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Posted by Arlin Sorensen
Sunday, 08 June 2008
ICCA tour
Last night I had a great evening having dinner with Erick, Stuart, Matt, Karl, Dave and their wives at King Street BBQ here in DC. Mmmm, mmmm good. That was after a day of sessions at the ICCA conference. Good stuff as each presented on their areas of expertise and gave the attendees some good info. We had a van tour of the national park at night - first time ever for me. All I can say is WOW. We saw all the big monuments which I saw as a teenager and then again a few years ago - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln - but we saw several that I had seen pictures of and never been able to visit in person before.I was most impressed by the FDR monument. What a tribute to a great president. Th... Continue reading
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Posted by Arlin Sorensen
Friday, 06 June 2008
A Dream Team Panel at ICCA
I had the privilege of serving on a panel this afternoon at the ICCA conference in Washington DC with some of the best in our industry. Dave Sobel (HTG5) was our moderator. The panel consisted of Erick Simpson (HTG1), Stuart Crawford (HTG3), Karl Palachuk (HTG13) and Matt Makowicz (gonna get you soon). We were in front of the audience for 2.5 hours and it could have gone longer but we had to shut it down for the welcome reception.The ICCA is the Independent Computer Consultants of America. http://www.icca.org/ This group has been around quite some time - over 30 years and is focused on serving independant consultants in the technology industry. My distinguised counterparts are all presenting... Continue reading
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Posted by Arlin Sorensen
Monday, 02 June 2008
HTG(10) Canada is underway
Today we marked a new chapter in HTG, an international peer group. Stuart Crawford is leading 8 companies as founders of the newly formed HTG10 group, formed from all Canadian partners. I had the privilege of joining them for a few hours of their meeting this afternoon and for dinner this evening. We have the other four slots already spoken for from what I understand, so we have already filled our first international group. This allows the group to focus on things unique to doing business in our friendly country north of the border as well as interacting specifically with vendors focused on that market. One thing I have learned is that shipping stuff across the border is not all that ea... Continue reading
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Posted by Arlin Sorensen
Sunday, 01 June 2008
SWOT Done
We completed our SWOT for IT Matters this week in Calgary. Nancy and I are now taking a few days in the Canadian Rockies here in Banff to relax and enjoy the wonders of this world. We saw the Columbia Ice Fields yesterday and took the drive up toward Jasper which is astounding. What an amazing world we get to live in. Tomorrow HTG10 starts in Calgary and I will be joining the folks there for some of their time in the afternoon. Stuart Crawford is leading the charge on this new group and I am excited to spend some time with them looking at their businesses and into their future.So what did we learn from the SWOT this week. First of all, as is almost always the case, those of us on the team go... Continue reading
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
SWOT Time in Calgary
I am on the road to Calgary to do a SWOT at IT Matters, a member of our HTG3 peer groups. Brad Schow and Dan Hay will be joining Nancy and me to spend a day and a half of intensive activity diving deep into the business. These events have been transformational for the companies that have experienced them over the last few years.Why does it work to let other business owners come in and turn over the rocks? Because we often don't want to deal with the hard things in our businesses. We have relationships and patterns of communication that make it hard to really deal with the tough issues. We don't want to cause any unhappiness or disrupt friendships. We are afraid to do what we know needs to be... Continue reading
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House, Senate still struggling over budget
SALT LAKE CITY — Plans to finalize the state budget once again were scrapped Friday as the Legislature's GOP majority continued to struggle to settle on how much to give House Speaker Becky Lockhart's education technology initiative.
Republican leaders in both the House and Senate met into the evening attempting to resolve the gulf between the $200 million price tag for replacing textbooks with tablet computers and the $26 million the Senate is willing to spend.
Gov. Gary Herbert, who threatened Thursday to veto the initiative if the price tag wasn't slashed to no more than $30 million, took time during a morning news conference to prod lawmakers.
"I'm concerned about the lack of effort going on," the governor said, adding he expected to see a "reasonable and rational" budget before the session ends next Thursday at midnight.
There has been friction all session between Herbert and Lockhart, R-Provo. The speaker, seen as a challenger to the governor in 2016, labeled him an "inaction figure" in her opening day speech.
Lockhart told reporters she knows she will get less than $200 million but declined to say what she's willing to accept. The House GOP caucus has not endorsed her initiative, viewed by some as a legacy project.
"I will reject out of hand a pilot program. This is a transition and a transformation," the speaker said.
But both she and Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, said they were confident there would be a budget agreement.
"We're starting to make some headway on the budget. We're at the start of some negotiations and we're happy about that, and hopefully we'll have a budget ready for Monday," the Senate president said midday.
The budget, along with what to do about the Medicaid expansion available to the state under the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, are the two big issues remaining to be resolved before the session is over.
The House and Senate are also split over the Medicaid expansion issue. The House GOP caucus apparently has decided to spurn the governor's earlier pronouncement that "doing nothing is not an option."
HB401, a bill reflecting Lockhart's plan to use $35 million in state funds to provide limited coverage to some of the Utahns who don't qualify for subsidies under Obamacare has been amended to send the issue to a task force for further study.
The bill was circled during debate Friday after Rep. Johnny Anderson, R-Taylorsville, said the caucus needed to talk further. House leaders had already left the $35 million for the program out of the budget negotiations.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are looking at amending SB251 from Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Cottonwood Heights, to give the governor more flexibility in negotiating the expansion with Washington, D.C.
Shiozawa's plan called for partially expanding Medicaid to those Utahns who fall below 100 percent of the federal poverty level, but Herbert has called for taking all of the federal money available to cover Utahns up to 138 percent of poverty.
Both plans would utilize private insurers. A Democratic proposal to simply accept the full Medicaid expansion was heard in a Senate committee's final meeting of the session Friday, but no action was taken.
Herbert told reporters he intends to try to sell his plan to the Obama administration no matter what the Legislature does.
"Don't tie my hands. Let me go back and see if I can negotiate the best deal for Utah," the governor said.
Herbert also reiterated his concerns about the speaker's education initiative.
"It's a good idea. But every good idea needs a good plan," the governor said. "We haven't seen that. There's a big idea with a lot of money but not really a plan that goes with it."
Even educators are telling him they're not ready for the scale of the initiative, the governor said.
He also disagreed with Lockhart's proposal that the money needed for her initiative could be taken out of funding for roads because, she said, the state "has been very good" to transportation over the years.
"I don't want to dig a hole here we'll have to fill in next year," Herbert said.
He said even if lawmakers were to approve a tax increase, the initiative should not receive more than $30 million this session because it needs to be started with "a more modest approach."
Rep. Jim Nielson, R-Bountiful, said he's gauging support for his proposal to raise the gasoline tax a total of 6 cents over the next six years after making a pitch to House Republicans in their last caucus Thursday.
"I'm trying to tell people it's not as radioactive as they think it is," Nielson said.
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Ladder Match: Bully Ray vs. Jeff Hardy
The hammer hangs above the ring as Bully removes his chain and complains to Taz at ringside. Jeff Hardy flies over the top and onto Bully. The bell rings and Hardy unloads on Bully in the ring. Hardy hits a head scissors takedown and front dropkicks Bully to the floor and then flies off the apron with a clothesline. Tenay brings us an ill-timed update on future Impact dates and tickets. Hardy retrieves a ladder from under the ring although the giant one is at the entrance ramp. Bully gets the advantage on the floor as we go to commercial.
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(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BURLINGAME, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/12/12 -- Peter Relan, founder of social gaming incubator YouWeb, and pioneering seed investor behind OpenFeint�, the first and de-facto social gaming network for smartphones and tablets, announced today OpenKit� the industry's first completely open platform for backend services for mobile developers, with a guarantee of "no lock-in of developer data." With OpenKit�, developers will use an open source toolkit on iOS and Android to plug into backend services critical to apps in the post-PC era: common services for all types of apps, including a universal account authorization service and a cloud storage service, plus app-specific services such as leaderboards/achievements for game developers.
Unlike OpenFeint�, OpenKit� is not intended to be a user network: developers can take their user data and OpenKit� source code and host their own backend service. OpenKit� will provide a universal authorization service for any user network including Facebook, Game Center, Twitter, Google+, GREE, etc.
Open Forever: No Walled Gardens"With mobile developers facing extreme uncertainty over what happens to their data and their users when a developer platform like OpenFeint� gets acquired, or TOS change ala Twitter�, there is only one path forward: open it all up and run it in the cloud," said Relan. "Data is as important to developers as their code: how would developers feel if they could never get their code off GitHub " "We need an open source, open data cloud service for developers where the terms are clearly articulated as: If you ever want to move off the OpenKit� cloud service, you can take OpenKit� source code and you can take your user data with you whenever YOU choose. If developers choose to host the service as a convenience to them, there will be a freemium pricing model available." Crack Team Ready to Deliver by January 2013OpenKit� will be available as early as January 2013 assuming a large number of developers sign up to support the launch of the platform, with signups open at www.OpenKit.io starting today.
Relan says he was approached by a start-up team of "crack indie developers" a month ago with the idea, and the team is already working to develop OpenKit� V1.0, and if a sufficient number of developers sign up in the first week after this announcement, the team will work 20 hours a day to double down and provide the toolkit: an open source license and a cloud-based service, as early as end January 2013.
Launch Day Product Features: OpenKit� Source Code including Client Libraries and a Server API implementation OpenKit� Cloud Service dashboard for developers Authorization service for Game Center, GREE, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ user credentials, and others as requested Gaming Services including Leaderboards and Achievements for iOS and Android, and Game Center integration on iOS Data Export Utility for developer to download their user data Instructions for how to host your own backend services on any cloud provider Benefits Even for iOS Developers Using Game CenterAndroid developers have no de-facto choice today, so the benefits of OpenKit� will be evident. Even though developers on iOS have the choice of using Game Center, it will be beneficial to use OpenKit� on iOS because of the extensibility and data portability of OpenKit�. Developers will be able to add many more features by leveraging the Game Center compatibility architecture of OpenKit�.
For All Apps not Just Games: Differences from OpenFeint�"This is not a statement on GREE's decision to transition OpenFeint� developers to the GREE platform. They have announced a focus on a publishing model, so a platform API becomes less critical in such a model. This initiative is about the overall sentiment in 2012 regarding developer API's like Twitter, Facebook, OpenFeint�, and the desire developers have to control their own destiny," said Relan. "I love the work I did with Jason Citron and Danielle Cassley to create OpenFeint�, and now we have another incredible team ready to build this open platform. First of all, OpenKit� is for all mobile apps, not just games. Secondly, we recognize that we will have to make our TOS different. Times have changed," said Relan.
"An open source, open data option like OpenKit� could be a welcome solution in an era where developers, including myself, are wary of using third party services for fear support could be discontinued," said Danielle Cassley, who co-founded OpenFeint� with Jason Citron and Relan, and recently launched her own game Avengees. "Such a solution would ease concerns while sparing developers the time and effort required to build their own proprietary solution." Like GitHub, pricing will be based on a freemium model, with basic services offered for free, and tiers of services for a monthly subscription fee. Even developers who use the OpenKit� service for no charge will be able to extract their data and move off the OpenKit� platform and host their own backend.
Developers interested in the new service can register their interest at www.OpenKit.io and also indicate a priority for which developer services should be built and open sourced first.
About OpenKit�OpenKit� is backed by Peter Relan, founder of YouWeb Incubator (www.youwebinc.net), co-founder and seed investor of OpenFeint�, the pioneering social gaming network for the smartphone. OpenKit's� open architecture give developers the backend services they need to prosper in the Post-PC era without developer lock-in. To sign up for OpenKit� and learn more about how OpenKit� empowers app developers please contact us at www.OpenKit.io.
Trademark AcknowledgementsOpenFeint is a registered trademark of GREE, Inc. Twitter is a registered trademark of Twitter, Inc. GitHub is a registered trademark of GitHub.
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These are button rings I've made. I've discovered that it's best to have a short shank on the button and wrap multiple times so the button doesn't wiggle so much. Love the added pop of color to any outfit!
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A quick how-to: I use 22gauge artistic wire about 15-18 inches in length depending on the ring size. Straighten the wire and "thread" the button on to the center and create a crease in the wire at the shank. Place on a ring mandrel one size larger then you need. Wrap one wire around the top of the button 2x around the mandrel going in one direction and do the same thing with under the button in the opposite direction. Then take the wires and wrap around the button shank several times (3-5 depending on the amount of wire – you need to leave wire to wrap the ring itself) Slip the ring off the mandrel and it will appear as though one wire should wrap down – wrap that tightly around one side of the ring itself very close to the shank of the button. Do the same thing to the opposite side and you will see that that one should appear to be going up. Tighten with your bent nose or nylon jawed pliers and voila! You have a ring!
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AppNeta, the leading provider of full stack application performance management solutions, today announced it has been ranked No. 1393 on Inc. Magazine's 33rd annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America's independent entrepreneurs. AppNeta has been ranked for the second year in a row, having achieved over 307% growth from 2010 to 2013.
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The 2014 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2010 to 2013. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2010. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent--not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies--as of December 31, 2013. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2010 is $100,000; the minimum for 2013 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.'s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/5000.
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Some random Marquette-Wisconsin thoughts
They'll play for the 118th time Saturday. They're 2-2 since Buzz Williams arrived. The Golden Eagles have won at the Kohl Center. The Badgers have won at the B-Mo Bradley.
Outside of Brewers opening day and most Packer Sundays, it is the best sporting day of the year in this state. And the civility of the rivalry has always stuck with me.
Except for the occasional knucklehead firing off anoymous posts from mom's basement, there is a tremendous amount of mutual respect. It would be easy for UW to look down on Marquette because it does not play the sport that carries the freight in this twisted day and age of football-driven conference jumping, but for the most part, supporters at both ends see the schools for what they are. A giant that might as well be a public Ivy for its research history, and a proud Jesuit institution that stands on a tradition of service and academic excellence. This state is quite lucky to have them both.
My best memories involving both teams is from the Sweet 16 in Minneapolis a few years ago. When the Badgers were playing, Marquette fans cheered on Wisconsin. When the Golden Eagles were playing, Wisconsin fans cheered on Marquette. It was one big lovefest that sent MU on to the Final Four.
In a state where Badger football does not have a rival, MU-UW basketball is to be cherished. Believe me, I come from a state that is split down the middle by two football powerhouses. That rivarly tends to get nasty at times. Fights break out in the stands and on the field. When they play each other in basketball, nobody pays much attention.
I wasn't around here a long time ago when Al McGuire celebrated a victory by dancing on the scorer's table, but the reaction by the Hughes' twins father goes down as one of the most iconic sports photos in this state, right up there with Jerry Kramer's mud-caked face.
Tomorrow, Marquette will honor the late Rick Majerus. That will add to the emotion of the event. Majerus was a Milwaukee guy through-and-through. I'm going to write a column about him for Sunday's paper and look forward to the tribute before the game.
If you go, enjoy. It is one of the best things we've got going.
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Hundreds of firefighters were scrambled but only one person was injured.
The situation was worse in Greece where one woman died and dozens of commuters were trapped in their cars after a torrential downpour swamped the capital Athens.
Police said a 27-year-old woman died of a suspected heart attack after being trapped in her car in the northern suburb of Halandri
Power outages darkened large parts of the city during the overnight cloudburst, a river broke its banks and traffic jams brought much of Athens to a standstill in the morning rush hour.
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Hanson Rescue Medal awarded for Lake Lewisville Rescue
by John Rousmaniere on 7 Nov 2013
US Sailing has awarded a Hanson Rescue Medal to Erik Slockers (Southlake, Texas) and the crew of his Catalina 22 Windpower, Bridget Lane (Austin, Texas) and Jay Sacco (Austin, Texas), for coming to the aid of a sailor during the 2011 Leukemia Cup regatta, hosted by the Dallas Corinthian Yacht Club, on Lake Lewisville in Texas on May 7, 2011.
Winds were blowing at 18 to 25 knots wind with steep waves. Windpower's crew was prepared for the conditions.
'Bridget, Erik, and I had our PFD's on all day,' said Sacco. 'It was windy enough and the water was cold enough to warrant caution.'
Lane, who was keeping a lookout, spotted a person in the water who was not wearing a life jacket but was hanging onto a bright blue boat cushion. Keeping a close watch on the situation, Lane alerted her shipmates that no boat was returning to pick up the sailor.
Luckily, the cushion made a good target. Sacco, who was steering, sailed downwind of the swimmer, turned into the wind, and stopped next to him. Windpower's crew secured a swim ladder at the boat's stern and helped him on board. The swimmer was uninjured; however, he was suffering the effects of the 68-degree water, which he was in for over five minutes. The swimmer later explained that he had been attempting to recover the cushion from the lake when the boom on his boat hit him and knocked him overboard.
Windpower's crew hailed to his boat, Antioch, which came alongside and recovered him. Both boats continued to race the rest of the day.
The Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal is awarded by US Sailing's Safety-at-Sea Committee to any person who rescues or endeavors to rescue any other person from drowning, shipwreck, or other perils at sea within the territorial waters of the United States, or as part of a sailboat race or voyage that originated or stopped in the U.S. Since it was established in 1990 by friends of the late Mr. Hanson, an ocean-racing sailor from the Chesapeake Bay, the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal has been presented to more than 180 boats. Any individual or organization may submit a nomination for a Hanson Rescue Medal.
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Revealed: Dark Knight gunman called his psychiatrist NINE MINUTES before shooting
- Defense attorneys say that Holmes tried to call his university psychiatrist nine minutes before the shooting
- James Holmes rejected from graduate program at University of Iowa in early 2011
- Professors warned not to admit him 'under any circumstances'
- Holmes came to Iowa with excellent test scores, a high GPA, and a key letter of recommendation
Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes tried to call his university psychiatrist nine minutes before the massacre, defense attorneys said.
Holmes placed the call to an after-hours number at a hospital at the University of Colorado, Anschutz campus, where he could reach psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, defense attorney Tamara Brady said.
It wasn't clear why he called Fenton, but she was not immediately available to talk to him.
Fenton was the same psychiatrist that Holmes reportedly mailed a notebook to days before the shooting, one that contained descriptions of a violent attack.
Phone call: James Holmes, left, called his psychiatrist Dr Lynne Fenton, pictured outside the courtroom on Thursday, moments before the movie theater massacre
The revelation came as documents showed professors at the University of Iowa talked about keeping Holmes out of a graduate program at all costs.
The university firmly rejected Holmes' admission into a neuroscience graduate program last year, with a top faculty member writing, 'do NOT offer admission under any circumstances,' newly-revealed documents said.
That decision, which was made in early 2011 after Holmes had visited the campus, stands in stark contrast to decisions by the University of Illinois and the University of Colorado to offer Holmes large scholarships at similar programs at those schools.
The documents, provided to Reuters and the Denver Post by the university through an open records request, do not explain why Daniel Tranel, a professor of neurology and psychology and director of the neuroscience graduate program, opposed admitting Holmes, who reportedly had a 3.9 grade point average when he graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 2010.
But it did show that at least one other professor on the admissions committee concurred with his recommendation.
University of Iowa spokesman Tom Moore told the Denver Post: 'It's very much a process of trying to determine if the person is a good fit. He just simply was not a good personal fit for our program and that's all we are comfortable with saying.'
Holmes, 24, is accused of opening fire at a midnight screening of the new Batman film 'The Dark Knight Rises' in a suburban Denver theater, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
He is being held without bond in solitary confinement at the Arapahoe County jail in the Denver area.
After the shootings at a cinema in Aurora (pictured) , sales of guns rose by 41 per cent
Holmes is accused in the July 20 shooting that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded.
In court: Holmes reportedly saw three health professionals before he opened fire at the Aurora movie theater in July
Holmes, who began the process of dropping out of the neuroscience Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado after a year of study just weeks before the rampage, has been charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder and 116 counts of attempted murder.
The Iowa application materials, submitted in 2010, show that Holmes had been categorized as 'truly exceptional' by one of his professors in a recommendation form, the highest accolade possible.
In an essay accompanying his application, Holmes wrote of his experience working as a summer camp counselor for underprivileged children, where he said he was responsible for kids clinically diagnosed with ADHD, and one child with schizophrenia.
'These kids were heavily medicated but this did not solve their problems, only create new ones,' he wrote. 'The medication changed them from highly energetic creative kids to lax beings who slept through the activities. I wanted to help them but couldn't.'
Holmes also wrote about how students at a school he attended when he was younger had to wear uniforms, and described his process of discovering later that the uniforms were designed to curb gang rivalry.
'Looking back, my life could have gone in a completely different direction had I not possessed the foresight to choose the path of knowledge,' he wrote.
Struggle: The family gathers at the cross nearby to the cinema where their father was gunned down. In the foreground, a family portrait shows Cowden and his children
The application shows that Holmes placed in the top two per cent of performers on a standardized verbal ability test, and obtained the maximum possible score on a quantitative thinking test.
Holmes was an honors undergraduate student at the University of California, Riverside, where he majored in neuroscience and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.
The documents were released ahead of a
hearing on Thursday in his case on whether prosecutors can have access
to a package Holmes mailed to University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne
Defense attorneys say that the contents fall under doctor-client privilege between Holmes and Fenton.
Emotion: Ashley Deuell, 18, kneels next to a cross and family photo of Cowden, a friend of her family, who was killed in the movie theater massacre
The New York Times reported earlier this week that classmates watched Holmes become more withdrawn and less stable in the weeks before the attack.
One woman, who was part of the University of Colorado's neurosciences program along with Holmes, told the paper that the shy student seemed to like her and tried to clumsily flirt with her.
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When he failed an oral exam in June, his professors suggested that perhaps he should drop out of the program.
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In July, just a few weeks before the July 20 theater rampage in Aurora, Holmes sent the girl another message.
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