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Hi Mountain Hot Caramel Apple Crunch
We have not reviewed camping meals before. We kinda buy them to have as an easy take along for canoe camping, and we usually use brands that are common and well-known. Recently, I used this item as an 'add-on" to a Sierra Trading Post order. I had never heard of this company, since they specialize in jerky and meats, which we do not eat. However, we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of this apple dessert (or breakfast). When canoe camping, we often use freeze-dried entrees, since we often… Full review
Oberta Bacon Jerky
Taste great and has the texture of regular bacon. Usually I am not a big fan of jerky as I find most of it too sweet for my liking. Oberta Bacon Jerky is a refreshingly different product. Oberta Bacon Jerky tastes great and has good texture just like home cooked bacon. The jerky is not tough or too crunchy. This jerky is also great for snacking anytime you need a quick protein boost. I like bacon when backpacking, especially for breakfast. The cost for this jerky is very close to the precooked bacon… Full review
ProBar Bolt Energy Chews
Natural tasting chews filled with B vitamins and electrolytes, which are quite filling compared to other chews. I'd recommend these energy chews for trail runs, training days, or workouts, but there are better options for long trips in the backcountry. I enjoy trail running and have been trying several different trail snacks over the years. Most times I make my own, but decided to get a box of the ProBar Bolt Organic Energy Chews. There are four different flavors (as of July 2015) and like other… Full review
Starbucks VIA Ready Brew
I'm a coffee snob that normally only drinks "Charbucks" swill when I'm desperate and there are no quality options available. That said, VIA is my go-to source for an enjoyable cup of coffee when backpacking. As I said, I'm a total coffee snob. When at home or car camping, I make my coffee in a French press. But when backpacking, I love VIA. It weighs almost nothing. It takes up almost no space in my pack (generally it simply fills space that would otherwise be voids in my pack). And there is no… Full review
Mountain House Lasagna with Meat Sauce Pro-Pak
My favorite MH entree. I prefer Pro-Pak versions of Mtn House entrees. The portions are just right, and the vacuum packed approach takes up less space in the pack when up high. Otherwise, the content and taste is the same as the regular, 2-person, non-vacuum packed sizes. Boil the water, add and let sit a bit, then eat right out of the pouch, means high efficiency and zero cleanup. After use, pouches form nice closable small garbage bags for packing out. Lasagne has a nice tomato spiciness with… Full review
Mountain House Rice & Chicken
I found it a little plain for my taste. I would only recommend this if you like it plain and basic. Good base, probably less impact to your intestines than a Mexican or chili meal. I found it a little plain for my taste. I would use a little less water and definitely add either more spices or maybe some dried fruit or veggies. I think I would use instant rice and a pouch of chicken instead and mix up my own version of chicken and rice. It's easy to make, but I would either try using less water,… Full review
Backpacker's Pantry Granola with Bananas & Milk
Good backpacking breakfast. Easy to prepare and pretty nutritious. More tasty than most freeze dry packaged foods. Price, like all freeze dry, is fairly hefty. Background: When I started camping, backpacking, and horse packing with my family as a child, there was no such thing as freeze-dry. Your only choice in dried food was jerky for meat, powdered eggs, KLIM (milk spelled backwards – still exists) for powdered milk, and a range of dried fruits and vegetables (raisins, apples, apricots, tomato… Full review
Libby's Seasoned Beef Crumbles
My son and I actually like this as a complimentary ingredient. Despite the appearance, my son and I like this stuff. We always mix it in with another ingredient. We will either mix in with our dehydrated re-fried beans and rice for making burritos, or we will mix it with bag of instant potatoes for a "hamburger casserole" recipe. We have never eaten this straight out of the bag. Does anyone eat crumbled hamburger as a main dish at home? All in all, my son has used this on several trips, and is currently… Full review
Mountain House Beef Stroganoff with Noodles
Excellent flavor and texture from a freeze dried meal. The price point is a bit heavy considering I might be able to take a spur trail to the nearest restaurant and buy a fully cooked meal from a wait staff for the same price. Taste: Tastes really good. The sauce is creamy and smooth. The meat reconstitutes well enough. The noodles are soft but not lumpy. Some might find it a bit heavy on sodium, but I like my food salty. Prep: Just add boiling water and wait about 5 to 7 min. Easy enough. Creates… Full review
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Services marketing
Services marketing is a sub-field of marketing, which can be split into the two main areas of goods marketing (which includes the marketing of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and durables) and services marketing. Services marketing typically refers to both business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) services, and includes marketing of services such as telecommunications services, financial services, all types of hospitality services, car rental services, air travel, health care services and professional services.
Services are (usually) intangible economic activities offered by one party to another. Often time-based, services performed bring about desired results to recipients, objects, or other assets for which purchasers have responsibility. In exchange for money, time, and effort, service customers expect value from access to goods, labor, professional skills, facilities, networks, and systems; but they do not normally take ownership of any of the physical elements involved.[1]
There has been a long academic debate on what makes services different from goods. The historical perspective in the late-eighteen and early-nineteenth centuries focused on creation and possession of wealth. Classical economists contended that goods were objects of value over which ownership rights could be established and exchanged. Ownership implied tangible possession of an object that had been acquired through purchase, barter or gift from the producer or previous owner and was legally identifiable as the property of the current owner.
Adam Smith's famous book, The Wealth of Nations, published in Great Britain in 1776, distinguished between the outputs of what he termed "productive" and "unproductive" labor. The former, he stated, produced goods that could be stored after production and subsequently exchanged for money or other items of value. But unproductive labor, however" honorable,...useful, or... necessary" created services that perished at the time of production and therefore didn't contribute to wealth. Building on this theme, French economist Jean-Baptiste Say argued that production and consumption were inseparable in services, coining the term "immaterial products" to describe them.
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A recently proposed alternative view is that services involve a form of rental through which customers can obtain benefits.[2] What customers value and are willing to pay for are desired experiences and solutions. The term, rent, can be used as a general term to describe payment made for use of something or access to skills and expertise, facilities or networks (usually for a defined period of time), instead of buying it outright (which is not even possible in many instances).[3][4]
There are five broad categories within the non-ownership framework
- Rented goods services: These services enable customers to obtain the temporary right to use a physical good that they prefer not to own (e.g. boats, costumes)
- Defined space and place rentals: These services obtain use of a defined portion of a larger space in a building, vehicle or other area which can be an end in its own right (e.g. storage container in a warehouse) or simply a means to an end (e.g. table in a restaurant, seat in an aircraft)
- Labor and expertise rental: People are hired to perform work that customers either choose not to do for themselves (e.g. cleaning the house) or are unable to do due to the lack of expertise, tools and skills (e.g. car repairs, surgery)
- Access to shared physical environments: These environments can be indoors or outdoors where customers rent the right to share the use of the environment (e.g. museums, theme parks, gyms, golf courses).
- Access to and usage of systems and networks: Customers rent the right to participate in a specified network such as telecommunications, utilities, banking or insurance, with different fees for varying levels of access
In defining service marketing we can modify the definition of American Marketing Association on Marketing by adding the following changes. Services Marketing is an organisational function and a set of process for identifying or creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing Customer relationship in a way that benefit the organisation and stake holders.
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- Industrialization of services business model
- Servitization of products business model
- Service system
- Complex sales and service
- ^ Christopher Lovelock and Jochen Wirtz (2011), Services Marketing – People, Technology, Strategy. 7th ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall
- ^ Lovelock, C., Gummesson, E. 2004. Whither Services Marketing?: In Search of a New Paradigm and Fresh Perspectives. Journal of Service Research 7 (1) 20-41
- ^ Lovelock, C., Gummesson, E. 2004. Whither Services Marketing?: In Search of a New Paradigm and Fresh Perspectives. Journal of Service Research 7 (1) 20-41
- ^ Christopher Lovelock and Jochen Wirtz (2011), Services Marketing – People, Technology, Strategy. pg 14, 7th ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall
- Beckwith, Harry (1997). "Selling The Invisible: A field Guide To Modern Marketing", Warner Books.


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Introducing Scott Mowrey
I'm Scott Mowrey, and I would like to introduce myself as the new Manager of Safety for Mountain Aviation. I have spent over 20 years in the aviation industry and have overseen many safety-critical operations during my career. This is not a position I take lightly. My primary purpose is to ensure Mountain Aviation maintains its outstanding safety record, and …Read More
Flying Blind – How will the FAA Ground Delay Program for Aspen, Eagle and Rifle Affect Mountain Aviation
Most decisions in life are a balance of positives and negatives that result in some level of compromise. How much compromise must be made in a decision generally correlates to the perceived satisfaction with the outcome. Sometimes though, life presents the uncommon opportunity to make uncompromising choices with an expectation of total satisfaction. The use of a private aircraft charter …Read More
Don McCarty is a man of few words.
Don McCarty is a man of few words. Those who have worked with him however, know that his actions speak volumes. Don has worked as an aviation technician for the last 50 years- and he has done it with the type of professionalism that comes with realizing how important his job is and taking great pride in doing your job …Read More
Mountain Aviation – 20 Years of Service to the Rocky Mountain community.
Mountain Aviation celebrated 20 years of service to the Denver and Rocky Mountain region community. Along the way it has picked up a trophy cabinet of awards for safety and best-practice. From small beginnings it has grown to become a mature, ARGUS Platinum safety -certified air charter and aircraft management business, with a managed fleet of 19 airplanes, over 100 …Read More
Pilot's perspective on flying over Andes near Santiago, Chile
We ask Mountain Aviation pilot, Steven Foltz what goes through your mind while flying over the continent of South America? Steven Foltz Operating in South America offers it's own unique set of challenges and rewards. Challenges that must be evaluated include security, weather, terrain, and volcanic activity. Security risks are always of concern, and must be purposely mitigated. Evidence of …Read More
Summer's Bumpy Trips
Some general information about thunderstorms Ah!, summer's here and the ice has melted from the hangars and runways, and no snow storms are about, unless we fly to Alaska or further north!. But now you say, oh! but I have to put up with those hot, bumpy flights, all the time in the summer *&#$!. We pilots also wish …Read More
Mountain Aviation has launched a complimentary in-flight connectivity service
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The Morgan Adams Foundation
On Saturday 4 folks from Mountain Aviation attended the Morgan Adams charity event at TAC air. The Morgan Adams foundation supports cancer research for children. The event featured a display of very high end cars and historic aircraft. There was also a section with newer corporate aircraft. We were lucky enough to have our Piaggio on display. The people at …Read More
Tribute to a Fighter Pilot
Two members of the Mountain Aviation team attended a Tribute to a Fighter Pilot event at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum – Lowry. The event was a tribute and open discussion with Aviation legend Bob Hoover. Mr. Hoover is considered by his peers as the "pilot's pilot" and is most well known as a US Fighter …Read More


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The Riechert and Haw Creek communities in LeFlore County were hit the hardest by Saturday's storm, according to the county's Emergency Management Department.
Director Michael Davidson said his department requested a disaster declaration from Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to open up funding sources to help fix the damaged roads.
The Black Fork River rushed into the Jones family's home. It swept their parked truck and trailer about 300 feet and slammed it into a tree, and Fred Jones said his son Mason's truck was washed away in the high water.
"There was about chest deep down to this house and when I got here this truck and trailer were like this," Jones said.
The Jones family salvaged what they could after the water rose inside their home about two feet. Their entire flooring will need to be replaced.
Jones was out of town in Tulsa and couldn't get to his house until morning. His son Mason, 17, was home alone.
"My biggest concern was my kid," Jones said. "He was here at the time. This other stuff can be replaced."
Jared Henry said the Black Fork River usually rises when it rains, but has never rose the way it did Saturday morning.
"I've never seen it that high before right there and his son's truck nobody has seen it," Henry said. "It just went down the river."
Neighbors said about a dozen homes were damaged with some were a total loss. However, they said there weren't any reported injuries.
"In this community as far as I know everybody is OK," Henry said.
Deanna Krueger is a Haw Creek volunteer firefighter. She said it's heartbreaking to see her neighbors lose their belongings.
"I'm on my way to the fire department to help unload supplies for those who need water and whatever else they've got up there," Krueger said.
The Jones family said they will rebuild and start over.
"We're kind of at a standstill but still feel fortunate that no one was hurt," Jones said.
Davidson said volunteer groups from the Red Cross and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief helped homeowners recover property and clean-up debris.
James Wellman, supervisor with the U.S. Geological Survey, surveyed the floods. Wellman and his team made sure the river gauges worked properly after the storms.
He said they are in charge of 180 river gauges in Oklahoma. The gauges monitor rivers by measuring flood and drought levels.
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Has anybody ever noticed that when you go on a DL attraction that rplaced another one, they leave an object or a reminder of the attraction that was there before it.
Has anybody ever noticed that when you go on a DL attraction that rplaced another one, they leave an object or a reminder of the attraction that was there before it.
In Tarzan's Treehouse, there was one branch whicah was still left the same from it's predocessor Swiss Family Treehouse. And if u listen closey, u can still hear swiss-polka music.
Like the Bear heads up on the wall in the new Pooh ride...
Or the Eeyore parking sign up in Indy's que.
Marge: Barnacle Bill's Home Pregnancy Test? Homer, shouldn't we have gone with a better-known brand?
Homer: But Marge, this one came with a corn-cob pipe!
Marge: [reading from the test box] "Ahoy, Maties! If the water turns blue, a baby for you! If purple ye see, no baby thar be!"
Homer: So, which is it? Blue or purple?
Marge: Pink.
Homer: D'oh!
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In Star Tours, during the attraction, u can see the the mighty microscope from adventure thru inner space
The little town of Rainbow Ridge survived the change from MTRtNW to BTMRR ....
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There's something on Splash Mountain also, at least that's what I've heard, can't remember exactly what, can anyone help me out?
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I believe it is the snoring bear that used to be near the entrance to Bear Country before it became Critter Country. The snore can now be heard coming from Brer Bear's cave.
If u look at the 3rd picture on this site, u can see what they have done with an old rocket jet: http://www.mousehub.com/pictorials.p...3012005&page=2
Interesting. I'm wondering though if this is the tribute on this ride. It should have a tribute to either Rocket Rods or Circlevision somewhere inside...Originally Posted by DL_CRAZE
I hear in the pond across from the BTMRR entrance, U can see a fish effect left from the mine train ride
Yup, I think that there are 3 jumping fish.Originally Posted by DL_CRAZE
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Scenic City welcomes Elon to town for its final Southern Conference series against the Chattanooga Mocs softball team Saturday and Sunday at Frost Stadium. The Mocs (21-14, 6-2 SoCon) and the Phoenix (18-16-1, 2-7 SoCon) meet for a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday and wrap up the weekend Sunday with a 2 p.m. first pitch.
Saturday's contests serve as the Mocs' annual Breast Cancer Awareness "Pink Game." Chattanooga will sport pink jerseys and accessories in an effort to raise awareness about the disease and in support of those diagnosed.
UTC's Greek organizations are also hosting a barbecue tailgate beyond the outfield fence in right-center. Chattanooga SGA will also be on hand at the tailgate giving away pink tank top shirts to those in attendance. The weekend comes to a close with a Greek post-game softball game on the field after the Mocs and Phoenix wrap up Sunday afternoon.
Coming off a doubleheader sweep of Tennessee Tech Wednesday, Chattanooga has won seven of its last eight games. The Mocs are also 10-1 at home this season with its only loss coming against Lipscomb. UTC is currently sitting in second place in the Southern Conference standings, looking to gain ground on leader Georgia Southern. The Eagles are just 1.5 games ahead of the Mocs going into Saturday.
The Mocs continue to make noise with sophomore Alyssa Taylor (Orange, Calif.) extending her hitting streak to 14 games, sophomore Anyssa Robles reaching base in 10 consecutive games and junior Nicole Osterman (Kissimmee, Fla.) returning to the lineup with vengeance. In just five games, Osterman has driven in seven runs and jacked three homeruns.
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Who's over the Thanksgiving meal already?
Thanksgiving great day to get together with the family, watch football, etc.
I have not once in my life had a traditional Thanksgiving meal that left me with the thought - "I am so glad I ate that!" Yes, I have had good cooks serve me good traditional food. I just cannot remember a time during the year when I think to myself "I cannot wait for Thanksgiving when I get to eat__________"
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One approach to documenting the status of women in academic science and engineering is to combine quantitative data collection (see Chapter 3) with qualitative information obtained from faculty, students, and university leaders. For example, the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) created a Web-based interactive toolkit of surveys, literature, Web links, and guidelines to help universities to evaluate the climate for women on their campuses.78 At the request of department chairs, confidential surveys are used to query faculty and students on department demographics, gendered practices and policies, and the climate for women. Departments are also asked to provide enrollment data. After collecting that background information, a panel of respected scientists who are familiar with climate issues meets with faculty, students, and administrators to discuss their views about the status of women in a department. The panel then makes recommendations based on the information collected and helps the department to implement them.
We must grow our women leadership ranks. We must help our women and our men fit their lives into their work and their work into their lives, so that we can keep our pipeline robust. With women comprising nearly 50% of the labor force, we can't succeed in the marketplace unless we attract and retain a representative share of women at all levels of our organization, including partner, principal, and director.
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Deloitte and Touche (2005). Why Flexible Work Arrangements Are not the Answer: The Case for Career Customization (internal document).
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Senior Chief John N. Brady assumed command of the Manatee, his first assignment in 20 years of service as officer in charge afloat.
Martha L. "Marty" Hinojosa sponsored the cutter and presented its crew a statue of a manatee to remember their boat's commission day.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post1680324706910629068..comments2015-07-11T10:07:26.301-05:00Comments on Nolichucky Roots: 112 years ago today....Susan Clarkhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-1732550072677844392012-02-01T19:06:22.610-06:002012-02-01T19:06:22.610-06:00Thank you so much for your kind comments. Not only...Thank you so much for your kind comments. Not only do I appreciate them, but Iva would love them! I've been mulling more on all things grandmotherish and will be posting more.

As for complicated - I can only imagine what my descendants will write about me someday. I take after Iva in many (though not all) ways.Susan Clarkhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-36179124705896265442012-02-01T18:57:01.336-06:002012-02-01T18:57:01.336-06:00You have created a beautiful tribute for your Gran...You have created a beautiful tribute for your Grandmother. She is lucky to have had such a thoughtful granddaughter. Life is complicated so we might as well embrace complications. I had a complicated Grandmother too! Thanks for sharing. LindaLindahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-22591059117743146052012-01-31T22:04:26.944-06:002012-01-31T22:04:26.944-06:00Beautiful, Susan. Sounds like your grandmother lef...Beautiful, Susan. Sounds like your grandmother left a legacy of togetherness for her family. And what fun would a family be without some complications, anyway?Shelley Bishophttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-63992051583526930412012-01-31T19:08:23.821-06:002012-01-31T19:08:23.821-06:00I think all relationships have a degree of complex...I think all relationships have a degree of complexity to them. This post - a lovely tribute to your grandmother - has made me wonder what my own legacy will be.

Dee at Shakin' the Family TreeDeehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-54574941366025947442012-01-31T18:29:49.171-06:002012-01-31T18:29:49.171-06:00What a legacy your grandmother has left your famil...What a legacy your grandmother has left your family if everyone still enjoys gathering together. Though I'm also curious as to the ins and outs of that complicated relationship, I know so many of our lives bear that same testimony. Despite those difficulties, Iva was certainly blessed to have a grand-daughter who still remembers and honors her today.Jacqihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-24878393526985889732012-01-31T16:47:02.224-06:002012-01-31T16:47:02.224-06:00Great that you have so many photos to help you re-...Great that you have so many photos to help you re-discover your grandmother! My grandkids are scattered and we don't often get together with my kids'n all. These are such important relationships and we only recognize the special unique qualities of our grandmothers when we/they get much much older! Cheers on a lovely post.Celiahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-32415705036858407572012-01-31T15:36:17.439-06:002012-01-31T15:36:17.439-06:00What a nice post. Of course I too am wondering ab...What a nice post. Of course I too am wondering about the complicated relationship but as I think about my grandchildren, I wouldn't be surprised if by the time I'm 112 years old some of them can point to a complicated relationship. I just hope they share the good memories somewhere!!Kristinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-50499992518331651432012-01-31T15:21:09.154-06:002012-01-31T15:21:09.154-06:00How lucky you were to know your grandmother. One o...How lucky you were to know your grandmother. One of mine died 15 years before I was born, the other was killed before I was two. I so regret never having been able to know them.Janice EHhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-64813164185738417562012-01-31T14:29:21.687-06:002012-01-31T14:29:21.687-06:00I love this post and the accompanying collage. It...I love this post and the accompanying collage. It makes me wonder about the "complicated" relationship, however. Why am I not surprised that you are thinking of Grandmothers today? It's hard to imagine being remembered by a grandchild as you just did. Touching.Kathy Reedhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274336739835087347.post-42812383079452785112012-01-31T12:16:03.619-06:002012-01-31T12:16:03.619-06:00Awww...a lovely tribute to your Grandmother! Happy...Awww...a lovely tribute to your Grandmother! Happy Birthday Iva!Lisa Wallen Logsdonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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@mcuban so when do I show up for try-outs!!!— Brittney Griner (@Brittney4Griner) April 3, 2013
Griner followed that tweet up with another, seemingly putting the men of the NBA on alert.
"I would hold my own! Lets do it," Griner tweeted.
Does Cuban really believe Griner, the almost certain top pick in the WNBA draft, could play in the NBA? We'd have to hook him up to a lie detector test to get that information.
A better question would be: If any NBA owner was willing to draft Griner as a publicity stunt would Cuban be in the conversation? The answer: Absolutely.
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Inter and Napoli target Leandro Damiao has admitted that he wants to leave Brazil and play in Europe.
The 23-year-old striker has been linked with a move to Serie A, as well as Premier League club Tottenham.
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"I have a very long contract here," he told Lancenet. "I am tied to the club and I feel good in Brazil.
"But I dream of playing in Europe – it is the best stage for a footballer.
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DRUMS — The Stage Coach Inn is the restaurant where people have come to eat since 1947. It's where the Oscar-winning actor, Jack Palance, who used to live nearby, passed the time. Now it's deserted.
Kevin McDonald has run Damenti's Restaurant down the street along Route 309 for the past 35 years.
"In the old days, that's where the horses would stop and they'd refresh and spend the night. I don't know what was there then. But then it became the stage coach, and it's been there forever," said Kevin McDonald, Damenti's Restaurant owner.
But no stage coaches or people will be stopping at the historic restaurant for a while. It's now up for sale. Thomas Bell owns the Bell Tower Cafe next door.
"It's really sad. I mean the stage coach has been around a long time. Mr. Deets and the Deets family has been a staple in Mountain Top, Drums, in Pennsylvania," said Thomas Bell, Bell Tower Cafe owner.
Bell said he noticed the restaurant was no longer doing business in November.
"Most of them you actually see them circle around the parking lot and then leave," said Bell.
Even though Bell and McDonald both have nearby restaurants of their own. They said they'd like to see the Stage Coach restored with another restaurant inside.
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John Boehner, foiled again.
UPDATE 2: Boehner's bill barely passed, finally (and at what price for Boehner's leadership), on Friday, only to die a quick death at the hands of 59 Senators. Well, that happened.
Now, it's the Senate's turn to act. And while Mitch McConnell is, astonishingly, refusing to negotiate with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, saying he wants the Boehner treatment from the president (mad that you got left out of that golf game, Mitch?) Reid is pressing ahead with his bill, and looking to incorporate McConnell's failsafe plan in the process. If Reid can hold the 59 Senators who voted against the Boehner bill — and there's no guarantee that he can — he only needs one more vote to override a certain McConnell-inspired fillibuster.
UPDATE: From the New York Times breaking news in the in-box:
Lacking Votes, House Won't Vote on Boehner Debt Plan Tonight
Republican leaders in the House have announced that there will be no vote on the debt ceiling bill Thursday night, an indication that House Speaker John A. Boehner remains short of the votes necessary to pass his legislation.
Mr. Boehner and his top lieutenants called it a night after more than five hours of furious arm-twisting of freshman Republicans, many of whom emerged from the closed-door sessions appearing to be firmer in their opposition.
There was little indication of what else had transpired during an evening that was supposed to have been a victory for Mr. Boehner as he passed a second debt-limit bill over to the Democratic Senate.
Instead, the evening highlighted the tensions within his conference and the sway that the Tea Party backed members hold within Mr. Boehner's party.
There was no indication of whether a vote might still come on Friday.
So to review: John Boehner, who as speaker has shepherded a whopping 12 bills through the House of Representatives, resulting in about as much new law as Florida has had snow this year, cannot get 216 of his 242 members to vote for … well, anything. Really?
The question on a lot of people's minds tonight has to be whether Eric Cantor helped whip that vote, or helped whip freshmen into an unrealistic frenzy of power-man unrealism. And whether House Whip Kevin McCarthy can count. Maybe Boehner should have handed out tobacco checks…
This is getting sloppy. the sad thing is, the vote didn't even matter, since Boehner's short-term extension bill is DOA in the Senate. But the fact that Boehner can't even pass a demonstration vote says his speakership is as weak as you probably think it is. Could a leadership challenge, led by the talk radio listeners currently in charge of the House, be far behind?
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And Luke Russert on MSNBC makes a good point: that people on the Hill are now kicking themselves for getting rid of earmarks, since now the leadership literally has nothing to offer recalcitrant members. Again… tobacco checks.
The House of Representatives in the 112th Congress is already on pace to be the most unproductive in generations, with just 12 bills having passed so far, versus the hundreds Nancy Pelosi had gotten through at this point in her speakership. Now, Boehner, who clearly is unable to control his caucus, particularly the 83 ineducable tea party freshmen, faces the ultimate test: can he corral the votes to raise the debt ceiling? Boehner could theoretically do it with all 193 Democrats plus 24 Republicans (something that's highly unlikely because Boehner couldn't live politically with an outcome that has him going hat in hand to Nancy Pelosi.) He could also do it with 217 Republicans, but that means he can only afford to lose 24.
Either way, this will be a test of Boehner's leadership — and over a point that's ultimately moot. His bill cannot pass the Senate, and President Obama won't sign it, because it sets up yet another showdown over the debt ceiling six months from now.


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One of the great pleasures of being a number theorist these days is the unavoidability of algebraic geometry. My own schooling was heavily oriented toward modular forms: in the late 1970s and early 1980s it couldn't be otherwise. At that time, at least where I was (UCLA, UCSD), the focus fell on such things as representation theory and trace formulas, Hecke algebras, oldforms and newforms, and connections with elliptic curves. Yes, although what is now called arithmetic geometry was already beginning to knock on the door, Wiles' work was still over a decade in the future, and the floodgates hadn't really been fully opened yet. The algebraic geometers had their seminars, and the number theorists had theirs, and the overlap was rather sporadic. Also, the algebraic geometry was primarily geometry (Mumford's geometric invariant theory was a major theme at UCLA, for example), while the number theory was primarily arithmetic (what a bizarre way to put it!); in any case, there was, for instance, no mention of sheaf theory in my number theory courses.
Before long a profound infusion of algebraic-geometric methods occurred, becoming universal after the stunning proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as a consequence of settling the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture. The remarkably fecund interplay between modular forms, Galois representations, and elliptic curves ascended to center stage as an exemplar of a new distribution of emphases both in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Accordingly what is now called arithmetic geometry quickly reached the prominence it so properly enjoys.
From a broader (or deeper) standpoint, the handwriting had already been on the wall for many years with Weil's visionary work, Grothendieck's development of the architecture that would support the most dazzling and spectacular constructs, the work of Deligne on the Weil conjectures, and Faltings's treatment of the Mordell Conjecture. So, in a true sense, the work done by Wiles should be regarded as the climactic culminating chapter of a long story, with the excitement building every step of the way. But to say that it is the final chapter is of course ridiculous: the plot continues to thicken every day.
Naturally, this parochial view of algebraic geometry as a tool for number theory is at the same time disingenuous: the subject is alive and well and indeed is flourishing. Hand in glove with this is the fact that books on algebraic geometry are plentiful, the most prominent still probably being Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry.
Thus, now more than ever, the market for algebraic geometry is strong: every aspiring mathematician (except maybe the most exclusive of logicians) needs to learn a sizable chunk of it. But it is not the case that one can approach this beautiful subject without first preparing the way, and this means in particular a thorough study of commutative algebra. In my own case that meant working through Atiyah-MacDonald, but other classics abound, such as the classic two-volume source by Zariski and Samuel. It cannot be denied, however, that these are reasonably austere texts, the former book's terseness notwithstanding (do all the exercises!), and after dealing with them algebraic geometry itself is still ahead.
I had a marvelous time, in due course, working from MacDonald's old book Algebraic Geometry, an Introduction to Schemes and parts of Serre's famous paper Faisceaux Algébriques Cohérents even before starting in properly on Hartshorne, and I am very happy with this trajectory. However, there is in judo a pithy Japanese phrase that describes how things should be done, and I certainly didn't do things that way: the phrase is seiryoku zenyo (maximally efficient use of energy), and my patchwork approach was not optimal. There are far smoother ways to get off the ground with this material, and the book under review, by Ernst Kunz, would certainly aid in this regard. It is filled with material that in my own meanderings in algebraic geometry I came across in half a dozen different sources, pitched at different levels of austerity. It would have been so much easier to have it all together in one place, done this well.
The book's arrangement is wonderful and effective: varieties à dimension à regular and rational functions + localization à the local-global principle (which in my youth was still called the Hasse Principle, at least in algebraic number theory) à the number of equations cutting out a variety à regular and singular points à projective resolutions. The book is not very "sheafy" and not at all "schemey," there's nothing cohomological in it, and Grothendieck only makes a brief appearance on p.210, as an adjective for the now ubiquitous group he defined in the context of isomorphism classes of modules over a ring. Indeed this introduction of the Grothendieck group occurs in the setting of problem 3 of the set of exercises following section VII.2, "Homological characterization of regular rings and local complete intersections," and illustrates one of the pedagogical virtues of the book: there are a huge number of exercises, and they are carefully placed and carefully designed. The usual rules are in place: the serious student should go at them with guns blazing.
Kunz says in the Foreword to the book that "[its] center of gravity lies more in commutative algebra than in algebraic geometry. For a continued study of algebraic geometry I recommend one of the excellent books that have recently appeared …" He wrote this comment in 1978, of course, and his bibliography on algebraic geometry as such (cf. pp.224–225) includes in addition to Hartshorne (1977), Shafarevich's eminently readable Basic Algebraic Geometry (1974), and Griffiths-Harris' Principles of Algebraic Geometry (1978). — as the song goes, "Ah, yes, I remember it well …" And it is still the case that these three books serve spectacularly in the cause to get a student into the beautiful and important subject of algebraic geometry more deeply, with seiryoku zenyo. Kunz' book is a wonderful springboard for all this.
Michael Berg is Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.


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The single most dangerous part of this new pricing (to VMware) is rooted in the following fact. What is left to virtualize is very different from what has been virtualized to date. If what VMware has done is change its licensing around to replace one metric (cores) with another (vRAM) in a manner that would have allowed it to get the same revenue from its existing customers to date, then VMware has totally missed the boat.
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Just in time for the adoption of vSphere 5 by enterprises seeking to virtualize business critical and performance critical applications, AppFirst, BlueStripe, and ExtraHop have pioneered a new category of APM solutions. This new category is focused upon allowing IT to take responsibility for applications response time for every application running in production. This is an essential step on the road toward virtualizing the 60% of the applications that remain on physical hardware.
ExtraHop has now made an important contribution to the question of how to measure applications performance across physical and virtual environments. Properly deployed ExtraHop can play a critical role in helping enterprises virtualize the 60% of the remaining applications that are "hard", "performance critical", and "business critical". As vSphere 5.0 is right around the corner, the timing could not be better.
What is still missing here is any kind of an end-to-end view of infrastructure latency that is also real time, deterministic and comprehensive. The marrying of the SAN point of view with the IP network point of view is the obvious combination. The hard issue here will be the identification of the applications so that these view of infrastructure performance can be surfaced on a per application basis. In summary, we have a long way to go here, and this just might be why so many of those virtualization projects for business critical and performance critical applications are having so much trouble getting traction.
VMTurbo's unique Service Assurance capabilities (and the ability to charge for them in the paid products) allows VMTurbo to make baseline performance and capacity management for vSphere environments available for free. This represents a significant redefinition of where the value is and where the value is not in the virtualization performance management business.
The news today is that Compuware has acquired dynaTrace. This is an extremely significant development as this is the first example of one of the "traditional" systems management vendors (IBM, HP, CA, BMC, Compuware, Quest), stepping up their game to acquire one of these new innovators that address these new use cases and requirements.
Applications Performance Profiling is an essential step in the process of virtualizing business critical and performance critical applications. In this case "performance" means response time not resource utilization. The virtualization team should go even further and commit to meeting response time based SLA's for business and performance critical virtualized applications.
The Dell VIS stack (Advanced Infrastructure Manager, Self-Service Creator and Director) now represents the most functionally rich virtualization management offering on the market, as it is sourced from best of breed IT as a Service vendor DynamicOPS and best of breed self learning analytics vendor Netuitive. This stack backed up by Dell's ability to sell into its customer base with whom Dell is already heavily interacting on the subject of virtualization puts Dell and it partners in a compelling position.
RUM (also called End User Experience Management) is becoming a critical feature of modern APM solutions. This is being driven by the emergence of rich client platforms like Ajax, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, and Microsoft Silverlight as well as the emergence of the iPad and Android based tablets as platforms for client side business applications. These applications development trends when combined with virtualization, IT as a Service and Cloud Computing will make RUM into a critical capability for being able to assess how the end user is doing irrespective of what is happening to the deployment model of the back end application.


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Michael Anthony Mello Sr.
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Michael Anthony Mello Sr., 60, Benton, died Sunday. Survivors: sons, Nicolaus and Michael Mello Jr.; daughter, Lindsay Kruizenga; mother, Mabel Gonsalves; brother, Alvin Mello Jr.; sisters, Christina Cardenas and Brenda ...
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