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Height: 6-3 Weight: 232 lbs.
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Drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the 4th round (102nd overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft.
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College Hockey:Upstart Mavericks Complete Sweep Of No. 6 Spartans
Thomas Nets OT Winner With 28 Seconds Remaining
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Bill Thomas scored with 28 seconds left in overtime to complete Nebraska-Omaha's sweep of No. 6 Michigan State on Saturday evening.
The Mavericks found a burst of energy when both teams seemed to be winding down to settle for a tie. Scott Parse battled on the forecheck near the end boards and found a streaking Thomas in front for the game-winner.
When asked about completing the sweep as opposed to escaping with a hard-fought tie, Mavericks head coach Mike Kemp said, "Being the greedy guy that I am, I'm much happier with what we got."
Greed aside, Kemp and the Mavericks were happy with the play of their leaders in driving the team to its first ever sweep of the Spartans at Munn and first league road sweep in 21 series.
"It's just in [their] nature," said Kemp. "Marshall and Parse are a couple of Michigan guys, and it's one of those things where they have the extra jump. Those guys are competitors, and they are really, really competitive and our competitors got the bounce when we needed it."
The effort helped to drag Parse out of the doghouse after he hauled down Chris Mueller to put the Spartans on the power play for the final two minutes of regulation.
"I thought it was a pretty good defensive play," said Kemp. "He didn't take that penalty out of frustration; he took it out of making a play."
Both teams' penalty-kill units came up huge with the score deadlocked in the final minutes of the game. The Spartans managed to escape a Maverick power play thanks to the strong play from freshman goaltender Jeff Lerg.
"He made some great saves," said Michigan State head coach Rick Comley. "He really played well, that's for sure."
With just 2:10 left in the game, Nebraska-Omaha returned serve on the penalty kill, erasing a Michigan State man advantage to force overtime.
For the second time in as many nights, Michigan State jumped out to a 1-0 lead. Chris Mueller put the Spartans on the board with a shorthanded goal at the 3:14 mark of the first period. Mueller collected a Drew Miller pass, raced down the right side of the ice, and fired a wrist shot over Barrett's glove and into the top right corner.
"Mueller played well after missing the time," said Comley. "He got one nice goal and then nearly had one at the end."
The Mavericks, however, came right back with their own shorthanded tally. Just 53 seconds into the second, Spartan Tyler Howells fanned on a pass on the point, sending Dan Charleston in on a breakaway. The freshman also buried his chance high to the glove side.
Five minutes later, Charleston put the Mavs ahead by a 2-1 score with a power-play goal. Lerg kicked a rebound to Scott Parse, who tucked a nifty pass through his legs to Charleston for an easy tap-in.
"He has been one of our featured penalty killers all season because he plays with such grit and determination," said Kemp. "He's a little guy who is not afraid to get up and make things happen. He made no mistake about it once he got the chance with the shot."
The Spartans found an answer with just 15.6 seconds left in the second period as Bryan Lerg made a terrific play on the forecheck to find Jim McKenzie for the equalizer.
"I saw Lerg come at the defenseman behind the net with a lot of speed, so I anticipated that he was going to cut him off and get control of the puck," said McKenzie. "He made a great heads-up pass and I got lucky that it went in."
"We decided to go after them in the third period, and not give their defense a chance to set up behind the net."
The Spartans were forced to employ an aggressive forecheck to cause turnovers in order to create offense. Although it wasn't pretty, the defensive effort by the Mavericks in their own zone was most impressive.
"This is the best our team has played defensively [in more than a month] because we were doing the little things," said Kemp.
"Barrett did a good job of making the stops when he had to. His two wins have both come on Saturday night I came in and called him 'Mr. Saturday Night'"
Putting the win into perspective, Kemp said, "Getting four points here makes up for getting swept at home [against Miami]. If we can make up for the Bowling Green sweep next week, we're right back in the hunt."
After this statement weekend, Nebraska-Omaha looks to keep the momentum rolling against a dangerous Alaska-Fairbanks team. Michigan State will only have a day to rebound before it travels to Ohio State, a potential sleeping giant, on Tuesday.
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Derek Hough has spent most of his life as a professional dancer and has also dabbled in the music business. Now, he is about to become a TV star. Deadline has just confirmed on Thursday that the five-time "Dancing with the Stars" champion has just landed a mulch-episode gig on ABC's "Nashville," which will be starting its third season next month.
The 29-year-old dancer is slated for the role of Noah West, who is described as a 'beguiling and disarming' movie star. His character will be cast in a biopic of a famous country singer and will very much be involved with the rest of the cast. He definitely has some singing experience as he was in a band with fellow dancer and good friend, Mark Ballas.
He is also not new to acting as he starred in the movie "Make Your Move" and was on stage in the production of "Footloose." He used his dancing skills in both. However, he may, or may not, leave his dancing shoes at home when he is seen in this new role. Hough seems to be quite a multi-talented guy.
Hough was just announced this week as being back on the dance floor on season 19 of "Dancing with the Stars." There was a rumor weeks ago that he may not be returning to the reality show this time around, but it looks like he will be aiming to win yet another mirror ball trophy very soon. The celebrity dancers have yet to be announced.
In addition, Derek Hough has just finished up his Move Live on Tour dance shows with younger sister, Julianne Hough. Their two months on the road together was quite successful with many sold out shows in different cities. If that wasn't enough, the blond dancer also has a brand new book out called "Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion" in which he writes about his early childhood and life growing up on the dance floor.
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Jan. 14, 2014
Coach Bluder News Conference Video
By DARREN MILLER
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- After 18 games and 12 days of Big Ten Conference women's basketball action, there is a grand total of one team with an undefeated record.
That team -- Michigan State -- will be on Mediacom Court in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Thursday, when the University of Iowa has an opportunity to spoil the undefeated party and creep closer to the top of the league standings.
Iowa -- the only Big Ten team with four games under its belt -- enters with a record of 14-4 overall, 2-2 in the conference. Michigan State is 11-5, 3-0.
"That's the way the Big Ten is," UI senior Theairra Taylor said. "The competition is so good that you could lose any night, so you have to make sure you bring you're `A' game. We're aware they are on top right now and we want to win every game. We're in the middle of the pack and we want our name at the top. Whoever is up there has a target on their back."
"The Big Ten was the No. 1 RPI conference in American before the conference season began, the best in America. Now we're going into conference play and when we all beat up on each other it makes it tough because we don't have the great records at the end of the year that some other conferences have."
Lisa Bluder
UI basketball coach
"We play the top team right now in the Big Ten, then we have to travel to Ohio State," Bluder said Tuesday at a news conference inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. "Ohio State is playing much better than people thought they were going to at the beginning of the year."
Bluder says the Spartans have "a lot of weapons" and they are the team that plays some of the best defense in the conference. Now healthy, Bluder says Michigan State looks like the top-25 team they were in the preseason.
"We only get them once and we're lucky to have them on our home floor," UI junior Samantha Logic said. "They're playing great, getting it together right now. They have a little bit of everything on their team. We have to come in ready and play our best basketball.
"We have to defend them well, get out in transition when we can and keep boxing out because they're a great rebounding team."
The Hawkeyes have proven they can win both at home and on the road. They knocked off Minnesota (78-71) at home and handled Wisconsin (82-65) on the road in back-to-back outings. Now they can create more chaos in the standings.
"The Big Ten was the No. 1 RPI conference in American before the conference season began, the best in America," Bluder said. "Now we're going into conference play and when we all beat up on each other it makes it tough because we don't have the great records at the end of the year that some other conferences have."
The Hawkeyes are 9-1 at home this season and a win against Michigan State would leave them a ½ game out of first place.
"We would be right where we want to be and where we set our sights," Bluder said. "We have to focus one game at a time but the Michigan State game puts us right back in the hunt."
Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. (CT). The game can been seen locally on Mediacom Connections and online via video.BTN.com.


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Transcript of the live chat session that took place Thursday, September 11, 1997. These sessions are normally scheduled for 12 noon-1 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) every Thursday.
These sessions are hosted by Richard Seltzer. If you would like to receive email reminders of our chat sessions, simply send a blank email message to email@example.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/businessonthewebchats and sign up there.
For transcripts of previous sessions and a list of future topics, click here .
For an article on how to make "business chat" work (based on this experience), click here .
Since the chat itself happens at a rapid pace, it's often difficult to note interesting facts in particular URLs as they appear on-line. Here's a place to take a more leisurely look. I've rearranged some of the pieces to try to capture the various threads of discussion (which sometimes get lost in the rush of live chat).
Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and suggestions for topics we should focus on in future sessions. So long as the volume of email responses is manageable, I'll post the most pertinent ones here for all to see.
Anthony Camero TCamero from Iowa
Sam Dickerman
Miki Dzugan from Minnesota
Sudha Jamthe (Home Page) from Boston
JBF11235 (Home Page)
MSBDF from Russia
Andy Andy Morrison from Iowa
Bjoern Negelmann bjoern (Home Page) from Germany
Panamax (Home)
Roland from Boston
Richard (Home) from Boston
Rastislav Skultety (Home Page) from Slovakia
Bob Zwick email@example.com (Home Page) from Texas
Rastislav -- Hi, I am Rastislav Skultety /17 years old/. Webmaster of http://www.pavucina.sk and http:////www.javascript.sk.
Sudha -- Hi, Richard: How are you doing?
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Rastislav and Sudha. Glad you could make it.
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha -- Doing fine, and you? Just got back from Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee. It was interesting seeing how well the concept of "Social Web" played to an audience of researchers and scientists, who want and need to connect to others of similar interest.
Panamax -- Hello All....
Roland -- Hi all, This is my first chat session. I'm an instructional designer and interested in experiencing chat technology.
Sam -- Hello Richard and Friends. Sam Dickerman, Internet Consultant, First-time visitor.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Roland, Panamax, Andy, and Sam Dickerson, please introduce yourselves and let us know your interests. That will help us get the discussion going quickly.
Andy -- Good morning/afternoon. My name is Andy Morrison, Project Analyst, I am doing research on various e-commerce packages
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Andy, where do you work? And do the ecommerce packages you are interested in have interactive/social components?
Andy -- I work at Integrated Network Solutions in Cedar Rapids, IA The commerce packages I have been looking at have some interactive components, such as dynamic, personalized catalog content for end-users, depending on their customer profiles
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome Bob@Cottage (from Texas) and Bjoern (from Germany). Please introduce yourselves. Looks like we're getting a group together today.
bjoern -- Hi, my name is bjoern. still from Germany and still working on my thesis about online chats. bjoern -- Well, I am a student at the university of erlangen/nuernberg working on a thesis with the subject: 'online chats as a tool for relationship marketing'
email@example.com -- Hello all -- I am an independent consultant/developer in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area who provides Internet Services. I have been in the computer industry since the 60's and DBA Cottage Micro Services since 1987.
TCamero -- Good Morning. My name is Anthony Camero and I thank you for inviting me!...Hmm smells like coffee!
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Anthony Camero. From your address it looks like your in Iowa. What's your main area of interest?
TCamero -- Community is the basis of commerce. I'm into e-commerce. Blair -- Hi from down under.. Sudha -- Hi Blair. Welcome to the discussion.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Blair from New Zealand. We've been talking about Tripod and Geocities as interesting web-host-based variations on trying to build business around the social aspects of the Web.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- Kathleen Gilroy, who I hope will be able to join us today, pointed me at two important "social" sites -- http://www.tripod.com and http://www.geocities.com Have any of you had dealings with either of those outfits?
Richard Seltzer -- While the first attempts at "community" on the Web seemed to try to imitate the old Well kind of model -- based primarily on threaded discussions and often failing to generate the levels of interest and loyalty needed to sustain a business -- the Tripod and Geocities models are based on personal Web pages. It's a very interesting twist.
Richard Seltzer -- I'll give you a quick sketch of what Tripod looks like. Please add what you know and point us to other interesting social business models. They offer 2 Mbytes of free Web space and charge $3 a month for 10 Mbytes. They don't seem to restrict what you do with the space. Purportedly they have 180,000 members as of today. While some ISPs offer WEb space as part of their offer to attract dial-up customers; this outfit seems to offer Web space alone (also email forwarding so you can keep the same email address even though you change ISPs). The free space gets tagged with banner ads (frames). But if you pay for your space you can ask that the ads go away.
TCamero -- Wow! That't great stuff Richard... Are you saying that Geocities and Tripod are building communities by giving away free home pages?
Richard Seltzer -- TCamero -- Yes, they are building something resembling communities using free Web pages. At Tripod, for instance, they have lots of info and events geared for the very kind of audience that they have attracted with the free Web pages. They also make it very easy to search for anything at their site -- for instance anything in member pages. By default (rather than intent), the vast majority of the pages there are not indexed by AltaVista or the other major search engines, because a site hosting over 180,000 separate Web sites looks to any crawler like some kind of spamming engine. So the inclination would be for users to search for one another right there at Tripod, and hence build some kind of loyalty and social threads.
Andy -- So is Tripod creating a more "normal" community on the WWW, while for the most part WWW communities are different from communities in the real world?
Richard Seltzer -- Andy -- I think that what Tripod and Geocities are doing is unique and interesting. I don't think that they will be able to establish Well-style bonds, given the range of choices. But on the other hand, it's the closest to "community" that I can see out there.
Richard Seltzer -- By the way, Geocities offers 2 Mbytes of free Web space, $4.95 per month for 10 Mbytes. For the free stuff, they restrict you from doing anything commercial. they also tack a Geocities ad on the bottom of every one of your pages,a nd prohibit you from running anyone else's ads. It looks more open if you pay for your space. You select what "neighborhood" you want to be in. And each of their many neighborhoods seems to have an advertiser/owner. They claim to have over 935,000 members. As with Tripod, a very small percentage of their pages are indexed by the main search engines, but you can do local searches with geocities' search software.
Richard Seltzer -- Regarding chat -- at Tripod, if you are a paying member, you also get to create and use your own chat space at no additional cost. It will be interesting to see how that evolves. bjoern -- in my opinion Geocities has nothing to do with online communities. Though the surrounding seems to be like that. It is only a way to market internet accounts for the grand public. Sudha -- bjoern: About geocities: I beg to differ. I think geocities started out to build online communities. Its a great concept to group people of similar interest by making them choose their place in the community. But, somewhere down the line, they changed their business model to make it a web hosting service. Maybe they decided to make money faster that way. But their community concept would have been more sustainable if they had worked to bond the community with a common identity first.
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha and Bjoern -- Geocities and Tripod both offer free Web hosting and low cost Web hosting. Business-model-wise, Geocities seems more dependent on advertising. It does do some social kinds of things, simply by the grouping of the nearly million different user sites, by theme/interest. Tripod is much more overtly community-oriented with the inclusion of content designed for their users, with chat sessions scheduled to meet their interests, and with letting users set up their own chat rooms. It's an interesting direction.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob@Cottage -- your experience matches mine. Many chat rooms are empty or filled with random flirtation, insults, etc. Regarding "community" -- my contention is that the traditional Well-style community does not work on today's Web, because of the multipicity of choices. You can simply go in so many different directions to do similar kinds of things that it is very difficult to build the kind of loyalty and identity that the old community business model depends on. On the other hand, at the same time, the Web has become far more social, and there's a multitude of things that you can do to serve your audience and to try to become a site where people link to people -- arriving at business models that are quite viable though they don't really match the "community" definition (people feel no more loyal to them than their usual gas station, rather than the fierce sense of belonging of a church congregation or Elks Club).
TCamero -- So what will bind these "communities" if not loyalty?
Richard Seltzer -- TCamero -- We're trying to learn what can and should lead to varying degrees of loyalty. I think of it as threads. I think of trying to make a site a "nexus" -- a place where many social threads cross, where it is easy and convenient to link up with other people of similar interest. "Community" in the sense of the Well had boundaries and barriers; like AOL before it became more integrated with the Internet; where members have no choice but to associate with other members. The Web by definition is far looser. You cannot take for granted that your "members" feel that they are your "members"; they might just as well go somewhere else tomorrow.
Sudha -- Hi Richard: Sorry, I got bumped as my PC crashed. Looks like your are focusing on online communities in existent today. What do you think is the main cause for an online community to grow? ie What builds that loyalty to come to the same community? Can a business interest bind a community together?
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha -- I think that one key factor is allowing the users to interact with one another and to contribute content to a site, by way of personal pages, or chat (with transcripts), or forums, or simply posting letters to the editor. The visitors to a site need to feel that they (not the site itself) are the community -- they need to feel a bond toward one another. That need not come entirely from on-line interaction -- there can be face-to-face meetings as well. When you approach the point when these folks willingly/gladly share information with one another and go out of their way to help one another -- that starts to feel like community. You want to make it easy for that community activity to happen at your site, but it won't be limited to there (as was the case with old-time communities). If the people want to do business with one another that binds a community together. If they just want to do business with your company -- that isn't a community -- then they come and buy once or twice and go away. You need a continuing set of mutually complementary relationships among the visitors.
Richard Seltzer -- bjoern -- please explain "with high involvement goods, it is good to have a qualitative forum" I'm not sure what a "qualitative forum" is. Also please clarify the difference between low involvement and high involvement goods.
Sudha -- bjoern: What do you mean by involvement categorization?
firstname.lastname@example.com -- bjoern - I think that areas of interest i.e. sport, travel, education are better suited than goods. Goods will then come into play inside the areas of interest
Sudha -- Bob: Very good point. People will come together with a common interest like sports or books rather than a brand loyalty to a specific good or service. But there's got to be a way to bring these together. For example: Wall street journal solicits a discussion on a specific news item that one reads and try to build a forum around it. The common bond would be to meet and chat about a topic but a user can be drawn into a specifc brand or goods area of discussion. What do you think?
bjoern -- well. low involvement goods are convenience goods; goods we buy everyday. An German example is the http://www.freixenet.com site, a site for sparkling wine with a flirt forum
Blair -- Hi All, I just arrived home (4:30am!) I have had a quick scan on the messages so far.. Sparkling Wine + Flirt.. someone knows how to sell wine on hte net!
bjoern -- the strategy of Freixenet is to build up emotional cues to their brand. bjoern -- on the other hand, you'll find the microsoft advantage club. i don't know whether it exists also in the US. The advantage club offers memberships to registered costumers. With your membership you have access to an restricted area on the ms site where you find a member forum. they have what i call "qualitative chat areas". people talk about the products other ms related topics
Sudha -- Richard: Are you saying that a third party who bring many interests together can only form a community while a single company with their own product cannot retain a community?
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha -- I think that a simple company with their own product can at best get an on-line user group going. Yes, that has benefits for the company and for the visitors. But it probably doesn't generate the same kind of inter-personal loyalty that a vendor-independent site could, where discussion could be less constrained.
bjoern-- Well, I agree with you if you say virtual communities are set up by common interest. but aren't needs that are satisfied by a product a good interest to join?
bjoern -- Richard - "same kind of inter-personal loyalty that a vendor-independent site could" I disagree... go and visit http://www.freixenet.com and you will find a very inter-personal loyality!
Richard Seltzer -- Bjoern, Thanks for the pointer. I will take a look at that site.
bjoern -- Richard - well, it's German.... :) Community, "relationship marketing," and users groups
Richard Seltzer -- Bjoern -- that's interesting about MSN and product-related discussions. sounds a bit like user groups. Maybe I shouldn't underplay the value of that kind of interaction. If I'm a total Microsoft junky/consultant that may be exactly where I want to go. Lots of AOL's chats are product focused. And lots of Digital's old Notesfiles were too. It just seems to have a different flavor (I shouldn't put a valuation connotation on it).
Andy -- What do you think about a Mac site. They have a community based on a product (in my opinion) If they could do it other vendor sites could as well.
Sudha -- Richard: I think I would be part of a community and visit a site regularly if I get some value out of it. The Microsoft membership example that bjoern gave is an example of a single vendor community. Many of us from BGS are part of the community and chats there because its an easy place to learn about neat features and compatabilities of developing software using MS products that we cannot find any where else. In a sense its like a MS user group on the Web. We soon learn who gives reliable answers and in what areas. Isn't that a community. MS is not interested in targeted ads there but they save on support calls from us for sure.
email@example.com -- Sudha - Exactly, I first establish rapport thru discussion then I respect the recommendations and suggestions of those I trust.
Richard Seltzer -- Bjoern -- as far as "needs that are satisfied by a product", I guess the question is how complex and all-encompassing is the product. If that product is basically "Microsoft", that covers a lot of ground and could intererst a fair number of computer devotees. But product in a narrower sense if far less compelling.
bjoern -- Suddha - what you are talking about is relationship marketing. bjoern I guess it is always the same with this kind of discussion. The various factors act in a multidimensional way, and we cannot really explain everything in one word.
Sudha -- Richard: We have started a whole new discussion on who can make a successful community. I believe it need not be a single vendor, but yes, people will expect more value out if it and hence its easier for a vendor independent third party to build a community faster. One way of doing this is for a group of vendors with complementary products to get together to for a network and build a community around their product/services. This was people will get more value and stay. What do you think?
Richard Seltzer -- Sudha -- I like that idea of a vendor-independent third party trying to operate community-style on the Web. Sounds like an interesting business model. Sudha -- bjoern: Yes, I guess so, I believe online communities can grow only by the relationship formed among its members. SIG (in Boston) practises relationshop marketing and setsup web sites for the same. Does anyone know of a SIG client site?
Blair -- I'm not sure if relationship marketing is an accurate term.. Many sites fail to recognise the potential of community in marketing models.. its the common thread of experience and desire that is associated with niche products.. ie: reads Rod&Gun, not likely to own a dog under 12lbs.. has an open fire, but doesnt buy fat free yoghurt.. etc that makes a group somewhat "in common"..
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Richard - I think the "COMMUNITY" concept needs to be broken down and then we could focus on one area at a time. For example what does community mean to:
email@example.com -- Roland -- you might want to take a look at University of Phoenix On-Line Degree Programs http://www.uophx.edu/online7 as an example.
Richard Seltzer -- Roland (by the way, where are you? and what are your main interests?) -- have you tried http://www.nicenet.org They offer free discussion space (forum/notes style) for education. They are funded as a non-profit. It's a good place to test our that kind of software for free. As for on-line environments, our resident expert on that Kathleen could answer that better than I. I'm hoping she'll join us today. She has a distance education company, the Otter Group, in Cambridge, MA. What's your email address? And I'll try to get you in touch with her.
Rastislav -- Richard: I've just did the statistics of your mirror in my site. 240 hits /14.March - 11.Sept/.
Richard Seltzer -- Rastislav -- is that total for all the pages or just for the home page? in any case, is your site indexed at AltaVista, Hotbot, and Excite?
Rastislav -- Richard: Yes. The total number. I think that the site is well indexed (Log file proves it). Don't know why is it so low number. My site http://www.javascript.sk generates 100hits/day and http://www.pavucina.sk generates 50.
[Richard Seltzer -- I checked at AltaVista after the chat, using the command url: and determined that none of the Samizdat mirror pages were in the index; and then checked using the command host:www.pavucina.sk and determined that the home page and nothing else was in the index. I emailed Rastislav suggesting that he use ADD URL at AltaVista to make sure all his pages are included. All the pages at my site are indexed. As a result, I get an average of 1000 hits per day, only 13% of which go by way of the home page.]
Rastislav-- Richard: I've got 50MB quota. It costs me nothing at all. BTW: Why do you use absolute hyperlinks on your pages ?
Richard Seltzer -- Rastislav -- sorry about the absolute links. I started that way and it's hard to change. Since I have a virtual name -- samizdat.com -- it doesn't matter when I move from one ISP to another, the links still work fine. But it must create headaches for a mirror.
Rastislav -- Richard: You can easily turn the absolute hyperlinks to relative (using e.g. filefind from NU). If you change your ISP, it doesn't make any difference, works well.
Richard Seltzer -- Ratislav -- please send me email with details about filefind (URL to get it etc.) Thanks.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- time is starting to run out (already). I feel that we're just getting warmed up, and I'd like to continue this discussion next week. What's the consensus? Want to continue this? Or what other topics would you suggest?
Richard Seltzer -- All -- as usual, I'll post an edited transcript of today's session in the next day or two. Please check http://www.samizdat.com/#chat and send me email with your followup comments and questions for possible inclusion with the transcript.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- Please before you sign off, post your email and URL addresses (don't count on the software to have caught it).
Andy -- firstname.lastname@example.com
Sudha -- Sudha Jamthe, firstname.lastname@example.com Thanks Richard. See you all next week.
Miki Dzugan -- Richard, stopped by for a few minutes with a class to see your excellent use of chat. Thanks for the opportunity!
Richard Seltzer -- Miki -- hope you can join us again next time, and encourage your students to speak up.
email@example.com -- Enjoyed it ! Bob Zwick, Cottage Micro Services 103 Vinyard Drive, Waxahachie, TX 75167, PH/FX: (972) 435-2446 http://www.cottagemicro.com, * Web Hosting * Design * Outsourcing * Contract Programming *
TCamero -- Anthony Camero-Quiksilver Commerce, 515-472-9799 email@example.com
bjoern -- firstname.lastname@example.com it was an interesting discussion today!
Richard Seltzer -- Thanks to all. Please join us again next Thursday and spread the word. Send followup email to me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Sudha-- See you all next week. Bye. Blair -- Cheers. folks.. Sorry to hear Clinton and his National Security cronies.. voted down SAFE! Another SIG that has no experience with the web eh! See ya awll....
Richard -- (I received your email address through a professor of mine who got it from Kathleen Gilroy). I am a PhD student at MIT and planning to do my dissertation research on virtual work environments. Now, I am trying to determine where there are any such systems (or prototypes) in place.
By 'virtual work environments' I mean either text-based or graphical online environments in the way of MUDs or online virtual worlds that are, however, designed and used for work and business purposes (in a wider sense also for educational ones).
You were described as someone who knows of "any virtual work environment that was actually being used at the moment". Wonderful.
I would appreciate if you were willing to share any information about this. (I know about PlaceWare, which only partly counts as virtual work environment at the moment, and Chiat/Day's Oxygen which is not in use, unfortunately)
thank you very much for listening.
heinrich schwarz, program in science, technology, society, m.i.t., firstname.lastname@example.com
REPLY: I don't know of any true virtual work environment in place today. (I don't consider simply sending a sales force home to save office space and letting them connect to the internal network from home as a true "virtual work environment"). But developments like that can happen very fast and without much fanfare. So there might actually be some good example lurking out there. We tried discussing this topic about a year ago in my weekly chat session about Business on the WWW. You might want to check the transcripts -- http://www.samizdat.com/chat9.html and http://www.samizdat.com/chat10.html
You also might want to contact Bruce Damer email@example.com He's with the Contact Consortium, a non-profit focused on all sorts of on-line virtual environments. (You might also want to check their Web site, which I'm sure you could find from AltaVista).
You might also want to check with the folks at SGI. They are betting a lot on VRML and have to be looking for a killer business app for that technology, and might be able to point you to a customer. You also might want to contact Harris Sussman (in Boston), an expert in human resources issues. Harris Sussman
And, of course, you are welcome to join our chat sessions and pose yourquestions and test your ideas there -- Thursdays, 12 noon to 1 PM, at http://www.web-net.org.
By the way, for me the true definition of a virtual work environment would not be based on technology, but rather would be based on the business model. I'd like to see an environment in which individuals and teams could readily join together and form a virtual company for the duration of a project, and in which these same individuals and teams could simultaneously be working as part of other virtual companies. I'd like it to be easy for these people and teams to find one another and work closely with one another when they need to. I'd like the legal, contractual, tax, and benefits piece to be clear and simple. And I'd like there to be some protection (enforceable) for workers in such an environment. (FYI -- I'll forward to you an email I got a few days ago from a university in the Urkaine, where there are hundreds of Ph.Ds will to work for about $2 an hour.) Best wishes. Richard Seltzer firstname.lastname@example.com
If I don't get to join you tomorrow, the two communities I have heard about, which are doing quite well are geocities and tripod. Geocities offers free web pages and groups them by affinity. Tripod is aimed at 24 to 35 year olds. You get a free web page and excellent content that is aimed at that demographic. Yesterday Christopher Lydon ran an excellent program on useful URL's and there was a good deal of discussion about communities on the web. You might be able to get an electronic transcript from WBUR for the program to add to your archives. I hope to see you tomorrow.
Kathleen Gilroy, firstname.lastname@example.com
I am on your email list and wanted to invite you to check out a live chat on our website at http://www.womenconnect.com today, September 10th at 2:00 p.m Eastern Time featuring Ann Winblad, a leading venture capitalist, speaking to our audience of professional women and women business owners. I hope you can make it! Gary LaFever, Sr. VP, Women's Connection Online, Inc.
From: Bernadette Price Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:19:15 -0700
Oh, Richard, it was wonderful, to say the least! I've been back a week now, and have been too busy catching up on work, etc., to update the Great Gowganda Get-Together home page, but will hopefully have time this weekend. The best part is that just about EVERYONE came "home" again -- it was amazing! So many of us hadn't seen each other since we were children, over three decades ago. We had close to 500 people come that weekend... and this is a town with a year-round population of under 100!
The Toronto Star was fabulous! They gave the story FRONT PAGE coverage on July 28, and then they arranged for a reporter to do a follow-up at the reunion, complete with a photo of me and my friend Gertie Trudel. That piece ran the next day, the Sunday of the Labor Day weekend. Gertie had done so much work from her end, and made about 200 phone calls, and so I arranged with Northern Telephone and the Telephone Pioneers of America group there to donate a used computer to her in thanks for all her community effort. Finally, Gertie will be online! It's been AWFUL trying to keep up on the planning with her through expensive phone calls and the oh-so-slow snail mail! She and her husband have no idea how wonderful computers and the Internet are (and wait until they're online and discover AltaVista! :-), so they haven't bothered looking into getting one before this. I bet they will wonder how it was possible to live without one before!
We got so much "local" coverage as well -- lots of those "dinky" little papers up in northern Ontario featured us on the front page as well -- the angle, of course, being on this "newfangled modern technology" bringing about the reunion. The press coverage isn't over, either... there's a piece that will run in Net-Life Magazine that goes out to 140,000 Internet subscribers in Canada who use Sympatico, and then I got a call from Toronto Computes! magazine and they are doing a piece for their October issue. So is Northern Telephone in their publication -- plus they are giving Gertie a one-year free Internet subscription to go with the used computer she got... I've been too busy to update the web page, but I have tons of photos and lots of text to recap the unbelievably great time we all had, and I hope to do so this weekend.
The Great Gowganda Get-Together home page is at http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/2297
Thanks for your interest in how the reunion came out. I would have let you know in due course anyway, as soon as I got head above water! :-) Sheesh, one thing about vacations, is that you really need another one as soon as you get back!
Best regards,
I was just reviewing last week's chat--sorry I missed it.
We're going to be doing two courses next year with UMASS/Boston which will use their web-based interface for student/teacher interaction. The interface is built around CU/CME for two-way video and audio interaction among students (students see the class via full motion video over cable or satellite). The interface includes a chat utility that allows the instructor to control the topics. Student's answers are organized in an outline form. Also, the interface contains a series of web pages on a pre-established menu and then allows the teacher to select a page for the web-based equivalent of a slide show.
One thought about online communities as they related to distance learning. These communities can be built for the duration of a course/semester when the students have a high degree of motivation to go online to complete assignments. It is the job of the faculty/teacher and/or his/her graduate students to act as the facilitator of these activities and design them into the curriculum.
Is this a community? Of a sort. Will it sustain itself after the class is over? Perhaps. It probably needs to be reinforced somehow.
Most online distance learning courses are the opposite of community--merely elevated correspondence courses. They trade off all of the social aspects of the educational experience and work only when students have very high degrees of motivation. (They experience high drop out rates and low retention rates--something people don't often write about because they have a vested interest in selling the online distance learning concept.)
Regards, Kathleen Gilroy. mailto://email@example.com
I saw your note about AOL's Instant Mail. I'm not on that system, but perhaps it's similar to a program I use continuously, which is ICQ by Mirabilis (http://www.mirabilis.com).
ICQ (I seek you) is an extremely useful program for instant communication with friends or business associates who are online. You can set the parameters so that it flashes a message to you when the person(s) comes online and any time the person is online you can send a message with a few keystrokes that will flash on their screen instantly, rather than going through your or their e-mail system. Also, you can make chat requests the same way...if you want to do a 2-person keyboard chat, you just right click on their name, click on "Chat" and it will send them a message asking them to talk...instantly. You can even have multiple users in the same chat, as long as you are all on each other's authorized list. It's as easy as dragging and dropping the person's name into the chat screen.
They now have 3 million users on system, and you can define a short list of people you are interested to receive auto-notification on (they must accept your request initially for you to be able to receive the notification in the future). I have a couple of friends I play online multiplayer games with, a couple of family members, and a couple of business associates on my notification list. It's really great...if you have a quick question, want to pass on something funny that just happened, or want a quick opinion on a project you are in the middle of, they are only seconds away! Best of all, it's a tiny little program that you can leave running continuously in the background...it's not a system hog! If you haven't tried it I'd say download it right away! They have really put a lot of thought and attention to detail into this little program, and it's free. I haven't found a feature yet that I would like that it doesn't have. The newest version has even been specially designed to interface with Microsoft's NetMeeting, but you don't need NetMeeting or any other program to use ICQ. It is one of the best and neatest programs I have found in a long time. Give it a try. :)
Best regards, Kaye Vivian
This very minute I am trying to set-up the placeware client (http://www.placeware.com) so that I can participate in a conference this afternoon (4pm Eastern) on web advertising. They have a really neat auditorium and conference metaphor that includes audio discussion!! It requires a plug-in. I am having problems with the firewall and allowing UDP (which is what audio uses) through.
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Well, I spent half the day trying to get the thing configured and because I was behind a firewall it was hopeless. I have not found out if they have developed any proxy capabilities. If they have, then maybe there is some hope. But if not, they really need to address the security issue. I am sure there are others who work for companies with strict firewall policies as well. Until they address that issue I don't think they will attract too much of a work crowd. And even after that, they will need the solution to be easily configurable (hopefully by individuals, not requiring MIS intervention).
I tried to watch a presentation (Robbin Zeff on Web Advertising) without the audio and it seemed quite slow and basic but who knows what was being said. In short, I get a lot more out of the Thursday chats with your group than I did from this interaction -- although I am very impressed with the UI and intended functionality. As with all great ideas (especially on the Internet), it needs that final 10% -- its easy to get 90% there, but the last 10% is where the true value differentiation is.
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we had htis with a tree we wanted out.. we gut it down as far as we could.. then stuck copper nails in it.. left it for a year.. and it was dead enough that we dug around the roots and then sawed off the tap root and main big roots.. left them to die on their own and not cause subsidence
but i undersntand you dont have this much time to wait.. so you will have to dig it out.. dig around and down as much of the roots as you can.. then cut off main roots at a level out the way.. then just get the axe to it.. as their roots go long way.. leave main roots to die on their own and the space will fill up wihtout leaving gapping tunels and holes under your ground.
my cosmos are doing well.. keep dead heading and more come..
maybe cuting off the buds may give them new lease and then flower again.. i know the sun is here now and a bit of summer is on its way.. it is 21c on our shady patio at this time of the morning..yesterday even hotter.. might be worth a go.
@hollie-hock.. my scabious not done too well this year.. as weather hot then wet they have suffered mildew so been cutting them back.. i got 3 on mine at the moment but my giant ones.. dont seem to suffer mildew and they are doing very well.. grew from seed and well impressed with them i am.. gorgeous colours.
i planted some laurel hedging myself in may.. and it too has lost leaves going yellow and brown.. and not a healthy looking colour.. and i gve them a cut back.. and htey have started sprouting new leaves.. so hang in there.. they might well survive..
i did use j arthurs but foundi got loads of weeds and things growing it in.. i now use westlands and it is fine.. i store mine in a black dustbin and when i open it i can spell the sterilization of it.. no weeds etc in this one.. i have not found it dries out quick thou i water every evening and morning.. so maybe that why.
for my toms etc in greenhouse they are sat in seed tray with no holes and kept topped up so they never run out.. i also like annie5 put all used compost on the garden or in the compostor..
@slaphead08.. wish our Asda was alrady built.. i love the place and would greatly appreciate taht offer.. as i have westlands best for value and planting this year.. thou i do go and buy some from our local tip..they recycle our waste and then sell it.. bit dearer but very good.. used it for the veg plot and added to pots of perennial plants this year.. i also give them a seaweed feed through the summer as they need a little extra..
@dovefromabove.. that is the one i had in my garden.. it is a european one i believe after looking it up. it told me they eat bumble bees!!!
hi bev.. nice to invite you in to our gardens.. i also love to look at peoples gardens.. it is great for ideas.. think all gardeners arre the same.... my mum is.
@holli-hock.. yeah they dont survive hard frosts very well.. i only ever get about 1 or 2 hard frosts a year and it kills them.. as i say mine go until november or longer if none.. or snow.... wh ich we dont get much off at all.. the weather is was 24 on tuesday and getting hooter wiht each day already 21 here this morning..
yeah guys i know this.. but we have had hardly any rain here.. my water butts were near on empty for the 3rd time this year before the heavy downpour we had monday night. (which is the first proper rain we have had since before olympics )and we have 5 large ones.. ant that filled them.. i am told the shape of the island splits the clouds and the solent and above gets most of it,..i sit looking out over the channel and the rain misses us all the time.. we hardly get frosts.. while my mum on the solent side does.. she has had more rain than us on this side.. for instance wednesday over mums torrential rain for 3 hours in the morning.. i had left my washing out.. i got back home at 2pm and it was bone dry neighbour said we had no rain here.. and it is always like that.
they charge me £15 for the weed and feed..lawn is 50ft x 65ft so big.. and i never water it.. i just mow it and trim edges.. nothing else.. they tell me to water it 3 tims a week but we are on metres over here so cant afford it.
i will be speaking to the boss man next week regarding other peoples lawns and see if it is the fertilizer doing it.. as the little balls that fall on the borders have yet to dissolve.. so thats shows how dry it has been.. the ground is as hard as conrete.. cant dig it with a trowel to get autumn plants in at all..
my lawn was just weeds when took over.. now or it was lush and green and gorgeous.. next doors is lush but not green but a pale yellow green colour.. i have been having company for 2 years now and this is first time the lawn has looked as bad as it did when i started the garden..
i know your not ganging up on me.. and i hope to get answers from the boss when i speak to him on wednesday.. i have taken picutures of the ball so show not disolved etc.. for evidence.. thou guy sid they do not use any chemicals that can damage or scorch lawns.. so we will see.
@hollie-hock.. i think 2/3 of my garden are my own progated or seed sown plants.. i do stuggle with hard wood cuttings thou.. need more practice on those..
i do think white is good inthe shade i also find shasta daisies prefer little more shade they get morning sun and eveing sun and htey love it.. they were in full sun when first planted them and they hated it.. much happier in shade for last 3 years now.. have split them 2 time since.. maybe they will be good in your shady bit..
@hollie-hock.. no. i am sure your rudbeckias are annuals.. may last bit longe rin warmer climate over winter...but mine dont.. if the have hairy slightly prickly feel stems they are annuals.. the perennial ones are smooth stemmed and more basal in leaves and grow taller.. and single yellow colours normally.. and die down over winter.i may be wrong hopefully someone will come along hwo knows bit more..
my buddlehia is on the shaded side and gets early morning sun and late evening sun.. but they are very hardy and i always think white looks better in the shade.. seems to make it shine out.. but i think they will grow anywhere.. thou this one has been harder to get cuttings to take from than the purple ones... someone told me walking past other day that white is un common.. must say the scent is to much sweeter than the purples one.. it just wafts across the gardem.. while i am dead heading.
@lillylouise.. your garden always leavs me in awe.. it is just gorgeous..
everyones piccies are great .. i love looking at other gardens.. i always peeping over hedges and walls when out walking... you can learn alot about what grows and what doesnt in you soil.
@geoff.. yeah neighbours lawn.. that has no care looks blerdy better than mine.. i will see and if i am not happy i will get them to sort it out.. told me to water it regularly.. as it not getting much.. which is true..


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Back to work- still cold, wet and gray
Sunday, October 20, 2013
The High School reunion was fun, but back to reality today with work. Both Jim and I felt the reunion was more about visiting the old school and school memories, than actually getting a chance to see classmates. There were so many people there from all classes it was hard to find faces we could recognize. Our classes were some of the largest in the state at the time in the 60's and 70's. I didn't even know all the people in my class when I was in school. My class was close to 1000 when I graduated. Plus, I was more into showing horses then school at the time. School was something I had to do and then go to the barn to ride and prep for shows on the weekends. I didn't do a HS grad photo, wasn't in the yearbook, didn't buy a yearbook or class ring. Didn't even care if I attended graduation which drove my uncle nuts. It was more like it was his graduation than mine. I did go to it, all dress up in the cap and gown much to my uncles relief. It was held outside at the football field so seating wasn't a problem. My uncle actually expected me to give up one of my two tickets for the graduation to him if it was rained out and had to be held in the auditorium. My parents didn't pressure me one way or another, which was nice. I never was one of the "cool" kids so Jr High and Senior High were so-so for me. I transferred in at 7th grade from a parochial school so all the clicks were in place and I was an outsider. Made my own friends who liked horses and we got teased for it and what would now be bullied to some extent.
Didn't help that I was good in phy-ed and beat the cool girls in whatever sport we did. I usually was a Team Captain for those wonderful games and I always picked the uncool, dumpy, last pick girls to be on my team. Picking the cool kids was worthless since they didn't want to play anyway, especially with me. Then we would cream the cool girls that were afraid to break a sweat or a nail. Everyone on my team earned the Presidents Physical Fitness Award too. We all encouraged each other and worked together to help each other fulfill all the requirements. And we had fun! For most of the girls I had on my teams, I sometimes wonder if it was the first time they actually were not the last one picked for a team and that someone actually wanted them. And they were amazed at what they could do when someone actually believed in them and wanted them on a team.
Still rainy and wet here- some white stuff on the way into work this morning. Felt chilled all day at work. Didn't want to overdress since not sure how warm the office/store will be, but think I add add some layers now.
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It snowed just south of us but we didn't get any, at least not while I was awake to see it. It's too early for snow
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We had hail last night and pouring rain. A good night to curl up with a book. We all need someone to believe in us.
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Humans have always had a complicated relationship with water. It is the most basic element needed to survive. It has represented adventure and travel into the unknown for millenia to those brave enough to sail across it. But thousands of people per year die from drowning. Millions of dollars worth of property is damaged every year by flooding. When you live on an island, as Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearts, the husband and wife duo known collectively as Shovels & Rope does, your relationship with water is intensified. So it's no surprise that the human fascination with water, good and bad, forms the bedrock upon which the band builds its new album, "Swimmin' Time", out Aug. 26.
When we spoke with Shovels & Rope just before their Bonnaroo appearance in June, they gave some insight into this theming: "We live on John's Island, SC, which is near Charleston. They call it the Low Country because there are so many rivers and marshlands and bridges so it's going to seep into the songwriting... Well, and living on the coast there's always anxiety about the water getting into the road. When the water gets in the road, we can't get off the island!"
After last year saw them break out in a big way, in large part thanks to word of mouth from their energetic live performances and their strong 2012 album "O' Be Joyful", Shovels & Rope has done the near impossible by delivering a follow up album that is better in almost every aspect. All thirteen of the songs on "Swimmin' Time" can rival the best work on "O' Be Joyful."
There's something for every taste here. If you like Shovels & Rope's raucous good time songs, you will be very happy with the goofy-sweet love song "Mary Ann and One-Eyed Dan" or the silly machismo present in "Fish Assassin", which manages to make dipping a line sound like a full contact sport. If you want ballads, the album's lead single "The Devil Is All Around" is there for you.
But it is when Shovels & Rope explores its dark side that "Swimmin' Time" pulls away from its predecessor into album of the year contender territory. "Evil" is a creepy stalker song with a Tom Waits-inspired vocal delivery and some surprisingly heavy Jack White style fuzz guitar riffs. The album's best song, the murder ballad "Ohio", manages to sound like something you might hear in a Prohibition era speakeasy while also sounding like it wouldn't be out of place on a Danny Elfman noir soundtrack to a Tim Burton movie.
What has made Shovels & Rope so endearing is their playfulness both on stage and album and that quality shines through even on the darkest tracks from "Swimmin' Time." The title track itself is a bit of a wink to the audience, with its summery "let's all go down to the watering hole" title hiding a global warming cautionary tale. Swimmin' time is only fun if you have some dry land to return to when you tire.
While the folk rock revolution of the last couple of years has seen a bit of a backlash recently due to bands like Mumford & Sons releasing follow up albums that are seen by some as too safe, Shovels & Rope won't have to worry about that. This is a band that could have very easily recorded thirteen riffs on "Birmingham" and made a lot of money milking that cow until it died. Instead, they've chosen to take the risks of losing the audience they've built by evolving their sound. It's a risk that has paid off creatively in a big way. It's always dangerous to judge how casual fans will react to a change in tone, there's enough of the elements that have made Shovels & Rope successful to appease them.


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Anthony Hill was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in Deland, Florida and faces charges for stealing a seven-year-old child's dog as he walked his dog on Sunday towards West Taylor Road reported NewsDaytonaBeach.com.
According to Volusia County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, Brandon Haught, the child was walking his dog when a man stopped his silver Nissan and got out of the car telling the child that the red nose pit bull puppy with the white chest the little boy was walking belonged to him. (the stranger)
At that point, the man, now identified as Anthony Hill, took the dog's leash off and placed the dog in his car. He then left heading north. Witnesses saw the man take the dog from the child and were able to identify the suspect and his automobile.
The child's father, Anthony Cavallero, 44 called the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and reported the incident. According to the child's father, a neighbor had given the family the eight-month-old puppy a few days ago.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call contact Volusia County Sheriff's Office at 386-736-5999 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 888-277-8477 to possibly qualify for a cash reward.
"Even in the most remote chance that the dog was his," stated Carol Sanders of West Palm Beach, "why wouldn't the man just go to the police and report that was his dog, instead of stealing a dog from an innocent little kid?"
That is the question Carol we are sure many people want the suspect to answer.
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