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There are hundreds of ATS solutions currently on the market, with different solutions for organizations of different sizes, industries and hiring models. We've created this buyer's guide to help you determine what type of ATS will work best for you. Here's what we'll cover:
What Is an Applicant Tracking System?
Overview of ATS Functionality
Benefits of Using an ATS
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What Type of Buyer Are You?
Market Trends to Understand
An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is a core component of a recruiting software suite. It simplifies the recruitment lifecycle by automating the hiring process—from receiving online applications and reviewing resumes, to interviewing candidates and on-boarding new hires. It is believed that approximately 50 percent of all mid-sized companies were using some form of ATS in 2010, and that number is growing as more companies adopt HR technology.
You'll want to consider an applicant tracking system if your recruiting and hiring process relies on tools such as spreadsheets or handwritten notes to coordinate the process of tracking applicants over the course of the hiring process. Tracking resumes and cover letters manually is not a sustainable system as your recruiting needs intensify, and an ATS can greatly relieve the administrative burdens associated with the recruiting process.
|Applicant tracking
|Ensures that recruiters can track the progress of all applicants for open roles, from start to finish.
|Applicant workflow
|Tracks where each applicant is in the recruiting process so recruiters can move them from one step to the next and ensure they don't fall through the cracks.
|Candidate tracking software & communications
|Enables recruiters to manage and track email and other communication with candidates to maintain an electronic record of everything.
|Interview management
|Allows recruiters to schedule interviews with candidates and track where they are in the interview process (e.g., if the candidate must pass through several interviews before an offer can be made).
|Background checks
|Allows recruiters to submit candidates for background checks, view where they are in the process, be notified when they pass and, if they fail, the reason(s) why.
|Helps recruiters ensure all new employees fill out any necessary paperwork/complete any administrative tasks and are set up with the proper accounts, logins and resources to ensure they can perform their job effectively.
An ATS allows you to collect applications electronically through online forms. Screening questions can often be added to these forms to eliminate unqualified candidates, and many ATSs can parse resumes based on keywords chosen by the recruiter.
Once qualified applicants' information is submitted through the online system, resumes, cover letters and additional information are saved into the ATS database and associated with the candidate's profile. These features allow you to track candidates easily and manage their documents in one place, as well as store past applicants in the system who might be a good fit for a future position.
Once a candidate is matched, screened and ready to be interviewed, scheduling functionality allows the recruiter to coordinate schedules with the hiring manager and candidate through one system, and the inter-departmental functionality of an ATS allows hiring managers to access candidate data and leave comments. Additionally, some ATS software even initiates background checks, and sorts and stores paperwork during the on-boarding process.
The recruitment process can be arduous for both employers and candidates, but with a functionally robust ATS, companies can save time. From sourcing candidates to tracking current applicants and ultimately hiring the ideal candidate, an ATS will reduce the time and expense of hiring new employees for both HR departments as well as recruiting and staffing agencies.
The real-world results of using an ATS are compelling. For instance, the hiring cycle at KellyOCG dropped from 115 days to 37 days when the company implemented the prominent ATS solution MyStaffingPro. The time saved reduced the cost per hire, which could be as high as $10,847, to as low as $3,300.
In another instance, iCIMS Talent Platform software was implemented at Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company, resulting in an overall cost-per-hire decrease of 71 percent. In fact, across Great-West's 1,700 filled positions, the savings totaled $6.6 million.
Over the years, we've spoken to thousands of companies considering new ATS software. As a point of reference, we thought it would be helpful to provide potential buyers with an overview of past clients' pain points and reasons for switching to a new software system. Key questions analyzed by the report include:
To view the full report, click here.
There are two distinct buyer types of applicant tracking software: recruiting agencies and corporate, or in-house, recruiters. Many vendors, such as COMPAS, have separate product lines tailored for each buyer's needs, but here are a few quick tips to help distinguish which features you should look for depending on what type of buyer you are.
Recruiting agencies should look for ATSs that are candidate-centric. Since a recruiting agency's full-time job is to source candidates for different clients, being able to compile and search a large database of passive and active candidates is key in order to be able to find the top candidates quickly and easily. Additional features recruiting agencies might want to look for include: contractor portals and timesheets for placed candidates, as well as client profiles and job requests. Some great ATSs that recruiting and staffing agencies should consider include: PCrecruiter, Bullhorn, myStaffingPro and Newton.
On the other hand, corporate recruiters may well value an applicant tracking system that can integrate with their core human resource information system (HRIS), if they currently use one. For in-house recruiters, the ability to share applicant information with the relevant hiring manager, as well as schedule interviews and gather feedback from those same hiring managers within one system can save time and decrease the number of days in the hiring cycle.
Some ATS suites will also integrate with onboarding software features to allow for a seamless transition from selecting a candidate to starting a new employee. Additionally, in-house recruiters may also wish to find a system that allows current employees to recommend candidates directly through the system, making employee portals a feature to consider. In-house recruiters should consider vendors such as iCIMS, BALANCEtrak, COMPAS or Simplicant.
Although these two types of buyers have different needs, it is important to note that the needs of recruiting agencies and in-house recruiters overlaps considerably, and the core functionality of most ATSs will cover the basic needs of both.
Web-based software is increasingly used for ATS systems. Almost all ATSs are now Web-based, which streamlines the recruiting process for the recruiter, current employees and applicants. With a Web-based ATS, it is easy to extend access to the system to anyone in the organization who is involved in the hiring process.
Social recruiting is on the rise. An increasing number of ATSs are beginning to incorporate social media tools and platforms into the software's functionality. While recruiters have used social applications like Facebook and LinkedIn to enlarge their networks, these sites are now becoming great sources for discovering passive candidates, advertising job opportunities and building talent communities for specific industries. The best ATSs are now developing socal-driven referral programs—allowing current employees to directly refer candidates—as well as tools to monitor which networks are delivering the most candidates.
Recruiters are going mobile. Recruiters are quick to try new technologies that make their jobs easier. The prevalence of mobile and video technology as recruiting tools is growing, and the best recruiting software vendors are developing applications with this in mind. Video interview platforms, apps for smartphones and tablets, mobile versions of online job portals—all are emerging rapidly in the recruitment software market.
We're able to offer this service to buyers for free, because software vendors pay us on a "pay-per-lead" basis. Buyers get great advice. Sellers get great referrals.


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back-yard gardens. This soup couldn't be simpler: just cold buttermilk, a couple of chopped tomatoes and some basil. It can even be made with pesto, if opening a jar sounds easier than snipping a few basil leaves. This is the essence of summer: simple, cooling and quite delicious! Chilled Buttermilk Soup with Tomato and Basil serves 2 3 cups chilled buttermilk, well-shaken 1 small garlic clove, minced or pureed with a microplane 1 cup chopped fresh garden tomatoes 1 green onion, white and some of the green part, thinly sliced 3 or 4 basil leaves, slivered Place buttermilk in a bowl, add garlic and stir. Add tomatoes and onion and stir gently. Ladle into soup bowls and garnish with basil leaves. A few nasturtium blossoms or Johnny-jump-up's would be a nice garnish. If you use jarred pesto, omit the garlic and basil and dollop the pesto on top of the soup just before serving. Related: Seasonal Spotlight: Edible Flowers (Image: Dana)

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The New York Giants' offseason free-agent spending spree has been well-documented.
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After going through the offseason program, some players have emerged as even more valuable, while others have for one reason or another thus far been disappointing.
My personal three favorite signings are running back Rashad Jennings—who I think is going to help kickstart the Giants running game (more on him later this week)—and corners Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Walter Thurmond, both of whom will hopefully create more coverage-sack opportunities for the front seven.
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The public hearings into the government's pension reform bill is underway at the National Assembly.
The committee overseeing the hearings heard from the mayors of Quebec's two biggest cities - Regis Labeaume of Quebec City and Denis Coderre of Montreal.
Coderre was blunt when he said the city's taxpayers are tapped out.
"The taxpayers and city have reached their limits of tolerance," he said. "The pensions costs are too heavy and are undermining the ability to offer services to citizens."
He says the reforms can cut the city's deficit of almost $2-billion in half.
Without them, he warns that the city's services will suffer.
He says having municipal employees boost their pension contribution to 50-50 is in line with what most private and public sector workers pay.
He adds that despite recent bad blood - including the storming of city hall by workers on Monday - he is ready to keep negotiating and work with the unions to reach a fair and equitable solution.
The hearings took place under tight security, with police officers ringing the National Assembly when they opened this morning.
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CSO at Zynga & Co-founder of Cloud Security Alliance, Nils Puhlmann, Speaks at Business Technology Summit 2010.
Bangalore, October 11, 2010: Companies and governments are adopting modern and highly dynamic technologies like cloud at a rapid pace. The speed of technology innovation seems to pick up. What does this development mean to the world of security and privacy though? Is this just a new development that we will adjust to over time or a true disruption requiring new and innovative security thought leadership? We find ourselves increasingly on the defensive - cyber criminals who are getting more sophisticated and targeted by the week and new technology services utilizing the cloud being quickly introduced into companies without giving security teams a chance to prepare for it. Is this really a technological challenge or rather a new cultural shift? It seems as if every successful gadget or consumer service is utilizing the cloud these days. But at the same time consumers and corporate customers alike are having higher expectations when it comes to the integrity and confidentiality of their data. Consumer trust is more and more an essential ingredient of a successful online business model. Trust without security is short lived though. Nils Puhlmann, Co-founder of Cloud Security Alliance and CSA at Zynga, is keynoting at Business Technology Summit 2010 on these issues and will help attendees understand if it is time to realize that 'bolting' security onto existing technology no longer works in the cloud age and we need to innovate and develop new security technologies and mechanisms to keep up with technology innovation.
In a separate talk, Nils will provide an overview of where we are today and what areas of cloud security are actively being worked on in the industry. What are the specific risk and threat areas and how can they be mitigated? What other security efforts are underway in the industry to ensure that security is a key part of every cloud offering?
Nils Puhlmann is Co-Founder of Cloud Security Alliance, a community of over 4,000 security professionals and CSO at Zynga. As Chief Security Officer of Qualys, Puhlmann was responsible for security, risk management and business continuity planning for Qualys. Prior to Qualys, Puhlmann held positions as the Chief Information Security Officer for Electronic Arts, Chief Information Security Officer at Robert Half International, Director Global IT & Security and Chief Privacy Officer at Mindjet Corp, Senior Manager Product Security at Adobe Systems. Puhlmann also held senior positions at Nortel Networks and START Amadeus, and was an independent security consultant with clients such as the State of California.
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SNC Scandal Seen Spurring Purge by CEO Card
Robert Card spent his first day at the helm of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. meeting with shareholders about the payments scandal that spawned criminal probes, chopped market value by 22 percent and spurred demands for management change at Canada's largest construction company.
"He has to clean house," said Stephen Jarislowsky, chief executive officer of Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., SNC-Lavalin's biggest investor. "A lot of people who were there who allowed it to happen are still there. I wouldn't be exactly happy with somebody who signs checks and didn't have the right explanations of what accounts this was for."
Card, who doesn't speak French, is the first American CEO in the Montreal-based company's 101-year history. His hiring followed the surprise retirement of CEO Pierre Duhaime on March 26, four weeks after SNC-Lavalin said it was investigating inaccurate payment documentation in its construction unit.
"I'm committed to ensuring the company's social license to operate remains our top priority," Card, 57, said today on a conference call. He didn't answer questions about the scandal, and Chairman Gwyn Morgan said the board is handling all matters related to the case and cooperating with authorities.
Swiss authorities have arrested a former executive vice president, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has its own inquiry under way, and about C$1.6 billion ($1.63 billion) in market value has been erased. A company inquiry conducted by law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP found about $56 million in improperly booked payments in 2010 and 2011 to agents hired by SNC-Lavalin's international arm.
Tough Conditions
"It's not that uncommon for a new CEO to want to have a conference call to put his mark on the company, but I haven't seen a whole lot of CEOs come in under these conditions," Trevor Johnson, a National Bank Financial analyst in Toronto, said in a. "Investors aren't expecting him to fix this thing within a quarter or two."
Two senior managers left in February before the case came to light: Riadh Ben Aissa, the ex-executive who was arrested by Swiss officials and who oversaw SNC-Lavalin's business in Libya, and Stephane Roy, a vice president controller.
SNC-Lavalin's board earned "a black mark" for having the case unfold on its watch, Jarislowsky said in an April interview. Directors went outside the company to recruit Card, who worked as the international chief at the closely held U.S. engineering firm CH2M Hill Cos. and was undersecretary in the U.S. Energy Department from 2001 to 2004.
'Better Management'
"I just want better management," Jarislowsky said last week in a telephone interview. His firm's 21.7 million shares of SNC-Lavalin as of Dec. 31 were 14.4 percent of the total outstanding.
Card will have to "clean up" SNC-Lavalin's corporate culture, said Johnson, who has a sector perform rating on the shares.
"People will be looking toward his ethics, and whether this is a guy they can really believe in," Johnson said in an interview. "One of the reasons SNC has had so much trouble is that they haven't had the controls in place the last little while. He will really need to articulate that this is no longer the case."
Card told analysts and reporters today on the call that while it is "premature" to begin talking about strategy, attracting and retaining the best employees is a priority.
In a note afterward, Johnson wrote that Card "did as well as could be expected."
Shares, Bonds
SNC-Lavalin rose 0.6 percent to $C38.16 at the close in Toronto, paring the shares' slide this year to 25 percent. That compares with a gain of 6.2 percent for the 21-company S&P/TSX Industrials sub-index.
The company's bonds have underperformed a Bank of America Merrill Lynch index of BBB-rated non-financial Canadian debt since Feb. 27, the day before SNC-Lavalin disclosed the payments probe.
Yields on SNC-Lavalin bonds relative to Canadian government debt widened by 37 basis points to an average of 216 basis points as of Sept. 28, while average spreads on the index narrowed by 12 basis points to 185. SNC-Lavalin's debt rose 0.56 percent in September, trailing the index's 1.1 percent gain, the data show.
The swoon in the stock may create an opening for an activist investor to swoop in as William Ackman did at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., said Maxim Sytchev, an analyst at AltaCorp Capital in Toronto. Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP won a proxy fight in May to install a new CEO.
'Activist Front'
"All these negative issues are creating an overhang," Sytchev said in a telephone interview. "If the challenges on the engineering and construction side continue, then the probability that something could happen on the activist front increases dramatically."
On Sept. 18, investigators from Quebec's anti-corruption squad searched the offices of the McGill University Health Centre as part of a construction-contract inquiry. SNC-Lavalin, which won the C$1.6 billion contract to build the facility two years ago, owns a 60 percent equity stake.
"That adds another dimension to the story," said Brandon Snow, a principal at Cambridge Advisors in Toronto, the lead manager of the C$1.1 billion Cambridge Canadian Equity Corporate Class fund, which doesn't own SNC-Lavalin shares. "Quebec is the most stable part of their business, and that makes me pause much more as a potential buyer of the stock."
Lawsuit Certified
A day after the Quebec raid, an Ontario judge certified a C$1 billion lawsuit on behalf of investors who bought company securities from November 2009 to February 2012. It accuses SNC-Lavalin and executives including Duhaime of "misrepresentations" regarding internal controls, 2010 net income and compliance with the company's code of ethics.
"We intend to launch a vigorous defense," Leslie Quinton, a company spokeswoman, said Sept. 28 in an e-mail. "We believe we have always published information appropriately and accurately, following regulatory requirements and best practices regarding timely corporate disclosure."
Even without the investigations, Card would face headwinds across SNC-Lavalin's businesses. Sales to mining companies risk being squeezed by what JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimates is a 14 percent drop in industrywide capital spending through 2014.
Card will have to make do without any revenue from Libya, a country that SNC-Lavalin exited last year and one that analysts such as Sytchev say has historically been one of the company's most profitable regions.
Forecast Cut
SNC-Lavalin cut its 2012 profit forecast in August after second-quarter earnings trailed analysts' estimates. Profit for the year will be C$325 million to C$340 million, down from a projection of about C$379 million, the company said.
Card also will be working to master French. Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste, a French language-rights group, said his Aug. 10 hiring was "unacceptable" because he's not a Francophone. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois urged SNC-Lavalin before her Sept. 4 election to ensure the new CEO became "at least bilingual."
That's part of the plan, according to SNC-Lavalin's announcement. Card said in the Aug. 10 statement that he and his wife were "looking forward to moving to Quebec and especially to learning to speak French."
Card "seems to be a guy who's adventurous, who wants to make a change," said Jarislowsky. "He certainly doesn't run away from difficult situations."


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Like a lot of shooters I thought it would be fun to have a birth-year gun, one made in the year I was born. Last year I accidentally wound with two such pieces, buying both not knowing they were made in 1955. The 1950 Target pictured below was almost a birthday gun. It was shipped one week to the day after I was born. Has anyone come any closer than this?


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Red Molly will be bringing their three-part harmonies, crisp musicianship and their warm, engaging stage presence to the Randolph County Community Arts Center on Jan. 25.
The band got their start in 2004 and has played stages of all sizes. From the start, the trio got attention with their lively stage performances and moved quickly from coffeehouses to the festival circuit. The band's fans, referred to as "RedHeads," have always responded to the sense that the band is a group of friends, sharing songs in their living room.
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About three weeks ago, at dusk, I looked away from my computer screen at my small but pretty garden, which backs onto a park. In the bushes at the back was a ginger cat - or so I thought . It appeared and disappeared all too briefly. But there was something odd about it; it was on the red side of ginger, and lacked the swagger of a tomcat (nearly all ginger cats are male). Back it came, and I realised that it wasn't a cat at all but a fox cub. Another followed, then another, and they made for the middle of my lawn. Then came the vixen, sauntering gracefully. The cubs started playing, rolling over each other like kittens in a basket. Sporadically, the mother would join in, then extricate herself with dignity. I was transfixed, and watched the scene for half an hour, when they disappeared. While I would dearly love to have captured it on camera for posterity, and for NER readers, it was too dark, and I do not have the skill, or a good enough camera; besides, the foxes would have been scared away.
Almost a year ago, also at dusk, I was likewise transfixed by a vixen suckling her cub on the lawn. Could that cub now be the mother? Who knows, but it was a magnificent sight, and I felt privileged to see it. I live in London, and not in the leafy suburbs - suburbs are always leafy, aren't they? - but under three miles from the centre. Yet here was nature, in my own garden. I have never understood hostility to urban foxes; we should count ourselves lucky that they visit us. Simon Barnes of The Times believes we should even "cherish [them] as status symbols":
The outlook was wonderfully and suburbanly verdant, my sister's garden playing a full part in the landscape of intricately compartmented green. And there, on the roof of the neat little shed that stood hard against the wall - just before it disappeared behind the branches of a stupendous lilac in full purple bloom - a fox.
Not just any fox. A fox of beauty and charm and elegance, apparently freshly groomed, lithe and gleaming red. The white tip of his brush vanished into the lilac and then for a moment I saw him continue his journey along the top of the wall, a creature at home in his world, unstoppably self-confident and positively glowing with health.
It is always a deeply cheering thing to come up against the wild world deep in the haunts of humankind. It is a message that we haven't concreted over every last square inch; that we haven't buggered it all up quite yet; that there is a way in which human beings can live alongside the wild world,
You are much more likely to see a fox in Mortlake than around my place in Suffolk. Urban foxes are not only a fact of modern life, they are also, by the nature of their chosen lives, a great deal more visible than country foxes. Now hear a strange fact: just about everything you know about urban foxes is a myth.
They are not "coming in". They are not increasing, either. They have an established and stable population in most towns and cities in this country. Foxes started being seen in towns after the First World War, and have been there in substantial numbers ever since the Second. Towns expanded into the countryside and the foxes changed their behaviour and adapted, thrived and made the most of this new opportunity - so much so that foxes have been seen in Downing Street and Buckingham Palace gardens.
Another myth: urban foxes do not represent some pitiful scavenging underclass. What's more, they are not invariably mangy. The talk of mangy foxes mostly comes from sightings of foxes during their annual moult, when they do indeed look deeply unprepossessing. But the point is that a thriving and stable population of any creature cannot be dominated by sick, ill-fed and diseased animals. There are plenty of urban foxes, therefore they must be healthy. If they weren't, they would die out.
Yet urban foxes arouse huge hostility from some people. They find it disturbing, rather than the reverse, to have wild things playing an intimate part in human life. Foxes are sometimes shot and generally seen as vermin. Newspapers play up the scary aspects and, besides, the pro-hunt people always cast foxes as anthropomorphic villains. In truth, foxes are just mammals trying to make a living, same as you and me.
There are a few legitimate complaints about urban foxes. They like to leave aromatic reminders of their presence, and they can dig up lawns when looking for worms. Me, I'm inclined to say, so what? But even if you resent this, there really is not a lot you can do about them. Foxes can get through the smallest gaps and exterminating them is difficult, expensive and never successful. If you shoot up your local foxes, you are merely creating a vacancy.
Here's a fact rather than a myth: foxes like a good class of neighbourhood. They prefer leafy suburbs populated by middle-class property owners.
Cherish your local foxes. They are not pests but status symbols.
Well, as I don't live in a leafy suburb, the foxes must have been drawn to my class. Foxy meets classy - all in a day's work in North London.
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John M. J.
No thank-you. I will continue to hunt them a-horse in the country - though I'm quite prepared to admit that the urban fox may have relatively little impact upon our agriculture, obviously.
Man, the ultimate predator, has a self-given right to control his environment so I will continue to exterminate foxes - and enjoy the hunt - whenever I can. I may be the "unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable" but I, like Brer Reynard, am part of the natural order of things.
I've seen the damage that they can do. I will do as I must to limit their numbers. I will take joy in that hunt for anything other than joy is an insult to life. I am a human. I hunt to protect mine own and winning against the odds is fulfilling. To assert otherwise, as you did NOT, is foolish.
I hunt, therefore I am.
11 May 2009
Sue R
There are a number of foxes living at the bottom of my garden, the abutting garden has been allowed to go wild. The other day our elderly (ie 10 year old) cat disappeared for a day and a half, and we had given her up for dead and informed the children that they would clap their eyes on her no more. In the midst of their howling and tears, she suddenly appeared looking very chastened and subdued. Later we discovered a deep gash on her rear end, where the tail joins the body. The vet confirmed that it was a bite. I've updated the old 'The quick brown fox...' sentence to reflect the new reality. 'The quick brown fox jumped up and bit the elderly cat, clinging paralyzed and terrorstuck to the Acer garden variety, on the bottom.'.
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SIDMAN - In football, teams do not get credit for style points. The only thing that matters is the final score.
That proved to be true Friday night. Bishop Guilfoyle had more penalties than first downs and managed only 135 yards of total offense, but took advantage of five Forest Hills turnovers to earn a 14-0 road victory.
"Forest Hills is a really good football team, and they played extremely hard tonight," BG coach Justin Wheeler said. "They gave us everything we could handle, but I'm proud of our kids. We hung in there. Defensively, we played a terrific game. Offensively, we had our moments of trouble, but we hung in it and got some points when we needed to."
The key play of the first half came on the second possession for the Rangers. Forest Hills drove the ball deep into Marauders territory. On third down from the BG 26-yard line, Rangers quarterback Joe Donoughe threw a high pass to Doltyn Snedden. Snedden juggled the pass trying to pull it in, but D.J. Kitt grabbed the ball out of the air and return the ball 35 yards to the Rangers' 39 yard line. Not only did the interception stop the Rangers' drive, but the play was the final one for Donoughe, who sat out the rest of the game with an injury.
BG made the most of the opportunity. Sam McCloskey spearheaded a scoring drive of eight plays to give the Marauders the lead. McCloskey carried the ball five times during the drive, including the final 5 yards. Andrew Logue's kick gave BG a 7-0 lead early in the second quarter.
With Donoughe in the game, the Rangers had five first downs on their first two possessions. However, with Donoughe out of the game, Forest Hills managed only three first downs the remainder of the game.
"The offense struggled a lot because of the loss of Joe," said Forest Hills coach Don Bailey. "Joe is such a big part of our game plan with his speed and his ability to get outside. Once we lost him early, it took away a lot of what we wanted to do. Tyler Shima did a good job of coming in, but we had to ask too much of him. We didn't play that well offensively, anyway. Our line, I thought, got beat all night long."
Just like in the first half, a BG interception turned the tide in the second half. The Marauders were pinned deep for their first two possessions of the third quarter, allowing Forest Hills to slowly gain field position and momentum. However, on the Rangers' third possession of the second half, Shima rolled right toward the sideline while being chased by a group of Marauders. Shima tried to squeeze a pass in along the sideline, but Kitt stepped in front of the pass and made a juggling interception while keeping his toes inbounds to give BG the ball near midfield.
"D.J. Kitt, our outside linebacker, played a phenomenal game tonight," said Wheeler. "He made that great interception. He had two tonight. He just did a great job. He really gave us the momentum back on our side."
Guilfoyle did not score on the possession, but the interception changed field position and momentum. BG punted to pin the Rangers deep and quickly forced a Forest Hills punt. Two plays later, Brandon Chadbourn found Damon Rickens running wide open in the Rangers' secondary for a 53-yard scoring strike that gave the Marauders a 14-0 lead.
"We ran a slant pass a couple of times and saw their safeties come up a little bit," Wheeler said. "We said, 'let's run a quick slant, fake it, and go deep.' The quarterback ran it and threw a great pass, and Damon Rickens made a great catch."
Statistically, neither team stood out. Forest Hills had nine penalties, seven punts, five turnovers and only seven first downs. The Rangers managed only 153 yards of offense. Bishop Guilfoyle punted nine times, had eight penalties for 60 yards and only seven first downs. The Marauders were held to 56 yards rushing and 97 yards passing, 53 of the yards coming on the Rickens touchdown reception.
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RECEIVING: Bishop Guilfoyle-Rickens 1-53, Nardelli 1-11, Irwin 2-10. Forest Hills-Shope 4-52, Blough 2-24, Dell 1-12, Shima 1-9.
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He was barely able to walk, according to witnesses, and when photographers started snapping pictures, he shouted to the woman to "get in the car" before she took the wheel and sped them away. Wife Kate was on the other side of the country, promoting her book "Eight Little Faces."
You may think you're being sly by removing your wedding band before bar hopping, but if you star in a highly-rated show about juggling eight children and one tightly-wound wife, the jig is pretty much up.
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Kerry Owen Krueger was born June 9, 1959, in Hot Springs, S.D., to William and Vera (Wilson) Krueger. He was raised on a ranch on Pleasant Valley Road. He attended rural elementary school at Four Mile country school and later attended Custer High School in Custer, S.D.
Kerry worked with his brother, Mike, in construction and concrete. Later, Kerry was employed by other construction companies. He spent the majority of his life in the Black Hills of South Dakota. At the time of his death, Kerry was employed by Doernemann Construction Co. of Clarkson, S.D.
On Aug. 12, 2011, Kerry married Susan Nelson in Hot Springs, S.D.
Kerry died Sept. 30, 2012. He was 53.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Mike Krueger.
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CROWLEY – The Crowley city council met Tuesday evening to consider a variety of topics and
to hold public hearings to consider the condemnation of some local properties.
Two of the property owners were present at the meeting to state their cases in regard to their properties. There were two different outcomes.
The first man to address the council was Albert Brown of the People's Investment group which owns the property at 315 Western Ave.
Brown received a permit to do the repairs on his property in September, 2007. He stated that he had begun work on the property and had yet to complete the work. Danny Hebert, city inspector for the city of Crowley, stated that though he knew Mr. Brown to be someone who wouldn't leave the job incomplete, it had been a long time since the permit was issued and the work should have been completed by now.
Councilman Vernon Martin asked whether the wording on the permit had the time frame for which the repair work was to be completed.
Hebert stated that the time frame was written in the ordinance.
"I seriously doubt that most citizens know the city ordinances," Martin replied.
The discussion continued with Mayor Greg Jones stating "I think now is a good time for our attorney" just as city attorney Tom Regan arrived, drawing laughter from those in attendance.
After some more discussion, the council decided to give Mr. Brown 90 days to complete his repairs.
"Maybe we can look into the possibility of having the ordinance handed out with the permit," added Jones.
The next property to come up for discussion was located at 1819 James St. and owned by Earline Alcock.
A trailer belonging to Alcocks's son has obviously been left unkept for a long period of time. Alcock said that her son had been "down on his luck" and was unable to keep up the trailer.
When questioned by Regan about the specifics of the trailers condition, Hebert described the trailer as having no plumbing, electricity, and being a fire hazard that was full of junk. He also stated that the neighbors had been complaining.
After some discussion, the council gave Alcock 90 days to remove the trailer and clean up the property.
One of the meetings lighter moments came near it's ending when Crowley police officer/Reverend/actor Jimmy Broussard came into the chamber along with the women who will be acting in the play 7 Nuns @ Las Vegas. The women were all wearing their habits.
"I just want you to know that this wasn't my idea," said Broussard.
"It was Charlotte's," said another member of the group in reference to Crowley Tourism Coordinator Charlotte Jeffers. The group passed out flyers to those in attendance and announced a wine and cheese gathering for Thursday evening.
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San Antonio Spurs 104, Utah Jazz 97: Spurs offense adjusts, struggles, survives
AT&T CENTER — With the return of Tony Parker to the San Antonio Spurs lineup on Friday night, one could expect the league's fifth-best offense to get a positive bump. Before going down with an ankle injury on March 1 against the Sacramento Kings, Parker was captaining the Spurs' offense with the type of control that few players in the league are able to achieve.
His return, however, did not quite have the desired effect for the vast majority of the Spurs' 104-97 overtime victory over the Utah Jazz. Parker played well in the second half en route to leading San Antonio in scoring with 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting, but the Spurs offense sputtered and stumbled to a 99.5 offensive rating. San Antonio also only assisted on 23 of its 39 made field goals, usually an indicator that the offense wasn't humming along as normal.
The Jazz seemed able to play more compact defensively, crowding passing lanes and preventing easy looks around the rim. They forced 17 turnovers by the Spurs (five coming from Manu Ginobili, who had a rough game) and generally mucked things up on that end of the floor.
"I thought Tony was a little bit shy in the first half. He was trying to feel his way a little bit," Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said later.
Trailing 65-63 going into the fourth quarter, Coach Pop resurrected Matt Bonner in an effort to open up the offense. Last season the pairing of Bonner and Tiago Splitter on the San Antonio second unit created one of the most well-spaced offenses in all of basketball and Pop went back to that tandem in an effort to jumpstart his team's attack.
It seemed to work temporarily, as the Spurs built some momentum and took a one-point lead just a couple minutes into the period. San Antonio then regressed and fell behind by five points just two minutes later.
With three minutes left in the game and the Spurs down 81-80, Pop finally found the lineup that would shake up his stagnant offense. Off the floor came Splitter and in went Manu Ginobili, sliding Kawhi Leonard over to the power forward position. With Parker and Danny Green also on the floor, the Spurs were able to spread the floor with competent shooters and run high pick-and-rolls with Duncan, giving Parker driving lanes he struggled to find earlier in the game.
Over the three minutes the Spurs went small, San Antonio scored 11 points on six possessions. On only one trip down the floor did the Spurs fail to pick up any points, fittingly on a Ginobili turnover. Had Ginobili not also botched a defensive rotation on the last play of regulation, the move would've been a winning one for the Spurs. But instead, Marvin Williams sunk a corner 3 as time expired in the fourth to force overtime.
In overtime, Parker and Leonard (21 points on 9-of-14 shooting and eight rebounds on the night) combined for 11 points as the Spurs outscored the Jazz 14-7.
With Parker rejoining the lineup, it was an evening of adjustments for the Spurs. San Antonio had to figure out its rhythm and timing with Parker initiating the offense again instead of Cory Joseph, and Parker himself had to figure out how to be effective while not yet regaining that extra burst he typically has when in game shape. Luckily for the Spurs, both seemed to have recovered enough in the nick of time to get the win.


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Two males will be back in court next week after an armed robbery near Grand Falls.
Early Monday, July 23, a Drummond man was forced to give the keys to two of his cars to two suspects, who were visiting him at the time.
He was driven to a wooded area and dropped off.
Later that day, police arrested 19-year-old Ricky Roussel and a 17-year-old boy, who are both charged with armed robbery and unlawful confinement.
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I'm currently a two calendar person. For my academic advising position at OSU, I utilize Outlook as my primary calendar. Advising appointments are placed on my calendar throughout the day. During peak advising, it's not unusual for my calendar to have 12 advising appointments on it for every day of the work week. Outlook tells me where I am supposed to be at every hour of the work day.
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There was an interesting story in the New York Times Magazine this past Sunday on a simple, inexpensive, and effective means of bringing malnourished children back to health. It's a gooey fortified peanut butter called "Plumpy'nut," and if you want to know how to make it, here's the recipe.
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Whatever you think about the pros or cons of the for-profit educational sector, one thing I think we can all agree on is that the for-profits are losing the communications game. Perhaps my circle of colleagues is unrepresentative, and perhaps the for-profits are unconcerned what educators in the non-profit world think, but I've seen a real shift in recent months toward a more critical stance about for-profits among my peers.
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My second year at Richmond, I became the coordinator of the Women's Studies Program. I had not intended to take on administrative duties that early in my career, but the previous coordinator had already served nine years and needed a break, and I had come to an early meeting and expressed an interest in the program that seemed, I guess, promising to those who'd been working in the trenches for some time.
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Vacation is supposed to be a time away from one's normal routine – an escape from the drudgery of day-to-day life. However, when you are trained to critique and engage in critical dialogue, it becomes virtually impossible to unplug and escape. This is the conundrum of an academic on vacation. We can't stop thinking and we don't really want to.
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The 26 August 2010 edition of the online magazine of the Times Higher Education reports that a study carried out by Prof. P. Whiteley of the University of Sussex, UK found that, using data of 30 OECD countries over the period 2000-08, there was no significant relationship between a nation's economic growth and the number of tertiary students enrolled in science and technology (S&T) subjects. In particular, the study found that the correlation between the percentage of students enrolled in engineering and manufacturing courses and economic growth is negligible.
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Summer orientation programs are almost over. Welcome week activities are currently in progress. The first week of classes has begun. In other words, it's the end of summer, and the fall term is ready to begin. With thousands of students streaming to campuses across the country, student affairs professional are ramping up their programming endeavors to assist students as they navigate, get oriented and make the transition to campus.
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I took the unthinkable step off the tenure track when my second son was born. I have no desire to return, but I do crave recognition of my role as a member of the scholarly community. I continue to produce scholarship, but as someone on the tenure side-lines, no one cares or accounts for the time and energy it entails.
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In the last year we considered how we express our global support for the important idea of human rights. As a global company Experian works within the customs and laws of the countries where we operate. We support internationally proclaimed human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: we seek not to violate them and where feasible we contribute to making them a reality in our sphere of influence (through our supply chain, as an employer, and our products and services).
The United Nations Global Compact outlines ten principles that businesses should implement in their support of human rights. Serasa is already a signatory and our HR teams in our different regions are considering the ten principles with a view to signing in the new financial year.
Much of our operation is in the developed world where rights are widely upheld by national governments. Similarly most of our 'typical' operations carry with them little or no risk of human rights violations but it's important we consider the countries and the particular rights that require our attention.
We are active in countries that have undergone a rapid transition into the free market, hence the existing national legislations on the right to privacy may still be at a developing stage.
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Rights such as freedom from discrimination and equal opportunities are directly relevant to Experian as an employer and service provider. Due to the nature of our products and services the right to privacy is of acute relevance and Experian finds itself engaging with governments on the issue of how this right can be fulfilled within a free market economy and the digital age. Some of Experian's products and services, such as Mosaic Public Sector or credit bureaus, can support the ability of local governments and financial institutions to contribute to the realisation of everyone's right to social security/services and an adequate standard of living.


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This program has been developed to further foster the SOKY mission of providing year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
This program also adheres to the quality standards and competencies outlines by Special Olympics, Inc. that are necessary and essential for being a Special Olympics Coach.
Coach refers to an individual who assumes responsibility for athletes, actively trains athletes, and works directly with athletes on the field of play. Coaches not only provide skills training for athletes but they are also role models and character builders. Coaches give Special Olympics athletes the most immediate awareness of their own worth, ability, courage and capacity to grow and improve.
HEAD COACH: Assumes overall responsibility for the delegation, team, etc. He/She must be at least 18 years of age and a responsible individual who can commit time on at least a weekly basis throughout the respective sport season. (Sport Training Certification is required.)
ASSISTANT COACH: He/She must be at least 16 years of age and a responsible individual who can commit time on a least a weekly basis throughout the respective sport season. (Sport Training Certification is required.)
Coaches must achieve the beginning certification level (Level 1) by the conclusion of the second sports season upon entering Special Olympics Kentucky. In order to maintain and/or upgrade coach certification, a coach continues approved coach education. Each coach is required to upgrade their knowledge and experience at least once every three years.
Persons not adhering to these guidelines will not be eligible to coach a Special Olympics Kentucky athlete/team. Our athletes are very important to us and they deserve a well-educated coach. We believe the better the coach, the better the experience for the athletes.
Once a person has completed all level 1 requirements within the Coach Education Program they are considered to be a certified Special Olympics Coach. From this point forward in order to remain certified a coach must maintain/or/upgrade their current level of certification through continuing their education using approved curriculum.
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**** Coaches completing the Principles of Coaching Course will be automatically renewed in all sports to which they have been previously certified. NOTE: Must have completed the Coaching Special Olympics Course prior to taking this course.
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The Book of Music and Natureby Marta Ulvaeus David Rothenberg
This innovative book and online CD, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship with natural soundscapes while posing stimulating questions about that very relationship. The book ranges widely, with the interplay of the texts and sounds creating a conversation that readers from all walks of life will find provocative and accessible.The anthology includes classic texts on music and nature by 20th century masters including John Cage, Hazrat Inrayat Khan, Pierre Schaeffer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Toru Takemitsu. Innovative essays by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, David Toop, Hildegard Westerkamp and Evan Eisenberg also appear. Interspersed throughout are short fictional excerpts by authors Rafi Zabor, Alejo Carpentier, and Junichiro Tanazaki.The virtual CD at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/musicandnaturecd/ includes fifteen tracks of music made out of, or reflective of, natural sounds, ranging from Babenzele Pygmy music to Australian butcherbirds, and from Pauline Oliveros to Brian Eno.
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Linus Torvalds finds GNOME 3.4 to be a "total user experience design failure"
When Fedora 17 released GNOME 3.4, I found I could deal with it. I still didn't like it much, and I prefer both Ubuntu 12.04's Unity and Linux Mint 13's Cinnamon interfaces, but if I had to, I could live with the GNOME 3.4 desktop.But for Linus Torvalds, Linux's primary creator, GNOME 3.4 is "a total UX (user experience design) failure."
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I Figured if I shared my experience I might help or inspire someone else in some way and keep myself focused. Who knows? When I read the other journals I gain knowledge as well as a little pick me up here and there. One disclosure: I am not an expert. Not even close. I know very little about diet. Just trying to follow Marks book PB. With a goal of 80/20 or thereabouts. So here goes.
I started on or about Feb 1 and weighed 254 fully clothed. There was no way I would get on a scale while not hiding whats under there. Or at least not turn on the light. Much less take a picture ( face is making that i smell s look). I have always been muscular under it all and at 5-9 most doctors put it as "well nourished". Since then I have lost about 18lbs in ten weeks without really trying! At all. Except for the initial salivation for cabs the first two weeks its been painless.
Ive read PB and followed most of the 80/20 principles as far as diet goes. The PB cookbooks are fun and easy. I have impressed my three boys with they call the "caveman diet" as well as my wife who's culinary skills are famous around here, albeit a little grainy for now. Seeing the attitude change in me has change my families attitude about carbs. How many hungry 16,18 and 20 yr old athletes do you now of eat a big burger with bacon and cheese and all the fixings no bun or fries and really like it? Sure we have gone out for pizza a couple of times but its a far cry from twice a week. Actually its just not that satisfying anymore. Im beginning to develop a sensitivity to grains. The after dinner sweets thing rears its ugly head now and then but that's when I know its time for sleep. I can really say it feels like we were always supposed to eat this way.
I have yet to sprint every seven days for fear of some stupid injury. At 52 years of age and a couple knee surgeries I decided I want to lose thirty pounds before I push it on land. Going fast on a motorcycle, no problem. But I haven't heard the wind in my ears from running for while now. I have sprinted in the pool but its just not the same. The move slowly part Im really enjoying and so are my rat terriers. Im blessed with a good 45 minute loop of varied terrain without anyone giving grief about the dogs. (Why can you bring a horse on a trail and not a dog in CA???) Im using trekking poles because it works my arms and the downhills are a breeze. The real challenge is keeping the heart rate low enough because it feels so good to get the pump going. Ive always been sort of an adrenalin junky and any buzz I can get doing outdoor things I enjoy. But still I need to remind myself of life's responsibilities and watch overdoing it, avoid stupid mistakes
Overall Im healthy. Or at least I feel that way. Right now Im thinking I should loose another 25lbs. At the rate Im going it may take four or six months. Maybe year. I really dont care as long as the trend is downward. For me the plan and the process is really fun and satisfying. The charts say Im obese at 200-205 but Ive come to grips with not weighing what I did when I was 16 yrs old. Besides when one leg weighs 40 lbs how is all of me going to weigh 171?. Im really shooting for feeling light on my feet, excellent balance and minimal aches.
The minimal aches are the biggest improvement Ive notice so far. I am grateful and stoked to say most are gone and the Ibuprofen intake has really decreased. From several a day to occasionally only. The decrease in inflammation I think is due to not eating grains. But whatever reason is OK by me. Im still a little stiff after a long car ride or laying a tile floor but only till I shake out the cobwebs and get a little circulation going.
The wife says my skin tone has improved. Well OK, didn't know it was un-improved. What I really notice is my sensitivity to the sun . Building my whole life I always felt like a vampire hiding from the sun under wide brim hats and long sleeves. Now I can work a few hours and my arms aren't stinging the way they used to. I can drive without sunglasses and not hate life. But I hereby promise myself I will not overdue the exposure thing. A few hours sure feels good lately.
Im looking forward to new discoveries along the way. Thanks for checking in. Good luck and catch ya later.


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Our lives are full of "what ifs." Sometimes we can, with some degree of certainty, agree that if the "what ifs" had occurred, our well-being and our nation's well-being would be different. When some of the "what ifs" would have seemingly generated something better and the decision was in our control (or at least within our ability to think about and possibly influence), we often become self-critical. Some of the "what ifs" that are likely to trouble us in the future, if we fail to act now, are reflected in the transportation fuel market. Not an exciting subject, perhaps, to begin your morning coffee and OC Register read, but an important one just the same.
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