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Once you complete this program you will be far more effective in your career and your personal life for the rest of your life.
We are uniquely qualified to serve leaders in education, business, and the nonprofit sector because of Dave Ellis' experience as a classroom teacher, best selling textbook author, successful businessman, and CEO of a nonprofit.
When you participate fully in our curriculum and are candid about your strengths and current limitations and use all that we are offering, we promise that your life will never be the same.
When you consider the time and money that we are asking you to invest in this program, please remember our promise. Our promise is that as you fully participate in our program, your life and work will dramatically and permanently improve so much so that you describe this experience as one of the top five most influential experiences of your life. If you doubt that, please read and listen to the testimonials on the left. They are from some of the most prestigious educators and nonprofit leaders that we have assisted.
For 30 years we have focused on professional and personal development. Since 1990, we have also provided coach training, and for the last three years, we have emphasized leadership training. Now, we are putting all of this together and focusing on team and organizational development through individual transformation.
Please work with us if you want to move yourself and the people in your organization to more effective communication, increased innovation, greater self-expression, higher productivity, less gossip, less blaming, more fun, greater accountability, increased integrity, less stress, and continual celebration.
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2006)
"So, he (Dave Ellis) is not an advisor. He's not telling you what to do. What I feel is that you have capacity within yourself, but you never test those buttons that you have. So he brings out your own capacity or you discover your own capacity. You become an explorer of yourself." Read his entire testimonial.
Our entire curriculum consists of three phases that each include: one-on-one coaching; a three-day workshop; materials to read, watch, and listen to; mentoring; and group conference calls.
While you are enrolled in this program, you will have access to:
Stephanie Hirsh
Executive Director
"Without my coach, I doubt I would have accomplished many of my most significant achievements this year." Read her entire testimonial.
We are so committed to this curriculum being effective for you, that if we determine during the program that you do not have the time or interest to participate fully, we reserve the right to remove you and refund your money based on the number of months that you have participated.
Maria Otero
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Former President & CEO
"The Dave Ellis Leadership Training and coaching has positively affected my leadership capacity. I have attended Dave's workshops and received one-on-one coaching from one of his executive life coaches. I have drawn from all of that and incorporated it into my day-to-day work." Read her entire testimonial.
Jack Canfield
"I highly recommend taking Dave Ellis' workshops or hiring Dave as a speaker. I really love the engagement, the self-awareness, and the aha's that I and all the other participants were having." Read his entire testimonial.
Our workshops can be part of an ongoing leadership training where we are developing teams. The workshops can also be taken independently of our curriculum. Contact us for more information.
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Upcoming Workshops
One, two, or three-day workshops can be customized from the following offerings and delivered at your location. For details about timing and pricing, please contact us.
Dennis Sparks
Emeritus Executive Director
"Dave Ellis' teaching has been profoundly useful to me as a leader and as a human being. Through my work with Dave, I was inspired to do the impossible, to set large goals which I had no idea how to achieve, and then to actually find ways to create the desired results.." Read his entire testimonial.
The material for the workshops comes from the books Falling Awake and Life Coaching by Dave Ellis. The Falling Awake Workshop is important to team building and professional development because of its focus on improving the quality of each individual's life. Successful individuals are successful leaders. It is difficult to coach, assist, or lead others unless our lives are basically fulfilled, balanced, and healthy. Some professionals challenge our approach of starting with life skills, but we believe that until you "fill yourself up" it is difficult to "give yourself away."
We notice that as soon as a leader or a coach improves one part of his life (personal or professional) it affects every aspect of his or her life.
More important than the topics covered in the workshops is the process of setting aside time to do your most creative thinking for three days away from the normal distractions of work and family. During this time you can focus on yourself, your leadership, your coaching, and your future.
Anne Lynam Goddard
President & CEO
"This workshop revived me. I'd never been in an event like this, where I knew no one else, and I could focus just on me. The training allowed me to let go of a lot of deep-seated grieving I had for human suffering that I had seen through my work. That was an incredible experience that I had never anticipated." Read her entire testimonial.
Yolonda Richardson
Past President & CEO
"The leadership training had an incredible impact on me. I directly took the benefits and applied them to working with my staff, and that was quite successful." Read her entire testimonial.
Sample agenda
(We customize the agenda for each two or three-day workshop. Following is an example.)
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Sam Worthington
President & CEO
"When I took this three-day leadership training with Dave Ellis, I was able to examine a number of leadership approaches that I was using in my work, refine them, and apply them in a way that was more directly linked to my own personal vision. That vision is a world where individuals are better off and human well-being is advanced." Read his entire testimonial.
One of the ways to be involved with us is by hiring a coach. Professional athletes use coaches to help them improve and excel in their field. A coach can help you improve and excel in leadership skills.
Click here to listen to an interview with Dave Ellis and others about coaching.
Our coaches are trained to listen and then assist you to get exactly what you want. They can provide objective and valuable feedback that's very difficult to generate by yourself. Their work is confidential and can produce amazing results.
Coaching is a process whereby the coach assists the client to determine what he or she wants in all areas of work and life and to then develop realistic and multiple action plans to achieve those visions.
Generally the coach meets with clients three to five hours per month for six months or more to assist them to achieve what they want by discovering their passions and uncovering their genius.
By meeting with a coach, clients create and achieve goals in every area. This happens through frequent contact with the coach who serves as the client's full partner in their development.
Coaching is not just a collection of techniques. It's a form of relationship that's both confidential and life-changing. People usually reveal more to their coach than to friends, counselors, or even their spouse. Through this relationship, clients can move quickly from problems to solutions, from insights to action, from the status quo to completely new outcomes in their lives.
Coaches provide a service for leaders who are already basically happy and successful. Our coaches are committed to assisting their clients to experience a deep sense that they are free - free from their obligations, their limitations, their fears, and any other obstacles to realizing their full leadership potential, passion and brilliance.
Clients can expect the following benefits:
Monica Walsh
Executive Director
"I highly recommend the Leadership Workshops that Dave Ellis conducts. They have changed the way that I look at myself as a leader and the way that my co-workers respond to me as a leader. That exponentially makes things move far quicker and far better than anything that I've ever experienced. And my friends and co-workers also see a big difference." Read her entire testimonial.
Sam Daley-Harris
"I did the training with my wife. The question, 'What is the life of your dreams?' was a profound gift to both of us. We really created our life anew out of the training with lots of big changes related to where we live and how our work was structured."
"The training really gave us permission to vision the life of our dreams. It was a big thrill, because it launched changes that have been so satisfying." Read his entire testimonial.
About Us
Dave Ellis leads a powerful team of consultants and coaches who are committed to bring out the best in individuals and teams. As an organization we put our entire focus on serving you.
Dave Ellis is a leadership coach, author, educator, and philanthropist. His first book Becoming a Master Student, currently in its fifteenth edition, has been the best-selling college textbook in the US for over 20 years. In addition to this book, he has authored and co-authored seven others including Life Coaching, Falling Awake, and Creating Your Future. He also wrote a booklet titled "Becoming a Master Teacher".
Dave Ellis is a respected lecturer and workshop leader who has reached audiences worldwide since first sharing his principles in 1979. He has coached national and international nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, an NBA coach, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Through his workshops and books, he has helped over six million people create a more wonderful life.
Dave got started in education in 1976 when he taught junior high school math. After getting a Masters Degree, he taught computer science for six years at National American University. He also served as Assistant Dean of Student Services and President of the college. In 1979 he designed a course to improve student retention and traveled the country for a decade conducting workshops for teachers on ways to improve student retention and test scores. He began training coaches in 1983 and started a public course for coaches in 1993.
Dave has a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Psychology, a masters degree in Computer Science, work on a Ph.D. in Psychology, and an honorary Ph.D. in Naturopathic Philosophy.
He is president of Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc, a publishing and consulting company that gives away all of its profits. He is founder and president of The Brande Foundation, a nonprofit organization offering individual and group coaching to nonprofit organizations. Dave has contributed millions of dollars to the work of his foundation and to other organizations.
Dave Ellis resides in the Bay Area of California with his wife Trisha. Together they have four daughters and five grandchildren.
Coaching and Consulting Staff
Susan Griffin Black
Co-Founder & CEO
"I highly recommend the trainings to anyone who's interested in living from their values and more from their heart. I'm deeply grateful for this work and for Dave." Read her entire testimonial.
Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc.
Breakthrough Enterprises is a publishing and consulting company incorporated in 1981 in South Dakota. It provides life coaching, workshops, books, tapes and other materials to assist people to improve the quality of their lives. It is a for-profit company that donates all of its profits to The Brande Foundation.
The Brande Foundation
In 1987, Dave Ellis founded The Brande Foundation and endowed it with royalties from the sale of, "Becoming a Master Student." This best-selling college textbook is designed to assist students to be successful in school and beyond. Ellis formed the foundation to sponsor projects and contribute money to a wide variety of local, state, national, and international organizations.
The purpose of the foundation is to promote life and aliveness on the planet in five basic areas including: 1) world sufficiency (adequate food, water, and shelter for all people); 2) environmental integrity (a healthy and sustainable ecosystem); 3) human rights; 4) world peace; and, 5) personal transformation (human effectiveness and education).
The projects of The Brande Foundation have included Native American education and leadership development, community health and education, bias awareness workshops, fundraising for micro credit lending, and eradicating poverty around the world.
Organizations that have been major recipients of funding have included CARE, OXFAM, United Way, Working Against Violence, Inc., Youth & Family Services, The Hunger Project, RESULTS Educational Fund, The Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Gorbachev Foundation, Pachamama Alliance, and Amnesty International.
Currently, the primary project of The Brande Foundation is to provide life coaching and workshops to leaders of large, national and international, nonprofit organizations. To find out more about the Brande Foundation, click here.
The Brande Foundation does not accept proposals from other nonprofit organizations or individuals since its long-term budget has already been set and is devoted to projects that it coordinates.
Melanie Macdonald
President & CEO
"Because of my experience with Dave Ellis' teachings, my husband certainly has noticed that I'm calmer, I'm happier, and that my impact on the world through my work is much greater than it has ever been before."
"The passion and caring that Dave brings to this work are very evident in the content and its impact on participants. Many of Dave's teachings have made my life much happier and healthier. They've also made me a much better leader."
"I'm more confident now, I stand up for myself more often, and my success is at the highest level of my career after over 30 years of leading not-for-profits." Read her entire testimonial.
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Charles Pfeffer
"Even though Dave's ideas are brilliant, what I most appreciate about his trainings is the focus on the participants' creativity and their own thinking." Read his entire testimonial.
The following resources are only available to people that have gone through our programs. If you want temporary access to these services to test them, please contact us.
Lynne Twist
"Life coaching helps you look at the legacy you'll leave and how your life will impact people 500 years from now. It's a very remarkable process." Read her entire testimonial.
Our printed, video, and audio materials can be ordered through our Bookstore. Most of our books can also be ordered from Amazon.com.
Jack Gordon
Former President & Chairman
"It's certainly not psychotherapy, and it's not really counseling, but we talk about the kind of things you might discuss with a close family member or a friend. And my coach can be pretty dispassionate about it. I don't feel any constraint in talking to him because I don't know if I'll ever see him. It's sort of a neutral relationship and lends itself very well to the kind of anonymity that permits a very open discussion." Read his entire testimonial.
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Lynn McMullen
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"Coaching is really about empowerment and win-win. What I really want to get at here is that I have learned about how to be even more impactful in the political area by adopting a policy of not functioning in an adversarial mode. It kind of sticks out in this particular milieu. We are willing to stand for something that's big enough so that everyone can see their way to participate. I think that many of our congressional victories over the last few years have occurred because we work with conservatives and liberals and middle of the road politicians for something that really serves all people." Read her entire testimonial.
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Tor.com Raves about Six-Gun Snow White
Read on. We're understandably pleased by this review of Catherynne M. Valente's Six-Gun Snow White, from Tor.com:
It doesn't happen to me very often, but ever so rarely I come across a book that's so purely brilliant that it almost stuns me, a story that's so gorgeous and rich that I feel paralyzed: not just unable to verbalize how much I love it but actually almost reluctant to, because trying to encapsulate it in a review feels like sullying it, like tacking on extraneous words that it really doesn't need.
In the case of Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, which is—in case it wasn't clear yet—one of the most gorgeous works of speculative fiction I've read in years, that odd reluctance is even stronger, because it's such a short, tight piece of writing. No word is wasted. I am frequently impressed by an author's facility with words, but in the case of Valente, I feel almost intimidated. Here is a novella that carries within itself more depth and richness than lesser authors manage to bring to a series.
The hardcover is selling very steadily. For those of you waiting on the ebook version, it should be out at the end of this month.


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It would be great if you could turn your entire wedding wish list into reality, but in this tough economic climate it's not always easy to do. So rather than trying to get everything perfect, couples are striving for a more realistic goal: making just one detail of their wedding so memorable that guests will be talking about it for years to come. I like to call this the "wow" factor.
Russell and Alix hired two San Francisco Opera Company singers to sing "All I Ask of You" at their ceremony. At Debbie and Sherman's wedding, Chinese Lion Dancers led the guests from the backyard ceremony to cocktails in the front yard. (Another couple, Julie and Ryan, also had Chinese Lion Dancers at their reception, and they used photos of the "show" on their thank-you cards!) Creative mood lighting transformed a local community hall into a romantic setting for Adam and Carol's reception.
The best part? These were normal, budget-conscious couples who made the decision to splurge on just one part of their wedding. None of the above examples cost more than $1,000, but these out-of-the-box ideas made their guests murmur "wow" every time.
Some other ways to wow your guests:
A solo saxophonist playing as you walk down the aisle.
A fabulous walking illusionist like Rich Ferguson entertaining your guests during your cocktail hour.
A bagpiper leading the groom and his party down the aisle or playing as the sun sets at your vineyard or beach wedding.
A Polynesian dance troop giving your guests a heart-pounding dinner show they'll never forget.
A bell choir performing at a Christmas wedding ceremony.
A video montage of your love story that ends with the first strains of your "first dance" song, and a spotlight shining on you as your MC announces, "Ladies and Gentleman, dancing their first dance as husband and wife…"
What do you want your guests to say "wow" to?
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Anyone who's seen Slumdog Millionaire should appreciate this. (And those who haven't seen it yet? Get thee to Netflix.com and add it to your queue immediately!)
Take a look at this wedding dance video:
Am I the only one who secretly wishes she was invited to this wedding? This wedding reception footage—filmed and edited by the super-talented Bob Farnsworth of Video Madness—proves that you don't have to have even an ounce of Indian heritage to dance like a Bollywood star. It's also a great example of how a videographer can turn your raw wedding reception footage into something polished and extraordinary.
Judging by this routine alone, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this was just the beginning of a great party. What a cool way to get everyone on the dance floor!
Posted by Lisa on Jul 23, 2009.
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I was both maid of honor and wedding coordinator when my sister got married last year. Because so many of the guests were coming from out of town, we decided to combine the bachelorette party and bridal shower into one fun-filled weekend to save on travel time and ensure that everyone could attend.
But at some point, as I trudged through the pre-wedding and wedding day event plans—not to mention my usual full time job!—I started to wish someone else could take on more of the planning workload. I really wanted some time to actually enjoy these gatherings with my sister. I'm sure there are many plan-weary bridesmaids and maids of honor out there who can relate, so I thought I'd make a suggestion: enlist a bachelorette party planning company.
What a great concept! This way you can enjoy the special day with the bride and let someone else stress over the details.
Firefly Group Events: Firefly can come to the rescue for San Francisco, San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles bachelorette get-togethers. They have some fun packages, and will even customize your party if none of the existing packages are right for you. They'll also give you your own web page, making it easy for you to manage all the details online. The best part is that your guests can log on to the Firefly website and pay for their participation so you don't have to worry about managing the event funds.
Brides Night Out: This company really does it all: They'll be there to greet your guests, guide you on your adventure and make sure the night ends with everyone arriving home safely. Brides Night Out has so many different packages you're sure to find something that fits your group. For more information on Brides Night Out, click here.
Trust me: As maid of honor and guest, you'll have enough to do for the wedding. Getting some help with the bachelorette party planning will mean you can actually let loose with your friends and celebrate!
Posted by Denise on Jul 20, 2009.
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UPS Compatibility
Connected to APC SmartUPS SC 620, this PSU was stable at loads up to 392 watts when powered by the mains but could only switch to the UPS's batteries at a load of 280 watts.
Output Voltage Stability
The +12V and +3.3V voltages do not deflect by more than 3% from their ideal levels except that the +3.3V voltage gets more unstable when there is unrealistically high load on the +3.3V rail and a high load on the +12V rail.
The +12V rail behaves differently than in most other high-wattage PSUs where this voltage deflects more at low loads and less at high loads. Here, the +12V voltage keeps within 1% from its default level at loads up to 500 watts but fluctuates more at higher loads.
The +5V voltage is the least stable of all, deflecting by 4-5% from 5 volts when there's a high load on the +12V rail.
Output Voltage Ripple
The high-frequency voltage ripple is close to the permissible limits on each power rail, occasional spikes even shooting above those limits on the +5V rail.
The same goes for the low-frequency ripple.
Enhance should do something about this parameter as the EPS-1812GA4 barely meets the industry standard.
Temperature and Noise
The PSU is cooled by a DFB132512H fan from Young Lin Tech. It's an 11-blade 135mm model with a rated speed up to 1700 RPM.
The fan starts out at 720 RPM and doesn't change this speed until a load of 450 watts. Then it accelerates in a linear manner up to 1400 RPM at 950 watts and maintains this speed until full load. Thus, the fan doesn't even reach its maximum rated speed. As a result, the EPS-1812GA4 turns out to be the quietest of the four PSUs. It is virtually silent at loads up to 700 watts and does not get uncomfortable even at full load.
Efficiency and Power Factor
The power factor is just what you can expect from a modern PSU with active power factor correction.
As for the efficiency, my tests suggest that this model can meet the 80+Gold requirements even though it lacks official certification.
It is 3.2% and 0.8% more efficient than required at loads of 20% and 50%. At full load it is 0.1% less efficient than necessary, but this may be due to measurement inaccuracies, especially as it is 87.3% efficient only 26 watts short of full load.
+5V Standby Source
The standby source is blameless.
The Enhance EPS-1812GA4 can boast good electrical and acoustic properties, but has short fixed cables and a rather high level of output voltage ripple.
If Enhance can get rid of the mentioned downsides without compromising the model's quietness, it would be a very good buy.


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Wait..wheres the breaking news
Has Carmelo Signed Off?: The Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets were still working on a massive 15-player trade that would land Denver All-Star Carmelo Anthony in New Jersey.
However [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] is reporting that sources close to Anthony are saying that Carmelo has told no one that he'd sign a contract extension and that may be holding up a deal.
"He has not agreed to go to New Jersey," said the source, who speaks regularly with Anthony. "I have never heard him, in all the times we've talked, say he's willing to go to New Jersey. Not once. Personally, I would be stunned if he went there and signed an extension."According to Broussard, the Nuggets have granted New Jersey permission to meet with Anthony, but a face-to-face meeting has not taken place.
Sources near the Nets' side of things [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], that they had enough assurances on an extension to move forward with the proposed trade, saying they "heard it from the horse's mouth" that Melo would sign a three-year $65 million deal after arriving in Jersey.
Broussard's source disagrees with that assessment saying Carmelo's agent Leon Rose is pushing Jersey:
"He [Rose] may want him to go there," one source said. "But Melo doesn't want to be in Jersey. He wants to play in New York."Sources near Carmelo said recently that there is a growing rift between Carmelo and his personal advisors, and Leon Rose his agent.
Carmelo's personal advisors are upset with how much information is finding its way to the press, and how slowly this process is moving.
Those with knowledge of the agreement between Carmelo and Leon Rose, say Rose promised Melo he could get him to New York with a three year $65 million extension.
Carmelo's advisors are concerned about the damage this prolonged public process will have on Carmelo's endorsement power, and are worried that Carmelo will be villianized like LeBron James was for leaving Cleveland, which is why Carmelo continues to play things very quietly on his side.
Reports that Carmelo wouldn't sign an extension with anyone but the Knicks do line up with what Carmelo's advisors have said from the beginning.
New Jersey believes they have a commitment on an extension, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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Yeah not wanting to sign with the Nets isn't breaking news, it's sanity lol.
Yeah I read this early this morning. It seems like the nets are getting some bad information from someone. I'm guessing its CAA pushing this deal to the nets and making them feel confident about things while hoping they can sway Melo to NJ. That's not what your agent is supposed to do. Melo prefers NY but his reps are going the other way with it.
Its VERY clear now that Melo wants no part of NJ or else this would have happened weeks ago. I wish today was Feb 12th.
Real Talk
It's very clear that Carmelo wants no part of New Jersey.
Like you said, the Nets have had how many deals fall through since last July to trade for Carmelo?
Every single time their name comes up in a trade talk the deal is killed within a matter of days. Melo doesn't want to play with a Center who averages 6 rebounds per game.
LOng as STAT, Chandler,Fields and Felton stay - they can have anyone else for Melo......


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This year's tax deadline is barely in the rear-view mirror, but there's already a morsel of good news for next year: hundreds of small neurology practices will not face the burdensome task of sending new 1099 tax forms to the Internal Revenue Service for any vendor to whom they pay more than $600 in a given tax year.
On April 14, President Obama signed into law the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011, repealing the 1099 mandate, which had been part of a provision in the Affordable Care Act intended to ensnare small businesses that weren't reporting all of their income. If the requirement had not been repealed, neurology practices would have had to obtain the corporate name, address and federal tax identification number for each business or individual that they paid over $600 to in the course of the year, and then mail it a 1099 form.
In his State of the Union address in January, Obama called the requirement "an unnecessary bookkeeping burden on small businesses."
That's certainly what it would have been for Elaine Jones, MD, a neurologist in private practice in Bristol, RI, who co-chairs the AAN Governmental Relations Committee. "I just finished doing my taxes for this year, and that requirement would have really expanded both the paperwork I would have had to do and the cost of it. I'm not a big firm. I do the books myself and have an accountant who reviews them quarterly and helps me file them. This would have added a lot of unnecessary extra paper to my pile."
"The Academy supported repeal of the provision like all organizations that would have members impacted by the burdensome requirement, although it did not take any specific action," said AAN Legislative Counsel Michael Amery.
Other medical organizations supporting the repeal included the American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association. Indeed, the repeal had broad bipartisan support (the final Senate vote was 87-12).
"Most people thought it was going to get fixed by Congress and the President," Dr. Jones said. The only sticking point was how to pay for the $21.9 billion increase in the deficit that would result. Ultimately, Congress settled on allowing the government to recoup a larger share of overpayments to people who receive government subsidies to purchase health insurance as part of the health care reform law.
While the repeal remained an open question, Dr. Jones found herself wondering what transactions she would have had to report and how. "Do I have to report on my office supplies? Do I send a 1099 to Staples? Do I send a 1099 to the people who do repairs on my building? It was very confusing."
But not every small-practice neurologist thought the mandate would have been that onerous. "I have a very small practice and I use Quickbooks," said Sara Austin, a neurologist in Austin, TX, and a member of the AAN Governmental Relations Committee. "My accountant comes in at the end of the year and punches a button and generates the 1099s. Right now, they're very few, and it's easy to generate. But with such a small practice, I guess it's hard to know the real impact of something like this."
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Oral history interview with Saul Steinberg, 1973 March 27
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b. 1914
d. 1999
Painter, Muralist, Sculptor, Illustrator, Cartoonist
Active in New York, N.Y.
Size: Transcript: 11 pages.
Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 33 min.
Label on reel container says 1973. This was confirmed by listening to the audio post-digitization. The interview was previously dated 1963. There is no deed in the collection file to confirm date.
Collection Summary: Interview of Saul Steinberg conducted 1973 March 27, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
Biographical/Historical Note: Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was a painter and cartoonist from New York, N.Y.
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.


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The movie business press was stunned by the performance of the new Universal horror film, "The Purge," last weekend.
Made for around $3 million, the picture opened in the number one spot with a $36.4 million gross. Left with egg on their faces were the producers of the $58 million comedy, "The Internship," which grossed less than half of what "The Purge" did and came in at a feeble four in the top ten.
A B-horror movie isn't supposed to dominate the box office during the most prime of summer months at the nation's multiplexes, but "The Purge" has earned its success the old-fashioned way by delivering the goods — it's the first shocker worth talking about in a long time.
The film is written and directed by James DeMonaco from a deliciously simple premise. It's the year 2022 and the U.S. government is sanctioning an annual "purge" — when local and federal law enforcement officials look the other way for 12 hours, allowing the populace to commit any crimes it desires.
For the haves, it means 12 hours of fabulous "reality" TV viewing in their heavily guarded and gated communities — i.e. watching members of the lower classes maiming and murdering each other.
DeMonaco has produced something that could be read as one of the most virulently anti-American films of recent vintage, an appalling display of the bloodlust built into the culture and a scathing critique of the way our government has more or less sanctioned a permanent (and vast) underclass warehoused in urban squalor far from the plush preserves of the 1 percent.
The plot combines elements of Shirley Jackson's classic short story "The Lottery" (about an annual human sacrifice in a small New England village), with bits of "Straw Dogs," "Night of the Living Dead" and a few other horror classics. But DeMonaco has blended these elements into a fresh use of a disreputable genre for social commentary.
B-moviemakers often get away with a lot more than those who work on big-budget pictures that are slowly developed and then endlessly focus-grouped so that any upsetting notions are left on the cutting room floor. "The Purge" is a rough little movie — marred by more than a couple of plotting problems — but like "Night of the Living Dead" and the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" it has surprising satirical and political elements in it.
Seeing the movie at a Manhattan multiplex over the weekend, it was quite amazing to witness this cunning, slightly-futuristic thriller work its sadistic ways on an audience.
When wealthy security expert Ethan Hawke and his wife Lena Headey and two children provide shelter in their McMansion to a black man a white mob is hunting for sport, "The Purge" gets into the sort of queasy race politics that B-movies used to exploit in the 1970s.
So few Hollywood pictures explore contemporary racism that you can feel the audience being jolted by the way this horror movie digs into the topic. DeMonaco keeps us off balance as we wonder how far he is going with the volatile material (as it turns out, he goes right to the edge of the abyss).
The casting is perfect, especially in the case of the film's truly unsettling primary villain — the young, handsome WASP (Rhys Wakefield, above) who demands that the barricaded family turn over the "animal" they are sheltering in their house. Wakefield is beyond creepy, with his calm demeanor and lunatic grin — worthy of comparison with Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death."
Then, near the end of the movie, Arija Bareikis turns up in the house, as another blood-thirsty, Bible-quoting WASP, and she's even scarier than Wakefield. People around me in the theater were crying out for her to be killed (and I can't say that I blamed them).
"The Purge" is manipulative and more than slightly tasteless, but it is also a sensationally effective horror movie.


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Malone - Jessica M. O'Rourke, 50, of 386 West Main St., Malone, NY, passed away Thursday, August 22, 2013 at the Alice Hyde Medical Center, where she had been a patient for more than a week.
Jessica was born January 18, 1963 in Staten Island, NY, the daughter of the late Joyce Sharrow. She enjoyed the outdoors, and taking walks, and also liked cooking and watching movies; and she loved her pet cats.
She is survived by her daughter, Danielle Bowles of Akwesasne; and her sons Joseph O'Rourke at home and Mathew Silva of New Jersey; her sister Kathleen O'Rourke of Wilkes Barre, PA; and two brothers, Robert O'Rourke of New Jersey; and John O'Rourke of Wilkes Barre, PA.
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, August 31, 2013, at 12:00 noon, at the Church of Christ in Hogansburg, NY, with Brandon Tarbell officiating.
Arrangements are with the Donaldson Funeral Home, Massena, NY, where condolences may be made online at www.donaldsonfh.com.
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How can you get the covariance?
You don't have a joint density
I guess you get
This is a one to one mapping with probability one since x>0.
where 1<y<4.
I've just noticed the negative cdf...sometimes I get caught up in the calculating and don't use common sense!
Perhaps I should give the question in full....
the pdf is given above, I then have to find the cdf(by integrating the pdf given) then the transformation is given and I have to then find the cdf of Y and the pdf of Y, and finally the covariance of (X,Y)....
These TWO techniques are the same. IF you differentiate...
wrt the variable y (this is not a random variable, this is calc 1) you get
The general formula, which is in most books is
but since x>0 we have
So given the pdf ....
The replies have helped alot, however I'm trying to find the cdf from this pdf then the transformation and then find the cdf of Y and so then the pdf of Y....
1)What would the cdf be as I get a negative answer as I shown a couple posts ago..??
2)What is the process to obtaining the cdf of Y?
3)and finally then the pdf of Y?


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Cheats and Walkthroughs
Cheats and Walkthroughs
At Pax 2012 today, legendary game designer Hideo Kojima showed off a big chunk of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The game is open world, with vehicles, but with a stealth twist. Kojima said MGS: Ground Zeroes is not Metal Gear Solid 5; it's a "prologue."
Prologue or not, the game looks amazing. Built on the Fox Engine, the demo level shown featured a long cut-scene (naturally) that transitioned seamlessly to in-engine gameplay footage. According to Kojima, the lushly detailed demo gameplay we saw is not for next-gen systems. This is how it will look on your PS3 or 360. Although Kojima pointed out that the game is scalable to next-gen systems.
In the demo, Snake (yes, he's back) is tasked with infiltrating a U.S. prison built in Cuba. We see Snake climbing up a cliff in the rain, at night. At the top, he nears the prison, dodging search lights by cowering behind rocks and lying on the ground. After dodging the headlights of a truck (Ground Zeroes will feature a variety of vehicles you can ride in) Snake sets his gun-sights on the guard manning the tower. He takes a silenced-shot, and the enemy slumps over.
Because this game is in early state, we don't get to see inside the prison. Instead, Snake lights off a flare on the ground, drawing a helicopter. You'll be able to call a helicopter at any time, although if you summon a helicopter in too conspicuous an area, it could be shot down. According to Kojima, the helicopter can play whatever music you choose. For the demo, it's Wagner (shades of Apocalypse Now), although if your music is too loud, that could draw enemies as well.
When asked if the "Zeroes" in the title refered to a fresh start, Kojima said, "I can't say too much about it; but this isn't the end, its the beginning."


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As a part of the County's effort to protect our waters, the stormwater pond (Pond - 10935) within the Woodrock community was selected for upgrade to help reduce stormwater pollution draining into our streams.
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Oh and who was it at the start of the season that said the Panthers are better than the bears? Whoever that was can shut their mouths now.
Your Bears got by far the weakest schedule and division in the NFL...Carolina blown what 5 games this season in the 4th?
Yeah they're having their problems, but Carolina aren't out of the playoff picture just yet so you Bear fans can sweat it out a little longer, cause I know none of you want a piece of the Panthers come playoff time.
Philly is a good team and Garcia is a damn good QB...I see NY and Carolina getting the last two playoff spots, just because I think Carolina will play with their backs against the wall...and they got 2 games at home now. Lets take care of business.
It's frustrating when your QB throws 3 INTs on his final pass of the game, in situations that could have won us the game...(Cincy, Philly, Washington)...but as bad as this team played this season, (3rd down effeciency, offensive struggles, defense being too tired late in games)...they still could very well be 11-1 on the year if they held on to their leads...Ny Vs Carolina is the season for both teams...actually for Carolina more so then NY because I fear Atlanta more so then an injured Philly team stealing our spot with a tough 4 game stretch for end the year.
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Revolution by rote in 'Les Miz'
By Celia Wren
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Somewhere, a savvy media mogul is surely planning a "Les Miserables" theme park, complete with a Sewers of Paris log-flume ride; a "Look Down! Look Down!" parachute drop; and a "Master of the House" eatery staffed by animatronic-innkeeper waiters.
The edition of the blockbuster musical at the National Theatre through Dec. 30 is not that theme park -- but you might be pardoned, now and then, for thinking it was. As it wheels efficiently through its tale of love, injustice and revolution in 19th-century France, ponying up stirring melodies and marshaling the requisite number of dramatic stage pictures, this epic often displays all the spontaneity of a mechanized waxwork exhibit in a gift shop vestibule.
Performers such as Peter Lockyer, as the compassionate former convict Jean Valjean, and Andrew Varela, as the implacable policeman Javert -- Valjean's nemesis -- display vocal panache and the odd wispy flame of intensity in solo numbers. But when those moments are over, the vibrancy disappears, and the actors become cogs in a well-oiled and joyless entertainment machine. Around them, rigorously trained supporting players and briskly sliding scenic units create tableau after dutiful tableau: a coarse and boisterous crowd of prostitutes with ragged gowns and grimy faces; an inn full of carousing guests; a Paris slum; a band of doomed students clambering on a barricade; and more.
In this context, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg's powerful score, with its cannily recurrent motifs and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, feels businesslike -- an effective mechanism for enhancing suspense, underscoring pathos, manipulating audience emotion and maybe selling T-shirts.
It's easy to understand why this "Les Miz" -- a version of a production put together by impresario Cameron Mackintosh in honor of the show's 25th anniversary -- might be on autopilot: The Victor Hugo-derived extravaganza has often found a friendly welcome in Washington. The musical had its American premiere at the Kennedy Center in 1986 before moving to Broadway, and since then, has conjured up its roiling human landscapes about nine times in the nation's capital, including engagements at the Kennedy Center and the National and a 2008 Signature Theatre interpretation. A news release drawn up for the current engagement asserts that "Les Miz" has raked in a local box office gross of $53,226,585 over the years. And D.C. is the first U.S. city where the new "Les Miserables" movie will play concurrently with a theatrical production. Ka-ching!
To be fair, this staging, directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, doesn't feel entirely mercenary and robotic. (The production visited the Kennedy Center in 2011 with a largely different cast.) In his mellifluous exploration of the song "Stars," Varela manages to reveal a yearning uncertainty beneath Javert's ruthlessness. Briana Carlson-Goodman's Eponine is appealingly gutsy; Jason Forbach's version of the student Enjolras has charisma in spades; and in a competent if not memorable rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream," Genevieve Leclerc at least establishes the potency of Fantine's memories. As the swaggering urchin Gavroche, Joshua Colley (who alternates in the role with Hayden Wall) is irresistible.
Matt Kinley's set design, said to have been inspired by Victor Hugo's paintings, isn't doing the actors any favors these days, though. The three-dimensional scenery -- tilting slum buildings, the students' bristling barricade -- is looking utilitarian and a tad dusty, as if it had been sitting in a warehouse alongside backup units for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
And the projections by Fifty-Nine Productions -- village roofs; city streets and sewers; and other vistas, often in charcoal tones -- sometimes move, giving the production a cinematic but dehumanized feel. When Enjolras and his comrades march, and projections of streets fall away behind them, you know that you are trapped, not in revolutionary Paris, but in a colossal -- and ever more lucrative -- media franchise.