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Solana Beach author Diane Welch a San Diego Book Awards finalist
Contenders for the San Diego Book Awards have recently been announced with Diane Y. Welch's monograph, "Lilian J. Rice: Architect of Rancho Santa Fe, California" [Schiffer, 2010] selected as a finalist in the biography category. A Solana Beach-based author, Welch is also a public speaker and biographer who is a regular contributor to the Solana Beach Sun, the Rancho Santa Fe Review, Carmel Valley News, Del Mar Times and the La Jolla Light. For more than a decade Welch has written community features on hundreds of local personalities and several international celebrities, which include Glenn Close, Diane Keaton, Dave Stewart, Katherine Crosby, Zandra Rhodes, Eleanor Antin, and more.
Welch wrote the first monograph on this little-known lady architect after research on Rice, for inclusion in a story on the San Dieguito Union High School — a 1936 Rice design — proved an impossible task. "I went to the library to find a book on Lilian J. Rice for reference and could not find one single volume written about her," said Welch. " I felt very strongly that here was a most significant woman in our nation's history that needed to brought out of the shadows. So I wrote that book!"
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Known locally for her work in Rancho Santa Fe, where she was resident supervisory architect in the 1920s, Rice designed for movie stars and the nation's wealthy. However, her accomplishments have been largely unrecognized beyond the Ranch's 92067 zipcode. Rice's work actually spanned the county and one of her last projects was an elementary school in South Chula Vista built in 1938. The school was renamed the Lilian J. Rice Elementary School after Rice died later that year.
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of Chula Vista's cityhood. By way of celebration, the students at Rice elementary school interviewed Welch about their school's namesake. Captured on video the interview will be publicly shared with Chula Vista city officials, teachers and students on May 18, when Welch will appear as guest of honor and speak to the audience about Lilian J. Rice's important contributions to the county's history.
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Capita has entered the brave new world of welfare reform by integrating Barclays Pingit, the mobile payment service, into its payment solutions. Working in partnership with Barclays, Capita has already gone live and is offering its existing housing payment clients the option to receive payments from their customers via the app.
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Jon Peart, payments director at Capita's software services business, said: "We are constantly looking at innovative ways of offering solutions to our housing clients in order to make their customers' lives easier. With an ever-greater number of mobile devices in the UK, housing associations need to consider how their customers can make payments via mobile devices.
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Barclays Pingit launched in February 2012 and has been downloaded 2.5 million times, with over £350m of payments being processed through the platform. Users do not have to bank with Barclays and it is free to download and use the app.
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Microformats: Managing Personal and Event Data
Last updated Oct 17, 2003.
By Molly E. Holzschlag
Most of us want to keep our personal information, as well as our friends' contact info, up-to-date. We also appreciate a quick-to-download event view of conferences we're attending. These time-saving tools are part of the reason we find computers so helpful in our day-to-day lives.
As Web designers and developers, however; we're challenged by the myriad tools that people rely on to manage this type of data. For example, if we want to use vCards on our sites, we've historically had to go the extra distance and provide the contact information we want to make available to our site visitors in the vCard format, which could then be downloaded into our respective mail and calendar clients.
In the past, if we used vCard and vCalendar on the Web, it added layers of extra work to any project. We'd have to create the files, integrate them with our XHTML, and maintain them.
But when you think about it, the contact information and calendars are already right there on the site, so why go to such extra lengths if we don't have to?
Microformats offer us relief from having to take these extra steps. By extending the markup that's being used to describe our contact and event information within our XHTML and content, we can then parse that information from the Web document into the appropriate format for our address book and calendar software.
Web-Based vs. Non-Web Technologies
In order to fully appreciate the value of microformats in this context, it's important to first understand that technologies such as vCard and iCalendar are not specific to the Web.
These formats are data that as such, aren't immediately available to the Web user via the browser itself. A vCard, for example, is kept in a separate file, requires a new URL from the current page to access, and must also be sent via a different MIME type.
Compare this to Web-based data, which is that data included within a Web page. In microformats, the vCard alternative is hCard. In the case of hCard, all the content is right there in your Web page, marked up semantically using XHTML.
No need for extra files, extra queries, and different MIME types. Just add the proper microformat markup to the document, and all the information is now reusable in myriad ways and can be transformed as required.
vCard and hCard
Many readers of this article are likely to have a vCard set up in their email software. Microformats allow us to make this information available in our Web pages, too.
If I were to create a vCard to make available via my Web site using the vCard format itself, I'd have to prepare the vCard document as follows:
BEGIN:VCARD N:Holzschlag;Molly;;; FN:Holzschlag Molly ORG:molly.com; EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK;firstname.lastname@example.com END:VCARD
This document would then be saved separately and reside at a separate URL. I would then link to it from my Web page, which would allow people to then click the link and have the vCard information added to their vCard-enabled address book.
The microformats alternative to this for Web-based applications is to use hCard. With hCard, you'd merely add the appropriate class values to the markup surrounding your contact information as follows:

 Molly Holzschlag Molly.Com, Inc. firstname.lastname@example.com

Because this is XHTML, I can mark up my hCard as I see fit, except where the class attribute values are concerned. It's the common attribute values that make up a microformat, so using the proper class values in this case is imperative. Otherwise, you can mark up the information as it makes the most sense for your needs, such as in a biography:

About Molly

Molly Holzschlag is an author, instructor and Web designer and president of Molly.Com, Inc.. She can be reached, where else?  firstname.lastname@example.com.

As you can see, the information that is already in your Web page is now marked up in a more detailed, semantic way so that people using the appropriate tools can get to the information.
iCalendar and hCalendar
Along with the common contact information we can make available via hCard, another very useful microformat is hCalendar, which allows us to take event information and mark it up right in our event page, readying it for instant download to a site visitor's calendar software.
Just as vCard requires an external file and must be sent via a different URL and with a different MIME type, so does iCalendar information. An iCalendar example of an event would be:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Extreme Standards DTSTART:20060926T080000Z LOCATION: University Hall DTEND:20060926T173000Z DESCRIPTION:Understanding structure, semantics and style END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
But, since I'm already going to have this information in my HTML document, I might as well go ahead and use the hCalendar microformat to mark up my event information:

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Once again, the markup you use depends on your semantic needs except where the hCalendar microformat attribute values are needed. You'll notice that in the case of hCalendar, we're not only using the class attribute, but we're also using the title attribute within an  element to include our date and time information.
Okay, Great. So, Now What?
The role of microformats is very straightforward. Instead of having to do all the extra work of preparing data in vCard or iCalendar format, we simply use the corresponding microformat directly within our markup. This makes our information far more flexible, useful, and reusable through a variety of means.
OK. So the information is there and it's properly marked up with the given microformat. The obvious first question is, "How do I get it from the Web page into my address book or calendar software?"
There are a variety of user tools—including browser bookmarklets and plug-ins—that allow the parsing of microformats. There are also tools that we can use to provide the same functionality for our site visitors. Typically, these tools are written in PHP, Ruby, and Greasemonkey. And, as in the case of X2V from Brian Suda, XSLT can also come into play.
X2V takes an XHTML file with hCard or hCalendar, parses the microformat information, and transforms it into the vCard or iCalendar format respectively. This enables me to click a link and have the information be immediately downloaded to my default software for that format (Figure 1).
Style, Reusability and Flexibility
Microformats, such as hCard and hCalendar, reduce the amount of work we as developers and designers have to do by keeping all of the code and content in one place: The XHTML document. In the past, multiple documents, server queries, and configurations would be required to send vCard and iCalendar data over the Web.
It's easy to see, via these examples, how using microformats is truly extending our XHTML and content. We can style it any way we want, use that content again for other applications, and update the content as we see fit without having to update multiple files. We get the same great results, but with a lot less hassle, which I'm sure we all can agree is a desirable goal.


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The North Tahoe and Truckee baseball teams landed a healthy handful of players on the Mount Rose All-League baseball teams, led by Colin Spencer's Division III MVP.
The awards were voted on by coaches in the mixed-division Mount Rose League, which includes Division I-A and Division III schools around the lake (plus Sparks). Each division honored its own separate first team, while the leagues combined the second teams and honorable mention.
Spencer was voted MVP of the Mount Rose League's Division III while his coach, Matt Drury, was voted Coach of the Year after leading the Lakers into the regional postseason for the second consecutive year.
Truckee senior catcher Jackson Rohlf was voted to the Division I-A first team along with Truckee senior shortstop Aaron Pado, senior center fielder Andy McKechnie, senior left fielder Chris Towle and senior pitcher Erik Holmer.
Jared Longland of Sparks was named MVP of the Division I-A.
Aside from Spencer, five Lakers were voted to the Division III first team. They include junior second baseman Alex Tyler, junior outfielder Shane Christian, sophomore outfielder Mitchell Myers, senior catcher Baird Bishop (who received the honor as an outfielder), and junior pitcher Wildon DesLauriers (also the Lakers' shortstop).
Truckee's Thor Retzlaff and Riley Guiragossian were voted to the combined second team, while teammate Travis Ferre received honorable mention recognition. For the Lakers, Lucas Likes and Miles Johanson received honorable mention.
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Neither the Wolverines nor the Lakers received much love in All-State voting.
Pado was named to the All-State first team, and was the only Truckee player to receive All-State recognition. Blair Naegle of state champion Faith Lutheran was Coach of the Year.
Two North Tahoe players were honored on the Division III All-State squad, Spencer and Bishop, although both were placed on the second team.
State champion Yerington, meanwhile, landed the state co-MVP, Corbin Cliften, and five first-team selections (eight total). Battle Mountain, which North Tahoe defeated twice in three meetings, had three players on the first team and six total. Needles had seven players on All-State.
Nevertheless, Spencer's gaudy numbers spoke volumes, and were certainly worthy of first-team designation. The Lakers' No. 1 starter and workhorse finished the season with an 8-2 record and a 1.88 ERA, with both losses coming against Division I-A teams (Truckee and Sparks). He struck out 125 batters in 67 innings, which, according to the NIAA Record Book, ranks fifth all time in Nevada. At the plate, he hit a cool .500 and slugged .734.


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Lisa Rule and Eric Peterson, together with their families, announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.
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An early morning fire at the Coffee County Jail forced the evacuation of a dozen female inmates.
Enterprise firefighters and New Brockton volunteer responders responded to the scene.
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When Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight as John McCains running mate in Dayton, Ohio, and promised that women could shatter that glass ceiling once and for all, it was an electrifying moment in a presidential election that had already produced its share of upsets and surprises.
History was on the march again the morning after Barack Obama became the first African-American to accept his partys White House nomination. After the fireworks, the 80,000-strong crowd who had cheered Obama to the skies at the Mile High stadium in Denver woke up with a hangover.
We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling, said Camille Paglia, the cultural critic. That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails.
With her beehive hairdo and retro specs, Palin, 44, has a naughty librarian vibe, according to Craig Ferguson, the Scottish comedian who stars on late-night US television. However, the selection of Palin, the governor of Alaska and a mother of five, as the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee is no joke for the Democrats.
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Yup! A veritable Margaret Thatcher all beautifully wrapped up and special delivered to us by our Glorious Creator! Thanks be to God!
Wow even Camille Paglia was blown away.
This is going to be an amazing ride!
We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling, said Camille Paglia, the cultural critic. That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails.
Oh my!!! Camille forgot her talking points!!! Or maybe she just didn't get them yet....
'Palin is as tough as nails' or confident because "Right is Might!
Sarah's better looking.
.... okay, Tina's still incredibly HOT!
Isn't Camille a close friend of Rush?
Did you notice Andrew Sullivan's quote on the right side of the page? He's dissing Palin because she's a former beauty queen. Andrew should know about "queens"!
I knew it. Look for Fey and SNL to attempt to relentlessly skewer Palin and McCain ASAP.
Camille is the smartest woman on the left. She has never been a big Hillary fan. Her comments should scare the crap out of the NOW gang.
I don't follow Paglia closely but I have read a number of her books and articles through the years — I don't think Camille Paglia follows any liberal talking points too obediently. She is actually more radical than most in the Democrat Party, but she does not hesitate to rip into them, especially all the Stalinist feminists she despises.
She will VOTE pretty reliably for the left, sad to say, but her observations and reasoning can often be refreshing. Even when I disagree with her (just about all the time) she is interesting, which is a lot more than one can say for the Fembot left.
So I'm not at all surprised to see Camille praise Sarah Palin's speech so highly, because Camille reveres truly strong women with courage and convictions, and loathes the simpering whining airheads that the Democrat Party tends to churn out.
Say what you will about Camille, she has NO talking points that are not her own, minted by her and her alone.
I hadn't thought about it, but it's no surprise to me that she likes, or at least understands the potential significance of Sarah Palin.
Is she? I thought Camille Paglia was a hard-core lib, perhaps I'm confusing her with someone else.
one thing no one has mentioned, she is a WINNER.
She was a successful 10 year mayor, beat two incumbents for the governor race and had strasospheric approval ratings.
She is going to play very well in middle America. The libs will hate her more than ronald reagan.
OK, now I know I am.
About my earlier comment: Nevermind.
Camille reveres truly strong women with courage and convictions
I think she likes strong people period, male or female.
Super-competent? Glamorous? I have yet to see evidence of either one of those traits in MO. I don't consider the ability to read a teleprompter proof of competence, although she does seem to be better at it than her husband.
IIRC, they were both invited to some big media function. The organizers arranged the seating so they sat next to each other, hoping for fireworks and epic drama. But it turns out they hit it off big and had a lot of fun together. I seem to recall they even shared a cigar. She sent in a message for his anniversary week.
leave it to paglia to tell the truth!
I DOUBLE-DOG DARE Tina Fey to impersonate Sarah Palin!
I DARE her to make fun of Palin's beauty pageant days by strutting around the stage in swimwear and high heals!!
I hope you're listening!
no, seriously, I hope you're listening....
Tina's hot - and we know who's going to play Sarah Palin on upcoming Saturday Night Live skits!!
I might actually watch, if they have fun with it and are not nasty. They could do some great skits about moose hunting and snowmobiling while making important national decisions.....
OK, well the VP doesn't exactly get to make too many decisions, but does get to think about them and advise on them if there's a decent relationship with the President.....
Nice, but you always want to be the hammer, not the nail.
Can't beat this little one!!...
I agree. She is an absolute little doll.
Allow me! :)
10: Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11: The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12: She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13: She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14: She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15: She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16: She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17: She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18: She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19: She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20: She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21: She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22: She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23: Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24: She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25: Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27: She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28: Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29: Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
31: Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates" (Prov. 31).
"Say what you will about Camille, she has NO talking points that are not her own, minted by her and her alone."
< BUTTERS > Well, okay then. ... still liked my idea better ... < /BUTTERS >
NO More Calls, Please.
We have a winner!
I love Camille, as she's almost a female Mark Steyn.
Utterly brilliant and over-the-top witty.
Yes, I was confusing her with someone else.
My bad. ;^)
I remember him telling that story.
I had an entirely different libby-lib in my head. LOL.
Paglia is a free spirit. She happens generally to be sympathetic to the left. A lesbian who appreciates the masculine man, her signature work Sexual Personae is a classic. She doesn't need talking points. She just speaks her mind.
Fey's no longer on the show.
Won't stop them from bringing her in from time to time, though.
I'm old enough to remember when SNL and Doonesbury were actually funny.
With Sarah's take-no-prisoners approach, I wouldn't be surprised to see her go on one of the late-night shows -- and do a skit impersonating Tina Fey!
She's one of a kind.
Who on earth would you be confusing her with?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Camile really can be refreshingly honest! : )
There is so much about which to comment about that article. But I'll choose the very end. Governor Palin DOES upstage Hillary Clinton. Unlike Hillary, she's earned every bit of it on her own! Palin didn't help he husband become Governor, she became Governor herself! She has more executive experience than Hillary and it goes without saying Palin's far, far more likable and far, far more attractive too!
I like that monster rhinestone flag pin she wears. No conservative little enamel flag.
I don't think that she will have to declare or reaffirm or recraft or repackage her patriotism. It's just there and it's real...
If I can remember, I'll let you know. Someone older, not so attractive, and bitter. (I know, I know.) That's why I was surprised.
It is really bugging me now that I can't put my finger on who. Oh well.
Camille's not bitter in the least.
Acerbic at times, but that's different.
We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling, said Camille Paglia, the cultural critic. That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails.
And this is why I love Paglia.
Tina Fey's not even on the cast of SNL anymore.
Gloria Steinem?
You wanna know something sad: Everybody thinks that they're old enough to remember when SNL (and maybe even Doonesbury) were actually funny. Only some of us (like you and me) are right about that.
They have guest hosts, don't they? And they bring back their former stars on occasion. The lowpoint of this was practically making John Goodman a cast member when Linda Tripp was in the news.
I don't share the enthusiasm for Palin that many on Free Republic do. I think her choice was a weak attempt to pander to female voters with no regard as to her qualifications to assume the presidency should McCain be unable to complete his term. Frankly, I doubt whether the majority of Americans are ready to have such an inexperienced woman one heartbeat away from the presidency, especially when there are other, better choices within the Republican Party.
To me, Palin's choice practically guarantees an Obama/Biden victory in November. The Democrats will carry (moving roughly from west to east) Hawaii, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Florida. It's also possible North Carolina and Louisiana will go to the democrats. On election night, if Virginia, North Carolina and Florida go early for the Democrats, you can go to bed knowing the landslide has begun.
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The Idea of Order at Key West
by Wallace Stevens
Analysis: Form and Meter
Blank Verse
Stevens wrote "The Idea of Order at Key West" in blank verse (meaning unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter). Quite a few of the lines don't follow strict iambic pentameter, but we'll talk more about that a little later.
We know, we know. There are some lines that rhyme and we just said the lines should be unrhymed. We'll get to that, too. Keep your shirts on. Please. Shmoop just isn't that kind of site.
The Story of Blank
Blank verse is perhaps the most common form in English language poetry. Earliest examples date back to the mid-sexteenth century, and some of the biggest names in literature have used it. Shakespeare, for example, used a great deal of blank verse in his plays. (Quentin Tarantino: eh, not so much.)
Why Wallace Went Blank
Stevens used blank verse despite the fact that many poets of his day were following the free verse trend.
Blank verse seems like a good choice for this one, since Stevens is dealing with some pretty big, pretty classic ideas: art, inspiration, the relationship between our internal and external worlds.
Form and meter have as much to do with how we respond to a poem as the content does. For example, if "The Idea of Order…" were written in the form of a limerick, it would likely lose some of its punch: There once was a singer from Spain, / Who sung on the beach a refrain… Get the idea? We hope so. We really don't want to finish this limerick.
The Hidden Truth Behind Wallace's Deviations
While some of the lines in the poem follow strict iambic pentameter, others do not. What does this tell us? Was Stevens not so good at the whole meter and counting thing? Was he lazy? Answers: no and no. Stevens deviates from the iambic pentameter pattern for auditory effect and to highlight specific content elements in the poem. Here are a couple examples:
Lines 1 and 2 follow the blank verse pattern perfectly:
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,
But line 3 breaks the pattern. In fact, the iambs (two-syllable combinations of unstressed and stressed syllables, as in "allow") are inverted and turned into trochees (which are basically reverse iambs, where the syllables are stressed, then unstressed, as in "pancake").
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
What's up with that? Well, let's take a closer look at the content of line 3. Stevens is talking about a body that is only body. It is missing something essential, something internal, like a soul or a mind (for an example from the pop music world, just go ahead and Google "Milli Vanilli"). By switching from iambs to trochees, we hear and feel a kind of change and we feel the absence of the rhythm that Stevens established with the first two lines' strict iambic pentameter. We feel and hear the absence of the missing elements. Pretty smooth, right? Yeah, Wallace is wicked good at poetry.
A Variety of Variations
We can see Stevens using form and meter variations in other places too. Take a look at lines 33 and 34:
Of sky and sea.
It was her voice that made
In strict blank verse, each line should have five iambic feet, of five pairs of iambs. But line 33 has 2 feet and line 34 has 3. Stevens has basically broken a complete line of iambic pentameter into 2 incomplete lines. What gives?
This deviation certainly draws attention, this time visually rather than auditorily (HEY! Shmoop saw that. Your eyes closed right there. Grab another Coke Zero and dig deeper!). It is also significant in terms of content. Stanza 4 is exploring the component parts of the scene and trying to work out how they are "organized." The breaking up of the line clarifies these elements visually: the sky and sea are on one level and she, "her voice," on the next. It's a pivotal point in the poem and the significance is given emphasis as a result of this structural variation.


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After the Crowds Have GonePosted Monday, July 13, 2009, at 7:35 AM
Michael Jackson, age 50, died. Surely you heard about it, the story was in all the papers. Nothing assures notoriety like dying while popular.
When asked about all the hoopla surrounding his death and funeral, the name Anna Nicole Smith came to mind. No matter how spectacular the celebrity, time does its inevitable work -- the story falls off our radar and a new, hitherto unknown celebrity arises. The newest celebrity's story, if there is even a hint of scandal, will take over the news cycles.
The one thing I heard that actually touched me was Jackson's daughter's loving tribute for her daddy. No accomplishment attributed to one's life is more worth having than it being said one was a good father. In all that was said, good or bad, everyone close to the situation seemed to agree Michael Jackson was a good father. This, not all that other stuff, was his accomplishment.
A great deal of hyperbole was expressed at Michael's memorial service. Included was a statement heard from a well-known preacher that Michael Jackson was "the greatest entertainer of all time." It would be fair to point out, though, that "all time" is a very long time, indeed; and entertaining over the centuries has taken innumerable form.
My father, who died in 1966, fervently believed the greatest entertainer of all time was a man named Gene Austin who first recorded "My Blue Heaven." According to Wikipedia, "The song was published in 1927 and became a huge 1928 hit for crooner Gene Austin, when its was charted for 26 weeks, stayed at No. 1 for 13, and sold over five million copies." I can clearly remember my dad saying this was the best selling record of "all time" and probably no one would ever sell more.
Although the story will linger on for quite some time (there always being a market for the evil which lives after a man), Michael Jackson will fade from our consciousness. There is the point following anyone's death when all you can do is turn and silently walk away; a moment when the crowds have gone and life goes forward. In the end this life may well have affected many millions, but he changed the lives only of three young children.
My candidate for "Most 'Important' Entertainer of the Electronic Age" is Elvis Presley. Not because he was the best, best selling, or even because his compartment of entertainment was our most vital. Rather, he is my candidate because of the change in our world he was and still represents. I first heard of his death from newsman David Brinkley who came on the air with these words. "Elvis Presley died today. Whatever you thought of him, he changed your life; because he changed the way the world listens to music."
Presley proved an entertainer could sell a lot more than 5 million records, that there was real money to be made in selling records (that would be CDs to you, children). Because of Presley moneyed people arose ready to back potential stars of any genre, and the market for artists like Michael Jackson now existed.
After the tributes, after the story, after the crowds have gone, the world of entertainment will never be what it was when my father listened to a 78 rpm record of My Blue Heaven by "the greatest entertainer of all time."
David L. Lewis is an observer of and sometimes commentator on life who may be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I like the point you make about being a good father was his accomplishment, I agree, and after witnessing the poorest example of fatherhood in the Walmart parking lot the other afternoon, I wish this example of despicable language and vulgarity used against this guys son and 2 daughters in public make me cringe with sadness at what he probably does to them in private, you can be as weird or as different as you want to be, still having your kids say you are a good father is not rocket science, my prayer is the kids in the parking lot can rise above their obvious upbringing, thats going to be an enormous task.
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Groupon appointed two directors for its board to replace Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz and venture capitalist Kevin Efrusy as the company addresses criticism for its accounting practices.
Groupon said Robert Bass, a Deloitte vice chairman, and Daniel Henry, chief financial officer of American Express, will join its board and serve on the audit committee. Henry joined last Friday. Bass needs to be elected at the June shareholders' meeting.
Upon the board news shortly before the closing bell, Groupon shares fell more than 10 percent to finish at $10.71 on the Nasdaq. In after-hours trading the stock edged up 4 cents to $10.75.
"People were hoping they were going to augment the board rather than replace directors," said Daniel Ernst, an analyst at Hudson Square Research, who noted that the loss of Starbucks' Schultz was a particular blow.
"It was great to have Schultz on Groupon's board, so it's not great to lose him," Ernst added. "Schultz is a very successful retail and consumer entrepreneur and company manager."
Maveron, an investment firm Schultz co-founded in 1998, was an investor in Groupon before the company's IPO. Schultz said in a statement on Monday that he was leaving Groupon's board to focus on "other time commitments."
The world's largest daily deals company came under renewed fire in March after revising its fourth-quarter financial results and admitting to a "material weakness" in its financial statements, months after its high-profile IPO.
Groupon's audit committee was criticized because some members are busy executives who may not have enough time to devote to fixing the company's accounting problems.
Henry, 62, was a partner at accounting firm Ernst & Young before joining American Express.
Bass, also 62, has been a vice chairman of accounting firm Deloitte LLP since 2006. He is due to retire from Deloitte on June 2.
"With their deep financial, accounting and operational experience, Dan and Bob will provide invaluable expertise to the Board going forward," Groupon Chairman Eric Lefkofsky said.


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Year of Award: 2004
Award: Chauvenet Prize
Publication Information: The American Mathematical Monthly November, 2000, no. 9, pp. 822-829.
Summary: An explanation of number theory using an analogy of champion athletes.
About the Author: (from The American Mathematical Monthly November, 2000) Edward B. Burger, while usually seen around Williams College, has been recently spotted as an Ulam Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado and a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University. He is the author of several books including Exploring the Number Jungle: An Interactive Journey into Diophantine Analysis, Think Calculus-a virtual video textbook, and coauthor of The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking. Some of his other works have been featured on National Public Radio. He has received the 2000 Northeastern MAA Award for Distinguished Teaching (Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics).
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ISLAMABAD: A yawning gap between the number of voters in most constituencies for Pakistan's National Assembly on lists for the 2008 polls and those for this year's elections has raised questions about rolls' accuracy.
Both the increase and decrease in the number of voters in the rolls prepared for 2013 elections over that in the list for earlier elections exceed 100,000 in around two dozen constituencies.
The decrease in a constituency in Balochistan is as high as about 250,000 and the maximum increase of 192,000 is in a constituency in Punjab.
The decrease indicates bogus votes, including multiple and duplicate entries, and the increase shows eligible voters were missed out in the door-to-door verification exercise in 2007.
An analysis of both lists reveals that the number of voters in 112 of the 272 constituencies has come down in five years and increased in the remaining 160.
The constituencies of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, leader of the opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, federal ministers Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Nazar Muhammad Gondal, Hina Rabbani Khar and Makhdoom Shahabuddin, former minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi and PML-N leaders Ahsan Iqbal, Khawaja Asif and Zahid Hamid are amongst the ones in Punjab where the number of voters has gone up by over 50,000.
The most significant decrease of 253,000 votes has been registered in NA-266 (Nasirabad-cum-Jaffarabad) in Balochistan. The number of registered voters was 651,000 in 2008 but has plunged to 398,000. Former chief minister of Balochistan, Taj Muhammad Jamali, had won the seat in 2008.
Another unusual decrease of 213,000 has taken place in NA-262 (Qilla Abdullah) in Balochistan where the number has come down from 392,000 in 2008 to 179,000. Haji Rozuddin of JUI-F had defeated Malik Usman Achakzai of ANP by a narrow margin of 162 votes in the last polls for the seat.
In NA-23 (Kohistan) of Khyber Pakhtuhkhwa, the number of voters has come down to less than half of what it was in 2008 — from 317,000 to 126,000. The seat was won by independent candidate Mehboobullah Jan in the last elections.
Another decline is in the NA-209 (Kandhkot-Kashmore) constituency where the number has come down to 136,000 from 283,000 in 2008. The seat was won by sitting Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani. The number of voters in the constituency of Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi — (NA-58) Attock — has declined from 315,000 in 2008 to 190,000.
Other constituencies where voters' number has dropped by over 100,000 include NA-263, NA-259 and NA-267 (Balochistan), NA-216, NA-231, NA-233 and NA-237 (Sindh). internews


text: CHAPTER 7The Great Blaather MbBlenzy needed help, and he wondered when on Earth it would arrive.He could see David clearly now. In a literal visual sense anyway.Blaather was only 3 feet tall. So he often needed help. He was also quite a nice guy, just often confused and melancholy. So he often needed emotional support. He often found it hard to make decisions. So he often needed someone around to tell him what to do.He also had a special gift.Some people can play piano. Blaather could suck people's creativity out through their tongue.It was ironic that such small people attract so much attention, especially while sucking on famous rock star's tongues. You'd think small people would go unnoticed because of their size, and that rock star's antics would go unnoticed because, well, they were rock stars. But the human race has always been the peculiar child of the universe, and so it goes.So Blaather waited for his help to arrive, all the while he sucked on his lollypop, which, considering he was in a train station bar, attracted much attention.David was talking to a lady with the strangest earlobes he'd ever seen, and god knew, he'd seen some strange earlobes. He once tried sucking on them but found no inspiration flowing forth from them. Pity.He found himself sitting...waiting... in a situation many of us have probably been in at many times in our lives. He needed (and wanted mind you) to suck on David Bowie's tongue, but didn't quite know how to accomplish this feat on his own. He needed assistance, and it was nowhere to be seen."Life sucks", he thought to himself.CHAPTER 8"Beware of Iman", she told him, and as she did, her earlobes blushed a deep red.This is too much, went the dialogue in David's head, the next time Iman pressures me into taking drugs I'm just going to say NO!"Iman is not Iman, she's not exactly normal, she's made of mindless metal"Just smile and nod, a few more tequilas and this will all be over soon"You must remember who you are"David nodded."You will remember your journey, your home, your destiny""Mmmhmmm", he scratched his chin. The lady went on talking, but David's gaze started to wonder. He spotted a very small man sucking a lollypop, the man seem startled to be noticed. Then he felt something in his hand. His newly growing beard was falling out.Now c'mon David, you can do this, just put two and two together... Iman pressuring you to do drugs, authority hounding you, strange earlobe people talking to you, lollypop sucking midgets watching you, beard falling out"Evil Pop!", David exclamed without knowing quite where it came from.Earlobe lady nodded. "Evil Pop", she said softly.CHAPTER 9Father McKenzie counted the vans. A pizza delivery van, a calble TV van, a tellecommunications van, a plumbers van, an electricians van and an ice cream van. It was an unusual amount of vans.Something that also struck the father as odd was that the driver serving the kids in the ice cream van was wearing a dark suit and dark sunglasses. He also had a violin case resting on the passenger seat of his van.Now was the time for a decision. Finish darning his socks, or get the hell out of there?Being the clever man he was Father McKenzie decided to do both. He's darn his socks while getting the hell out of there. It's not as if he'd have anything else to do with his hands while he ran like crap.Now, you may think darning socks while running like crap is rather difficult...but it's not...it's deceptively easy. Father McKenzie had learned this from his Tibettan Buddhist friends who had been darning socks while running like crap for generations. It was a cleansing ritual whose origins were lost in time.The Father put his bass guitar, amp and water tank into his knapsack, all the while thinking, "I'd like to see them try showing this on television", and he was off. Running like crap and darning, leaving just a cardboard cutout of himself at the window, a cardboard cutout that...funnily enought...had not been there before.It had the very suspicious feeling of something falling into place.One sees great things from the valley,only small things from the peak.G.K. Chesterton


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Trevor Palmer won the 38th annual Pear Blossom 10-mile run with a time of 53 minutes, 10 seconds today in downtown Medford.
The 10-mile victory was the first for the former Crater High and Southern Oregon University standout in three tries. He was third in 2009 and second last year.
Justin Gindlesperger of Grants Pass was second in 53:21.
Marci Klimek Gage of Bend won the women's race for the fourth straight time in 58:00, a personal best here by two seconds over last year. It was her fourth appearance in the race. She trails only Deanna Schiedler-O'Neil in total victories (nine) and consecutive victories (six).
Lauren Johnson of Portland, a member of the Bowerman Athletic Club, was second in 58:29.
There were 1,100 runners who finished the race.
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Winter Haven Marketing Agency Expands East to Orlando
Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 9:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 9:30 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | Clark/Nikdel/Powell, a Winter Haven marketing agency, has opened an office in downtown Orlando as part of its expansion strategy in Central Florida.
"Establishing ourselves in Orlando will allow our team to better serve our clients and help elevate the reach of their brands," said Alex Nikdel, agency president, in a news statement.
Leslie Heimer, who joined the firm March 24 as vice president of strategy and development, works at the office alone for now, but she said she hopes to be joined by several other new employees in the future as Clark/Nikdel adds clients, she told The Ledger on Wednesday. The office can accommodate at least three people.
"We do plan on growing our team," Heimer said. "We've been engaging with some of the bigger clients (in the Orlando area). Our ideal client is probably a medium-size to large firm."
The agency, which employs 21 people at its downtown Winter Haven office, is negotiating with several Orlando area clients but has not finalized contracts, she said. The company is focusing on expansion in tourism and hospitality.
Its current clients include Lakeland law firm Peterson & Myers P.A.; Florida Polytechnic University; Harrell's LLC, a Lakeland fertilizer manufacturer; Tucker Construction Inc. in Winter Haven; and MidFlorida Credit Union.
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Before joining GW Law, Eleanor Brown, a Jamaican national, was awarded the Lewis Fellowship at Harvard Law School. In 1994, she was a Rhodes Scholar and attended Oxford University where she received a master's degree in politics. She is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in molecular biology and received a law degree from Yale Law School. Professor Brown clerked for the Hon. Patricia Wald (Ret.) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the Hon. Keith Ellison of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Previously, Professor Brown was a Senior Executive at the Caribbean Investment Fund, L.P., the first pan-Caribbean private equity fund in the British Commonwealth Caribbean, and a Chairman of the Jamaica Trade Board. She currently serves, or has served, on the board of several publicly traded Caribbean companies, and was the youngest director of two subsidiaries of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Jamaica. Professor Brown chaired the Conduct Review Committee of the Board for Scotia Jamaica Investment Management. She was a member of the Sugar Enterprise Team, the entity appointed by the Jamaican Cabinet to oversee private sector participation in the Jamaican sugar sector. She was a member of the board appointed by the chancellor charged with Septennial Review of the Operations of the University of Technology, Jamaica.
Professor Brown was an external board member of Caribiz, an association of Caribbean alumnae and students of Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, formed to promote capital market development in the Caribbean. Professor Brown's writing interests lie at the intersection of globalization, development, migration, and the law. Some notable publications include: "Outsourcing Immigration Compliance," 77 Fordham Law Review 2475, "The New Brown Blues," 75 NYU Law Review 309, "The Tower of Babel," 105 Yale Law Journal 513, and "Looking Behind the Mirror."
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Murder charge in stabbing death of girl in alley
SANTA ANA, Calif. A 24-year-old California man has been charged with murder for the stabbing death of a former girlfriend in an alley.
Orange County prosecutors said Monday that Luis Antonio Garcia Morales is facing life in prison without possibility of parole if he's convicted of killing 21-year-old Maria Isabel Cerrillo of Tustin.
Morales is charged with special circumstance murder by lying in wait with a sentencing enhancement for using a deadly weapon. He's in jail without bail.
Arraignment is scheduled on Monday.
Prosecutors say Morales arranged to meet Cerrillo in a Santa Ana alley on Nov. 13. Police said at the time that Morales was trying to rekindle their relationship.
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A Catch-Up: DNA-databases, NYT Paywall, DJs Connecting with Fans, and Official.fm
The busier I get with blogging, the less time I find to blog on here. Classic good news, bad news combination.
So here's a quick recap of the articles I wrote, on other blogs, in recent weeks.
- I consider the New York Times paywall doomed to fail. Especially after reading some numbers in the Financial Times, I was motivated to point out why the NYT paywall business model is flawed.
- As a DJ, music biz 2.0 consultant and music lover, I see a lot of great and terrible ways in which artists deal with their fans. I decided to highlight some of the best ways in which DJs/producers connect with fans, so others might learn from them.
- Recently a Dutch chief of police suggested extending the DNA-database to include all Dutch citizens. Obviously this created some outrage and I decided to pour a little of my own thoughts out too.
- I decided that besides case-studies, I can also offer more practical 'marketing' advice to bands and artists. I'll be regularly writing articles like this; the first one's five ways in which you can improve your connection with your fans immediately.
- Last week I got hired by music-tech startup official.fm, so I wrote some articles about ways in which their platform can be used through embedded players or the way fashion and music-label Kitsuné is doing it.
- Public release of my thesis coming soon! It is currently being redesigned by VirtualMusic.TV's Ryan Van Etten.
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Zumiez shoes and clothing apparel are among the best takes when it comes to skater and street fashion. The brand has been a favorite among teenagers and young adults who want to dominate the streets with their culture and lifestyle, and its collections definitely represent the signs of the times. If you happen to embrace the street culture, then better get your fashion from the brand's outlet stores.
This clothing and footwear company has been in the business for the past few years now, and it rose to fame after pioneering the skater genre. It offered clothes and shoes to the young demographic, particularly to teenagers who want to represent extreme sports such as skateboarding, biking and in-line skating. The brand offers a wide array of clothes and footwear, and as well serves as a department store where you can get the latest names in the fashion industry.
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Regardless if you are a rebel without a specific cause or a hipster who just wants to be different all the time, the brand serves best to your needs. It has shoes and other footwear items which fit your soles the right way, and you will never regret getting your needs from the said brand.
- Rubber shoes that scream of style – Not all sports shoes tend to be fashionable; most of them are used for functional purposes, which tend to be boring. However, with the brand's footwear collections, you get to find shoes that carry your fashion and style.
- Get the biggest names in the fashion industry – The brand also houses many other names that make up the footwear industry. If you are totally conscious about the brands you wear, then this is the place to find them.
- Totally affordable prices – The brand also offers their footwear collections at affordable and reasonable prices. if you are the practical spender but still want to look fashionable, then this store is your haven.
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The brand has its own official website in which you can check out their latest offers and releases. You may also want to visit their website for store locations so you know where to go during your next shopping spree. However, it is recommended that you purchase your items online because the website offers more discounts and freebies their flagship stores do not normally offer.


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Pub closure bargain
The Two Mile Inn Hotel and Thady O'Neill's bar on the Ennis Road have been put up for sale as a "going concern" by receiver Billy O'Riordan of PriceWaterhouse Coopers, at the far lower than expected price of €1.2 million, a reduction of almost €6 million in just 12 months.
Tom Cross of GVM Auctioneers, local agents for the sale, said it was a "giveaway price" for such a property, which stands on a "high-profile site" and boasts function and meeting rooms, a modern bar and restaurant and extensive car parking facilities.
"The receiver is keen to offload it at this point in time, so that is the state of play," said Cross.
"It was on the market originally for ***7 million, that was about a year ago. It has been reduced substantially now and has potential for a number of uses, possibly as a nursing home," he added.
Cross said that there has been "considerable interest" since the property was re-advertised at the lower price.
Tenders for the 13 acre property must be submitted to GVM by Wednesday, December 15.
The Two Mile Inn closed at the end of September with the loss of around 15 jobs.
-Limerick Leader
Clamor for 20 jobs
Retail giants Argos received a staggering 1,300 applications for just 20 part time posts at its Longford town store over the past number of weeks.
It means that for every one of the 20 jobs filled in the Longford Argos, there were 65 CVs dispatched to the company since the middle of October. The Argos Extra store in Longford is based at the N4 Axis centre store and is one of the busiest Argos stores in the region. As such, the firm sought to hire 20 temporary members of staff to cover the busy Christmas period.
At the time of the job announcements last month, a spokesperson for the retailer said there had been "great interest" in the vacancies, but declined to be drawn on the precise numbers of applications.
Six weeks later, new documentation obtained by the Longford Leader from Argos shows that 14,000 applications were received for 700 positions nationwide. Of that figure, 1,300 applications were made for the posts in the Longford store.
Seamus Butler, president of Longford Chamber of Commerce, said he was not overly surprised by the huge level of interest shown.
"In one way it is encouraging to see," he said. "It shows that people are very much interested in any work that is going. As well as that, it's good for those 20 individuals who were successful as they now have employment."
Asked why Longford, despite its relatively low population, had accounted for such high numbers of applicants, Butler pointed to the county's high unemployment figures.
"It definitely is a big number," he replied. "We probably have a higher percentage of unemployment in Longford because of the over reliance we had in the construction sector."
- Longford Leader
Hospital needs PJs and towels
THINGS are so bad in the Louth County Hospital that staff have been asked to bring in any spare towels or pajamas they have around the home, according to staff, in advance of a visit to the hospital by Health Minister Mary Harney.
News of Harney's visit came as a surprise to many staff in the hospital who are being kept in the dark as to the arrangements of her arrival, with officials in the Department of Health anxious to keep it under wraps after a series of incidents in recent weeks which has seen Harney covered with red paint and her ministerial car pelted with cheese and eggs.
The Dundalk Democrat understands that Harney is coming to Louth on Monday, December 13 with a view to opening a new colorectal screening service.
However, while that would be an undoubted boost for the hospital, which had its acute services removed at the start of July this year, her visit is likely to be controversial, particularly as it is expected to come within a week of the budget.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was briefed on the hospital situation before a meeting with the party in the Fairways Hotel last week. He slammed the Health Service Executive and government for their request for donations of old towels and pajamas from staff.
"It's like being back in a third world country," he said.
"It's absolutely maddening that this should happen, and these problems all pre-date the current economic crisis. This happened during the era of the Celtic Tiger when the country was awash with cash," said Adams.
- Dundalk Democrat
Freezing Kilkenny
Arctic weather conditions have caused chaos in Kilkenny city and county and indeed throughout Ireland, forcing schools to close and creating lethal road conditions.
Temperatures plummeted to minus 9.6 degrees in the city early on Monday morning, the lowest temperature ever officially recorded in the county in November.
Prior to Monday the lowest temperature recorded in November was minus 7.2 degrees which was recorded at Kilkenny Castle in 1887.


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Dwayne Spradlin is chief executive officer of InnoCentive, a company that helps organizations generate new ideas through online communities.
The Obama administration has shown a lot of interest in taking advantage of technology to come up with innovative solutions to longstanding and newly emerging problems. But as many people have now determined, technology is just a tool. It takes much more than tools to develop a culture of innovation, especially in the government.
To understand this better, let's start with a simple definition of culture. It's an expression of a group of people, their past, current beliefs, ideas and behaviors. An innovation culture can then be defined as an expression of people, their past experiences, present beliefs, ideas and behaviors in which they make innovation happen and continue to do so over time.
Building a culture of innovation is difficult in the government. Unlike business, which applies a corporate culture to drive innovation with monetary incentives, the government rewards predictability and conservative behavior.
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I think you are right in in your assessment and your six criteria to build a culture of innovation – but I have some further points I would like to develop. My job is to help organisations develop innovative cultures. Most organisations need a business strategy that manages risk - which is neither too risk averse nor too uncontrolled. In fact, I think most organisations build processes to mitigate against risk by over managing people and with that drive out innovative thinking. Most organisations fail to encourage folk to take thoughtful risks and end up employing the same types of managers who tend to be more task orientated rather than transforming to the next level of performance. We need to transform business - we don't need more day to day transactional management. Given the choice senior management teams recruit and promote a 'safe pair of hands'. Sometimes managers are tempted to go for the 'assertive intuitive' but often fear the consequences and the culture remains the same. Doing more of the same old stuff' will not get you to a new levels of functioning. Doing the same stuff and expecting a huge improvement in performance is not the answer. It does not work. The level of functioning that got the organisation to where it is today will not get it to where it needs to be tomorrow. Senior managers have to have faith and trust in some of the mavericks. We don't appoint these people because we know we will be taking a risk and too often management teams worry about their ego's rather than the obvious risk managed option. Often transformational leaders are a headache to manage because they have so many ideas and pursue many routes than traditional management. That's another consequence of breaking down the silos that the article outlines. I believe the answer is in building a learning culture but this must start with imbedding learning processes and a management leadership style that supports innovation and develop new motivational strategies. It can be achieved and sustained. Momentum for positive change can be achieved but it lies in culture change and managing any resistance.
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You didn't know Bill Schroeder.
I didn't know him personally, either, but knew about his life through books, magazine articles, and the internet.
It was an abbreviated life, because, on Monday, May 4, 1970, the 19-year-old Schroeder was shot to death by the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University.
Schroeder, I learned, was sports-minded and loved basketball, and if he'd lived and been fortunate enough to grow old like the rest of us, he might've been a LeBron James and Cavaliers fan. He after all was raised in the community of Lorain, just west of Cleveland.
The Cavs, by the way, are scheduled to host Atlanta in Round 2 of the NBA playoffs at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Schroeder wasn't the only one who was killed at Kent State that day long ago. Allison Krause, Sandy Scheuer, and Jeff Miller were also fatalities of 13 seconds of gunfire.
Nine other students were wounded, one of whom was paralyzed for life.
"Four dead in Ohio" should never, never have occurred but it did. It's a part of American history, now, and is being remembered today in a commemoration at Kent State.
After the massacre, the victims for the most part were not portrayed in a favorable light. Some Americans at the time even felt they had it coming to them. Unbelievable but true.
Folks, they were all just students - and could've easily been your sons and daughters, or brothers and sisters.
In a way, I can relate to Schroeder and his passion for hoops. When he was a freshman at Lorain High School, he apparently was too small to make the basketball team.
But Schroeder grew to be 6-foot and worked hard to polish his game until he earned a spot on the JV squad when he was a junior. The following year, as a senior, he made the varsity, and in his first game nearly scored in double figures (9 points).
Back then, a local newspaper ran a photo of him collecting a rebound during a game. As a blue collar player on the hardwood, his forte was mixing it up underneath the basket.
Schroeder also ran track, was the captain of the cross country team, and played the baritone horn in the band.
In the classroom, he was no slouch, either, and epitomized student-athlete to the letter, graduating 22nd in a class of 453 with an A-minus average.
After high school graduation, Schroeder attended a school in Colorado on a ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) scholarship. He then decided to return to the Buckeye State, and came to a fork in the road. Would he transfer to The Ohio State University in Columbus or Kent State?
He chose the latter, because it was closer to his home in Lorain.
In a nutshell, on that fateful day of May 4, Schroeder, clutching a folder in his right hand, went to the noon rally on the Kent State campus as an observer. He had his back turned when the Guard opened fire with M-1 semi-automatic rifles.
He and the other students never had a chance.
Rushed by ambulance to a local hospital, Schroeder died shortly afterwards.
I have to believe in my heart that had they lived Schroeder, Krause, Scheuer, and Miller would have led productive lives. They may even have married, raised families, and become grandparents.
It was not to be.
On July 20th of this year, Schroeder would have been 59.
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An inaugural regional robotics competition is about to get under way in Maine.
Pine Tree Robotics Competition at Lewiston's Colisee will feature teams from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The teams are due to begin arriving Thursday to get settled before the competition on Friday and Saturday.
It's dubbed the FIRST Robotics Competition Regional Event. "FIRST" stands for: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. The organization was founded in Manchester, N.H.
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Definition of zygoma in English:
noun (plural zygomata /-mətə/)Anatomy
The bony arch of the cheek formed by connection of the zygomatic and temporal bones.
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- Using the endoscope through the small lateral incision, the surgeon dissects the entire cheek from the orbital run over to the nose, down to the top of the mouth out to the side over the zygoma so the whole cheek can be freed and moved up.
- The anterior epitympanum dissection extends as far as the root of the zygoma and is made continuous with a wide anterior canal wall enlargement.
- The SMAS is elevated basically in the direction from the angle of the mandible to the middle of the zygoma, and this is sutured and suspended along its entire length.
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- The foramina of the zygomatic bone that transmit branches of the zygomatic nerve are often subject to variation in number and position.
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- He showed that the zygomatic major muscle, which runs from the cheek bone down to the lip corners, pulls those lip corners upwards into a smiling shape.
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Time: June 29, 2013 from 11am to 6pm
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Munzee is a smart phone based scavenger hunt engaging players in a points-based game to win real world prizes. Prepare for a competition while you crawl across Boston. Points based on participation, activity, and purchases.
You will check in between 11am and 2pm, pick up your swag, hang out with friends, then the hunt itself will start at 2pm and last until 6pm. We will draw the prize at the final stop.
Pubs involved (Schedul Subject to Change. Specials Coming Soon!)
Hennessey's - $3 Heineken Lt Bottles, $3 Bud Light Drafts/ Half Price Apps
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Mija - $4 margaritas, $4 modelo cans, $3 Coors Light /$1 chicken and beef tacos
Emmet's - $4.50 Bud/ 2 food specials
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There are only 29 VIP tickets left! 23 bars, tons of food and drink specials - this is going to be a HUGE event!
Members receiving FREE General Admission tickets are:
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