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If you're a fan of the Fable franchise and are a bit worried about Fable Legends, don't be. Fable Legends is looking better and better everyday. Lionhead Studios is at the helm for this new Fable journey and they seem to be steering this series in an interesting, new direction.
We are happy to confirm that each hero in Fable Legends will have thousands of unique lines of dialogue and that the game will feature an overarching narrative. Andrew Walsh, who is a writer on Fable Legends, confirmed to Examiner.com that the game will indeed have a complete plot and words will not be copied.
"Yes there is [an overarching narrative]. All of the usual [elements] of the Fable narrative [are in the game. Things like] chattering NPCs, ridiculous villages, the storybook-fresco feel we've had in previous Fables, all of that is there for you.
"What we also have on top of that is this narrative discovery system where any hero has their own personality and has 3,000 lines of dialogue, filling this whole world up with this contextual system.
"[Your hero] will always say something appropriate to what you're doing. Each hero will have different things to say about what is happening to you," Walsh said.
The gameplay and cinematics we've seen all suggest this is still the same Fable we've come to love over the years, but there's no denying Fable Legends is a new step for the franchise. Single player will still be a significant factor in Fable Legends, but fans should expect a different type of journey.
If you haven't had a chance to play this game, make sure you've applied for the beta that will kick off later this year. Fable Legends is a game you have to play for yourself, before you can truly understand what the game is attempting to achieve.


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There are three licensed therapies in the
United States. One is interferon therapy and what's licensed is Intron
A, this is a Schering product at a dose of 5 MU per day or 10 MU per
day three times per week over a four month period is the
standard. Now it doesn't mean that you can't treat for
six months or a year, but this has been the standard. There are a lot
of studies underway looking at the pegylated interferon, the one shot
a week, long acting, but they're not licensed yet, but I'm sure they
will supplant standard interferon in the future. And I would say
there's a renewed interest in interferon. The two oral agents are Epivir, 100 mg per
day, licensed in 1998, and Hepsera, 10 mg per day, licensed in 2002.
We don't have time today to talk about
transplant, but transplant is widely accepted and is very effective
when there is decompensated liver disease or an early liver cancer
that is in an area that the doctor can't get to it, or there's too bad
of a liver disease so it's not safe to do surgery.

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- 1 loaf unsliced Italian bread, cut into 1-inch slices
- 6 eggs or Egg Beaters
- 2 cups milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon pure almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- fruit, in season
Instructions:Arrange bread slices in well-buttered baking dish. Beat eggs with milk, sugar, almond extract, and cinnamon. Pour over bread. Set in refrigerator overnight. Sprinkle fruit over bread the next morning (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries). Grate nutmeg over dish. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees oven for 50 minutes. Serve with warm maple syrup.
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MK Shama: Israel's Arabs Should be Annexed to PA
MK Carmel Shama (Likud) voices views similar to those of Avigdor Lieberman, prompting Arab ire.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 11/13/2010, 9:29 PM / Last Update: 11/13/2010, 9:34 PM
MK Carmel Shama of the ruling Likud party said in Be'er Sheva Saturday that in a permanent arrangement with the Palestinian Authority, Israel's heavily Arab areas – the 'Triangle' and the Umm El Fahm area – should be annexed to the PA. "If we are not brothers, we should separate from each other," he said. "I am not for [forcible population] transfer, I am simply handing them over to the PA.
A similar solution has been touted for years by the Israel Our Home party under Avigdor Lieberman. The idea is to allow the PA to annex the heavily Arab-populated parts of Israel, and for Israel to annex a comparably-sized part of Judea and Samaria that has Jewish residents..
Following the statement, MK Taleb A-Sana (Raam Taal) filed a complaint with the Attorney General against Shama, whom he accused of racist incitement.
INN adds: Israel's Arab citizens elect Knesset representatives who malign Israel – some of whom are suspected of treason – and they do not allow Jews to live inside their villages. At the same time, they regularly accuse Jews of racism.
Many Jews, too, have been taught by the Israeli Left to see any opposition to what could be termed Arab sedition, nationalism and territorial aggression as 'racist.' Recently, the mayor of Karmiel, Adi Eldar, fired his deputy, Oren Milstein, after Milstein gave an interview to BeSheva magazine in which he expressed opposition to the Arab influx into Karmiel.
"Karmiel is a Jewish town, plain and simple," Milstein had said. "It was established in order to Judaize the Galilee and it is not proper in my view that Arab families move to live in it."
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David was born in Fressingfield, Suffolk in 1930. He was educated at Southend High School for Boys and Huntingdon Grammar School. He went on to study at Trinity College of Music, London, gaining graduate status. He then studied for the Master of Arts degree from London University. He was a member of The Royal College of Organists
In the mid 1950's he took up his first teaching post as Director of Music at Stationers' Company School. After Stationers' (1960) David accepted the position of Music Advisor for the City of Hull. Next, in 1967, came the position of Senior Music adviser for The City of Sheffleld. He was the Founder and Conductor of The City of Sheffield Teachers' Choir and Orchestra from 1968 and the Founder and Conductor of The City of Sheffield Youth Chorale from 1969. On a national level he founded and conducted The British Youth Choir and Chamber Orchestra (now the National Youth Choir of Great Britain)
He was an Examiner for Trinity College of Music, London from 1960 which took him abroad working in Canada, USA and the Caribbean. He regularly adjudicated at local and regional music festivals and competitions. His Compositions include various choral and instrumental works and arrangements. Some are still available.
His specialist subject was music making among young people, choral, school music.
He enjoyed driving, photography, and talking.
Mollie Petrie was Head of Singing in the Department of Initial Studies at the Guildhall School of Music from 1984 to 2006. She taught, by invitation, at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, in the winter of 1985. More recently she was invited to work regularly with members of the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff. She has conducted classes in Eire, U.S.A., Belgium, France, New Zealand and has lectured at the International Congress of Voice Teachers, Helsinki, in 2001.
As a performer, Mollie sang for 40 years in oratorio, recital and opera, especially as a regular soloist with the BBC West of England in recital, and as a founder member of the BBC West of England Singers.
She taught at Dartington College of Arts for several years and helped to found the Bristol Intimate Opera and a group Hit for 6 for which she wrote a great deal of comic material which led to her one-woman show With a Frog in my Throat.
Her private teaching practice caters for many well-known professionals as well as amateurs of all ages.
Mark was a Chorister in Gloucester Cathedral before studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Henry Cummings and Rex Stephens, and later with Rupert Bruce Lockhart. He is a national and international competition prizewinner.
His career began as a member of BBC Singers and he subsequently performed as bass soloist in UK, Europe and USA, including the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, and at British and European festivals.
He is currently Head of Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His students' at the Royal Academy recent successes include prizes in many major competitions. Many current and former students of Mark sing as principals in major opera companies internationally.
Elizabeth arrived in Sheffield 18 years old, with a passion for singing and a love of archaeology, which she was reading at the University. Although music was not her degree subject she took her singing seriously. Her teacher strongly encouraged her to enter competitions to gain performing experience and she was delighted to find a flyer for the David Clover Competition of Singing which provided her with the opportunity to perform many times, singing different repertoire and, gain a wealth of experience.
She is now a soprano of international renown, has sung for the English National Opera and is freelance singing all over the world. She has sung in such prestigious venues as The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The Santa Fe Opera, the Royal Festival Hall, and Theatre de Champs-Elysees in Paris to name a few. She also won the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2007.
She is proud to be sponsoring the Lied class at the DCFS as she hopes to inspire a new generation in the performance and love of wonderful music. We are equally proud that Elizabeth has kindly agreed to become one of the vice-presidents of the DCFS.
James Kirkwood was educated at Woodhouse Grammar School and was inspired to follow a musical career by his music teacher there, Muriel Gill. Two years in the R.A.F. (Suez Crisis) was followed by teacher training at Bretton Hall College of Music, Art and Drama and some years later at the Northern School of Music in Manchester where he gained a number of diplomas appertaining to various aspects of music education.
By the time David Clover arrived in Sheffield James was head of music at Thornbridge Grammar School and it was from here that he was invited by David to be accompanist to the newly formed City of Sheffield Teachers' Choir. In fact it was from this point that David's influence and encouragement opened many doors for James; adjudicator for the British Federation of Music Festivals, examiner for Trinity College of Music, accompanist for the British Youth Choir, Melbourne Singers and Sheffield Youth Chorale (which he later conducted).
It was during this time that, at the behest of BBC Radio Sheffield, James formed the 300 strong 'Feast of Brass and Voices' choir involving the Sheffield Teachers' choir and his newly formed Radio Sheffield Choir (later Sheffield Chorale).
On David's death in January 1979 he took over the conductorship of Sheffield Teachers' Choir and with the support of Rupert Norris and the choir committee, set up 'The David Clover Festival of Singing' as a lasting tribute and memorial to this man who had done so much to direct James' future career as teacher, advisory teacher and finally adviser for music to the Sheffield L.E.A. - a post David Clover himself had held until his death. Along with Richard Clover, James was made honorary vice-president of the City of Sheffield Teachers' Choir in November 2008.
Richard was born in Kingston upon Hull in 1961. Educated at Silverdale Comprehensive School, Sheffield (Chorister, head-chorister and songman at Sheffield Cathedral), Trinity College of Music, London studying singing with the late Eric Vietheer and Anna Berenska as well as piano with Valda Aveling.
Richard retired as layclerk with Ely Cathedral Choir in July 2013 after 27 years loyal service. He has sung in many of the great cathedrals and churches of England, Europe, Canada and the USA. He was Co-founder of the close harmony group 'shades of blue'. He has made numerous appearances on Radio and Television. Richard currently holds the position of Technical Manager at Ely Cathedral. He is also the Technical Manager for his recording company Lantern Productions.
Ralph Green was born in Oldham and was educated at Chadderton Grammar School. He owes much of his earliest musical experience to Marian Barnett with whom he studied piano and organ at Macedonia URC in Failsworth, and to the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, where he regularly attended the Halle Concerts and sang from its platform in the choir at school speech days.
He went to Sheffield in 1966 to train as a teacher of Music and Mathematics at the then City of Sheffield College of Education, and remained to pursue a career in teaching Music in secondary schools at CSE, GCSE and A-levels. This extended into the public examination sector by becoming a Moderator for GCSE Music. He attained the ARCM diploma in school music teaching in 1982.
While still a student he started to conduct the College Operatic Society and became a member of Opera 14 (later to become part of The South Yorkshire Opera Company). In 1972 Ralph was appointed Musical Director of the Southey Musical Theatre Company, a position he held for twenty two years, and he has been its President since 2002. He joined the City of Sheffield Teachers' Choir in 1974, becoming its secretary in 1984 and its conductor in 1986. This has led to a huge commitment and involvement in the David Clover Festival of Singing and he has adjudicated in preliminary selection rounds of the competition. Since 1981 he has sung with The Sheffield Chorale. Ralph retired from teaching in 2006.


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Here's a quick rundown of St. Patrick's Day 2014 activities in Raleigh:
- The Raleigh St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival will take place on Saturday, March 15 at 10 a.m. The parade route has been updated to start at the corner of Lane and Wilmington streets in downtown Raleigh this year. The festival has also changed locations and will take place in City Plaza. Carbon Leaf will headline the festival on the Shamrock 'n Roll stage at 5 p.m. The parade and festival is free to attend. For more information, see here.
- Nearby in downtown Raleigh, Tir Na Nog will host its annual Blount Street St. Paddy's Day Parade Day Party. Blount Street from Martin to Hargett Street will be sectioned off for the festivities on Saturday, March 15 from 1o a.m. until 10 p.m. Live performances will take place throughout the day on inside and outside stages at Tir na nog. On Sunday, March 16, Tir Na Nog will host a Hair of the Dog brunch starting at 10 a.m. and on March 17, will also play host to a St. Patrick's Day party. All celebrations are free and open to the public. Find out more information about Tir Na Nog's St. Patrick's Day celebrations here.
Tir Na Nog | 218 South Blount Street Raleigh
- Raleigh's Hibernian Pub will also be celebrating St. Patrick's Day all weekend long with festivities kicking off on Friday, March 14. To celebrate the grand reopening after the downtown location burned down in late 2012, the block party will take place at its Glenwood Avenue location on Saturday, March 15 with live musical performances, food and drink specials all day long.
Hibernian (downtown Raleigh location) | 311 Glenwood Avenue Raleigh
- Napper Tandy's Irish Pub has moved from its West street location to its new location on Glenwood Avenue, replacing Murphy's Law late last year. The pub will co-host Hibernian's weekend party. Streets between both pubs will be closed on Saturday, March 15th for the St. Patrick's Day celebration.
Napper Tandy's | 410 Glenwood Avenue Raleigh
- In North Raleigh, Trali Irish Pub will host a St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday, March 15 with traditional Irish music performances and a DJ late night. On Monday, March 17, Trali will host another party with performances by Eric Hahn and the Roscommoners and the Inis Caride School of Irish dance.
Trali Irish Pub | 10370 Moncreiffe Rd #109 Raleigh
- Saints and Scholars Irish Pub will host a ShamRock party on Saturday, March 15 with live entertainment from Last Call. On Monday, March 17, the restaurants amps up at 4 p.m. and will celebrate until midnight with live music and food and drink specials.
Saints and Scholars Irish Pub | 909 Spring Forest Raleigh Raleigh
- O'Malley's Pub and Restaurant will host an all-weekend celebration beginning on Saturday, March 15. The pub will open at 8 a.m. and will serve breakfast until 1 p.m. Lunch and dinner is available until it closes. Drink specials, including $3 Irish pints, and live music will take place throughout the day. On Sunday and Monday, live music and drink specials will also be available. Check out the entire list of St. Patrick's Day festivities here.
O' Malley's Pub and Restaurant | 5228 Hollyridge Drive Raleigh


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I am struggling to find the first derivative of a composed function with several variables. I think the solution of the problem involves the chain rule or some generalised form, but I can not see how to do it. Any hint or help is appreciated.
The situation: Lets assume we have variables $x_1, \dots, x_4$. These are transformed by a function $f$, which returns more than the given $4$ parameters.
For example: $$ f: \mathbb{R}^4 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^6, \quad x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4 \rightarrow (0, x_1 + x_3, 2 \cdot x_1 + x_4, 0, x_2 + x_3, 2 \cdot x_2 + x_4) $$
The 'output' of $f$, let us call it $\mathbf{y} = (y_1, y_2, \dots, y_6)$, is processed by another function $g$ which is defined as followed: $$g:\mathbb{R}^6 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^6, (y_1, y_2, \dots, y_6) \rightarrow (\exp(-y_1), \exp(-y_2), \dots, \exp(-y_6))$$
Then we have a third function $h$ which takes the 'output' of $g$, let us call this 'output' $\mathbf{z} = (z_1, z_2, \dots, z_6)$, and processes it further, returning some single value, so we have $h: \mathbb{R}^6 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. (I will not show the concrete definition of $h$, because I do not think it does help, but rather complicates things.)
What I am looking for is the first derivative of $h$ with respect to the original four parameters $x_1, \dots, x_4$.
What I tried is to apply the simple chain rule, like in the following. But I am not shure if this is correct or if I do miss something. Let's say we are interested in the first derivative of $h$ with respect to $x_2$. Then I got the following with the simple chain rule: $$ \frac{\partial h}{\partial x_4} = \frac{dh}{d\mathbf{z}} \cdot \frac{dg}{d\mathbf{y}} \cdot \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_2} $$
While writing this question, I ask myself if I need some 'partial derivative' of $h$ and $g$, but with respect to which parameter? All involving $x_2$?
Any help or hints will be appreciated. Thank you!
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part II, Chapter One Summary
- Everybody's watching Big Nurse to see what she'll do.
- Chief remembers he's supposed to be cleaning the staff room, but he's too afraid to move.
- One of the orderlies, waiting near the door, watches Chief for a long time. Then he comes over, puts a bucket of soap and water on Chief's arm, and tells Chief it's time to get to work.
- Chief doesn't move. The bucket swings on his arm. The orderly helps Chief to his feet and down the hall.
- Big Nurse goes into the day room.
- Chief notices the light seeping out of the staff room, a green light. He says that whenever the staff meeting is over, there's a green seepage all over the walls and chairs that he has to clean off. He says poisons seep right out of the staff's skin. Chief's job is to clean away the poison seepage.
- Big Nurse lets Chief into the staff room and he notices that her face is back to normal.
- Nurse Ratched glares at him and Chief knows she's wondering how Chief heard McMurphy asking him to vote. None of the other Chronics had responded to McMurphy.
- Chief turns his back to her and starts to clean off the green slime. He pretends not to be aware of her standing behind him, glaring away.
- But then she realizes that the rest of the staff are staring at her.
- The doctor starts the staff meeting. Notice how everyone assumes that Chief is totally deaf, which allows him to spy on the staff meeting.
- The meeting is about McMurphy who, in Nurse Ratched's words, is "a disturbance on the ward."
- At this point in a normal staff meeting, Nurse Ratched usually takes over, but today she says nothing. The doctor is forced to continue the meeting his own.
- The doctor admits that McMurphy is not a "normal" man and expresses Nurse Ratched's desire to "unify" the staff's opinions and actions toward him.
- Still, Big Nurse doesn't help him out.
- So the doctor asks the rest of the nurses what they think.
- They begin to discuss McMurphy. One of the orderlies suggests he isn't mentally ill at all but a very shrewd man.
- He makes a mistake saying that. Everybody stares at him and he's rebuked for such an absurd idea. Anybody can see that McMurphy is not normal. He is a Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, an Attila the Hun.
- The rest agree that he displays marked hostility and rebellion—which is clearly a mark of being insane rather than being oppressed.
- So the question becomes whether or not he should be sent upstairs to the Disturbed Ward.
- Everybody comes to an agreement. Really, they just do what they think Nurse Ratched wants.
- Finally, one of the staff members says that they are not dealing with an ordinary man.
- This is when Big Nurse finally jumps in. She tells the staff member that he's very wrong.
- Now everybody's confused. Wasn't this what she wanted?
- Big Nurse continues on to say that she doesn't think McMurphy should be sent up to Disturbed Ward because that wouldn't be fixing the problem, it would just be passing him along to another ward. Also, she doesn't think he's some kind of super psychopath.
- Nobody wants to disagree with her. Chief thinks about the color of her lipstick—red-orange—and thinks it can't be lipstick. It's fire and it's part of her.
- Nurse Ratched informs everyone that at first she thought he should go to the Disturbed Ward, but now she thinks it's too late for that. She worries that by removing him, they'd be turning him into a martyr in the eyes of the other patients. In other words, the patients would never get the chance to see that he's just an ordinary man, after all.
- She thinks that if they keep him on the ward, his brashness and bravado will soon subside and everybody will begin to recognize that he's not extraordinary at all.
- She's sure that McMurphy is too fond of himself to do anything to put himself in real danger.
- Somebody points out that this scheme could take weeks.
- Well, Big Nurse says, what's the rush? Nurse Ratched points out that they (meaning she) is in control of how long he stays in the asylum, so it's not like he'll be leaving any time soon. She can take as long to break him as she wants.
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UIC Falls at Home to #21/23 Green Bay, 67-36
March 2, 2013
CHICAGO - The UIC women's basketball team (9-18, 5-9) suffered a home defeat on Saturday night to #21/23 Green Bay by a final score of 67-36 at the UIC Pavilion. With the loss, the Flames fall to 8-6 at home and remain fifth in the Horizon League standings with two regular season games left on the schedule. Redshirt junior Katie Hannemann and junior Megan Wallace guided UIC with eight points apiece, while Green Bay was led by senior Sarah Eichler with 16.
"Green Bay continues to prove that they are one of the best teams in the nation," said head coach Regina Miller. "We did a much better job in the second half defensively, but our first half play is what really hurt us."
Green Bay shot out of the gate with 15 straight points and held UIC scoreless until the 13:50 mark. The Flames struggled to find the hoop in the early goings, hitting just two of their first 12 shot attempts. The Phoenix extended their lead out to 30-10 with 5:41 left in the first half and closed out the period on a 9-0 run, taking a 42-16 lead into the break.
Green Bay experienced hot shooting in the first half, going 16-of-28 (57.1%) from the field and 6-of-12 (50.0%) from behind the arc. Comparatively, the Flames shot 8-of-29 (27.6%) from the floor and 0-for-8 from long range. GB's Eichler paced the Phoenix in the first period with 13 points on 3-of-4 three-point shooting.
UIC's defense tightened up in the second half, holding Green Bay to just three points in the first six minutes and 40 seconds. UIC limited the Phoenix to just 25 points and eight field goals in the second half.
The Flames hit just one three in the game, which came from freshman Imani Moore in final minute of the contest. It was her first career trey and her first points since the last time UIC and Green Bay met on Feb. 2.
UIC witnessed a scary moment in the second half when freshman Marissa Grossfeld went down with an apparent knee injury. She was carried off the floor to the medical training room for further evaluation and her status for the remainder of the season is unknown. Grossfeld finished the night with four points and two rebounds in 11 minutes of play.
The Flames return to action on Thursday at Milwaukee for their final regular season road game of the season with tip scheduled for 7 p.m. CT.


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Sub-titled "John Schaefer and friends," the Thursday, August 7 program at Grace & Holy Trinity (Episcopal) Cathedral in Kansas City, treated the crowd assembled in the nave to a series of musical highs.
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." ― Confucius
Musical highs have become common under the guidance of music director, organist, impresario, Canon John Schaefer, during his tenure at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Kansas City (no not the one with the gold dome, it's two blocks south of that one). The Summer Music at the Cathedrals series he helped found 32 years ago is only one of the additions he has made to music in Kansas City. The Cathedral has become the home of the American Guild of Organists' annual Bachathon the first Sunday of May for 35 years. He led in the founding and provided rehearsal and performance space for the Simon Carrington Singers, whose glorious sounds provided a cool breeze for the musical world for a few years. In short, dozens of musical events and customs in Kansas City have John Schaefer's hand print on them, but not his name. That is not his style.
Now as to the music tonight. A solo organ highlight was a Bach-like performance of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It would have been a total flop as mood music for Halloween, it sounded like, well, Bach. The intricate decorations and important sub-melodies were well-orchestrated, aided by the newly added winds from the Quimby Pipe Organ Co. It was as if one announced the "William Tell Overture," and the gorgeous flute and oboe duet preceded the "Lone Ranger Theme," you know, the way Rossini composed it.
The evening began with a fine reading of Bach's Fugue in C, the Fanfare, followed by the pastoral Prelude and Fugue in G by Felix Mendelssohn. with a lovely bass introduction of the fugue theme. Louis Vierne's Maestoso in C# minor began with a bang, but was decidedly mournful, developing into a sense of redemption and strength.
The four Ralph Vaughn Williams' (pronounced rafe) hymns sung by tenor, Frank Fleschner, joined by Mr. Schaefer playing the Steinway grand piano, and Monty Carter,Violist, gave the opportunity to present Schaefer as a sensitive ensemble member. Mr. Fleschner, a member of the Grammy awarded Kansas City Chorale, delivered the hymns with the clear voice of a Bach evangelist, presenting the words as beautifully as possible, but without any self-aggrandizing.
Variations on 'Veni Creator Spiritus', by Michael McCabe, was a gorgeous study on the familiar Gregorian tune, which specifically featured the newly installed winds, demonstrating their round sound that blossomed within the rock walls of the cathedral. Michael McCabe, Music Director of Christ the King Church, in Omaha, Neb. is a frequent collaborator with Mr. Schaefer, having fulfilled several commissioned compositions for the cathedral choir, and joining the choir on one of its European tours.
Louis Vierne's Symphonie V: "Toccata," with Keith Benjamin playing trumpet was like whipped cream on an already fine cake with strawberries. For Dr. Benjamin to play above the organ he first played his standard, burnished, Bb trumpet, but later employed the piccolo trumpet, which, deceptively resembled a toy in his hands. Dr. Benjamin passed the task of playing the little trumpet in tune, with sweet tones (nothing like a dog whistle) and the blending timbre of just another rank of pipes. The duet was well coordinated, clear and exciting. The men have developed this piece as an added bit of musical substance for cathedral weddings.
The finale prompted a wholehearted standing ovation from the nave-filling audience, who instantly rose, turned around to face the organ in the rear of the church, some actually (gasp!) cheered. John quieted the crowd, thanked it for making him feel loved, and announced an encore, celebrating the 100th birthday of Wilbur Held, his 1964 Partita on "O Sons and Daughters," a masterwork, featuring an oboe verse, an angelic choir verse, a flighty verse over bass pedal point and completing its (9 verse?) course with triumphal brass.
Not content with a roomful of music lovers and nothing for them to do, this church musician asked the (now) congregation to open the hymnals (yes they do still exist) and sing Charles Wesley's prayer to Jesus, "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling," to the Welsh tune, HYFRYDOL. The choir of the whole was magnificent, like a Mennonite church.
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CORBIN, Ky. (AP) — A southern Kentucky man has pleaded not guilty to charges he poured gasoline on himself and his wife and threatened to light a fire.
The Times-Tribune reported that 48-year-old Russell L. Knickerbocker of Corbin is being held at the Whitley County Detention Center on $300,000 cash bond.
Police say officers were called to Knickerbocker's home on March 16 and found him and his wife, Carla Knickerbocker, covered with gasoline. Officers say Knickerbocker then threatened to light himself and his wife on fire.
A standoff ensued, but Corbin Fire Department firefighters were able to hit the man with a stream of water, ending the threat.
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Inclusion in SRI Indices (as of May 2015)
Epson is a component company of the socially responsible investment (SRI) index below.
External recognition earned in FY2015
|Conferred by
|Product and Service Awards
|TIPA Award 2015: Best Photo Printer, Best Photo Projector, Best Photo Projector
|The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) is a Europe-based association representing 29 photo and imaging magazines worldwide.
|The Epson SureColor P600 inkjet printer, the Epson EH-LS10000 printer, and the Epson Perfection V850 Pro scanner
|April 2015
|Communications Awards
|Second Annual IR Good Visual Award
|IR Good Visual Award Executive Committee
|Seiko Epson Corporation
|April 2015
External recognition earned in FY2014
|Conferred by
|Product and Service Awards
|2014 Nikkei Superior Products and Services Award for Superiority
|Nikkei Inc.
|Moverio BT-200AV/200 smart glasses
|Jan. 2015
|No. 1 in After-Sales Service Satisfaction, PC Category (excluding tablets)
|Economic & business magazine Nikkei Business
|Epson Direct Corporation
|Nov. 2014
|Grand Prix for Lifestyle Innovation Category, CEATEC JAPAN 2014
|CEATEC JAPAN Organizing Committee
|Moverio BT-200AV/200 smart glasses
|Oct. 2014
|No.1 in Support Satisfaction, PC Category
|Personal computer magazine Nikkei Pasokon
|Epson Direct Corporation
|Sep. 2014
|No.1 in Customer Satisfaction, Desktop PC Category
|Personal computer magazine Nikkei Pasokon
|Epson Direct Corporation
|Sep. 2014
|FY2014 Mechanical Engineering Heritage
|The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
|The first Grand Seiko (launched in 1960), the Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ (launched in 1969)
|Aug. 2014
|"Most Satisfied Customers Award – Printers, Small Business Award" for 2014
|Canstar Blue Pty Limited (a leading customer satisfaction and research and ratings company that surveyed consumers of electronic products in Australia and New Zealand)
|Inkjet printers
|July 2014
|TIPA Award 2014: "Best Photo Printer","Best Photo Projector"
|Technical Image Press Association (TIPA)
|Epson Expression Photo XP-950 inkjet printer & Epson EH-TW7200 projector
|Apr. 2014
|Environmental Awards
|Gold Rating for the Enhanced Water Efficiency Building Award, Industry Category
|Public Utilities Board (Singapore)
|Singapore Epson Industrial Pte. Ltd. surface finishing business
|Sep. 2014
|Excellent Enterprise in Waste Reduction
|Shenzhen Pengcheng Waste Reduction Steering Committee (China)
|Epson Engineering (Shenzhen) Ltd.
|Jul. 2014
|2014 China Low-Carbon Model Company
|News China
|Epson (China) Co., Ltd.
|Jun. 2014
|Nagano Prefectural Shinshu Environment Council Award
|Nagano Prefectural Shinshu Environment Council
|Seiko Epson Corporation, Shiojiri Plant
|May 2014
|Industrial Partners Pretreatment Award
|Clean Water Services (U.S.)
|Epson Portland Inc.
|Apr. 2014
|Employee Awards
|PhotoMaster Accreditation Test "Outstanding Group Award"
|Kokusai Bunka College, a private educational foundation
|Epson Sales Japan
|February 2015
|Gold Planning Award, Feature/Non-serial Article Category, 2014 In-house Magazine Planning Competition
|Nana Total Communication Institute
|Epson Group Journal Harmony [Feature] Daring to Change - Blazing Your Own Trail -
|Oct. 2014
|3-Star Award, 2014 Best Companies to Work For
|Taipei City Government Department of Labor (Taiwan)
|Epson Taiwan Technology & Trading Ltd.
|Sep. 2014
|METI Minister's Award for Distinguished Service in Electrical Safety, Factory Category
|Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
|Tohoku Epson Corporation
|Aug. 2014
|Gold Prize, Zero Accident Campaign
|Occupational Safety and Health Bureau (Thailand)
|Epson Precision (Thailand) Ltd.
|Aug. 2014
|President's Award of Japan Association for Safety of Hazardous Materials
|Japan Association for Safety of Hazardous Materials
|Seiko Epson Corporation, Shiojiri Plant
|Jun. 2014
|Gold Flag Award for Occupational Health and Safety Management System (SMK3)
|Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration (Indonesia)
|P.T. Epson Batam
|May 2014
|Intellectual Property Awards
|Nagano Prefecture Governor's Award at 2014 Kanto Region Commendation for Invention
|Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
|PC-less photo printer
|Nov. 2014
|Top 100 Global Innovators, 2014
|Thomson Reuters (U.S.)
|Seiko Epson Corp.
|Jun. 2014
|Top 100 Post-War Innovations in Japan
|Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
|The Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ
|Jun. 2014
|IR Awards
|IR Prime Business Award
|Japan Investor Relations Association
|Seiko Epson Corp.
|Nov. 2014
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College Hockey:Starrett's two goals spark Babson's rout of Wentworth
WELLESLEY, Mass. — Babson College had not made it to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament since 2007. That was, until Wednesday night, when the Beavers thoroughly dominated Wentworth by a score of 6-1 in front of a packed house at the Babson Skating Rink.
The Beavers' second line of Connor Berto, PT Donato, and Troy Starrett generated the most quality chances throughout the game. It didn't take long for the line to make its mark, as Donato rang one off the post just four minutes into the game. Just a few minutes later, at the 7:45 mark, Babson drew first blood when Starrett tipped a Matt Furey wrist shot past Wentworth goalie Joel Miller.
Babson outshot the Leopards 13-2 in the first period, but only found the back of the twine that one time.
The score stayed that way until the 3:58 mark of the second period, when Donato tipped in a Mike Vollmin slap shot for a 2-0 lead.
One of the prettiest plays of the night gave Babson a 3-0 lead at the 8:36 mark. The second line was cycling the puck well down low when Berto, from in back of the net, found a streaking Starrett in front for his second of the night.
With just over two minutes to go in the second period, Wentworth began to get a little momentum when Adam Frank scored his 11th of the year on a rebound goal from the right side of Babson goalie Zeke Testa. Wentworth got a power play less than a minute later, but could not capitalize.
Babson put any hopes of a Wentworth comeback on ice when Max Franklin scored just 2:15 into the final frame. Furey and Andrew Bonazza assisted. Jay Haseley added two insurance goals to put the game well out of reach.
Testa made 19 saves on the night for the victory. The Beavers blocked 20 shots, as well, which was a source of pride for both players and coaches following the game.
"We want to win; they have really dedicated themselves," said Babson coach Jamie Rice, when asked about his team's ability to block shots.
Captain Ryan Smith added, "We pride ourselves on blocking shots. We practice it in practice."
The season ended in disappointment for RJ Tolan's Leopards, but he was proud of the team after the game, and chose to reflect on the positives.
"As I told my team after the game, it was an honor to go through the wars with them," said Tolan. "They were the best team I've ever coached. The guys always showed up and worked hard."
Babson just had too much team speed, and was able to roll four lines while an undermanned Wentworth team seemed to slow down as the game progressed.
Smith said after the game, "We feel like there isn't much difference in any of our lines, and we're comfortable with whatever line is out there."
"The guys played their hearts out," Rice said. "They played with passion like they have for the past four months. The kids really believe in each other, and don't want to let each other down."
Babson will travel to Norwich to play the Cadets in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Saturday. The Beavers have already defeated Norwich twice on the season, so it will be a tall order to down the Cadets for a third time in what will be an extremely hostile environment. Smith said the team is ready and anxious for a chance at beating Norwich three times.
"It's going to be a great atmosphere up there. We know what's at stake: a trip to the Frozen Four. We can't wait to get up there. We know they're going to have our number after beating them twice."
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After having a 9:00 a.m. match yesterday, today's noon match gave us an extra three hours of preparation. I woke up a little earlier than everyone else to pick up some bananas, sandwiches and snacks for the match. I met with the team at around 9:00 for breakfast and we left for the courts at 10:15.
By the time we left, it was raining fairly hard but I still wanted to go to the courts to warm up in the indoor facility. We arrived and had all four courts to ourselves. The other three teams playing the early matches had not yet arrived but we knew it would not be long before they showed up. Within 10 minutes, both Vanderbilt and our opponent Florida showed up and we all split the courts for warm-up. The NCAA committee ruled that the rain would have us play the matches indoors and the other match would play first because they were the higher seed. We went back to the hotel to have lunch and rest until they were done.
I received a phone call to inform me that the outdoor courts were dry and the UCLA vs. Florida match was to begin promptly at 1:45 p.m. I called the team and we left for the courts. The courts were indeed dry even though there was a faint mist in the air. Doubles went off to a good start as #1 and #2 had early breaks. Erfan and Alberto again had slow starts and ended up losing the pro set. Tobias and Lassi probably played one of their best matches as they beat a team they lost to earlier in the year. Marcin and Rodrigo won at #1 to clinch the doubles point.
Singles was intense but we had early leads in three singles matches and felt we were in the driver's seat even though I knew there was still a lot of tennis to be played. Erfan and Chris Lam won key matches and Rodrigo lost a tough match to make the score 3-1 in favor of the Bruins. Marcin and Lassi split sets both losing 2nd set tie-breakers. As it started to rain, we were forced to bring the match indoors. As 500 crazy fans from various schools packed into a rather small indoor facility, you could hear and feel the intensity. Tobias was serving 5-3, 15-15 in the third set when the rain hit. Just a few minutes after play resumed, he ended up closing out his match, giving us a berth in the semifinals for the second year in a row.
We now face a tough Vanderbilt team on a hot streak. They upset #2 Baylor in the quarterfinals and recently won the SEC Championship. I was proud of the team for really stepping up and beating the Gators. It was a little revenge since they had upset us in the semifinals of the National Team Indoors just three months ago.
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PhotoPlus Expo 2012: Nikon Unveils New AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR Lens
Nikon unveiled the new AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR lens this morning. The lens, which Nikon says is the company's first with up to five stops of image stabilization, goes on sale in November for $1,399.95.
The new AF-S 70-200mm f/4G is the first NIKKOR lens to feature the third generation of Nikon's Vibration Reduction (VR) technology.
Nikon is hoping the lens will appeal to photographers who may have purchased the new Nikon D600, a lower priced full-frame digital SLR aimed at photo enthusiasts.
"It's perfect for that user," Steve Heiner, Nikon's Senior Technical Manager, said during a pre-release press briefing with PDN. "It's at almost half the price of the F/2.8 version (of the same focal length lens) but has similar weatherproofing and the build quality is on same level."
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De Blasio Family Ditching Brooklyn for Gracie Mansion, Which Has Its Perks
Dante's commute to high school just got a lot longer.
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio announced today, after much deliberation, that his family will call historic Gracie Mansion home for at least four years. "It's a tough decision," said a statement from Bill, Chirlane, Chiara, and Dante. "Brooklyn is our home and Park Slope is our neighborhood. And we love these places. In many ways, they've come to define who we are." However ... "For a variety of reasons, like logistical and security concerns, we've decided to move to Gracie Mansion."
"While this is a temporary move for us, it is one that we are very proud to make," the family added. "Even while we move to Gracie Mansion for a spell, we'll be keeping our home in Brooklyn and stopping by our favorite spots like The Purity Diner and Bar Toto as often as we can. And don't bet against seeing us at the Park Slope YMCA occasionally."
.@Chirlane, Chiara, Dante and I have decided where we are going to live. http://t.co/bVLNqE5Z0Z pic.twitter.com/bV7wgtRokU— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) December 11, 2013
The new place, while a bit stuffier than the De Blasio's Park Slope row house, on which they make a monthly mortgage payment of $3,300, comes with some built-in advantages. On the plus side, Gracie is located on idyllic 88th Street and East End Avenue on the Upper East Side, and comes with 214 years of history, having housed nine mayors over the last seven decades, beginning with Fiorello La Guardia.
For the last twelve years it's been empty, thanks to Michael Bloomberg, who has his own house and his own money, thank you very much.
In fact, Bloomberg, speaking as he does from a place of privilege, has actually come out against mayors moving in. "A lot of people want to be mayor — you don't have to give them extra money as a housing allowance," he said last year. "And I think, you know, everybody's going to understand if a mayor lives there, then what they're doing is they're costing this city a lot of money and depriving the rest of the city of one of the great facilities any city has."
But that's not because he doesn't like the place: As an anonymous donor, Bloomberg pitched in $7 million to update the mansion, using his own "longtime decorator." Since, "new floors, plumbing, lighting and ventilation, as well as fanciful touches like a four-post mahogany bed, an 1820s chandelier and fake-bamboo furniture" have been added. The kitchen was also recently renovated to the tune of $1.25 million. And that porch!
Other amenities include four bedrooms, twelve full-time employees, including kitchen and gardening staffs, and a statue of George Washington:
In the yellow parlor room, on the mantel, sits a British cannonball that destroyed a home on the property during the Revolutionary War:
On the other hand, the colors can be a bit intense:
Dante de Blasio's commute to high school in Fort Greene, meanwhile, will now be much longer, requiring a long walk and about 30 minutes on the subway, a fact that initially led him to lean toward staying in Brooklyn. But even that has its benefits: "You can do homework and sleep," offered one student. "Check out girls," said another.
Overall, according to former Mayor Ed Koch, Bloomberg's opinion that the mayor not take advantage of the office's real estate perks is "like asking the president not to live at the White House."
"People who live there every day provide a warmth and a special air to that house," said Koch, recalling a dinner there after his election, when he was still considering keeping his rent-controlled apartment in the Village. "I said to myself, 'Anybody who can live here and doesn't has got to be nuts, so I changed my mind.'" It took them a few weeks, but Dante and the rest of the de Blasios were evidently charmed, too.


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Tony (left) and Frankie Baltazar, back in the day.
The Boxers Pension Fund, totaling millions of dollars, has gone largely untouched. The money is there waiting for retired boxers who fought between 1981 and 1994. They also have to be at least 50 years old.
"We're having problems contacting them," said George Dodd, the new CSAC Executive Officer overseeing boxing. "We need to get the word out."
According to Dodd, California is the only state that established a pension fund for pro boxers. Year after year the Golden State has also been the most prolific in staging boxing cards. Hundreds of registered prizefighters reside in California.
During the 1980s, a number of colorful and popular boxers arose to fight in venues like the Olympic Auditorium, Inglewood Forum, San Diego Sports Arena, and Sacramento's Arco Arena. And that's not including the dozens of smaller venues that dot the coastline of the western state.
From July 1981 through Dec. 31, 1994 the state collected money from promotions, fighters and managers. It was left mostly untouched for many years. After several years of discussion and planning the Commission released the conditions of pay outs and the eligibility requirements.
A number of pro boxers from that era have qualified, such as Baltazar and soon his younger brother Tony "The Tiger" Baltazar, when he hits age 50 this coming month.
Aside from an age requirement of 50 years old, pro boxers must have fought at least 10 rounds a year for four years without more than a three-year break. And, also at least a total of 75 scheduled pro rounds without a three-year break.
Dodd said that any former fighter who has questions on eligibility should contact the Commission office in Sacramento at (916) 263-2195.
Former boxers such as Lupe Aquino, Irving Mitchell, James Kinchen, Zack Padilla, Andy Nance, Herman Montes, Hedgemon Robertson, Oscar Muniz, and Andy Price are just a few of those who fought during the 1980s era that may qualify.
Rudy Hernandez, a welterweight from Los Angeles, said he was not certain whether or not he qualified but was going to call the Commission office this week.
"I wasn't sure the money was there," said Hernandez, adding that the current economic conditions in the state caused him to think the pension fund was dried up.
Dodd assured that the Boxer Pension Fund was intact.
Retired boxers wherever you are, call the Commission office. Also, if you have info on where these boxers may live, discuss, share and help the cause in our Forum, Here!
Ring officials recognition
A number of referees and judges capacity perform their respective positions with admirable precision and responsibility and should be recognized.
Best referees
Recognition goes to Pat Russell, a regular every year. Few are able to supervise a fight like San Diego's Russell. Others who performed extremely well were Jack Reiss, Raul Caiz Jr., Kenny Bayless, Tony Weeks, Benjy Esteves Jr., Steve Smoger and Big John McCarthy.
Best Judges
Judging for boxing and MMA are crucial and none are better than Max DeLuca, Jerry Roth, and both Russell and Reiss. Other crackerjack judges for the year 2010 were Adelaide Byrd, Patricia Jarman, Lisa Giampa, Marty Denkin, Julie Lederman, Steve Morrow, Fritz Werner and Dave Moretti.
Fights on television
Fri. Telefutura, 11:30 p.m., Lucas Matthysse (27-1) vs. Demarcus Corley (37-15-1).
Fri. Telemundo, 11:30 p.m., William Urina (17-0) vs. Johnny Garcia (9-2-1).
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Nothing but luv and lots of salutes to these Cali powers. YUP! These now elderly boxers really deserve help. Blessing upon blessing for these Cali powers coming to the rescue of these needy souls. Monroe Brooks just lost his dad not too long ago and would really be helped by this CBPF's kindness. Bruce Curry is not always doing too well, so this money will be great assistance to his brother Keith, who cares for Bruce. Tim "T" Williams, also a former Marine boxing standout, is often in pain and broke. He has no type of medical insurance and is marginally helped only by the Veteran Administration Medical Center. Things got so bad for Irving Mitchell, a former Army boxing standout and world military champion, that he moved back to his birth state of Louisiana. The major reason that ex-world champion Terry Norris is getting by is because he was able to get a few millions bucks from suing Don King, who ripped TN out of $50mil+.
Wow! Without calling anymore names, there are a few homeless boxing cats roaming the streets of Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles. Whenever I'm in Cali, I hook 'em up with a meal, some of my gambling change and a motel room for a couple nights. Now CBPF should and will be able to permanently hook 'em up. No one ever knows where Blessing are coming from. BIG KUDOS to TSS for dropping this piece and spittin' da info. This is the start of something wonderful. Maybe the boxing powers that be in New York will start something similar, so that the homeless Iran Barkleys won't be. Isn't he about 50-year old now? Holla!
Radam, I will alert Avila of your input, and maybe he can pass that along. THANKS
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Transcript of the live chat session that took place Thursday, September 4, 1997. These sessions are normally scheduled for 12 noon-1 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4) every Thursday.
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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).
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Richard Seltzer -- We're ready to begin. As you connect, please introduce yourselves.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Hi everybody.
Richard Seltzer -- Hi, Kathleen, glad you could join us.
Richard Seltzer -- The basic premise that I'd like to discuss today is that the Web has evolved from a focus on documents to a social environment. This didn't happen by anyone's intent, just by a combination of circumstances, such as older social-type apps like email and newsgroups and chat becoming accessible from browsers, like the proliferation of personal Web pages and the creation of full-text search engines that make everything in those personal pages findable. The result is a Web that is very different from 3-4 years ago. And the consequences for business are potentially very interesting.
tony -- Hello everyone, my name is Anthony Alvarez and i am the webmaster at acunet.net
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Tony from Acunet.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Tom, fred, gj and Bob, please introduce yourselves and tell us about your interests.
Tom Dadakis -- Hi, Tom Dadakis here. It's been awhile since the last time Iw as able to particpate in Richard's Thursday chat. Currently developing global online learning intiative for major financial institution.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- you might want to get in touch with Kathleen Gilroy, who is here for this chat session. Her business is distance education and setting up learning/training programs.
email@example.com -- Hello - ALL, I am an independent consultant in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas area. I am trying to focus the internet services I provide to our local businesses.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome Blair Anderson, Bob Fleischer, and Miki Dzugan, please introduce yourselves.
Miki Dzugan -- Greetings, all. Sorry I'm late.
Miki Dzugan -- Richard, I am doing Internet marketing consulting in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.
Blair Anderson -- Hi Folks.. hailing in from way down under.. consulting in content to the collaborative desktop! [Hi Richard!]
Bob Fleischer -- I'm an engineer with DIGITAL's System Integration group -- I work in web application design and development, and mostly with text retrieval and "groupware" applications.
Richard Seltzer -- gj -- where are you? what's you line of business and area of interest?
gj -- sorry--i had my refresh rate set at 30 seconds, and didn't have time to key replies. i'm a "software editor" and work for an educational publisher.
Richard Seltzer -- gj -- is the educational publisher you work for using the Internet 1) to market 2) to provide samples of books 3) to recruit writers 4) to build some kind of proto-community to generate future business?
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Todd and powermac. It's getting a bit late. But please introduce yourselves and let us know your interests.
tony -- The level of activity for Sounds of India website is great. It recieves about 600-1000 daily.
Richard Seltzer -- Tony -- with the title "Sounds" of India, do you use lots of audio? perhaps RealAudio? Just for music? Or is there any way that community members can record their own messages and post them?
tony -- The most favorite content @sounds of india web is real audio. There seems to be a lot of net users who appreciate listening to Hindi Ethnic music via Real Audio.
Richard Seltzer -- Tony -- Just curious -- where do you get recordings of Hindi Ethnic music? Do you perhaps have ties with a radio station in India?
tony -- For the Sounds of India site, Acunet simply used commercially available Compact Discs to create the real audio files.
tony -- Sounds of India traffic increased tremendously from Usenet posting. A special mailing list will be available soon.
Richard Seltzer -- Tony -- what led Acunet to focus on Asian Indian for a trial community? are there people who work there who have a strong personal interest in that direction? and is it just an experiment or do you have specific long-term business goals for it?
tony -- Acunet is constantly trying to develop a market niche and focus for our marketing/sales effort. The General Mgr is a Hindi and has close ties to the New England Indian community.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard --we don't have a web site yet, but are planning to integrate the web into all aspects of the new business. Our site will support all student/student and student/teacher interaction.
Richard Seltzer -- Kathleen -- do you have some courses in the pipeline now? or is this long-range planning? and are you using non-Web Internet activities -- like listservs or a newsletter or newsgroups -- to prepare the way?
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard-we are planning beta tests of short courses in 1998 with two or three partners. We plan to license the interface from UMASS/Boston. They've done a really nice job in putting it together.
Richard Seltzer -- Kathleen -- Are you planning to promote those courses mainly through traditional media? Or are there Internet-based activities you have in mind? do the courses in beta have anything in common in terms of content? and would you be trying to create an on-line social bond with folks interested in that kind of content?
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard, we plan to install electronic classrooms in our customer's locations so that the courses can be received via satellite and with an internet hookup for interaction. This is a direct selling effort.
gj -- Kathleen i think i missed something. are you providing course content? or are you providing the medium.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard--we will partner with universities who provide faculty and content and we will provide marketing and distribution, billing, management, support.
Richard Seltzer -- Kathleen -- it sounds like your main focus is on traditional business methods for building relationships. you want to partner with schools and companies. I suspect there might be Web-based ways to try to get this going. yes, the Internet is great for adding interactivity to the course delivery, but there are also ways for getting in touch with and staying in touch with potential course takers and helping them to stay in touch with one another.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard--I'm always thinking about how to use the web to build relationships. We need a vital forum for discussion and these issues.
Richard Seltzer -- Kathleen -- I'd guess that your challenge is that the source of your revenue is the relationships with schools and companies, and by nature, today, those relationships need to be built by traditional means. But the end-user of the courseware -- the students at a distance -- are probably Internet-centric; and it would be possible to build relationships with them independent of, in parallel with your business relationships. That would, however, depend on the subject matter.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Richard--we want our site to be a place where the students want to go to do all sorts of things.
tony -- Acunet has business partners in India, China and Japan. The street prices for webhosting in Japan are 10x the price Acunet charges. Acunet is actively looking for additional business partners especially abroad.
Blair Anderson -- Richard.. in terms of content delivery options, I recommend "hosting services", and have a couple of very good options especially well suited to "offshore members".. Offshore users require a relationship with "strength" in commercial relationships as well as technical delivery... My servers are based in Penn State, but operated remotely.. such utility is imperative to effective "social computing options" simply because of access to the backbone and the "shortening of ping times"..
Richard Seltzer -- Blair -- located in New Zealand, how did you find out about and get tied into servers based in Penn State? it must be rather difficult finding the right hosting partner from such a distance and building the necessary level of trust.
Blair Anderson -- Valid point.. I commenced by investing considerable time in locating one with a good "user group".. (the BBS experience.. look for who "rally" can perform before a motley bunch of peers..) Having done that, I then explored the technical performance issues, culminating in face to face dialog.. traditional slog, but essential.. in that way I can justify the added-value of my services.. not to press the point.. $$
One of the issues in all the "touchy feely" social constructions, is at the end of the day, you generaly get what you pay for.. with so much info on hte net being very USA centric, it is often difficult for non-USA to comprehend what the issues are for those "off" the backbone, and down the end of small pipes... there is no escaping the speed of light/propogation delay contribution to ping times..
Bob Fleischer -- I haven't done that much groupware work lately -- more in search -- and I haven't been following AltaVista forum lately. The last time I (as an outsider -- David Marques would bring a lot to this chat!) looked they were definitely headed towards major community and coordination features in Forum. One of the big problems/opportunities in system integration work is to integrate existing systems and systems from multiple vendors into a group environment.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob Fleischer -- Yes, I can imagine it is difficult tying together a variety of systems into a group environment. What's the biggest such challenge that you have faced? And what was the outcome? Anything with possible broad application?
Todd Moyer -- We use AltaVista Forum for our development work here at DIGITAL, and it works well for that. It's kind of like a threaded newsreader in that it's hierarchical. But it's less temporal in that the volume of postings is generally lower and it's kept indefinitely. It has advantages over a chat in that everyone involved participates whenever convenient for them.
gj -- the buddy list sounds a lot like icq, which i had trouble with and finally uninstalled.
Richard Seltzer -- gj -- What is icq? who offers it? URL? what does it do?
gj -- it is offered by mirabilis. possibly http://www.mirabilis.com
gj -- icq allows you to set up a list of contacts and lets you know if they are on line. if they are, you can "call" them to chat.
Richard Seltzer -- gj -- yes, icq does sound like the AOL buddy. Is the "call" and "chat" strictly text? or is there some fancy audio component?
firstname.lastname@example.com -- ICQ
also has an interface to all chat, phone & video/phone apps and lets
to activate them in a one on one or GROUP conference.
It also has a paging system that let's anyone send an email-page to you which will set off an alarm if you have ICQ running. I use that to allow people to page me from my home page and give me a phone number to contact them immediately. Great for sales and support.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob@Cottage -- I'll have to check that ICQ stuff. Sounds quite interesting. Any way to tie that into something like Firefly? In other words have a group that is people of common interest who may not have ever had direct contact with one another?
email@example.com -- Richard - I am not familiar with Firefly. ICQ has set up a "dynamic" list of special interest groups where people register their ID # and find others with similair intrests. You can even create your own special intrest area. It's different from usenet or IRC in that you obtain specific contacts and communicate one-on-one or in groups.
Todd Moyer -- Bob - Firefly lets you list interests, hobbies, favorites (books, movies, etc.) and find people with similar interests. Four-One-One (www.four11.com) is primarily a people-finder, but it offers similar social features. They don't seemed to have reached critical mass on this yet.
Richard Seltzer -- Tony -- what's the software that let's you do that with your pager? who offers it? what's the URL? (sounds like the kind of thing we were talking about with Internet telephony). Is this a combination of software and service? does the paging company offer the service? or is it something you sign up for with an ISP?
tony -- After i recieve the message
on my pager, i typically meet my party at a chat area or UNIX talk. The
sending party can send me a full alpha message. Now i am trying to
lower my costs and develop a web/email gateway to digital numeric pagers instead of using the more expensive alphanumeric pagers.
tony -- I find the internet pager
gateway more robust compared to internet telephony. Both the sender and
recieve do not need to install, configure and learn to use any
"special" software. Please see >> http://www.pucho.com
tony -- For a list of major pager service providers who offer "instant wireless messaging (email) from the internet", please refer to >> http://www.bazaars.com/home/paging2.html
tony -- To set up a instant wireless
messaging system, simply get a alphanumeric pager from a major player like:
mobilecomm, pagenet, sprint, mci or att. Then build a webform at your website
to route messages to the pager service providers server. Its
easy and no special "client" software is needed!
tony -- Of course, i cannot chat on an alpha pager. I often get messages from associates in CHina or Japan requesting that i meet them on a know IRC channel or UNIX talk.
Richard Seltzer -- Tony -- sounds interesting. but where does one get instrucitons for how to "build a webform at your website to route messages to the pager service provider's server"? Or do/could ISPs set that up for you (make it trivially easy)?
tony -- I set up those web to pager
forms all the time and would be glad to show you how to do it. There seems
to be no instructions available on the net that i am aware of.
I know how do it because i am familiar with CGI.
Blair Anderson --tony: a synopsis of method would be appreciated. Any URL?
tony -- In addition to "Instant messaging", a Pagers can also become a wireless email box. Important or sensitive email can be recieved on it too.
tony -- Internet paging software, like AOL's, is not wireless. At least pagers can be leveraged and used for other purposes when i am not surfing the net.
Bob Fleischer -- As far as getting robust discussions going -- I have to admit that the majority of attempts I've observed to get (asynchronous) discussions going have failed. However, there have been some spectacular successes as well. There probably is a special type of group dynamics involved. Critical mass is essential. A (relatively) few people seem to contribute most of the input. I'd guess that it's really not that different from the interaction patterns in a face to face meeting. Because of the different medium, however, the people who feel comfortable and confident online will be different people from those who feel comfortable face-to-face.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob Fleischer -- interesting observation about the fact that few people seem to contribute most of the input. that being the case, and on-line interaction being important, it seems that that could represent a training opportunity. do you think it might be possible to train people to feel more comfortable and confident on-line and open up more? I'd certainly like to see such training offered.
Bob Fleischer -- Different people will require different training -- for one thing, some people wouldn't even be comfortable with the keyboard! Motivation is important -- people will get comfortable by doing.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob Fleischer -- yes the keyboard is important (today, probably not so much in 5 to 10 years). it would be interesting to brainstorm on what you should/could include in a training session to better prepare people for on-line discussion/interaction. It might make a good background or pre-requisite for distance education (Kathleen?)
Bob Fleischer -- I could imagine a non-threatening training scenario -- making a gaffe in front of colleagues/peers can be quite traumatic!
Blair Anderson -- Despite
a well intentioned "foray" into voice based computing and voice to dictation
with OS/2 WARP (merlin) its lacks any finess.. is prone to background noise
( a recent interview on the TV-BBC deleted a file!! before my
eyes.. ) Given the technical multitasking in OS/2 being superior to alternates.. I cannot see "hands off" dialog happening at the user interface.. until there is more than just "more grunt" in the hardware.. the use of the internet for "voice chat" still remains half-duplex.. again the pingtime issue is a factor.. although I remain hopeful that we will see true asynch full duplex voice very soon.. ISDN+ speeds are essential today.. but disparate platforms and software technologies across different platforms remains an imediment to "free and easy" internet phone.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- time is getting short. as usual, I'll post an edited threaded version of the transcript. check http://www.samizdat.com/#chat and please send followup messages for inclusion with the transcript.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- be sure to post your email address and URL before signing off (don't count on the software catching it).
Richard Seltzer -- All -- I'm inclined to give this topic another week. I'll be speaking at Web Week at the Oak Ridge Labs in Tennessee on Monday, bouncing around some of these ideas there. Please let me know if you want to continue this topic or send suggestions for other future topics. firstname.lastname@example.com
Miki Dzugan -- Richard, I will be doing a class next Thursday on Marketing on the Internet at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis. If our schedule allows, I thought we might join this group for a few minutes to give the class an idea of what a well-run chat group is like. Your summaries are also an excellent example. Although this is a regular classroom session, my "overheads" are in HTML and link to various examples on-line. Hope to talk to you next Thursday.
Richard Seltzer -- Miki -- It would be great if your class could join us next week.
Kathleen Gilroy -- Kathleen Gilroy: email@example.com
firstname.lastname@example.com -- Thanks
all fo a stimulating session. This has been quite a brain storm. I can't
wait to act on some of the ideas I have come up with from this discussion.
Cottage Micro Services, 103 Vinyard Drive, Waxahachie, TX 75167
http://www.cottagemicro.com PH: 972-435-2446 FAX: 972-435-2446
Miki Dzugan -- Bye to everyone!
Todd Moyer -- firstname.lastname@example.com (w) email@example.com (h) http://www2.cybernex.net/~tsm
Richard Seltzer -- Thanks to all for joining us this week. Hope you can make it again next week. And please spread the word. And be sure to send me followup email with all the things you meant to say but never got a chance to type in. firstname.lastname@example.com
Bob Fleischer -- firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.tiac.net/users/rjf/
tony -- ard i am really impressed
with this CGI chat application. http://www.acunet.net
anthony alvarez, webmaster firstname.lastname@example.com
Blair Anderson -- Cheers All... mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks for sending the preface and introduction to your book. While I was reading it I was remembering when you first told me about your looking into the Internet. At the time you were in the process of getting an account on Gatekeeper so you could get outside the firewall. I remember thinking, at the time, that you wouldn't get very far. I realize now that that was projection on my part. I was projecting my own inability to find time to do the same thing on you. Obviously I was very wrong. And I'm glad I was wrong.
I've had some interesting experiences relating to things you talked about in the intro. For one, my flypaper page has not been very successful. That's a disappointment but not a concern. I think I know ways to make it better but I also believe that I'm looking for people who are probably not networked at this time.
On the other hand, I have gotten job offeres which I believe came from AltaVista searches. None I'm interested in but it's still nice to approached.
The religion department is looking at a new text book because the author found on of our religion teachers using a search engine. He was looking for secondary school religion teachers. I've built a directory of students, alumni and faculty email addresses at the school site. BTW, 28% of the visits to the schools site involve viewing the connections directory page. Schools, and perhaps other organizations, should not ignore that as an opportunity to build community.
As you know, my essays page has been successful beyond my expectations. People find it using search engines and some of my essays have hundreds of hits. I could never get this audience any other way. I've also had email conversations about some of them. I wish everyone had a home page. (I've been mulling an essay on that topic - I'll send it to you if/when I do.)
I have one question about your book. Is it just on the web or the whole internet? There is a lot more to the Internet then the web as you know. [NB -- covered in chapter 1. Richard]
There is still quite a set of communities on newgroups and listservers. These communities tend to be a bit more isolated then web communities but they are strong and growing (or so it appears to me.)
FWIW, when I was at Digital I was a member of a private Notes conference. It was in fact the first non work related conference to move from Notes-11 to VAX Notes. Now most of us have left Digital. Either on our own or through layoff. We continue much the same discussions with much the same membership through a listserver. Given all the time zones involved, chat groups are just not practical for us. Web based forum systems are probably a bit high in resource use as well. Someone's Mac runs the listserver.
I'm also a member of an advisory committee doing an education resource for/with Microsoft (to be announced on or about Oct 1). We conduct most of our business over the internet. There is an FTP site to hold/pass large documents. We have a listserver for ongoing discussions. We also use MS Netmeeting to hold chats for sub groups and to act as a group wide "white board" during occasional teleconference calls. This is much as we did business at Digital using Notes conferences but moved outside the firewalls. Interestingly enough, the person who pays the bills (the Microsoft person) sometimes has trouble being a full participant because of firewalls. A pity we need them.
Sorry for the rambling brain dump. I'll make a second (and perhaps third) pass at what you've sent so far but I think you've got it down very well.
That is what comes of having the design of a book percolate so long.
Regards, Alfred
Alfred C Thompson II, Teacher, Hacker, Net Surfer, email@example.com,http://www.tiac.net/users/act2/
During the Tianamen Square events the Notes conference on China (Hanzi.note) was very busy as you can imagine. The conference and it's owner/moderator (the late Simon Szeto) were based in Hong Kong. The activity though was mostly from the US and Europe. That's when I was recruited as an extra moderator. Time shifting the work. Things that appear on a computer in Hong Kong can get sensitive. We considered moving the file.
RE: Book people The efforts to save books on the Internet strikes me as so very similar to the book people in Faheirenheit 451 as I'm sure it does you as well. It makes me feel good too. Books are so important.
BTW, have you looked at AOL's Buddy List and Instant Message software? It lets you register a screen name and create a list of screen names of friends. When a friend listed (who need not be an AOL user but must run the AOL buddy list S/W) logs on to the Internet you are informed. You can then send an instant message (something like a one on one chat) to them. Just FYI. (My screen name on it is AlfredTwo if you try it out.) I suspect that sort of thing may have some interesting ramifications in the future. A group could like to each other and chat randomly when ever two or more show up at the same time. It would be more private then a
The Internet Non AOL member version is available from the main AOL Web site. I have the exact URL at home but there is a pointer to it from www.aol.com.
[responding to preface and introduction to The Social Web]
Your Social Web corresponds to my thoughts, needs, interests and to my whole internal nature so much that I feel something like resonant waves.
I want immediately to use your advises for development of our business and my researches. I have decided to conduct activity in two directions: a search of colleagues and adherents and also a representation of our firm using of your ideas about flypaper.
On the first direction I have made a few inquiries in AltaVista using names of the researchers which I know on their publications (nobody has found yet). But after the search on key words "heat treatment", "rolling" and "steel roll" I have found some useful sites on conferences and forum METAL where people transmit in their problems, application and advertisements.
Unfortunately, in August our charge-free access to Internet was finished and now I should do it more thoroughly and after a proper preparation. I have decided to make flypapers on the base of the main site presenting our firm on basic directions of our activity (I'll send you the project of the main site, but I'll not be in an insult, if you don't find time for its criticism).
Now in Petersburg a boom is flashed concerning Internet. We receive proposals on arrangement of our sites on various servers almost every day (yesterday it was the proposal from http://www.marketsite.ru with 10000 users offering a system of payments by means of a bank letter of credit). I think it will be soon everything okay with business in Russian Internet.
With best regards
Natalia Nemzer
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