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Earlier today, Mad Catz announced that it is now shipping the first of its headsets dedicated to the PlayStation 4 gaming system, the Tritton Kama Stereo Headset.
Built specifically for the PlayStation 4, the Tritton Kama Stereo Headset has a stylish black with blue color scheme and connects directly to the PlayStation 4's DUALSHOCK 4 wireless controller, and nearly every device via a 3.5mm jack. The Kama comes with a flexible performance mic and handy in-line audio controls for easy chatting with friends. The headset also features swiveling padded ear cups for comfort and has an adjustable headrail. You can find images of the Trttion Kama in the slideshow on the left.
The Tritton Kama Stereo Headset is now shipping and it has a current price of $29.99 for those of you looking for a new headset. To can learn more about the Kama, which looks a bit like the Tritton Kunai, by visiting the official page.
If you would like to purchase other Mad Catz products locally, here are the listings for some of the game stores in the Las Cruces and Albuquerque areas.
Game Stop Paseo Del Norte
9311 Coors Blvd Nw
Ste 01-3
Albuquerque, NM 87114
(505) 890-3033
Game Stop Coronado Center
6600 Menaul Blvd Ne
Albuquerque, NM 87110
(505) 830-4212
Game Stop Las Cruces
1455 Hickory Dr
Ste 4
Las Cruces, NM 88005
(575) 647-8809
Game Stop Mesilla Valley Mall
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Space 1492
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Henry V
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Henry V Act 5, Prologue Summary
- The Chorus comes out on stage and tells us about Henry's trip to Calais and his victorious return to London, which we'll just have to imagine because it's impossible to portray such a journey on stage.
- The Chorus tells us that the Holy Roman Emperor made a trip to England to try to negotiate peace between England and France and that Henry has returned to France.
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Did you see this article, "Obesity Epidemic Propels Fitness as a Career?"
Employment of fitness trainers and instructors is expected to grow by a brisk 24 percent in the decade to 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as businesses, health professionals and insurance companies take sharper aim at the sedentary lifestyle.
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CMS Collaboration; Amsler, C; Chiochia, V; Snoek, H; Verzetti, M; Favaro, C; Storey, J; De Visscher, S; Aguiló, E; Otyugova, P; Millan, B; Ivova, M; Schmitt, A (2011). Charged particle transverse momentum spectra in pp collisions at √s = 0.9 and 7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, (8):86.
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The charged particle transverse momentum (pT) spectra are presented for pp collisions at sqrt(s)=0.9 and 7 TeV. The data samples were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to integrated luminosities of 231 inverse microbarns and 2.96 inverse picobarns, respectively. Calorimeter-based high-transverse-energy triggers are employed to enhance the statistical reach of the high-pT measurements. The results are compared with both leading-order QCD and with an empirical scaling of measurements at different collision energies using the scaling variable xT = 2 pT/sqrt(s) over the pT range up to 200 GeV/c. Using a combination of xT scaling and direct interpolation at fixed pT, a reference transverse momentum spectrum at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV is constructed, which can be used for studying high-pT particle suppression in the dense QCD medium produced in heavy-ion collisions at that centre-of-mass energy.
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Appearing before District Court Judge Thomas Warren last Friday, Manson resident Edwin Troy Hawkins was found guilty of fourth-degree assault of Chelan High School Coach Darren Talley.
Hawkins was arrested last May on 2nd Degree Assault charges following an incident at a school track meet in Cashmere. According to a Sheriffs report a heated verbal argument between Hawkins and Assistant Track coach Darren Talley ended with Harkins striking Talley in the jaw with the heel of his hand snapping his neck back. Those charges were later amended to 4th Degree Assault. Mr. Hawkins does not deny the altercation took place but said he was surprised by the verdict.
Hawkins was arrested on May 9th at the Lake Chelan School District Offices after meeting with School Superintendent Rob Manahan and spent the night in jail before bonding out.
A letter sent to Mr. Hawkins from School Superintendent Rob Manahan restricts Hawkins from visiting school campuses. Hawkins is appealing that school district order. A separate yet parallel court case is working its way through the civil courts after Hawkins filed suit against Darren Talley for allegedly "head butting" him during the altercation that ultimately led to Hawkins arrest and conviction. No date has yet been set for the lawsuit which seeks unspecified restitution for physical injuries, psychological distress and damages.


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Dec. 2, 2006
Final Stats | Quotes | Notes | Photo Gallery | Coach Karl Dorrell Post Game Press Conference | Post Game Interviews With Players and Coaches
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -Step aside, Trojans. Your chase for the national championship is over.
UCLA knocked No. 2 USC out of the Bowl Championship Series title game with a stunning 13-9 victory over its crosstown rival Saturday. The Bruins did it with a vastly improved defense and a quarterback starting on three days' notice.
Patrick Cowan passed for 114 yards, ran for another 55, and the Bruins snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Trojans in paving the way for a Michigan-Ohio State rematch or an Ohio State-Florida matchup for the national championship Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz.
The final BCS standings and bowl pairings will be announced Sunday.
The Trojans moved into position for a game-winning touchdown, but Eric McNeal deflected and then made a diving interception of John David Booty's pass at the UCLA 20-yard line with 1:10 remaining.
USC's bid for a third straight appearance in the national title game was over following its only turnover of the game.
The Trojans got one final shot at winning, but Booty's desperation pass from the USC 12 with six seconds left fell incomplete, and the celebration was on at the Rose Bowl. Moments after it was over, defensive end Justin Hickman led teammates into the UCLA student section.
Besides having their national championship hopes ended, the Trojans (10-2, 7-2 Pac-10) had their NCAA-record scoring streak of 63 games in which they had scored 20 or more points snapped.
The loss was just USC's fourth in the last 59 games. As Pac-10 champions, the Trojans will return to Pasadena on New Year's Day and play in the Rose Bowl game.
"I don't have any feelings right now," USC coach Pete Carroll said. "I'm just disappointed that we couldn't find a way to score some points today. It just didn't happen today. You've just got to credit them for that.
"We'll go to the Rose Bowl and make it a great event."
The Bruins (7-5, 5-4) hadn't beaten USC since 1998, when they topped the Trojans for the eighth straight time. UCLA, a winner of three straight, will face Florida State in the Emerald Bowl on Dec. 27 in San Francisco.
"I feel great for our players," said UCLA coach Karl Dorrell, who's been hearing criticism all season - his fourth on the job. "I feel great for our players. They've had to endure a lot. We believed in ourselves. We were fortunate to be the ones on top.
"I didn't believe it until the clock hit zero. All we wanted to do was stay close and get a chance to win."
No. 1 Ohio State locked up its berth in the BCS title game by beating then-No. 2 Michigan 42-39 two weeks ago in the regular-season finale for both teams. USC moved ahead of the Wolverines in the BCS standings last weekend after beating Notre Dame 44-24.
The game at the Rose Bowl was delayed briefly with 5:52 remaining after a UCLA punt, when the Bruins gathered for a team huddle a couple of yards onto the field. USC decided to do the same thing, and seconds later, the players began bouncing up and down and waving their arms, triggering offsetting unsportslike conduct penalties.
The coaches and officials made the players keep their distance.
USC then moved to the Bruins' 18 before McNeal's game-clincher on a third-and-four play.
Dorrell decided Wednesday that the more mobile Cowan, who had started UCLA's previous six games, would get the call at quarterback rather than Ben Olson, who started the first five games but hasn't played since tearing a knee ligament Oct. 7.
Dorrell said two days earlier that Olson would get start if he seemed to be up to it in practice. Obviously, that didn't turn out to be the case.
Cowan completed 12 of 21 passes and carried 10 times. Booty completed 23 of 39 passes for 274 yards and the one costly interception.
Justin Medlock kicked a 22-yard field goal with 5:45 left in the third quarter and a 31-yarder with 8:49 remaining in the game for the only scoring of the second half.
USC got an opportunity late in the third period when Michael Pitre couldn't handle a swing pass from Cowan that was ruled a lateral, and Sedrick Ellis recovered at the UCLA 44 for UCLA's only turnover. But C.J. Gable was thrown for a 4-yard loss by Christian Taylor and Alterraun Verner on fourth-and-2 from the 36.
The Bruins then moved into position for Medlock's second field goal. He leads all Division I-A kickers with 26 field goals in 30 attempts.
With defensive ends Bruce Davis and Hickman pressuring Booty just about every time he tried to pass, the Trojans were held in check until a 1-yard run by Gable with 51 seconds left before halftime capped a 66-yard, 12-play drive and put them on top 9-7.
But USC wouldn't score again, and the crowd of 90,266 was roaring at the end.
The Bruins moved 91 yards on their third possession for a 7-0 lead, scoring on Cowan's 1-yard run. Cowan scrambled three times for 54 yards earlier in the 11-play drive. He entered the game having netted 49 yards on 37 carries this season.
After Greg Woidneck's punt was downed at the UCLA 1 early in the second period, a holding penalty against Robert Chai in the end zone resulted in a safety, and that turned out to be the difference at halftime.
USC didn't score despite crossing midfield on its first three possessions, turning the ball over on downs at the UCLA 31 when Taylor held Chauncey Washington to no gain on a fourth-and-1 play, and punting twice.
The Trojans moved into Bruins territory following the second-half kickoff, but a personal foul penalty against guard Chilo Rachel and an incompletion ended the drive.


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(LITTLE ROCK, AR) – In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Arkansas Arts Center has planned several special exhibitions. Currently on view in the Winthrop Rockefeller Foyer, the installation Building the Collection: How it Began showcases the first three drawings that were purchased in 1971 for the Arkansas Arts Center Collection – a watercolor by Andrew Wyeth, a charcoal by Willem de Kooning and a sumi ink piece by Morris Graves. Works that were acquired for the Arkansas Arts Center in the 1970s will also be on view in the adjacent Winthrop Rockefeller Gallery. These installations will be on view through February 27, 2011. The Arkansas Arts Center will present the Museum School Faculty Exhibition: Past and Present January 11- February 27, 2011. This exhibition highlights work by current Museum School faculty as well as work created by former faculty members from the Arkansas Arts Center collection. The Arts Center will showcase the work of Museum School faculty as part of a three-year series through 2013. The Young Arkansas Artists 50th Annual Exhibition will be held March 15 – April 17, 2011. In 1961, the Arkansas Arts Center hosted its first statewide children's art exhibition. In its 50th year, the Young Arkansas Artists exhibition continues to recognize the creative achievements of students. This exhibition showcases artworks in all media created by students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Arkansas schools. In conjunction with the Young Arkansas Artists 50th Annual Exhibition, the Arkansas Arts Center will host a panel discussion titled 50th Anniversary of Young Arkansas Artists: How We Grow on February 17, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. A panel of art educators, artists and past participants in Young Arkansas Artists will discuss their experience with the exhibition. Tickets to the panel discussion are $5 and can be purchased by phone, online or in person. For more information or to purchase tickets for events, visit www.arkarts.com or call
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Termite Facts
Interesting Facts about Termite Biology & Behavior
This page includes interesting facts about termites, including their biology, behavior, ability to damage homes and main insect enemy.
- There are approximately 45 species of termites in the U.S. There are more than 2,300 species worldwide.
- Termites are social insects that live in colonies with caste systems, which means termites are organized into different social classes based on their roles and responsibilities.
- The termite caste system has three levels: reproductives, workers and soldiers.
- Worker and soldier termites are blind. Only termites that have become fully mature, reproductive termites develop eyes.
- Since termites live in dark places and many of them are blind, termites communicate through pheromones (chemical signals) and vibrations caused by head-banging.
- Termites build the largest nests of any insect.
- Termites cannot "eat" wood. Termites require the help of single-cell organisms in their guts to digest cellulose (wood).
- Ants are termites main predator. Ants can attack termite colonies or termite workers looking for food.
- In the U.S., subterranean termites cause more damage than drywood and dampwood termites. Formosan termites, a species of subterranean termite, are responsible for the greatest amount of damage in the U.S.
- In Australia and Africa, very large and architecturally impressive termite mounds have become tourist attractions.
- Termites have lived on Earth for approximately 250 million years.
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Caroline Wozniacki No. 1 After Dubai Win
Caroline Wozniacki recently took down the Russian champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a match that ended with a 6-1-6-3 score.
It was the last match in the Dubai championship which took place on Sunday and audience members certainly got the entertainment they came for.
Although Wozniacki had never made it past the third round of any match before, she still managed to beat her Russian opponent on Sunday, stunning those who were watching.
She now has her 13th title in her career which she seems extremely proud of. When she took down Shahar Peer in the quarter finals she was able to gain back the ranking which she had previously lost to Kim Clijsters just one week before, a defeat which she seemed to bounce back from rather quickly.
Wozniacki said that it felt extremely good to defeat Kuznetsova in the ring and is immensely proud of her victory which has officially put her back on top in every way imaginable.
Although it didn't look good at the beginning of the fight, it suddenly started to turn in her favor when she eventually took down her opponent. Kuznetsova made a series of mistakes, including underestimating Wozniacki who had more fight in her than most believed.
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Last.fm Founders Sever Ties With CBS
With the founders of London-based online music service Last.fm calling it quits, owner CBS is getting a chance to tighten its grip on the service.
Co-founders Felix Miller, Richard Jones and Martin Stiksel said they were leaving the company, which has some 37.3 million unique monthly visitors, according to internal figures (comScore pegs monthly uniques at 21.8 million). Mr. Miller also serves as Last.fm's chief executive officer.
CBS bought the service two years ago in a deal valued at $280 million. Last.fm allows users to customize online radio stations according to their musical tastes. U.S. competitors include Pandora and Slacker.
"Being a part of CBS…continues to open up many opportunities for Last.fm," the founders wrote in a blog post today announcing their departure. They pointed to developments like Last.fm's integration into Microsoft's Xbox online gaming community.
"We're grateful for their time and energy," said Quincy Smith, chief executive officer, CBS Interactive, who says he is pleased the founders stayed for two years after the CBS acquisition. In the world of tech start-ups, "it's friggin' rare that you can hold onto one of these guys." David Goodman, CBS Interactive Music Group president, will oversee Last.fm until a successor to Mr. Miller is named.
As online music listening grows in importance, radio companies increasingly want a high profile. Competitor Clear Channel, for example, has applications that allow fans to play its stations on Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry. Most companies' big stations stream their programming.
Recently, Last.fm got bogged down in allegations that user information was shared with the Recording Industry Association of America. It and CBS vehemently denied the charges.


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Lady Gaga's YouTube Channel Suspended [UPDATED]
Lady Gaga's official YouTube channel has been suspended.
According to reports, the site took action because Mother Monster posted a recent performance on the Japanese variety show "SMAP x SMAP" on the Fuji TV network.
Gaga supposedly did not get permission to use the ten-minute medley clip, leading Media Interactive Inc. to claim copyright infringement.
Now, visitors to the "ladygagaofficial" channel are greeted with the message, "This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's Copyright Policy."
There's been no word from Gaga herself on the subject.
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In Wiehl and Henry's latest Quinn mystery, A Deadly Business, Mia learns there are "even more ways to die than she thought" when she walks into the courtroom for the sentencing of twenty-two-year-old Bernard Young. Her prosecution had been "airtight" against the defendant for the rape and strangulation of two runaway girls and she'd recommended life in prison to Judge Rivas so he would "never be able to hurt anyone again." She felt confident "Young would get it."
Now she stood behind the prosecution table for Young's sentencing and saw him walk into the courtroom behind his attorney. Without missing a step he broke away from the guard and run toward Mia with a "face filled with rage." She felt him crash into her and they tumbled to the floor, his weight knocking the breath out of her.
Thoughts of now fatherless fourteen-year-old, Gabe and three-year-old Brooke fueled a fresh burst of adrenaline until Mia "felt the small sharp edge of a razor blade against her throat." Her husband had been killed in a single car accident seven months ago and Gabe and Brook just couldn't lose her too. Seconds later she felt the crush of piled on bodies ease and she heard a deputy say, "I got his wrist...cuff him from the other side."
Thus begins book two of the Seattle based Mia Quinn series where Mia prosecutes high profile cases for the Violent Crimes unit. She still struggles with the loss of Scott, her accountant husband and the mountainous "pile of debt he'd left behind" and feels ill-equipped to be a single parent.
Detective Charlie Carlson's suspicions Mia's husband's death wasn't an accident adds intrigue to an already complicated murder investigation when Mia's house is broken into by someone who didn't find what they were looking for.
Mia's pending decision whether to prosecute three fifteen-year-old boys as juveniles or adults for dropping a shopping cart from a bridge onto a woman below adds to her stress. Was it an accident or deliberate? A question she struggles with. She knows her decision will not only affect the boys lives it will also affect her bosses bid for reelection if she makes the wrong choice.
Add teaching law classes at night to her already busy schedule, a home break in and a killer who knows where she lives and Mia has little time for district attorney Eli Hall's romantic intentions.
The complex plot offers multiple plot lines with an action packed tale of deception and intrigue that keeps the pages turning, although the underlying Christian theme is more subtle than in previous books.
However, the suspense is solid, the courtroom scenes realistic and there is no obscene language which makes "A Deadly Business" a fun, easy read. Book three, Lethal Beauty is scheduled to release March 3, 2015.
***For more of Wiehl and Henry check out the list of
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A Deadly Business, a Mia Quinn Mystery, by Lis Wiehl w/April Henry, Thomas Nelson, 2014, 320 Pages, 978-1595549044, $26.99
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"Lethal Beauty, #3-A Mia Quinn Mystery," by Lis Wiehl w/April Henry
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Mia Quinn discovers that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are linked. How far up are the strings being pulled—and what happens when one of her own is at risk?
The murder Mia is prosecuting seems like an open and shut case—until the accused claims he was the real victim and that the dead girl attacked him first. The tabloids dub her a "lethal beauty." Still, a conviction seems imminent. Then a key witness goes missing. Just when it looks like the killer could walk free, the dead woman's mother takes matters into her own hands.
Meanwhile, Charlie Carlson, a Seattle homicide detective, is investigating the murder of a man whose body washed up on the beach of Puget Sound, but he's got little to go on. He has no dental work, fingerprints aren't on file, and he doesn't match any missing person reports. Then a church pianist is senselessly gunned down before horrified parishioners.
All three cases seem unrelated—but are they? Together, Mia and Charlie race to find the answer before another crime hits too close to home.
"Lethal Beauty, #3-A Mia Quinn Mystery," by Lis Wiehl w/April Henry
Mia Quinn discovers that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are linked. How far up are the strings being pulled—and what happens when one of her own is at risk?
The murder Mia is prosecuting seems like an open and shut case—until the accused claims he was the real victim and that the dead girl attacked him first. The tabloids dub her a "lethal beauty." Still, a conviction seems imminent. Then a key witness goes missing. Just when it looks like the killer could walk free, the dead woman's mother takes matters into her own hands.
Meanwhile, Charlie Carlson, a Seattle homicide detective, is investigating the murder of a man whose body washed up on the beach of Puget Sound, but he's got little to go on. He has no dental work, fingerprints aren't on file, and he doesn't match any missing person reports. Then a church pianist is senselessly gunned down before horrified parishioners.
All three cases seem unrelated—but are they? Together, Mia and Charlie race to find the answer before another crime hits too close to home.
A Deadly Business, #2, a Mia Quinn Mystery, by Lis Wiehl
Review: http://www.examiner.com/list/a-matter-of-trust-a-mia-quinn-mystery-by-li...
When a twenty-two-year-old convict walks into the courtroom, his eyes confirm what Mia Quinn already guesses: he blames her for his conviction. In seconds, he knocks her to the ground and holds a razor blade to her throat. While she manages to escape without injury, it's just one more reminder that Mia's job prosecuting Seattle's s most dangerous criminals is far from low risk.
As a single mom, the last thing Mia wants is for her work to follow her home or discover that it already has.
Now Detective Charlie Carlson is suggesting the very thing Mia doesn't want to believe—that her accountant husband's deadly car accident was no accident at all. When Mia and Charlie encounter resistance to reopening the case, they take the investigation into their own hands. And they find much more than they bargained for.
Was Mia's husband more than an accountant . . . and less than an honest man? As the truth becomes more shocking and the case grows more complex, her husband's killers take note of Mia . . . and her children. How far will this prosecutor go to learn the truth about her husband—and how far will she have to go to protect her family?
Snapshot, by Lis Wiehl
Review: http://www.examiner.com/list/snapshot-by-lis-wiehl
Two little girls, frozen in black and white. One picture worth killing for.
The Civil Rights Movement is less than a distant memory to Lisa Waldren—it is someone else's memory altogether, passed on to her through the pages of history. Her life as a federal prosecutor in Boston feels utterly remote from the marches in the South that changed her father's generation—and the entire nation—forever.
But the truth is, she was there.
When a photograph surfaces showing a blond, four-year-old Lisa playing with an African-American girl at a civil rights march in Fort Worth, Lisa is faced with a jarring revelation: the girls may have been the only witnesses who observed the killer of civil rights leader Benjamin Gray . . . and therefore the only ones who can exonerate the death row inmate falsely accused of the murder.
Soon, Lisa finds herself in the dangerous world her father had shielded her from as a child. After some searching, the Waldrens find the other little girl from the photo and, in the process, uncover conspiracy mere steps away from the likes of Bobby Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Based on real events and a photograph snapped by author Lis Wiehl's own G-man father, Snapshot is a remarkably original marriage of mystery and history.
Waking Hours, #1-The East Salem Trilogy, by Lis Wiehl w/Pete Nelson
Welcome to East Salem. A deceptively sleepy town where ancient supernatural forces are being awakened.
A local high-school girl is found murdered in a park amid horse farms and the wealthy homes of northern Westchester County, New York. The shocking manner of her death intrigues forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris. All the suspects are teenagers who were at a party with the girl—yet none remembers what happened. Could one of them be a vicious killer? Or is something more sinister afoot—something tied to an ancient evil?
Across town, former NFL linebacker Tommy Gunderson finds his state-of-the-art security system has been breached by an elderly woman. Mumbling threats in Latin, she attacks him with an uncanny, preternatural strength. Before he has time to process the attack, someone close to him is implicated in the girl's murder at the park. He agrees to help—and finds himself working with Dani, the only girl who could resist his charm years ago when they were in high school.
A heavy darkness is spreading. Yet a heavenly force is also at work.
Dani and Tommy suspect there's more to the mystery than murder, more to their growing friendship than chance . . . and more to the evil they're facing than a mere human killer.
Darkness Rising, #2-The East Salem Trilogy, by Lis Wiehl w/Pete Nelson
The evil in East Salem is no longer content to hide in the shadows. The stakes—and the darkness—are rising.
Dani Harris thought there wasn't much left that could surprise her after serving as a forensic psychiatrist in East Salem. And Tommy Gunderson has faced few challenges in his life that he couldn't overcome by either physical strength or his celebrity status.
But as they race to uncover what's really happening behind the high walls of St. Adrian's Academy, it becomes clear that supernatural forces have been at work here for generations. And now their focus is on making sure Dani and Tommy don't interfere.
When the unseen becomes seen, faith is the only weapon strong enough to fight in a battle involving not just murder and betrayal—but angels and demons.
"Wiehl's latest is a truly creepy story with supernatural undertones that seem eerily real." -Romantic Times review of Waking Hours
Fatal Tide, #3-The East Salem Trilogy, by Lis Wiehl w/Pete Nelson
In East Salem, the elite St. Adrian's Academy is at the nexus of a satanic apocalypse—and the fatal tide is rising.
When Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is reunited with the pagans who commissioned it, a dark prophecy begins to unfold in East Salem, beginning with a savage double-murder by hellish creatures straight out of the painting itself. The lone survivor of the attack, a seventeen-year-old Brit, finds sanctuary at Tommy Gunderson's home—and the place is soon surrounded by demons who seem to be biding their time…but for how long?
Tommy's pond has been contaminated with Provivilan—an insidious drug that could transform New York City's children into an army of violence-addicted murderers. But for an occult cabal in the upper echelons of Linz Pharmaceuticals, contaminating the water supply is just part of an ancient conspiracy against all of humankind.
As the clouds gather, Tommy and Dani realize they must infiltrate Linz and St. Adrian's to stop the dissemination of Provivilan. Even then, it could take a tangible eruption of the battle between angels and demons to save humanity from the supernatural evils that have been summoned to East Salem.
The Truth Advantage: The 7 Keys to a Happy and Fulfilling Life, Lis Wiehl
A New York Times bestselling author and television personality shows you how to use the truth to your advantage in every aspect of your life
From ""I have a headache"" to ""I don't remember that,"" studies show that most of us lie once or twice a day. While some lies are considered ""white lies,"" other lies can destroy relationships, careers, and lives. In this helpful and fascinating book, Lis Wiehl shows just how and why the truth is a powerful tool. Using news stories, court cases, and personal anecdotes, she teaches you the seven ways to unlock the Truth Advantage and gives you practical techniques to improve all aspects of your life, from your job to your relationships. This book will also equip you with your own personal lie detector—the secret to finding out when people are not telling you the truth—and then gives you advice on precisely what to do when that happens.
• Master the truth to your advantage
• Discover how to win by telling the truth
• Become your own personal lie detector and spot the clues of dishonesty
Lis Wiehl shares her knowledge as a lawyer and news commentator (and the daughter of an FBI agent) to help you sort through the lies and get to the truth. When you tell the truth and can get the truth from others, you are well liked and respected and your life is happier. This book will help you become the best, most powerful person you can be by using one uncomplicated tool—the Truth Advantage.
The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It, by Lis Wiehl
"Lis Wiehl tells us where the law protects us, and where it is letting us down. And as a bonus she gives us the tools to make change happen! If you care about where we are going, you have to read this book."
–Rita Cosby, Emmy Award-winning TV host
Women make up 51% of the American population, yet still aren't treated equally to men in areas that matter most. In this provocative new book, Lis Wiehl, one of the country's top federal prosecutors, reveals the legal and social inequalities women must face in their daily lives–and provides a "Tool Box" for dealing with a variety of issues. From boardroom to courtroom, from pregnancy to contraception, from unequal pay to domestic violence, women are more often than not handed the short end of the stick.
• A woman earns seventy-three cents for every dollar a man makes.
• The law labels pregnancy a "disability."
• Domestic violence remains the single biggest threat of injury to women in America.
• The federal government continues to increase funding for abstinence-only education, even though it's proven to put our daughters at greater risk for unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
• Health insurance plans are more likely to cover Viagra prescriptions than birth control pills.
What's worse, we're also weighed down by a myriad of troubling attitudes: The media bombard us with images of young, perfect-bodied women; acid-tongued commentators label us "feminazi" if we try to claim equal treatment; and the current chief justice of the Supreme Court has a history of opposing legislative and legal attempts to strengthen women's rights, and questions "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."
Why are powerful women viewed with consternation while powerful men instill respect? Why is it that for every ten men in an executive, decision-making role in this country, there is only one woman in that same role? Why do our federal courts continue to be stacked with male judges even though women receive more than half of all law degrees? And why shouldn't a woman be president?
Enough! Women are not equal in our society or under our laws and the remedy is quite simple: Besides being the majority of the population, we also control the economy, spending 80 percent of every discretionary dollar, and given that 54 percent of voters are female, we can swing an election. With our numbers we can do something about it.
This is a critical moment: We can either take the road toward equality or allow ourselves to be driven further away from fair treatment. The 51% Minority is a clarion call to the silent majority to take a stand . . . before it's too late.
Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life, by Lis Wiehl
Whether you're hoping to obtain a raise from your boss, convince an insurance claim representative to reimburse your medical treatment, or persuade your spouse into spending less time watching TV and more time with you, Winning Every Time will be your guide for truly practical and helpful advice about how to make that case effectively—and win it hands down. Too often we argue conclusions without the benefit of a premise, react from anger instead of presenting hard facts, feel defensive when sensing resistance, or fail to make calm, irrefutable counterarguments. In this dynamic, groundbreaking book, Lis Wiehl shows how to apply the skills, smarts, and strategies of a lawyer and stay in command whenever life makes you feel as though you are on trial.
Writing in an engaging, accessible style, Wiehl teaches you how to become your own best advocate, so you can plead your case with precision—and win the hearts (and change the minds) of even the most recalcitrant "juror." You'll learn the eight easy-to-follow rules of persuasion to winning a case:
Know What You Want: The Theory of the Case—outline your premise clearly and establish your objective accordingly
Choose and Cultivate Your Audience: Voir Dire— bring your case to the person who "calls the shots" and know the perfect time and place to do so
Marshal Your Evidence: Discovery—assemble all the facts that support your cause, even information that may challenge your objective
Advocate with Confidence: Making the Case—present your opening argument and offer your evidence calmly and methodically
Counter the Claims: Cross-examination—challenge your opponent's allegations consistently, but gently, through a series of "yes or no" questions
Stay True to Your Case: Avoid the Seven Deadly Spins—keep your argument authentic by avoiding false inferences, hearsay, and subjectivity
Advocate with Heart: Let Me Tell You a Story—make your case personal with a special story that will convey your message in a memorable way
Sum It Up: The Closing Argument—deliver a fervent and succinct summation of your theory and evidence . . . and close the deal
Along with practical advice on how to state your case effectively and come out on top, this remarkable book features incisive stories from real people who have transformed their lives through advocacy. With amazing, result-oriented strategies, Winning Every Times will help you stay in command whenever life makes you feel as though you are on trial.


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Top CMA Interviews
This week we're looking back at the best of 2011. One of the highlights of the past year was our annual visit to Nashville during the CMA Awards.
In November Jake Thomas and I had the chance to visit with over 30 stars at the CMA awards. It was an awesome way to celebrate my fourth CMA nomination, and although I didn't take the trophy home this year, it was an honor to be included among all the other great artists and air personalities in this great business of Country Music. These were my favorite top 5 CMA award interviews.
5. Ty Herndon
It was great to see the energy of this '90s star who's ready to make a comeback! The 'What Mattered Most' singer was excited to share the news about his new single 'Stones' and talked about last year's Grammy nomination.
Click here to listen to our interview with Ty Herndon.
4. Martina McBride
Martina McBride is one of the most beautiful women in Country Music, inside and out. The 'Independence Day' singer talked about her new hit 'I'm Gonna Love You Through It,' and why she tears up every time she watches the video.
Click here to hear what Martina McBride had to say.
3. Vince Gill
Vince Gill was the only Country Music Hall of Famer that made the interview rounds at the CMAs. I respect and admire all he's done for the publicity and support of Classic Country Music and it's forgotten music makers. In this interview, Gill talks about the new LeAnn Rimes memorial bathroom and putting his family to work on his latest album.
Click here to listen to Vince Gill chat with GNA.
2. Faith Hill
Like Martina McBride, Faith Hill is stunning in person! In our short conversation with the 'Breathe' singer, Hill talked about her 'parfumes,' her new single 'Come Home,' and reveals her favorite Tim McGraw movie.
Click here to enjoy our conversation with Faith Hill.
1. The Band Perry
I just love the energy of this family trio. I met The Band Perry during last year's interviews and even with four CMA nominations this year, they were just as nice and really fun to interview. I was especially thrilled when Kimberly sang a line from 'If I Die Young' and Reid admitted that the new single 'All Your Life' was written for me, or was it? I'm happy The Band Perry took home three CMA awards. In my opinion, they are one of the best newer acts to represent 'Today's Country!'


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On Demand Webcast: The Five Competencies of Customer Experience Companies
By Christie Flanagan on Jun 13, 2013
These obstacles indicate that a real shift in approach is required for those organizations that really want to push forward on their customer experience initiatives. And this shift in approach needs to come by way of initiatives that span people, processes and technology.
Oracle's Global Customer Experience Impact report surveyed more than 1,300 senior executives across 18 countries on the state of customer experience. This study, one of the largest of its type ever undertaken, yields crucial new insights on the challenges, strategies and lessons learned for succeeding in the customer experience (CX) era. View the survey results, or take the CX assessment survey to see where your organization stands.
Want to learn more about the disruptive innovation happening around customer experience and the impact it can have on a brand? Check out this insightful video interview with New York University Associate Professor, Clay Shirky:
Unable to get new digital marketing initiatives to market as fast as you would like? Tired of dealing with IT bottlenecks that prevent you from making routine site updates or launching new digital marketing campaigns quickly? Your customers have little patience for a brand that fails to meet their expectations for a contextually relevant and interactive digital experience that supports their journey as a customer. As a result, speed-to-market and business agility are more important than ever before when it comes to gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage. Are your existing web experience management tools and processes up to the challenge?
If you are a marketer that has to secure a developer resource whenever you want to create a new landing page or make an important update to your website, get ready for your competitors to eat your lunch. Today's market moves much too swiftly and companies with marketing teams that are forced to rely on IT for the execution of their digital marketing efforts are at a steep disadvantage. That's why it's so important to have a web experience management platform that empowers marketers and other non-technical business users to manage many aspects of the digital customer experience themselves.
See how simple site authoring and editing are in WebCenter Sites in this brief video tutorial.
Oracle WebCenter Sites makes it easy for marketers to contribute and manage websites with visual and intuitive content authoring and layout capabilities designed for the non-technical user. Oracle WebCenter Sites enables marketers to simply drag and drop content right into the context of a web page using a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) authoring interface. Rich search functionality and visual search results make the process of locating images and other content for use within pages, streamlined and efficient.
Because of WebCenter Sites' intuitive and easy-to-use tools for managing online experiences, our customers have gained the ability to get to market faster with their digital marketing initiatives. As marketers and other line of business users take greater control of managing the web experience, our customers have seen the lead time for new online campaigns shrink from months or weeks down to a matter of days, and routine site updates can be made in a matter of minutes without having to secure a developer resource to execute them.
In today's socially enabled, multichannel online world, individuals increasingly expect their online experiences to be targeted specifically to their interests, to be as social and interactive as their social networking experiences and to be optimized for whatever device type they choose whether a PC, tablet or mobile phone. For Web marketers, this new imperative presents a unique set of challenges when it comes to engaging with their customers online.
Oracle WebCenter Sites helps organizations meet the new Web experience management (WEM) imperative:
Oracle WebCenter Sites enables organizations to deliver a highly relevant and personalized online experience to their customers using intuitive segmentation and targeting capabilities. This allows organizations to deliver the right content to the right site visitor at the right time, maximizing up-sell and cross-selling opportunities while creating an experience that fosters loyalty.
With Oracle WebCenter Sites, organizations can make the experience on the corporate web presence as interactive and community oriented as the experience on social networks. They can also tap into the power of social networks for extending the visibility of their brand and leverage social endorsements to influence purchasing decisions. User-generated content such as ratings, reviews, comments and polls can be easily incorporated into the web presence. Social login and social sharing capabilities make it easy for site visitors to contribute user-generated content using their familiar social network ID's. Content that site visitors like can be easily shared with their social networks in just a few clicks.
Oracle WebCenter Sites also helps organizations solve some of the challenges of multichannel delivery so they can successfully engage site visitors across online channels. Oracle WebCenter Sites enables centralized management of traditional web and mobile sites. The online experience can be easily optimized for delivery to thousands of mobile phone and tablets so organizations can engage mobile users more effectively.
Check out the video to see what it's like to experience WebCenter Sites as a site visitor:
Another important focus area of WebCenter Sites is empowering businesses to create and manage engaging online customer experiences on an enterprise scale.
In order to compete effectively and to get online initiatives to market as quickly as possible, marketers and other non-technical business users need the ability to take greater control of the creation and management of the online customer experience. To enable this, WebCenter Sites has transformed the marketing user experience so that site authoring is visual, intuitive and designed for the way that marketers want to work today. When it comes to web authoring in WebCenter Sites, what marketers see is what marketers get.
Capabilities such as comments, reviews, ratings and blogs are integral to engaging site visitors today. Additionally this kind of user-generated content enables visitors to recommend and endorse an organization to others – an invaluable marketing tool in today's world. But user-generated content requires some level of moderation and control to safeguard the integrity of the brand. Oracle WebCenter Sites provides deep, yet simple to use moderation capabilities so that organizations can assure that the dialogue around their brand is a constructive one.
Assuring optimal performance across enterprise web deployments is a critical component of the online customer experience. With Oracle WebCenter Sites, organizations can deliver a highly scalable multisite, multilingual, and multimedia online customer experience. They can execute on a global scale without sacrificing performance. Oracle WebCenter Sites assures rapid, dynamic delivery of high-volume sites, streamlines the management of hundreds of sites, makes it possible to manage vast and complex product catalogs with ease, and seamlessly incorporates digital assets into the online experience through rich media management.
See what it's like to be a marketer using WebCenter Sites to create engaging online customer experiences:
So - people often ask us about our Social Business Thought Leaders Series and why we do it.
We believe very strongly in the positive change that is happening today in both how we work and how we live because of the transformation of social business technologies and people's behavior. Things are being driven by cloud technologies, mobile, real-time, video, and big data trends. We think, certainly as a technology vendor, that it isn't all about the technology - that you don't just buy our products - you buy into our strategies for the future and you won't buy into our strategies unless we share the same world view. So we've brought together this webcast series featuring opinion makers and thought leaders from the world of business, marketing, academia and IT to share with you what their research shows about what really is going on in the world and what the implications might be. We'll share some of their analysis about it and then show you, as a senior decision maker in your organization, how you can take advantage of some of those changes and avoid some of the pitfalls.
Of course, to help you avoid some of these pitfalls, we've brought together all these core technologies at Oracle under the WebCenter brand to form and build a user engagement platform for social business. We know that you are having to adapt to the trends and changing user expectations, and our goal is to provide you with the ideal solution to meet those demands.
This is why we've brought together all these core technologies at Oracle under the WebCenter brand to form and build the user engagement platform for social business – connecting people and information. We've brought together in a single solution, a combination of enterprise content management, imaging, social networking and collaboration, web experience management, and composite applications and mash-ups, that can be implemented individually or as a platform to address all the needs of engaging your users.
Each of these core capabilities play a significant role in helping you:
Hundreds of companies have
customers, who admire them, but only an elite few have true advocates –
passionate, vocal, loyal fans – who tell the stories of their experiences and
about how much they "love" them. As a teaser for our upcoming Social Business Thought Leader Webcast, we have a short podcast on our WebCenter Cafe where you'll hear from customer experience
expert and author, Jeanne Bliss. Click on the jumping little guy below. You'll learn a little bit about Jeanne and the evolution of her specialty focus in helping companies shape company culture and uncommon
decision making to significantly impact their customers, employees,
growth and prosperity. Don't forget to register and join us for the webcast.
Today's customers are "plugged in" 24/7. They demand instant access to information and transactional capabilities when they want them, are savvy when it comes to making purchase decisions, and are not afraid to change brands if a company no longer meets their expectations.
How are companies responding to the new environment of rapidly rising customer expectations and disruptive innovations like social, mobile and cloud technologies?
Oracle's recently released global survey of 1,300 senior-level executives from 18 countries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America yields new insights on the challenges, strategies and lessons learned for succeeding in the customer experience (CX) era.
Register now to access the complete research results
Some of the key research findings include:
Visit the Global Customer Experience Survey Microsite
Today's customers expect an experience that is both relevant and interactive across web, mobile and social channels. By focusing on creating experiences that demonstrate how well you know your customers, that promote social interactivity, and that allow for anytime, anywhere access across web, mobile and social channels, you can successfully drive customer engagement, and unlock the door to greater sales and loyalty for your business.
The key to delivering the kind of exceptional online customer experiences that can help drive the success of your business is web experience management. A web experience management solution such as Oracle WebCenter Sites, can empower your business to better engage your customers online. With Oracle WebCenter Sites you can:
Create relevant and personalized online experiences
Today, it's no longer acceptable to deliver a one-size-fits-all online customer experience. Instead, you must demonstrate that you know your customers by providing them with a relevant and personalized online experience that takes their preferences, behavior and past history with your brand into account. Oracle WebCenter Sites provides you with easy to use segmentation and targeting capabilities that will enable you to deliver a more personalized online experience.
Enable social and interactive online experiences
Customers expect their online experience with your brand to be as social and interactive as their experiences on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. To fulfill these expectations, you must provide your customers with plenty of opportunities to interact socially with your brand. This means incorporating user-generated content capabilities such as ratings, reviews, or comments into your web presence and integrating with social networks by enabling social login and social sharing of information on your site. With Oracle WebCenter Sites, you can easily incorporate social computing features into your online experience to drive engagement and foster community.
Deliver optimized experiences for mobile phones and tablets
The online experience is an increasingly mobile experience due to the ubiquity of phones and tablets. To meet the needs of mobile customers, organizations must optimize their web presence for anytime, anywhere delivery to the thousands of different mobile device types that are available. Oracle WebCenter Sites simplifies mobile delivery be enabling you to centrally manage both traditional sites and mobile sites using the same content, navigation and authoring interface.
Empower marketers to manage the online experience
Empowering marketers and other business users to take greater control of the creation, management and moderation of the online customer experience is a prerequisite for delivering the kind of engaging customer experiences that drive sales and loyalty. Oracle WebCenter Sites puts power into the hands of marketers with intuitive and visual site authoring tools that help you get your online initiatives to market faster.
Enable high performance, global online experiences
Assuring optimal performance across enterprise web deployments is a critical component of the online customer experience. With Oracle WebCenter Sites, you can deliver a highly scalable, multisite, multilingual, and multimedia online customer experience. With WebCenter Sites you can assure rapid, dynamic delivery of high-volume sites, streamline the management of hundreds of sites, manage vast and complex product catalogs with ease, and seamlessly incorporate digital assets into the online experience through rich media management.
Connect the online experience with other customer touch points
Customers expect to have a relevant, consistent and engaging experience across all of their touch points with a brand. Oracle WebCenter Sites can be integrated with commerce, faceted search, portal, CRM, BI and other customer experience applications from the Oracle portfolio to deliver a connected and engaging experience across the entire customer journey.
We hope you enjoyed learning more this week about enabling exceptional online customer experiences with Oracle WebCenter Sites. To learn more about Fusion Middleware, please check out other features in the The New Business Imperative: Social, Mobile, Cloud series.
As we
saw in Tuesday's screencast about
delivering exceptional online experiences, today's customers expect an online
experience with your brand that is personalized, interactive and social. In
order to drive sales and loyalty, you need a web experience management solution
that empowers your business to easily create and manage contextually relevant,
targeted and interactive experiences that are optimized for web, mobile and
social channels. Oracle WebCenter Sites can provide you with the capabilities
you need to manage large-scale, global online presences that engage and
captivate your customers.
Ready to engage? Learn more today:
Web, mobile and social channels have ushered in what Altimeter analyst, Brian Solis, referred to in a recent Oracle WebCenter Social Business Thought Leaders webcast as connected consumers. These connected consumers have more choices, influence and access to online information than ever before. Engaging these customers and earning their sales and loyalty can be a great challenge.
Customers decide how, when, and where they want to engage with your brand--whether it's in the store, over the phone or on the web. They expect you to know who they are and what they need, and to seamlessly recognize them at every touch-point.
Newer channels like social and mobile have significant implications on how customers engage with organizations online and what businesses need to do manage the online channel more efficiently and effectively. Social networking has amplified the customer's voice and peers now have greater influence over buying decisions than traditional marketing. The pervasiveness of cell phones and tablets has also turned the online customer experience into an increasingly mobile experience, bringing with it new challenges for engaging always connected customers who are accessing the online channel with an ever increasing variety of mobile devices. As a result the power has shifted from brands to customers, and the delivery of an engaging online customer experience has become a great challenge for businesses today.
We invite you to learn how you can start engaging these connected customers through exceptional online experiences by viewing this screencast from the New Business Imperative: Social, Mobile, Cloud Series.
In a time where customers have an increasing number of choices and an increasing level of control over their relationships with brands, what matters most is engagement. In order to engage your customers online, you need to provide them with a relevant, interactive and multichannel experience. Check out this video to see the kind of engaging online experience that Oracle WebCenter can power for your customers.
Want to learn more? Visit our Connected Customer Experience Resource Center to:
Engage. Empower. Extend.
Today's customers have higher expectations and more choices than ever before. To succeed in this environment, organizations must deliver an engaging online experience that is personalized, interactive and consistent across all phases of the customer journey. This requires a new approach that connects and optimizes all customer touch points as they research, select and transact with your brand. Oracle WebCenter Sites combines with other customer experience applications such as Oracle ATG Commerce, Oracle Endeca, Oracle Real-Time Decisions and Siebel CRM to deliver a connected customer experience across your websites and campaigns.
Attend this Webcast to learn how Oracle WebCenter:
This first-ever Oracle Customer Experience Summit @ OpenWorld kicked off yesterday, bringing together established thought leaders and practitioners in customer experience. The first day saw noted marketing and customer experience thought leader, Seth Godin, take the stage to discuss how rapidly accelerating change and adoption are driving new behaviors and higher expectations in a massively disruptive transformation in which the customer now holds the power. His presentation gave us in-depth insight into this always-connected, always-sharing experience revolution we are witnessing.
If you haven't yet made it over to the Oracle Customer Experience Summit at The Westin St. Francis and the recently made over Oracle Square (aka Union Square), there's still time today and tomorrow to network with industry peers and hear best practices from those who have steered their ventures through the disruptive trends of customer experience and have proven, successful strategies to share for driving strategic customer-centric initiatives.
If you're interested in learning how Oracle WebCenter helps businesses meet the demands of the customer experience revolution, be sure to check out these sessions at the Oracle Customer Experience Summit later today:
Using the Online Customer Experience to Drive Engagement and Marketing Success
Thursday, Oct 4, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM - St. Francis - Georgian
Mariam Tariq - Senior Director Product Management, Oracle
Stephen Schleifer - Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Richard Backx - Business IT Architect/Consultant, KPN NL Netco CE Channels Online
The online channel is a critical means of reaching and engaging customers. Online marketing efforts today must be targeted, interactive, and consistent to provide customers with a seamless experience. These efforts must include integrated management of Web, mobile, and social channels—supported by cross-channel customer data and campaigns—and integration with commerce to drive an engaging and differentiated online customer experience. Attend this session to learn how you can use the online channel to increase customer loyalty and drive the success of your marketing initiatives.
Empowering Your Frontline Employees: Sales and Service Enterprise Collaboration
Thursday, Oct 4, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - St. Francis - Elizabethan AB
Stephen Fioretti - VP, Product Management, Oracle
Peter Doolan - Group Vice President, Sales Engineering, Oracle
Andrew Kershaw - Sr Director Business Development, Oracle
Marty Marcinczyk - VP Customer Experience Engineering, Comcast
A focus on the employee experience is critical, because it can make or break your customers' experiences, directly or indirectly. Engaged and empowered frontline employees become your best advocates and inspire your brand champions. This session explores proven approaches and tools, including social collaboration tools, that can help you empower and enable your frontline teams to improve customer and employee experiences.
And before you go, you'll also want to explore the Innovation Tents in Oracle Square which feature leading-edge customer experience demonstrations; attend our customer journey mapping workshop; and learn at sessions focused on innovating differentiated experiences that drive cross-functional alignment.
In recent years, we've seen social media evolve from a cool but unproven medium to become the foundation of pragmatic social business and a driver of business value. Yet, with the onset of social media fatigue, time seems to be running out for businesses to make the most out of this important channel for customer engagement. Attend our upcoming webcast to hear industry analyst R "Ray" Wang of Constellation Research explain how to apply the nine Cs of customer engagement. Hosted by Senior Director of Evangelism for Oracle WebCenter, Christian Finn, this webcast promises a lively discussion where you'll learn:
Missed Oracle's Customer Experience Online Forum? Don't worry. You can still catch the sessions at your convenience. Watch the Customer Experience Online Forum on demand to hear from Bruce Tempkin, a leading expert in customer experience, as well as other thought leaders and they delve into topics such as the ROI of customer experience and strategies for winning over customers. Simply register to gain access to these sessions and more:
The Customer Experience Revolution
Customer experience has become the most important and defensible differentiator for your business. The customer experience is a journey that transcends all customer touchpoints and stages of the customer lifecycle. Discover where you are in the journey, identify how to begin optimizing the experience you deliver your customers, and join the Revolution.
The ROI of Customer Experience
Bruce Temkin, Customer Experience Transformist & Managing Partner, Temkin Group
Research of US and UK customers demonstrates a high correlation between a positive customer experience and loyalty. A successful customer interaction increases the willingness to buy more and to recommend your company. US companies can gain $380 million over three years by providing an optimized customer experience. This session will help companies determine the business impact that customer experience has on their specific business.
Integrating Marketing and Loyalty to Deliver Great Customer Experiences
New devices and channels, such as mobile, social and web, are creating radical shifts in the customer buying process and the ways your company can reach and communicate with existing and potential customers. Learn how leading brands are using Oracle's marketing solutions to harness big data and better understand their customers, extend their marketing reach into social channels, and retain their high value customers through more rewarding customer experience.
Where to Start Your Organization's Revolution
The process of crafting a great customer experience starts with understanding customers and their goals. This session helps you to begin mapping a sound customer experience strategy, describing the intended experience and kinds of processes that create differentiation.
Did you know that customer experience leaders have more than a 16 percentage point advantage over customer experience laggards in consumers' willingness to buy more, their reluctance to switch business away, and their likelihood to recommend? Did you know that even a modest increase in customer experience can translate into millions of dollars gained? Learn more about the ROI of customer experience in this free report.
Oracle Cloud Content and Process power the next wave of productivity, mobile efficiency, and workgroup innovation. Only Oracle offers an integrated suite of content, process and sites cloud services that enable business users to easily collaborate anywhere, simplify business automation, and communicate more effectively.


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College Hockey:Massachusetts Tops Maine in Overtime
Keane Nets Game Winner
AMHERST, Mass. — The last time Dave Wilson played a game at the Mullins Center, Massachusetts completed its second consecutive weekend sweep of the Black Bears; that time to boot Maine from the Hockey East playoffs. Wilson started every game of the series with then-starter Ben Bishop on the shelf. His stats: four games, 14 goals, four losses and two long bus rides from Amherst to Orono, Maine.
On Friday, with four minutes left in regulation, he had 37 saves and a 3-2 lead. His return trip was going pretty well. Then, Matt Duffy, a senior, took a run at UMass captain Cory Quirk three strides after the whistle. Duffy went off for two minutes; it only took the Minutemen 22 seconds to tie the game, though.
Overtime was even shorter.
Sophomore winger Brian Keane tipped a pass from senior Jordan Virtue through Wilsons legs 11
seconds into the extra session to give UMass the 4-3 win in the front end of a weekend pair in Amherst.
We got [possession] in the neutral zone, and [junior center Brett] Watson made a nice saucer pass to Virtue. He brought it in, and I was just flying to the net; I redirected it, Keane said following the game.
The teams entered the game tied in seventh place in the conference standings. The two point swing drops Maine into eighth place, five points clear of idle Providence for the final spot in the Hockey East tournament. The Minutemen are now two points behind sixth place Boston College, who fell to New Hampshire Friday night.
Were trying to put together a run here with these five games left, freshman center Casey Wellman said. We felt that wed been carrying the game for a solid two-and-a-half periods, and it was good to get the two points that we needed.
The Black Bears had three separate one goal leads in the game that fell thanks to UMass power-play goals. The Minutemen were 3-of-6 on power plays, while limiting their own penalty minute total to four, none in the second or third periods.
I thought the special teams were the key tonight, Maine coach Tim Whitehead said. We took too many penalties, and we didnt execute on special teams. Those were the big things that hurt us tonight.
We were chasing them all night long, UMass coach Don Cahoon said. We fall behind 1-0, then we catch up, 1-1; we fall behind, 2-1, then catch up, 2-2; we fall behind, 3-2, and then Chase [Langeraap] gets the game-tying goal and Brian gets the winner, but its a great team win and a great identity win.
Long beleaguered, the UMass power play emerged as the backbone of the offense in the last two games. Freshman center Casey Wellman scored one and assisted on the other two power-play goals tonight after scoring on the man advantage in last Saturdays win over then-No. 3 Northeastern.
To kickstart the unit, Cahoon inserted Wellman between sophomore wingers James Marcou and Chase Langeraap, who scored the game-tying goal on a pass from Wellman, on UMass primary power play.
Ive always enjoyed playing with [Marcou], and I feel like we work the puck pretty well together, Wellman said. Weve got two solid guys on the blue line and [Langeraap] in front of the net.
On the defensive end, the Minutemen struggled in the same areas that caused them problems during their most recent losing streak. Sophomore goaltender Paul Dainton makes the first save, but his defensemen allow a second. Brian Flynn put Maine up, 1-0, 1 minute, 17 seconds into the first period when he slipped a rebound off a Tanner House shot past Dainton. Less than a minute after Wellman tied the game, 1-1, Robby Dee tucked a rebound through Daintons legs to regain the lead for the Black Bears.
Wellmans three points added to his Hockey East freshman high of 29 — 10 goals and 19 assists — while James Marcous pair of helpers cut Colin Wilsons lead to three in the race for the conference scoring title.
The Minutemen and the Black Bears play again tomorrow night at the Mullins Center.
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
Copyright 2005 Philip W. Sandstrom
NEW YORK -- The evening
began with Keiko Fujii appearing goddess-like in a warm center spotlight,
lavishly costumed in a glowing white and orange robe topped by a
golden crown (traditional Buddhist temple garb?) of her own design.
Performing delicate Buddhist hand gestures, with the trademark severely
bent wrist and carefully splayed and pointed fingers, Fujii slowly
and elegantly circled the stage, hinting at the beginning of some
spiritual ritual, then exited. Immediately, accompanied by Tibetan
throat singing and immersed in an unworldly blue light designed
by Kathy Kaufmann, six acolytes appeared in white satin smoking
jackets, stepping forcefully on the diagonal. Soon contortions overwhelmed
them as their movements progressed from initial long strides through
Tai-Chi poses into a gradual collapsing of the entire group. As
they fell, one by one, writhing on the stage floor, their costumes
magically turned inside out, changing from white to blood red. The
dancers amplified the angst by relentlessly and repeatedly rising,
falling, and writhing until a final unison writhe left them all
exhausted and they slowly rolled off.
Thus commenced the dance
drama "The Mirror," choreographed by and starring Keiko Fujii and
presented at the Kaye Playhouse September 17. This first scene,
entitled "A Herald-A Nightmare," set the stage for the tale of a
strange and confusing life, or what the program called "the story
of a plain inconspicuous woman whose image is not even reflected
in a mirror." But little that followed correlated with this initial
powerful and dramatic image.
After our heroine, Fujii,
awoke from this nightmare, we followed her character's unhappy and
dismal life through her morning ritual, observing her lack of reflection.
We saw her traveling to the office with a crowd of ballet-to-jazz
dancing trench coats. At the office, we witnessed her as a tough
and demanding boss through the use of more mime than dance, and
through various intrigues -- which seemed office-related -- expressed
mostly in jazz dance. Not much of this was interesting. At a festive
gathering of office personnel punctuated by our heroine's entrance
in a bright pink party gown, we were treated to joyous dancing,
with baroque phrases, highlighted by the performances of three women
in pretty blue-bottle dresses. The ensemble screamed with delight
as our heroine, when she finally saw her reflection in the mirror,
joined in the fun. But the party had to end and then she was alone
The heroine arrived
home to find that her reflection was now a dark, headless, almost
ghost-like image, which she fled, and yet when she returned again
to the mirror she saw herself clearly. Perhaps the ghost figure
was a premonition of what the future held?
The story continued
through the protagonist's life struggles, relayed to the audience
through the use of modern, ballet, and jazz motifs. We saw her struggles
with the darker side of life on the street, danced like a "West
Side Story," complete with Robbins-esque movement. We witnessed
more hopeless encounters in the work environment and with the office
personnel, including loads of self-doubt encompassing a hopeless
outlook. The entire evening moved along with the look and feeling
of a Broadway musical run amok from the get go, choreographed in
so many styles that it began to look like a dance recital. Although
the dancers appeared talented and well trained, they were in no
way challenged by the work, which relied on the reprocessing of
the same movement patterns.
The premise of this
piece, we were told in the program notes, was that violence and
criminal behavior would begin to drive this woman's life, and while
possessing this new persona, she would continue to see her reflection
in the mirror. So when the character discovers a gun in a paper
bag and takes possession of it, she begins the transformation into
a violent existence. But this makes no sense. She picksup a gun,
embraces violence and suddenly she can see her reflection in the
mirror? All right, I follow but I don't understand. Why is the gun
necessary? We just witnessed that when she danced in her party dress,
actually when she wore her fabulous pink party dress, the woman
saw her reflection in the mirror and danced for joy. So if she wants
to see her reflection, why not just take up dancing and wear a pretty
costume? There's some kind of logic going on here that I just don't
follow. Something's missing. What's the preoccupation with the gun?
Is the gun the message; are guns in general the message? Did the
gun seduce her? Enough prognosticating.
The story finally
ended with a melodramatic solo: Fujii, dressed in an unflattering
black outfit, freed herself from her bleak existence by killing
herself with the empowering gun. The show, however, continued
on with a final scene that had the look of a grand finale but the
trappings of a thematically choreographed curtain call. Few in the
audience, including myself, seemed to know whether this splashy
presentation was indeed the end, although I for one was more than
ready to head out the door. Finally, Fujii appeared, bowed, and
we all knew that we could finally depart.
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The University is situated in a locality surrounded by a rural setting within a rural backdrop and it caters mostly to the students of rural and backward areas. Yet, its distance from Kolkata is only 50 km. This locational advantage of the University makes it particularly suitable for the 'Cafeteria Approach' to higher education.
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Iconic and legendary, William Clay Ford, Detroit Lions owner and former Ford Motor executive, died Sun., March 9 of pneumonia according to My Fox Detroit.
Ford was the last surviving grandson of Henry Ford. Our city has lost a tremendous man whose heart was for the city.
Ford was well loved in Detroit and around the country. He is responsible for Ford Field and the William Clay Ford Center For Athletic Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital.
Although the Lions never won a championship, he made a huge impact on the team and coaches.
Wayne Fontes, former Lions coach who left the franchise 16 years ago, spoke kindly about Ford. Fontes especially said, "I will miss the Christmas cards he sent every year...and I would send him one too."
Son of Ford stated, "My father was a great business leader and humanitarian...He was a wonderful family man...He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all. - William Clay Ford, Jr.
According to the Detroit News, Sandy Baruah, President of the Detroit Regional Chamber, who attends the same church as Ford and his wife stated, "He's been a pillar of the Ford family for a long time."
Ford purchased the Detroit Lions in 1963 for $4.5 million and, according to Forbes, is worth $900,000,000 today.
He is survived by wife, Martha Firestone Ford whose father founded Firestone Tire Co.
A private service is being planned for the late William Clay Ford, Sr.
Our hearts and prayers are with the Ford family.
R.I.P. William Clay Ford, Sr.