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Steel Eagle March 2013 to Present
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Bullseye Marketing Research Services September 2012 to February 2013 Cold calls to list provided for explaining services, B2B Phone Appointment setting, Calendaring and Invitations. Market Research project and Market Survey Project. Google Doc and Excel documentation
Ecadamin November through December 2012
Cold calls to list provided to SELL Credit Card Program to lower CC usage rates and fees charged, i.e. per swipe and for authorization- had to determine decision makers, utilized Excel
Social Strategies and Marketing September 20 through Nov 2012
C-level telemarketing, B2B Appointment setting, exclusive use of Goldmine's CRM; made up to 20 calls per hour
United Agribusiness League in California May through June 2012
Cold calls to introduce United Ag services to those responsible for employee benefits at various companies, find out info about them, and set up B2B appointments for United Ag rep
National Positions March through June 2012
Cold calls to dental offices to explain services, set up B2B phone appointments, email marketing. Used their own CRM system
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Virtual Assistant to Attorney Co-Chair of Educational Parade and Rally Event to promote education; included cold calling, telemarketing/sales, lead generation, and heavy use of email marketing to promote event participation
4 Wellness February to March 2012
Made cold calls to dental offices to explain services and set up B2B meetings for a medical practitioner to explain his services to dental practitioners; included lead generation
Frazier Business Development January, 2012
Cold calling/Telemarketer team Member- worked on various project assignments, i.e., commercial cleaning company, attendance at E-tail event in California
ThirdForce.net December, 2011 Conducted Marketing Survey for a major auto parts supplier and its subsidiaries to determine: • What their customers (vendors to auto manufacturing companies) were buying, what their expectations were, and was the auto parts supplier meeting those expectations in the areas of:
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o Price
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o Customer Service, i.e., was a satisfactory resolution reached if a problem arose
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Spoke directly to purchasers and engineers at companies that were the targets of the survey
DIYMarketers.com July, 2011
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Locals have been romancing with this place since 19th century! It is still running on its original location, under its initial name. It was named after its first owner Mr. Pallain. The interior was redesigned in 2012, and Palainovka has been trully revived since.
Why you should visit it
The fact that Palainovka was a witness to important events of Zagreb history is reason enough to check its ambient echoing with times long past. This bar is pure history. It's known to be a famous historical meeting spot and it was built from the remains of medieval city gate.
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Companies that do not have a formal process in place for developing and managing trademarks may not be fully capturing and capitalizing on the value of their intellectual assets. Without a procedure to oversee the adoption, registration, use, and maintenance of the trademarks, the companies are potentially missing out on significant business opportunities and exposing themselves to unexpected litigation or other costly liabilities.
In order to manage a trademark portfolio cost-effectively, companies may take several steps, including taking inventory, evaluating the importance of existing brands, prioritizing the maintenance of registrations, and organizing trademark records. Identifying and cataloging properties is an essential first step because a company cannot effectively exploit or protect what it does not know it has. Moreover, law enforcement officers and courts cannot efficiently assist in the defense of vague, undocumented trademark rights.
During weak economic times, companies should review existing trademark applications and registrations that were acquired for a project but are no longer used to determine whether they are abandoned or canceled to avoid maintenance costs, and to consider recycling old brands, instead of developing new ones. Maintaining an organized electronic database of trademarks, including those available for reuse, can facilitate the selection and adoption of brands for new products and result in savings related to clearance and registration. For large corporations that have hundreds or thousands of trademarks worldwide, categorizing trademarks and markets by importance helps to identify priorities and can assist in identifying registration and enforcement strategies based on each category. In addition, investing money in a database management system and appropriate human support to keep accurate account of basic information for a trademark portfolio can save a company a significant amount of money for adoption, registration, use, and maintenance of trademarks, and the cost of litigation.
Just as proper management of an existing portfolio can save substantial costs, efficiency in the selection and clearance of new trademarks can also conserve funds in both the short and long term. A marketing department or branding agency may initially decide to perform preliminary searches. However, personnel should be cautioned that such searches are inherently imperfect and further that the company cannot rely on mere registration of an available domain name or social media username as the basis for the company's claim of trademark rights. Therefore, even where a marketing department or branding agency has conducted a search, a trademark attorney should perform at least a preliminary search on the candidate trademark list and provide a brief analysis of the relative strengths and registrability of the potential marks. However, concluding that a mark is clear and available based on a preliminary search only can still be a costly mistake. This mistake is preventable by performing a comprehensive search.
When pursuing trademark registrations, you need to consider respective benefits and limitations of various filing systems and strategies. In the United States, a trademark owner can enjoy protection through a federal registration, state registration(s), or at common law. When pursuing trademark registrations in other territories, companies can use international treaty-based systems of registration such as the Community Trade Mark (CTM) registry and Madrid system which allow a single trademark registration to be extended to multiple countries simultaneously, decreasing at least the initial costs related to registering and maintaining rights. A CTM registrant establishes trademark rights in all member states of the European Union. An international registration under the Madrid System extends applications for protection to each of the member states designated by the applicant and accepted in the international registration. Many companies also take advantage of provisions of the Paris Convention, which enable them to follow an initial trademark application filing in their home country with applications for the same mark in foreign jurisdictions. As a result of membership of the home and foreign jurisdictions in the treaty, the companies can claim priority back to the original application filing date in the foreign applications filed up to six months later.
Finally, in order to support registrations, for marks filed in the United States, it is essential to ensure that the mark is in fact used on each and every good and service listed. The use of brand guidelines encourages the proper use of trademarks and any trade dress associated therewith. With regard to trademark owners actively engaging in due diligence in connection with ongoing trademark usage, it is equally important to review registrations prior to becoming a party to a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceeding to identify any potential problems before they may come under attack.
Whether a company is managing its existing rights or selecting, clearing, registering, and using new ones, trademarks can be costly enough to tempt decision makers to ignore such matters or take shortcuts to cut expenses in a difficult economy. But, companies should recognize that trademarks are assets that can have substantial value when they are properly maintained. Accordingly, companies should not haphazardly cut their trademark budgets or their portfolios in hard times.
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Barre police log: Unruly dogs and teens reportedApril 23,2013
The following is a sampling of calls to Barre police in recent days.
April 15
Someone broke a window on Summer Street.
A neighbors pit bull attacked a womans dog on Seminary Street.
Someone was going door to door selling gold and silver.
A woman locked her keys in her running vehicle with her kids inside on Bergeron Street.
On Maple Avenue, a beagle-type dog attacked people who were walking by.
April 16
A strong smell of propane was coming from North Seminary Street.
Two 16-year-olds were riding their bicycles in and out of traffic on North Main Street.
April 17
A black-and-brown dog was running loose on French Street.
On South Main Street, a 25-year-old woman was walking in the middle of the road.
Someone on Walnut Street refused to give a man his cat back and threatened to harm the cat.
A neighbors dogs attacked a Summer Street residents cats, which were being walked on leashes.
Kids were throwing stones at a womans house on Camp Street.
April 18
A shepherd-type dog was running in a womans yard on Hill Street.
On North Main Street, a man wearing an orange jumpsuit was going in between buildings while carrying a trash bag and duffel bag.
A two-car accident occurred on Prospect Street around 12:15 p.m. No injuries were reported.
April 19
Someone found a golf bag and golf clubs on their lawn on Liberty Street.
Some teenagers stole a street sign at the intersection of Prospect Street and Fairview Street.
A neighbor dumped a bucket of water on a Summer Street resident.
April 20
A 2006 Chevrolet truck was damaged with a key on Summer Street.
Tools were stolen from a Brook Street residence.
A man was urinating facing traffic on North Main Street.
April 21
A teenage boy with a gun was chasing a skunk on Park Street.
Someone stole a womans iPhone on South Main Street.
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Welcome to Monday's Morning Mashup. For the latest news, start at our WEEI.com home page or click here for the top stories from our news wire.
Welcome to Monday's Morning Mashup. For the latest news, start at our WEEI.com home page or click here for the top stories from our news wire.
MLB: Cubs at Pirates, 7:05 p.m. (ESPN)
NBA playoffs: Hawks at Cavaliers, 7 p.m. (TNT)
NBA playoffs: Thunder at Spurs, 9:30 p.m. (TNT)
NHL playoffs: Capitals at Penguins, 8 p.m. (NBCSN)
— A week and a half after ESPN fired Curt Schilling, the network ran a documentary Sunday about the Red Sox' memorable comeback against the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series, and Schilling's heroics in Game 6 were conspicuously absent. The network edited out Schilling's bloody sock game, claiming it was due to time constraints.
Not surprisingly, Schilling didn't take kindly to his former employer's latest slap in the face, and he used the network's slanted coverage of the Patriots' Deflategate controversy and Tom Brady to make his point.
Tweeted Schilling Sunday night: Wow, full one year complete fabrication to defame greatest QB, now omitting about 4 hours of a game I think I played in. Hmm #integritymuch?
Added Schilling later: Btw, please don't make me victim. You saw it, I lived it, still got the ring. This is what happens when you embarrass powerful people. And … Nothing more. It's why we are where we are at as a people and as a nation. Time to change that #standup
Schilling, who has the hashtag #ESPNLIES alongside a quote on his Twitter bio, also noted that he liked the hashtag #boycottespn offered by another tweeter.
ESPN's public relations department released a statement explaining that a softball game earlier in the day went over its time slot, forcing the editing of the 30 for 30 documentary "Four Days in October" prior to Sunday night's Red Sox-Yankees game.
"When a live event runs long, it's standard procedure to shorten a taped program that follows," the statement read. "In this case, we needed to edit out one of the film's four segments to account for the extra length of the softball game."
— Capitals defenseman Brooks Opik received a three-game suspension from the NHL on Sunday for his late hit to the head of Penguins forward Olli Maatta during Saturday's Game 2 of their second-round series.
Orpik, a former Boston College star who played 11 seasons for the Penguins before leaving as a free agent after the 2013-14 season, was called for interference for the hit, which came well after Maata fired a shot from the left side early in the first period. Maata was woozy after the hit and did not return to the game.
Director of player safety Patrick Burke called the hit "forceful, unacceptably high and excessively late," and added, "No player should reasonably expect to be hit at this time and in this manner."
Capitals coach Barry Trotz defended his player, saying Opik thought the puck was coming back toward him.
"He just finished on a hit," Trotz said. "There's a little size difference, and I think Maata was leaning over a little bit."
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan, whose team hosts Game 3 on Monday night after tying the series with a 2-1 win in Game 2, wasn't as understanding.
"I thought it was a late hit," Sullivan said. "I thought it was a target to his head. I think it's the type of hit that everyone in hockey is trying to remove from the game."
— Steph Curry, who injured his right knee just over a week ago, is hoping to return for the Warriors' Game 3 matchup against the Trail Blazers on Saturday.
"It just depends how his week goes," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said, adding that the chances are "pretty slim" Curry would rush back for Tuesday's Game 2.
Curry has been back on the court, doing light shooting without movement as he recovers from the sprained MCL he suffered when he slipped on a wet spot during a first-round playoff game against the Rockets.
Golden State won Sunday's Game 1 handily, and even before that game Blazers coach Terry Stotts noted the challenge his team faces should Curry return.
"They're a great team without Steph. They're a historically great team with him," Stotts said. "They have a style of play, they have an identity. Everybody understands their roles. They do what they do well. They're an exceptional team with Steph and what he can bring to the table, but I think the last six quarters showed how good they are without him as well."
ON THIS DAY TRIVIA (answer below): On May 2, 1995, the Red Sox posted an 8-0 victory over the Yankees. The runs came on a pair of grand slams by John Valentin and Mo Vaughn, who previously were college teammates at which Big East school?
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "We got the monkey off our back, more than anything, from these past couple of years. It just feels good to get that off." — Raptors forward DeMar DeRozan, after his team held off the Pacers in Sunday's Game 7 and won a best-of-seven playoff series for the first time in franchise history
STAT OF THE DAY: 4-0 — Red Sox ace David Price's record after Sunday's 8-7 victory over the Yankees, as he again picked up a win despite struggling, this time allowing six runs in seven innings
'NET RESULTS: The Tigers close out a 6-5 victory over the Twins by throwing out Migel Sano as he tries to stretch a double into a triple with two outs in the ninth inning.
White Sox batter Todd Frazier hits a hard grounder that deflects off the glove of Orioles third baseman Manny Machado to shortstop J.J. Hardy, who throws to first for the out.
A young girl at the Angels-Rangers game in Texas retrieves a foul ball and throws it over the railing, much to the dismay of her father.
TRIVIA ANSWER: Seton Hall
SOOTHING SOUNDS: Lesley Gore was born on this day in 1946.


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The number of British Army reservists grew by only 60 in the last quarter of 2013 despite an ambitious Government drive to recruit 11,000 part-time soldiers by the end of the decade, manning figures show.
The tiny increase followed a year in which the reserve actually shrank and added to concerns that the Ministry of Defence will struggle with targets to replace 20,000 regular soldiers with a boosted reserve of 30,000.
The recruitment crisis has been exacerbated by a bungled IT project to handle paperwork at recruiting offices and the problem has become a top priority for Philip Hammond, defence secretary.
A multi-million pound television recruiting campaign was launched earlier this year after Mr Hammond admitted 2013 had been disappointing for recruitment.
There were 19,150 reservists in the British Army at the start of the year, according to the latest MOD personnel figures, up by 60 from the end of October, but down from 19,200 a year earlier.
Under the Coalition's cost cutting defence reforms, the Army is trying to grow the number of reservists to 30,000 by 2020, even as the number of regulars is being cut by 20,000 to 82,000. Thousands of troops have been laid off in the past three years.
Vernon Coaker, shadow defence secretary, said: "It is incredible that as the Defence Secretary says his plans to recruit thousands of new Army reservists are on course, the figures show that the number of reserve soldiers is actually falling."
Defence sources admitted the reservist figures were "not great", but said they had expected them to have fallen further after the recruitment difficulties. More than 1,000 troops have been drafted into recruitment offices to help overcome the IT fiasco at an extra cost of £1 million a month.
One government source said: "It's not a huge increase, but it's better than a drop and that's what we were expecting."
Military chiefs hope the small increase marks a turn around in the fortunes of the reserves. But they believe their biggest problem getting the reserve plan to work will not be signing people up, but persuading employers to let their staff time off to train and deploy on operations.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said it had always said growing the reserve "would be a challenge".
She said: "We know it won't happen overnight and always anticipated that the first few years would be the most difficult.
"However, we are pulling out all the stops and at the start of the year all three Services launched new targeted and sustained recruitment campaigns. With a better offer now in place for Reservists we are committed to achieving the numbers we need."


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WASHINGTON D.C.—The United States said on Wednesday it will ease its investment ban in Burma carefully, noting that recent democratic reforms are reversible and deplorable rights violations persist.
The top US diplomat for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, said in testimony to the House Foreign Affairs' subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific that the United States remains troubled by Burma's military trade with North Korea.
His cautious comments come as human rights groups voice increasing concern that the US, European Union and other nations are moving too fast to relax economic sanctions to reward Burma's shift from five decades of authoritarian rule.
The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., said there is still no rule of law in the country, officially known as Myanmar, and corrupt officials and the military stand to reap a windfall from the country's rich natural resources.
"Have our European and Asian allies gone too far by rushing headlong into suspending all sanctions and immediately boosting assistance?" Manzullo suggested to the hearing. He cautioned that a "reckless" lifting of US sanctions could feed the cycle of corruption.
The EU this week suspended its economic sanctions, and Japan said it would forgive US $3.7 billion in Burma's debt, following recent special elections that saw democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party sweep most of the contested seats.
The US has said it will allow export of financial services and American investment in some sectors of the impoverished economy—such as agriculture and telecommunications—but has yet to announce details.
Campbell described the Burma's political opening as "real and significant" but "fragile and reversible." In his prepared testimony, he credited economic reforms and said the government has doubled spending on education and quadrupled it in health, but military spending, at 16.5 percent of the total budget, remains "grossly disproportionate."
He cited fighting and reports of severe rights violations in the northern Kachin State—scene of one of Burma's most entrenched ethnic insurgencies—and noted "deplorable" discrimination against ethnic Rohingyas in the western Rakhine State.
He also said, despite the releases of more than 500 political prisoners by Burmese authorities since last October, at least several hundred are still behind bars.
Aung Din, of the US Campaign for Burma, alleged that arbitrary detention and torture continues and questioned the significance of recent political reforms.
Although Suu Kyi's party won all but two of the seats in the recent special elections, it still has less than seven percent representation in Parliament. He said the quick easing of sanctions by the US and other nations meant that "the Burmese government led by President Thein Sein is the real winner" of the vote.
In his prepared testimony, Aung Din complained that US officials had failed to consult with veteran student protest leaders, leaders of Suu Kyi's party and ethnic minorities before announcing the targeted easing of its bans on investment and financial services.
Campbell said the State Department would proceed "in a careful manner" on easing the sanctions and would work with the Treasury Department to re-examine and refresh its list of sanctioned Burma nationals—principally military officials and their associates.
The US has consulted closely with Suu Kyi, who is widely admired in Congress, as it has engaged with Thein Sein's government, lending bilateral support for its shift from diplomatic isolation of Burma. Suu Kyi also endorsed the EU's move to suspend its economic sanctions for a year.
Agreed Totally with the US that " be very careful of easing investment plan" have being writing to sound out to everyone that these reforms seems to me NOT SINCERE at all the other issues have been sidetrack…and the BIG HOOHAA about Burma Opening Up this is all a PR scam seems to be taking notice by the US and some other Smarter thinkers.
Please look around you is BURMA environment now or even in the next ten years suitable for BIG INvestments…where are the rule of law protecting such businesses or investments are the workforce ready to take on such resopnsibilities, are infrastructure there for you, are the banking systems open and ready, are communications open and ready, is traveling made easy without VISA, MOST importantly of all the military and their CRONIES what are we doing about it…are YOU to join investments with the military or the CRONIES…hey this is a bad and a no no move…nothing will come up with your investments it will all be eaten up…my opinion is DO NOT INVEST IN BURMA NOW…the TIME HAS NOT ARRIVE YET… INVEST AT YOUR OWN RISK…The Odds are investments will turn Sour very quickly.
The ordinary people of Burma are in complete agreement with the U.S. "that recent democratic reforms are reversible and deplorable rights violations persist" and that " it will ease its investment ban in Burma carefully."
Easing sanctions now is like putting the cart before the shrewed horse.
Burma military rule had been nearly 50 years. Now also ex-military and 25% with unifrom are sitting in parliament, so where is democracy and rule of law. In northern part of Burma human rights violation and war is still fighting on. No peace, how can you say this country is
suitable for investment. Many cronies are still enjoying in business, so how US and EU is going to make investment with these cronies. The corrupted money is with them, majority are poor class. Many of land were took over by previous government and their cronies, how to solve these problems. All natural resources are oin ethnic areas, not in central Burma where Bama ethnic are majority. Gas is in Arakan State and Mon State. Are these ethnic Mon and Arakanese are geting share, no way. Burma economy will has to take time for investment. Time is not suitable has to wait till rule of law exist.
Investment means MONEY, when you put your money to do business in a country where there is not yet prevail rule of law, how do you feel. The answer is with the investers itself to answer. Burma has to go long way, because the the present Burma constitution itself is undemocratic. The said constituion stated that in case of emergency the army chief can make coup, so coup itself is legalized and written very clearly in the constitution. No daubt Burma is very beautiful and full of natural resources for investment, timing is not given yet to do for investment, so wait for a while when time is OK put your billions of dollars and Euros with trusted business men not military cronies.
This is a discouraging blow to the reformist group in the country. US never was, and will never be, a strong partner of Burma. This is not because people of Burma don't want it, it is because of their own policies that fail to deliver the promises when the time comes.
Shame on you, US!
First of all, the US needs to update that 'SDN List' (the Specially Designated Nationals), as Mr. Aung Din suggested. Currently the whole world has forgotten what this military regime and their Cronies have done. They have all the corrupted money and assets, but couldn't make a move. That's the only reason that opened up for 43 seats for NLD which is only 7% in the parliament that more than 80% are military backed MPs.
As soon as the sanctions are released & they have their accounts unfreeze & they can move their assets freely, their masks will be off and go back to the same. Currently they are showing off the US, EU and all Western Countries that they are willing to change. These US & EU should need to think a little bit more seriously. This military regime or the dictatorship took control of our country since 1962 in many cruel ways. Now all of a sudden they want to change 180 degree and desire to do for our country & the people. When too many students were shot, arrested, destroyed back in 1988, where was this military regime? What about Saffron Revolution, all our monks from almost the whole country took place on the streets just asked for Peace, and what did they do? Do you think that those are different people from current regime? Please give me a break.
Now they want to have the Sanctions Lifted, and have foreign investors come in & do business. Currently more than 90% of the top business group/people are only ex-generals/families and their cronies. Only those cronies will get the business contracts. So you start business with them, they can easily wash their hands using foreign investors. What they are trying to do is very smart way of getting their money legalized, another words, this is kind of officially money laundering.
To be fair to the internatioonal business people and their agents elected representatives rushing in now, that 180 turn was in fact initiated by Aung San Suu Kyi where her words and her words alone are the highest arbitor for the action of the world community and for the lives of the people of Burma.
It is high time in the presence of total neglect of intense suffering of the people of Burma under virulent current military action and the total lack of any suggestions or plan for preservation of irreplacable pristine environment and culture which are at stake with this new opening, international communities start to think outside Aung San Suu Kyi however saintly or otherwise she is. Contrary to popular opinion Burma is more than one person even if it is Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung Din was of course right to assert that the real winner was Thein Sein as the outcome was an integral part of their clever exit strategy with an eye on the real prize – return to normalcy in diplomatic and more importantly business relations with the West. A win win scenario in fact with ASSK in the frame and the end of Western sanctions.
Donald Manzullo's caution was crucial and timely. At least the US has not made an undignified headlong jump into bed with the govt notwithstanding Messrs.Webb & McCain. Their Anglo-Saxon cousins over the pond, Messrs. Cameron & Hague on the other hand have no such qualms and done it in unseemly haste.


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Suicide Squad Comic Franchise to Come to Gaming
DC Comics chief creative officer claimed game is in the works during San Diego Comic Con panel.
Spotted by Comics Alliance, during a session at San Diego Comic Con DC Comics' chief creative officer (and Green Lantern writer) Geoff Johns let slip that a "hardcore violent" Suicide Squad video game is being developed.
If you're unfamiliar with the comic franchise, it originally concerned non-super-powered heroes fighting against supervillians, but has gone through a number of revisions, such as a World War II-era suicide squad and a black ops strike team composed of supervillians against their will. Comics Alliance posits that the game could coincide with the upcoming Suicide Squad film, which is likely to concern the most current incarnation of the Suicide Squad as a squad of imprisoned supervillians.
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I knowPosted: Jul 27, 2010 12:00AM PST by DudeL
a certain former 1UPper that will be happy about this.
Major Disaster!Posted: Jul 27, 2010 12:00AM PST by SamuraiTerry
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Cursillo (a Spanish word meaning little course) gives church members the tools and "rules of life" to enthusiastically share the joys of knowing Christ with others in their everyday environments. Cursillo is patterned on Jesus' own example. He searched out and called groups of potential leaders, trained them and sent them out to bring the world to Him.
The Cursillo weekend begins on Thursday evening and ends on Sunday afternoon. During the weekend, participants engage in study, reflection, fellowship, and worship.
Upcoming Cursillos:
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- Each Cursillo closing service is at 3:30 p.m. at the event location. Please join us.
October 6-9, 2016
Cursillo weekend #273 (Designated for younger adults, ages 25-45)
Mustang Island Conference Center
Rectora is Laurie Haney, St. Elizabeth's, Buda
Assistant Rectora is Heather Marks, St. Peter's, Rockport
Spiritual Director is the Rev. John Hardie, St. Mark's, Corpus Christi
Assistant Spiritual Directors are the Rev. Rob Harris, Christ Church, San Antonio; and the Rev. Nancy Springer, St. Alban's, Harlingen
November 3-6, 2016
Cursillo weekend #274
Camp Capers
Rectora is Sheri Digby, St. Helena's, Boerne
Spiritual Director is the Rev. Milton Black, Good Shepherd, Corpus Christi
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The Rev. Randy Melton
William Neukam
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Libby Templeton
Jenny Leidecker
Caroline Mowen
Patty Stegall
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There aren't many things in this life that you can count on, but you can always count on this: If it's Fourth of July Eve, there's a big boom in Milwaukee. The U.S. Bank Fireworks bring the ooohs and aaahs starting at 9:30 tonight off Veterans Park over Lake Michigan. You'll be able to see them all over town, even if you didn't camp out to get a front-row seat.
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Spring Fling - Earth Day Celebration
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2016
Come celebrate Earth Day with us in the park at our Spring Fling Festival. This year we are excited to be partnering with the Bellaire Environmental and Sustainability Board, who will be bringing in new and different environmental exhibitors and activities in addition to providing invaluable recycling tips and other information at their booth.
Special request: Please collect and bring by your rinsed, empty aluminum cans for our can crush activity. The kids love crushing cans and we go through quite a few during the event.
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The Relative Performance of Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimators
Porter, Kristin E.
Gruber, Susan
van der Laan, Mark J.
Sekhon, Jasjeet S.
The International Journal of Biostatistics
2011;7(1):Article 31.
There is an active debate in the literature on censored data about the relative performance of model based maximum likelihood estimators, IPCW-estimators, and a variety of double robust semiparametric efficient estimators. Kang and Schafer (2007) demonstrate the fragility of double robust and IPCW-estimators in a simulation study with positivity violations. They focus on a simple missing data problem with covariates where one desires to estimate the mean of an outcome that is subject to missingness. Responses by Robins, et al. (2007), Tsiatis and Davidian (2007), Tan (2007) and Ridgeway and McCaffrey (2007) further explore the challenges faced by double robust estimators and offer suggestions for improving their stability. In this article, we join the debate by presenting targeted maximum likelihood estimators (TMLEs). We demonstrate that TMLEs that guarantee that the parametric submodel employed by the TMLE procedure respects the global bounds on the continuous outcomes, are especially suitable for dealing with positivity violations because in addition to being double robust and semiparametric efficient, they are substitution estimators. We demonstrate the practical performance of TMLEs relative to other estimators in the simulations designed by Kang and Schafer (2007) and in modified simulations with even greater estimation challenges.
censored data; collaborative double robustness; collaborative targeted maximum likelihood estimation; double robust; estimator selection; inverse probability of censoring weighting; locally efficient estimation; maximum likelihood estimation; semiparametric model; targeted maximum likelihood estimation; targeted minimum loss based estimation; targeted nuisance parameter estimator selection
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A Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Causal Effect on a Bounded Continuous Outcome
Gruber, Susan
van der Laan, Mark J.
The International Journal of Biostatistics
2010;6(1):Article 26.
Targeted maximum likelihood estimation of a parameter of a data generating distribution, known to be an element of a semi-parametric model, involves constructing a parametric model through an initial density estimator with parameter ɛ representing an amount of fluctuation of the initial density estimator, where the score of this fluctuation model at ɛ = 0 equals the efficient influence curve/canonical gradient. The latter constraint can be satisfied by many parametric fluctuation models since it represents only a local constraint of its behavior at zero fluctuation. However, it is very important that the fluctuations stay within the semi-parametric model for the observed data distribution, even if the parameter can be defined on fluctuations that fall outside the assumed observed data model. In particular, in the context of sparse data, by which we mean situations where the Fisher information is low, a violation of this property can heavily affect the performance of the estimator. This paper presents a fluctuation approach that guarantees the fluctuated density estimator remains inside the bounds of the data model. We demonstrate this in the context of estimation of a causal effect of a binary treatment on a continuous outcome that is bounded. It results in a targeted maximum likelihood estimator that inherently respects known bounds, and consequently is more robust in sparse data situations than the targeted MLE using a naive fluctuation model.
When an estimation procedure incorporates weights, observations having large weights relative to the rest heavily influence the point estimate and inflate the variance. Truncating these weights is a common approach to reducing the variance, but it can also introduce bias into the estimate. We present an alternative targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) approach that dampens the effect of these heavily weighted observations. As a substitution estimator, TMLE respects the global constraints of the observed data model. For example, when outcomes are binary, a fluctuation of an initial density estimate on the logit scale constrains predicted probabilities to be between 0 and 1. This inherent enforcement of bounds has been extended to continuous outcomes. Simulation study results indicate that this approach is on a par with, and many times superior to, fluctuating on the linear scale, and in particular is more robust when there is sparsity in the data.
targeted maximum likelihood estimation; TMLE; causal effect
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Collaborative Double Robust Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation*
van der Laan, Mark J.
Gruber, Susan
The International Journal of Biostatistics
2010;6(1):Article 17.
Collaborative double robust targeted maximum likelihood estimators represent a fundamental further advance over standard targeted maximum likelihood estimators of a pathwise differentiable parameter of a data generating distribution in a semiparametric model, introduced in van der Laan, Rubin (2006). The targeted maximum likelihood approach involves fluctuating an initial estimate of a relevant factor (Q) of the density of the observed data, in order to make a bias/variance tradeoff targeted towards the parameter of interest. The fluctuation involves estimation of a nuisance parameter portion of the likelihood, g. TMLE has been shown to be consistent and asymptotically normally distributed (CAN) under regularity conditions, when either one of these two factors of the likelihood of the data is correctly specified, and it is semiparametric efficient if both are correctly specified.
In this article we provide a template for applying collaborative targeted maximum likelihood estimation (C-TMLE) to the estimation of pathwise differentiable parameters in semi-parametric models. The procedure creates a sequence of candidate targeted maximum likelihood estimators based on an initial estimate for Q coupled with a succession of increasingly non-parametric estimates for g. In a departure from current state of the art nuisance parameter estimation, C-TMLE estimates of g are constructed based on a loss function for the targeted maximum likelihood estimator of the relevant factor Q that uses the nuisance parameter to carry out the fluctuation, instead of a loss function for the nuisance parameter itself. Likelihood-based cross-validation is used to select the best estimator among all candidate TMLE estimators of Q0 in this sequence. A penalized-likelihood loss function for Q is suggested when the parameter of interest is borderline-identifiable.
We present theoretical results for "collaborative double robustness," demonstrating that the collaborative targeted maximum likelihood estimator is CAN even when Q and g are both mis-specified, providing that g solves a specified score equation implied by the difference between the Q and the true Q0. This marks an improvement over the current definition of double robustness in the estimating equation literature.
We also establish an asymptotic linearity theorem for the C-DR-TMLE of the target parameter, showing that the C-DR-TMLE is more adaptive to the truth, and, as a consequence, can even be super efficient if the first stage density estimator does an excellent job itself with respect to the target parameter.
This research provides a template for targeted efficient and robust loss-based learning of a particular target feature of the probability distribution of the data within large (infinite dimensional) semi-parametric models, while still providing statistical inference in terms of confidence intervals and p-values. This research also breaks with a taboo (e.g., in the propensity score literature in the field of causal inference) on using the relevant part of likelihood to fine-tune the fitting of the nuisance parameter/censoring mechanism/treatment mechanism.
asymptotic linearity; coarsening at random; causal effect; censored data; crossvalidation; collaborative double robust; double robust; efficient influence curve; estimating function; estimator selection; influence curve; G-computation; locally efficient; loss-function; marginal structural model; maximum likelihood estimation; model selection; pathwise derivative; semiparametric model; sieve; super efficiency; super-learning; targeted maximum likelihood estimation; targeted nuisance parameter estimator selection; variable importance
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An Application of Collaborative Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Causal Inference and Genomics
Gruber, Susan
van der Laan, Mark J.
The International Journal of Biostatistics
2010;6(1):Article 18.
A concrete example of the collaborative double-robust targeted likelihood estimator (C-TMLE) introduced in a companion article in this issue is presented, and applied to the estimation of causal effects and variable importance parameters in genomic data. The focus is on non-parametric estimation in a point treatment data structure. Simulations illustrate the performance of C-TMLE relative to current competitors such as the augmented inverse probability of treatment weighted estimator that relies on an external non-collaborative estimator of the treatment mechanism, and inefficient estimation procedures including propensity score matching and standard inverse probability of treatment weighting. C-TMLE is also applied to the estimation of the covariate-adjusted marginal effect of individual HIV mutations on resistance to the anti-retroviral drug lopinavir. The influence curve of the C-TMLE is used to establish asymptotically valid statistical inference. The list of mutations found to have a statistically significant association with resistance is in excellent agreement with mutation scores provided by the Stanford HIVdb mutation scores database.
causal effect; cross-validation; collaborative double robust; double robust; efficient influence curve; penalized likelihood; penalization; estimator selection; locally efficient; maximum likelihood estimation; model selection; super efficiency; super learning; targeted maximum likelihood estimation; targeted nuisance parameter estimator selection; variable importance
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