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Sara Pelegreen has been playing softball for a long time.
She's not quite sure if she's ever had a feeling like she's experiecing right now from the sport she loves.
The former Harrison Central standout and current West Virginia State pitcher is preparing for her first trip to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
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"I can't even explain the feeling, honestly," Pelegreen said during a phone interview earlier this week. "Having pactices after the conference tournament was great. I just can't wait to get on the field and play."
The Lady Yellow Jackets will make a lengthy road trip, via charter bus, to Kutztown, Pa. to take part in the Atlantic Regional Tournament. They'll take on Indiana, Pa. at 1 p.m. Friday.
"We know IUP is a really good team," Pelegreen said. "They were at a tournament in Salem with us earlier this season, but we didn't play them. We realize that we're one of only 64 teams left playing in the nation, so we can't take anyone lightly."
West Virginia State learned its destination on Monday when the NCAA formally announced its Division II brackets. Pelegreen didn't watch the online show because, honestly, she wasn't aware it was happening.
"I watched it afterward, but I had already found out who we were playing," Pelegreen said. "I really didn't think we'd find out until we got to practice that day."
There were maybe a few nervous moments for Pelegreen and company after they came up short to West Virginia Wesleyan of earning the WVIAC's automatic bid to the tournament.
"We knew we deserved to be in because we were ranked high enough the week prior, and we didn't think the way we played in the (conference) tournament should have lowered us," Pelegreen admitted. "It was tough not knowing for sure, but we had practices scheduled, so our coaches were pretty confident."
The Yellow Jackets have posted a school-record 46 victories this season. Pelegreen owns a 17-6 record in the circle.
Pelegreen, who admitted she won't learn if she's starting Friday's game until just moments before game time, realizes that W.Va. State is "probably the underdog."
"This is only the second time in our school's history of making it to the NCAA Tournament," Pelegreen said. "We're just going to go play and not have any stress. I think we stressed out a bit too much at the tournament, but we're going to change that mentality and do our thing. We're going to go have fun and, hopefully, win some ballgames. We do not want to go two (games) and out."
Pelegreen learned on Tuesday that she'd been named first-team all-WVIAC for her season. She joined W.Va. State shortstop Brittany Hyatt on the first unit. Hyatt was named conference player of the year.
"It's exciting because I didn't have the two seasons, prior to this, that I wanted," Pelegreen said. "I worked hard for this and it paid off both in terms of helping our team get to the tournament and earning all-conference. I am really excited."
Pelegreen leads W.Va. State in earned run average (1.40), appearances (30), complete games (19), shut outs (6), innings pitched (165). She's fanned 110 hitters, while allowing just 34 walks.
"I had no other distractions and was just really focused on softball and school this season," Pelegreen said. "I felt like I needed to make a statement for myself because I didn't feel like I had played up to my potential. I wrote down goals on a white board in my room and I was able to achieve most of them."
Pelegreen isn't about to rest on her laurels either as she's already looking ahead to her senior season.
"I've set my goal, for next year, to be pitcher of the year (in the conference)," Pelegreen admitted. "I want to go all out for my senior year. We're losing some talented players (to graduation), but I really think we'll have the talent to win the conference next year."
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Kim Thongthep, 48, of Amarillo died Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today in Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Martin Road Chapel, 1505 Martin Road.
Kim was born Oct. 7, 1959, in Vientien, Laos. She served in the Laos military as a nurse from 1968 to 1970 and came to the U.S. in 1980. She was a member of the Amarillo Laos Association and First Baptist Church. Kim worked as an environmentalist at Northwest Texas Hospital for 16 years and at Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital for two years. She was an animal lover and a devoted mother and wife.
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Philosophical questions concerning the difference between equality, isomorphism, equality upto (unique) isomorphism, undistinguishability, and the like are not very popular among practicing mathematicians: there's a difference between equality upto isomorphism and equality upto unique isomorphism, and that's it (not to forget about isomorphism and natural isomorphism).
But personally, I'm not totally satisfied with this stance when looking at truly abstract structures like unlabelled graphs (finite or infinite, countable or uncountable), conceived as nothing-but-dots-and-arrows.
Are two abstract structures not to be considered equal in the strongest sense - being one and the same - as soon as there is an isomorphism between them, regardless of being unique, natural, and/or not?
The existence of isomorphisms in turn tells us something about the symmetries of the abstract structure, but of one and only one.
Maybe there are no such abstract structures per se, but only concrete structures (models) and/or concrete presentations of them (like adjacency matrices). Then the question misses a subject. But if so?


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What is motherhood really worth?
If you've been on Facebook around Mother's Day, or spent any time at all reading mom blogs, you'll have seen numerous articles about how much real money a mom is worth. You know the ones. They add up the yearly wages of chauffeur, chef, daycare provider, psychologist, nurse, etc., and that's how much you're really worth, Mom! This past Mother's Day, there was a very sneaky bit of advertising wrapped up in a video about how motherhood is "the hardest job in the world" and pays nothing. Nothing at all. (And now that you're feeling guilty, kids, you need to fork over your whole allowance to buy an amazing gift for that completely unappreciated mom in your life!)
Eh. Maybe motherhood is that hard, maybe it isn't. What I'm more concerned about is what it says about our society that we mothers so need our value to be defined in dollars and cents and hours "worked" that, instead of being ignored as the irrelevancies that they are, these things get passed around like a cold virus in a mid-winter Sunday School class. These articles, infographics, and videos all play to our desire to be appreciated, not by our own immediate families, but by the Joneses. It's not our children or husbands that we're aiming at when we repost these things. We know they love us. We know they know how much they need us. It's distant relatives, friends, and even strangers that we're trying to convince. We look at the wider world and beg "Please, appreciate us! Look how much we do! Look how much money we're worth!"
What motivates you as a mother? I can tell you what motivates me, and it's the blossoming of my children under my care. I know I'm not alone in that. Nobody really measures that relationship in cash. It's when we turn our faces from the people who make us mothers, and stare into the faces of strangers that we suddenly we feel the need to justify ourselves in terms of dollars and cents.
If we had any sense of our own real value, we'd find these memes insulting, not inspiring.
Think about it for a moment. Is a prostitute more valuable to a john than you are to your own husband, just because money changes hands? Do you measure that intimate relationship in terms of dollars per transaction? No? Then why try to measure something as priceless as motherhood in currency? Why do we think that being able to put a dollar amount on those things we do makes us seem more valuable, rather than less? All of the things that we can pay–are, in fact, encouraged to pay–other people to do for our children do not add up to our true worth. There is an insidious strain of thought in our culture that serves to separate us from our most important work–that of raising our children–by making all other jobs but motherhood out to be fairly compensated. If you cheapen motherhood, you cheapen the people mothers serve, as well. The Enemy knows this quite well, so he does everything he can to make mothers look elsewhere for their sense of self-worth.
If you've been here for a while, or if you've read my ebook, you'll be familiar with my story about the second grade teacher who taught me that "mother" is not something worth aspiring to. I suspect that the reason we're all so desperate to prove our cash value is that, like little Cindy long ago, we've been taught that the only way to be a grown-up is to bring home a paycheck. Further, I suspect that the reason we've been taught that a paycheck equates to usefulness, and the reason that government schools love feminism so much, is because government schools are tax-supported, and you can't tax mere motherhood. You can only tax income.
And so, from our earliest grade-school lessons, income has become the only value we know how to assign people.
The trouble with the dollar value model of measuring motherhood is that you can't pay a chauffeur to have a heart-to-heart in the car about the way the rest of the girls treated your daughter after dance class. You can't pay a daycare worker to look lovingly into your baby's eyes and tell him he's still loved while she cleans up the accident that so embarrassed him. You can't pay a housekeeper to pray over the people to whom the house she's cleaning belongs.
You can pay people to do the physical act of care-giving, but you can't pay people to love your children while they do it.
We women have outsourced so much of our physical labor, and not just as mothers, but as daughters, neighbors, and church family, that society has lost its understanding of our spiritual value as care-givers. Most people in our culture in this neglected generation haven't often felt the difference between care administered for pay and care administered out of love and concern for the well-being of the recipient. We've gotten used to being "served" in any number of intimate ways by people who don't really care a hill of beans about our spiritual condition. But we are people, not machines. We need to be served, not serviced. On a gut level it will always matter to our children whether the people around them would still care if they weren't paid to.
Motherhood isn't cheap. It costs us everything we have sometimes, doesn't it? But it is free! And we do ourselves no favor when we encourage others to view it as a merely financial transaction. To assign a dollar value to what we give daily as mothers only cheapens the relationship. It's time we reject these cheap, manipulative demands for cultural validation and instead learn to respect the sanctity of our unpaid, often difficult, even lonely, but indispensable and invaluable private duties to our families.


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Banner Lassen named to Top 20 Critical Access Hospital list
SUSANVILLE, Calif (Oct. 9, 2012) – Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville, Calif. was recently named one of the top 20 critical access hospitals in the U.S. for financial stability.
The top 20 critical-access hospitals, including Banner Lassen, scored best among critical access hospitals on iVantage Health Analytics' Hospital Strength Index for financial stability. The list was announced Sept. 28 during the National Rural Health Association's Critical Access Hospital Conference in Kansas City, Mo.
The top 20 critical access hospitals achieved success in one of three key areas of performance:
- Quality index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank across the five categories of Hospital Compare Process of Care measures.
- Patient perspective index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank on two Hospital Compare HCAHPS measures ("Overall Rating" and "Highly Recommend)".
- Financial stability index: A rating of hospital performance based on the percentile rank on a set of balance sheet and income statement financial ratios.
"Banner Lassen is proud of the efforts of its physicians and staff who have contributed to our hospital achieving this designation," said Banner Lassen CEO Bob Edwards. "Our results as a top performer in financial stability means our community can count on us to deliver the services they need now and in the future."
About Banner Lassen Medical Center
Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville, Calif. originally opened in 1883 as Lassen County Hospital. A 25-bed, critical access hospital, Banner Lassen offers quality care, close to home. In addition to providing our patients with a safe, efficient and caring environment, Banner Lassen offers a wide range of programs and services to aid in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. We offer private rooms and home-like birthing suites.
About the National Rural Health Association
The National Rural Health Association is a nonprofit organization working to improve the health and well-being of rural Americans and providing leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications, education and research. Membership is made up of 21,000 diverse individuals and organizations, all of whom share the common bond of an interest in rural health. For more information, visit www.RuralHealthWeb.org.
About iVantage Health Analytics
iVantage Health Analytics, Inc.™ is a privately held healthcare business intelligence and technology company. The company is a leading provider of information products serving an expansive healthcare industry. iVantage Health Analytics™ integrates diverse information with innovative delivery platforms to ensure customers' timely, concise, and relevant strategic action. For more information, visit www.iVantageHealth.com.


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In Word 2007's equation editor, I can enter "1/2" and I will get a properly formatted fraction. However, there is another kind of fraction that uses a smaller font size. How do I type that one using the keyboard alone?
I notice that if I switch to linear mode, I get a small box displayed:
Using the clipboard, I find that this is the same box (U+25A1) that I also get if I type "\box". Despite, typing "\box(1/2)" still turns into a normal-size fraction and not the small fraction.
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Local Boy Scout Troop 186 from Milford sold more than 1,500 bags of mulch this spring to raise funds for summer camp. Priced at $4 per bag, the troops raised thousands for their fundraiser. Pictured are members of Boy Scout Troop 186 on the mulch delivery day April 19.
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Hai-Lung Dai
Hai-Lung Dai is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry, and senior vice provost for international affairs at Temple.
A graduate of National Taiwan University, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1984 he joined as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he was chair of the chemistry department, funding director of the Penn Science Teacher Institute, and the Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry. In 2007, he assumed his current positions at Temple University.
His tenure as dean of the College of Science and Technology since 2007 has been characterized by a major influx of world renowned faculty, almost tripling the research funding and new cutting-edge instruments, vastly improving facilities including a new research and education building, and initiating transformative changes in education and services for students. New educational initiatives include revised curricula, research opportunities for undergraduates, a research-focused financial aid program, student career services, and the establishment of the TUteach program -- a fundamentally new approach to educate high school math and science teachers.
As senior vice provost for international affairs, Dai oversees Education Abroad, which manages study abroad and Temple's overseas campus in Tokyo and Rome; International Programs, which facilitates and manages partnerships with foreign institutions and collaborative educational programs; International Students and Scholars Services; and International Student Recruiting and Admission. Under his leadership, Temple has created new dual bachelor's-master's degree and collaborative bachelor degree programs for international students with partner universities in Asia and a liaison office in Beijing coordinating collaborative programs and student recruiting; vastly expanded Temple's partnerships all over the world; seen dramatic increase in number of international students; and raised awareness of globalization within Temple's campus.
Dai is an active, funded researcher in molecular and surface sciences. He has published 160 articles, edited two books and five journal volumes and delivered more than 280 invited lectures and seminars in international and national meetings, research institutions and universities. He has received numerous honors including a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Humboldt Fellowship from Germany, the Coblentz Prize in Molecular Spectroscopy, the Ellis Lippincott Award for Spectroscopy of the Optical Society of America, the Langmuir Lecturer Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society Philadelphia Section Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Institute of Chinese Engineers in the US, and several named lectureships from China, Japan, and the US. He is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society and served as the Chair of the APS Chemical Physics Division.
In addition to a gubernatorial appointment in the Pennsylvania State Board on Drug, Device and Cosmetic, Dai has served in and advised government agencies, professional societies, universities and research institutions in the U.S. as well as abroad. He is the former conductor of Philadelphia's Chinese Musical Voices Choir and has conducted several orchestral concerts in the Philadelphia symphony hall.


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- 2/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup sliced almonds
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1/2 cup sesame seeds
- 1/2 cup salted sunflower kernels
- 2 cups raisins
- In a small saucepan, combine the honey, oil and brown sugar; cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla.
- In a large bowl, combine the oats, almonds, coconut, sesame seeds and sunflower kernels. Add honey mixture, stirring until evenly coated. Spread onto two ungreased baking pans.
- Bake at 300° for 20 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in raisins. Bake 10 minutes longer. Cool, stirring occasionally. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 10 cups.
Reviews for Crunchy Granola
"This is yummy but honestly there are far healthier and delicious granola recipes on this site. Coconut and sunflower seeds are high in bad fats and calories, hence the not so good nutrition rating."
"I said I would make this again because we liked everything in it. However, I felt the cooking times were a little too long and I would not add the coconut until after I was done."
"This is the FAVOURITE recipe @ our house! Crunchy, flavorful, etc. I usually don't add the raisins, but have found it's delicious either way!"
"I entered the recipe into the Calorie Count web site, and here are the results. Serving Size 132 g (10 servings at 1 cup each since recipe says it makes 10 cups): Calories 555; Calories from Fat246; Total Fat 27.4g; Saturated Fat 4.7g24%; Trans Fat 0.0g; Cholesterol 0mg;Sodium 34mg; Total Carbohydrates 74.2g;Dietary Fiber 7.5g; Sugars 42.4g; Protein9.7g. Calorie Count gave it a D+ grade."
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Question: How did it feel to win your first Pac-10 title last year?
Coach B: Great! We have been waiting for a Pac-10 Championship for a long time. The players and coaching staff worked very hard over the course of the season and even when a championship seemed unlikely, we always believed it was possible. Now we have experienced a taste of success and we want a Pac-10 title every year. We also are shooting for our first National Championship! Stay tuned for that.


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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Arizona forward Chase Budinger has been named the U.S. Bank Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for November 13-19, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.
Budinger, a freshman from Encinitas, Calif., averaged 25.6 points and 7.0 rebounds in a pair of Arizona wins last week. He scored 32 points on 11-of-15 shooting, including 5-of-6 from three-point range and 5-of-6 from the free throw line in the 101-79 win over Northern Arizona. In the 102-87 victory over New Mexico State, he posted 19 points on 8-of-16 shooting from the field, pulled down seven rebounds and dished out four assists.
The 32-point effort against Northern Arizona is the seventh-best single-game effort by a freshman in Arizona history, and he is just the fourth Arizona freshman to score 30 or more points in a single game. For the season, Budinger leads Arizona in scoring, averaging 22.7 points per game.
This is the first weekly honor for Budinger and Arizona's 67th Player of the Week all-time. It also was the first weekly honor given out by the league this season. Budinger is just the second freshman in Pac-10 history (since 1983-84) to earn the debut Player-of-the-Week honor in his freshman season.


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NBA Boston Celtics: Ray Allen's secret to a long NBA career is…
Ray Allen's body is a freak of nature thanks, in part, to a great diet.
At 34-years-old and after 14 NBA seasons, the Boston Celtics shooting guard continues to compete in top form scoring a game-high 25 points in Game 1 to help beat the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals Sunday. The Orlando Magic will look to overcome a 2-0 deficit tonight when they face the Boston Celtics on the road at 8:30 p.m. ET.
His wife, Shannon Allen, told me he has kept the same pre-game diet and ritual for much of his NBA career. Maybe that is why he has 2 percent body fat.
For breakfast, Ray Allen usually eats pancakes, an egg white with spinach scramble and glass of orange juice. After shoot around, he will take a pregame nap and, later, dine on baked chicken, steamed brown rice, asparagus and drink bottled water with a slice of lemon. He does not drink or smoke, says Mrs. Allen.
"Ray is the most discipline person I've ever met in my life," Shannon Allen said. "He looks at food as fuel."
The Allen family generally eats pretty healthy. Shannon Allen practices a gluten-free diet (no pasta, wheat or wheat flour products) buys all organic meats and cooks with lots of olive oil.
Their disciplined eating habits proved helpful after their three-year-old son Walker Allen was diagnosed with Type I diabetes in 2008.
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Athlon lists four Cyclones on All-Big 12 teams
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More nuggets from the preseason college football magazines that hit newstands this week...
Athlon placed four Cyclones on its preseason All-Big 12 teams.
As was expected, senior tight end E.J. Bibbs landed on the first-team.
Iowa State's offense features three other Cyclones on the second-team though. Those men are Aaron Wimberly (running back), Quenton Bundrage (wide receiver) and Tom Farniok (center).
Quick editorial: As I wrote earlier in the week when Lindy's placed Wimberly on its second-team, that would be a GREAT sign for Iowa State if it ends up happening. But considering Wimberly's durability issues in 2013, I'd be surprised if he gets enough carries to rack up enough stats to warrant such an honor at the end of the season.
As it was noted earlier in the week, Athlon ranked Iowa State 66th overall and 8th in the Big 12. Athlon's projected record for the Cyclones is 4-8 (2-7).


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This week, Governor Doyle and President Obama will give their annual 'states of the union and state' speeches in Madison and Washington respectively. Given the general political climate in Wisconsin and across the Nation, it will be interesting to see and hear the tone both politicians take (they are afterall, from the same political pew). Governor Doyle can be more agenda focused given the fact that he is a lame duck although, most capable of doing damage to the careers of would-be-Governor Barrett and all other affiliated Dems running for statewide posts. Mr. Obama on the other hand must walk a bit more carefully as he has already scattered political landmines around him sufficient enough that his room to maneuver politically is rather tight.
What I have seen and heard so far about both the President's and the Governor's speeches is a continued profound misunderstanding of economics and the sentiment of local and national voters. I've been curious for quite some time how two men, obviously well educated, could be so economically dense. And then just the other day, listening to President Obama talk about his immediate proposals to create jobs, it struck me (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1445539.html. Nearly simultaneously, I watched Governor Doyle's party loyalists in the Senate pass legislation making it easier for medical practitioners to be sued in Wisconsin for pain and suffering, including opening the door as far back as claims occurring between 1994 and 2000 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-xgr-medicalmalpra,0,5251163.story). My hypothesis: They both suffer from the same fundamental misunderstanding of economics and as a result, apply the same flawed economic assumptions time and time again to public policy issues.
The inherent flaw that both Governor Doyle and President Obama have when it comes to their (collective) understanding of economics lies in the relationship of government acting on the marketplace dynamics of supply and demand. For example, Mr. Obama heard the cries of an overwhelming majority (the demand) for lower cost healthcare. To Mr. Obama, this meant that he should use the power of the government to create a 'supply' of lower cost healthcare. Herein lies the fundamental flaw. What Mr. Obama did was to misunderstand that government's role is not to determine what kind of 'supply'; only to assist the market by eliminating the governmental barriers that allow this supply to be delivered within the marketplace. Instead, Mr. Obama decided that his and government's role was to determine exactly how the supply should look, how it should be delivered and under what kinds of circumstances and conditions the demand would be satisfied. Now almost incredulously so, he wonders how and why those with the demand and the rest of the marketplace, rebelled against the 'supply' he was willing to deliver. The problem for Mr. Obama is that he failed to remember that market forces determine the laxity or stricture of demand curves and simultaneously, generate supply if allowed, that meets the market wide demand at a point of equilibrium. Government's role in this process is to create a playing field or venue where fair fight rules are used to arbitrate the process, nothing more. If, as was the case for Mr. Obama and the House and Senate Democrats, government sees itself as both the interpreter of the demand and the creator of the supply, the process collapses onto itself thus leaving in this case, a political sink-hole.
Governor Doyle, suffering from the same economic myopia as President Obama, believes that state government is the only source capable of meeting the economic development demands of businesses and citizens in Wisconsin. His answers to the common demands of citizens for lower taxes, better education and better roadways and infrastructure is to balance the budget of the State on debt and shell games, placate the teacher's union and the educrats, and fund light rail and inter-urban trains as opposed to repairing vital highway systems, bridges and overpasses. For Governor Doyle, his view of supply is all about 'what' he wants Wisconsinites to have as an answer to demands rather than 'what' the marketplace could and would provide, including the marketplace of tax paying citizens and businesses. Obviously, as with all demand and supply issues, when willing buyers cannot have their needs met by the supply systems available, they will have no other choice but to find new markets where the supplies to meet their needs are available. In Wisconsin, such has been the case as businesses and individuals continue to exit far faster than their same clan from other regions, enter.
Correlating my hypothesis posed with the content of the speeches soon to be delivered, one should see the following occur. In Mr. Obama's case, he will deliver a series of off the mark proposals to address his reinterpretation of the demand that exists across the nation for lower spending, less government, more jobs, etc. His proposals will all be contrived governmental 'supplies' that will fail to come anywhere close to meeting the demands at present. He will, as he has to date, fail to understand that government is not the creator of supply nor is that its intended role in a free, market based society. He will soundly miss the fact that government's role is to facilitate the rapid creation and express delivery of new and existing supply within the marketplace.
Mr. Doyle will fail equally as miserably as Mr. Obama and because of his lame duck status, do further damage to his intended successor, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Barrett suffers from the same lack of economic education as does Governor Doyle and his lock-step embrace of all failed Doyle and Obama policies will surely crush his gubernatorial aspirations. Wisconsinites simply will no longer tolerate unmet demands and the inefficiencies and inadequacies of the Wisconsin supply climate created by Governor Doyle.
The beauty of economics is simply this: left alone to work with the energies and capacities of the market and enhanced by the role government can and should play as an arbitrator not an actor, demand and supply work fluidly and in concert. The lesson for politicians is that demands for lower governmental spending, lower cost health care and more jobs can only be addressed by government at the State and Federal level, allowing the energies of the free market to create the supply. The best thing government and politicians can do is to stop believing that a 'governmental delivered or manufactured supply' is the answer to meeting the demands of taxpayers - individuals and businesses alike.


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Although questions abound when it comes to the state of the Houston Texans, open training camp sessions are right around the corner.
According to the Texans official website, the team announced that training camps will begin on Saturday, July 26, as the Texans hit the gridiron for the first time in 2014 in preparation for the upcoming NFL season.
Seven training camps will be open to the public, which will be held at the Houston Methodist Training Center, beginning at either 8 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. Central Time.
The dates for the opening training camp sessions will be Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27; Wednesday, July 30; Friday, Aug. 1 and Saturday, Aug. 2; Wednesday, Aug. 13 and Thursday, Aug. 14.
All of Houston's open training camp sessions will be held against the Atlanta Falcons.
Gates will open at 7 a.m. CT, with lines forming on Murwoth Drive.
Free tickets can be printed online from the team's official website, www.HoustonTexans.com, beginning at 10 a.m. CT on Wednesday, July 16 (limit of four tickets per person while supplies last).
The Texans will also once again be hosting a school supply drive during training camp sessions, as the team encourages fans to donate school supplies to the cause.
In addition, the Houston Texans Cheerleaders 2014-15 Swimsuit Calendar goes on sale starting Sunday, July 20, and will be available for purchase throughout training camp, according to the team's official website.
For fans looking for parking accomidations for the training camp sessions, free parking will be available south of the Houston Methodist Training Center off of Lantern Point Drive in the Green Lot (lots open at 5 a.m. on open dates).
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This Weekend: The No. 21 Wildcats take a break from conference action when they play host to the Texas-El Paso Miners on Sunday. For the Miners, Sunday's contest is their first dual match of the year. Ranked No. 74 in the latest poll, UTEP is lead by senior Tanja Magoc (8-5) who's ranked 57th in the fall rankings. The Miners are the second opponent for Arizona from the Mountain West Conference this year. The Wildcats hooked up with New Mexico in the season opener, and UA came out on top, 7-2.
The Lineup: Name Yr. Hometown Uzma Kahn Fr. Hyderabad, India Lindsay Blau So. Ossining, New York Michelle Gough Jr. Johannesburg, South Africa Vanessa Abel Sr. Tucson, Arizona Laresa Marino So. San Diego, California Joanna Buczkowska Jr. Zakopane, Poland
Last Weekend: The Wildcats began conference play with an upset win over No. 6 UCLA, 5-4, on Friday. Arizona fell to No. 10 USC on Saturday, 9-0.
Cats Travel to Lone Star State: Arizona's doubles team of sophomore Lindsay Blau and junior Michelle Gough travel to Dallas, Texas, this weekend for the Rolex Intercollegiate Indoor Championships. The tournament is the third leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Grand Slam. The pair earned a spot this weekend by capturing the Region VIII doubles title. The duo is ranked No. 8 in the fall rankings and is seeded fourth in the invitational. For results of the tournament you can dial from the handset of your fax machine (800)300-2050, enter TENNIS-ITA-1 for your pin number, then the ITA's passcode, 582#, and the document number is 1049.
Last Season: Arizona finished the season with an overall record of 8-14 placing them sixth in the Pac-10 Conference. The Wildcats advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before being eliminated by top-ranked Florida.
Cats in the Polls: After beginning the season with a 4-1 record, the Wildcats jumped 10 spots in the polls to the No. 21 spot in the Feb. 2 team rankings of the spring season. Arizona shares the spot with Kentucky, which has started the season off 2-0. The first singles and doubles rankings will be released Feb. 16. For a complete list of rankings, visit the ITA website at www.ITAtennis.com.
Head Coach: Brad Dancer is in his first year as head coach at Arizona replacing Stephanie London. Dancer played No. 1 singles and doubles at Michigan State, graduating with a degree in business in 1993. In his time at Michigan State, Dancer was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten member and was selected to the All-Big Ten team his senior year. Dancer's professional coaching highlights include serving as an assistant for the 1996 Fed Cup team.
Assistant Coaches: Kevin Epley and Vicky Maes round out the coaching staff for the Wildcats this season. Epley comes to Arizona after serving as an assistant last year at Alabama. In addition to his duties at Arizona, Epley is involved in coaching at the professional tennis level including serving as an assistant for the Fed Cup team under head coach Billie Jean King. Maes, a four-time tennis All-American, returns to her alma mater as a volunteer assistant. Maes graduated from Arizona in 98 but not before becoming the most decorated player in the program's history. Maes was a two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year, a GTE All-American, and was selected to the Pac-10 All-Decade team.
Assistant Coach Kevin Epley
"We are coming off an exciting weekend with a lot of momentum but we understand that we can't look past any match because any team can be beaten on any given day.
"We are riding a wave right now and we are riding it based on hard work and determination. We as a coaching staff are very proud of our team's work ethic.
"We are looking forward to play UTEP. They'll be a good test for us. Even though they are not in our conference, our girls understand that we still need to be prepared."


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|PC Pro's
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deep-dive review
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the update "brings
some welcome features and some much needed polish to the nearest
thing Microsoft Office has to a competitor."
Simon highlighted the new anti-aliasing of graphics, which he noted "greatly improves the clarity of charts and drawings," and the showing of shadow objects while dragging, saying both of these features alone make OpenOffice "look much more professional."
|There were several new features
found to be of value in Calc, including the zoom control on the
status bar, the displayed hints about syntax functions as a formula
is typed, and the auto-complete of the function names. He described
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of some performance bottlenecks, which resulted in a faster
calculation speed of large, complicated workbooks.
Simon also detailed the improved commenting feature available in Writer, along with the new file locking implementation included in the suite, which allows a user to tell if a file is already opened by someone else, even if that person is using a different OS.
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similar movies?
anyone know similar movies that got the dark sarcastic humor as in grim fandango? or at least the noir feel? (cant be too old..like Alfred Hitchcock) need some humor as well
some i like is
dick tracy - humor
dark city
(maltese falcon) - private eye Ace..was ok, but not too good tho
Romeo is bleeding
and Calvin and hobbes "Tracer Bulllet" heh =P calvin is perfect by the way!
100 bullets - "The Counterfifth Detective" is about perfect aswell
the best set-up got to be a poor private detective
don't think i can offer much here, but I can offer movies like the ones you listed here
Immortel (Ad Vitam) is Bladerunner, Dark Cityish, though beware it's very weird
Jacob's Ladder is a straight up horror film, but deals with a notion of the afterlife roughly similar to Grim Fandango's.
Casablanca is definitly a must as the game was mostly based off of that movie, though not really any detectives to speak of.
If you're really thrusty for some privite eye stuff, you could also check out the Dresden Files on the sci-fi channel, cross between a privite eye and harry potter.
Also most Tim Burton films have the dark sense of humor, especially the animated ones, but not many private eyes.
just thinking, a relivant, comidic series would be that of Nero Wolfe. Plunty of books, but there are a bunch of movie and radio adaptions, as well as an A&E telivision series that came out of the minisereis The Golden Spiders.
There are also a bunch of really good mystery series on A&E, but most of them consists of british inspectors, while this one might have the rogish flare you're looking for.
If you're at all into books though, Dashiell Hammett (who wrote maltese falcon) is a pretty good source of noir dedective stories
Sin City is great, it's like those old pulp comic books with the volume cranked up to eleven. Some massive homaging going on in that movie.
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Monday, 05.21.2012 / 5:10 PM | Curtis Zupke - NHL.com Correspondent
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Been there, done that?
Well, the
Los Angeles Kings
have been to Vancouver and done this -- go on the road with a 3-1 series lead and clinch. Now they are in the exact same position, needing to win on the road to eliminate the
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"We've worked really hard to give ourselves this advantage early in the series and we let an opportunity slip by not capitalizing and being on home ice," Brown said. "Now it's up to guys to rally their own game and rally collectively to go into Phoenix with that attitude that we're coming out of there with a win."
This is the first sign of a setback the Kings have faced since the Vancouver series. In Game 4 of the conference finals they fell into a two-goal deficit for the first time since Game 4 of the quarterfinals; they recovered from that loss with a club record eight-game playoff winning streak that was snapped in Game 4 against the Coyotes.
"I think this team has handled adversity pretty well, considering the type of year we had," Brown said. "This time of year it's about sticking together. We lost one game, so it's a matter of rebounding."
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(Introduction: Robert Rodriguez's latest book, "Solo in the '70s: John, Paul, George, Ringo 1970-1980," is a detailed, through look at the careers of each Beatle through the decade. The book covers everything: the music, the members, lawsuits, concerts, Apple Records and much more. We questioned Rodriguez by email.)
Q: What's the idea behind "Solo in the '70s"?
Robert Rodriguez: "When I began getting into the Beatles back in the '70s, I could count on one hand the number of good books there were on them. I don't believe any ended with their break-up, apart from maybe Richard Dilello's magnificent 'The Longest Cocktail Party.' Books like 'An Illustrated Record,' 'All Together Now,' 'The Beatles Forever,' 'Growing Up With The Beatles' and others carried on with their story post-1970, recognizing that the works produced by the four ex-Beatles were simultaneously the start of solo careers as individual artists and an extension of what they'd started during the '60s.
"The 1980 murder of John Lennon served as the slamming of a door on so many levels. First, obviously there was no chance of a real reunion happening. But also, it relegated the group to history. From then on, there was no escaping their being spoken of in past tense. And so the books began to be cranked out, covering their history from inception to the split. Only books that took on the ex-Beatles individually - mostly on John, but to a lesser extent, Paul and then George - talked about the post-disbanding era at all, seen through the prism of each individual.
"With my book 'Fab Four FAQ 2.0,' I put their story back together, presenting them, yes, as individuals, but also within the context of the residual Beatlemania that went on from one end of the decade to the other, including a few real peaks, such as in 1974 and 1978. That book covered the era in great detail, particularly the music, but I never felt that it told the whole story and all there was to know.
"Context is key, and with 'Solo in the 70s,' I widened the lens. While music is certainly discussed, I wanted to also showcase the individuals around them: who they chose to work with, to sponsor, who followed in the Beatles' footsteps and left their mark on the era, as well as to, for example, glean some understanding into how they saw their work by exploring its presentation: the jacket art and promo films, for instance.
"There were events shaping their art throughout the decade that I wanted to dig into: the lawsuits going on between them being one thing; John's fight against deportation being another. But I also wanted readers to experience this time through the eyes of the fans, who doubtless by and large wanted nothing more than for them to put aside their differences and work together again.
"At the end of his life, John seemed dismissive of the notion, at least publicly, chalking it up to nostalgia and people wanting to live in the past. But I can see where it's also possible that the fans astutely recognized the value that they brought to each other's art by working together. Those four were each other's best sounding boards - no small thing."
Q: Who got off to the best start in the solo years and who floundered?
Robert Rodriguez: "John, after beginning his withdrawal from dominating the group circa 1966, was first out of the gate with extracurricular activities, though these did not rise to the level of anything more than experimental novelties until 1969, with the Plastic Ono Band singles. 1970's "Instant Karma" was worthy of being a Beatle record, but ironically, it was he of the four that was last to score a #1. Ringo had two before John had one.
"One cannot underestimate the toll that his immigration fight took on him as an artist. "By the time he won the case, he was exhausted; it happened to coincide with the expiration of his recording contract and the long-desired prospect of raising a child with Yoko becoming reality. Had he been able to focus full time on a recording career instead of battling the Nixon administration, he may have fared better commercially.
"But I also think that John and Paul did themselves no favors by slumming with their choice of collaborators. Instead of looking for artistic equals to raise their game, they worked with sessioneers or journeymen that didn't challenge them. Maybe that was what George Martin intuited when he advised Paul to ditch Wings in 1981 for 'Tug of War' and work with people that had actually made names for themselves, like Stevie Wonder, Stanley Clarke, Eric Stewart, and so on.
"Paul put the world on notice that the Beatles were no more with the 'McCartney' album, a collection with which he unwittingly revealed how badly he needed a strong collaborator in order to operate on a Beatle level. As far as the critics were concerned, his non-musical activities, announcing the Beatles were done and then suing his three ex-bandmates, ptt him in a defensive position that would take years to claw his way out of.
"That left George, the talent hiding in plain sight, to knock the world on its ear. Perhaps his one track per Beatle album side had the effect of lowering expectations, but when 'All Things Must Pass' arrived - this majestic and elegantly packaged triple record set - he showed the world that he was not only Lennon and McCartney's equal, but also a gifted tunesmith with a unique artistic voice, bolstered by some heavy collaborators (and much echo).
"Looking at it from a psychological perspective - to the extent any outside observer can with any accuracy, I feel that once he won the validation he'd never really gotten from John, Paul or George Martin, he'd conquered his particular Everest. Henceforth, he felt no need to again compete with either the ghost of the Beatles or John and Paul's concurrent activities. He made music that pleased himself, while growing increasingly weary of playing any commercial games."
Q: Up to when John was murdered, who had the most success?
Robert Rodriguez: "Well as I'd mentioned, George weighed in heavily with his debut. The goodwill spilled over into 1971 with the Bangladesh event, but that ended up drawing energies away from his sustaining career momentum. By the time he was ready to get back on track, Paul was in ascendancy with the one-two punch of the 'My Love'/'Live and Let Die' singles, followed by year's end with 'Band on the Run.'
"That same year saw Ringo come out of the gate, crushing everything in his path. While 'Band on the Run' did well over time, spawning three hits in the US, the self-titled album from Ringo totally eclipsed John's concurrent 'Mind Games' album, which must've been quite the shock. It yielded back-to-back number one singles, an achievement none of them had experienced, and sustained Ringo's viability for another couple years, until changing tastes and formula fatigue did him in.
"John regained his commercial mojo, punching through his troubles, which by then included the separation from Yoko for eighteen months, bouncing back with "Walls and Bridges,'the only album of his lifetime to both go to number one and produce a number one hit with 'Whatever Gets You Thru The Night.' Had he not gotten sidetracked by the other stuff going on that year, including the possibility of working things out with Paul, who knows where he might have taken it.
"Paul was thereafter on a roll, sustaining a string of chart-topping singles, hit albums, and in 1976, a fabulously successful worldwide road show. He stayed much more attuned to what was going on in popular music, segueing from rock to soft rock to even disco as the market dictated. In John's lifetime, before the eighties began, Paul was honored as "the most successful composer and recording artist of all time" - it's hard to deny that particular honor as the ultimate quantifier."
(Watch for Part 2 in this space soon. In it, Rodriguez gives his opinion on each Beatle's best solo album, John and Yoko vs. Paul and Linda and Ringo Starr and George Harrison's best solo moments.)
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Efficient financing for farmersMCA-Honduras Requests Proposals to Manage a Trust Fund to Facilitate Access to Agricultural Credit
About 114 million lempiras will be administered by the Honduras private banking system to promote access to credit to client-farmers from MCA-Honduras Farmers Training and Development Activity (FTDA)
Tegucigalpa.- On August 27, MCA-Honduras held a pre-conference with 16 representatives of eight national banks, to provide information about requirements and the invitation to present proposals for the process: "Farmers Access to Credit Activity Trust Fund Administration Services".
The selected trustee will choose eligible financial entities, including second-floor institutions, which at the same time will provide credit to regulate and non regulated financial intermediaries in charge of canalizing the loans to farmers currently being assisted by MCA-Honduras programs.
Part of the people attending the informative event.
Among other activities, the chosen trustee will be responsible of identifying and evaluating financial intermediaries, defining the amount of each credit line, and will sign the respective contracts.
The trustee shall cautiously and diligently manage, invest and recover the resources of the trust fund, ensuring an appropriate performance level and the integrity of the resources making part of the assets in trust.
MCA-Honduras will invest 114 million lempiras at an interest rate of 6% and, as the financial intermediaries support the trust fund with their own resources, the interest rate will be reduced. With this initiative, MCA Honduras pretends to move more than 700 million lempiras in three years, in an effort that will benefit both the rural zones and the national economy. The trust fund is part of the Farmers Access to Credit Activity (FACA), currently being implemented by MCA-Honduras and which includes technical assistance for the banking system and support for the approval of the Secured Transactions Law and Registry.
This web site was made possible through a grant given by the people of the United States to Honduras through the Millennium Challenge Corporation under the terms of a compact signed between the two countries. The information provided on this Web site is not official
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Transcript of the live chat session that took place Thursday, October 29, 1998. These sessions are normally scheduled for 12 noon-1 PM Eastern Time every Thursday. Please note that the US is now on Standard Time. So in international terms, we are on at GMT -5.
These sessions are hosted by Richard Seltzer. If you would like to receive email reminders of our chat sessions, simply send a blank email message to email@example.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/businessonthewebchats and sign up there.
For transcripts of previous sessions and a list of future topics, click here .
For an article on how to make "business chat" work (based on this experience), click here .
Since the chat itself happens at a rapid pace, it's often difficult to note interesting facts in particular URLs as they appear on-line. Here's a place to take a more leisurely look. I've rearranged some of the pieces to try to capture the various threads of discussion (which sometimes get lost in the rush of live chat).
Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and suggestions for topics we should focus on in future sessions. So long as the volume of email responses is manageable, I'll post the most pertinent ones here for all to see.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- as you connect, please introduce yourselves and let us know your interests. That will help us get started quickly.
Bob Zwick -- Hello everyone, I'm Bob and independent consultant (11yrs.) in the Dallas Texas area.
Miki Dzugan -- Hello. This is Miki Dzugan, Internet marketing consultant for about three years under the business name of MarkNETing. Geographic location, St. Paul Minnesota.
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Tom Dadakis. Haven't "seen" you for a while. How are things going? What projects are you involved in now?
Tom Dadakis -- Hi my name is Tom Dadakis and have been commenting to Richard's chat's for 2 years now. Richard, sorry to here about your present circumstances but look at it as an opportunity. I too recently got caught by the Asian flu on Wall St and saw my whole dept slowly get eliminated. While I have worked as a consultant/contractor, I found that I spent a third of the time looking for new assignments for which there was no compensation. I recently secured another webmaster position. Most of my search was conducted online but this one came the old fashion way with a twist, a print classified found at careerpath.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- Interesting. Who is your new employer? What's the URL? Are you still in the New York area?
Richard Seltzer -- Welcome, Bob, Terry, and Barbara. Please introduce yourselves and let us know your interests.
Barbara -- Hi, my name is Barbara Hartley Seltzer and I'm a lurker, just listening for interesting information.
Tom Dadakis -- Yes still in NYC for a law firm.
Richard Seltzer -- Terry -- You sent me an email that mentioned an organization called "Maple Leaf." Can you explain what that is and what you do?
Bob Fleischer -- Bob Fleischer here. I'm a software engineer working in Systems Integration, mostly Internet applications, at Compaq (in the part formerly Digital). I'm not currently looking for a position, but it never hurts to know what the job market is like, especially since Compaq isn't done yet with "efficiency moves". I must admit, I've never worked independently and the thought scares me a bit. On the other hand, when I think back over more than two decades of frustration working in huge organizations, perhaps it isn't THAT scary!
Richard Seltzer -- Bob Fleischer -- I hope things work out well for you there. In my case, after about six months of limbo, it was probably more of a relief to get the package, and with 39-weeks severance, if I ever wanted to leap into independence, this is probably the time. I'd expect, though, that your skills must be in high demand at Compaq today -- they seem to value the services business, and Internet must be a pretty big chunk of that by now.
Carol Snyder -- Hi, Carol J. Snyder, snyderinfo, specializing in information web sites. Also webmaster of Boston Internet SIG.
Richard Seltzer -- All, the main motivation behind my having chosen the topic of "finding jobs and consulting work" is my own status -- off on my own now, after 19 years with Digital/Compaq. Based on the advice I've been getting here and by email, I put together a business description (trying to "package" and market the stuff that I've been used to doing for free). It's at http://www.samizdat.com/consult.html Suggestions/critiques welcome.
Richard Seltzer -- I'm looking at writing, speaking, and consulting as interrelated activities. I believe that experience and reputation in the one area should help promote business in the others. In the writing area, I do have my first "success" as an independent. I'll be writing a book for consumers about Internet shopping for Macmillan. My deadline is January 4. Naturally, I'm hoping to get advice and pointers by way of future chat sessions. If
you have thoughts about Internet shopping (as a consumer or as a vendor), please send me email firstname.lastname@example.com Richard Seltzer -- Realistically, until Jan. 4, I'm figuring I'll have to devote 4-5 days per week to the book, leaving me with just -2 days per week, plus all the many hours between 2 AM and 3 AM to do "consulting" work. So I'm looking for a few good customers to get started slowly, and build experience in this strange new "independent" role.
Here's the first part of Kaye's message: 1. By far some of the best
job search sites are (not surprisingly) local sources. Check local chapters/web
sites of national associations
like IABC (International Association of Business Communicators), PRSA (Public Relations Society of America), and specialized industry associations like NALFMA (National Association of Law Firm Marketing
Administrators) or AAM (Association for Accounting Marketing). In New York just today I was pointed to what may be the very best resource I have yet found...it's called Siliconalleyjobs.com (http://www.siliconalleyjobs.com) SUPER resource, and the recruiters who were linked into it each had an impressive number of relevant job listings.
Here's the second part of Kaye's message: 2. Software. I downloaded
a very neat little free program months ago to check how it worked and just
fell in love with it with its perky little personality. It's called "Wanted
Jobs", a Ziff-Davis product. (http://www.wantedjobs.com)
You can structure a variety of key-word searches (depending on various
talents you may have) and just run the search whenever you want. The software
goes out and grabs the jobs that match your criteria from ALL the big job
posting sites on the
web...Monster Board, etc. The only caution I would give is that I am in New York, and could easily work in CT or NJ as well. I learned not to put all the locations in after the first search. If you put a location in, it tends to give you a LOT of extraneous jobs just because they have the location state in it. Maybe I'm just not using it properly, though! :)
Here's the third part of Kaye's message: 3. Personal Assistants. I have
come across several relevant sites that have personal assistants, and I
have to agree with the person who said
it's the only way to go! Here are some:
Ron Rothenberg -- URL for
Ziff-Davis' Jobs Wanted 98 - http://www.zdnet.com/swlib/toolkits/findfast/jobs.html
Richard Seltzer -- Carol -- Do you know if there's an entry fee to go to that IT Consultants Expo?
Carol Snyder -- ITCC Conference-- FREE for 1 day pass to conf.
and expo for Nov. 19 IF send your resume
Otherwise, $100 BEFORE 10/31 and $165 after that Contract Professional is a good magazine
Ron Rothenberg -- Contract Professional Magazine - Walnut Street (either 125 or 145) Watertown, MA 02472 - http://www.cpuniverse.com/ - they have a mailing list, too.
Ron Rothenberg -- very useful magazine.
Richard Seltzer -- Ron -- neat idea. It's also an organization of pros...
Richard Seltzer -- Ron -- Do you know of particular conventions and conferences that do that well? Any in New England?
Ron Rothenberg -- there are a few internet/computer conferences coming up -- in mid-november and early december - I will check the web sites of the major conference sites -- DCI and IDG
Ron Rothenberg -- Sales Force Automation Conference - Boston - Dec 1-3 - DCI
Ron Rothenberg -- Microsoft Explorer Conference - Microsoft - Dec 1-3
Ron Rothenberg -- Internet Commerce Expo (ICE) - Boston March 22-25, 1999 - http://www.idg.com/products/events/
Ron Rothenberg -- Speaker's Bureaus - http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&kl=XX&q=%22speaker*+bureau%22
Richard Seltzer -- Ron -- Yes, I need to try the speaker's bureau route. But I've been holding off on making those contacts until I have a good videotape of me presenting. I'm still waiting for one to arrive from Buenos Aires, where I spoke in September.
Bob Zwick -- Richard - keep in mind that the area of your expertise (Internet) is a topic that is affecting every aspect of life in the US. Don't limit your search for speaking engagements to High Tech events or corporations. Every industry, govt. agency, and small bussiness association can benefit from a tactfully targeted message on your topic.
Richard Seltzer -- Bob -- Interesting thought. I suspect that my best leverage into the non-high-tech world would be by way of a successful book. Let's hope my Internet shopping book turns out to be a winner. (The publisher plans to rush it through production. So I wouldn't be surprised if printed copies were available within a month of when I finish writing.)
Ron Rothenberg -- Amcity Publications (Boston Business Journal and 100s of other city business journals) sponsor local business conferences and are frequently looking for speakers. in Boston, the conference is co-sponsored by WBZ-AM Radio.
Carol Snyder -- You might want to look at Ed Taylor's Internet Marketing web site and find out about his "subscription" based email list (I think it's http://www.edtaylor.com (He was at the Small Business Expo in Boston last month)
Richard Seltzer -- Ron -- thanks for the good pointers. Thinking of conferences and your long-time involvement with real estate, I was contacted a while back about possibly speaking at the National Association of Buyers' Agents. Actually, they had me on the agenda to speak this fall, but neglected to tell me :-( Now I'm wondering about speaking at their next event, I believe in Feb. in Las Vegas. I don't get replies to my email, and am afraid that once again someone may have dropped the ball.
Ron Rothenberg -- i think it is still open - will speak to tom early later.
Tom Dadakis -- You know Richard, your skill in conducting or training others in how to conduct an online chat is something you should promote. In my previous gig as a web manager for a training dept; I would often point to your guide on conducting online chats. Maybe this could be another line of your consulting. Also theplace.com and contigo.com were looking for experienced moderators.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- Thanks for the chat-related pointers. I'll check their sites. One of the pieces I mention in my business description includes chat host and webcast host/interviewer.
Ron Rothenberg -- I have run mailing lists for conferences, trade associations and consumers, Tom
Bob Zwick -- Tom - my experiences with mailing lists have been with announcements, not marketing. Even there, it has been taxing to say the least. New anti-spam server software, disgruntled recipients ( who forgot they signed up), et al make it frustrating if not dangerous. There are outsourcing companies that do a respectable job (NOT SPAM) that I would recommend using.
Tom Dadakis -- Ron-re:emailing lists Did you find it like publishing a print newsletter, always looking for something to write about?
Ron Rothenberg -- no - as moderator of the mailng lists, much of what i wrote was reactive to questions and discussions by the list members. Ocassionally, I'd post an original article to start a new thread.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- How large a list are you talking about? If it's in the order of hundreds rather than thousands of recipients, it's relatively easy to just keep a distribution list as a text file and edit it by hand. You can send out some provocative messages to start discussion, have people email to you and then resend to the group the ones that feel right. That takes no software, but it could cost you about two hours a day (if it's a daily mailing). Doing it by hand, and only entering names on request helps you avoid any appearance of spamming. I've done that kind of thing for years, both inside Digital (when I was there) and on the public Internet.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- I, irrationally, dislike automatic mail distribution systems. I prefer the personal touch, even though it is time-consuming. I also prefer a moderated approach (with all the messages going through the editor/moderator) rather than anybody posting to anybody, which leads to lots of unnecessary email messages.
Ron Rothenberg -- By subscription is essential for lists. The largest list i have is 1200 people, but most are a few hundred people.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- The chat reminder list I have this this program now numbers about 450. At one point I had a list of 10,000 plus for my newsletter Internet-on-a-Disk. But that was simply getting out of control. I didn't have time to manage the list properly, and eventually I opted to focus on the Web and stop the email distribution, except for a small handful of people who really preferred getting it that way and were willing to pay a $10 setup fee.
Ron Rothenberg -- Tom - yes, majordomo is my favorite.
Tom Dadakis -- Ron-email
lists: I take it that you moderate a listserv/majordomo group.
Richard-emailing lists: I agree that a couple of hundred could be managed from a distribution list in the email program. What I was thinking about was using an email list as a marketing tool, similar to the one Dr. Ralph Wilson does or Seidman's Online letter. How much work is it to develop the content.
Richard Seltzer -- Tom -- Sounds like what you are really talking
about is an on-line publication, to be available over the Web as well as
distributed by email to those who request it. Posted lots of good content
on the Web and making sure it is well indexed is my favorite way of driving
traffic to a Web site.
Regarding content, you should try to get as much content as possible from your audience -- having them submit their contributions/comments etc. Maybe use chat or forum to gather raw content, then edit and polish the best for inclusion in your "publication". But if writing isn't something that comes naturally to you, you may well want to pay a writer (like myself :-) for regular contributions -- the kinds of contributions that are likely to generate interest and reactions.
Richard Seltzer -- Miki -- Sound like a good idea from the consultants' point of view (and I'd like to know of any such effort in the Boston area). But I wonder about it from the client side -- getting readership could be very difficult.
Bob Zwick -- Miki - I have the beginnings of a Consultants Coalition Web Page at http://www.cottagemicro.com/consult/ It's in the early stages and I am still looking for a few reliable consultants to partner with.
Miki Dzugan -- Bob, I will take a look at your page. The consultants I am partnering with so far are very experienced in the area of business strategic planning and corporate change. Our idea is to keep our group small and targeted at decision-makers.
Tom Dadakis -- Got to sign off. Tom Dadakis email@example.com
Richard Seltzer -- All, next week I have to attend a conference -- actually it's a future mapping session with Northeast Consulting here in Boston, dealing with E-Commerce, what it's likely to be like five years from now and how to get from here to there. So we'll skip next Thursday, and return to chat again on Thursday November 12. At that point, I'd like to start talking about various aspects of on-line shopping. Does that topic interest you folks, or do you have other suggestions?
Carol Snyder -- Yes, on-line shopping sounds like a great topic--especially
just in time for the holidays. :-)
Miki Dzugan -- Thank you for this opportunity to network with others, Richard. I really appreciate it. Bye to all, now.
Barbara -- Thanks again for an interesting discussion. Bye.
Richard Seltzer -- All -- before signing off please post your email and URL addresses (don't presume that the software captured that). Thanks again for joining us. Please come back in two weeks for the Internet shopping discussion -- Nov. 12, and please spread the word.
Carol Snyder -- email@example.com, http://www.snyderinfo.com
snyderinfo (Internet Consulting*Web Design)
Ron Rothenberg Ron Rothenberg, CFP, firstname.lastname@example.com, Belmont, MA
Bob Fleischer -- Bob Fleischer, firstname.lastname@example.com (but friends can still send me mail at email@example.com!) http://www.tiac.net/users/rjf/
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Good defects are the result of effective test cases
Test effectiveness is a function of the quantity and quality of test scenarios/cases. The difficult aspect is in assessing if the designed scenarios/cases are indeed adequate. As always, a deep business domain and technical knowledge is seen as a critical aspect to effectively review the test scenarios/cases. The challenge is that deep domain/technical skills are always in short supply.
..helped me understand better as to how I can contribute to the ultimate goal of the project and not just concentrate at the lower level.
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Gained good knowledge on how to analyze the "Completeness" of the test case coverage… and how to plan for writing new test cases.
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This workshop outlines a scientific approach to assess the quality of test scenarios/cases by applying a goal centered view to testing – "What types of defects should I detect"?. Commencing with identification of potential defect types that will impact customer experience, the designed scenarios/ cases are analyzed for fault coverage in addition to requirements coverage. To ensure that the test cases can be executed efficiently, the test cases are analyzed from the perspectives of conformance and robustness, business- risk/priority and then fitness for automation-ability.
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When the New Orleans Saints go marching into Sun Life Stadium on Sunday, retired Archbishop Philip M. Hannan will be in that number. He'll watch the Super Bowl game with owner Tom Benson and his wife, Gayle.
"I can't miss it, " he said.
Hannan, 96, is a frequent guest of the Bensons at Saints games and at the Mass that's held before every game. He's been cheering for the Saints with the owner since Benson bought the team 25 years ago.
Although Hannan suffered a stroke at the end of October, he didn't let that keep him from attending the game against New England a month later, when the Saints beat the Patriots 38-17 and convinced him this might be the season he'd been hoping for since 1967.
He was thrilled to be in the Bensons' suite for the NFC championship win against the Minnesota Vikings, too.
"That was close, " he said. "I was nervous."
Hannan was too excited to sleep when he got back to his home in Covington that night, so he asked Kent Bossier, his caregiver, to replay the end of the game for him.
"The achbishop knew I had TiVo-ed it, and he said, 'I want to watch the overtime again, '" Bossier said. "He didn't go to bed until 1:15."
Former President George H.W. Bush also was a guest of Benson at that game, and during a call Hannan didn't like, he shouted in Bossier's ear, "Can't we petition the president in regard to the officiating?"
Bossier wasn't surprised to hear Hannan's passionate response to what he deemed a bad call. The archbishop has been a die-hard Saints fan since New Orleans landed the NFL team.
The franchise was awarded to New Orleans on All Saints Day -- Nov. 1, 1966 -- and before original owner John Mecon named the team, he called Hannan and asked if he or his Catholic flock would have any objection to calling them the New Orleans Saints.
The archbishop gave Mecom his blessing, but reminded him, "Most of our saints were martyrs."
Hannan, who was appointed the 11th archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans in 1965, was thrilled when the city got the professional team. He saw it as a way to help the area recover from Hurricane Betsy and bring people together at the dawn of integration in Louisiana.
He composed a Prayer for the Saints, which he read at the Saints and Sinners booster club banquet in 1968.
It included these prophetic words: "Grant to our fans perseverance in their devotion and unlimited lung power, tempered with a sense of charity to all, including the referees."
OK, maybe that part about the charity to referees didn't always work out, but the perseverance and unlimited lung power has been a given for the Saints' long-suffering fans.
When Hannan retired in 1988, he stayed on in the New Orleans area. He didn't even leave when Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on southeast Louisiana in 2005.
At 92, he opted to stay in old Metairie at the headquarters of Focus, the small nonprofit Catholic television station he founded.
"He was planning to fend off looters with a club, " Bossier said.
After three days with no electricity and no looters, Hannan got in his car and drove acoss the Causeway. He ran out of gas in Mandeville and hitchhiked to St. Joseph Abbey north of Covington.
"In the following weeks, he traveling around with (St. Tammany Sheriff) Jack Strain giving people pep talks, " Bossier said.
In March, Hannan's memoir, "The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots: From Combat to Camelot to Katrina" will be published. The collection of stories will chronicle his long life, from becoming a young Catholic priest in Rome and a military chaplain and paratrooper during World War II, to serving as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy and taking part in the Second Vatican Council, to his more than four decades as a spiritual leader in southeast Louisiana.
On Sunday, Hannan will add another chapter to his life story: watching his beloved New Orleans Saints play in their first Super Bowl.
"Because of the excellence of the people on the team, both on the field and off, I think we have a very good chance to win, " he said, smiling at the thought.
Hannan ended his 1968 Prayer for the Saints with this entreaty:
"May the 'Saints Come Marching In'" be a victory march for all, now and in eternity.'"
It seems like it has already been an eternity since he wrote those words. But now is almost here.
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Hong Kong
Week in Hong Kong
Ryan Blaske
During my off time in Hong Kong I wanted to capture the wonders of this beautiful part of the world. This trip taught me to take a step back and really focus on what I was shooting to tell a story that shows my adventure.
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Johanna Hobrath, 75, of Brunswick, passed away Saturday, March 9, 2013 in Middleburg Heights. She was born March 5, 1938 in Czechoslovakia.
Johanna enjoyed being a Christian writer for Halo Ministries.
She was the beloved wife of 50 years to Adam Hobrath; devoted mother of Timothy (Judith) Hobrath and Gary (Marta) Hobrath; loving grandmother of Benjamin and Rachel; dear sister of Edward (Dorothy) Stang, Paul (Gail) Stang, Frieda (Viktor) Berger and George (Betty) Stang; dear sister-in-law to Ernestine (Alfred) Ziefle, Henry (Irene) Hobrath, Frank (Heidi) Hobrath; and a wonderful aunt and cousin to many.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Anna (nee Binder) Stang; brother, Emil (Ann) Stang; and sister, Erika Stang.
Family will receive friends Monday, March 11, 2013 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. at the Waite & Son Funeral Homes, Brunswick Chapel, 3300 Center Road, Brunswick. Funeral service will be Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 11 A.M. in the funeral home. Burial will follow at Hope Memorial Gardens in Hinckley.
Online condolences may be left at www.waitefuneralhome.com