text:
Halogen's Leadership Team
Les Rechan
President & CEO
Leslie (Les) Rechan, appointed Halogen's President & CEO in November 2015, oversees the company's strategic direction and growth as a talent management leader for the mid-enterprise. The former General Manager of the IBM Business Analytics Division within IBM Software Group, Les has more than 30 years in the enterprise technology solutions industry.
Les brings tremendous experience to Halogen, having led fast-growth B2B software companies for decades. Previously, Les was the Chief Operating Officer of Cognos and held a variety of global executive roles with Oracle, Siebel Systems, Cadence Designs Systems, Onyx Software and IBM. Les also serves on the Board of Directors for Cognitive Scale, the Cognitive Cloud Company and PROS Holdings, Inc. a publicly traded software and services company.
Les holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Behavior and Management from Brown University, and a Masters in Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg Business School.
Sue Bond
Vice President, North America
As the Vice President, North America, Sue oversees all aspects of the customer acquisition cycle for Halogen, including market strategy, sales effectiveness, service delivery and customer retention. Sue and her team enable an integrated talent management engagement platform through effective requirements gathering, demonstrations and deployment.
Sue joined Halogen in 2006 on the professional services team where she was responsible for designing and implementing the deployment framework of the Halogen TalentSpace solution. With over 20 years' experience in the enterprise technology solutions industry, Sue brings a strong commitment to customer success and has been fortunate to experience Halogen's growth from a start-up to where it is today.
The role diversity in Sue's career has led to a broad perspective on customer acquisition and retention strategies and tactics. Prior to joining Halogen, Sue was involved in various management roles with successful startups like Kinaxis and Corel Corporation.
Sue holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Carleton University.
Marc Brûlé
Vice President, Asia-Pacific
Marc has more than 25 years of experience in software development and professional services, and has been with Halogen Software, and its predecessor Manta Corporation, for the past 16 years. As Vice President of Asia Pacific, Marc oversees all of Halogen's operations in the region. His tenure and expertise in working across all aspects of the organization are critical to driving the company's international growth strategy.
Marc previously served as Halogen's Vice President of Client Services, overseeing the customer support, implementation consulting, training and technical services programs. During his tenure at Halogen, Marc has also led the SaaS Operations, Sales, and Product Development teams. His leadership has been instrumental in developing Halogen's relentless focus on customer success.
Marc holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Management Systems from the University of Ottawa.
Rose Cain
Vice President, Sales Operations
Rose is the Vice President, Sales Operations for Halogen leading the company's global field operations organization. In her role Rose oversees revenue pipeline, field training and development, business analytics and inside sales. Rose brings over 20 years' experience delivering business operations related strategies, processes and services in SaaS, OEM and CM environments with a focus on maximizing customer success.
Prior to joining Halogen in 2010, Rose held senior leadership roles at Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing, BreconRidge Manufacturing Solutions (now Sanmina Technology) and Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (now IDT), where she built and led business operations, customer success and shared services global teams.
Rose is a member of the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals, and is a Certified Human Capital Strategist from the Human Capital Institute. She holds honors certificates in Marketing and Business Management from Algonquin College.
Connie Costigan
Vice President, Communications
Connie leads external and internal stakeholder communications at Halogen. In her role, she works with the executive team and leaders across the company to ensure Halogen communicates and engages with its key constituents in a timely, transparent and consistent way.
Joining Halogen in 2008, Connie served as director of marketing communications for eight years, where she had oversight of the creative services, event marketing, product marketing and public relations teams. Connie has worked in the high tech sector for almost 20 years and has held senior marketing and communications roles at companies including security hardware provider, Chrysalis-ITS, wireless start-up, Spotwave, and business intelligence leader, Cognos.
Connie holds an Honours BA in Political Science from McMaster University, and a Public Relations diploma from Algonquin College.
Marc Harrison
Vice President, Corporate Development
Marc has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry. As Vice President Corporate Development, he oversees Halogen's corporate development activities, including strategic partnerships and merger and acquisitions to help fuel the company's growth.
Prior to joining Halogen in 2014, Marc was involved with various startups and was instrumental in taking them from early stage to acquisition. He served as VP of Business Development at BrightSpark Ventures, a next-generation venture capital firm that invests to build and grow early-stage software companies. He then became VP of Business Development at Think Dynamics and was instrumental in the company being acquired by IBM to become part of its autonomic computing initiative. Marc held various positions spanning over a decade at IBM, where he worked on an assortment of acquisition deals within IBM that contributed to the company's revenue and extended its technological footprint.
Marc holds a BA in Communications from the University of Windsor. He also holds an Honours Degree in Business Administration from the University of Windsor.
John Hawkins
Chief Customer Success Officer
John is Halogen's Chief Customer Success Officer, responsible for helping customers achieve exceptional business outcomes as they deploy and adopt Halogen's TalentSpace solutions – from software to services. In his role, John leads the customer success and professional services teams who onboard customers and promote expanded use of the company's software through continuous adoption.
John is a skilled change agent with extensive knowledge of organizational psychology. He has more than twenty years of progressive leadership experience in consulting and software development across a range of industries. His diverse career experience includes positions as a university professor with specialty applied social research and statistics, vice-president for healthcare solutions with a large telecommunications company, and senior positions in quality, informatics and program evaluation with various healthcare organizations.
John holds a BA and MA in Social Psychology from the University of Waterloo.
Dominique Jones
Chief People Officer
Dominique has over 20 years experience in the talent management industry and has held progressively more responsible senior HR roles both in Europe and in North America. Dominique has extensive industry experience, having worked in the retail, manufacturing, financial services, consulting and professional services sectors.
The industry diversity in Dominique's career has led to extensive practical experience in organizational change, aggressive growth initiatives, talent and performance management, and international HR management.
Prior to joining Halogen, Dominique was most recently a regional vice president at Right Management, a global talent management consulting firm. Before that, she held senior HR roles with AMEC, MBNA Canada and MBNA Europe, JCB Transmissions, Safeway, and Marks and Spencer, as well as established her own HR consulting business.
Dominique holds an M.A. Honours degree from St. Andrews University in Scotland, as well as the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD) certification from the United Kingdom.
Pete Low, CPA, CA
Chief Financial Officer
Pete joined Halogen Software as Chief Financial Officer in September 2006, and is directly responsible for the Company's finance and administration, legal, information technology, and security, risk and compliance functions.
With over 25 years of financial management experience, Pete was instrumental in guiding the company through their Initial Public Offering on the TSX in May 2013, and has helped the company grow to almost 500 employees in 6 different countries.
Prior to joining Halogen, Pete was a Managing Partner at Axis Capital Corporation, investing in early stage technology companies. He was actively involved in the strategic direction of many of the firm's portfolio companies, serving as either Chief Financial Officer or a Director for many of them. In 2001, Pete was recognized for his leadership and contributions as a recipient of the Ottawa Business Journal's "Top Forty under 40" award. Prior to founding Axis, Pete was a Senior Tax Manager at Deloitte LLP, servicing its high technology clients. Pete has served on a number of boards and committees of for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Pete is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mount Allison University.
Michael Stewart
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Michael has an extensive background as a senior lawyer spanning 20 years in the technology industry, including publicly-traded multinationals, Internet, telecom and software companies. Michael joined Halogen as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in March 2014.
Initially counsel to publicly-traded software company Delrina Corporation (acquired by Symantec), Michael has held increasingly senior in-house roles at CIBC, Newbridge Networks and Alcatel -Lucent. With Alcatel-Lucent, Michael was Senior Counsel responsible for all worldwide legal matters for the Internet Protocol Division, Canadian Research and Innovation Group, and certain of Alcatel-Lucent's largest customers.
Most recently, Michael was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which is responsible for the .ca Top Level Domain (TLD). As a key member of CIRA's senior management team, Michael helped CIRA to become the world's fastest growing country TLD.
Michael holds a B.A. (Hons) in History and English Literature as well as an L.L.B from Queen's University.
Karen Williams
Chief Product Officer
Karen joined Halogen Software in January 2015 and oversees all facets of how Halogen's products are built and supported – from product conception, management and development to product support. A customer-focused product leader, she brings more than two decades of experience in the high tech industry to Halogen, and extensive knowledge of business analytics and predictive development.
Prior to joining Halogen, Karen was Vice President of the global Business Analytics Business Intelligence & Predictive Analytics Development team at IBM Software Group. In this role, Karen was responsible for the development and delivery of the analytic software that is used in organizations globally to report, analyze and predict their business results.
Karen has also held several other key management positions throughout her career at both IBM and Cognos. As Vice President of Customer Success and Support for the global IBM Business Analytics Support organization, Karen was responsible for facilitating customer success with Business Analytics software. Prior to this, Karen held the position of Director, Product Operations as well as Vice President, Product Marketing at Cognos, which was acquired by IBM in 2008.
Karen holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto.


text:
MINNEAPOLIS — A year after General Mills began seeking partnerships with entrepreneurs, inventors, universities and other food companies as part of its Worldwide Innovation Network, the company is announcing that G-WIN has generated hundreds of concepts for patented technologies and potential products. Progresso Light is one of the innovations resulting from the program. To generate ideas for new consumer solutions in the area of weight management, General Mills created a cross-functional ...
REGISTER TO VIEW THIS ARTICLE - Register for a Free Account
WhyRegisterfor FREE?
Registering for content on Supermarket News will give youINSTANTaccess to invaluable articles and media content that industry professionals rely on. You will have access to our special reports, feature articles, and industry analysis. It'sFREE, easy and quick. What are you waiting for!In addition you will also receive complimentary access to the SN salary survey data tables.
Click here to read the FAQ page if you have any questions (opens in a new window)
Attention Paid Print Subscribers: While you have already been grantedfreeaccess to SNwe ask that youregister now.We promise it will only take a few minutes! Or visit your profile and add your print magazine account number and zip code.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Vangold Resources Ltd. is an international resource company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. We are involved in several high potential gold projects in North America. Shares are listed on the Toronto Venture Stock Exchange under the symbol VAN and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol VAQ.
Vangold is committed to maximizing value for its shareholders by creating a diversified portfolio of sustainable global resource ventures while continually improving its performance as a responsible corporate citizen and a leader in its industry.


text:
Hyatt has a great new promotion that allows Hyatt Credit Card holders to get 10% off points spent for various items through October 31, 2016. You can get the 10% off for essentially anything you'd really want to use Hyatt points for, including award stays, points + cash stays, suite upgrades, and dining/spa activities (though I don't recommend you use them for this). … [Read more...]
Travel Summary is Moving! (But Not Far)
I started this blog almost exactly four years ago with a completely different goal than what it ended up becoming. It started out of a sense of frustration that there were so many blogs dedicated to points and miles, but each one just repeated the same exact stuff the good bloggers came up with or wrote about first (if this sounds familiar, it's because the problem has actually gotten worse). My goal … [Read more...]
Buy My $100,000 Honeymoon at 90% Off (or Better)
I recently wrote about my upcoming honeymoon trip and how I booked it entirely with miles and points. I also described the value of it, pointing out how much it would cost if someone were to purchase those same exact flights and hotels using cash. Near the end of that post I wrote "consider that airlines and hotels often sell their miles/points at steep discounts, which would allow you to essentially buy these same … [Read more...]
The Biggest Credit Card Bonus I've Ever Seen
A few years back people went crazy when I posted about the Amex Platinum 100K Bonus. And for good reason - at that time, those points were worth quite a bit more than they are today (devaluations have taken their toll). Last year I took advantage of a 150K bonus offer for a Business Amex Platinum card, which would still be considered a huge bonus today even given devaluations. … [Read more...]
My $100,000 Honeymoon Using Miles & Points
I'm getting married this year, and that's an extremely exciting thing because it means I get to take an amazing honeymoon trip that I saved tons of miles/points for. And I also get a wife, which is cool too (or so I've been led to believe). In all seriousness, a honeymoon using miles & points is something I've planned for over the last couple of years. I'm one of those people that enjoys using my miles for … [Read more...]
Traveling As a Muslim Is the Worst
It's been a while since I wrote a non-points-related post, and I thought this topic would be a good one because I have PLENTY to say. It only became top of mind because of a post written by fellow Boarding Area blogger Muslim Travel Girl, who experienced a little extra questioning due to...well, you can be the judge of why exactly she was stopped. I'll share a few personal stories here. … [Read more...]
Giveaway Time! Two Free United Lounge Passes
It's been quite a while since I did my last real giveaway, and instead of letting these lounge passes expire as I often do, I actually remembered to give them away! These lounge passes came to me courtesy of Hyatt Diamond status and are good through 6/30/17, so you have well over a year to use them! To enter, simply comment on this post and provide the following information: Where and when do you plan to … [Read more...]
How Much Manufactured Spend is Too Much?
I LOVE this topic. Specifically, I love reading other peoples' discussions about it on Twitter, FlyerTalk, or Reddit, because people quite simply make stuff up. For those of you that have manufactured spend for a few years, you'll know that cashiers at CVS, Walmart, Walgreens, and the like regularly like to make up rules as to why they can't sell you gift cards or money orders or whatever. Many times I just had to … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 46
- Next Page »


text:
Medicine and Pregnancy
Pregnancy is an exciting time. However, it can also be a scary time if you are not sure how your medicines will affect your baby. Not all medicines are safe to take when you are pregnant. Even aspirin or ibuprofen could cause problems if you take it during the last 3 months of your pregnancy.
Here are 4 tips to help you learn more about how prescription and over-the-counter medicines might affect you and your baby.
1. Ask Questions.
Always talk to your healthcare provider before you take any medicines, herbs, or vitamins. Don't stop taking your medicines until your healthcare provider says that it is OK.
Use these questions:
- What should I do if I want to get pregnant? Before you get pregnant, work with your doctor to make a plan to help you safely use your medicines.
- How might this medicine affect my baby? Ask about the benefits and risks for you and your baby.
- What medicines should I avoid? Some drugs can harm your baby during different stages of your pregnancy. At these times, your doctor may have you take something else.
- Will I need to take more or less of my medicine? Your heart and kidneys work harder when you are pregnant. This makes medicines pass through your body faster than usual.
- What kind of vitamins should I take? Ask about special vitamins for pregnant women. Do not take regular vitamins. They may have too much or too little of the vitamins that you need. Also ask about how much folic acid you should take before you become pregnant through the first part of your pregnancy. Folic acid helps to prevent birth defects of the baby's brain or spine.
- Can I keep taking this medicine when I start breastfeeding? Some drugs can get into your breast milk and affect your baby.
2. Read the Label
Check the drug labels and other information you get with your medicine to learn about the possible risks for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. The labels tell you what is known about how the drugs might affect pregnant women. Your healthcare provider can help you decide if you should take the drug.
The prescription drug labels are changing. The new labels will replace the old A, B, C, D and X categories with more helpful information about a medicine's risks. The labels will also have more information on whether the medicine gets into breast milk and how it can possibly affect the baby.
3. Be Smart Online.
Double check the information you get online with your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist. Some websites say that drugs are safe, but they cannot know if it safe for you. Every woman's body is different.
- Do not trust that a product is safe just because it says 'natural'.
- Ask before you use a product that you heard about in a chat room or group.
Know the risks. Learn how to find a safe online pharmacy.
4. Report Problems.
Tell FDA about any serious problems you have after taking a medicine.
- Call 1-800-FDA-1088 to get a reporting form sent to you by mail.
- Report problems online.
Sign Up for a Pregnancy Registry
Pregnancy Exposure Registries are research studies that get information from women who take prescription medicines or vaccines during pregnancy. Pregnancy registries help women and their doctors learn more about how medicines can be safely used during pregnancy.
- Help other pregnant women. Share your experiences with medicines.
- You will not be asked to take any new medicines.
- You will provide information about your health and your baby's health.
FDA does not run pregnancy registries, but it keeps a list of registries. See if there is a registry for your medicine.


text:
For the List Links call (php get links) .. is there a way to have them list horazontally rather than vertically?
For the List Links call (php get links) .. is there a way to have them list horazontally rather than vertically?
Hi John,
You can specify that in a number of ways. The 'correct', standards compliant way would be to continue to output the links as an unordered list (as in the sample template), and then specifiy the style for that unordered list be be horizontal.
If you look at the source for this page and it's css file (wp.css) you will see that the top menu is in fact a list styled to display horizontally.
Hope this helps,
Hi John,
I'm glad you are getting your blog together.
I saw you're aligned picture too. Yeah, it does work as long as you don't try it on a layer with a z-index of more than one.
BTW, when are we gonna have 'before' and 'after' parameters in get_archives() and list_cats() just like in get_links()? That would add much more flexibility to the tool.
For some reason when I can't list my links in the pages of my blog at http://themutteringmuse.com . Niether wp_get_links() or wp_get_linksbyname() lists anything, I just get a blank page. Check it out: http://www.themutteringmuse.com/?page_id=395
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks so much!
Do you realize this is a more than 2 years old topic???
Start your own, please.
But before that you could search: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32956
or, you can create a links.php Page...
Geez, sorry. I just saw a post on a similar topic and thought I'd post a follow up question. :(
No problem :)
Check out the links I gave above, maybe there is something useful.
This topic has been closed to new replies.


text:
- Report: #432906
Report - Rebuttal - Arbitrate
Complaint Review: NORTH SHORE AGENCY INC.
NORTH SHORE AGENCY INC.www.northshoreagency.com Westbury, New York U.S.A.
NORTH SHORE AGENCY INC. "fake"twelve dollars owed and no explaination Westbury New York
*Consumer Comment: YOU STOP THEM YOURSELF
Ripoff Report
About you?
Ripoff Report
A business' first
line of defense
on the Internet.
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..
Does your business have a bad reputation?
Fix it the right way.
Corporate Advocacy Program™
How can this company ever be stopped??? They have the ability to hurt someones credit that we work hard to keep in good standings?? Should I pay this B.S. just to protect our FICO score or will they figure a good sucker and keep sending more??
newport, Minnesota
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 03/11/2009 01:57 AM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/NORTH-SHORE-AGENCY-INC/Westbury-New-York-11590/NORTH-SHORE-AGENCY-INC-faketwelve-dollars-owed-and-no-explaination-Westbury-New-York-432906. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report.
Click Here to read other Ripoff Reports on NORTH SHORE AGENCY INC.
If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:Search Tips
In order to assure the best results in your search:
- Keep the name short & simple, and try different variations of the name.
- Do not include ".com", "S", "Inc.", "Corp", or "LLC" at the end of the Company name.
- Use only the first/main part of a name to get best results.
- Only search one name at a time if Company has many AKA's.
#1 Consumer Comment
AUTHOR: Laurie - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, March 11, 2009POSTED: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
There are laws they are required to follow and steps YOU HAVE TO TAKE to make sure they are not illegally collecting a debt that you do not owe.
You can sue for violations - but YOU have to be involved.
Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide "insider information" on this company?
Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.


text:
Kim Hoffman and Robert Pimentel of Seiad Valley proudly announce the birth of their daughter, Destiny, at 2:29 p.m. on Monday, July 7, 2014, at Fairchild Medical Center.
She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 19 inches long.
Destiny joins her six big sisters and two big brothers.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Items Tagged "Legal Aid"
4 Tagged Items Found
Church immigration network changing
In what promises to be a watershed year in immigration reform, the United Methodist immigrant justice network refocuses on a national scale. Read More
Helping young adults reach American dream
A new policy allowing young people to stay in the United States has led to a flood of applications. See how United Methodists are helping. Read More
Immigrant students get 'moment of grace'
Obama's announcement looked at as time to prepare as churches help mobilize and educate Hispanic community to apply for legal status. Read More
UMTV: Legal Clinic for Haitians
Justice for Our Neighbors helps Haitians stay in the U.S. as they cope with the quake that devastated their homeland. Read More


text:
Katrina Kaif speaks on her upbringing – See Rare and Unseen Pictures
Gurgaon: Though Katrina Kaif was brought up on foreign shores, she doesn't feel that this element has ever acted as a deterrent to her acting career in Bollywood. The 28-year-old star rather feels that this aspect of her life has made her personality "extremely adaptable" to varied shades of cultures. "I have been to 8-9 countries during first 12 years of life. This has made me extremely adaptable," said Katrina, who was here last evening to launch the website Gitanjalishop.com of jewellery brand Gitanjali.
Dubbing the "top place" as a "different altitude", Katrina said she was never under pressure to be on the top. "Frankly, I don't feel very much to be on top slot. Besides doing professional work, I prefer to be in company of my friends, most of whom are not actors," she said.
Katrina Kaif is one of the most successful and beautiful actresses we have today in Bollywood. Here are a few rare and unseen pictures of Katrina in this slide below.


text:
FiltersShow / Hide
- All Events
- Music
- Comedy
- Theatre & Shows
- Sport
- Cinema
- Festivals
- Days Out
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Anywhere In The UK
- Location: Anywhere in the UK
Radius: ... miles
Get an alert when new Luv Jam dates are announced
The music making moniker of Andrew Cole.
See more info at soundcloud.com/luvjam
Luv Jam tour dates listed on Ents24.com since Jun 2012.
Luv Jam Tour Dates
Track Luv Jam
- You are tracking Luv Jam
- Email alerts will be sent to your email address
- Receive email as soon as new tour dates are announced
- 1,299,629 fans now rely on Ents24 alerts
- Alerts are free and always will be!
- We never share details with 3rd parties
No current UK tour dates for Luv Jam
Alert me when new Luv Jam tour dates are announced...
You are tracking Luv Jam.
We will email you as soon as UK tour dates are announced.
- Be the first to know about new Luv Jam tour dates
- Alerts are free always will be
- We hate spam and will never share your email address with anyone else
- 1,299,629 fans now rely on Ents24 to track their favourite artists and venues
Puttour dates on your web site
- Customisable, flexible tour date widget
- Super quick set-up, get the code here
News and Announcements RSS feed
No current news or announcements.
Have Your Say
- Have you seen Luv Jam? Why not write a review?
Do you represent Luv Jam, or are you a member of their promotional team? Click here to claim this page


text:
Mijares Expects Contract For Leo Santa Cruz Battle
By Salvador Rodriguez
Super bantamweight contender Cristian Mijares (48-7-2, 23KOs) is expecting to recieve a bout agreement to face WBC champion Leo Santa Cruz (25-0-1, 15KOs) on November 2nd, likely at the StubHub Center in California. Mijares plans to review the contract, sign it and send it back. He already started training for the match. The World Boxing Council made Mijares the mandatory challenger to Santa Cruz, who knocked out Victor Terrazas in three rounds to capture the title on August 24th. Earlier this year, Mijares lost a close twelve round split decision to Terrazas.
[QUOTE=I.R.I.E;13809748]Mijares just wants to die, Leo will do him much worse than Darch.[/QUOTE] Depends if Mijares shows up at all or not. Vic in his prime was a hell of a fighter, and better than Cruz in my opinion. Very…Comment by BennyST on 10-05-2013
Man, five or more years ago I'd have taken Mijares over someone like Cruz definitely. He was one hell of a fighter and deservedly P4P up to his fight with Vic. Just went to **** from there though and you…Comment by PETUFF on 10-05-2013
Why mijares???theres a lot of good boxer outhere !!:boxing::boxing:Comment by onechance87 on 10-05-2013
WAR LEO:boxing:Comment by I.R.I.E on 10-04-2013
Mijares just wants to die, Leo will do him much worse than Darch.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (5)


text:
- Police/Fire/Courts
- Business
- Local
- State/Northeast
- Nation/World
- 2016 Elections
- Special Reports
- Maps & Data
- Military
- Horoscopes
- Dear Abby
- Games & Puzzles
- Lifestyle
- Events & Exhibits
- Food & Drink
- Arts & Music
- Movies & TV
When I was in college at Baylor University, most of the entertainment brought to campus was clearly booked by someone who had no idea what Young Weasels wanted to see or hear. Granted, it's a Baptist college, so I wasn't expecting Black Sabbath, but …
One semester, though, I was completely jazzed — pun intended — that Two Generations of Brubeck performed on campus in Waco Hall.
The band featured Dave Brubeck and three of his precociously talented sons: Darius on keyboards, Chris on trombone and bass, and Danny on drums.
Though admittedly not familiar with a lot of Brubeck's material other than "Take 5," even a moron like the 20-Year-Old Rick knew the concert was a terrific opportunity to witness greatness.
And indeed, from seats very close to the stage, the music and virtuosity was everything anticipated and more. Here's what I remember most:
After about an hour, the band took a break and retreated to their dressing rooms. As the minutes crept by and the intermission seemed to reach Uncomfortably Protracted territory, Dave Brubeck came back out onstage — the houselights still up — and approached the microphone. His apologetic grin and body language exuded goodwill and humor, and he explained that, somehow, one of his sons was locked in a dressing room and no one could get the door open.
Custodial folks had been notified, Brubeck said, and hopefully the kiddo would be liberated at top speed and the performance could continue. Brubeck was very sorry for the delay, he said.
A voice called out from the audience: "Well, go ahead and just play something!"
A huge smile creased Brubeck's face and he looked delighted. "That's a great idea!" he exclaimed — and he sat down at the piano bench and. Absolutely. Ripped. It. Up.
I've no idea whether it was improv — looking back with a bit more knowledge, I'd say yeah, it probably was — but, wow, Brubeck just went pyrotechnic. Whatever he was playing built in exhilharating fashion, the aural equivalent of watching a rocket blast off from close range, and he just stinkin' smoked it.
I actually felt sorry for the boys once they rejoined him onstage. There was no way to compete with Dad's unplanned mini-set, although, of course, the rest of the show WAS very good.
I'm just really happy I was there that night when a one-man volcano called Dave Brubeck absolutely errupted in joyous abandon.
Rest In Peace.
State police: Tractor-trailer struck 6 vehicles in East Lyme I-95 crash
No time to relax as Whittle's farm readies for Labor Day weekend
North Stonington resident state trooper charged with threatening woman
St. Bernard opens for 60th school year with changes underway
Waterford soldier's remains come home after more than 60 years


text:
- Report: #943651
Report - Rebuttal - Arbitrate
Complaint Review: Dinodirect
DinodirectInternet United States of America
Dinodirect This company never sent the original package, and after 3 months of complaints, they offered me a giftcard to the value of.. in which the giftcard did not work at all! I contacted customer service, Internet
*UPDATE Employee: Dinodirect wil help you
Ripoff Report
About you?
Ripoff Report
A business' first
line of defense
on the Internet.
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..
Does your business have a bad reputation?
Fix it the right way.
Corporate Advocacy Program™
I contacted their customer service only to then be ignored. As i sat and waited for a reply via live chat, over 30 minutes went by with no reply, then i get, welcome to dinodirect.. i tell them my issue, then they disconnect me. I have lost out on quite alot of money, and people around the world need to know this company is bad news! Simply google "Dinodirect Scam" and look at all of the search results and websites of people around the world with similar problems!
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 09/19/2012 02:55 PM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Dinodirect/internet/Dinodirect-This-company-never-sent-the-original-package-and-after-3-months-of-complaints-943651. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report.
Click Here to read other Ripoff Reports on Dinodirect
If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:Search Tips
In order to assure the best results in your search:
- Keep the name short & simple, and try different variations of the name.
- Do not include ".com", "S", "Inc.", "Corp", or "LLC" at the end of the Company name.
- Use only the first/main part of a name to get best results.
- Only search one name at a time if Company has many AKA's.
#1 UPDATE Employee
Dinodirect wil help you
AUTHOR: Asce - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, September 26, 2012POSTED: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
We are really sorry for the inconvenience our service may cause. Were you trying to contact us by email or phone or livehelp? There might be a waiting when too many customers are online.
Please leave your order number (xxxxxx-DD) or contact us by the following ways. I am sure we will give you an acceptable solution if it is our product problem.
Email: email@example.com.
Livehelp: http://www.dinodirect.com/customerhelp/?customtype=2
Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide "insider information" on this company?
Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.


text:
Remember Me
Forgot your password?
Haven't registered yet?
8/24/2016Fall 2016 Global Leaders Internship and Fellowship Launch
9/14/2016Trade & International Affairs Symposium
9/22/2016Red White Y Tu - Los Angeles
9/26/2016Red White Y Tu - San Antonio
9/29/2016Red White Y Tu - Miami
8/5/2016CHLI Leadership at the RNC and DNC
7/6/20162016 CHLI Future Leaders Conference
6/23/2016CHLI Spotlight on Congressional Board Member Congressman Devin Nunes (CA-22)
6/23/20162016 CHLI Congressional Staff Appreciation Reception
6/8/2016CHLI Spotlight: CHLI Congressional Board Member, Congressman Carlos Curbelo (FL-26)
Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute


text:
Kenny has been selected as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow! He's working on sequence-function mapping of cancer-related proteins.
Nick Hasle, an M.D./Ph.D. student at UW has joined us. Nick is interested in exploring new, high-throughput methods to link genotype and phenotype.
Vanessa Gray, a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in the lab, won the DeLill Nasser Award from the Genetics Society of America!
Genomic alterations that confer enhanced growth, such as missense mutations in the p53 gene, are at the root of cancer. Identification of such cancer-driving mutations, as well as bystander mutations, has been greatly accelerated by sequencing advances, but the functional relevance of these mutations is often unknown. Mutations also frequently underlie the failure of targeted cancer therapeutics (e.g. mutations in BCR-Abl that confer resistance to imatinib). Therefore, understanding how mutations affect cancer-related protein activity and inhibitor efficacy is critical to make effective use of personal and cancer genomics data, as well as to develop and deploy of targeted therapies. We are using deep mutational scanning for the functional characterization of hundreds of thousands of mutants of cancer-related proteins simultaneously. For example, we are currently measuring the consequences for function, regulation and resistance to inhibition of nearly all 10,720 single mutants of Src kinase in parallel and in vivo.
Protein aggregation plays a critical role in many common diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, each of which afflicts tens of millions of individuals. These diseases remain largely intractable, with grim, inexorable clinical courses. The protein aggregates found in these diseases are called amyloid and have a highly organized, fibrous structure known as the cross-β sheet. We are using deep mutational scanning to understand the molecular determinants of amyloid formation, infer the structure of disease-related amyloid aggregates in vivo and delineate the biological interactions that influence amyloidogenesis.


text:
- Report: #854663
Report - Rebuttal - Arbitrate
Complaint Review: Alexander Kopytov
Alexander Kopytov641 Dowd Ave MEEST Elizabeth, New Jersey United States of America
Alexander Kopytov ghost_marines Bigot - Racist - Liar - Cheat - Scammer - Racial Slurs i.e. (((REDACTED FOUL LANGUAGE))), (((REDACTED FOUL LANGUAGE))) Elizabeth , New Jersey
*Author of original report: alexander kopytov
Ripoff Report
About you?
Ripoff Report
A business' first
line of defense
on the Internet.
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..
Does your business have a bad reputation?
Fix it the right way.
Corporate Advocacy Program™
This person is NOT to be trusted in business as he is a scammer. He tries to weasel his way in business dealings and change terms and conditions of contracts and sales terms.
This person is vindictive when his way is not gained and will lie and do anything to inflict damage on the person(s) whom he didnt get his way with.
All this information can be verified and confirmed with text messages and email evidence.
If you have any questions or concerns or would like transcripts of this persons text messages make requests here with contact information and they will be forwarded to you immediately.
Issues are pending in the forum in which this occurred and we will keep updated information here. We will NOT let this go away and we demand justice for this racial abuse.
Let it be know to all that this individual is a BIGOT and a RACIST and a SCAMMER.
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 03/16/2012 02:31 AM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Alexander-Kopytov/Elizabeth-New-Jersey-07201/Alexander-Kopytov-ghostmarines-Bigot-Racist-Liar-Cheat-Scammer-Racial-Slurs-ie-854663. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report.
Click Here to read other Ripoff Reports on Alexander Kopytov
If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:Search Tips
In order to assure the best results in your search:
- Keep the name short & simple, and try different variations of the name.
- Do not include ".com", "S", "Inc.", "Corp", or "LLC" at the end of the Company name.
- Use only the first/main part of a name to get best results.
- Only search one name at a time if Company has many AKA's.
#1 Author of original report
alexander kopytov
AUTHOR: ACLU - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, March 16, 2012POSTED: Friday, March 16, 2012
Please see full report of Alexander Kopytov of New Jersey here in Ripoff Reports.
Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide "insider information" on this company?
Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.


text:
Ellis Grey
this wiki
|It's awful being a grownup. But the carousel never stops turning. You can't get off."
— Ellis Grey
Ellis Grey is the mother of Meredith Grey and the ex-wife of Thatcher Grey. She is also the birth mother of Maggie Pierce. During her time, she was a world famous surgeon who was twice honored with the Harper Avery Award. She was later diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Early LifeEdit
Ellis was born on August 6, 1953. Little to nothing is known about her childhood. At some point in her life, she met Thatcher Grey. They married, and welcomed Meredith into their lives in 1978.
First Seattle AIDS PatientEdit
Starting in 1982, when he first came to the hospital, Ellis, along with Richard, treated Phillip Nichols, who ultimately ended up being the first patient in Seattle to be diagnosed with AIDS. They operated on him even without knowing how AIDS was transmitted. They later stood by his bedside as he died and later toasted his death at Emerald City Bar, where Ellis convinced Richard to toast with alcohol instead of soda. ("The Time Warp")
Affair with RichardEdit
Meanwhile, Ellis had finished med school and started her surgical residency at Seattle Grace Hospital, where she was often looked down on as she was one of the few and first female surgeons. Due to her large professional drive and her wanting to prove herself, she worked a lot and didn't spend much time with her family.
She bonded with her fellow resident Richard, who was also being looked down on because of his skin color. They soon started off an affair and began planning a life together. In June 1983, the two of them made a deal to tell their spouses about their affair and leave them, as they didn't want to continue cheating. Right after making the deal, Richard overheard that Ellis was put on the short list for the Harper Avery Award for the Grey Method, being the first resident to ever make it onto that list. That night, Ellis told Thatcher, but Richard chose to be with his wife, Adele, because he was hopelessly jealous of Ellis's professional success and didn't want to feel like that his entire life.
Suicide AttemptEdit
Devastated over the fact that Richard left her, Ellis slit her wrists in front of Meredith as a cry for Richard's attention. Ellis told Meredith not to be scared of the blood and forbade her to call 911. Eventually, Ellis passed out and Meredith called 911. Ellis was transported to the ER and her life was saved thanks to Meredith.
While being treated, Ellis was discovered to be pregnant with Richard's child, which is why she decided to move to Boston. She stopped drinking wine and wrote down what she ate in her journals, indicating Ellis did want her baby to be healthy. Ellis took her daughter with her and they hid in their apartment. Ellis cried a lot, but Meredith knew not to ask any questions. Eventually, Ellis's water broke and she gave birth to Maggie on November 22, 1983, giving her up for adoption. She was sure she wanted to sign away all her rights to the baby, because she needed to start over after Richard left her. She wanted to find a way to step off the carousel, to start again.
Living in BostonEdit
Then, Ellis and Meredith didn't have to hide anymore, so they moved across town to a nice house. Meredith started first grade and Ellis started her fellowship at Mass Gen, continuing her career.
When Meredith started her internship, Ellis was suffering from Alzheimer's and resided at the Roseridge Home for Extended Care. Her case was advanced, and she most often thought she was still completing her residency.
After her disease progressed to the point where she could no longer handle her own affairs, they had her sign everything over to Meredith. ("Shake Your Groove Thing")
Ellis was brought to the hospital with cramping pain and diarrhea. Because of her Alzheimer's, she was confused and aggressive. She believed that George was Thatcher and Burke was Richard. Scans confirmed diverticulitis, but also revealed a liver mass. They biopsied the mass, but it was found to be benign. ("Make Me Lose Control")
They removed the mass and three days later, she was stable and recovering well. She disappeared from her hospital bed and was found around the hospital wearing scrubs and thinking she was still a doctor. They got her to come back to her room, but she disappeared again, this time going to a scrub room to prepare for a surgery she believed she'd be doing. Because of her multiple escapes, she had to be put in restraints. ("Deny, Deny, Deny")
Once she had recovered, she was discharged back to Roseridge. ("Bring the Pain")
Alzheimer's TrialEdit
After finding out that Ellis had Alzheimer's, Richard began to visit her at Roseridge. He then asked Derek to come check on Ellis and see if she was eligible for an Alzheimer's research trial. She was and Richard convinced Meredith to agree. ("Begin the Begin")
Richard's VisitsEdit
Richard started visiting Ellis after her Alzheimer's was revealed to him. They shared stories of their residency, a time she remembered well. Meredith saw them together and after thinking about it, told Richard he should keep visiting her as it made her happy. ("Break on Through")
Refusal to EatEdit
The nursing home called Meredith because Ellis had been refusing to eat. Ellis said she didn't have time because she was working. When Richard showed up with food for her, she immediately started eating it. Meredith later had to break the news to Ellis that Richard wouldn't be visiting her anymore because he'd decided to commit himself back to his marriage. ("Staring at the Sun")
While reliving the first time Richard left her, she had to be reminded that it had happened thirty years prior. ("Don't Stand So Close to Me")
One morning, Ellis woke up in her nursing home completely lucid. She remembered everything except the last five years and the fact that she had Alzheimer's. Ms. Henry thought it was best that Meredith tell her about the Alzheimer's. Ellis apologized to Meredith for the fight they'd had and tried to figure out why she was in a home. Meredith told her she had Alzheimer's and that she lived in a residential facility. Ellis started to cry and then collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital. They ran tests to determine the cause of her arrhythmias. Because she was in the Alzheimer's research trial, she asked for a consult with the neurosurgeon who got her into the trial. When she met with Derek, she figured out that Meredith was seeing him. Ellis was diagnosed with a heart condition that could be treated with meds, but Burke decided to do surgery because Meredith said she's often not compliant with medication. She tried to refuse the surgery, but since Meredith was her medical proxy, it wasn't Ellis's decision to make. Meredith said she wouldn't let Ellis refuse the surgery because she said killing her mother wouldn't be another thing that happened to her. During her last lucid moments, she reminisced with Richard about the life they could have had together. Meredith came back and told Ellis that she still hoped they'd find a cure and the two of them would have another chance to get to know each other, but by then, she wasn't lucid anymore. ("Wishin' and Hopin'")
Ellis became agitated and aggressive, so she was given lorazepam to calm her down. Later that day, she coded and was unable to be resuscitated. ("Some Kind of Miracle")
Posthumous HistoryEdit
Meredith's Near-Death ExperienceEdit
When Meredith drowned in Elliott Bay, she saw her mother in a sort of afterlife, saying she didn't belong there. She said that Meredith was anything but ordinary before telling her to run. ("Some Kind of Miracle")
She was later cremated, put into a beautiful urn, and for a time was "hanging out in the back of Meredith's closet." ("Scars and Souvenirs")
Her ashes were later washed down a surgical sink at Seattle Grace Hospital by Meredith and Richard, who saw it as a fitting tribute for her final resting place to be so closely associated with the hospital which she dedicated her life to. ("Haunt You Every Day")
Alternate UniverseEdit
In the alternate universe, Ellis never developed Alzheimer's, Richard chose her instead of Adele, and they raised Meredith together. Ellis is also Chief of Surgery and Chief of Staff at Seattle Grace. ("If/Then")
She was extremely overbearing, intense, arrogant, driven, determined, and hardworking.
Richard WebberEdit
During her residency, she had an affair with former SGH Chief of Surgery, Dr. Richard Webber, when they were both residents. As residents, the two doctors had a defining moment in both their careers and their relationship when they took care of one of the first patients diagnosed with G.R.I.D. (Gay-related immune deficiency, an early name for AIDS).
Late in their relationship, Ellis became pregnant by Richard. She gave the baby up for adoption at birth.
Thatcher GreyEdit
She was married about 30 years ago to Thatcher Grey, who left the family when Meredith was young, partly as a result of Ellis's affair. Ellis and Richard planned to leave their respective partners and get married but eventually Richard chose Adele over Ellis, although he did still have feelings for her.
Ellis decided to slit her wrists in front of Meredith and forbade her to call an ambulance. When her mother passed out Meredith rang an ambulance and her mother lived. Years later with the help of her psychiatrist Meredith realized that her mother wasn't trying to commit suicide, she cut her wrists in the hopes that Richard would find out and take her back. However, Richard never heard about the incident and she was too stubborn to ask.
Elizabeth FallonEdit
Liz Fallon was Ellis's scrub nurse for 18 years. When Liz was dying of cancer, Meredith went to see her. During the visit Liz made a comment about Ellis's perfect memory and Meredith couldn't stop laughing, so Liz asked what Ellis was diagnosed with. Shocked, Meredith ended up telling Liz about Ellis's Alzheimer's. Liz revealed that while she'd been Ellis's scrub nurse, she never met Meredith. When Meredith mentioned meeting Liz, Ellis remembered her fondly, that she was a great scrub nurse, asking how she was. ("No Man's Land")
It is unclear when those 18 years occured as Liz Fallon worked at Seattle Grace and Ellis left Seattle after her residency and later worked at Mass Gen, The Mayo Clinic and for the U.N. It has been strongly implied that she never returned to work at Seattle Grace.
Ellis completed her surgical residency at Seattle Grace Hospital. She was the only female in her residency class. During her residency, along with Richard Webber, she treated and identified the hospital's first G.R.I.D. patient. During her final year of residency, Ellis created an audacious laparocopic technique to treat gallbladders and subsequently named it, audaciously, The Grey Method when it was published by The American Journal of Medicine. She listed herself as first author, and it put her on the short list for her first Harper Avery nomination. The nomination itself was groundbreaking as no resident ever had been nominated.
After her divorce with Thatcher and break-up with Richard, Ellis moved with Meredith to pursue a fellowship position at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then won the Harper Avery and dedicated the win to all the female surgeons in the world that would come after her. Ellis continued to be a pioneer in surgery as her distinguished career included tenures at Boston General, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and for the U.N., and won another Harper Avery award.
She has also documented a significant aspect of her surgical training, in the form of videos, which were watched while the group were still interns, and in her journals, writing about her relationship with Richard and her surgical training, referencing staff at Seattle Grace, such as Margaret Campbell, and which Cristina greatly enjoys, for both medicine and romance. According to her journals, the decision of whether or not Ellis would get the first solo surgery was the greatest and most terrifying moment in her life.
Notes and TriviaEdit
- She was allergic to penicillin.
- Ellis said that carousels give her the creeps.
- In her Alzheimer's state, she believed that George is Thatcher, that Burke is Richard and that Meredith is a close friend from college.
- Richard has mentioned that had she not moved to Boston, Ellis would have been chief of surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital.
- If/Then explores this possibility as she is both chief of staff and chief of surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital.
- She first met Richard Webber when her daughter was three.
- She won her first Harper Avery Award in 1988, when she was a fellow.
- She was nominated for a Harper Avery Award five times in total.
- Ellis was with Richard when she was told she was nominated for her first Harper Avery Award.
- After Meredith, she had a second child with Richard Webber, whom she gave up for adoption.
- Her granddaughter, Ellis, was named after her.
Episode StillsEdit
Notable EpisodesEdit
These episodes are Ellis-centric or otherwise very informative about her life.
Memorable QuotesEdit
- Anyone can fall in love and be blindly happy, but not everyone can pick up a scalpel and save a life.
- You're waiting for inspiration, are you kidding me? I have a disease for which there is no cure, I think that would be inspiration enough!
- You grew up. It's a shame. It's awful being a grown-up.
- You are anything but ordinary, Meredith.
- He's gone back to Adele. Of course he has. He's afraid. Afraid to be happy. And I'm all alone. Now I have to raise my daughter alone. How am I expected to do that?
See AlsoEdit
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 1
A Hard Day's Night · No Man's Land · Shake Your Groove Thing
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 2
Make Me Lose Control · Deny, Deny, Deny · Bring the Pain · Begin the Begin · Break on Through · Yesterday
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 3
Time Has Come Today · Staring at the Sun · Don't Stand So Close to Me · Wishin' and Hopin' · Walk on Water · Some Kind of Miracle
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 6
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 8
|Grey's Anatomy, Season 11
I Must Have Lost It on the Wind · Only Mama Knows · She's Leaving Home


text:
- Report: #675584
Report - Rebuttal - Arbitrate
Complaint Review: netzero
netzeroNationwide United States of America
netzero tech support i was told that the phone numbers used by netzero where not a long distance and that i would not be charged for any long distance calls because the phone numbers (284-4157 and 284-4500) where local ca Internet, Nationwide
Ripoff Report
About you?
Ripoff Report
A business' first
line of defense
on the Internet.
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..
Does your business have a bad reputation?
Fix it the right way.
Corporate Advocacy Program™
i was wrongfully billed for long distance phone calls after i was told that the phone numbers used by netzero (518-284-4157 and 518-284-4500) where not long distance for me and now i get a bill for $1,340.10 after i ws told i wouldn't be charged for anyof netzero services if i canceled it with in the first 30 days of mytrial period.
i called my phone company and they told me that who ever told me that ha no right to tell people that and when i talke to someone from billing told me that i wa right so hetold me to fill out this report because i was lied to .
i relly wish you guys would take off all charges made onmy phone bill for the two phone numbers (518-284-4157 and 518-284-4500) beause theses are the numers i was told that where not long distance i was told they are local for me and i wouldn't be charged anyways because i was on a 30 day trial the guy told me the onlyway i would be cherged is if i didn't cancel my services by 12/19/2010 then i would be charged $14.99 a month and any other charges that come up after my 30 day trail but it shows on my account that i stoped my services on 12/05/2010 please look into this i know im right so pleasea.s.a.p. im just asking you to make it right with me and my family
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 12/27/2010 12:09 PM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/netzero/nationwide/netzero-tech-support-i-was-told-that-the-phone-numbers-used-by-netzero-where-not-a-long-di-675584. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year.
Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report.
Click Here to read other Ripoff Reports on netzero
If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:Search Tips
In order to assure the best results in your search:
- Keep the name short & simple, and try different variations of the name.
- Do not include ".com", "S", "Inc.", "Corp", or "LLC" at the end of the Company name.
- Use only the first/main part of a name to get best results.
- Only search one name at a time if Company has many AKA's.
Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.


text:
It is now possible to walk into a Toyota showroom and walk out the owner of a fully productionised hydrogen fuel cell car.
And since we`re talking about a concept car that has been developed in Australia, the study has also had its world premiere Down Under.
On the Alameda Air Field in Northern California, 332 Toyota Prius owners made a parade lap to celebrate Earth Day.


text:
I have just started using baywords.Com for my blog and want to make one entry each day as a private kind of journal that only I can see, is there anyway to do that?
I have just started using baywords.Com for my blog and want to make one entry each day as a private kind of journal that only I can see, is there anyway to do that?
maybe you should ask baywords.com?
When I clicked on the support link at bayWords it brought me here....
well that's nice of them to dump their customers like that....
so now we have to find out what the hell baywords.com gives you in terms of wordpress, in order to be able to help you.
do you have FTP access to your files on baywords.com? - is the wordpress install there YOUR wordpress installation? or is it a shared install of the multi-user version of wordpress?
Lots of questions which aren't answered by your opening post, because you didn't know you should be answering them.
... all questions you wouldn't need to answer if baywords.com bothered to support their own offering
if you've just started with this blog, can I suggest you go over to wordpress.com and check them out? - if you want a private blog, they can definitely do that there, and you can rest assured that:
1) they have a support forum
2) they have a very large userbase
3) they'll always stay on top of technical issues for you, so you never have to
After a little investigation it looks like baywords.com is run by the same folks that run piratebay and is about free speech and such, it also seems that they are running wpmu. If you go to the front page there is a contact page link and you can use that for further support. As far as a totally private post with wpmu you can't do that as far as I'm aware. With the standalone version of wp you can though some plugins.
Re. Jeremyclark13 - "With the standalone version of wp you can though some plugins."
Doesn't the "standalone" WordPress.org code facilitate "private" posts via the "Keep this post private" check-box in the "Publish Status" section when writing/editing a post?
This allows the author to flag the popst as private, and will only allow it to be display *to him* when he is logged it. Unless I'm badloy misunderstanding something, it seems like this would meet daviaw06's needs.
private blogs are usually not private just for the author - the intent is to make them viewable to registered users, but not otherwise.
I'm not fully in touch with what wordpress.com offers, but I do believe they have a nice set of privacy features there.... or you can do it yourself with plugins on your own blog.
Another way to set up a private blog would simply be to password protect the entire site -- if you mean a blog that you don't want anyone to see, or just a few people to see (as opposed to a blog with content that is for a large private membership). If the whole site is password protected, then no one can access it at all without the password.
Yes. This is easy. Number of ways doing it. All involve hacks. So the best solution is a plugin.
There is a plugin that will do it but it stopped working when WordPress 2.5 came out.
There is a solution here:
This topic has been closed to new replies.


text:
Hi Opajaap,
Thanks for spending the effort in developing the plugin!
Anyways I have a small problem. I have a slideshow with different sized pictures and when it changes slides, the rest of my page moves with the slideshow layout. How can I prevent that?
Anyways, I tried adding box shadows around the slideshow but I'm only able to add a border. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!


text:
Definition of attenuated in English:
1Unnaturally thin: she was a drooping, attenuated figure
More example sentences
- The model for the Kirov's new female breed may be the more experienced Uliana Lopatkina, all thin, attenuated limbs and haughty sinuousness cultivated to the point of idiosyncrasy.
- Next, density gave way to linearity in attenuated sculptures with inaccessible catwalks, platforms, and doorways.
- Giacometti described his attenuated figures as existing on the edge of perception, as if they just came into view on a hazy horizon.
1.1Weakened in force or effect: Roman influence became attenuated
More example sentences
- In his art, he didn't try to reconcile, dilute, or exacerbate differences, which could have led to the attenuated effects of pastiche.
- The setup and the payoff were far too attenuated, and I candidly couldn't tell you what beer the ad was for (which may influenced by the fact that I don't normally drink beer, I'm not sure).
- The intellectual and professional classes, already gravely attenuated, would have been liquidated entirely.
For editors and proofreaders
Syllabification: at·ten·u·at·ed
Definition of attenuated in:
What do you find interesting about this word or phrase?
Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.
= trending


text:
Champion jockey for the last 18 seasons, the 39-year-old Irishman broke into a broad smile after driving 6-4 favourite Mountain Tunes to a narrow victory at Towcester racecourse in the English shires.
Aptly, the success came for trainer Jonjo O'Neill and owner JP McManus, with whom McCoy has enjoyed so much success in the Irishman's green and yellow striped silks.
"It's amazing, it couldn't have worked out any better for Jonjo, JP - the McManus's have been so good to me, it was always going to be hopefully that I was going to ride it in JP's colours," McCoy told At The Races television.
McManus was there to greet his jockey and told reporters: "What a man and what a ride. I think he was more pleased because when he came in he said it was a nice horse!"
Surrounded by weighing-room colleagues, McCoy was showered with champagne and joined in the winners' enclosure by his wife Chanelle and two young children, with five-year-old daughter Eve afforded the day off school.
McCoy's 4,000 winners have come from 16,152 rides - a strike rate of 24.8 percent - and his feat in reaching the landmark can be put in perspective with Richard Johnson, the next most successful jump jockey, on 2,567.
Johnson, 15-times a runner-up to McCoy in the jockeys' championship, was one of many to pay tribute.
"What he's achieved has been amazing," he said. "He has completely rewritten what we thought was achievable in a season, and a career.
"He rarely makes mistakes - you would struggle to think of one. He is a machine who turns out winners."
McCoy has broken record after record in his relentless pursuit of winners since his first success as a 17-year-old in Ireland in 1992.
Helped by a flourishing partnership with trainer Martin Pipe, who churned out a seemingly endless supply of winners over jumps from his Somerset base, McCoy never looked back after riding his first winner in England in 1994.
He became the fastest jockey to 200 winners in a season in 1998 and the quickest to 1,000 career wins, taking just over five years.
In 2002 he broke the 55-year-old record of Gordon Richards for most winners in a season and went on to claim 289 winners that season.
His big-race wins include two Cheltenham Gold Cups - on Mr Mulligan in 1997 and Synchronised last year - three Champion Hurdles, and after 15 failed attempts, an emotional first Grand National victory at Aintree came his way in 2010 when he rode O'Neill and McManus's Don't Push It to victory.
His 4,000th win also coincided with the publication on Thursday of McCoy's first novel "Taking The Fall", a racing thriller.
As well as the highs, McCoy has had his fair share of body-shuddering lows. Jump jockeys risk serious injury every time they climb into the saddle and McCoy's list is long and painful.
He has broken middle and lower vertebrae, both shoulder blades, both collar bones, ribs, ankle, cheekbones, wrist and leg.
Dozens of figures from both horseracing and other sports have paid tribute to McCoy:
Mick Fitzgerald, ex professional jockey and now Channel 4 Racing presenter: "It is a huge deal, we'll never see anything like it again. To have achieved this amount of winners in such as short space of time tells its own story and I'd like to offer him my sincere congratulations."
Clare Balding, television presenter: "AP isn't just the greatest jockey I have ever seen, he is the greatest sportsman I have ever come across. Bearing in mind he has been Champion Jockey for 18 consecutive years and Champion Conditional Jockey before that, he has never not been champion in his career. He has transcended the world of Jump racing and that, for me, is why he is an outstanding all round sportsmen. I feel very fortunate to have watched him throughout his career and that he chose racing. It's hard to sum up how much admiration I have for him, he is an extraordinary human-being and amazingly kind. He is the Champion, has been from day one and will be until the day he finishes - he'll be the best ever. It's a privilege to know him."
Michael Owen, ex-England footballer and horseracing fanatic: "He's a phenomenon. To get to the top of your sport is hard enough but to stay there and to stay there for as long as AP has is quite astounding. And to do so in a sport that's very hard mentally and physically – he must have broken every bone in his body and to have done it for so many years is it's just an outstanding achievement. He's an outstanding person and professional and a great ambassador for the sport. To reach 4000 winners is a phenomenal achievement and surely no one will do that again."
Rod Street, Chief Executive of Great British Racing: "After all he's achieved in racing, AP was already a legend and this latest incredible achievement just confirms his position amongst sport's pantheon of greats. If you were going imagine the perfect ambassador for the sport, you would, only in your wildest dreams, dare to come up with AP – a man whose incredible talent is matched only by his unrelenting will to win and his phenomenal mental and physical toughness. He is the ultimate sportsman but also just an incredibly nice, funny and modest bloke. As a sport, we are incredibly lucky to have him."
Richard Johnson, only the second jump jockey after McCoy to have ridden 2,500 winners: "What he's achieved has been amazing. He has completely rewritten what we thought was achievable in a season, and a career. Whether it's a Monday, a Saturday or a Festival, he's hungry and consistent every day. He rarely makes mistakes - you would struggle to think of one. He is a machine who turns out winners. He seems to get it right all the time and is a great ambassador for our sport, a true professional sportsman."
Nick Scholfield, young professional jump jockey: "AP McCoy is absolutely remarkable. I've ridden 300 winners, and to imagine getting to 4,000 is something that really puts it in to perspective. You have to have dreams, and mine would be to ride that many winners, but he has set the bar so high that it's unlikely that any jockey will ever achieve it again. What makes AP all the more remarkable is that he is riding as well today as he was when he first started in the 1990s. He just hasn't deteriorated at all with age, although it would be great if he did as it would give the rest of us a chance!"
Paul Bittar, Chief Executive of the British Horseracing Authority: "It is nothing short of an astonishing achievement for AP McCoy to reach 4,000 winners in a sport which he has dominated for 18 years. He possesses the best qualities a modern day sportsman can aspire to – he is driven purely by a burning desire to win and to exceed the incredibly high standards he sets himself. His quest for success as a rider is his defining characteristic and the remarkable esteem in which he is held by his fellow jockeys and all within the sport is testament to that. To have ridden 4,000 winners is another incredible landmark in a glittering career, adding to those which already set him apart. British Racing is incredibly fortunate to have been blessed with a sportsman of the calibre of AP McCoy."
Paul Struthers, Chief Executive of the Professional Jockeys Association: "On the track AP is simply unbelievable. Unbelievably talented; unbelievably determined; unbelievably competitive and unbelievably tough. However, as driven and committed as he is on the track, he recognises that with success comes responsibility. He is Joint-President of the Professional Jockeys Association and is a strong supporter of PJA schemes that benefit all jockeys equally yet the busiest and most successful jockeys pay more for. He is also a passionate supporter of the Injured Jockeys Fund and is always happy to give up his spare time to help them in any way he can. You can have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for AP. Everyone at the PJA congratulates him on this truly remarkable achievement. He's one of the most remarkable sportsmen we've ever seen in the United Kingdom and racing will never see anything like it again."
- Sports & Recreation


text:
What is the magic sleep number?
America is exhausted. A recent report from the CDC says that the percentage of adults sleeping fewer than 6 hours per night has increased by 31% since 1985. This sleep deficit not only leaves people tired, irritable, and less productive, but also increases the risk for some serious health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and even earlier death. Just how much sleep we need isn't completely clear, although according to the available data, most people should aim for 7 hours of sleep each night. Simple lifestyle changes can help people meet that goal.
The effects of sleep deprivation on surgeons — and their patients
Do the long hours in the hospital, often with little sleep, make doctors in training more prone to making mistakes? Over the past decade, concerns regarding trainee doctors' sleep loss and the potential for medical errors have brought about limits on the number of consecutive hours a resident can work in the hospital. Do the same concerns apply to fully licensed surgeons? A recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the answer is no. Comparing the data on patients whose surgeons were on call the night before with that of patients whose surgeons were not working the night before showed virtually no difference in how well the patients did after surgery. It is not clear, however, whether these doctors anticipated the effects of being on call and compensated for them, or whether these results would be the same for less-experienced surgeons-in-training.
Cognitive behavioral therapy offers a drug-free method for managing insomnia
Many people with insomnia turn to sleeping pills, which often have unwanted side effects. Few of them know about an equally effective therapy that targets the root cause of insomnia without medications. Called cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBT-i, this short-term talk therapy teaches people to change the unproductive thinking patterns and habits that get in the way of a good night's sleep. While this therapy can't "cure" insomnia, it does provide tools to better manage it. In a review article in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers found that people treated with CBT-i fell asleep almost 20 minutes faster and spent 30 fewer minutes awake during the night compared with people who didn't undergo CBT-i. These improvements are as good as, or better than, those seen in people who take prescription sleep medications such as zolpidem (Ambien) and eszopiclone (Lunesta). And unlike medications, the effects of CBT-i last even after the therapy ends.
Mindfulness meditation helps fight insomnia, improves sleep
Worrying about a problem or a long to-do list at bedtime can be a recipe for insomnia. Mindfulness meditation — a mind-calming practice that focuses on breathing and awareness of the present moment — can help, according to a report in JAMA Internal Medicine. Mindfulness meditation involves focusing on your breathing and then bringing your mind's attention to the present without drifting into concerns about the past or future. It helps you break the train of your everyday thoughts and relax. In addition to calling on mindfulness meditation at night to fight insomnia, it's a good idea to practice it during the day, too, so it's easier to evoke the relaxation response at night when you can't sleep.
Guidelines recommend sleep test for obstructive sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea is a common cause of daytime sleepiness. It occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax too much during sleep. This lets the tissues around the throat close in and block the airway. People with obstructive sleep apnea can wake up gasping for breath scores of times a night, usually without knowing it. Obstructive sleep apnea can boost blood pressure and increases the risk of stroke. New guidelines from the American College of Physicians recommends an overnight sleep test to diagnose, or rule out, obstructive sleep apnea for individuals with unexplained daytime sleepiness. These are usually done in a sleep center, but home tests can also be done using a portable monitor.
Too little sleep, and too much, affect memory
When it comes to memory, sleep is a Goldilocks issue: both too much and too little aren't good. Aim for "just right," says a new report from the Harvard-based Nurses' Health Study. Study participants who slept five hours or fewer per night or nine hours or more did worse on tests of memory and thinking skills that those getting seven to eight hours of sleep a night. The researchers estimated that undersleepers and oversleepers were mentally two years older than the women who got seven to eight hours of shut-eye a night. Although this study couldn't prove that getting too little or too much sleep causes memory and thinking problems, it's in line with other work showing the potentially harmful effects of poor sleep. Previous research has linked poor sleep with higher risks of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, and depression.
Treating severe snoring can help with tough-to-control blood pressure
Sleep apnea—pauses in breathing while sleeping followed by snoring-like gasps for breath—can cause daytime drowsiness and mental fatigue. It can also boost blood pressure and the risk for developing heart disease. A new study suggests that treating sleep apnea by using a breathing machine during sleep can make a difference for people with hard-to-treat high blood pressure. Although blood pressure medications offer a bigger bang for the buck to reduce blood pressure, treating sleep apnea can help, and offers other benefits as well. Getting used to using a breathing machine, which delivers continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), may take some work. One key is to find a mask that works, which may be a trial-and-error process.
Daylight Saving Time "fall back" doesn't equal sleep gain
Daylight Saving Time officially ends at 2:00 am this Sunday. In theory, "falling back" means an extra hour of sleep this weekend. But it doesn't usually work out that way. Many people don't, or can't, take advantage of this weekend's extra hour of sleep. And the focus on gaining or losing an hour of sleep overlooks the bigger picture—the effect of Daylight Saving Time transitions on the sleep cycle. This seemingly small one-hour shift in the sleep cycle can affect sleep for up to a week. It's difficult to side-step the effects of Daylight Saving time on sleep. So be aware that it can take your sleep rhythms a week or so to get adjusted to the new clock.
Wellocracy aims to help trackers choose and use health apps and devices
There's something satisfying about getting immediate feedback about exercise, sleep, and other activities. That's why more and more people are joining the "quantified-self" movement. It involves formal tracking of health and habits, usually using apps and devices that feed data to them—from heart rate, activity, and sleep monitors to Bluetooth connected scales. But with so many apps and connected devices on the market, it can be hard to decide which ones are worth trying. Wellocracy, a website launched by the Harvard-affiliated Center for Connected Health, aims to give people impartial information about fitness trackers, mobile health apps, and other self-help technologies. It reviews dozens of sleep trackers, wearable activity trackers, mobile running apps, and mobile pedometer apps, lets you compare apps and devices in each category, provides a guide for beginners and offers tips for adding activity "bursts" throughout the day.
For fans, World Series is a marathon, not a sprint
Millions of baseball fans will tune in tonight for the opening game of the World Series. Boston Red Sox versus St. Louis Cardinals. Sportswriters are saying it will be an interesting series between two well-matched teams. Football fans have it easy. They have to sit through just one big game to decide the year's champion. For us baseball fans, it could take seven games spread over nine days to determine this year's champion. That means fans need to approach the series as a marathon, not a sprint. Pay attention to sleep, exercise, food, alcohol, and emotions. The Red Sox and Cardinals are two very likable teams. Commentators point out that these guys play the game the "right way." The players themselves say it's going to be fun. Let's see if we fans can remember that baseball is a game. This World Series should be fun to watch. Whoever you're rooting for, have fun watching.


text:
Student Leadership Training Day
Start Date: September 14, 2013
End Date: September 14, 2013
Time: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
The Office of Campus Activities & Student Leadership Development invites active members of active student groups to the very first Student Leadership Training Day.
The day will be broken up into three sections:
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Nationally Recognized Leadership Speaker & Author, Nancy Hunter Denney
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Working Lunch, Talking about Nuts & Bolts Operations of the Office of Campus Activities
1:00 to 3:30 p.m. Planning Time with Individual Clubs/Organizations
The day will be held in the Borger Academic Building on the Leicester Campus, beginning with Check-In at 9:30 a.m. in Daniels Hall.
Registration is required for this event, please specify any dietary restrictions.
*NOTE: You MUST be an active member of an active, SGA recognized Student Club/Organization to register and attend*
Organized by
Event Categories: All and Student Activities.
Related Events
Last Day to Withdraw from a Course with a W
Starts 04/12/2017
Accuplacer Testing - Worcester & Leicester CLC - Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (by appointment only)
Starts 09/01/2016 at 9:00am
Ends 09/01/2016 at 12:00pm
Accuplacer Testing - Thursday, Sept 1, 2016 - Worcester Campus - Weller 150 - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Starts 09/01/2016 at 9:00am
Ends 09/01/2016 at 12:00pm


text:
Wild Sneak By Flames, Clutterbuck To IR
Zach Parise scored the go-ahead goal 27 seconds in to the third period as the Wild clipped the Flames 2-1 at The X. Jason Zucker also lit the lamp, while Niklas Backstrom made 20 saves …27 Feb 13
Local News, Multimedia, Sports - The Local Connection
Wheeler Dealer
Zach Parise scored the go-ahead goal 27 seconds in to the third period as the Wild clipped the Flames 2-1 at The X. Jason Zucker also lit the lamp, while Niklas Backstrom made 20 saves …27 Feb 13
Alexey Shved's layup attempt in the final seconds of overtime skimmed off the rim, allowing the Phoenix Suns to top Minnesota 84-83. Derrick Williams led the Wolves with 21 points and 12 rebounds and Nikola …27 Feb 13
Trevor Mbakwe had 21 points and 12 rebounds as the Minnesota Golden Gophers pulled off a 77-73 upset win over the top-ranked Indiana Hoosiers. Andre Hollins added 16 points for the Gophers, who moved to …27 Feb 13
Here is the WCHA Women's Hockey Postseason Playoff Schedule, first-round series are a best-of-three: Friday: Bemidji State at Minnesota, 6pm Friday: St. Cloud State at Wisconsin, 7pm Friday: Minnesota State-Mankato at North Dakota, 2pm …26 Feb 13
The Wild return home to face the Calgary Flames tonight at the Xcel Energy Center at 7 p.m. Minnesota is coming off a 3-1 setback in Calgary on Saturday. The Wild are now 8-7-and-2 on …26 Feb 13
The Timberwolves begin a three-game road trip tonight in Phoenix against the Suns. Minnesota has lost two in-a-row and seven of its last nine games following Sunday's 100-99 setback to Golden State. The T'wolves sit …26 Feb 13
The Minnesota Golden Gopher men's basketball team clashes with Indiana tonight at Williams Arena. The Gophers have lost two in-a-row and four-of-five overall following last Wednesday's 71-45 setback at Ohio State. Minnesota sits at 18-and-9 …26 Feb 13
Twins slugger Justin Morneau's bases-loaded double led Minnesota past Pittsburgh 5-4 in a Grapefruit League game yesterday in Fort Myers. Morneau's shot found the left-center field gap in the fourth inning and staked the Twins …26 Feb 13


text:
Sustainability at Boston College
taking sustainability to new heights
Welcome to the BC Sustainability Home Page
Featured News
Keep the Grid Reliable
This summer Boston College expects to receive electricity grid alerts from our provider during heat waves, and we are asking all members of the BC community to play an active role in reducing campus energy consumption. By lowering campus electricity consumption during peak usage periods, Boston College will help to avoid area power outages, which can be dangerous to at-risk populations. To help BC do its part to increase the reliability of the electrical grid, members of the community are requested to reduce their individual energy usage.
Check out our video with tips on how to easily conserve energy!
If a peak is predicted, Facilities will send out a grid alert to the BC community. For more information, visit bc.edu/gridalert.


text:
Organization: Iraqi Student Project DePaul Support
More Info: http://iraqidepaul.org
Description: Welcome spring on the Skokie Lagoons and help ISP De Paul at the same time by joining us for Kayak Iraq II from 1:00 to 3:00 on Sunday, May 19, 2012. If you have a conflict that day, we are accepting donations at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/margaret-sents/kayakiraqii-1.
Kayak Iraq II is a two-hour guided Kayak-athon to raise money for Hala's 2012-13 expenses in her final year as a DePaul student. No experience is needed to spend the afternoon with ISP DePaul on the beautiful lagoons in Winnetka. Ask your families and friends to join you and also to support the Kayak-athon. Last year Hala was able to Kayak for the first time and we're hoping she can join us again this year, where we can almost promise it will be warmer than in 2011.
Access the registration form here. (Kayak rental fee is $20 if before April 10, $25 thereafter, free if you bring your own kayak.) After your registration is received, Margaret Sents will send you instructions for soliciting on-line donations from families and friends. You can also download the Offline Pledge Form here. And please download and post the flyer:Kayak flier
Questions? Contact Margaret at firstname.lastname@example.com or call her at 847-657-6807. See you on the water!


text:
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from our member organizations and other benchmark licensees.
What's New:
08/17/2016: The SPEC JMS 2007 benchmark will be retired on November 23, 2016. New result submissions will be accepted through November 9, 2016. After that time, no further submissions will be accepted and technical support will no longer be offered.
07/07/2016: Call for nominations: SPEC's Research Group is soliciting nominations for the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award. This award aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general. The award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016, and the nomination submission deadline is September 30, 2016.
07/06/2016: The SPECapc project group has released new performance evaluation software for systems running Siemens NX 9.0 and NX 10.0 CAD/CAM applications. The new benchmark can be run with Siemens NX 9.0 or NX 10.0, although results from the two different application versions are not comparable. Users need an NX 9.0 or NX 10.0 license that includes the NX Shape Studio or equivalent bundle for Advanced Studio rendering. The benchmark is designed to run on Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit platforms.
05/27/2016: SPEC plans to bring a performance benchmarking symposium, a server efficiency symposium, and several of its technical meetings to Beijing, China, the week of October 24, 2016. This will be an opportunity to bring together computing researchers, policy makers, government agencies, industry practitioners and others interested in performance and energy-efficiency evaluation to learn about SPEC, share ideas, discuss challenges and present results. If you are interested in attending, please complete and submit this registration form.
05/03/2016: SPEC announces the release of SPEC Cloud_IaaS 2016, a new benchmark software that measures the performance of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud implementations. The SPEC Cloud IaaS 2016 benchmark measures scalability, elasticity and provisioning capabilities of IaaS cloud implementations, both public and private. Cloud providers, users of cloud services, and hardware, software and management platform vendors can use the benchmark to evaluate how different implementations affect cloud performance.
03/14/2016: The SPEC Workstation Performance Characterization (SPECwpc) group has added support for Windows 10 to SPECwpc V2.0, its benchmark that measures all key aspects of workstation performance based on diverse professional applications. The benchmark does not require the full application and associated licensing to be installed on the system under test, simplifying set-up, running and results reporting.
[Older items can be found in the archive.]


text:
Skip to comments.Father 'puts his six-week-old daughter in freezer for an HOUR to stop her crying'
Posted on 06/01/2013 10:19:25 PM PDT by chessplayer
In a shocking case of child neglect, a Washington man appeared in court in Tacoma on Tuesday accused of putting his six-week-old daughter in a freezer to stop her crying and then falling asleep.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told the court that Deutsch fell asleep after putting the child in the freezer on Saturday, then awoke after an hour and was removing the baby when the horrified childs 22-year-old mother returned.
Hes accused of taking the phone away when the mother tried to call for help from their trailer in Roy, Washington. The mother took the child and got neighbors to call police.
Prosecutors say the childs core temperature fell to 84 degrees in the 10-degree freezer. She also had a broken arm, a broken leg, blisters on her feet and a head injury.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This POS needs to get effed up badly.
I guess the baby had a reason for crying then...
This POS needs to get effed up badly.
Every square inch of him. Then after he healed up, do it again. And again.......
No job ever probably.
Now he's claiming he doesn't know how the baby got into the freezer.
That's no "Father".
Father 'puts his six-week-old daughter in freezer for an HOUR to stop her crying'
That's no "Father".
That is a Sperm Donor.....
And NOTHING MORE....
That is also a POS
Sperm donor.
He needs a bullet behind the ear.
That is so sad. I know when my kids were little (collicky twins at one point) I said more than once that I was glad that my wife and I were not in our teens or young twenties at the time - and were somewhat mature. And caring. With the "me" attitude of so many, including myself to a certain extent when I was young, it would have been even more difficult raising kids.
The only thing we ever did to our kids to get them to shut up was hold them, check their diapers, feed them, hold them, bounce on the bouncy ball, try feeding them again (WHY won't they stop crying!!!???)
Usually after an hour with a twin in each arm bouncing on the bouncy ball they would quiet down. Unless you stopped bouncing....
Much to the chagrin of my elderly mother - "Just put them in their cribs and let them cry."
But enough about me - back to the article. Put the "father" into the freezer for an hour for every six-weeks of his life as punishment - seems reasonable to me.
Quick! Someone get a rope.
This story makes me physically ill.
Hey ya'll! Hold ma baby, and watch this!
This story makes me physically ill.
Me, too.
A table-spoon of vodka? Yeah - I guess that might do the trick.
What a POS indeed!
The "Me Generation". Me, Me, Me...all the time.
We have a nation of narcissists. Lead by the Narcissist-In-Chief.
All of us parents have experienced the nightmare of how a kids crying can drive us crazy, but most of us realize what I have tried to point out to a few couples in my life time, the crying is not directed at you, it isn't meant to attack you, do not internalize it and start thinking that the noise is meant to assault you, the baby may need or want something, or it may be in discomfort that you can't detect or stop, or it may be merely trying out things in it's throat and making noises for it's new ears, but it is not sending a message at you, it's just a baby, he isn't in your head and forcing you to....
Fascinating! Maybe the "blowing bubbles" sound makes them remember the "shshsh-shshsh" sounds of amniotic fluid when they were in the womb?
Nice, creative way to quiet the baby down. "Huh? What's that?"
Pre 1970s America was not stingy in giving babies drugs and alcohol to quiet them, I can't remember the name of the drug that was popular for babies.
The sensitivity to that came in the late 1960s forward.
Gripe water?
I found it, it was always being pushed on me to give to my son, Paregoric.
From an article ""When my children were little, I and everyone I knew kept a bottle of paregoric in the medicine chest. Paregoric was a wonderful liquid that after a few drops gave instant relief from gas pains caused by milk. It also was used to rub on babies' gums when they were teething.
I never realized it, but one of paregoric's ingredients is powdered opium. Until the government stepped in, one could go to the drugstore and buy this magical potion over the counter. It no longer is available in the U.S. because of regulations about the use of unapproved drugs.""
Butter and sugar, wrapped in a cotton swath, nipple like and started with warm water or milk. A sugar tit.
It is @$$#0/e$ like this that give Child Protective Services all the cover they need to give grief to other normal parents.
May the sordid details follow him to prison.
Tomorrows headline, if he isn't in isolation: 'Deadbeat Dad Beat Dead.'
This jackass was Jeannine Pirro's "Creep of the Week" tonight on her show.
She did not mince around with weasel words like "alleged". She just saud that she hoped that they would throw him into the darkest, coldes hole theycould find in the Washington State prison system after he was tried and convicted.
She was HOT under the collar.
Can't be a good sign for a court-appointed defense attorney when you first meet your client in jail and they're wearing a stab resistant vest.
I don't see "wife" or "husband" anywhere in the linked article.
I can't help but wonder, even though he was the father of the child and living with the child's mother, if the child would have been safer with her father had she been conceived in wedlock.
You mean even babies like smack?
This guy looks like a druggie, a drunk or both. Where you have abuses of controlled substances, you could most be assured that any children are neglected or abused. The drugs or the drinks become far more important than the babies.
Never so much as then did I realize how much that my little girl relied on me. It made us closer, not farther apart. She was the first, but that remained.
It is only those who think only of themselves who could put their inconvenience ahead of their baby's pain.
True, that.
Someone needs to take an axe to that POS.
Being in the freezer did not give her those injuries.
Very poorly written article. Most British newspaper writers can still write intelligibly, but apparently the rot is spreading even to UK.
Probably a west coast low-information Obama supporter. What else would you expect?
> Pre 1970s America was not stingy in giving babies drugs and alcohol to quiet them, I cant remember the name of the drug that was popular for babies.
Paregoric I believe.
They were talking about this on local radio the other day and I couldn't believe it - made me sick. It is totally disgusting. Mark Linquist is a very good prosecutor and I am fairly sure he'll see this animal gets whats coming to him.
The other day they said they had stabilized the baby but, at least at that point, they weren't sure if there would be any permanent damage of any kind. Prayers up for the little angel.
Paregoric, or camphorated tincture of opium, also known as tinctura opii camphorata, is a medication known for its antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic properties.
Our family doctor prescribed paregoric when I was maybe 9 or 10 — I used to get bad tummy upsets, esp. when I was nervous about something, and it calmed me right down. Later on, when I found out what was in it, I realized why it was so effective. And they gave it to infants? yikes!
As to the story, this disgusting creep needs to be put away for a long, cold, scary time. And "mom" needs some serious follow-up too.
My first born would only calm down by being in some sort of motion. A ride in the car worked wonders but I often had him in my arms while I ran the riding mower or set him on the washer or dryer as we did laundry. We called his baby swing the, "neglect-o-matic" as it gave us some down time.
I too thank heaven for giving me our kids well into our thirties as we were much calmer parents than the twenty-somethings we knew.
To good for him.... Break his arm and leg, stick him in a freezer and lock him in and leave him there.
I'm going to ask my mother whether I was ever given paregoric. It just goes to show that God-given remedies - if used in moderation and with a degree of common sense - should be available to the public.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.


text:
Hawk's Nest Realty - Sparrow Bush, NY - Phone: (845) 856-8373
Real estate appraisers in Sparrow Bush are needed because compared to, corporate stock, real estate transacts very infrequently. The appraiser usually provides a written report on the value of frequent trading and product differentiation, unlike stocks, means that sometimes appraisers are needed to figure out a property's value to his or her client. The real estate appraiser's opinion is based on market value, in Sparrow Bush and also based on the highest and best use of the real property.
The real estate appraisals are for a certain type of value like, foreclosure value, fair market value, distressed sale value and investment value.
By: Lee Ann Rush Those ubiquitous, multi-flavored individual coffee servings sold in plastic pods known as Keurig K-Cups might have been a clever and novel idea at first, but they are quickly becoming an environmental disaster. In 2014, billions of plastic K-Cups were sold; enough to circle the earth more than 10 times! As bad as that sounds, it gets..