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CI and Ventura County Library Announce 2013 Lecture Series at E.P. Foster Library
Camarillo, Calif., March 13, 2013 – CSU Channel Islands (CI) and the Ventura County Library are pleased to announce the 2013 CSU Channel Islands Lecture Series, a free, regular event featuring speakers from the CI faculty at the E.P. Foster Library in downtown Ventura. The series is a new initiative inviting the public to learn more about the research and work of CI professors and to engage in discussions on a variety of timely, thought-provoking and regionally relevant topics. Faculty lectures are also held monthly at the Grant R. Brimhall Library in Thousand Oaks.
"We're excited to be able to share the fascinating work and dynamic presentations of our faculty with the public in Ventura and Thousand Oaks through our Library Lecture Series," said Dr. Karen Carey, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Arts & Sciences at CI. "We hope these lectures give members of the community the enjoyment of being a CI student for an evening in a free, convenient setting."
"We are thrilled to partner with CSU Channel Islands for this series," said Sara Roberts, Senior City Librarian at E.P. Foster Library. "Our community can only benefit from these educational opportunities."
All lectures will be held at 6 p.m. in the Topping Room at E.P. Foster Library, 651 East Main Street, Ventura. At the conclusion of their hour-long presentations, the speakers will engage in Q&A with the audience.
Following are currently scheduled speakers, topics, dates, times and brief bios:
"Early Farm Worker Housing on the Oxnard Plain"
Monday, April 1, at 6 p.m., with Dr. Frank Barajas, Professor of U.S. History
Dr. Barajas specializes in the history of Southern California. He has published peer-reviewed essays on agricultural labor in Ventura County, the Sleepy Lagoon Trial, the Oxnard schools, and the 2004 implementation of a civil gang injunction in the City of Oxnard. In addition to his book, Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961, Professor Barajas has published opinion essays in Amigos805, The History News Service, The Bakersfield Californian, and the Ventura County Star.
"Evolution of Surfing and the Culture Surrounding It"
Wednesday, April 24, with Professor of Art Jack Reilly
Professor Jack Reilly attributes his career as an artist largely to surfing. He began surfing in the mid-1960s at the age of 14. Later, as a surf shop owner and board painter, he discovered his love for art, prompting him to leave the beach to study painting in Paris and earn his M.F.A. at Florida State University. Reilly is an internationally renowned artist, widely recognized as one of the key players in the Los Angeles art scene and the "Abstract Illusionism" movement. He has continued surfing as an important aspect of his life, while maintaining his art and teaching careers. In addition to chairing CI's Art Program, Reilly also teaches a course called "Zen of Surfing." Throughout Reilly's 47 years of surfing, he has observed many cultural shifts, from the surfer as "outlaw" to the worldwide acceptance and professionalism of the sport. Reilly will also discuss how innovative technologies are involved in the production of surfing equipment, along with the extensive use of the Internet in long-range wave prediction and the observation of surf local conditions.
"Tearing the Fabric: Exploring and Predicting Elevated Vertebrate Road Kill from Ventura County to Louisiana to the Middle East"
Wednesday, May 22, with Dr. Sean Anderson, Professor of Environmental Science & Resource Management
Sean Anderson is a broadly trained ecologist who has tackled environmental questions from Alaska to the South Pole. His energetic and innovative teaching efforts have garnered local and national recognition and spawned the eponymous "Sean Anderson" character (played by Josh Hutcherson) in Warner Brother's Journey to the Center of the Earth film franchise. He will share results from his ongoing 7-year survey to document the location and diversity of road-associated mortality across coastal Southern California. The roadkill study focuses on hard-to-detect species of concern and small vertebrates, as well as enabling successful crossings and reducing vertebrate mortality events.
All lectures are free and open to the public, with complimentary parking behind the E.P. Foster Library. For more information, visit http://www.vencolibrary.org/locations... or call the library at 805-648-2716.
To learn more about the Lecture Series at the Thousand Oaks Library, visit www.toaks.org/library or call the library at 805-449-2660, option 5.
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teenagers have been fighting at malls everywhere on friday and saturday nights since malls existed. Not exactly news.
Hilarious, payback for the Cherokee nonsense that he milked for 2 months instead of the 2 days it deserved. Hope they run with this for awhile.
very cool.....and another thing with MassMutual's name on it....lucky to have them here. thank you!
Springfield's is a bargain compared to most communities.
Quite frankly, it matters little what Wilbraham's take home income is. It doesn't change the cost to remove trash for either city and compared to most cities and towns, Springfield's deal on trash is a value even with the hike. The city does not need to cater to low income residents by trying to save them 10 or 20 bucks over the course of the year. I wish they'd just set it at 100 bucks and stop talking about it for 10 years. It's a waste of bandwith discussing this every year.
We don't need your 1,000 word essay. The whole thing is silly when you start with his alibi being he thought he knew someone. Who from New Britain, CT stops on Main Street in Springfield because they see a woman on the street corner dressed as a prostitute and they stop because they "think they know" the person, stop the car, get out and go talk to her. Read that back to yourself. It sounds absolutely ridiculous.
Tell your friend to keep his crime in New Britain, thanks. No sympathy for you or the other johns. You think everyone is innocent? The residents deal with this stuff on a daily basis - it's real. It's not a big conspiracy against you and your friend. And it's people like this coming up from Connecticut that are often the ones participating. Swallow your medicine, get on with your life, and try and clean you and him up. Thanks.
Hopefully there is no more commenting on the new site. It's just become a useless podium for wackjobs who hate everything and everybody.
Closed early? At what, 1 AM?
Why does a tobacco store need to be open that late?
Why not hold these at 6 or 7 at night when a member of the public might be able to attend?
Nice letter.....Basketball hall of fame, Big Y, and Six Flags are "community groups" in Palmer?
They must be getting robbed by their agent. I do not pay anymore in Springfield than I did in a suburban home.
If your values are dropping your tax bill shouldn't be much different.
Good story, had no idea a program like this existed...good idea.
Cynic's post should be removed for absolute and utter BS.
I think the murders that have happened at two of them in the 12 months isn't just me "thinking" they are unsafe. That's kinda considered "evidence" that they are.
Those bars all contribute greatly to the reputation problems of downtown. Can't say I'm rooting for them.
first paragraph says coming back bigger and better in 2012 and beyond....so is it on for 2012 or not?
waste of time, big money, and energy by all involved
I don't see anything in Sarno's comments that connected the desire to develop the projects quicker with saving the city's finances. The reporter made that link by the way it reads. Sarno is just saying he wants to see it happen faster.
Much ado about nothing.
Agreed, the place looks great. Not sure what jb's point was....the place is already open doing great things.
fabulous comment....so no matter who their customers are, they are going to be rotten people!!!!


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Focused Ellsbury steers clear of free agency talk
FORT MYERS — By now, with only this season remaining before he becomes eligible for free agency, the odds are virtually non-existent that Jacoby Ellsbury will forego a chance to hit the open market by signing a contract extension with the Red Sox.
But the center fielder won't rule anything out.
"If there's anything that comes on the table, I'll be presented with something and we'll go from there," Ellsbury said. "Anything as far as that, my whole thing is just winning ballgames. I love the atmosphere here."
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Apple Crisp
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 18
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 340.8
- Total Fat: 16.4 g
- Cholesterol: 40.7 mg
- Sodium: 116.8 mg
- Total Carbs: 59.9 g
- Dietary Fiber: 4.5 g
- Protein: 2.6 g
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IntroductionEasy recipe; delicious warm or cold. Fills a 9" x 13" glass or stoneware pan. Easy recipe; delicious warm or cold. Fills a 9" x 13" glass or stoneware pan.
Number of Servings: 18
1 1/3 cups unbleached flour
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cups butter
3 quarts cored and sliced apples (thick slices, no finer than about 1/4) - about 11 medium Galas or McIntoshes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, combine the flour, oatmeal, cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar. Cut butter into mixture until crumbly. DO NOT whisk the butter until you have a smooth mixture. This stops the crisp and makes dough.
Take half of the mixture and pat it into the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish.
Cover crumb mixture with apple slices, then sprinkle apple slices with remaining crumb mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes or until apples are tender.
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I recently got it into my head that DS would enjoy some sort of construction toy...like tinker toys. But when I started looking into the classic tinker toys, the reviews are saying how poor the quality is these days. I did end up getting a small set of Lincoln Logs, but the set is for one specific thing with hardly enough logs to do anything else. (He's been just using the pieces to build fences now so at least they're still getting used.) Might be better off to order a big box of them from ebay! My mom has a huge bin like that for the grandkids at her house and even the 14 yr old still plays with them!
Does anyone have a nice, sturdy construction/building type toy to suggest? It's not urgent, but he's just at a perfect age right now! He does play with legos at preschool, but we've managed to avoid them at home so far. He's got a few blocks and a rainbow stacker...they generally make fences and barns. (DS is totally horse obsessed.)
Ideally, I'm thinking of something we can start fairly small and add to if it's something he likes. I'm not 100% anti-plastic, but I would prefer something wooden.
We have a small set of Tinker Toys and they are holding up just fine. We also gave a friend a large set, and he's a pretty rough boy but hasn't had any problems. We have the sets in which the main pieces are wood and not plastic, so that might be part of it. They are also the actual Tinker Toys brand.
You mentioned linking logs, and there are other wooden puzzle stackers and blocks (castle pieces, tree blocks). Everything else I'm thinking of is either mostly plastic or magnetic.
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mom to former 2lb preemie (now 10) & 3x
We have a small set of Tinker Toys and they are holding up just fine. We also gave a friend a large set, and he's a pretty rough boy but hasn't had any problems. We have the sets in which the main pieces are wood and not plastic, so that might be part of it. They are also the actual Tinker Toys brand.
You mentioned linking logs, and there are other wooden puzzle stackers and blocks (castle pieces, tree blocks). Everything else I'm thinking of is either mostly plastic or magnetic.
I'm glad to hear they're holding up! I was all excited to share them with DS, and when I started looking online, the classic sets (wooden ones) had several reviews saying that they broke a lot. Yay! I loved tinker toys...I'm excited to share them with him! He's getting very good at building things and I'm sure would come up with some interesting projects!
Roy Toy makes a product like Lincoln Logs. Made in the USA and has a good reputation.
Kapla blocks? They recently started re-importing to the US. Keva is a US-made version
I loved Tinker Toys as a kid. Like you, they were a "grandma toy." But I've also read terrible reviews. Fiddlestix is an alternative brand with better reviews
A construction toy like this from Plan Toys http://www.moolka.com/jzv/prod/26071/Plan+Toys/Toys/Building+Toys/Construction+Models/Construction+Set%2C+60+pcs?p=c3E9cGxhbit0b3lzK2NvbnN0cnVjdGlvbg== or Baufix http://www.moolka.com/jzv/prod/20315/Baufix/Toys/Building+Toys/Construction+Models/Starter+Set+%23+10+Construction+Kit?p=YzM9NTE2
Some fancy blocks http://www.moolka.com/jzv/prod/22717/Haba/Toys/Building+Toys/Baby+Blocks/Building+Blocks+Sevilla?p=c3E9aGFiYStibG9ja3M= or http://www.atoygarden.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=2960 or http://www.atoygarden.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=2852 to jazz about the plain wooden blocks, or a marble run like Quadrilla or Haba
We have this set http://www.novanatural.com/toys/building/interlocking-blocks
a TON of choices here too http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade/toys/waldorf?q=blocks&noautofacet=1
Boatbaby---those interlocking blocks look fabulous! I think he'd love those! :) Simple enough for beginners, but able to build bigger structures.
I keep flip-flopping on actual tinker-toys and I looked at the FiddleStix too...both have either GREAT or awful reviews. I hate that! Hard to judge!
He's enjoying the small set of Lincoln logs, so that might be sufficient for now. I'll just have to think about it a bit and look more at the other suggestions. It's not like he NEEEEEEEEDS construction toys right this minute!!! In fact, if I bring something in, I'll definitely have to clear something else out to make room or I'll be overrun! My small house is a blessing in that it forces me to make choices. (OK, not as serious as living on a boat!! but still, more choices than I'd have in a big house with a separate play-room.)
Also, have you seen Tegu blocks? Beautiful wooden blocks with magnets inside. http://live.tegu.com/
ooohhh those are really cool!!! I'm happy with my choice now, but those are neat! Maybe when he's a little older. (I have a Quadrilla set on my mental list too...actually, half of my family has Quadrilla on their list...my mom almost got one for my dad last year for Christmas!) As we outgrow some things, it will make room for more big-kid projects in years to come. :)
Santa brought DD an awesome mega Quadrilla set this past Christmas, because he shopped at ToysRus on a whim and found it 1/2 off!!! We all love it. What's great is that we can add lots of different sets to it over time.
Wendy - aspiring Waldorf handwork teacher, computer geek's wife ,
mom to former 2lb preemie (now 10) & 3x
I don't know if you realized it or not but the person demonstrating the tegu blocks in the video is part of a live stream. That is his job-- build designs based on twitter requests.
@Judi: That's so cool that it's a live feed! :)
@Boatbaby: Thanks for the heads up on the interlinking blocks. They're PERFECT. They arrived yesterday and DS adores them. A whole lot more sturdy than the Lincoln logs and tinker toys. And easy to build with. They were a bit of a splurge, but they'll be around my house forever, so I don't mind. :) And the quality is just lovely!
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Creating Dangerously: The Female Artist at Work
On Friday, February 24 at 1:00pm at the FCWSRC at 83 College Street on the Mount Holyoke College campus in South Hadley, Alicia Ellis, Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Hampshire College, will give a talk entitled "Creating Dangerously: The Female Artist at Work." Albert Camus, in a speech delivered at the University of Uppsala in December 14, 1957, days before he accepted the Novel Prize, said:
"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing…The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies…, the strange liberty of creation is possible. "
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to assess Danticat's Create Dangerously without gathering to oneself a series of disparate texts, authors, historical eras, political moments and small acts of memory for a text whose commitment to the intertextual is written into its title, its epigraph and its individual chapters. However, to read Edwidge Danticat's essays in Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010) requires us to revisit the singular stories in her novel, The Dew Breaker (2004).
Danticat's impetus for the historical and the political are fundamental components of her identity as a writer, an impulse which is both duty and desire - to excavate and illuminate those stories which have never been or could never be told - with dignity. What emerges from The Dew Breaker and Create Dangerously is a concretization of Danticat's diasporic philosophy, a composite of experiences, traditions, temporal spaces and geographic locations. It is a philosophy that is grounded in a plurality, a textual behavior that demonstrates an additive sensibility and a narrative practice that moves both centripetally and centrifugally. This talk will consider Danticat's work as a public intellectual in both her fiction and non-fiction.
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Andrew Zarian and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft's announcement of the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro tablets. What improvements has Microsoft made? Andrew brings up Apple selling 9 million iPhones in 3 days. Is that just marketing hype or did Apple really sell 9 million iPhones? And BlackBerry accepts a 4.7 billion dollar buy out offer. What will happen to BlackBerry now?
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Actually Andrew, you have it very wrong about Blackberry. BB Consumer sales overtook Enterprise sales some years ago. In many parts of the world (Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia) BB was big with consumers for years. Here in Europe, Blackberry was particularly popular with teenage girls due to BBM. That isn't so anymore, but from about 2007 to 2012, it was.
You have to remember that the rest of the world isn't just like a bigger version of the US. I remember an American colleague asking me about the number of colleagues we had in the UK using Blackberrys. Unknown to him they were all using Nokia E-Series (Enterprise) SmartPhones. Because he saw the world through American eyes, he thought they were Blackberrys.
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St. Louis: A "Soda" Land Bridge to "Pop" and "Coke" Country
A linguistic study out of North Carolina State went all kinds of viral last week. Perhaps you saw it clogging up your Facebook feed?
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The study mapped out the different ways Americans refer to the same thing. For example, what do you call those little freshwater lobsters that live in creeks and streams? Crawdads, crayfish or crawfish? (St. Louisans, FWIW, tend to say the latter.)
The researchers also examined regional pronunciations. St. Louisans, for example, are somewhat an anomaly as we pronounce syrup as "sear-up" when most of the nation's pancake eaters like their "sir-up."
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Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board looking for the cause of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are focusing attention on a corroded gusset plate located in the section of the bridge that fell first, according to a report in the Star Tribune.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board also are analyzing what role the 91-degree heat on the day of the collapse might have played in increasing stress on an already-weakened gusset plate, which connected four steel beams located near the bridge's south end.
Two structural engineers who've spent time at the wreckage site said that the gusset plate in question is one of three closely situated connections that could be key to what caused the bridge to collapse. Those three joints appear to have been damaged by some primary force, not from secondary impact during the collapse, the engineers said. The newspaper said the engineers spoke on the condition they not be identified.
Officials from NTSB and the Minnesota Department of Transportation did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Within a week after the bridge collapse on Aug. 1, NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said stress on gusset plates may have been a factor in the collapse, and a month later he said that "a failure in one of these plates could have catastrophic consequences."
One of the structural engineers, who knows the design of the bridge, said runoff of salt and de-icing chemicals from the bridge deck could have caused corrosion in the gusset-plate connection in question. A diagonal, H-shaped beam running into the joint could have channeled the liquid toward the gusset plate, the engineer said.
The engineer also said two of the three damaged gusset plates that appear to be of primary interest to the NTSB are half an inch thick. The thickness of gusset plates used in the bridge varied between half an inch and 1 inch, which could be an important issue because a consulting firm hired by the state has said some half-inch gusset plates may not have been strong enough to hold the bridge up.
The structural engineers said federal authorities are examining whether intense heat on Aug. 1 triggered a chain reaction of force that overpowered gusset plates in crucial locations.
The I-35W bridge was designed to flex, to handle expansion and contraction in extreme heat and bitter cold. But roller bearings designed to accommodate such flexing may not have been working correctly because of corrosion and buildup of debris.
A consultant's report in 2006 noted that, "The bearings are not allowing the structure to move linearly with changes in the ... temperature."
The NTSB has stressed it could take 12 to 18 months to reveal a probably cause for the bridge collapse, which killed 13 people and injured more than 100.
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I was out playing last night and noticed that the greens all had holes punched through them (like small grids) across the entire surface but was wondering what the purpose of that was (as the pro shop had closed by the time I finished up).
It played havoc with my round as I just couldnt sink anyhing as the ball would get near the cup and then catch the edge of one of those little holes and have its trajectory changed! Either that or I just cant putt anyways :)
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Using your VA benefits is a process that begins prior to the start of school.
To get your benefits started
- You must apply for benefits
- The VA states that the application review process will take up to and possibly exceed 6 weeks.
- If you have received benefits while attending a previous institution, submit a "Request for Change Program of Place Training" (VA 22-1995).
- If you are a dependent of an active service person, you will need to fill out the VA 22-1990E application for Benefits after the benefits have been transferred to you.
- All forms can be found and some even filled out online through the www.gibill.va.gov website. Any forms that should be printed out can be mailed directly to:
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Buffalo, NY 14240-4616
- The VA will not notify the school when they receive your paperwork. The VA will mail the student the Certificate of Eligibility directly when they have completed processing the application for benefits.
- You must provide a copy of your Certificate of Eligibility or Notice of Basic Eligibility to Assistant Registrar and Certifying Official so that you can be set up to receive VA benefits for Educational Training.
- Please contact the Registrar's Office at 802.485.2094 or firstname.lastname@example.com for residential students and email@example.com for online students at the time of application or 2 to 4 weeks prior to the start of the semester.
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- How long you have been active.
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- Survivor & Dependents – Chapter 35
- Reserves and National Guards – Chapter 1606
- REAP – Chapter 1607
- Vocational Rehab – Chapter 31
General Certification Timetable
- Undergraduate students are not certified until after the Add Drop period, the first of classes plus one day, of any given term.
- Students can make a formal request to be certified early by filling out the Early Certification Request Form, found on the Registrar's web page.
- Graduate students are certified two to three weeks prior to the start of the semester for both seminars.
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- The student is responsible for providing enrollment information to the DOD. The base or regional educational officer can assist with TA and Top Up.
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The case of video production at the BBC Digital Media InitiativeMariategui, Jose-Carlos; Marton, Attila (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The unfolding of the paradoxical interplay between overarching institutional orders and domain-specific, situated practices has been a central theme of organization studies. With the rise of information and communication technology (ICT), digital infrastructures and the standards they foster are disseminating on a global scale based on the computational rationale of binary-based digitalization. The following paper will delve into this paradoxical interplay by studying digital video as it travels across work practices of broadcasting qua computational standards and processes. Using BBC's Digital Media Initiative (DMI) as a case study, we seek to assess how work practices are affected by the use of digital video throughout the editing process. In particular, we take a semiological approach in order to understand two distinctive image-intensive practices, news and long-form productions, and the ways they changed due to the implementation of a digital infrastructure. Thus conceived, we demonstrate how digitalization as a technical process decontextualizes digital video information, while the work practices related to their management rely on highly contextualized and situated information. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8771
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Generating Cross-domain Knowledge about Connecting Work Analysis and Interaction DesignClemmensen, Torkil; Sandblad, Bengt; Lopes, Arminda; Abdelnour- Nocera, Jose; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for IT-Ledelse; ITM; Department of IT Management; ITM (Cape Town, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Proceedings of Workshop at INTERACT 2013 – 14th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8751
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Buus Lassen, Niels; Madsen, Rene; Vatrapu, Ravi (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent research in the field of computational social science have shown how data resulting from the widespread adoption and use of social media channels such as twitter can be used to predict outcomes such as movie revenues, election winners, localized moods, and epidemic outbreaks. Underlying assumptions for this research stream on predictive analytics are that social media actions such as tweeting, liking, commenting and rating are proxies for user/consumer's attention to a particular object/product and that the shared digital artefact that is persistent can create social influence. In this paper, we demonstrate how social media data from twitter can be used to predict the sales of iPhones. Based on a conceptual model of social data consisting of social graph (actors, actions, activities, and artefacts) and social text (topics, keywords, pronouns, and sentiments), we develop and evaluate a linear regression model that transforms iPhone tweets into a prediction of the quarterly iPhone sales with an average error close to the established prediction models from investment banks. This strong correlation between iPhone tweets and iPhone sales becomes marginally stronger after incorporating sentiments of tweets. We discuss the findings and conclude with implications for predictive analytics with big social data. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8985
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Second International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)Carton, Fergal; Hedman, Jonas; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for IT-Ledelse; ITM; Department of IT Management; ITM (København, 2013)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8752
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Bødker, Mads; Nawaz, Ather; Skou Petersen, Gitte; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for IT-Ledelse; ITM; Department of IT Management; ITM (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8359
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Marton, Attila; Avital, Michel; Blegind Jensen, Tina (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent developments in the techniques and technologies of collecting, sharing and analysing data are challenging the field of information systems (IS) research let alone the boundaries of organizations and the established practices of decision-making. Coined 'open data' and 'big data', these developments introduce an unprecedented level of societal and organizational engagement with the potential of computational data to generate new insights and information. Based on the commonalities shared by open data and big data, we develop a research framework that we refer to as open big data (OBD) by employing the dimensions of 'order' and 'relationality'. We argue that these dimensions offer a viable approach for IS research on open and big data because they address one of the core value propositions of IS; i.e. how to support organizing with computational data. We contrast these dimensions with two other categories that stem from computer science and engineering, namely 'big/small' and 'open/closed' to address the complex interplay between people and data, social interaction and technological operations. Thus conceived, this paper contributes an alternative approach for the study of open and big data as well as laying the theoretical groundwork for its future empirical research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8739
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Abstract: Denne rapport sætter fokus på robotstøvsugning på større, ensartede gulvarealer i den offentlige sektor. Med udgangspunkt i et rammeværktøj (den såkaldte CIVO-model), er den opsigtsvækkende konklusion i rapporten, at der kan opnåes et højere rengøringsresultat ved hjælp af robotstøvsugning sammenlignet med konventionel rengøring. Opretholdes samme rengøringsniveau målt ved vægten af indsamlet støv og snavs, er besparelsespotentialet 25%-75% af de medgåede omkostninger til støvsugning og tørmobning af gulvarealer. Samlet set vurderes det, at der rengøres godt 18 millioner m2 gulvarealer i den offentlige sektor. Hvis hele dette areal skal støvsuges med robotter, vil det kræve en indsats af mere end 225.000 robotter. Rapportens udgangspunkt er den aktuelle markedsmodning af robotstøvsugere til større arealer. De større producenter enten har eller er tæt på at markedsføre støvsugere med større rækkevidde og bedre navigationssystemer. Dermed er vejen banet for at bl.a. rådhuse, skoler, plejecentre, styrelser og ministerier kan begynde ibragtagningen af robotstøvsugerne. Kommunerne har haft en relativ aggressiv kurs med lancering af robotstøvsugerne i visitationen til bl.a. ældre. Rapporten peger på, at der kan hentes mindst lige så store driftgevinster ved at rette fokus på den offentlige sektors egen brug af støvsugerne. Det langsomme optag i den offentlige sektor tilskrives i rapporten, at den tekniske modning af støvsugerne først i 2011 og 2012 er slået igennem for robotterne til større arealer samt at der er en vis inerti p.g.a. eksisterende udbudskontrakter og manglende erfaring med at indbygge krav til dette i udbudsmaterialet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8454
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Shollo, Arisa (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This Ph.D. thesis is concerned with the role of the business intelligence (BI) output in organizational decision-making processes. The primary focus of this thesis is to investigate how this BI output is employed and deployed by decision-makers to shape collective judgement and to reach organizational decisions. Concerning the role of the BI output in decision-making the BI literature is characterized by normative ideas of how the BI output should be used in decision-making and how it can enable people to make better decisions. Most previous work has concerned methods and technologies to collect, store and analyze BI. It has also, assumed a rational approach to decision making where data from information systems are used to inform decisions either by reducing uncertainty, ambiguity or complexity. This study attempts to establish knowledge about the role of the BI output in the IT project prioritization process of the Group IT of the Danske Bank Group. Hence, the starting point of this thesis is a 16-month long interpretive study from March 2010 till July 2011 during which I observed the prioritization process and collected various forms of data. I use a rich dataset built from this longitudinal study of the IT project prioritization process in Group IT where thematic analysis is used to analyze the data. Overall, the study operates under the interpretive paradigm, which assumes that the world and knowledge are socially constructed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8664
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Case Studies of Two VendorsRiis, Philip Holst; Beringer, Joerg; Winther, Jacob (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of role-‐oriented enterprise systems by investigating motivations for and approaches to constructing and reflecting predefined organizational roles in user interfaces of packaged enterprise systems. The research is conducted as case studies of Microsoft and SAP, constructed from interviews, documents, and examples of role-‐oriented enterprise system packages from both vendors. The research indicates that the primary motivation of the vendors for including predefined roles is to complement a function-‐centric approach with a user-‐centric approach to the design of user interfaces of enterprise systems. The research furthermore identifies strategies of an embedded and an independent approach to modeling the role concept and a unified and a componentized approach to reflecting role aggregation in user interfaces. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8347
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Exploring an avenue of ResearchDyrby, Signe (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The phenomenon of 'digital living' is to a high extent influenced by the introduction of new media into society. Especially, social media are affecting the digital world of today and are setting the agenda for social connectedness in private, public and commercial networks. Based in an initial desire to explore a research agenda for the workings of social media in network structures a look into the literature on social media within the field of Information Systems sparked an interest in exploring a new research perspective for social media. Reviewing the IS literature it is apparent that the perspective of the 'media' as an artifact of social media has been neglected in existing literature. Based in this, this paper proposes research possibilities for investigating the 'media' of social media as well as some theoretical considerations that could aid the investigation. Finally, potential outcomes of pursuing the possible research area are outlined. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9075
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The canonization of digital cultural artefactsAttila, Marton (Gothenburg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Memory institutions and their practices of canonization are closely tied to the emergence of a social memory based on material artefacts and communication media. As libraries, archives and museums are stepping into the online world of digitality and computational operations, the question arises as to how these institutions and their processes of canonization change. Based on Elena Esposito's system theoretical concept of memory as an operation of forgetting and on David Weinberger's three orders of ordering artefacts, the paper analyses the canonization of digital cultural artefacts according to the practices of selection, order and preservation. Against this backdrop, the theme of transversal forgetting is developed as a cyclical process of forgetting-as-data that cuts across the boundaries of libraries, archives and museums and their traditionally separated rationale of what to select and how to order and to preserve the selected. The concept, therefore, is an argument against the still dominating metaphor of social memory being an externalized storage. Thus conceived, transversal forgetting attempts to capture memory institutions as part of the wider information environment of bits and bytes, networks and algorithms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8901
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Visual Analytics for Social Business Intelligence - Tool Prototype DemoZimmerman, Chris; Vatrapu, Ravi (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Today, social media is widely adopted across personal and professional spheres. Increasingly businesses are utilizing social media as part of their strategy for communicating with and understanding the behaviors of their clients. The widespread public use of social media is a relatively new phenomenon that presents an ongoing, ever-changing challenge to companies and creates a unique set of risks as well as advantages to decision-makers. At the same time expansion into the online social space offers tremendous potential strategic advantages including demographic targeting from a new, pervasive reflection of consumers and brand advocates. Social media thus takes on a new relevance in forging relationships of brand co-creation. This research project, in its entirety, seeks to derive business value from social data by designing and developing a series of dashboards for those who struggle to interpret and keep up with the social data created around a brand and marketing campaign. This tool prototype demo first outlines the foundation of the tool development with focus on the main perspectives guiding the research. A presentation of the actual tool development is subsequently put forward highlighting the main components of the tool. Challenges are discussed therein before a brief conclusion of the prototype development thus far. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9110
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Exploring Sources of Ineffectiveness in Multi-Level IT UseStein, Mari-Klara; Lim, Eric T. K.; Tan, Chee-Wee (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There is a notable paucity of multi-level analyses of IT use in IS research. Often, analyses limited to a single level are problematic, as multi-level effects cannot be accounted for. For example, online communities, such as the one examined in this paper, build on network effects: they can provide more value to all members collectively whenever each individual member participates more actively. This example also highlights the importance of usage effectiveness – the rather commonsense, yet often explicitly unexamined, idea that IT systems are not used for their own sake, but to attain relevant goals. Given these challenges, we set out to explore what factors contribute to ineffectiveness in multi-level IT use in the context of an online community. Our initial analysis reveals two novel concepts – frictions and tensions – that could help researchers and practitioners in better understanding the obstacles to achieving effective multi-level IT use. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9027
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A model of individual decisions for digital product product acquisitionVeitch, Robert W. D.; Constantiou, Ioanna (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ten years after the fall of Napster, digital piracy remains an issue for media and software companies. While scholars often treat digital piracy as a behaviour that needs to be prevented or punished, the user's decision about how to acquire a digital product involves more than the piracy option. However, the decision between legal alternatives and piracy has received limited attention. Moreover, existing models used in piracy research emphasize some elements of the acquisition decision, but disregard other important influences. This has led to a body of literature that is fragmented and has decontextualised digital piracy by not examining how available legal alternatives are evaluated. This paper makes an attempt to address these issues and presents a model of the user's digital product acquisition decision in the context of piracy, integrating elements of previous models to reflect the decision's complexity. Specifically, we use a consumer decision-making perspective as a framework for integrating elements of previous models used in digital piracy research, including those from social psychology, business ethics, criminology, and consumer behaviour. In the model, we depict the acquisition decision as being influenced by the user's product desire, price perceptions, perceived risks, internal regulators of behaviour, resources, and product availability. Theoretical and empirical evidence from the existing literature is drawn upon in order to provide support for the elements of the model. The paper concludes with an outline for future research and a brief discussion of its contribution. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8500
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9139
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Carton, Fergal; Hedman, Jonas; Damsgaard, jan; Tan, Kay-Ti; McCarthy, JB (Como, Ita., 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper derives a theoretical framework for consideration of both the technologically driven dimensions of mobile payment solutions, and the associated value proposition for customers. Banks promote traditional payment instruments whose value proposition is the management of risk for both consumers and merchants. These instruments are centralised, costly and lack decision support functionality. The ubiquity of the mobile phone has provided a decentralised platform for managing payment processes in a new way, but the value proposition for customers has yet to be elaborated clearly. This inertia has stalled the design of sustainable revenue models for a mobile payments ecosystem. Merchants and consumers in the meantime are being seduced by the convenience of online and mobile payment solutions. Adopting the purchase and payment process as the unit of analysis, the current mobile payment landscape is reviewed with respect to the creation and consumption of customer value. From this analysis, a framework is derived juxtaposing customer value, related to what is being paid for, with payment integration, related to how payments are being made. The framework provides a theoretical and practical basis for considering the contribution of mobile technologies to the payments industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8348
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Salling Pedersen, Allan; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: ITIL has been proposed and indeed adopted by many as a framework for solving the problem of IT Service Management. It has been available for organizations for more than 10 years and initial adoption has been high. However, consultancy surveys of ITIL adoption, implementation and institutionalization show that there are only few complete and institutionalized ITIL implementations. This paper presents work in progress on a comprehensive ITIL literature review, focussing on critical success factors and benefits documented in scientific literature about ITIL implementation. Based on this, the paper presents a draft framework aiming at assisting organizations during their decisions regarding ITIL adoption, implementation and institutionalization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8431
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A Comparative Study of Four European SolutionsKazan, Erol; Damsgaard, Jan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper focuses on the triumph march of mobile phones that currently are annexing music players, navigation devices, and cameras as separate physical objects. The next target is set on payment. Through synthesizing available literature, we construct a framework for studying digital payment platforms that combines platform, technology and business design aspects. The framework is applied to conduct a comparative case study of digital payment platforms. Four types of market actors are considered: banks, mobile network operators, merchants, and startups, which are incumbents and disrupters in the payment industry. These actors issue four types of payment systems, and we can observe that three of four platforms types can be classified as multi-sided platforms (MSP). All alternatives seek foothold by issuing evolutionary payment instruments, which are intertwined with digital payment platforms. By hosting third-party services, payment instruments are evolving from single-purpose to multi-functional ones. Our research extends existing payment literature from the MSP perspective to emphasize certain digital payment platform components, which impact strategies and complementary products. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8833
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A Comparative Study of Centralized & Decentralized Digital Payment ProvidersKazan, Erol; Tan, Chee-Wee; Lim, Eric T. K. (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Digital platforms are disruptive information technology (IT) artifacts that erode conventional business logic associated with traditional market structures. This paper presents a framework for examining the disruptive potential of digital platforms whereby we postulate that the strategic interplay of governance regimes and platform layers is deterministic of whether disruptive derivatives are permitted to flourish. This framework has been employed in a comparative case study between centralized (i.e., PayPal) and decentralized (i.e., Coinkite) digital payment platforms to illustrate its applicability and yield propositions on the nature and impact of digital platform disruptions. Preliminary findings indicate that centralized digital platforms attempt to create unique configurals to obtain monopolistic power by tightly coupling platform layers, which are difficult to replicate. Conversely, decentralized digital platforms purposely decouple platform layers, to foster open innovation and accelerate market disruption. This paper therefore represents a first concrete step aimed at unravelling the disruptive potential of digital platforms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9026
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Literature Review, Taxonomy, and Research AgendaKunst, Katrine; Vatrapu, Ravi (Atlanta, GA, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent years have seen an increased sharing of consumptive practices, experiences and evaluations on social media platforms. Such socially shared consumption can range from electronic word-of-mouth to formal online reviews as well as automated product mentions facilitated by social media applications Based on a review of extant emerging literature on this topic as well as of literature on relevant topics such as social influence, online reviews, theories of the extended self and conspicuous consumption, this paper proposes a new concept, "socially shared consumption" and a taxonomy for better understanding and analysing the growing phenomenon of consumers' social sharing of consumption on social media platforms The taxonomy consists of five dimensions of socially shared consumption: Phase, Automation, Formality, Expressiveness, and Sentiment. The primary contributions of this research-in-progress paper are (a) description and definition of the new concept of socially shared consumption, (b) preliminary proposal of a taxonomy of socially shared consumption, and (c) outline of a research agenda to conduct theory-based empirical studies of socially shared consumption phenomena. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8971
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Bishop is a 100 lb American Bulldog, and he belongs to my best friend, but he's pretty much adopted me like an Uncle... He's all of 16 months... and 100 lbs... He's "Big Boned".
Nice dog.
Awesome looking Bully
Update... Some new "diet" food, and a new 1/2 acre back yard, and cooler daytime temps in Orlando... Bishop is down to a "svelt" 95 lbs... 5 more to go... hahah...
There are no longer any squirrels out there... Wonder if there's a connection?
Also, no, that's not my hand he's chewing on... it's a small tug-toy.
The photo looks as though he has your fingers and won't let go!
Just a growing boy, I see.
Good looking pup.
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The photo looks as though he has your fingers and won't let go!
That's how I train my grip... bare-handed-tug-of-war with a 100lb Bulldog... Those spring-grip thingies are for pus___...
Bishop, eh? Does he only move diagonally?
Wow that was lame.
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Wow that was lame.
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Doin' It In The Park: Playground Basketball documentary is one of the best basketball films ever made. The streetball movie covers over 700 basketball courts and over 8,000 stories. Directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau.
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Doin' It In the Park - Pick-Up Basketball in New York City is a beautiful film that tells the untold stories of the streetball and basketball legends and basketball courts in New York City.
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I can't wait to see the streetball documentary, "Doin' It In the Park." Exclusive screenings of the basketball film will be announced soon. Awesome trailer by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau.
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First, there was White Hot Chocolate. Then, just when we thought things couldn't get more decadent, one of our in-house chocoholics tried it out as a summer milkshake, adding strawberries and cream. We thought we'd share the fun, by giving you Strawberry Flavour White Hot Chocolate.
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Ira Chernus: No matter who the Republicans nominate to run against Barack Obama, it seems clear that we'll have a kind of presidential contest we haven't seen in more than seventy-five years: a referendum on the government's proper role in economic life.
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Sarita Tamayo-Moraga, Ph.D. and Zen priest, began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1999 and became Darlene Cohen's student in May of 1999. Right after beginning sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1999, Sarita was debilitated by a chronic repetitive strain injury. This life-changing injury led her to connect with Darlene Cohen's emphasis on chronic illness as a way to penetrate suffering. Sarita then became Darlene's student and continued to work with Darlene until her death around the transformation of suffering in the body and through the body with zazen as the primary focal point. Sarita's own primary teaching centers around kshanti paramita, or the perfection of patience/forbearance. Sarita co-leads the Santa Clara University Zen Group and Brown Bag Zen (also at SCU).
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - How does one replace a 37-year coaching legend?
The reputation. The expectations. The memories.
New West Virginia University gymnastics coach Jason Butts knows he has big shoes to fill. Only the third Mountaineer gymnastics coach in program history, Butts, appointed by Director of Athletics Oliver Luck on April 26, assumes his new role after rising from the ranks of assistant coach to associate head coach under Linda Burdette-Good, the aforementioned legend.
Butts is in no hurry to close the door on Burdette-Good, who announced her retirement after 37 brilliantly successful seasons on April 3.
"I definitely always want her to be involved with this program, and she's always going to be on my speed dial," he laughed, acknowledging that Burdette-Good's 644 career wins, the most for a WVU coach with a Mountaineer team, are a daunting number to duplicate. "I know I'll have questions pop up throughout my first season. I want her to be involved in the meets, and I would love to honor her at a home meet once a year. She's been a huge part of this program.
"Linda's final message to the team was that she's always going to be around WVU. She had a great ability to relate to the student-athletes in a maternal way, and I think her legacy will be that she always will be available for the gymnasts any time they want to talk."
While Burdette-Good's legacy may be set, Butts' is just beginning.
Hired in 2006 as an assistant coach, Butts, a 12-year club coach veteran, never imagined he would earn the keys to a top Division I program five years later.
"When I made the jump into college gymnastics, my goal was just to be an assistant coach at a top program," he explained. "When Linda and I sat down three years ago and spoke about her plans to promote me, she encouraged me to pursue a career as a head coach."
A gradual transition to head coach was not a stretch for Butts, as he quickly hit his coaching stride with the Mountaineers. The primary bars coach, he has produced three East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) individual bars champions in five seasons, including 2011 outright victor Amy Bieski. He also has served as the floor and vault coach and helped guide All-American Janáe Cox and Mehgan Morris to individual all-around NCAA Championships qualifications.
Butts' peers have recognized his hard work twice, as he was named the NCAA Southeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010.
Yet personal accolades have never meant as much to Butts as the personal relationships he has built with the gymnasts.
"I think I have the ability to relate to the student-athletes," he explained. "I have their best interest at heart. My main focus is helping them achieve their goals and dreams. I don't like to make it about the head coach – it should always be about the student-athletes and the program. Most importantly, I want to maintain a good balance between accountability and having fun."
Accountability is a major sticking point for Butts, and he stresses that the team's return to the top of the EAGL and the NCAA Championships depend on it.
"Gymnastics is all about structure, and with that structure you have to have accountability," he says. "If you don't go through your routine with structure, then you won't be successful on the competition floor. With a gymnast, you really have to hold her accountable and make sure she is doing her routine and paying attention to the finer details."
A native of Athens, Ga., Butts grew up in the shadows of the University of Georgia and the 10-time national champion Gym Dogs. He studied the coaching techniques of former coach Suzanne Yoculan and worked for current coach Jay Clark, and he hopes to incorporate lessons he learned from both while at WVU.
"Being around the UGA program, you respect its professionalism," Butts said. "That program also shares a lot of similarities with what Linda implemented at WVU, especially its strong family values. There's also an encouragement for every gymnast to develop into a leader by her senior season. Encouraging that type of leadership through all four years should really help us here. Also, the accountability that the program keeps on its student-athletes, as well as the structure that surrounds the program and its training, are all keys I think will help the Mountaineers succeed next season and in the seasons to come."
Butts acknowledges that all coaching changes come with a few growing pains, but he believes said changes could be the spark to the Mountaineers' 2012 success.
"I want to put a real hunger in these athletes," he enthused, after a brief pause. "This is change, and change is good; I want to really capitalize on the change. I want us to really come out and show everyone in the country that this is a Top 10 program – I want to prove that right off the bat.
"If anything, I want these athletes to come out more excited next season because of the change. I want them to have an inner confidence that comes out when they compete. The show is the entertaining part for the crowd, but really the confidence is what I'm looking to display next year."
Though the Mountaineers lose six seniors to graduation, the return of all-EAGL performers Tina Maloney, Nicole Roach and Hope Sloanhoffer, as well as key multi-event contributors Kaylyn Millick and Chelsea Goldschrafe, help Butts paint an optimistic forecast.
"I want to come out with a bang and immediately be ranked in the Top 18 from our first score and maintain that ranking," he said, noting that the nation's Top 18 teams are seeded into the NCAA Regional Championships. "I expect us to vie for the EAGL Championship. I truly think we should be winning that league crown more often, and I know we can. I also want to be knocking on the door of the national championships. I really think next year's squad can qualify if we are consistent throughout the season, stay healthy and stick together as a team."
After back-to-back appearances, 11 years have passed since WVU's last trip to the national championships. Not only does Butts believe the Mountaineers are poised to end the drought, he also thinks WVU is ready to stake its claim as one of collegiate gymnastics major players.
"In the next five years, I would like to see us consistently qualify for the national championships," he said of his coaching goals. "In order to compete for the NCAA Super Six, you have to consistently show that you can compete at the national championships and field a team that is worthy of being there.
"This is a big play to make, but within the next 10 years, I would like to see us in the top three and absolutely qualify for the NCAA Super Six. That's my long-term goal – to win WVU's first gymnastics national championship. Only four schools have won an NCAA title. It's a big task, but I want to lead the Mountaineers to the finals and bring the trophy back to Morgantown."
With a list of exciting goals he is anxious to conquer, little doubt remains that Butts will one day carve his own Mountaineer legacy.
Jason Butts, West Virginia University gymnastics
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PrivCo, a financial intelligence firm, says Facebook pioneered this strategy, with 12 "acq-hires" in the past five quarters. It's followed by Twitter, Yahoo!, Google and airbnb. There was a 91% jump in acq-hires from the first quarter of 2012 to the same quarter this year.
Often the big company will offer attractive signing bonuses to get high-level techies from the startup to stick around, according to PrivCo. Pre-IPO acquirers may sweeten the deal for these workers with a promise of equity.
"The over-abundance of startups in recent years means that the top engineering talents in the industry are becoming founders, not employees," according to a PrivCo newsletter on the trend. "As a result, what a company can hire in the open market is no longer the best."
This is a trend worth following. Some of these acquiring companies, like Google, still have plenty of cachet. It says something about the corporate workplace that the smartest engineers want to go out on their own, rather than gravitating to jobs at some of the biggest tech and digital brands in the country.
Don't be surprised if this trend starts spreading beyond tech, especially if the economy starts to recover. Given the dismal state of corporate workplaces today, I think we're going to see a lot more of the best people in many disciplines going out on their own with nary a glance over their shoulders.
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Monica Negron totaled five draw controls and five caused turnovers in last year's meeting.
March 8, 2013
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The University of Louisville women's lacrosse team must endure its quickest turnaround of the season and its first of five-straight games on the road.
On Saturday, the Cardinals play Presbyterian College in a neutral-site match at 5 p.m. at West Forsyth High in Cumming, Ga.
Louisville (4-1) defeated Vanderbilt on Wednesday after a solid first-half performance on both ends of the field. The Cardinals held a 9-4 lead at the break, courtesy of two goals apiece from Nikki Boltja and Katie Oliverio, and the defense forced Vanderbilt into 10 turnovers in the period. Boltja finished with four scores, and Kaylin Morissette had three in the victory. Monica Negron, a key component on defense, picked up three ground balls and totaled a game-high seven draw controls. Ashley Herbst played all 60 minutes in goal and recorded her fourth victory of the season.
Women's Lacrosse Cruises to Victory over Presbyterian
Behind its highest scoring output of the season, the University of Louisville women's lacrosse team cruised to a 20-3 victory over Presbyterian College on Saturday at West Forsyth High School in Cumming, Ga.
As of March 3, before the Cardinals' game against Vanderbilt, Louisville holds the No. 6 national ranking in caused turnovers per game, No. 15 in scoring offense and scoring margin and is 24th in points and draw controls per game. Individually, Boltja ranks 13th in the country in total goals and 14th in goals per game. Herbst is No. 15 in save percentage and 21st in goals-against average.
Presbyterian (1-5) earned its first win of the season on Tuesday, posting a 17-7 decision over Stetson. The Blue Hose, who dropped their first five contests of the year, are being outscored by their opponents, 112-44. Presbyterian, which is averaging 20.8 turnovers per game, also is losing the draw control (94-73) and ground ball (125-91) battles this season.
Presbyterian is under the direction of second-year head coach Julie Redman, who has guided the program to a 4-21 record. Lefeber leads the team this season with 12 goals, while Ellis is first in points (14) and second in goals (11). The Blue Hose were picked to finish seventh in the Big South Conference, the league's first year sponsoring women's lacrosse.
The two programs met for the first time last year, with the Cardinals posting a 20-3 victory in Cumming. Nine different Louisville players scored in the win, led by Boltja's six goals. The defense, which shut out Presbyterian in the second period, forced the Blue Hose into 17 turnovers and limited the to just 1-of-8 on free-position attempts.
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Statistically, Presbyterian boasts one of the top goalies in the country in Bridget Hogan. Through the team's first five games, Hogan ranks eighth nationally in saves (40) and 28th in saves per game (8.0). While the offense has had trouble maintaining possession, Presbyterian's defense also has been successful in forcing turnovers. Opponents are averaging 15 turnovers per game.
For the latest information on Louisville women's lacrosse, log on to GoCards.com, or, for up-to-the-minute updates, follow the team's Twitter account at www.twitter.com/louisvillelax or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/uofllacrosse.