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). Let's talk about them and finally why my company is better than yours. If you just want to read about SPARC skip to the last heading.
The n00b years
Blackbaud has a great mentor system in place to help to refine coal into diamond. You get paired up with someone that becomes your go to person until you can handle things on your own. I joined the
team and it had a reputation as the wild west of Blackbaud. Things were done their way and not necessarily the traditional ways. NetCommunity was the combination of a bunch of the company's "rockstars" combined with some new talent. Our mentor system was a lot more unrefined and brutal than most of the other teams, but that's because trial by fire was the preferred way to teach people. To paraphrase, stop wasting your time reading and start learning by working on some bugs! It might not have been the best system, but it worked.
NetCommunity was great because the people on the team were passionate about making a fantastic product. It also helped that we had a lot of smart people working on it and some good charismatic leadership within the team. During my time there an evolution of sorts occurred on the team. We switched to scrum, a form of agile development, and broke the team into sub-teams. Eventually we got a lot of the initial problems worked out and starting making strides to really work toward righting the wrongs in the code. All good things must come to an end and NetCommunity's ended in dramatic fashion.
Everyone else at Blackbaud got the short end of the stick by not being on NetCommunity. The microculture made most people jealous that their teams were largely made up of stale crusty bread. The technology stack for NetCommunity may have and still does have many shortcomings, but at least everyone who worked on it gained real world skill that translated well into other jobs at other companies, such as
. It gave me the experience needed to jump into full fledged ui engineer and turned me into the "rare" full stack developer (full stack means different things in different industries, such as game development, which I didn't realize until my interview at
ArenaNet, Inc.
) able to go from the css down to the database.
Blackbaud fell apart when the economy fell apart. All of the things that gave it a culture slowly eroded away till it was nothing, but a heartless shell of its past self. Almost all the little things to help improve morale were removed and never saw the light of day again. It always had a lot of a hierarchy, too much in my opinion, and that bred even more internal politics, which resulted in the eventual destruction of the NetCommunity team. When things aren't bad you'll accept certain things as absolute truths, but you start to question them when things go downhill. If the team had less oversight from the poor product management and stuck to having only an engineer manager the product would have been in a much better place today than it currently is. On top of that, the team probably would still exist as one cohesive unit today instead of being in shambles with almost half the team having left in the span of two years. At the high point of NetCommunity there were roughly 20 developers and of that at least 8 have left. Now there isn't even a team dedicated to NetCommunity's success, just different developers on different teams acting independently.
In the middle of writing this Blackbaud decided to layoff 150 employees, which is roughly 5% of its workforce, and the CEO is being booted. For reference, Yahoo last year had a 14% reduction (~2,000 people) and is the picture of a failing company. Why did Blackbaud lay people off you ask? They missed their estimates and like any good public corporation that lacks loyalty to anyone other than shareholders they cut people to try to bounce back. I will say that there is plenty of fat to cut there, but whether they'll take this time to do so is another story altogether. What'll most likely happen from these layoffs is a dead cat bounce, where they bounce back for awhile due to the reduced expenses and finally have to layoff more people when they continue not growing at expected rates. I give them a year before another round of layoffs occur. I don't claim to be a prophet, but I was pretty outspoken about their inevitable fall due to the technical problems their platform set them up for. Blackbaud has stopped growing organically at the pace shareholders want, so it desperately tried to maintain growth through acquisition, which has ultimately failed for it.
Blackbaud didn't, or at the very least couldn't, and probably still doesn't trust in its developers. When you have Software Engineer I, II, and IIIs talking about how bad something is technically, are you going to go to your Super Meta Daddy Rockstar Architect and dissuade them from continuing down their path or advice them to perhaps heed the advice of their relatively inexperienced counterparts? This is part of why I expect the dead cat bounce. When you stop trusting your developers and dictate exactly what they must do and how, they stop believing in their product and company. Eventually this translates into them leaving altogether. Blackbaud is a lesson on how to screw up many things with many poor choices. For starters, they have a technology stack that most of the world would probably laugh at, which has rendered them incapable of capitalizing on all their data. They also decided their old guard knew better than all the new people they hired (these are the same people who refuse to use C# and continue to use VB) and turned them into an "elite" group who ultimately dictated the entire companies technical direction.
The TLDR; Blackbaud had a lot of great people working for it and a lot of terrible people in management backing terrible decisions. They've steadily continued their march toward a faceless evil corporation and this year's "Best Places to Work in South Carolina" saw Blackbaud fall 8 places from last year. It could be more competition with better companies appearing down here or it could they've become a worse place to work. They also have made their employees technical skills irrelevant and are stopping their growth from day one due to their highly specialized tech stack that isn't transferable elsewhere in most ways.
The Kool-Aid is poisoned years
I came here in hopes of getting heavily back to the roots Blackbaud had been denying me for many months when they tossed me into the sarlacc pit of production. I somewhat achieved that, but on a somewhat artificial level.
I went from being an ok ui engineer to a fairly solid one. I don't see many designs nowadays that make me grab a new pair of pants. There were plenty of interesting ui challenges at PeopleMatter due to it not looking or behaving like a lot of other applications. Here is an example of something I made there:
. Unfortunately, I can't show off the even more awesome interactions from a screenshot. PeopleMatter definitely offered one thing Blackbaud doesn't, the ability to continue learning and growing. I learnt more in two years than I'm sure many of my peers who are still at Blackbaud have had the opportunity to learn (Web Forms isn't even used in modern development at all and we all agree VB is the joke of the programming world). However, there is less to learn and grasp as a ui engineer (caveat being people truly pushing the limits of cutting edge features in modern web browsers and having the luxury to not worry about IE) than as a typical software engineer.
I may have had next to no time doing software engineering, but I did manage a few big things there. For instance, my "claim to fame" was doing a refactor on
a fairly popular project. I then built out an abstraction to leverage it, which is still being used today. On top of that, I jump started my GitHub use, which down here in Charleston still is rarely used by developers. I was actually told that I was the first resume that my leads at SPARC saw have a link to my GitHub account. This is for a separate discussion, but as a whole I think the average Charleston developer is worse than those in the bigger tech centers for a variety of reasons.
PeopleMatter had the best development team I probably worked with so far. This isn't to say I haven't worked with good developers at Blackbaud or SPARC. I feel the bar the engineers set was high across the board. Not only that, on the whole the average developer there seemed better than the average developer elsewhere. It seemed to me that their interviews were among the best as well. This isn't to say they were perfect. Really smart people are still bound to make more mistakes in new unfamiliar territory. I believe the only question you need to ask yourself about whether you're working with good people is if you'd want to hire them and it came out of your pocket.
What crippled this great team was terrible everything else there. Outsourcing galore that would make you beg for Chinese water torture. Flying by the seat of our pants without good requirements, good grasp on client needs, and a good grasp on whether they would like the direction we were going. An unnecessarily large hierarchy with people probably getting paid too much and doing very little. Overly short deadlines that meant constantly having bad releases that required too much time to fix. Something reminiscient of the Alamo for problems everyone knew would eventually come back to kill us. And plenty more to scare a small child enough that they'd rather see Chucky movies.
Old +James Moore became the preacher of the Word of Spolsky, handed to him by
Joel Spolsky
, which upon understanding is like reaching enlightenment. I see the world through a set of new eyes tainted to company mediocrity and forever doomed to have expectations that most cannot meet. It might be absurd to call it enlightenment, but it honestly feels that way in many ways. When you stop accepting the status quo, you can strive to make a place bigger and better than anything else out there. You can almost think of it as trying to make a company not only be loyal to its employees, but its employees feel loyal to it. PeopleMatter quickly fell flat to those willing to listen to and believe in the Word of Spolsky.
PeopleMatter has lost almost every original developer from the v1/v2 days (James Moore,
Mark Olsen
Austin Floyd
Keith Abramo
Darrell Neel
) and has now lost every original person from their Arcadia acquisition (the original original PeopleMatter company). Odds are that both
Curtis Blanton
, the only ui engineer, and
Andrew Whitaker
, their best software engineer, will leave and possibly even come to SPARC. In turn, most of the original knowledge about the product will be lost forever to the winds of time. The recruitment videos themselves are filled with people that no longer work there such as
with 5 out of 5 gone.
The only reason to go to PeopleMatter instead of Blackbaud would be is if you wanted to learn and grow. If you don't care about that at all Blackbaud would become the easy choice that is if they are actually hiring despite laying off. PeopleMatter is sinking faster than a fat kid anchored with weights racing for cake at the bottom of the ocean. If they exist in another three years, without being owned by another company, I'd be amazed. All the people who saw the writing on the wall weren't listened to and PeopleMatter continues to live in a fantasy land.
Pants party anyone?
I'm not going to lie. I had my qualms about SPARC for a long time and that's because I didn't want to go write pure Java and work on government contracts for a variety of reasons. Personally, I "refuse" to use Java with the advent of awesome alternatives like Scala. I would have applied there sooner had I known what they had going on. At the time, I was looking outside of Charleston for a job as I decided going somewhere like Seattle was a better idea for my career (as mentioned earlier I feel Charleston will never compare nor compete with other tech cities). What also was spurring that decision on was that BoomTown wasn't hiring more people in February '12 and it might not have started again until August '12. I know most of the people there and it was the only other .NET shop in town. I was considering +Jack Russell Software for awhile, due to them being so heavily involved in the open source community, but they use lots of Ruby and I'm not too fond of it despite them working with Node as well.
Eventually I got convinced to give SPARC a shot and to come check them out. The interview process's technical aspect didn't impress me, which I hope was due to all the people I knew there. What did impress me was shadowing for the day getting to learn about different teams, products, tech stacks, etc.. I was also really impressed that both
John Smith
, CPO, and
eric bowman
, CEO, sat down to talk to me, which was really awesome to say the least and something I didn't really expect. After receiving the offer I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to take it for a few reasons that I'll keep to myself. Obviously I did accept it and here I am today to tell you why SPARC beats the pants off your company,
Lets start with my team's size, it is probably smaller than yours. There are three main developers including myself and two team leads. The two leads also help manage another closely related product, which means that us non-team leads have even more direct code impact. I feel safe saying most places you'd step I've had my finger on it or at least have seen the code. As a product grows it is hard to stay on top of everything, but I'd say at least 50% of the product I'm in touch with if not more. Go somewhere else and see if any one person knows 10% of their product. I've ported us from MySQL to MongoDB, using my own "mini-ORM", and have written core calculation code.
Two team leads are better than one or none and team leads are better than managers. A product doesn't feel like it is ran by a dictator handing down decisions without anyone to challenge them. Additionally, someone who feels your "blood, sweat, and tears", because they are right there with you, will always feel like an ally more than any manager can ever hope to achieve. Most managers can't properly recognize the value of their team members, because they aren't doing things with them. This means the only good manager is one who listens to his team for feedback. I've heard/read that Google had ~100 people to 1 manager, since they mostly just relied upon the individual team members to pass the appropriate comments to the manager. In turn, this begs the question of why have a manager if your team lead is already doing the dirty work? By having two team leads you reduce the possibility of being stuck with a "bad manager" and hopefully neither one should become overwhelmed.
I'm a big boy now! No longer am I restrained by some old guard who can't even manage to write code in C#. No longer am I restrained by some corporate tech stack that I must use and integrate with no matter how bad it is. No longer am I "just" the ui engineer where my opinions mean little, despite having been a software engineer for far longer. I am a respected individual on my team where my opinions are listened to regardless of how terribad some of them might be. I can solve problems without the weight of a corporate giant bearing down on me.
Tech agnostic is the best agnostic. We have Java, C#, Node.js, Python, and Scala all housed in the same company. If you think this a terrible idea and made it this far you should probably reconsider your stance. By offering people the ability to work in different languages they have the chance to grow in numerous ways and this ultimately leads to happier, smarter, and more motivated coworkers. On top of this, people are able to choose the appropriate tool for the task at hand. If one day I want to work on a Haskell project there is a better chance of me seeing that at SPARC than anywhere else, which means I'm less likely to leave for another company (Haskell isn't currently being used on any project, but the possibility exists at SPARC unlike elsewhere). Additionally, allowing developers to make decisions without having to follow corporate dogma reinforces the "I'm a big boy!".
OMGWTFBBQ THIS SHIT IS AWESOMESAUCE. My current tech stack is "more cutting-edge" than a lot out there. I get to work in Node.js and use MongoDB. This kind of experience is very uncommon, let alone something you'll find most developers in Charleston even having the faintest idea about. Not everything is going to blow your mind that SPARC has, but that goes back to being tech agnostic. One man's VB is another man's joke. Working in a one language, one tech stack environment is bound to reduce the amount of AWESOMESAUCE.
Scrum should not behave like Scientology. The Agile Manifesto states as the very first thing, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Guess what most people immediately do? Processes over individuals and interactions. People, particularly manager types, are scared to leave things to the unknown. By allowing their fear to get the best of them they simply descend into a new form of micromanagement that impedes developers from getting work done. Thankfully, SPARC tends to err on the side of, Programming, Motherfucker,
. Don't get me wrong, SPARC gets Scrum wrong in lots of ways, but at the very least they follow the spirit of it more faithfully without being dogmatic about their approach.
A lot of people forget a key ingredient to running a company, appreciating your employees. I've never felt as appreciated as I do at SPARC. Blackbaud paid a lot of lip service to this idea, but didn't follow through on it all that well. For awhile I did feel appreciated, but that dwindled over time. PeopleMatter was the epitome of being undervalued. I didn't even know I was considered an interface/ui engineer II until they made multiple levels for the position. Additionally, not one qualified ui engineer was ever successfully hired while I was there, which would make you think they'd appreciate who they did have even more. I will say
Elizabeth Hodges
Leah Giorlando
tended to make me feel appreciated much more than any manager there ever did. I did feel a little undervalued at times while at SPARC, but that isn't really the case anymore. There are several ways I've felt appreciated, from something as simple as a Sparcet (
), to actually hearing positive comments, to having a great performance review, and along with a lot of the former reasons above. Proof that SPARC has cared more than any other company I worked for? I had a larger raise after starting at the end of June and getting reviewed in December than I did working a full year at any other company, because they really appreciated the job I was doing there.
Reviews suck only because your company sucks. SPARC has a pretty good review system in place that makes all the others look like the pathetic jokes they are designed to be without truly helping employees. Going back to my two team leads are better point, we have a review that starts off in a much better place. Rather than this being one-on-one it is now improving insight into what your team thinks about you versus what you think about yourself. How much code does your manager even look at let alone understand that you've written? I don't have that problem anymore. My last manager at Blackbaud was so bad that it was like some cruel joke and had most of her team leave to work elsewhere. She felt reading about web development would somehow make her understand web development without ever having done any of it. Thankfully, I didn't stay long enough at that point to have to deal with her terrible joke review. Getting back on track, even if you have Joe Schmo and Schmuck McDuck against you in the review you're offered the opportunity to invite others to review you as well. Unless you happen to work on the worse team in the universe or you are a terrible person there will always be at least one person sitting there in your corner. The review itself not only was about you, but about your team leads and the company. How many companies even want or attempt to have you review them? In fact, my review became more of a team lead review. To top off the review, my team conducted them in Laura Alberts a "farm-to-table cuisine, fine wine, craft beer & gifts" restaurant and enjoyed some beers while we talked. If you're going to have a review, why not get a beer while you do them?
Interested in your interest. If you aren't passionate about what you do, you will not perform as well as someone who is. SPARC recognizes this fact in multiple ways. For example, I was originally hired onto the Sparcin team as their ui engineer due to the dire need for one; however, I was promised it would only be for roughly 3-6 months and I could then switch onto another team as I was looking to do full stack work again and not be stuck in only one part of development. I never worked on that team a second after I was hired. The 520 team leads convinced someone or some group that I was a much better fit and immediately stole me from Sparcin. I'm still glad I was kidnapped as I've been having a good time over there and got exactly what I was looking for. As I previously mentioned, SPARC is tech agnostic. If you lose interest in Java there are teams for you. If you lose interest in C# there are teams for you. If you want to work solely on mobile there is a team for that. To take things a step farther, SPARC runs an internal venture program. If you have a great idea, but didn't want to go through the normal set of startup headaches, SPARC has you covered. It works similarly to other venture programs and works like an incubator. They'll make you "compete" against other ventures, pitch the idea, work through an alpha and beta stage, etc.. This works out fairly well for everyone involved, since you remove the need for running around getting funding from angel investors and vcs, the possibility of you going without a paycheck for awhile, getting to stay with SPARC, and more. I am having a few issues with it after just applying for this round, but that's mostly around the communication. Passionate people are the best people to work with, which is why despite NetCommunity's shortcomings the team itself was fantastic.
The dog days of Friday. I have a dog, who is factually the best dog in the world, except for when she flops around like a fish (she has epilepsy). I love getting to have my couch cheetah come into work with me rather than sitting at home. That's right, I get to bring my dog into work. The only way this could be better is if I got to bring her everyday. Dogs make people happy, if they aren't shitty dogs and thankfully we have considerate people who don't bring those kinds of dog to work. To be fair, some people don't like dogs or animals in general, so this isn't much of a perk, but I do so it is. If you have a dog, you hopefully like them enough that you want to be around them.
Working for the man from my bed. I am not a morning person and a lot of other people aren't either. Thankfully, SPARC straight up says that they want you to work from home at least one time a month. I myself have a regularly scheduled one every other week. One team lead has one every week and the other at least twice a month, so this certainly isn't a fake policy just to sound awesome. I haven't been anywhere else with such an awesome policy. This kind of policy works to everyone's benefit. It helps ensure communication isn't dependent on physical location, reduces your gas use and driving time, reduces their utility bill, and you can simply enjoy a day home from work.
"Mmm yes, yes. I am quite the refined and cultured individual my dear. Good show by the way old chap! Your nerf assault execution was quite flawless. Indeed, it was the picture of nerf perfection.", said the fine gentleman. Culture is a strange thing to talk about. I certainly can't define it rather well at all. If anything, I feel a culture is much like a clique on a company level. As I said, Blackbaud felt like it had a culture at some point and lost it. My team had its own culture that was self maintained. PeopleMatter was like being kidnapped by Scientologists and beaten until you accepted their ways. They forced you to fit into a culture that was devised by the worse CEO ever with many aspects straight up lifted from Benefit Focus. SPARC feels genuine unlike the others. People seem overly nice at first, like Body Snatchers nice, but that's probably because most people haven't experienced people who were fairly happy at work. People actually take breaks and leverage the ping pong table. There are couches/chairs that people utilize to kick back and chill away from a desk whenever they choose. We have one quality beer on tap and usually one for the fake beer drinkers. I may not be able to define culture, but I know it when I see it.
Change you can believe in! Our CEO, Eric, is/was a developer. Almost no other type of CEO can actually understand and get behind their development team to the same degree, except through lip service. Eric is pretty awesome to say the least. He's someone who you'd feel comfortable hanging around and drinking with, all without that awkward boss dynamic. One day a few of us grabbed beers before Beer30 (our app to inform us that it is ok to drink) and Eric walked in asking if it was. We never checked before, but saw it wasn't, so rather than reprimand anyone he went ahead and switched it for us. Another example is how he wanted to do a concealed carry class, so got a private SPARC class going. The following work week he came over and was asking people if I had been bragging about how well I did, never having shot anything before in my life. He proceeded to tell everyone on my behalf, since I had not bragged, of my mad skillz to pay the billz.
SHOW ME THE MONEY! I now own SPARC. Ok, that is a bit of an exaggeration. SPARC is now an employee owned company. If your company isn't offering you anything for their success other than a paycheck, why should you care how well it does? The only time you do is if you're in a startup that gives equity, part of an employee owned company, or some sort of employee bonus program similar in nature to employee owned. The full details haven't been revealed yet, but they are working on going through the employees and discussing it with them.
Golden handcuffs galore. We have "unlimited" vacation. Zero vesting schedule for your 401k with a 3% 100% match and 2% 50% match complete with solid pay to boost your 401k numbers. Free soda, free coffee, free, but third class citizen, teas, free beer, and a limited selection of snacks. A company cell plan, cell phone plan reimbursement, or even a new phone on their plan. Free taxi service, so you don't even need to think about drinking and driving. 100% paid for healthcare coverage.
Is SPARC perfect? No. I'm not sure how appropriate it would be to vent in public, but I'd be happy to share that privately if people were interested. However, you prove to me that your company is better and I'll have to consider applying there. On the whole, you'd be hard pressed to find companies that compares as well and even harder pressed to find companies that are better than it.
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Scott Chrismer
3 years ago
Wow, love the candor and honesty. Very bold.
Michael Atwood Jr
3 years ago
A friend of mine forwarded me this entertaining post. I don't know you or the other companies internals well enough to comment on your opinions of said companies, but I disagree with your assessment on Charleston and technology. I would not normally respond to something like this, but since I live and work in Charleston I have a vested interest in seeing it represented fairly and correctly.
10-15 years ago Charleston had very little tech. BB was around. BF may have been started, but after those two and some small custom dev shops, Spawar contracting was about it. Today Charleston has quite a few small and growing companies to go along with the larger more established ones. There's also Flagship to help new companies get off the ground. So while the Charleston tech scene is still very young, it is growing by leaps and bounds every day.
A recent article in Charleston magazine listed these stats for Charleston compared to other mid-sized metros [1]:
• Top 10 fastest-growing software development region in U.S.
• Top 10 fastest-growing mid-size metro for computer hardware engineers (#1), computer research scientists (#2), statisticians (#3), computer operators (#3), graphic designers (#5), computer programmers (#8), and electrical engineers (#10)
• Fourth highest per capita concentration in U.S. for computer research scientists
• Seventh highest for computer hardware engineers
FastCompany had an article [2] on Charleston last year. Obviously Charleston is not a NYC or SF (it is a dramatically smaller city), but it holds it own in tech relative to size.
"Despite being the 75th largest metro area in the U.S., Charleston is ranked in the top 10 fastest growing cities for software and Internet technology, according to the Charleston Regional Development Alliance."
Finally, your post shows that Charleston has reached a threshold in tech where we get to have Gawker style, out in the public company gossip :)
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The 2012 NBA draft is less than 36 hours away. Tensions are high, film reels are moving and prospects are doing any and everything to offer scouts and general managers a last final impression.
Throughout this all, we're all forgetting what matters most. It's not the combine, it's not the individual workouts and it's not the hype. It's what they've done with an equal level of talent on the floor with them.
God bless the highlight video creators.
To take a look back at the 2012 college basketball season, that very method will be shown appreciation. From the no-name wonders to the obvious draft choices, there have been quite a few who have separated themselves from the pack with their play and production.
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I examine the implications of employer learning and statistical discrimination for initial employment rates, wages, and occupational attainment and for wage growth and occupational change over a career using a model in which the sensitivity of productivity to worker skill is increasing in the skill requirements of the job and in which employers learn about worker skill more rapidly in high skill jobs. I show that statistical discrimination influences initial employment rates, wage levels and job type, and that employers' initial estimate of productivity influences wage growth even in an environment in which access to training is not an issue. The implication is that the market may be slow to learn that a worker is highly skilled if worker's best early job opportunity given the information available to employers is a low skill level job that reveals little about the worker's talent.
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Iowa CITY, Iowa - This is the fourth in a series of positional breakdowns as Iowa gets ready for spring football later this month. Today, it's wide receivers:
Roster - Keenan Davis, TR Sr.; Don Shumpert, TR Jr.; Blake Haluska, RS So.; Kevonte Martin-Manley, RS So.; Jordan Cotton RS Jr.; Steven Staggs, RS Sr.; Jacob Hillyer, RS Fr.; Greg Mabin, TR, Fr.: Tevaun Smith, TR Fr.; Cameron Wilson, TR Fr.: George Krieger-Kittle, TR Fr.
Key Losses - Marvin McNutt.
Contenders - Davis, Shumpert, Martin-Manley, Cotton, Staggs, Hillyer, Mabin, Smith, Wilson.
Favorite(s) - Davis, Martin-Manley, Staggs.
Breakdown - McNutt leaves the program holding most of the major records in receiving. Replacing him with one person is unlikely.
A lot of the responsibility for picking up McNutt's slack will fall at the feet of Davis as far as the fans and the media are concerned. That will be one of the main stories at media day this summer.
It's an unfair burden to put on the Cedar Rapids native. Davis can be very, very good if he reaches his potential, but he doesn't have to be McNutt.
Iowa likely will spread the ball around more than it did last season. The post-McNutt transition would be smoother if Martin-Manley keeps improving.
As a freshman last season, Martin-Manley started strong but struggled during much of the conference campaign. He finished his first year with 30 catches for 323 yards and three touchdowns. He played a lot in the slot last year and it will be interesting to see if he's on the outside in '12.
Staggs came out of relative obscurity to push his way into the rotation by the end of the '11. He caught three passes for 36 yards against Michigan State and hauled in a ball during the Insight Bowl. He was rewarded with a scholarship this offseason.
Staggs could have the inside track on playing time this spring and summer with four years already spent in the program. He'll need to hold off a good crop of youngsters.
Cotton is trying to stay healthy for the first time in his career. We're starting to move into now-or-never territory for the Hawkeye legacy.
Shumpert is someone on which to keep an eye. He possesses the most speed in the group of returnees. This will be his third year in the program and it would not be surprising to see things click for him. He could prove valuable in being able to stretch the field.
Hillyer is more in the mold of McNutt. He's a tall, physical receiver who might especially help in the red zone.
At least one of the true freshmen stands a decent chance of getting his feet wet this fall. It's hard to say if that will be Mabin, Smith or Wilson. WIlson probably is the most physically ready to step in, and he also faced the best competition of the trio in high school.
Outlook - This could be a hot spot for the Hawkeyes. The loss of McNutt is huge, and it's a risky assumption to think that Iowa can just fill in the blank.
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The Global Financial Crisis: How Similar? How Different? How Costly?
Stijn Claessens
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB); University of Amsterdam - Finance Group; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Tinbergen Institute; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
M. Ayhan Kose
Development Prospects Group at the World Bank
Marco E. Terrones
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
March 17, 2010
This paper provides a brief analysis of three major questions raised in the context of the recent global financial crisis. First, how similar is the crisis to previous episodes? We argue that the crisis featured some close similarities to earlier ones, including the presence of credit and asset price booms fueled by rapid debt accumulation. Second, how different is it from earlier episodes? We show that, as much as it displayed some similarities with previous cases, it also featured some significant differences, such as the explosion of opaque and complex financial instruments in a context of highly integrated global financial markets. Third, how costly are recessions that followed these types of crises? Although the latest episode took a very heavy toll on the real economy, we argue that this was not a surprising outcome. In particular, historical comparisons indicate that recessions associated with periods of deep financial disruptions result in much larger declines in real economic activity. We discuss the implications of these findings for economic and financial sector policies and future research.
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What's in a name? It may depend on how you write it. Fascinated by the variety among the signatures of our 25 Most Intriguing People, we turned to expert graphoanalyst Sheila Kurtz, president of A New Slant, Inc., a Manhattan-based, 11-year-old firm that provides personality profiles based on handwriting for more than 300 companies. Kurtz usually works with a page of handwriting. Still, she was able to break down each of our autographs into 300 analytical elements—discovering, for example, that Princess Diana's final "a" indicates an open mind, that pitcher Dwight Gooden's large "D" suggests a desire to improve his self-image and that the gaps in publisher Rupert Murdoch's signature indicate a strong intuitive ability.
Some of Kurtz's findings were expected. Bruce Springsteen's signature, for instance, shows a strong sense of individuality. Some were surprising. Madonna's writing, Kurtz found, discloses a tendency toward introspection. On the other hand, Bob Geldof's stylized scrawl, she says, "is one that cannot be read, implying that he doesn't want to be read." Don Johnson's, says Kurtz, "shows energy and generosity as well as heavy stress; problems and pressures will stay with him for some time."
Perhaps the most interesting evaluation Kurtz made was on Josef Mengele, chief physician at Auschwitz. The signature of the calculating Angel of Death, she says, "reveals a highly emotional nature. His thinking was never entirely detached from his emotional reactions and was constantly affected by them."
In fact, a new name (below) will appear on these pages in 1986.
I've been appointed Group Publisher of TIME, FORTUNE, MONEY and Southern Progress Corp., a subsidiary of Time Inc. PEOPLE'S new publisher will be my old friend Don Elliman.
What kind of person is Don? According to graphoanalyst Kurtz, he is "loyal and incisive—an alert thinker who can pick up new information rapidly. I'd want him to be my publisher."
I agree. I met Don in 1968 while we were working at the TIME College Bureau, which sold subscriptions to Time Inc. magazines on college campuses, and we've been very close since. In fact, we both dated the same woman at one point and were ushers at each other's weddings. Born in Bronxville, N.Y., Don now lives in Stamford, Conn. His wife, Mary Fowler, is assistant circulation director of TIME. Their son, Donald III, or "Three Sticks," as I call him, is 10 weeks old.
Don, now 41, joined Time Inc. after earning a B.A. in economics at Middle-bury College. No stranger to PEOPLE, he was the magazine's circulation director from 1976 to 1978; earlier this year he was named TIME International publishing director. As my mother said at Thanksgiving, "I'm certain Donnie can do your job—he ran your whole wedding."
To be fair, I should tell what Kurtz said about my signature: "He is determined and expresses himself well. But the hooks in his signature indicate acquisitiveness, a desire to possess."
In one sense, I'll admit it's true. I possess tremendous pride in what PEOPLE has accomplished since I became publisher in October 1983. Revenue has increased 42 percent, up to $250 million this year. Circulation has grown for the 11th time in as many years and now averages 2,850,000 copies a week; and our Aug. 12 issue, covering the illness of Rock Hudson, was the best-selling regular issue in PEOPLE'S history (3,630,000). In short, PEOPLE has become a huge success story.
I've enjoyed our Baby Boom promotion (after all, at 39, I'm a Boomer myself). And I give Managing Editor Pat Ryan and her editorial staff full credit for giving this magazine its substance; it's fresh and quick, yet has bite and depth. It's become part of the fabric of American life.
In my 17 years with Time Inc., I've enjoyed each job, yet I can honestly tell Don Elliman that being publisher of PEOPLE is the best position in magazine publishing. I wish him luck. And to the most intriguing people of all, the PEOPLE readers, hearty Holiday Greetings!
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The many songs of Bertrand Goldberg, architect, artist, visionary.
Bertrand Goldberg is widely known as the architect who builds round buildings, but little is known about his innovative theories of space and his utopian ideas that have generated these sculptural forms. His work speaks with a vocabulary that is still unfamiliar to some and unappreciated by many. Goldberg's often repeated statement, "for the first time in the history of the world we can build whatever we can think," seems to have been the beacon guiding his career. While many projects have been fully realized, some others have been only partially implemented, but all have grown out of Goldberg's unique philosophical, aesthetic, and technological thinking.From the preface to the Oral History of Bertrand Goldberg [more inside]
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My go to is just picking a vegetable and either roasting, steaming, or sautéing it. I think some foods do go together (steak and sweet potatoes are a love of mine but most of the time I just select whatever we're in the mood for! My husband and I are particularly fond of
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Madison man arrested following high speed chase
A 31 year old Madison man is in jail, after leading cops on a high speed chase Wednesday morning. It began around 1:30 a.m. on the Beltline in Monona. Police say Kevin Gill was going 100 mph.
Gill was finally nabbed by Dane County deputies after crashing his car at Stoughton Road and Milwaukee street. He wasn't hurt.
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Summary: Davis County in Northern Utah contains some of the greatest hiking trails found anywhere in the country. Nestled between View Mont peak and Centerville peak is a Beautiful canyon. Suitable for a day hike or a weekend camp. The Trail is excellent and you will find several nice camp or picnic spots where you can enjoy the soothing sounds of Centerville creek as it meanders its way down the canyon. To begin your hike you will climb up a fairly steep trail for the first .25 mile, then you will drop into the canyon where you will enjoy a shady hike among the scrub oak and some evergreens. There are some creaky bridges for you to cross the creek as you work your way up the canyon. The three times I have hiked this canyon we only went about 1.3 miles the trail continues further but You will have to discover how far it goes.
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Trailhead: From I 15 take The Centerville Parrish lane exit (exit 322). Follow Parrish lane East to the end. Take the narrow road to the left. After it curves around up the hill to the right you will see the trail head sign. Continue about .25 mile and park near the reservoir. The trail begins up the hill to the East. (Lat:40.91741 Lon:-111.86388)
Trail Guides for Centerville Canyon Trail:
Best Seasons: Fall, Spring, Summer,
User Groups: Hikers, Dogs, Bikes, Horses,
Ranger Contact: Ogden Ranger District 507 25th Street, Suite 103, Ogden, Utah 84401; 801-625-511
Localhikes Reporter: This hike was submitted by Matty Ross, who has posted 26 other hikes on this site
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Reviewed by BP on 7/24/2013
Nice hike. Lower trail is easier missed the swing but other hikes said it was about 10 from where we turned around. Very fun.
Reviewed by Jensen fam on 4/30/2012
For Gus- Yes, we went on the Deuel Creek, and it is the same thing. We went maybe 2 miles up the canyon, and it was BEAUTIFUL! The scarriest thing was the rivers with young kids. There was sudden drop offs into the river. It was a warm, but nice, hike. We COULDN'T find the swing, which seemed like it would be fun. I would recomend it to any family with older kids (8+ maybe...)
Reviewed by Gus on 8/11/2010
I followed your directions and it took me to Deuel Creek North and Parrish Creek trails. Am I missing something?
Reviewed by KG on 7/23/2010
We followed directions to find this hike, and we could not find this trail. We found Parrish Canyon hike, and then drove down the road by the reservoir and the next hike we came to was the Duel Canyon North, but the Duel Canyon South not apparent.
Reviewed by Viewer on 12/3/2008
If you want more information on the trial you can check my block at: http://centervillecanyon.blogspot.com/ Jim Smith
Reviewed by Nicole on 6/29/2008
My group ended up doing this by mistake. But, it turned out to be such a beautiful mistake! It was perfect for a hot day. We continued until the trail faded away. There is a really cool swing if you go far enough. Us adults had a blast!
Reviewed by Nicole on 6/29/2008
My group ended up doing this by mistake. But, it turned out to be such a beautiful mistake! It was perfect for a hot day. We continued until the trail faded away. There is a really cool swing if you go far enough. Us adults had a blast!
Reviewed by Jim Smith on 6/8/2008
If you hike down to the creek you can make a loop of the trial by turning right and follow the creek down to the gun ranch gate. From there you can follow the road down to the reservoir where you park your vehicle.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Even though I'm not a purchaser, I read the mag rags while waiting in the check out aisles. I mostly focus on them to keep from grabbing a bag of peanut M & M's. Sadly they are the extent of my pop culture. This past week I noticed that Andy Griffith's death secured a small photo caption in a sidebar of the full cover spread ~How Katie beat Tom~ pertaining to the divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Some would argue their divorce is reality and actually newsworthy in comparison to Andy Griffith who was merely an acclaimed actor for more than half a century, whose name symbolized the fictitious town of Mayberry, NC and it's colorful characters, all of which became the Nirvana of Main Street America living.
There is such a little town. Mt. Airy, NC has all the allure of Mayberry RFD, and not by accident. It was Andy Griffith's hometown. One of my favorite fall weekends in NC was spent at the Mayberry Festival. Some of the tributes to Mayberry are; Floyd's City Barber Shop, The Mayberry Inn, Mayberry Bed & Breakfast, Andy's Homeplace Bed & Breakfast, The Andy Griffith Museum, The Andy Griffith Theater, Aunt Bea's Barbeque (intentionally misspelled), Aunt Bee's Room, Wally's Service Station, Bluebird Diner, Old Mayberry Jail, a true to life Barney impersonator, paddy wagon to haul off the town drunk Otis, replica of the police car that Andy drove and a life-sized bronze statue of Andy and Opie headed off for their fishing trip. The Mayberry parade kicks off Mayberry Days honoring it's reigning Pickle Queen, symbolizing Aunt Bee's quest for the elusive Blue Ribbon for her canning, cooking and baking abilities.
Despite all it's charms, Andy Griffith dismissed any ties between The Andy Griffith Show and his home town of Mt. Airy for decades. Andy didn't publicly return to his home until 45 years later for a dedication of his namesake highway, where he finally gave the town the validation it deserved.
But to me the best part of this story is that Mt. Airy NC didn't wait for his validation to turn into what it was meant to be. The economy of this area was in textiles and furniture, it's commerce dried up and rolled out of town like tumbleweed. Waiting wasn't an option. Mt. Airy, NC could be a ghost town today, if on the map at all weren't it for someone picking up a fragment of hope and building on it. We are always going to be waiting for something aren't we? The shoe to drop, the bottom to fall out, the car to reach 100K miles, the kids to move out, the alarm to go off, the sun to go down, the sun to come up, the fish to get on my line, the phone to ring, , the Mayan calendar to expire, Jesus to come.
What kept this town alive was the hope of being that sleepy little fictitious town, where men and boys whistle while they walk with cane poles to fishing holes, life slows down and everyone lives in the moment.
Mayberry had it's problems, maybe things weren't all that good. Aunt Bee's pickles were terrible, Goober spouted a few expletives while busting his knuckles in his garage. Andy lost his wife and was a single dad, Aunt Bee was a widow living with her son, Floyd lost at love, Barney was insubordinate at best. Yet we loved everything about all of them. What the show did focus on all that was good. I remember days after 9/11, I found solace in this show. The whistling at the beginning of the Andy Griffith show was a soothing salve on frazzled nerves. A half hour with Andy, Barney and Opie and I am ready to unplug that phone that isn't ringing with the job offer, make that peanut butter sandwich and walk down a dirt road barefoot. I can't imagine screenwriters fabricating a documentary on Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise that would be comparable.
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Living Time Capsules
Researchers from the University of Delaware and the University of California at Riverside have thawed ice estimated to be at least a million years old from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica.
The scientists will now examine the eons-old water for microorganisms, and then through novel genomic techniques, try to figure out how these tiny, living "time capsules" survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold and without food and energy from the Sun.
"It's some of the coolest stuff I have ever worked on," said Craig Cary, professor of marine biosciences at UD. "We are going to gain access to the genetics of organisms isolated for possibly as long as 15 million years."
The collaborative research team includes Cary and doctoral student Julie Smith from UD's College of Marine and Earth Studies; project leader Brian Lanoil, assistant professor of environmental sciences at the University of California at Riverside, and doctoral student James Gosses; and Philip Hugenholtz and postdoctoral fellows Victor Kunin and Brian Rabkin at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute.
In Lanoil's laboratory in California, segments of a tube-like ice core were thawed under meticulous, "clean lab" conditions to prevent accidental contamination, a process that required nearly a year of preparation.
"It was very exciting to see the Vostok ice, knowing how old it is and how much it took to get that ice to the lab," Smith said. "The ice core itself was incredibly clear and glasslike, reflecting the light like a prism."
The segments of ice were cut from an 11,866-foot ice core drilled in 1998 through a joint effort involving Russia, France and the United States. The core was taken from approximately two miles below the surface of Antarctica and 656 feet (200 meters) above the surface of Lake Vostok and has since been stored at -35 degrees C at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver.
"This ice was once water in the lake that refroze onto the bottom of the ice sheet," Cary explained. "We have no direct samples of the lake itself, only this indirect sampling of the refrozen ice above it because drilling into the lake without taking extensive precautions could lead to the lake's contamination. The borehole made to collect the ice is filled with a mixture of jet fuel, kerosene, and CFCs to keep it from closing," Cary noted. "Since the lake has not had direct contact with the surface world for at least 15 million years, this would be a contamination of one of the most pristine environments on Earth," he said.
Cary said the decontamination procedure was "the most complicated and complete ever attempted," requiring the use of an isolation chamber for the actual melting, concentration of the meltwater through a special filtering system, use of bleaching solutions for the destruction of any contaminating bacteria or DNA from the outside of the core, and the wearing of sterile jump suits for all of the laboratory personnel, among other measures.
Although other scientific projects have identified the microorganisms living in the Vostok water, they have not revealed what these little one-celled organisms do or how they have become adapted to an environment that is eternally dark, cold and so isolated that food and energy sources are likely rare and hard to come by.
"This research is important because it will give us insight into how microbes can survive in a very energy-limited system," Smith said. She intends to pursue a career in academia after she completes her doctorate at UD's College of Marine and Earth Studies. Such information could help us understand how life might survive on other planets in the Solar System with much harsher environments than Earth. For instance, scientists believe that Jupiter's moon Europa may harbor a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust. If so, studying how life can survive in ice and in lakes deep below the surface of Antarctica could yield clues as to how similar ecosystems could develop on Europa.
"Most of our planet is permanently cold and dark, so it makes sense that we should study how life exists under these conditions. In addition, enzymes produced by these microorganisms may be useful in industrial applications down the road," Smith noted.
The Vostok water contains only between 10-100 microbes per milliliter compared to approximately 1 million microbes per milliliter for most lakes, Cary said.
Novel "whole genome amplification" techniques will be applied, which provide insight into the genetic diversity of a community of organisms when only small numbers of organisms are available.
A veteran of research expeditions around the globe, Cary is an expert on "extremophiles"–organisms that thrive in the harshest environments on the planet, ranging from the dry, frigid desert of Antarctica, to geyser-like hydrothermal vents spewing toxic chemicals from the ocean floor.
In the case of Lake Vostok, scientists speculate that it stays in a liquid state underneath miles of ice due to one of the Earth's natural "furnaces"–hydrothermal vents. Superheated water erupts from these cracks in the seafloor which form where the plates that form the Earth's crust pull apart.
"We hope that by being so isolated for millions of years, these microorganisms from Vostok will be able to tell us about their life and conditions through the ages," Cary said.
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WASHINGTON -- A key factor in the 2012 race for the White House is expected to be which candidate can best motivate his political base.
President Obama energized part of his base when in a recent ABC News interview he spoke the words gay, lesbian and transgender activists have been pushing for.
"I think same sex couples should be able to get married," the president told ABC News' Robin Roberts in a May 9 interview.
Nearly a month later, the quote is displayed prominently on his campaign website, along with a YouTube video narrated by well-known "Glee" actress Jane Lynch, who is a lesbian.
"In 2008, our country elected a leader who not only acknowledged the LGBT community, but who embraced it," Lynch says in the video.
The NAACP also quickly got on board, passing a resolution endorsing gay marriage as a civil right.
But a number of minority pastors gathered May 24 at the Defense of Marriage Summit in Washington, D.C., to confront the president over his decision to support same-sex marriage.
The leaders said the president needs to understand that their Christian faith comes before their support of his historic presidency.
"I think this issue is going to be very important to a lot of voters," Bishop Eugene Reeves said.
"One of the things that I think both the Republicans and the Democrats have really not judged correctly is that the black vote cannot be bought simply because of the color of a person's skin," he said.
"And just because people have been loyal to the Democratic Party in the past does not mean that you're going to get their vote," he added.
Pastors who are uniting to stand up for traditional marriage, even some who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., say the struggle black Americans endured to gain civil rights - attack dogs, lynchings, and fire hoses - don't begin to compare to the fight for gay marriage.
"I don't think it is relevant to a civil rights fight at all," Bishop Larry Palmer said. "It's a fight between right and wrong. This just so happens to be wrong."
A recent pew poll finds just 39 percent of blacks favor gay marriage, a number that's barely increased over the past decade.
The question is how much will the president's support of gay marriage turn off black voters. Will many of them change their votes or possibly stay home and not vote at all?
"Same-sex marriage to me is an abomination scripturally and actually," said Baltimore Delegate Emmett Burns (D), who is also a pastor at Rising Sun Baptist Church.
Despite his difference with the president on marriage, Burns said he'll still support the president in November.
"The number of people who believe same-sex marriage is the biggest issue and that have really strong views on it… that's a small group," Georgetown University's Mark Rom told CBN News.
"If you have strong opinions about same-sex marriage you probably already are going to vote for the Republican candidates or you're already going to vote for the Democratic candidates and Obama's statement matters little," he said.
But pastors organizing believe they can make a difference and that it's their moral duty to fight for traditional marriage.
"He says he is evolving, flip-flopping -- I don't know what you want to call it -- but the bottom line is that God doesn't change," Bishop Angel Nunez with the Maryland Marriage Alliance said.
"He's the same yesterday, today and forever and he doesn't evolve," he stated. And so marriage is still between one man and one woman and so what can I tell you? We're coming and we're coming strong."
*Original broadcast June 5, 2012.
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HP's Pavilion series desktops provide entry level performance for the average computer user. Appearance is in line with most of HP's desktop line with a matte or gloss black smooth finish these computers keep it simple with business like styling. If you're looking for gaming you might be better off looking at the Pavilion Elite series because it offers much better options for the PC Gamer.
That's not to say that gaming isn't possible on these machines, but the upper end graphics options on these models will only allow you to play newer games on minimal settings with washy performance, although games that are a couple years can be easily enjoyed. Starting at $300 the Pavilion series offers a good value for a minimalist computer. With five different models, 2 AMD and 3 Intel, the Pavilion series spans most everyday consumer's computing needs pretty effectively.
As the flagship Pavilion model the p6780t offers an Intel i5 processor with a hearty helping of RAM and a good sized hard drive to boot. This should allow the average computer power user enough power to work with heavier applications like CAD and Photoshop seamlessly, as well as good multitasking performance.
Encode videos while surfing the internet or burn a CD while looking up directions to the airport with this modest Quad Core processor. The plentiful RAM that comes standard will allow you to leave all your windows open, never closing anything because it's slowing down your computer.
The graphics on this model are not stellar, but definitely do-able for lower end gaming. If you're looking at upgrading the graphics on this model though, you should seriously consider switching to the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-510t because of its expanded selection of graphics cards and overall better value.
Offering Intel's latest economy dual core the p6770t gives you value performance. The Intel i3 also offers impressive power savings over earlier Intel dual cores by utilizing newer manufacturing techniques. Move seamlessly between researching to writing and store all the music you can get your hands on with the 750 GB hard drive.
This model also comes equipped with as much RAM as the average user could expect to need except in extreme circumstances and comes with plenty of hard drive space. Unless you're taking a lot of HD videos or storing generations' worth of photos you shouldn't have to worry about running out of space.
HP's base model Intel Desktop, the p6710t, offers a good value for someone looking for solid stability and just wants to surf the internet and write papers. The graphics options are pretty poor on this model so only expect to be playing games that are several years old, not that there's anything wrong with old school.
The Celeron might disappoint when stressing out the computer with too many tasks, so go easy on it with things like photo editing and video editing. If you're wanting to do a lot of multimedia the upgrade to the Intel i3 that comes with the p6770t is highly recommended, or at a very minimum spend the $20 to move up to the Dual Core Celeron. Upgraded graphics options will in most cases facilitate playback of HD video when it is the only thing running.
The AMD Athlon X2 series offers an very similar performance and component selection to the Celeron equipped Pavilion, although offers a quad core processor option and includes more RAM and hard drive space standard.
The fact that it costs $50 more than the Celeron isn't a big deal when you consider the fact that to upgrade the Celeron to a 750GB hard drive costs $50. That means you get the extra 1GB of RAM effectively for free if you don't mind AMD. At only $100 more than the Dual core Celeron you can move to a quad core Phenom X4 which makes the computer even cheaper than the i3 equipped Pavilion.
Truly a great value quad core when compared with the lower end i5 processors because in many benchmarks the Phenom comes out on top. Recommendations on graphics and hard drive space are similar to other models in the Pavilion Series which is disappointing because this could make a nice little budget gaming rig.
The p6700z is basically a stripped down version of the Athlon equipped Pavilion model. With lower RAM and hard drive this is a bare bones model if what you need is all out budget. I would recommend going for the $30 upgrade to a dual core processor because the performance gains are significant for the price.
The RAM would be advisable with today's RAM hungry programs, but at that point you're getting pretty close to the price of the next model up. Honestly 2GB will run alright as long as you're not trying to run a lot of things at the same time. If you are planning on doing a lot of photography definitely don't miss adding on the Media Card Reader. It only comes standard on the higher end models.
With the HP Pavilion series you can certainly build a budget PC for everyday use that doesn't break the bank, but don't expect to squeeze much gaming out of it unless you're a diehard Warcraft III fan.
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'Nightly,' 'Today' are riding on 10-year ratings streaks
NBC's vaunted news division is starting to show some uncharacteristic cracks.
Once lauded as unassailable No. 1 franchises, "Nightly News" and "Today" are experiencing audience erosion this season, a cause for increasing alarm at 30 Rock.
Both are riding more than 10-year streaks atop the ratings, but Brian Williams finished No. 2 for the February sweep behind ABC's Charlie Gibson, triggering the reassignment of "Nightly" exec producer John Reiss.
"Today" still enjoys a huge 800,000-viewer margin over "Good Morning America," according to Nielsen, but it finished February sweeps 8% off from last year. The competition between NBC and ABC in the morning and the evening is still experiencing upheaval from the departure of Katie Couric from "Today" and the transfer of Gibson from "GMA" to "World News."
Couric's departure from "Today" appears to have made the show weaker, despite the addition of the well-received Meredith Vieira.
The show is off steeply from last year, which is to be expected the year after NBC had the Winter Olympics in Torino. The last time "Today" finished February under 6 million was 2005, the year "GMA" came within 40,000 ADD [[of]] the lead and NBC jettisoned then-producer Tom Touchet.
But that "Today" finished sweeps level with 2005 having lost Couric and facing both the Oscars on ABC and the Superbowl on CBS, could in itself be considered an achievement. Gibson's move to "World News" has made that show stronger, but "GMA" has had trouble gaining much audience without him. The "GMA" needle did-n't budge in February, despite coverage of the Oscars and reporter Bob Wood-ruff's return to the network to talk about the injuries that nearly took his life.
CBS may be the beneficiary. A distant third, "The Early Show" had double-digit increases in women 18-49 and total viewers.
Lead changes in the evening news race typically occur over many years, and the new leader generally holds the position for some time, as Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw did for different intervals.
That's what's so disturbing to NBC execs, who find themselves in a dogfight for first long after they thought they had the position locked up.
ABC's "World News" prevailed in two of the first three weeks of February in both total viewers and the key 25-54 news demo. Gibson is riding a four-week winning streak in 25-54 and has shown audience gains over last year for 10 straight weeks.
"We have a terrific trend line," says "World News" exec producer Jon Banner. "Two victories in three weeks is something we haven't done in a long time."
News analyst Andrew Tyndall attributes Gibson's surge in the younger demos to story selection that focused more on family-oriented themes, such as leading the broadcast with a report on the virus linked to cervical cancer, while NBC and CBS led with Afghanistan and Iraq.
"It isn't that NBC is slipping; it has the most hard news of any newscast and is the most Washington-oriented," Tyndall says. "ABC's story selection was more family- and women-oriented and younger."


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Ahyoka and the Talking Leavesby Peter Roop Connie Roop
Ahyoka helps her father Sequoyah in his quest to create a system of writing for his people. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Ahyoka and the Talking Leavesby Peter Roop Connie Roop Yoshi Miyake
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and recipient of the Florida Sunshine Award: In this absorbing chapter book, Ahyoka helps her father, Sequoyah, unlock the mystery of "talking leaves" to create the Cherokee alphabet Ahyoka is the daughter of Sequoyah, a silversmith who has given up most of his trade to focus on his true passion. He longs for the day when the Cherokee people can communicate to one another from afar and document the history of their lives. He wants his people--the Real People--to have a written language like the white men do. When he is ostracized from his community for the "magic" he is creating, he leaves his home to pursue his quest. His young daughter, who shares his dream, joins him on his journey. They work together to create a syllabic alphabet that will tell the story of the Cherokee people.
Backyard Beasties: Jokes to Snake You Smileby Peter Roop Connie Roop Diane L. Burns
Jokes about animals you might find in your backyard.
Benjamin Franklinby Peter Roop Connie Roop
The story of America's first well-known jack-of-all-trades--printer, scientist, inventor, and statesman Benjamin Franklin--is told here in his own words, through his newspaper articles and personal recollections.
Betsy Rossby Peter Roop Connie Roop
"The flag was soon finished, and Betsy returned it, the first 'Star Spangled Banner' that ever floated up on the breeze..." With these words, William Canby told how his grandmother Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag.
Buttons for General Washingtonby Peter Roop Connie Roop
Introduce young readers to history through the stories of both real and fictionalized people. By focusing on a single important episode that describes a historical event, these books engage readers' interests and imaginations. Written in a story format, each account relates events that really happened, often followed by a brief summary of the historical event to further explain the significance it had on history.
California Gold Rushby Peter Roop Connie Roop
Beginning with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, this book traces the phenomenon that became the Gold Rush in California.
Christopher Columbusby Peter Roop Connie Roop
The life story of Christopher Columbus is told using the journals he kept during his four voyages to the New World--voyages that would change world history forever.
The Declaration of Independenceby Peter Roop Connie Roop
A young reader's history of the famous document that set America on the course to freedom Many kids have heard of the Declaration of Independence, but few know the story behind the people and events that helped forge it. They may know about Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, but do they know the roles that Patrick Henry and Thomas Gage played in setting fire to a revolution? This is the story of how the men and women of thirteen British colonies came to declare their independence on July 4, 1776. Covering major events such as the the Boston Massacre and Paul Revere's midnight ride, The Declaration of Independence brings the rich and exciting history of the Revolutionary War to young readers who want to know more about America's beginnings.
Escape from the Ice: Shackleton and the Enduranceby Peter Roop Connie Roop
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey.
An Eye for an Eyeby Peter Roop Connie Roop
A teenage girl questions her principles after her brother is captured during the Revolutionary War Fourteen-year-old Samantha Byrd is an excellent shot--she's even better than her brother at providing food for her family. Although the winds of war are blowing in Virginia, she knows that she could only ever use her skill for hunting--not for hurting another person. When the Revolutionary War finally begins, her brother is captured, and Samantha sets off to rescue him. But when she comes face to face with the enemy, will she still stand by her principles, or will she pull the trigger?
An Eye for an Eyeby Peter Roop Connie Roop
Teen fictional story about a girl in the original 13 colonies who goes after her brother, who's imprisoned on a British ship.
Girl of the Shining Mountains: Sacagawea's Storyby Peter Roop Connie Roop
The historical record of Sacagawea's life is sparse at best. She didn't keep a journal, nor did she write any letters. What does exist are about three dozen references to her in the journal's of Lewis and Clark. But with few exceptions, they never describe what she looked like, her language, or her temperament. So who was Sacagawea? And what must it have felt like to be a part of the Journey of Discovery? She was the only woman, and not only did she have to face the same hardships as the men, she did so while caring for her newborn son Pomp. What did she see? What did she think? And most importantly, how did she feel going back to the place she had been violently wrenched from over five years earlier -- going back home?
Give Me a Sign, Helen Keller!by Peter Roop Connie Roop
In this book, you will find out all about Helen Keller, before she made history.
Grace's Letter to Lincolnby Peter Roop Connie Roop
On the eve of the 1860 presidential election, as war clouds gather and the South threatens to secede, eleven-year-old Grace decides to help Abraham Lincoln get elected by writing and advising him to grow a beard.
Grace's Letter to Lincolnby Peter Roop Connie Roop Stacey Schuett
Can the advice of an eleven-year-old girl help get Abraham Lincoln elected president? As the election of 1860 nears, eleven-year-old Grace and her family are working hard to help Abraham Lincoln win. After seeing his image on a poster, Grace decides to write to him and suggest that growing a beard might win him more votes. Much to her surprise, Lincoln answers her letter, and she becomes a neighborhood celebrity. When the president-elect's victory train passes through on its way to Washington, DC, Mr. Lincoln singles Grace out as the girl who gave him good advice. Based on true events, this story will charm young readers of historical fiction.
Holiday Howlers: Jokes for Punny Parties (Make Me Laugh)by Peter Roop Connie Roop
Filled with over one hundred playful puns, goofy gigglers, sly spoofs, wacky illustrations, and more, this joke book from the publishers laugh-out-loud series will keep kids howling for more!
Horsing Around: Jokes to Make You Smile (Make Me Laugh)by Joanne E. Bernstein Peter Roop Connie Roop Rick Walton Diane L. Burns Dan Scholten Ann Walton Paul Cohen
A collection of jokes about farm animals.
I, Columbusby Peter Roop Connie Roop Peter E. Hanson
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People: A firsthand account of Christopher Columbus's famous voyage to the East, taken directly from his journal entries Christopher Columbus had a dream--to reach the fabled lands of the East, rich with spices, jewels, silver, and especially gold. Having studied the travels of other explorers, Columbus was convinced he could reach his destination by traveling west across the seas. After convincing Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to fund his expedition, he set sail in August of 1492. In this account, the voyage Columbus undertook is told in his own voice through his journal entries of that year. He tells of excitement, drama, and terror on the high seas, as well as the doubts he faces from his own crew, as together, they weather the path to victory.
...If You Lived with the Cherokeeby Peter Roop Connie Roop
The third title in a series about Native American people, this book reveals what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee family long ago. Full-color illustrations by a Cherokee artist complement facts about Cherokee games, language, dwellings, medicine, names, and more.
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbieby Peter Roop Connie Roop
School Library Journal: Based on a true story of an 1856 storm off the coast of Maine, Abbie's tale is one of endurance and bravery. When her father, the lighthouse keeper, sails off for supplies, he leaves Abbie in charge of lighting the oil lamps in the twin towers of their lighthouse and making sure that they don't go out. When a huge storm hits, preventing her father from returning for four weeks, Abbie keeps those lamps burning, getting up several times each night to climb the towers to check them, scraping ice from the windows so the lights can be seen at sea. In the course of the storm, she also rescues her chickens from a huge wave, thus saving the family's only source of food. The Roops allow the natural drama of Abbie's story to emerge in simple sentences that are sometimes cut up awkwardly, but for the most part they are clear and compelling. An author's note gives the interesting historical basis of the story, but the tale stands alone as an exciting account of a young girl's courage. The vivid watercolor paintings are highly effective in detailing Abbie's job as well as creating atmosphere. All in all, one of the best historical beginning-to-reads--a refreshing cold blast of salty real life. ISBN: 0476144547
Let's Celebrate Earth Dayby Peter Roop Connie Roop
A well-rounded introduction to Earth Day for young readers in a question- and-answer format. Important facts about the state of our earth are interspersed throughout, but an overall positive tone leaves readers feeling encouraged, not discouraged. Another great book in the "Let's Celebrate..". series!
Let's Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.!by Peter Roop Connie Roop
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., made history. He became famous for his work helping African Americans get equal rights. Do you know that Martin Luther King was given a different name when he was born? Martin Luther King, Jr., was very active as a boy. Did you know he almost died in an accident? Martin Luther King, Jr., loved to play football. Do you know what other sports he played? Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up to be a Baptist minister. Do you know what other careers he considered? Martin Luther King, Jr., worked hard to make sure laws were fair for all Americans, especially African Americans. Did you know Dr. King broke unfair laws and went to jail many times? Dr. King gave hundreds of speeches. Do you know what his most famous speech was? Dr. King worked hard to settle problems peacefully. Do you know what famous award he received for his work? The answers to these questions lie in who Martin Luther King, Jr., was as a boy and as a young man. This book is about Martin Luther King, Jr., before he made history.
Let's Drive, Henry Ford!by Peter Roop Connie Roop
Henry Ford is famous. He made many different kinds of cars. Do you know that Henry did not invent the car? Henry was born on a farm in Michigan. Do you know that wolves could be heard in the woods when Henry was born? Henry worked hard on the family farm. Do you know that Henry was determined to find a way not to do all of that hard work? Henry loved to fix broken watches. Do you know that Henry repaired his neighbors' watches for free? Henry loved to tinker with toys. Do you know why his brothers and sisters wouldn't let him play with their toys? Henry was fascinated by the power of steam. Do you know that Henry made a steam whistle to scare his sister? Henry liked to learn. Do you know that he never finished high school? Henry left his family's farm to work with machines. Do you know he ran one of Thomas Edison's first electricity plants in Detroit? Henry was fascinated with the idea of designing a horseless carriage. Did you know that other inventors succeeded before he did? Henry dreamed of building a car to carry people. Do you know that he made millions of cars, trucks, and tractors? Henry had many ideas. Do you know it was his idea to build cars quickly and inexpensively on an assembly line? The answers to these questions lie in who Henry Ford was as a child and as a young man. This book is about Henry Ford before he made history.
Let's Fly, Wilbur and Orville!by Peter Roop Connie Roop
Wilbur and Orville Wright are famous. They invented the first airplane. Do you know something you use that they invented before the airplane? Wilbur and Orville's mother liked to build things, too. Do you know what toy she made for her children? The Wright brothers built airplanes as adults. Do you know what flying toys they built when they were young? Wilbur and Orville were excellent athletes. Do you know what sports they played? The Wright brothers never graduated from high school. But did you know that they both received college degrees? The Wright brothers built many toys as adults. Do you know what toy taught them the most about flying? Wilbur and Orville chose to fly their first airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Do you know why they picked Kitty Hawk? Wilbur and Orville had to decide who would be the first to fly in their airplane. Do you know how they decided? Wilbur and Orville Wright received medals for their airplane work. Do you know that another Wright child also received a special medal for helping them? The answers to these questions lie in who Wilbur and Orville Wright were as boys and as young men. This book is about Wilbur and Orville Wright before they made history.
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A man was stabbed in Marrero on Friday night (Jan. 3), according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
The stabbing took place in the 5100 block of Mt. Matterhorn Avenue, the JPSO said. The victim's injuries were not life-threatening, according to the JPSO.
No further information was released. Stay with NOLA.com for details as they emerge.