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Microsoft Corp. (
) learned the hard way in the 1990s that you don't want to be on the bad side of antitrust regulators. Now it's looking to
give Google
Inc. (
) a little yuletide surprise -- an invitation to that cruel world.
I. Microsoft Consultant to Consumers: Don't Get "Scroogled"
According to a
new report
The New York Times
, Microsoft has hired a former advisor to President Bill Clinton to lead the multi-channel effort against Google. Mark Penn, 58, is the brains behind the operation.
His first work recently aired; a commercial attack Google for (supposedly) getting inaccurate search results. The commercial quip to consumers is "don't get scroogled".
Meanwhile, on The Hill, Mr. Penn is looking to make sure Google gets "scroogled" by federal regulators. He's noisily complaining to anyone who will listen about the supposedly abusive advertising behavior, which he and Microsoft claim Google uses to exclude smaller rivals like Microsoft from the search ad market.
Mr. Penn knows a thing or two about mixing facts and attacks. He was top paid pollster for President Clinton's 1996 successful reelection bid, helping the POTUS win over certain demographic sectors like "soccer moms". Afterwards, he kept on the Clinton train, helping with Hilary Clinton's unsuccessful, but high-profile 2008 presidential bid. He became perhaps best known for his stinging "3 a.m" commercial, which called into question whether President Obama had what it took to lead the country.
The DC vet was only forced out of the Clinton tent after it came to light that he did some controversial side work, lobbying for the government of Colombia. Mark Penn also raised some eyebrows after Facebook, Inc. (
) hired him to
do an underhanded attack against Google
A former colleague of the lobbyist/advocate tells
The New York Times
, "Google should be prepared for everything but the kitchen sink thrown at them. Actually, they should be prepared for the kitchen sink to be thrown at them, too."
II. Building a "SWAT Team"
Mr. Penn's assembled team in D.C. is small, but efficient. It contains some high profile names, including a former advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The lobbyist/advertising consultant describes, "The concept is to create a SWAT team to work with the product teams on some of their toughest problems. If any of our competitors say things about us that we don't think are true, we're not going to sit on the sidelines. We're going to pop them."
He's already been busy attacking Google on Twitter and other social media platforms.
Microsoft is surely hoping that the more aggressive turn breathes some life into its search efforts, which have been
bleeding money for over a decade
Mark Penn [Image Source: PRNewser]
There are some signs that his efforts are succeeding. Google is facing several
antitrust inquiries in the U.S.
European Union
, thanks in part to Microsoft's complaints. And a recent campaign highlighted that Google is now only featuring merchants in its shopping search who pay it to be listed surprised and angered consumers who were unaware of the change.
That's precisely the reaction Mr. Penn is looking for -- outrage and indignation. He's well aware that customers currently have a glowing image of Google and a less warm and fuzzy image of Microsoft (in many cases). But the DC veteran who attended Harvard University with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in the mid-1970s, and who consulted with Microsoft here-and-there through the 1990s is looking to step up to the plate and lead the software veteran's effort to change that impression.
When customers think Google, Mr. Penn wants them to think "scroogle".
The New York Times
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The 22-year-old slugger hit a two-run homer to the opposite field and made some impressive plays at first base in his first major league start Friday night as the Rangers beat the slumping Philadelphia Phillies 8-7.
"He's got stupid pop, opposite-field pop," Milton Bradley said. "He got that pitch tonight, and he hit it out like it was nothing. Hopefully, it's a sign of things to come."
Or as closer C.J. Wilson referred to Davis, "The Hulk."
While Davis' homer capped a five-run outburst for Texas in the third, and he was the one drenched by the contents of a water cooler poured over his head during a postgame interview, Bradley's tiebreaking solo homer two innings later put the Rangers ahead to stay.
Texas made it to the halfway point of its schedule at 41-40, seven wins more than at the same point a year ago in manager Ron Washington's rookie season.
Pedro Feliz hit a grand slam for Philadelphia (43-38), whose lead in the National League East is down to one game over Florida after the Phillies' eighth loss in nine games.
After Philadelphia went up 5-1 with five runs in the third, Davis' two-run homer capped the Rangers' response in the bottom of the inning.
"Obviously the homer run felt good," said Davis, a fifth-round draft pick two years ago. "It was fun to get that and get a win."
Davis, a converted third baseman, made his major league debut Thursday night with a pinch-hit infield single at Houston. He made a nifty defensive stop against Philadelphia when he dove to his left to snag a short hopper and ran to the bag for the final out of the fifth.
"Basically me just falling over," Davis said, smiling. "It was a reaction play. It shows how much work I've put in at first base."
The Rangers called up Davis while waiting for the return of Hank Blalock, a former two-time All-Star third baseman who is switching to first when he comes back from the disabled list. But Blalock had another setback Friday after taking some swings in the batting cage. He felt soreness in his surgically repaired wrist and was told by team doctors not to pick up a bat for a week.
Bradley, the American League's top hitter at .330, started for only the second time in nine games since sustaining a left quadriceps strain. His 16th homer, a solo shot off Clay Condrey (1-1), hit about halfway up the right-field pole in the fifth to snap a 6-6 tie.
Ian Kinsler went 3-for-4 and scored three times, the last on Josh Hamilton's sacrifice fly in the eighth that proved vital. Kinsler led off the first with his 13th homer before adding two doubles, a walk and his 20th stolen base.
"Kinsler set the stage and the rest of them followed," manager Ron Washington said.
Wilson worked the ninth for his 17th save in 19 chances, after giving up a 437-foot homer to Jayson Werth on his first pitch. Josh Rupe (3-1) pitched 2 1/3 innings in relief.
The Phillies, the last of the other 29 current teams to ever visit Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, scored more runs in one inning than they had in any of their previous eight games. And that still wasn't enough.
Hamilton, who left Thursday night's game after getting hit by a pitch on the left hand in the first, had two RBI to increase his majors-best total to 78.
Kinsler had a leadoff double in the third and came home after consecutive infield singles by Michael Young and Hamilton. Brett Myers was relieved after walking the next two batters, including David Murphy with the bases loaded.
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said Myers could soon find himself out of the starting rotation.
"First, you have to get somebody to do the job. When things go bad, those are things we discuss," Manuel said. "I told you two a few outings ago, we'd try to get him right and go from there."
The Phillies are 1-11 in the last 12 games started by Myers, who is 1-8 in that stretch.
Condrey coaxed a double play grounder from Marlon Byrd before the homer by Davis, who had 27 homers and 77 RBI in 77 minor league games this season.
Philadelphia led 5-1 after its first hit of the game, the Feliz grand slam coming off left-hander Kason Gabbard. All of those runs were unearned because of an error by Gabbard when he didn't catch Werth's soft comeback liner.
After the Rangers responded, Gabbard didn't hold the lead long, allowing a leadoff homer to Chris Coste in the fourth that tied the game at 6-6. Gabbard lasted only three more batters, then Rupe got Jimmy Rollins to ground into an inning-ending double play on the first pitch the reliever threw.
Kinsler leads the AL with 104 hits and 69 runs scored. ... Feliz's last grand slam was also in Texas, in Houston on May 16, 2006.


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(Jackson, MS, July 20, 2005) — Lambda Legal today filed a brief in the Chancery Court of Jackson County on behalf of a Mississippi mother who has been barred from allowing her children to have contact with their aunt because she has HIV.
Lambda Legal represents Keri Rowell, who was granted an extension of the temporary custody of her three children contingent upon their being denied physical contact with their aunt, Tanya Wilkins, because she has HIV. Rowell wishes to live with her sister but is unable to do so as a result of the restriction.
"More than two decades of science has proved that HIV is not transmitted through casual contact within the home, and we are confident that the Court will acknowledge that Ms. Wilkins' HIV status is not a sound reason for restricting contact with her family," said Greg Nevins, Senior Staff Attorney in Lambda Legal's Southern Regional Office based in Atlanta. "These children should be able to be with the aunt they love, not just be able to wave at her through a window, and Ms. Rowell should be able to create a home for her family."
In the brief, Lambda Legal urges the court to base its judgment on sound science rather than fear and misinformation. The brief was filed in advance of a hearing that will determine the final custody arrangement.
In a custody hearing this past March, a judge granted Rowell an extension of the temporary custody of her three children as long as the children had no contact with her sister, Tanya Wilkins, because she has HIV. Prior to the ruling, Wilkins had always played an active role in the children's lives, but since the ruling four months ago she has not been able to have any physical contact with them. Rowell wishes to move in with her sister but is being prevented from doing so by the Court's ruling.
Cliff Johnson of Pigott, Reeves, Johnson & Minor, P.A. in Jackson, MS and Art Hewitt of Mississippi Center for Legal Services in Gulfport, MS are serving as co-counsel with Lambda Legal in filing the brief.
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Topping off an uneventful card before a sparse crowd Friday night on the Johnny Tapia Presents card at the Crowne Plaza in Albuquerque, NM, both Josh "Pittbull" Torres (12-2-1, 5 Kos) and Joaquin Zamora (20-4-1, 12 Kos) picked up wins against opponents made to order. In the main event, Torres won a shutout decision over unwilling turtle-shelled Marcus Brashears (9-16-1, 2 Kos), of Amarillo, Texas. Scores were 80-72 x 3. In another less-than-thrilling eight-rounder, Zamora won a dull sparring session victory over Bernardo Guereca (17-18-1, 4 Kos), winning with scores of 79-72 x 3. On the undercard: In four rounds, Arturo Crespin (9-2-1, 4 Kos) went to war against overmatched Charles Alderete (1-3) at middleweight, overwhelming him through much of the five-plus rounds before Alderete's corner threw in a multitude of white towels at 1:19 of the sixth. In a light-heavyweight four-rounder, Adrian Lopez (5-1-1, 1 KO) outboxed Ricky Villafuerte (0-2) for the second straight time, winning with scores of 40-36 x 3. In the only really competitive fight on the card, between debuting bantamweights, Brandon Munoz (0-0-1) and Julio Gomez (0-0-1) fought to a majority decision. Look for a full report and photos tomorrow.


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The Friends Cemetery is located off Quaker Church Road just outside of Yorktown off Route 202/35. You first come upon the old Quaker meeting house structures which are designated Historic Buildings and are on the County register, and has a rich history. Quakers, who do not believe in warfare, were criticized for refusing to be involved in the Revolutionary War, said Ward Harrington, the house's treasurer. But they were well-known enough at that point that soldiers often let Quakers pass unharmed through battle zones.
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There are Revolutionary graves and many Civil War in the burial ground, but probably the most famous person interred there is Robert (born Endre Ernő Friedmann, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) a photographer during World War II and the Korean conflict. Although he was not a Quaker, it was requested that he be buried there. and Cornell Capa (born Kornél Friedmann, April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008), their mother and Edie Capa, Cornell's wife, plus their biographer Richard Whelan, are buried in the Amawalk Burial Ground. Since tombstones are considered ostentatious by the Quakers, they often face uphill or are absent altogether from a grave.
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My GSD mix Lucky has a small bump on her belly, I can feel it when I rub her belly. She still has a good appetite and is active. What are possible causes? And should I take her in for a checkup?
do u have a pic of it?
could be an umbilical hernia but depends on where it is and how it feels when you press on it
I don't have a picture it's not really visible, but I can feel it, it's located just off the center or her belly, right before the fur. The one unusual thing she's been doing lately is hiding under a table or in the bathroom at times.
It feels about the size of a small marble
get that checked out
an umbilical hernia is usually soft and squishy and right about the center of the tummy
right at the belly button or next to it
bump off midline in a female dog is much more concerning for a mammary tumor, and an umbilical hernia would not feel round like a marble. Get her checked out, and if it is a growth have it removed and sent to a pathologist for review.
Okay, I'll get Lucky checked out. T
hank you both for your feedback
don't leave us hanging, get back to us with what the vet says.
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Why the buddy system is 'huge' for Doc Rivers
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WALTHAM — Doc Rivers isn't just one of the most personable coaches among fans and media, he's one of the most likable among his fellow NBA head coaches.
And that – as it turns out – has its rewards.
As the playoffs near, Rivers has been tapping into that network of coaches for some inside intel. But Rivers isn't looking for advance scouting tips on his opponents; he's looking for what other coaches see in the Celtics.
Rivers was asked Tuesday at practice what he thought of teams like Cleveland and Washington defending Paul Pierce and Jeff Green with smaller, quicker guards.
"That won't last," Rivers predicted. "I think teams will go back and forth on it. And they did even in the game the other night [vs. Washington]. They started out small, went big and then went back to small. I think teams are trying to figure out which way they would guard them."
Why is that? All Rivers had to do was ask longtime friend and former Atlanta teammate Randy Wittman, now the coach of the Wizards.
"It's nice when you play, honestly, a team that's not in the playoffs and talk to the coach after the game. I asked what their reasoning [is] for choosing one or the other. It's been interesting the comments I've gotten back."
What kind of information?
"Good information," Rivers smiled. "They've always helped, and they're open for the most part," Rivers said of his postgame chats with the coaches. "They're not going to tell you their secrets but they're going to tell you some of their thoughts so they're helpful."
It's not just Wittman, either. On the current four-game homestand that ends against Brooklyn, the Celtics have played Detroit [Lawrence Frank], Cleveland [Byron Scott] and Washington [Wittman]. All three teams will be home in two weeks when the playoffs begin. And all three have head coaches with direct ties to Rivers.
"That's huge because otherwise, I wouldn't ask, to be honest," Rivers said. "So, if you have a relationship with a coach, it helps. And there's also a lot of coaches not coaching right now that you talk to a lot. You even ask them, 'Who would you guard or how would you attack?' It's good getting somebody outside of us because they see us entirely different than we see ourselves."
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The approach to the auld kirk is through Kirkport and the 1656 lychgate into the kirkyard. The Commonwealth Government paid for the 1654 T-plan kirk after Cromwell's troops had occupied the old Church of St John on the sands. Respectful alterations by David Bryce of 1836. High-quality interior with three lofts on Corinthian columns and a splendid double-decker pulpit. one of the few remaining 'Obit' boards records money donated to the poor. This church is not a museum, but living and active.
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The most decorated football player in Hudson Valley history, Emmanuel Marc was named the NJCAA Offensive Player of the Year following the 2003 season. He also was named the Offensive Most Valuable Player of the 2003 JC Football Network All USA Iron-Man Team. A first team All-American in numerous publications, Marc also earned Offensive Player of the Year honors in the Northeast Football Conference. He was named the Offensive Most Valuable Player of The Graphic Edge Bowl after rushing for 269 yards against Ellsworth Community College.
Marc set every major Hudson Valley rushing record, including: yards in a game (335 vs. Alfred State in 2003); yards in a season (2,038); yards in a career (3,273), touchdowns in a game (five vs. Union JV in 2002); touchdowns in a season (18); and career touchdowns (30).
Marc earned several honors at Spring Valley High School including All-League, All-County, All-Section and All-State. He rushed for a school-record 1,566 yards his senior season.
Year Games Carries Yards YPG TD Rec Yards TD
2002 9 177 1,235 137.2 12 3 8 0
2003 10 313 2,038 203.8 18 9 89 0
Totals 19 490 3,273 172.3 30 12 97 0
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You don't need to be a fine woodworker to sit in a chair. An inability to precisely construct an angled mortise and tenon joint does not preclude you from resting your feet. Similarly the time is rapidly approaching where you won't need to be a marketing scientist to deploy analytics. Ignorance of neural networks will no longer impede your ability to use them to improve a campaign. The democratization of predictive modeling or other trends involving the intersection of customer analytics and marketing technology is much of what I will cover for Forrester Research.
In my new role as a senior analyst I look forward to helping Customer Insight professionals increase marketing and business returns through becoming more intelligent enterprises. This might involve guiding clients on technology decisions, organizational strategy, or benchmarking to their peers. What topics would you like to see me cover?
In the age of the customer I believe companies can find competitive advantage through analytics. The rise of big data, always addressable customers, and real-time optimization is combining to challenge analytic teams. Leading companies will leverage the increasing variety and volume of data to broaden the questions addressed, advance decision management systems, and enhance predictive and real-time models. Teams built for batch-based campaigns in one or two channels that utilize one or two data sources will be under intense pressure to evolve.
I imagine a few people reading this will be interested in my past. In short, I am a former science teacher, turned marketing scientist, turned analytics manager. Most recently I was the director of advanced analytics at Supervalu, leading a team that delivered a variety of descriptive and predictive analyses. In my role as analyst I hope to draw from all those roles. I will strive to balance the curiosity of a teacher with the understanding of a practitioner and the strategic focus of a functional owner.
I am excited to have landed at Forrester Research and look forward to working with you. To help me research what is most relevant to you, I welcome your comments about issues, concerns, or predictions on customer analytics and marketing technology.
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There's no standard formula for requirements workshops. Each project, business situation, and group of people will combine to make each workshop unique. Preparing for the requirements workshop requires collaboration. It permits you to tap into the collective wisdom of all of the project stakeholders. In your workshops, participants are active, engaged, committed, and task-oriented. A well-run workshop builds trust and mutual understanding among all the participants. Workshops are not new, but are proven best practices in software development. They can go a long way not only in product delivery, but also in building a "jelled" team.
Development VP Avery Kerr of BeWell Medical Corp. assigned our group to define the requirements for a software system to be used by registration agents and customers.
"They're all over the place with what they want," lamented Mary, RegTrak's project manager. I asked her to explain what she meant. Who was all over the place? What did they want?
"Product development wants our global agents to use RegTrak to register and order products for their regions or countries," she explained. "Distribution wants hospital purchasing agents to be able to place orders and check on them. Marketing wants health care workers in the hospital to have access, too."
It was clear that the RegTrak team needed to nail down the scope and high-level requirements of the proposed project. Because Mary was newly assigned to RegTrak, she was especially concerned about getting the project off to a good start.
Her comment confirmed my typical experience: Each of the various stakeholders has his or her own understanding of what the scope should be, based on personal experience and knowledge.
"I suggest we bring together all of the stakeholders to define the scope of the project," I said. Mary agreed. We formed a workshop planning team and got to work.
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We often talk about how tough it is to capture user requirements. The term capture
User requirements have always been difficult to surface and clarify. Many industry experts assert that defining user requirements is the most difficult task of software development. One of the biggest reasons is the communication gap between software and business people, which result in less than stellar customer-supplier relationships. Each side speaks using its own acronyms and shortcuts. Unless they've experienced each other's roles, they have trouble truly appreciating each other's legitimate concerns. This problem exists for both external software development organizations and software groups supporting internal business organizations. User requirements models help bridge these communication gaps.
User Requirements Models
User requirements are the needs that users have (people or things that affect, or are affected by the system). User requirements can be expressed as functional hierarchies using text; for many business systems, models can be used to define user requirements.
A requirements model is a high-level blueprint for a software product. It takes the form of a diagram, list, or table, often supplemented with text, that depicts a user's needs from a particular point of view. Examples of user requirements models include event lists, use cases, data models, class models, business rules, actor maps, prototypes, and user interface navigation diagrams.
Whatever its form, though, the primary purpose of a requirements model is to communicate. Defining requirements is a discovery process for users and customers. User requirements evolve from the process of users "trying out" their requirements through models.
Requirements models speak to both users and software people. As users create and modify the models, their understanding of their requirements changes and evolves—in other words, the requirements become clearer. Defining requirements with models works independently of software development methodology or technology. If you're using a more formal, disciplined development methodology, you're likely to need more models that contain greater detail. With less formal and prescribed methodologies, you'll create just a few models, and the models aren't likely to be very precise. In either case, models are needed. This is true if you're using more traditional technologies and languages or bleeding-edge tools.
An effective way to develop user requirements models is to use requirements workshops.
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Is there any way to mass add the Envato watermark to my tracks? I've got quite a back catalog of tracks I want to upload but it a bit of a mammoth task at the moment watermarking them all.
Any ideas?
There's a 1 minute watermark but you'd still have to bounce each file out. I'm not aware of any batch processor that would do this. Good luck in your search.
I thought as much, no worries, thanks for your help.
This would be a great feature for AudioJungle to provide. There are sites like http://rocbattle.com that automatically add the watermark to all tracks uploaded.
in my music software program i have a saved template called 'watermark' that i just load up which allows me to just drag the music wav file in and add the watermark to the track. i have it laid out to around 3 minutes of the watermark looped since most of my tracks are around that time length. maybe you guys could try somethin like that to speed up the workflow. there arent many options for this issue and its not the best or most efficient solution, but it does help me a little bit.


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Duo may not stay with Rovers
Blackburn Rovers boss Steve Kean fears the club may not be able to afford to sign loan duo Roque Santa Cruz and Jermaine Jones permanently.
The pair moved to Ewood Park on temporary deals in January and Kean had hoped to negotiate prices with their parent clubs for summer transfers.
Blackburn want to re-sign Paraguay striker Santa Cruz, 29, from Manchester City two years after selling him to the Eastlands outfit for £17.5 million while American midfielder Jones, also 29, is contracted to Schalke.
Kean told the Lancashire Telegraph: "We tried to fix a price for Roque and the same for Jermaine because we thought they would do well but we couldn't fix a price.
"We were confident they would do well but obviously if they do really well now then the price becomes too much.
"We tried to get a price fixed but the parent club wouldn't allow that and we just have to get on with it.''
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If evidence was needed that contemporary comedy is the broadest of churches it comes in these recent contrasting gigs. First, The Midnight Beast phenomenon, which has quickly gone from YouTube spoofs to E4 vehicle to sold-out tour.
The frighteningly energetic trio of Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne specialise in smart, smutty rap send-ups. Their D-I-Y video pastiche of Ke$ha's Tik Tok was so successful that Ke$ha herself congratulated them.
Onstage they made like bona fide pop stars, playing instruments and trading raps like baby Beastie Boys.
Despite their musical aspirations they still found time for humour, grabbing chocolate bars lobbed at them and sparring with dancers dressed as sharks. Their obsessions are predictable — sex, girls, sex — but their boisterousness is infectious. While Booty Call is puerile, Life is a Musical wryly subverted Glee culture. When they encored with Tik Tok the female fans' screams could be heard in Shoreditch.
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Aeros OF Thomas Neal was named the Eastern League Player of the Week for the period of June 25th through July 1st.
The 6-foot-2, 20-pound slugger batted .500 with six doubles, three home runs, 10 RBI, seven runs scored, three walks and a 1.036 slugging percentage in seven games last week.
Neal, who is a native of Inglewood, California, kicked off the week by homering in consecutive games Monday and Tuesday, then went on to reach base in each game he played. He also drove in or scored at least one run in six of those games and had five multiple hit performances.
The 24-year old led all E.L. players in batting average (.500), hits (14), extra -base hits (nine), total bases (29), slugging percentage (1.036) and OPS (1.598) last week and finished among the weekly leaders in doubles (tied for first), homers (tied for first), RBI (tied for first), on-base percentage (second at .563) and runs scored (seventh, tied for third).
On the season, Neal is batting .307 with 16 doubles, six home runs, 42 runs scored
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Guerrero honored in hometown
The city of Gilroy, California, hometown to five-time world champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero, is dedicating a special day to their accomplished hero. On Sunday May 15, 2011, family, friends and fans are encouraged to make their way to downtown Gilroy as the official Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero Day will be celebrated. Streets will be blocked off on 5th St. from Eigleberry St. to Monterey Road beginning at 12:00 with festivities till 6:00 P.M. Money raised from a $5.00 dinner plate, $5.00 autographed photos and raffled items will be donated to the "Leukemia and Lymphoma Society" and "Be The Match National Marrow Donor Program."
"It's a great honor to be recognized by the people of Gilroy." said Guerrero. "Not only will I be honored for my accomplishments in the ring, but this event will help raise money and bring awareness to people suffering from cancer. I encourage everyone to come out and join the bone marrow registry. A simple cotton swab in the mouth is all it takes. By doing that a life can be saved."
Mayor Al Pinheiro went on to say "Robert Guerrero is to be congratulated not only for his boxing titles, which are an amazing accomplishment, but also as a tremendous example to all for his community spirit. Robert is an exceptional role model for our youth, and definitely one who leads by example. Accomplishing what he has under ideal conditions would be extraordinary in itself, but coupled with the other challenges that Robert and his family have faced, and conquered, the true champion spirit of Robert is there for all to see. Not only is he one of the best fighters in the World, he is someone who, we as Gilroyans, can all be extremely proud of."
In addition, State Assemblyman Luis Alejo will be giving Robert Guerrero a Proclamation on behalf of the State Assembly and State Senate.
"The Gilroy Police department would like to recognize hometown hero Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero for his amazing success and for being a positive role model to all Gilroy youth." stated Police Chief Denise Turner. "We applaud his efforts and commitment to our community."
A special thanks goes out to those who made this event possible, which include California Silk Screen, Garlic City Books, Gilroy Downtown Business Association, City of Gilroy, Garlic City Billiards, Gilroy Police Department, Golden Boy Promotions, Ringside Boxing, Dethrone Clothing and Prayfit. Live music provided by Mariachi Alma de Mexico, Bombshell Bully's and J.J. Hawg will be played throughout the day during the festivities. Food provided by Station 55 and Lizarran Mexican Restaurant.
Please join the "City of Gilroy" on this special day as they honor their hometown hero, Five-Time World Champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero.
Scheduled Itinerary:
12:00 – Tri-Tip Sandwich Plate $5.00 served.
1:00 – Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero Intro.
2:30 – 3:30 – Autographed photos available for purchase $5.00.
3:30 – 4:00 – Robert & Father Boxing Demonstration.
4:45 – 5:00 – Presentation to "The Ghost" by Mayor and City Council


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E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings 1894–1962
American poet, novelist, and playwright. One of the most controversial and innovative poets of the twentieth century, Cummings wrote verse which was revolutionary in typography and style but traditional in theme. His work is characterized by its humor, its unusual configurations on the page, and its themes of love, loss of innocence, the dignity of the individual, and nature. It also shows the thematic influence of writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, bearing witness to the significance of Cummings's New England upbringing. An Emersonian emphasis on individualism remained an important theme throughout Cummings's career, and in particular figured in his novel, The Enormous Room. Based on his experiences in a French detention camp during World War I, it is an account of the preservation of dignity in a degrading and dehumanizing situation. After the war Cummings went to Paris to study art; there he became acquainted with the poet Louis Aragon and the painter Pablo Picasso. In addition to his writing, Cummings also gained recognition as a painter. His background in the visual arts was a significant influence on the radical typography of his poetry. Although his work was accepted by critics with a variety of reactions from acclaim to derision, he was given several distinctions and awards during his lifetime. Notably, Cummings was selected to present the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard. These were later published as i: six nonlectures. Written in Cummings's characteristically rambling prose style, they reveal a great deal about his life and influences. It has been argued that Cummings never grew artistically and that his poetry never evolved into a mature style. However, his influence on modern poetry is irrefutable and his humor refreshingly atypical of his time. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 3, 8, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76.)
John Dos Passos
[Here's] a book that exists because the author was so moved, excited, amused by a certain slice of his existence that things happened freely and cantankerously on paper. And he had the nerve to let things happen…. The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe. (p. 98)
Along with Sandburg and Sherwood Anderson, E. E. Cummings takes the rhythms of our American speech as the material of his prose as of his verse. It is writing created in the ear and lips and jotted down. For accuracy in noting the halting cadences of talk and making music of it, I don't know anything that comes up to these … passages….
Sunday: green murmurs in coldness. Surplice fiercely fearful, praying on his bony both knees, crossing himself…. The Fake French Soldier, alias Garibaldi, beside him, a little face filled with terror … the Bell cranks the sharp-nosed priest on his knees … titter from bench of whores—
And that reminds me of a Sunday afternoon on our backs spent with the wholeness of a hill in Chevancourt, discovering a great apple pie, B. and Jean Stahl and Maurice le Menusier and myself; and the sun falling roundly before us.
(p. 99)
This sort of thing knocks literature into a cocked hat. It has the raucous directness of a song and dance act in cheap vaudeville, the willingness to go the limit in expression and emotion of a negro dancing. And in this mode, nearer the conventions of speech than those of books, in a style infinitely swift and crisply flexible, an individual not ashamed of his loves and hates, great or trivial, has expressed a bit of the underside of History with indelible vividness. (p. 100)
John Dos Passos, in The Dial (copyright, 1922, by The Dial Publishing Company, Inc.), July, 1922.
Mark Van Doren
["X LI Poems"] continues in almost every phase the tradition which Mr. Cummings established for himself two years ago with "Tulips and Chimneys." No long poems are here, but there are Songs, Portraits, Chansons Innocentes, Sonnets, and, war-pieces; and always the same man is writing, with the same unquestionable power and the same unnecessary tricks. The tricks are unnecessary because without them the power would be quite as apparent as it is now, if not a little more so….
Essentially Mr. Cummings is an educated poet. For all his surface radicalism, for all his insistence that his mind is "a big hunk of irrevocable nothing" which performs "squirms of chrome" and executes "strides of cobalt," for all his warning to the timid reader that he will "utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings," he is saturated with Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare—to name only three of the great poets to whom he obviously has gone to school. Why should he not disregard the timid reader, as they did in their different ways, and fill his pages still fuller of the interesting and beautiful work of which he is capable? He has a richly sensuous mind; his verse is distinguished by fluidity and weight; he is equipped to range lustily and long among the major passions. May not his future lie in the direction of his second sonnet, which is a hymn in the grand style—but his grand style—to love?
Mark Van Doren, "First Glance," in The Nation (copyright 1925 by The Nation Associates. Inc.), July 8, 1925, p. 72.
Richard P. Blackmur
Mr. Cummings is a school of writing in himself: so that it is necessary to state the underlying assumptions of his mind, and of the school which he teaches, before dealing with the specific results in poetry of those assumptions.
It is possible to say that Mr. Cummings belongs to the anticulture group; what has been called at various times vorticism, futurism, dadaism, surrealism, and so on. Part of the general dogma of this group is a sentimental denial of the intelligence and the deliberate assertion that the unintelligible is the only object of significant experience…. It is argued that only by denying to the intelligence its function of discerning quality and order, can the failures of the intelligence be overcome; that if we take things as they come without remembering what has gone before or guessing what may come next, and if we accept these things at their face value, we shall know life, at least in the arts, as it really is. Nothing could be more arrogant, and more deceptively persuasive to the childish spirit, than such an attitude when held as fundamental. It appeals to the intellect which wishes to work swiftly and is in love with immediate certainty. (pp. 1-2)
The central attitude of this group has developed, in its sectaries, a logical and thoroughgoing set of principles and habits…. Jazz effects, tough dialects, tough guys, slim hot queens, barkers, fairies, and so on, are made into the media and symbols of poetry. Which is proper enough in Shakespeare where such effects are used ornamentally or for pure play. But in Cummings such effects are employed as substance, as the very mainstay of the poetry. There is a continuous effort to escape the realism of the intelligence in favour of the realism of the obvious. What might be stodgy or dull because not properly worked up into poetry is replaced by the tawdry and by the fiction of the immediate. (pp. 2-3)
By denying the dead intelligence and putting on the heresy of unintelligence, the poet only succeeds in substituting one set of unnourished conventions for another. What survives, with a deceptive air of reality, is a surface. That the deception is often intentional hardly excuses it. The surface is meant to clothe and illuminate a real substance, but in fact is is impenetrable. We are left, after experiencing this sort of art, with the certainty that there was nothing to penetrate. The surface was perfect: the deceit was childish; and the conception was incorrigibly sentimental: all because of the dogma which made them possible.
If Mr. Cummings' tough-guy poems are excellent examples of this sentimentality, it is only natural that his other poems—those clothed in the more familiar language of the lyric—should betray even more obviously, even more perfectly, the same fault. There, in the lyric, there is no pretence at hardness of surface. We are admitted at once to the bare emotion. What is most striking, in every instance, about this emotion is the fact that, in so far as it exists at all, it is Mr. Cummings' emotion, so that our best knowledge of it must be, finally, our best guess. It is not an emotion resulting from the poem; it existed before the poem began and is a result of the poet's private life…. This is the extreme form, in poetry, of romantic egoism: whatever I experience is real and final, and whatever I say represents what I experience. Such a dogma is the natural counterpart of the denial of the intelligence. (pp. 3-4)
Assuming that a poem should in some sense be understood, should have a meaning apart from the poet's private life, either one of two things will be true about any poem written from such an attitude as we have ascribed to Mr. Cummings. Either the poem will appear in terms so conventional that everybody will understand it—when it will be flat and no poem at all; or it will appear in language so far distorted from convention as to be inapprehensible except by lucky guess. In neither instance will the poem be genuinely complete. It will be the notes for a poem, from which might flow an infinite number of possible poems, but from which no particular poem can be certainly deduced. (p. 4)
The question central to [this] discussion will be what kind of meaning does Mr. Cummings' poetry have; what is the kind of equivalence between the language and its object. The pursuit of such a question involves us immediately in the relations between words and feelings, and the relations between the intelligence and its field in experience—all relations which are precise only in terms themselves essentially poetic—in the feeling for an image, the sense of an idiom…. In the examination of Mr. Cummings' writings the grounds will be the facts about the words he uses, and the end will be apprehended in the quality of the meaning his use of these words permits. (pp. 4-5)
If a reader, sufficiently familiar with these poems not to be caught on the snag of novelty, inspects carefully any score of them, no matter how widely scattered, he will especially be struck by a sameness among them. This sameness will be in two sorts—a vagueness of image and a constant recurrence of words…. In Tulips and Chimneys words such as these occur frequently—thrilling, flowers, serious, absolute, sweet, unspeaking, utter, gradual, ultimate, final, serene, frail, grave, tremendous…. [None] of them, taken alone, are very concrete words; and...
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Marianne Moore
Style is for Mr. Cummings "translating;" it is a self-demonstrating aptitude for technique, as a seal that has been swimming right-side-up turns over and swims on its back for a time—"killing nears in droves slaying almosts massacring myriads of notquites": "the worm knocks loud", "sit/the bum said"—with numerous finds in the realm of unconscious bourgeois obnoxiousness: "eye buleev money rules thith woyl"—… "wen uh man's gut thad bright gole thing in his fist, he's strong." This pluck-the-duck, scale-the-fish 15th century appetite for aliveness equivalent to a million trillion musical light years, results in some effects [in Eimi] which are as much better than those in The Enormous Room (the...
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John Peale Bishop
[Cummings] appeared as a young and romantic poet. But he was one unmistakably of his time. That he derived from Keats and had been instructed by the poets of the last century was obvious; but even in the earliest poems, where their trace is most strong, the movement of Cummings' verse is already his own. His charm, at once, is his rapidity. The influence of the romantic tradition was soon left behind; but not the romantic attitude. That was authentic and not taught—at least, not by the English poets. It stood no more in critical favor than it does now, however the cry against it in some quarters has changed. This poetry was aware, as only poetry can be, of what was going on. The sensibility of the poet was...
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S. I. Hayakawa
No modern poet to my knowledge has such a clear, childlike perception as E. E. Cummings—a way of coming smack against things with unaffected delight and wonder. This candor … results in breath-takingly clean vision…. No modern poet, furthermore, is less self-important than Cummings—none so delicately shy about asserting his will upon others. These are not, so far as I am aware, the customary opinions of his work, but if one keeps his attention for a time strictly upon the lyrical verses in the Collected Poems, without permitting himself to be startled or shocked (and therefore sidetracked) by the typographical fireworks or the satire, he will find qualities in Cummings' poetry that are reminiscent of...
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John Finch
The career of E. E. Cummings, from his first appearance at Harvard to his last, has been the consistent statement of an attitude toward authority. His entire work raises the question whether this attitude can much longer continue to be a creative one, or even a possible one for the artist. The question remains unanswered, but merely to have raised it so sharply as he has done is a peculiar achievement.
It involved first the definition of a world in which poems, Cummings's kind of poems, might be written…. And this meant a rigid, wilful ordering of experience according to a moral standard, a reduction of all things into the two categories of the lyric affirmatives (flowers, kisses, children, birds,...
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John Arthos
E. E. Cummings is one of the few modern poets who write about beautiful things simply. Much contemporary poetry is concerned with the analysis of states of mind for the sake of philosophic or social comment…. There are exceptions, of course, but most modern poets are not concerned very much with declaring that the beauty of their experience is proof of the power of beauty…. Cummings is surely the modern poet who has most consistently aimed at lyric expression in the direct manner…. He has remained a lyric poet because he has not been interested in questioning and doubting; he has been constantly searching but he has always known what he is searching for. (p. 372)
Cummings's career in print...
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Philip Green
This unessay is also about communication which is like flowers and moons only not really whom flowers and moons are only for feel (ing o isn't that nice), but communication is more like razor-blades and electric eggbeaters; it is made for use It is utilitarianand so at least partially rational and so unfortunately is any po (iloveyou) em….
what you and i and cummings have in common even more than roses is … language but also the Same Language ie english; a frenchman would have a hell of a time reading cummings' poetry unless he happened to speak english which unfortunately most frenchmen do not [and that would not help more than littlemuch even if he did for many of cummings' poems] (and the...
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Norman Friedman
[The] relationship between Cummings and his speaker is of the [kind which Friedman defines earlier as an author who "may deliberately create a poetic persona and then transform himself in its image, organizing his personal life and concerns to conform to that pattern"], and it has been made possible by endurance—or better still, integrity—rather than by a private income. His speaker is never involved in the world of work and routine which takes up the largest part of the lives of most men…. He is a detached observer and commentator rather than a participant; he is always either alone or with his lady; he never has a time clock to punch, a train to catch, a bill to pay, or a baby to feed. (p. 9)
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David Ray
Cummings is one of our society's best haters; functioning as a Juvenalian satirist, he has long attacked our society's worst indulgences in materialism, hypocrisy, "hypercivic zeal," scientific unwisdom and the following of false heroes and tawdry ideals. He most bitterly, in poems like "plato told him …" reproaches us for not taking the words of our philosophers seriously, but rather insisting on mouthing (vulgarizing and debasing) the poetry of their utterances. (p. 287)
["Buffalo Bill's Defunct,"] based on the poet's intense anger, is part of Cummings's broadside assault on several traditions, particularly that of our national sentimentality toward figures like Buffalo Bill. Cummings seems to be...
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George Wesolek
Cummings' depth and poetic vision is intense enough to excite and revivify. He confronts himself with cosmic dichotomies that take him to the core of man's reality. He questions, probes, ridicules. The undercurrent of a Cummings' joy is most often cynicism, betraying to us the lonely man, the man of "helpless pain" beleaguered by a "piercing sense of dislocation."… (p. 3)
Cummings runs away in his cynicism. He flees the hell-bent, tortuous world that offers the evil of man as his own God. He flees the oppressing, lackluster world of scientifically organized man…. He lifts himself above this banality searching for the God of his poetic joy…. He is like Byron following the venturesome Don Juan to...
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Robert E. Wegner
For Cummings, self-discovery was supremely important and the only valid motive for writing a poem; it separated his awareness from stereotyped awarenesses, separated his identity as an artist from his conventional identity as a member of society. If the truth of human existence is to be uncovered and recognized, it will be accomplished through the perspective of the artist. (pp. 12-13)
In the process of writing a poem, the poet discovers his identity, which paradoxically is one of fusion and harmony with the eternal forces of change. The artist discovers his identity in the eternal by resisting the current of temporal affairs; at the same time, it is in the temporal world that the artist discovers...
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Marilyn Gaull
E. E. Cummings, particularly in The Enormous Room, assumed the multiple task of demonstrating not only the discrepancy between language and experience but also the corrosive effects of this discrepancy on the human psyche, and, perhaps his most significant achievement, offered a means for overcoming it in the creation of new relationships between language and experience. (p. 646)
[Principles] for restoring value to a benumbed and misleading language were displayed by Cummings throughout his work. His characteristic device was the manipulation of contexts, associating symbols with their functional referents rather than traditional ones. Such a device, however, in the spare and unelaborated...
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Patrick B. Mullen
It is generally overlooked that E. E. Cummings had an avid interest in various forms of American popular culture, especially burlesque, circuses, amusement parks, comic strips, animated cartoons, and movies…. To Cummings, burlesque and the other popular arts were alive with a spontaneous, unrehearsed quality. He wanted to capture the same quality of spontaneity in his poetry, both in content and technique. In a limited way, Cummings wrote about popular culture of the 1920's–1930's much the same as Tom Wolfe was writing about it in the 1960's. Cummings was one of the few writers of his day to deal with mass entertainment, and his fondness for it shows through in his poetry.
Burlesque had a more...
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Bethany K. Dumas
Cummings is not significantly a "free verse" poet in the popular sense of that term. From first to last, he was a poet thoroughly in the tradition of English prosody; he experimented freely with given forms, but it will be seen that he molded traditional forms to new uses more often than he simply invented new ones. In this he resembles Swinburne as much as any other predecessor, and it is possible that he was heavily influenced by Swinburne's metrics. Second, though there are no important "periods" in Cummings' life, as there are in the lives of poets like Eliot and Yeats, it is not true that there is no development in his poetry. He has been accused of such a lack of development, partly because he did not move from...
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Today, 78 state employees from 15 state agencies were recognized for outstanding achievements that have reformed state government and saved taxpayer dollars. In the Governor's ongoing effort to build a Better Government for a Better Minnesota, state agencies have worked hard finding innovative ways to deliver better services to Minnesotans while eliminating wasteful spending, improving efficiencies, and strengthening measures of accountability.
"Reforming government requires creative thinking and a steady resolve to change the way the state conducts its business," said Governor Dayton. "The reform efforts we recognized today are just a few extraordinary examples, among many, of how this administration is building a better government for the people of Minnesota. I thank the employees for their tremendous efforts to improve the quality of services provided to Minnesotans."

The Governor's Continuous Improvement Awards celebrate individual and organizational achievements that have increased the productivity and efficiency of state government services, while improving the delivery and responsiveness of customer service. Twenty-eight teams from across the administration were nominated for this year's awards, with six receiving recognition at today's award ceremony for their extraordinary achievements.
Ten Percent Reduction in Workplace Injuries
Cross Agency Team Led by the Department of Administration
In 2012, the Minnesota Department of Administration's Risk Management team developed a statewide injury reduction initiative known as MnSAFE. This initiative sought to better understand the causes of state employee workplace injuries, develop better safety practices, and educate state employees. This effort has successfully reduced state employee injuries by 10 percent in 2013, saving Minnesota taxpayers an estimated $2.8 million.
Before the MnSAFE program was implemented, Minnesota state employees reported more than 1,800 work-related injuries every year. The impact of these injuries was immense -- costing Minnesota more than $23 million in direct losses and between $48.3 million and $126.5 million in indirect losses (such as lost productivity, administrative time, and retraining). Even more troubling, these claims costs increased 40 percent from 2006 to 2011.
Today, because of the MnSAFE initiative, the State of Minnesota is progressing towards the goal of reducing injuries by 25 percent in three years. In fact, state employees suffered 341 fewer injuries last year than in 2011 -- marking a ten percent reduction in workplace injuries.
Twenty Two Percent Reduction in Return Mail
Minnesota Department of Revenue
In 2013, the Department of Revenue began its first continuous improvement project: streamlining its letter printing and mail processing systems. Reforms implemented this year have already reduced return mail to the agency by more than 22 percent. By streamlining the entire letter printing and mail processing systems, the Department expects to save over $630,000 annually.
Before these improvements were made, the Department of Revenue's mailing process was decentralized, inconsistent, and expensive. Working with Lean facilitators from the Department of Administration, the Department of Revenue set the ambitious goals of reducing return mail by 50 percent and resending returned mail to recipients within three business days.
By implementing reforms like consolidated printing operations, standardized letter formats and stationary and automated mailing procedures, the Department is well on its way to achieving those goals. These improvements are reducing waste at the Department of Revenue, saving time, and improving the agency's responsiveness to the public.
Improving Pharmaceutical Safety for Patients by 40 Percent
Minnesota Department of Human Services
This year, the Department of Human Services streamlined and improved an old and outdated system for filling prescriptions at state hospitals and medical facilities. The Department improved their electronic prescription drug system by making it simpler to use for small state medical facilities and by eliminating excessive, time-consuming paperwork.
Since the Department implemented these new reforms, transcription errors have decreased while awareness of drug interactions and allergies has increased. Overall, patient safety has improved 40 percent, and nurses are filling out far less paperwork. In fact, the time it takes for nurses to fill out prescription paperwork has been reduced from 3 hours to just 15 minutes.
Mobile App and Online Licensing for Fishing
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Every year, more than 1.1 million fishing licenses are purchased in Minnesota. In 2013, the Department of Natural Resources launched two services to help anglers get licenses more easily. In June the agency launched a new service that allows anglers to buy fishing licenses online. And instead of waiting for a paper license in the mail, Minnesotans get a text message confirmation of their purchase.
The Department of Natural Resources also launched a new mobile version of its popular LakeFinder website. The site provides Minnesota anglers useful information like lake depth, what kind of fish the lake contains, and special fishing regulations that may be in effect. And since January 2013, the app has been used more than 87,000 times.
To make this service a reality, the Department of Natural Resources worked closely with the Pollution Control Agency, the Department of Health, and the University of Minnesota.
Increasing Restitution to Crime Victims by 130 Percent
Minnesota Department of Corrections
Incarcerated inmates owe Minnesota crime victims more than $25 million in restitution and court-ordered fines. However, only a small fraction has been repaid. Historically, the Department of Corrections only collects about $560,000 annually from inmate wages to help pay these obligations each year.
To increase payments to victims of crime, the Department of Corrections instituted a ten percent assessment on money coming in and out of inmate accounts in April 2013. The Department also placed a five percent surcharge on non-health and hygiene items that inmates may purchase, and decreased the amount an inmate could save for release.
As a result, payments to crime victims have increased by 130 percent and court fine payments have increased by 400 percent. Over time, these reforms will help Minnesotans victimized by crime get the compensation they deserve.
Saving $14 million by Improving Access to Public Health Information
Minnesota Department of Health
Minnesota collects data on a variety of important health and environment measures. However, until recently some of that data was not much use to anyone. Previously, data collected by state agencies was spread across many different state webpages making it difficult to find. The data was frequently posted in formats that made it difficult for the public to understand and for researchers to use.
In 2011, the Department of Health launched a one-stop shop for health and environment data on their website. This data portal is making easier for both researchers and the public to access useful information. The portal integrates data on 18 topics such as asthma, poverty, obesity, and health insurance by placing it all in one location. This service is helping inform citizens, while also assisting researchers and policymakers. The Department of Health estimates this new tool will save a projected $14 million by reducing requests for information.
Source: http://mn.gov/governor/newsroom/pressreleasedetail.jsp?id=102-99604