 2007, Barnes received her commission as a second lieutenant in the Army's chemical branch.
Army Lt. Col. Matthew Karres, her battalion commander, said Barnes exudes the spirit of an American patriot and is someone who definitely deserves U.S. citizenship, especially when looking at all her hard work and sacrifices she made over the years.
"As a second-generation American who is a grandson of immigrants, I think this is awesome," said Karres, reflecting on Barnes receiving her citizenship. "We're all really proud of her. She's also getting promoted this month, so March is a big month for her."
Along with having pride in being an American citizen, Barnes said, she also will never forget her Pohnpeian culture and will pass that down to her children. And with both her children being native-born U.S. citizens, she added, she also will remind them of the sacrifices immigrants and others have made for them to have their freedom -- a freedom that many people living in other countries around the world might never experience.
"I'll definitely tell them to never take the country they live in for granted, and to be proud of and loyal to the [United States]."
(Army Staff Sgt. Jon Cupp serves in the Multinational Division Baghdad public affairs office.)


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The Harlyn house is the newer of the two houses. These houses are generally positioned higher on the resort which results in them being closer to the leisure facilities and benefiting from superior views. The Harlyn houses also have TVs in the bedrooms. Both houses are 5* properties and decorated to the same standard.
The Wadebridge house is one of our unrated houses, these houses are what we class as our great value housing as they have a similar layout to our 5* houses. The way these houses vary are that they aren't decorated, internally or externally, to our 5* standard. These houses have 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 lounges and a fully equipped kitchen/diner. In some of these houses the 2nd bedroom has a bunk bed layout as opposed to a double/twin.
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Our Fistral houses are 5* luxury houses. They have granite worktops, solid oak flooring and all of the fixtures and fittings are to a 5* standard. They have 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (2 en-suite & 1 large limestone wet room), 2 lounges and a fully equipped kitchen/diner. The bedroom layout of these houses is 2 super king double and 2 twin bedrooms. The houses have a Cornish stone exterior, the balcony of these houses overhang the lake and the views from this house are second to none as they are positioned lakeside. There are TVs in the master bedroom along with an ipod docking station and a private hot tub on the decking area.
Finally our 4 bedroom Polzeath houses are 5* properties, they have 4 bedrooms, 2 super king double and 2 twin, all bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms, there is 1 lounge and a fully equipped kitchen/diner. These houses are set across 3 floors. These houses are Cornish stone exterior, they are lake front properties and the views from these houses are amazing. There is a private hot tub on the patio area of this property. All of the bedrooms have a TV in them.
We do provide all of your towels and linen in your property. We recommend that you bring beach towels to use in the swimming pool, however, you can bring the towels from your property as there is a washer/dryer in your property (excluding one bedroom apartments). If you want to hire towels from the leisure club you can do this but there is a charge of £3 per towel.
All of the houses have a DVD player in them. Some of these have them integrated in the TV and some of them are separate to the TV. We provide DVDs at reception that you can hire free of charge.
In all of our houses we provide a TV with a basic sky package, there is a DVD player, internet access, a telephone, a washer/dryer, a dishwasher and fridge/freezer. The kitchen is fully equipped with all pots and pans required to cook, along with all cutlery and crockery. This excludes the 1 bedroom Fistral Suites.
We do allow dogs in the houses, there would be a maximum of 2 dogs per house. There are some dogs which we don't allow in the houses, a full list of these dogs can be found on our dogs page. We do charge £40 per dog and should the house require extra cleaning due to the dogs being in the house then the person who made the booking is liable for this cleaning.
All of our houses have parking, the 2 bed houses have 1 parking space and the 4 bed houses have 2 spaces. Should you have any additional cars you are able to leave these in our Flowrider car park.
Some of our houses have disabled access to them, all of our 4 bed houses have a lounge, bathroom and bedrooms downstairs so there is no need to use the stairs. If you require a house with disabled access please make our reservations team aware of this at the time of booking so they can ensure this is catered for.
All of our houses are non-smoking houses. You are able to smoke outside the house on the decking area and in the outside areas, however, all of our houses are non-smoking.
Should you arrive earlier than 4pm and your property is ready to be checked into you are more than welcome to check in. However, should the house not be ready early then you are welcome to fill in the paperwork and leave a mobile number with reception so we can call you as soon as the house is ready. You are welcome to use any of the facilities prior to check in if you are waiting for your property.
Should you arrive after reception closes then provisions will have been made for your arrival. You will still need to come to the reception area to check in, to the left of the reception doors there is a wooden letterbox which will have your welcome pack and keys in it. There will be a map included in the pack showing where your house is along with your keys. There is a piece of paper which needs to be bought to reception the following morning so you can leave a pre-authorisation.
Should you arrive before 4pm and your house is ready then we would be more than happy to allow you to check in. We can never guarantee that a house will be ready prior to 4pm, even out of season. During the summer months we do not offer an early check in due to our properties being changed over from previous guests.
When you arrive come straight to reception and we will go through all of the paperwork with you, take your pre-authorisation, explain a few things regarding your stay and then we will provide you with a map and keys and give you directions to your property.
The other members of your party will be able to check in before you, we prefer to carry out the pre-authorisation prior to anybody checking into the property but, as the person who booked the holiday, if you would like to be the person who provides us with the pre-authorisation then you can come to reception and carry this out once you arrive.
If you would like a specific house/location then we will endeavour to ensure that your needs are met however we are unable to guarantee this.
Upon booking, should your arrival date be more than 8 weeks away, then you would be required to pay a 25% deposit and the remaining balance would be due 8 weeks prior to arrival. If you book with less than 8 weeks to arrival then the full balance is due at the time of booking.
Should you wish to cancel then we can cancel the booking for you. All deposits paid are non-refundable, however, we can utilise the deposit you've paid and move your booking to another date for you so you don't lose any money. If you cancel between 4 and 8 weeks to arrival, when the full balance has been paid, then 50% of the booking value will be lost if we are unable to re-let the property. If you cancel with less than 4 weeks to arrival then the full balance of the booking will be lost.
Our minimum lodge stay is 3 nights. However, occasionally we do offer 2 night breaks on our website special offers should there be a 2 night gap between bookings. One bedroom apartments have no minimum stay.
You are welcome to have friends/family visit during your stay but you must make somebody at reception/reservations aware of this. Unfortunately they will be unable to use the leisure facilities but they are welcome to use the bar/restaurant.
The pre-authorisation is the swipe of a credit card which acts as a security deposit on the property. This covers any damage to the property, any excess cleaning on the house or any missing inventory. The pre-authorisation is for £250, we reserve the right to request a larger security deposit for our larger houses or for group bookings. You are not limited to £250 worth of damages/cleaning/inventory charges.
We do recommend pre-booking in the restaurant to ensure that you are able to get a table, however it is not always necessary.
You do not need to book to use the course/courts you can use these whenever you would like to use them. They are used on a first come first served basis.
We do recommend pre-booking for any sessions/treatments to avoid disappointment. Pre-booking isn't always necessary and if you don't mind what date/time you have a treatment then it isn't vital to book, however, we cannot guarantee there will be spaces available should you not book.
Unfortunately you are currently unable to book online for any activities. However, you can e-mail us at email@example.com and we will be more than happy to book anything for you.
We pride ourselves on serving a wide variety of food at The Green Room Restaurant. We do have vegetarian meals which include an amazing Portobello Mushroom burger served on a toasted bun with salad, chips and aioli sauce. For a full menu please contact us and we will be more than happy to e-mail you a copy of our menu.
We do have a list of babysitters available at Retallack and you can e-mail or call us with the dates/times that you would like the babysitter and we will happily book this for you.
Tesco is the nearest supermarket and there is one in Wadebridge and Padstow, which are both a 10 minute drive from the resort. However, if you would like to do a food order prior to your arrival then you can order online with asda, tesco or sainsbury's and any 3 of these supermarkets will deliver directly to your property.
On our main page of our website on the right hand side there is a form which you can fill in which will be e-mailed to our reservations department and then a brochure will be posted out to you within 48 hours. Alternatively, call our Reservations team on 01637 882500.
We do have a page on our website with our sales information. For any further information you can e-mail us on email@example.com and we will be more than happy to pass your details on to our sales department.
We occasionally have vacancies arising in various departments of our resort. If you would like to apply then please e-mail a copy of your CV to email@example.com and we will forward your e-mail on to the relevant department.
You are able to use the leisure facilities prior to checking in and for the day after you check out.
We do have some adult only swim times when children are unable to use the pool but the majority of the time children can use the facilities. The adult only swim times are Monday-Friday 7.30am-8am and 7.30pm-8.30pm Sat & Sun 7pm-8pm. there are various times when the pool may be closed for certain activities - please see the latest activity guide for days and times. Adults can join in these classes for a fee.
The classes are charged additionally and are £5 each. These can be booked upon arrival.
You don't need to book the course/courts. The use of these is included in the price and you can use these whenever you want to use them. The cost of equipment hire is £2.50pp (i.e. golf = 2 clubs, 1 ball/ tennis = 1 racket, 1 ball)
We can provide towels for hire in the health club. There is a charge of £3 per towel and these are to be returned to reception after use.
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Since 2004, January has been recognized as National Stalking Awareness Month, and Southwestern Oklahoma State University is participating in the annual event.
The National Center for Victims of Crime started the initiative to inform the public and increase knowledge of stalking. In the United States alone, 3.4 million people over the age of 18 are stalked annually.
SWOSU's own Violence Intervention Prevention and Early Response Program (VIPER) is doing its part to increase awareness. According to coordinator Wendy Henson, informational posters are scattered throughout the campus, a large banner is hung at the General Thomas P. Stafford Center, a special meeting of the Community Education Response Team has been called, and additional information will be distributed through media campaigns.
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This article supplies teachers with information that may be useful in better understanding the nature of games and their role in teaching and learning mathematics.
This article, the second in the series, looks at some different types of games and the sort of mathematical thinking they can develop.
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are
used as a pedagogic device.
In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes the criteria she uses to choose mathematical games for the classroom and shares some examples from NRICH.
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points
for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning
strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse. . . .
Not all of us a bursting with creative game ideas, but there are
several ways to go about creating a game that will assist even the
busiest and most reluctant game designer.
A game to make and play based on the number line.
A game for 2 players. This could be played outside with people instead of counters. Try to trap or escape from your opponent.
A complicated game played on a 9 x 9 checkered grid.
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Totality game for an adult and child. Be the first to reach your agreed total.
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
In this game you throw two dice and find their total, then move the appropriate counter to the right. Which counter reaches the purple box first? Is this what you would expect?
Board Block Challenge game for an adult and child. Can you prevent your partner from being able to make a shape?
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
A game for 2 players. Draw a daisy with at least 5 petals. Shade 1 or 2 petals next to each other. The winner shades the last petal.
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
A fun puzzle with tantrix tiles.
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Spiralling Decimals game for an adult and child. Can you get three decimals next to each other on the spiral before your partner?
A game for 1 person to develop stategy and shape and space awareness. 12 counters are placed on a board. Counters are removed one at a time. The aim is to be left with only 1 counter.
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Reasoning based on this Japanese activity.
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A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red
counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the
other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the run-up to Christmas.
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An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
A game for two players. You'll need some counters.
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
A game played with a standard pack of cards.
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A game for 2 players. Using 2 dice, some counters and a games board, can you form a line of counters from one side of the board to the other?
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A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.
A card pairing game involving knowledge of simple ratio.
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Stop the Clock game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you always win this game?
A game for 2 players. Take turns to place a counter so that it occupies one of the lowest possible positions in the grid. The first player to complete a line of 4 wins.
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The Last Blog: Where Document Capture Started...
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I have been involved in document capture for 26 years - since well before it was even called "capture." I am often asked about how I came to found Datacap. So taking advantage of my impending exit from the stage (read on for more!), I thought I would share some background on the founding of Datacap as the first true document capture software company.
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8 Questions for Distributed Capture
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As a continuation from my previous post, here are some fundamental questions to ask yourself - and others - as you embark on a distributed capture endeavor:
An intuitive user-interface is essential to facilitate distributed capture. Typically, the people receiving documents are customer-facing, not dedicated and trained capture operators. The solution should provide a clear and simple series of steps to that assure a legible document image…
A poor image quality or, worse, partially-captured document, will quickly undermine the benefits of distributed capture, especially downstream when it comes time to extract data with optical character recognition (OCR). This is where most mobile telephone cameras struggle to create high enough quality images to avoid laborious manual effort later in the process. For a step up in quality, select a portable scanner – some are no larger than a thick ruler – that attaches to a laptop or mobile device.
The first, most important, piece of information about any scan, is the identity of the document itself. Is it an application, a claim, a change-of-address, etc? That question might be answered by manual input from the person who scanned or took the picture of the document, but it also might be automated through automatic document classification. Remember, your mobile and distributed workforce are not trained capture professionals, so take a belt and suspenders strategy on this one…
Determining the accuracy of content extracted from a document is of prime importance. Whether the extraction is manual, or automated with OCR, you need a set of checks and balances to assure users that the solution can be relied upon. For example, if the software is uncertain, how does it notify a user, and which user is it that gets notified?
The security of data is essential to consider, especially when handling customer or other sensitive data. Distributed capture must be considered moving capture into high-risk environments. Make sure you understand what the risk exposure is if a mobile device is lost or stolen in the field.
The speed at which the captured document is transferred from the mobile device to your repository or LOB system determines the speed at which it can be processed by the application. The old saying, "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link," comes into play here. If there is, in fact, a bandwidth limitation for remote users, then the advantages of capturing remotely may be lost in the transfer.
There are always exceptions and how you manage them is the test of a capture system. Can you add attachments? Can you add a new document you weren't expecting? Can you annotate a document or route it to a supervisor for review? The closer you are to the customer, the more exceptions you will encounter, so make sure you have the flexibility to handle the unexpected.
In most cases, a mobile capture solution will both archive the document images, and route them into a line of business system – as fast as possible for customer satisfaction. For example, an invoice, resume, or contract will be sent to the ERP system. An insurance claim will be forwarded for adjudication. A loan application may link to a case management system, where underwriters will review. A medical document will be appended to the patient's electronic health record. Make sure your distributed capture system can connect to your business systems and deliver image and data seamlessly.
After all these years in the capture business, I thought things had settled down. People have been saying that document capture is a "mature" technology. And, of course, it is, but the world is changing around us, creating new opportunities. So don't be shy: if you see a way to shorten the cycles, to deliver better customer service, to improve vendor relations, or to change just about any existing process by capturing documents sooner at distributed/remote locations, then take advantage of the opportunity. Just ask the right questions - and get credible answers – as you navigate to a successful implementation.
Note: An earlier version of this post appeared in April 2013 on John Mancini's Digital Landfill blog.
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Considering Distributed/Mobile Capture?
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It's a given: the sooner you convert a paper document into an electronic image, the faster, more accurately, and less expensively you process it. Obvious though it may have been, over the 20+ years I've been in this business it's not been an easy insight to act upon.
In the era of MFPs (multifunction peripherals), mobile phones and mobile data plans, it's easy to forget how tentative data connectivity was even a short time ago. Even in a commercial setting, banks with branches, insurers with independent brokers, in fact, any organization with far-flung activities, all had big concerns about wide-area bandwidth. Scanning of documents and sending them "over the wire" from remote locations was seen as a luxury.
That perspective is changing – fast.
Converting a paper document to digital image as soon as the document is received, or even created, is a strategy now within reach of most organizations, in most parts of the world. It's called distributed document capture. It's different from the old model of centralized capture, where everything is sent to a central processing center.
The good news is that there are now low-cost desktop scanners, mobile scanners, multi-function peripherals (MFPs), and more than a billion smart phones worldwide that can operate as a capture device. The bad news is that it's not so simple as simply snapping a photo to be successful with distributed capture. Before you invest in a solution, you need to prepare yourself by asking some key questions... I'm putting some together to share with you in my next post.
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Mobile & Capture - at IOD...
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It's time to start planning your agenda for Information On Demand 2013 - aka "IOD," in Las Vegas. Whether you are in IT, Operations, or Finance, IOD is a great networking opportunity: meet with peers, industry experts, and influence the architects of your current solutions. Choose between business, technical, and leadership training sessions, or use the event to expand your understanding of Business Analytics, other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies, and Information Management. There are also special events with todays thought leaders. You will be encouraged to "Think Big," but maybe just as important, you can also learn how to "Think Fast."
The main reason to go to IOD? Capture, of course! We're putting the focus on capture in the context of "real-time imaging." What's real-time? That's the time you - and your customers - expect things to happen when they have a smartphone in their hands. Mobile is coming to capture very quickly now. Don't believe me, then come to IOD to see for yourself. We'll be showing that and related distributed/branch capture capabilities and solutions. You'll see what is available today... and if you pay close attention, we'll give you a sneak peak at the future!
Here are some specific real-time imaging sessions to pencil into your agenda... and there are more to come!
Also, be sure to take advantage of the once-a-year opportunity to meet 1:1 with IBM executives, subject matter experts and innovative IBM Business Partners. I'll be there, but you an also talk strategy with other ECM imaging business leaders, such as Brent Bussell, Feri Clayton,Brian Phelps, and Rick Gawronski. Or take a deep dive in to Document Imaging and Capture with experts from our product and technical teams, including Tom Stuart, Ben Antin, Jim Reimer, Charles Wiecha, Bud Paton and Noel Kropf.
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The Cost of Capture
Scott Blau 270004N498 firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  india entry ocr data #capture datacap blau scott capture ecm 2,309 Visits
I'm just back from a trip to India. Until fairly recently, I would never have imagined significant opportunity for document capture in the very place where outsourcing of data entry has been most successful. That's relevant to the document capture business because when a document is "captured" two things happen:
Even banks with far-flung operations and massive workforces are exploring ways to automate aspects of the document capture process: the volumes of documents to be captured are staggering once a bank wades into the world of branch capture. (My thoughts on how branch capture is technically something new in document capture: http://ibm.co/13i74bl.) Automation not only reduces costs, but speeds up the process, ultimately helping improve customer services… and most importantly, customer satisfaction. (And if you are skeptical that customer satisfaction is the underlying benefit of document capture, let me try to convince you: http://ibm.co/10bwmsJ.)
Put another way, in large-scale document capture operations, there is a premium on reducing complexity, including the number of people involved. Globally, the Holy Grail is to grow the number of documents being captured, while meeting that growing need with existing staff.
From my perspective, document capture has come of age when it is being adopted globally, even in markets traditionally noted for the low cost of labor.
To continue the conversation, connect with me on Twitter @captureguru.
How Watson Got His Voice...
Scott Blau 270004N498 firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  watson blau scott datacap jeopardy capture ecm ocr 3 Comments 5,168 Visits
4 Non-Trivial Questions to Ask before Committing to Production Document Capture
In late 2009 and I got a call from the brother of a good friend. He was a researcher at IBM's Watson Labs - soon to became famous for the "Watson" artificial intelligence engine that spectacularly beat the top humans on the trivia game-show, Jeopardy!
My friend was trying to solve a problem and thought that my company, Datacap (the acquisition of Datacap by IBM was not even on the horizon at this point), could help, since we specialized in optical character recognition (OCR) and related document capture technologies.
I said, "great, let me ask you 3 or 4 questions about what you are trying to do:
1) What is the volume of documents/pages/images you need to process per day, week, month, or year?
2) What data do you need to extract from those pages, any special considerations to take into account?
3) Are the pages consistent in format, variable, something in between?"
He said he had 5000 pages. Clearly to him that was a big number, but he was a bit deflated when I asked, "is that per day?" In the production document capture business, it is definitely common that a volume like that may be literally processed "before breakfast."
But 5000 pages were all he had. Not every day or week, or even every month, just once. I was a little skeptical, but I wanted to learn more.
He needed to extract information from an English language pronunciation guide. He wanted to read the word to be pronounced, and then the linguistically precise definition of the pronunciation, including diacritical marks (accents) commonly used in those definitions. In other words, this was not just straight English language OCR. My skepticism increased.
I wasn't surprised when I next learned that the pages were not at all consistent, that the definitions for a specific word could wrap from one page to the next, or that the pages to be scanned were in bound books...
That was it. Did he really expect to use a production capture product to process - one time - 5000 pages with specialized text and words on them and no fixed format? Well, yes, he did. He had a real challenge and his expectation was not unreasonable... it just is not what production document capture is about.
Those three questions can help anyone quickly assess a document capture problem. In this case, the answer was simple, but perhaps wrong. I advised him that it would not be economically feasible for him to invest in production document capture, but in giving that answer I missed a great opportunity.
Turns out I should have asked a 4th question, "why do you need to read a pronunciation guide?"
I learned later that my friend was working on a major artificial intelligence project, one that would need a computer capable of blurting out words under extreme time pressure. He was, in fact, working on giving "Watson" a voice. It was that voice, having been trained to enunciate thousands of words, that went on prime time to beat the best human players at a live game of Jeopardy!
He eventually used a desktop OCR program and a lot of patience to translate the pronunciation guide from paper to something Watson could understand. Although my 3 questions helped me quickly assess the value of the opportunity, by skipping the 4th question, I missed the opportunity to brag how Datacap helped to give Watson a voice!
Is production document capture and imaging right for you? Click here to learn more on using capture solutions.
It ain't smart, if it ain't intelligent
Deepthi Nagarajan 270005NCRR firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  document datacap intelligent capture documents scott scan imaging 1,587 Visits
Blog Post by Scott Blau,WW Director of Document Capture,IBM ECM
Historians and anthropologists debate the topic of "when did intelligent life on earth start?" But I sometimes wonder just how intelligent we are when I see the nutty things that humans do. I certainly scratch my head at the way we sometimes make our lives so hard for ourselves in the way we structure our activities.
Is it really intelligent to pave over so much of the earth? Are we being smart not putting more effort into alternative energy sources? And on a much more immediate level, is it really so intelligent of us to continue to be swapping paper documents and filing them in filing cabinets, or even printing an email… so it can be sent down the hall to be scanned?
It is probably a "no" to each of those questions.
I'm not an expert on ecology or sustainability, but I've been around the document capture space for long enough to know that there still is a lot of room for us to get smarter. One of the ways of doing that is to stop thinking about document capture in isolation, separately from the storage and retrieval of images after they've been captured.
When I first started out in document capture in the late 1980s, it made some sense to think about scanning a document, extracting information from it and then forgetting about the image altogether. But with advances in network bandwidth, storage, and database technologies, it's rare these days that anyone scans without saving images. And that's smart.
But to squirrel away those images where they may not be easily found, are not properly indexed, or are unconnected to business processes, isn't particularly clever either. And certainly processes which cause electronic documents to slip back to paper (through printing) only to be scanned again is on the dumb side of the scale.
Intelligent Imaging is about bringing to bear all the capabilities that have developed over the last 20 or 30 years to take documents, whether they are originally electronic or paper, extract information from them, make them available, and, finally, tie them into useful business processes.
Here's a man-in-front-of-a-whiteboard video where I explain more about intelligent imaging – all in under seven minutes.
Why Is Capturing Invoices Different Than Riding Space Mountain?
Sanjay Kupae 2700050U55 email@example.com Tags:  ecm #ibmecm datacap ibm 2,802 Visits
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Admittedly, capturing invoices automatically is not as exciting as riding Disneyworld's Space Mountain roller coaster ride, but it's not as scary either. Why? Because you have more control. When you ride Space Mountain, you are strapped in like a piece of luggage and you spend half the time in the dark. IBM Datacap Taskmaster Accounts Payable puts the operator in the driver's seat with lots of tools – available at a single click – and you're never in the dark.
Leveraging IBM's Intelligent imaging approach, Datacap enables operators to view scans, faxes, emails and email attachments all in the same format, so it doesn't matter how your department receives invoices. As you can see in this quick demo, Taskmaster extracts data automatically, applies the vendor ID, and enables matching against purchase order line items, so you can help facilitate a three-way match in SAP or Oracle. And watch how easy it is to receive a new invoice and set it up – without building templates or programming.
So here's a proposal: automate invoice processing with Datacap to cut your invoice processing time and cost in half, and then, with the extra time you have back, you can make plans to fly to Orlando and wait in line for Space Mountain.
View the demo on the IBM ECM You Tube Channel and for more information click here.
IOD 2012 – Surprise Me
Sanjay Kupae 2700050U55 email@example.com Tags:  ecm iod2012 datacap 2,366 Visits
After 15 years of looking after Datacap's marketing interests, I was pretty sure that I could no longer be surprised. When it comes to document capture, it's easy to feel like you've seen it all. Yet, IOD 2012 was filled with surprises – and the good the kind. Since joining IBM's ECM division in 2010, the Datacap product – with its open, rules-driven architecture – has inspired many, it seems, to extend its capabilities in all kinds of directions. It was at IOD, where the extent of all that extensibility became apparent to me.
I had the pleasure of hosting a luncheon at IOD 2012 called "The Seven Secrets of Success for Capture Engagement." The idea being that we would invite Datacap users and prospects to a delicious lunch and then show off seven new things you can do in the Datacap environment that help our customers delight their customers. I started asking around about new Datacap applications and, suddenly, I was wondering how to keep the list to only 7.
Within the IBM technical community, our developers had come up with cool things like integrating Datacap into a Fujitsu network scanner so that anyone could walk up, push a few buttons and start capturing documents using the scanner's touchscreen – even for verification of data. We also demonstrated how to add new documents into the Datacap Entry-Level product with just a few clicks – setting up sophisticated document ID and data validations in the process. And Datacap co-founder and software architect Noel Kropf acted out the part of a delivery driver – complete with brown shirt and shorts - who saves his company time to bill by using Datacap with an iPhone to capture signed delivery documents on the spot.
If demonstrating Mobile Capture was exciting – and it certainly had our audience of 60 customers, business partners and IBMers sitting up and taking notice – what got me revved up was seeing what our business partners had done.
IBM partner Databank showed an application they designed and installed at a bank to accelerate loan approvals for customers, which integrated a Fujitsu network scanner, Parascript advanced handprint recognition, and a real time workflow to enable a regional manager to support a branch request in minutes.
EDAC Systems, which has developed several applications with Datacap, demonstrated some enhancements they've made with image processing to improve text recognition – even for handprint – to enable correspondence tracking, among other uses.
European partner xft showed off its certified connector to SAP, which allows Datacap to "talk" to SAP in real time – for PO line item reconciliation during the capture process and facilitates a smooth handoff to SAP of captured data.
Imagine Solutions, IBM's 2012 Excellence Award winner, showed a live demo of their solution for mortgage processing with Datacap that leverages IBM Content Classification to correctly identify and classify mortgage documents in a batch, which is as close to a David Copperfield magic trick as we had in Las Vegas.
All in all, we showed off 8 solutions at our luncheon and could have shown another 8 if we had the time. Tritek Solutions has built a human resources capture solution, Miria Systems has a proven P2P solution, CM Mitchell Consulting has developed capture solutions for Oracle, and CGI has built a complete healthcare document management solution with Datacap and Production Imaging Edition, called Sovera. Furthermore, Magic Lamp Software, Neocol, and R2K have enhancements of their own that would have fit nicely in our lineup of solutions for "capture engagement."
For me, the "Seven Secrets of Success" turned out to deliver unexpected surprises about the creative and technical prowess of the new "ecosystem" of partners who have taken Datacap in new and interesting directions. I certainly did not list all the enhancements available in this short report and I can only imagine what new solutions are being put together even now.
But as they say, "surprise me."
Going Global is More Than Just Mastering New Languages
Sanjay Kupae 2700050U55 firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  ecm datacap v8.1 taskmaster 1,970 Visits
Guest Blog by David Jenness, Market Segment Manager, IBM Document Imaging & Capture
Since IBM acquired Datacap two years ago, there has been an enormous effort to globalize Datacap Taskmaster Capture, the intelligent document input solution, expanding its reach from English language capture to the world's languages. With every new release, Taskmaster adds new languages, and today it supports nearly 30 languages worldwide.
One Size Does Not Fit All – Three Ways To Implement Datacap Taskmaster
Sanjay Kupae 2700050U55 email@example.com Tags:  ecm taskmaster iod2012 datacap 1,538 Visits
Guest post by Evan Fitch, IBM ECM Marketing
Remember the good old days when a software solution had to be painstakingly shoe-horned into a companies' business just so they could get some of the functionality they originally wanted? With the edition of a lower-cost Entry Level version and an Enterprise Edition bundle, the newly released IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture v8.1 is so flexible it might impress a yoga instructor.
Datacap Taskmaster Entry Level is a lower-cost version of Taskmaster, based on the user-friendly FastDoc Capture interface. This version can automate the capture of data fields for indexing with OCR, Identify documents by comparing them to a database of previously scanned documents, help ensure data accuracy with database look-ups and deliver data and images straight into IBM
FileNet Content Manager. These scanned documents can be exported in either image or searchable pdf format. If a customer needs a more robust capture solution, they can upgrade to the standard version of Taskmaster.
At the high end, the Datacap Taskmaster Enterprise Edition bundle provides greater support for high volume input of documents, enables both increased performance and increased capabilities, with expanded document classification capabilities using IBM Content Classification..
This feat is performed by combining Taskmaster features such as Datacap Taskmaster Capture Connector for eMail and Electronic Documents, which enables conversion of email messages and attachments, , which enables you to unpack .zip archives and convert Microsoft™ Word, Excel, Outlook, PDF, and multipage TIFF files to single page TIFF files for processing. Taskmaster Capture Connector for Fax is included which supports capture of faxes and associated metadata from fax servers. Datacap Rulerunner Enterprise was added to deliver scalability and increased performance by leveraging multiprocessor systems and high-speed fingerprint matching. The final piece of the puzzle is Content Classification,which Enables automatic document classification of text-based documents using content analytics full text analysis.
The new Datacap Taskmaster release doesn't stop there. There are many new features and improvements including enhanced globalization with support for Simplified Chinese and Cyrillic (for the Russian market), pdated thick and thin client user interfaces to improve the user experience, and support for IBM System Dashboard for monitoring Taskmaster Capture system performance.
For more information about the IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture v8.1 Release go to the IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture webpage. Also join us for DataCap Update and Customer Success sessions at Information OnDemand 2012 in October to learn more about Datacap and Enterprise Content Management.
ECM is about Engagement
Sanjay Kupae 2700050U55 firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  datacap ecm content capture smarter 2,383 Visits
The word "engage" is, er, how can I put it? Engaging! It has many meanings. We engage in thought and activities when we devote our attention. It can refer to hiring someone or renting an apartment. Cars go forward because the gears are engaged. And, unless you are commitment-phobic, you get engaged and then you get married.
Engagement is central to any successful business. People buy products that are engaging, but they stay customers with companies that engage with them. In the days of Main Street shopping, engagement was as simple as a winning smile and the willingness to listen to customers expand on the details of various ailments and gossip about relatives. And, of course, it was about customer service – responding to complaints before they were shared with others down the street.
In today's mobile and connected marketplace, engaging with your customer – or with your suppliers, or patients, or even employees, is an act of defiance! Your customer may never walk in the door. Your marketing systems may not "speak" to your order fulfillment system – and both may have nothing to do with customer service. But to engage with your customer, I mean really engage in the sense of knowing them like a Main Street proprietor knows their daily walk-in customers – customer service, for example, should know the communications preferences that the customer set on a web site and were used in marketing.
The most successful businesses now are focusing on the last frontier of automation: breaking down the barriers between their "automation" systems so that they can re-engage with their customers: an effective ECM system delivers efficiency – while improving customer acquisition, servicing, and retention.
Customer service can be just a matter of answering the phone, but a customer interaction case management system that breaks barriers between internal information silos and handles the randomness of human interactions, engages with customers in the way they want to be engaged – personally!
Good ECM tools will improve productivity… but more importantly, and more relevantly to life at the speed of an iPad, they help organizations engage with customers, with suppliers, with citizens, with you and me – all in ways that make us feel like we are talking to the local news agent who we visited every day for the last ten years.
Come hear Scott talk about ECM and Smarter Content at Information on Demand 2012, to know about ECM sessions download the ECM at IOD Agenda. Or if you're already registered, use the SmartSite to start planning your experience, scheduling sessions, and connecting with other attendees and speakers."
Forgetting the Big Picture
Sanjay Kupae 2700050U55 email@example.com Tags:  datacap imaging content management ecm capture 2,335 Visits
One of the things that I like about my job is that I get to talk to IBM customers who have automated their business processes with document capture and imaging software. I ask them how much money they saved, how many errors eliminated, how much faster they can process a claim or an invoice or a mortgage, and generally how much "smarter" their organization is now that they have replaced a paper-based process.
Almost always, our conversation focuses on process improvement and cost savings. We do diagrams to show how much was streamlined and use special calculators to determine how much money they saved. And then I write up a case study to document it.
It's not a bad life.
Or at least it was, until recently, when I had a revelation thrust upon me by a customer in the healthcare industry, who told me, "We didn't buy the solution to save money. We bought it to make our patients healthier."
That's when light dawned in the rock garden. Process improvement and cost savings are important, sure, but there's a bigger picture. There's the person who is receiving the product or the service and they too benefit from a smarter organization. In fact, isn't the whole point of the endeavor to improve the experience had by the customer (or the patient or the citizen or the student)?
It may sound obvious, but here I was, nearly wrenching my arm trying to pat myself on the back about how much money is being saved. Sometimes, we become so accustomed to focusing on the little picture, that we forget that there is a big picture. But thanks to the document scanning manager of a major hospital network who scans medical records so that a physician in the emergency room can access them to treat a patient, I now understand that document capture and imaging is much more than a way to trim costs, it can improve the lives of people.
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Hoop making party is on for World Hoop Day!
Friday 11/11/11 5pm - 11 pm at Nicole's house. Message me for address.
Provided: tubing, pvc cutters, connectors, and tape (for decoration, weight, and grip).
Cost: $11/hoop
Feel free to invite others. Please RSVP so I can buy enough supplies.
Potluck style: bring food and/or drinks to share!
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I just ordered DVD's level 3 & 4 and hooping with minis. Let me know if you want to watch them and play with me.
Maybe we should have a special World Hoop Day event? Its a friday..Any ideas?
World Hoop Day 2011 Dance: After you learn it and teach it to everyone you know, record yourself and your group doing it on World Hoop Day. Follow the directions on Spin Matsuri's page to send them the video. They will edit all the footage together and release the world's biggest participatory hoop dance with you in it!


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Thomas Andrew Stasel, 80 of Munfordville, passed away Thursday, July 3 at the T.J. Samson Community Hospital. The Hart County native was a son of the late Johnny Calvin Stasel and Renia Bernice Smith Stasel.
He is survived by two sons, David Thomas Stasel & wife Rhonda of Bonnieville, Chris Taylor of Bowling Green; two daughters, Laura LeAnn Sanders & husband Steve of Horse Cave, Kimberly Renee Taylor & husband Roger of Bonnieville; two sisters, Pernie Stanton of Elizabethtown, Dorene Joyce of Elizabethtown; three grandchildren, Rachel Hardy & Leah Taylor both of Bonnieville, and David Tyler Sanders of Horse Cave.
He was preceded in death by two brothers Austin & Gilbert Stasel
Funeral services for Thomas Andrew Stasel will be 11am Sunday, July 6 in the chapel of Sego Funeral Home with Bro. Stanley Wooden officiating. Burial will be in the Campground Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday from 2-9pm and after 9am Sunday at the Sego Funeral Home.


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Quadratus femoris is one of muscles of the gluteal region posterior to the hip. It derives its name its quadrangular shape.
It originates from the lateral border of the ischial tuberosity just inferior to the inferior gemellus muscle. It passes laterally to insert along a vertical line between the quadrate tubercle of the femur and posterosuperior limit of the lesser trochanter.
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August 3, 2015
For some people in College Station, it doesn't matter if it's a sunny or rainy day. All that matters is that its game day.
"You know, it's one of those days, normally I worry about the hair," said Dennie Bowman. "We're here for the team. We're not looking at me or each other. We're here to watch them."
Thousands of fans showed up to support their team
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Everyone tailgating by Kyle Field did have one thing in common.
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British Mountain Guides have a new logo, and a fantastic new website!
You could be forgiven for assuming that British Mountain Guides were technological luddites who were far too busy climbing or skiing to worry about websites. You may have been right in the past – but their new website (designed by Richard Lundberg of peakm3) reflects their passion for the mountains, and takes the public face of the association into the twenty first century.
A British Mountain Guide is an IFMGA Guide which, put simply, means an internationally qualified guide with the knowledge and skills to lead parties in the world's most challenging mountain environments. From those first tentative steps, to fulfilling your wildest dreams, British Mountain Guides safely and successfully lead people on rock, snow, ice and ski adventures throughout the world.
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Snapshots from Scotland: Deep-Fried Mars Bars
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Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush dated for two years before breaking up in 2009. They got back together when Khloe Kardashian got married, but broke up last March, allegedly because Bush couldn't get over Kim's sex tape with Ray J and not because he cheated on her a whole bunch. Seems kind of backwards to me, especially since he knew about the sex tape throughout their relationship. [Anything Hollywood]