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Westinghouse Gets A Big Dose Of RealityMichael Schroeder
Every so often, Westinghouse Electric Corp. finds a way to embarrass itself. Back in the 1960s, it embarked on a misguided diversification into everything from watchmaking to low-income housing. In the 1970s, it lost a bundle on uranium contracts, then pleaded guilty to bribing a former Egyptian prime minister to win a power-plant contract. By comparison, the 1980s were a rousing success--a fact not lost on Paul E. Lego. At his first session with Wall Street analysts as chairman, in October, 1990, Lego was downright ebullient as he reviewed the previous decade. Westinghouse had exceeded all its goals, Lego crowed, with double-digit earnings growth and average return on equity of more than 18%. "In fact, we did more than we said we would do," he said.
Did they ever. Even as he addressed the analysts, Lego was sitting on a powder keg of bad loans for real estate and leveraged buyouts in his financial-services unit, Westinghouse Credit Corp. Management had leaned heavily on Westinghouse Credit for growth during the 1980s, but the explosion hit within months of Lego's taking office, rocking the company with two write-offs totaling $2.7 billion. Last year, Westinghouse posted a $1 billion loss (chart, page 112).Now, the company is holding a fire sale to liquidate much of Westinghouse Credit's $8.6 billion in assets. It is also selling a handful of industrial businesses. On Jan. 29, the board sliced the quarterly dividend, to 18c from 35c, to save $240 million--a move Lego vowed last October would be a last resort. Westinghouse's battered shares have climbed five points this year, to around 18, after falling 66% since 1990.
LONG HAUL. The asset sales probably won't spark a quick turnaround, though. Ongoing weakness at Westinghouse Credit will continue to sap cash. "It will take three to five years or longer to dig out of this mess," says a former Westinghouse senior executive. And after a decade-long makeover, the $13 billion parent company is saddled with a mix of mature industrial businesses that probably won't grow as fast as management would like. Lego doesn't dispute that prosperity is a long way off. "It's going to be the end of 1993 or the end of 1994" before Westinghouse profits are growing by 10% a year again, he says.
Just as the crisis at Westinghouse is blasting the bottom line, it is raising serious questions about Lego's leadership. His upbeat forecasts have fostered disbelief on Wall Street. As late as last spring, he was predicting only a slight earnings decline for the year. "His credibility is weakened" by such rosy predictions, says Judy A. Meehan, an analyst with Parker/Hunter Inc. Lego argues that his predictions have been as sound as could be expected.
Within the company, many view the 61-year-old chairman as distant. Rather than rallying the troops, Westinghouse executives say, he confers in his office with two longtime friends, Eileen P. and Anthony A. Massaro Jr., head of corporate communications and environmental systems, respectively. He declines to see many senior executives, current and former managers say. "Lego has circled the wagons," says one retired executive.
The chairman insists he gets plenty of advice, much of it from investment bankers at Lazard Freres & Co. and Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. "You don't turn to 15 or 20 people [within the company] to look at a problem that is essentially oriented at the financial-services operation," Lego says. "You look for specific advice from people who have specific knowledge in this area." In an effort to lift morale, though, he plans a whirlwind visit to all 16 Westinghouse operating units later this month.
SHUFFLING ASSETS. To many, Westinghouse's problems are a classic example of pushing for short-term gains at long-term expense. Worried about a hostile takeover in the early 1980s, then-CEO Douglas D. Danforth started an overhaul of Westinghouse's far-flung 135 divisions. He also bought back 20% of the company's stock and jacked up dividends. But in the rush to woo investors with ever-bigger returns, Danforth and his successor, 41-year veteran John C. Marous, seem to have promised too much. Quality and productivity gains could widen margins only so far in such businesses as power plants, garbage incinerators, military guidance systems, and refrigeration trucks.
To achieve its ambitious growth targets in the 1980s, management relied heavily on cash gathered by shuffling assets. From 1985 to 1990, sales of more than 70 businesses--from elevator makers to a 7-Up bottler--generated $3.5 billion. A big chunk was booked as reserves and "other" income, contributing an average of more than 30% of total annual operating profits. Meanwhile, research and development and capital spending slid 30% from the peak of $1 billion in 1982. Says First Boston Corp. analyst Martin A. Sankey: "For most of the 1980s, Westinghouse strategy was running a slow liquidation."
Things were anything but slow over at Westinghouse Credit, though. In 1986, the parent decided to remake its financial-services unit into a reliable cash producer to offset cycles in Westinghouse's other operations. It pulled financial services out of low-margin consumer lending and focused on risky, high-return real estate and investment banking. Soon after becoming chairman in early 1988, Marous directed the credit arm to report directly to him. He leaned hard on its new chairman, William A. Powe, to keep pumping out its 20% annual revenue growth, say current and former Westinghouse executives. They believe Marous was overeager to put his stamp on the company in the 2 1/2 years before his mandatory retirement. He denies the suggestion and says he was simply working toward long-established goals.
Supersalesman Powe was the man for the job. As head of real estate from 1980 to 1988, he had built the portfolio from $600 million to a prodigious $2.6 billion, much of it by financing hotels and apartments. When the building boom fizzled, Powe tried leveraged buyouts, pouring billions into takeovers such as the now-bankrupt Hills Department Stores Inc. His moves had the desired effect: Credit Corp. became a cash cow, producing more than 16% of the parent's profits.
OPTIMISTS. But big trouble was brewing. Lego--then Westinghouse's president and a Westinghouse Credit board member--shared Powe's overly optimistic view that Credit could nurse the sick portfolio without taking a big hit. Others in the organization saw it differently. "It was so bad that two years ago, even guys in the mail room were asking when there would be a write-off," jokes a former Westinghouse financial-services executive. Should Lego have known how severe the problems were? "The operations didn't report to me," he says.
When Lego finally brought in Lazard Fr eres in late 1990, management took a conservative course. On Feb. 27, 1991, after the board had awarded senior management its 1990 bonuses based on what looked like record earnings, Westinghouse announced a $975 million write-off, about half from real estate. The directors, who declined to comment, kept the bonuses intact. Then in October, with its credit ratings under pressure and the economy sinking, Westinghouse revealed the shocking second charge: $1.7 billion. Powe, no longer at the company, couldn't be reached for comment.
More write-offs could lie ahead. The financial-services debacle and the recession are proving that Westinghouse's businesses are not the countercyclical mix management wanted. Even without the financial-services unit's $1 billion loss, operating earnings for the company's other business groups fell by one-third last year. Analysts forecast a slight rebound this year if the economy picks up, but "Westinghouse doesn't have the horses to get through a recession" with 10% earnings gains, says Nicholas P. Heymann, an analyst at County NatWest Securities.
DOWNSIZING. At least Lego promises not to pump up earnings with asset sales anymore. "That's a deliberate strategic change," he says, adding that he has no interest in "onetime events that create no future cash stream." But he will try to buy some breathing room by lightening Credit's portfolio--where he can. Some of the real estate assets may not be easy to unload. In late 1990, Westinghouse sold its Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza in Kansas City, Mo., only to have the buyers default and toss the property back to Westinghouse this year.
Even if he could, Lego doesn't necessarily want to get rid of the whole Credit unit. "We'll continue to downsize financial services until it can sustain its own debt," he says. "When that happens, we will make a decision to downsize further, operate the business, or exit it." After what it has done to the company's bottom line, many Westinghouse managers would probably vote for the latter.
AT WESTINGHOUSE, REAL ESTATE WOES--AND MORE ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS Defense contracts account for 70% of sales, so defense budget ax will cut deep. Long haul to make up lost ground in commercial electronics Est. 1991 revenues: $3.2 billion Est. 1991 operating profit: $260 million INDUSTRIES Recession squeezes cyclical, slow-growth electrical component businesses. One or more units may be for sale Est. 1991 revenues: $3.1 billion Est. 1991 operating profit: $165 million POWER SYSTEMS Electric utilities' need for added capacity has been a boon for turbine business, but construction slowdowns hurt margins, and nuclear resurgence is years away at best Est. 1991 revenues: $2.6 billion Est. 1991 operating profit: $190 million ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS Incinerator and land reclamation businesses may now be slowing. Public opposition to incinerators is starting to halt projects Est. 1991 revenues: $1.25 billion Est. 1991 operating profit: $70 million FINANCIAL SERVICES More write-offs expected from deeply troubled real estate portfolio. Parent company liquidating much of $8.6 billion in assets Est. 1991 revenues: $968 million est. 1991 operating loss: $1.1 billion DATA: BW, COUNTY NATWEST SECURITIES


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The poet Walt Whitman was so staggered by the immensity of the Great Plains that words failed him. "……the terms far, large and vast &c are insufficient," he wrote in 1879. The painter Thomas Hart Benton, writing more than a half century later, was better able to sum up his feelings of that far, large and vast place when he wrote, "For me the great plains have a releasing effect. I like the way they make human beings appear as the little bugs they really are."
For two decades, human beings have been scurrying out of the rural areas of the Great Plains in search of greener pastures. The U.S. Census Bureau calls this population shift from rural to urban "out-migration." Montana has experienced the same shift in recent years, with seven counties—Ravalli, Missoula, Flathead, Gallatin, Lewis and Clark, Lake and Yellowstone—seeing a total increase of nearly 25,000 people in the first four years of this decade. Montana's rural counties, like the majority of rural counties in the Great Plains states, have been losing population.
In the past 20 years, according to Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., 70 percent of rural Plains state counties from Texas to North Dakota lost more than a third of their populations. Concur-rently, the National Corn Growers Association figures that three of every four rural American counties experienced below-average economic growth despite record agricultural subsidies in the 1990s.
Nearly a century and a half after the original Homestead Act of 1862 lured settlers west with the promise of 160 acres of land, Congress is giving it another go with the New Homestead Act of 2005. Introduced by Dorgan and 11 co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate, including Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, the bill, which was originally introduced in the last Congress, is a legislative attempt to stanch a decades-long out-migration of residents and revitalize America's heartland.
The New Homestead Act aims to keep people home on the Plains by offering the 21st century economic equivalent of 160 acres: a grab bag of tax incentives and loans that would reward stay-put Plains staters with money and tax breaks for college loans, home purchases and business start-up costs.
A county that qualifies for these benefits is one that has lost 10 percent or more of its population over the past 20 years. Nationwide, that's 556 counties. In Montana, it's half the state's 56 counties—mostly the eastern half. Montana's qualifying counties span an arc from Pondera in the northwest to Big Horn in the southeast. Garfield County, with a land area of 4,668 square miles, serves as a good example of the Plains' dilemma: Between 1980 and 2000, Garfield County's population declined from 1,649 to 1,279. Likewise, Petroleum County lost 164 souls in the past two decades and now makes do with 493 residents. And so it goes, from Chester to Winnett, Terry to Plentywood.
But shouldn't people live where they want to live? And if they choose to live in places where the venture capitalists don't roam, where funerals outnumber weddings four to one, in places like Wahoo, Neb., or Homestead, Mont., why should taxpayers be asked to subsidize that choice?
Precedent, for one thing. Federal dollars for urban renewal projects were poured into American cities during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. The New Homestead Act is another go at congressional population management, this time with a decidedly rural twist.
Small towns and rural America deserve saving simply because of what they are, said Dorgan, reintroducing the legislation in March. "Most rural communities have good schools, low crime rates, and a level of civic involvement that would make any public official proud." In fact, Dorgan claims, the easy-going rural lifestyle is what harassed city dwellers would like to have—if only they could.
In an e-mailed statement, Montana Senator and New Homestead supporter Max Baucus said, "I support the goals of this legislation. Loss of residents in our rural areas is a real problem and has hurt our rural communities and economies. I believe that we need to find ways to help folks stay and make a living in the rural areas that are so important to the values of Montanans and the West. That means working together to find ways to help our farmers and ranchers, small businesses, rural communities and families keep and create the good jobs, great opportunities and quality of life that can be found in Montana."
Said Burns, also in an e-mailed statement: "The (1862) Homestead Act transformed America's homeland into a productive and vibrant part of our country. Our New Homestead Act explores solutions that will help close the gap between rural America and the rest of our country."
The New Homestead Act has been sent to the Senate Finance Committee, where Baucus is the ranking Democrat.

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Published: September 13, 2012
Pasadena – Calling it the honor of his life to serve Pacific Oaks College and Children's School, Dr. Ezat Parnia was inaugurated this week as the institution's ninth president. The occasion—held on September 8 at the Pasadena City Hall Courtyard and Centennial Square and featuring Mayor Bill Bogaard, California Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott, Pacific Oaks Board of Trustees Chair Dorothy Farris, and other luminaries—stands as the fall capstone event for the 67-year-old fixture of the Pasadena community.
Parnia used his speaking opportunity to reflect on the alignment between Pacific Oaks' approach to education and the needs of a nation with changing demographics. "It all starts by better understanding who we are educating," he said. "As our classrooms further transform into more diverse student populations, to renew education we need teachers who can validate and embrace the unique identity and value of each individual. Cultured-based education, a commitment to social justice, and a transformational educational experience are on the path to this renewal. At Pacific Oaks, this is our model of education, and it works."
Parnia framed his case with three questions. "To renew education we must be bold and ask ourselves regardless of the level of our students—preschool, elementary, secondary, and beyond— if we are helping them to answer three critical questions that are key to individual value and one's opportunity to participate: What am I good at? Why am I good at it? And how am I going to use this talent to make a difference? If a student cannot answer these fundamental questions, it means that we have fallen short as educators." Pacific Oaks is known for its educational philosophy of valuing the unique identity and potential of every individual while recognizing that personal growth is a life-long process.
Parnia bookended his remarks with stories of his family moving across country to join him in Pasadena and his upbringing in Iran. "I knew when I was 10 years old that I just didn't want to come to this country, I was going to come to this country for my higher education," he said. "And when I came of age, I left my homeland for a new one."
Pacific Oaks' new president began his 30-year career in higher education as a college professor at the University of Hartford and then as a dean and administrator at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Mass. More recently, Parnia also served as provost and executive vice president at Nichols College in Dudley, Mass., and as CEO at Education Advisory Group LLC. He was selected by the Pacific Oaks Board of Trustees in January after a six-month national search.
Also joining him on the inauguration stage were a number of community and education leaders including Dr. Michael Horowitz, president and CEO of the nonprofit TCS Education System, of which Pacific Oaks is affiliated; representatives from Congressman Adam Schiff and Assemblyman Anthony Portantino; and academic processional representatives from colleges and universities including Stanford University, Claremont Graduate University, University of Michigan, Saybrook University, University of West Los Angeles, Pierce College, Fuller Theological Seminary, Art Center School of Design, and Pasadena City College. In the audience were community leaders Lacreta Scott, wife of Dr. Jack Scott; Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez and Deborah Sanchez; Wendy Garen, president and CEO of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; Alicia Procello Maddox, president of Avery Dennison Foundation; George Brumder, president of the Pasadena Educational Foundation; Michael Shanklin, CEO of Kidspace Museum; and current and former trustees, including Olin Barrett and his wife, Ann, Barbara Martin, Joseph and Marjorie Wyatt, Andrew Wilson, Jean Fleming, Maureen Carlson, Devinyl Schonfeld and her husband, Carlos, plus numerous Pacific Oaks trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, and students.
Also taking the podium was Gabriella Chapman, president of the college's Student Government Association, and Cheryl Greer-Jarman from the faculty.
"Since Dr. Parnia set foot on campus, he has embraced the culture and spirit of Pacific Oaks as his own," said Chapman. "His first few weeks on the job, he took the time to meet with students, visit classes, and integrate himself into the fabric of our community. Already, we are seeing proof of his dedication to our growth, and an appreciation for the founding principles that made us who we are. And for that, we are grateful."
Added Greer-Jarman about Dr. Parnia, "During the past six months, we have been a witness. We have witnessed the brilliance of your mind as you have participated in valuing our history; impacting our present and charting our future. We have witnessed the technological advancements on our campuses: enriching the educational and research agendas for students, staff and faculty. We have witnessed you attending classes: sharing with students and learning from them. We have witnessed you canvassing the community: making connections, supporting businesses and sharing the Pacific Oaks story."
The arrival of a new president is the latest in a series of news events for Pacific Oaks over the past year. Last fall it inaugurated its new School of Education, which was followed by a major grant from the Parsons Foundation, a partnership with the Pasadena City College, and the sale of its former campus on Westmoreland Place.
About Pacific Oaks College & Children's School
Pacific Oaks College & Children's School has played a crucial role in the development of early childhood education in the United States for more than half a century. Accredited in 1959, Pacific Oaks College is dedicated to the fundamental principles of inclusion, social justice, and the valuing of every human being. Pacific Oaks is well-known for its leadership in andragogy and for its ground-breaking anti-bias curriculum, which has been implemented in schools throughout the country and is often required reading in early childhood teacher training courses.
An accredited non-profit institution, Pacific Oaks College offers bachelor's, master's, and certificate programs in human development, counseling, and teaching credentialing. It is a member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU).
Founded in 1945, the Children's School is widely recognized today as one of the finest preschools in the Los Angeles region.
In 2010, Pacific Oaks affiliated with TCS Education System, a nonprofit service organization that supports institutions each backed by an approach to education that prepares socially responsible professionals in applied fields such as education, psychology, and law.
For more information, see www.pacificoaks.edu.
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Review on 2013 Ride Machete w/ 2013 Burton Carel
I finally took my new set up to Tahoe for the first time, after riding on a Burton Dominate w/ K2 Forum bindings for about 8 years. I consider my self an advanced snowboarder, splitting my day up with the following: 70% free ride, 30% park (free style).
This board was nothing short of amazing. The condition of the snow was shit, pretty icy and bare at a lot of the resort but I maneuvered flawlessly. It had a very surfy like feel and I was able to carve nice in the ice. I read a LOT and I mean a LOT of reviews before I bought this board, not one person referred to this board as a surf like feel. Usually a camber type board would be considered "surf like", but I would say this board felt the same.
At high speeds I had great control, the board was not wobbly at all. I went to North Star resort in Tahoe and there is a long cat walk that comes from a small side run; with my old board it was difficult to gain enough speed to get through the full cat walk without either clicking out, or trying to butter my way to the end. With the Machete I had no problem gaining and retaining speeds through out the whole cat walk, never having to click out.
At the park, I felt comfortable straight lining to a kicker, had very nice pop, and my landing was a little "iffy" but the board corrected me fairly well. Also, the weight of this board is perfect, light to carry, feels nice when I hit a kicker, but not too light where I would be nervous to take it at high speeds.
The cartels complement this board and my riding style unbelievably. A typical day for me is from 9:00-4:00, and the padding on the base of the cartels are amazing for a long day of riding. They have a soft padding, with a gel feel pad for long days and landing absorption. I click in and out with no hassle and the comfortable level is A+. When I hit a kicker, I felt no vibration through my legs, and as I stated, the absorption of a landing feels like world of difference compared to my last board.
Ride Machete is truly one of the best overall boards for a rider who wants to be able to ride anywhere. It is aesthetically pleasing, backed up with its' performance. I would recommend this to anyone.
I have still not rode this board in powered, but if anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
Good review,
Did you demo any other current boards before deciding on the Machete or just take the plunge?, in particular the Machete GT, did you try/look at that at all?, interested in the riding differences between the two.
Unfortunately the GT is super ugly compared to the Machete, but it does have some different tech. Interestingly GT doesn't have the pop rods, but more carbon stringers under the bindings, so keen to hear if you or someone has ridden both and can compare?
The GT just has some updated technology. It is also a Low Rise Rocker, but has a bit of a camber towards the center. GT doesn't have the pop rods, but it has a similar technology towards the end/sides of the boards that will give you that same playful feel. Personally I've heard it rides just like the Machete, but the GT gives a more playful feel, I'm gonna assume its more for a park rider or someone who wants more responsive feel.
Hopefully this helped!
Yep thanks for the info. its bumped its way back onto my list again as I had written it off earlier. Its not my number 1 but I will do some more research on it before I take the plunge on no. 1
To revive an older thread, I bought a 162 Machete last year very cheap. I'm 6', 215 lbs currently, reasonably advanced rider (not much of a park guy but I like bonking random signs and stuff and hitting small to medium features). I was expecting to love this board because it had so many accolades in reviews and rewards but I thought it was tremendously overhyped.
Especially flat based, it just didn't work for me. It reminded me of the early days of the Skate Banana... I constantly felt like I was on a too-short board, about to catch an edge at speed (even though I never caught an edge). It feels just a fraction of a second slow initiating an edge, you have to lean in a bit more to get the the contact point to bite because it's lifted off the snow. Once you actually get it on edge, it holds nicely enough, but I didn't feel much pop and power transitioning from turn to turn. Just not much fun for me on piste.
I also couldn't find the ollie point on this board. I tend to struggle with this a lot on reverse camber boards, and wasn't expecting it on a flat board, but I just couldn't get comfortable.
It did feel really fun and surfy in soft snow, so I get the sense it'd be a fun pow board, but in no way shape or form is this the quiver killer for all conditions I had wanted an anticipated. I didn't hate it, but I was really disappointed and will be going back to the Proto as an every day stick. I may keep the Machete around as a pow board, but most likely I think I'm going to sell it.
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A combination of bad management, poor communications, ill-discipline and poor timing by Labor have handed Tony Abbott a dream start to this election year.
Suddenly, the hard-fought gains of the second half of 2012 by Julia Gillard - and Labor - have been obliterated, suggesting there is now more chance of Abbott falling off his bike than losing the September election. Suddenly, too, the unpalatable thought of drafting Kevin Rudd is being discussed as a live option, despite his Sunday declaration that he has no ambition to return to the Labor leadership.
The single message for Labor from the first Age/Nielsen poll of the year is that things simply cannot go on as they are. The hard part for those with influence in the Labor caucus is deciding what should change, and how that change should be managed.
The bad management saw Gillard attempt to give certainty and order to the year by naming the September 14 election date - only to then undermine the objective by announcing the departure for two of her most senior cabinet colleagues.
The poor communication was epitomised by Treasurer Wayne Swan's fumbling his lines in the face of a relentless Coalition attack on the broken surplus promise and on the mining tax that has so far yielded a fraction of what was forecast.
If Gillard accepts that something dramatic has to change, she may cast around for someone more capable of selling the economic message that should be Labor's biggest strength, someone like Bill Shorten. A change in management style and substance may not be enough.
The ill-discipline is reflected in the willingness of Labor MPs to background against the leader and the man she toppled, and in Rudd's sheeting home the deficiencies of the mining tax to Gillard and Swan last week. That all of this coincided with the corruption hearings in Sydney that were always going to shine a light on the misdeeds of Labor in New South Wales, and the charging of Craig Thomson on multiple counts of fraud, could be put down to bad luck - except that the coincidence was forseeable.
Labor's malaise, however, runs deeper than the events that contributed to it, and includes deep misgivings about a strategy that relies too heavily on division and playing the class warfare card.
The result is that Labor's primary vote is back where it was before the carbon tax came in last July; that Gillard's net approval rating (approval minus disapproval) is heading back to minus-20 territory; and Abbott, who remains a very unpopular leader, is escaping scrutiny.
The sense of despair within Labor that characterised the first sitting fortnight of Parliament is in danger of giving way to panic - or, at the very least, the conviction that something has to give. Soon.


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Ken Duvall, a Lee's Summit attorney, announced this week that he will be a candidate for Missouri's 35th District in the General Assembly.
Republican Gary Cross of Lee's Summit now holds that House seat.
Duvall, a Democrat, on Jan. 8 said he was motivated to run because partisan conflicts are keeping the state from moving forward.
"When we have this type of gridlock, government is not getting done what it should be getting done, that's what we have happening in Jefferson City," Duvall said. "I want to see government work effectively."
Duvall said he would be a practical representative who listens to people in his district, instead of party bosses.
He said he would vote to expand Medicaid – a position endorsed by the Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce – and would oppose tax cuts proposed by Republicans, which could threaten school finance. He said supporting Lee's Summit schools is a priority and he would listen to advice of local officials like Superintendent of Schools David McGehee.
He said the tax cuts proposed last year (and being recycled this year) would have "real world" effects that would be detrimental to the district.
Medicaid expansion would be good for low-income Missourians who need healthcare, and hospitals and their employees, creating jobs, he said.
He said he's in favor of campaign finance and ethics reforms, with Missouri needing to tighten its regulations.
He said he would opppose unenforceable laws that would be unconstitutional and a waste time and taxpayers money, such as proposals to make it illegal for the federal government to enforce its gun laws in the state.
Duvall said his experience as a law clerk and a lawyer defending businesses from frivolous lawsuits gives him insight that would help him craft better legislation.
He said in 2014 leading up to the election he'd be visiting many residents homes to talk with them and learn their concerns.
He said he would spend a lot of time listening to constituents and local officials before making up his mind on issues.
"I'm not always the smartest guy in the room," Duvall said. "As a candidate, I want to a representative of their values and concerns."
He said he became interested in studying law because an older brother is a lawyer and he thought the profession allows him to provide public service.
He's been at the law firm of Berkowitz Oliver since 2012. His undergraduate school was Saint Louis University and he graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2010, where he also was an editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law. On graduation he was awarded the Order of the Coif, an honor society for law students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class.
As a law clerk for Judge Alok Ahuja, on the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District (who was appointed by Republican Gov. Matt Blunt), he worked daily with laws passed by the General Assembly, such as workers compensation and the Missouri Human Rights Act.
"It's really given me some experience I can use as a representative," Duvall said.
Duvall said that while trying to decide where he'd like to live in the Kansas City area, Ahuja told him about Lee's Summit schools, where his children had attended.
Duvall and his wife Kelly were convinced and moved to a home near Lee's Summit North High School.
He said he believes he can be a successful candidate, although Lee's Summit frequently elects Republicans.
"The labels aren't as important, it's a practical community, a hard-working community that expects a hard-working representative who will be practical," Duvall said. "They're ready for somebody who is going to get things done for them."


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Dire Predictions For Holiday Shopping Season
The Christmas shopping season is officially underway. For many retail outlets it's the most important time of the year. They generate some 40% of their annual revenue from the holidays. But some analysts say this shopping season might be the slowest we've seen in a long time.
Morgan Stanley says this could be the worst holiday shopping season since 2008. Hank Lewis of Lone Star College says there's a simple reason for this; Obamacare.
"People are reporting that their premiums are rising for next year. So they are being tighter with their money right now," Lewis told KTRH. "People are going to face higher health insurance costs. This means they will have less money to spend on other goods and services."
Like the video games your kids are asking you for this Christmas. Lewis says your employer could be making it harder for you this time around because of decisions they've made about your health care plans.
"Employers that are subject to the mandate that didn't have to provide health insurance for everybody before now have to. They have to cut costs elsewhere or face penalties. Their costs are rising, too," Lewis stated.
If those projections are right, Lewis says it'll have a negative impact on the economy next year.
"GDP might drop. Businesses might hire fewer people. Factories may cut their orders and reduce staff," Lewis explained.
Morgan Stanley's not the only one predicting a bad shopping season. The National Retail Federation says sales will rise by 3.9% between now and Christmas. That's up from last year, but they describe their prediction as 'not robust.'


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Tegam announces its model 1827 RF power sensor calibrator, which calibrates within the frequency range of 100 kHz to 18 GHz using one standard. This product is able to calibrate most power sensors in 30 minutes or less. It has two switchable RF inputs, with all connectors located on the front panel. The product's internal thermistor RF transfer standard is temperature controlled. DC power levels can be measured to within ۪.003%.
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After my lunch at Cafe Karache I still felt a bit peckish and walked past Churros Plus. I decided to give them another go despite my first experiencing yielding chewy churros with little chocolate sauce. This time, I got the large Filled Churros – jumbo churros rolled in sugar and cinnamon, filled with your choice of fillings: caramel or chocolate. I went with the chocolate filling and waited while the churros was freshly prepared, the mixture oozed into the ultra hot oil and deep fried.
While I waited, I gazed into the front display cabinet of all kinds of goodies – slices, cakes, macarons, friands, and drinks. The Filled Churros is also visible on the third shelf to the far left. Well I'm glad I gave Churros Plus another go because this churros was so much better than what I ate on my first visit. This was quite a fat looking churros, with that same golden brown colour, rolled in lots of sugar and oozing with chocolate. One bite into the hot churros and I was really enjoying it.
Word of warning, stop, stand in one spot, and enjoy the churros. I made the mistake of walking down Murray St mall enjoying my churros on the go till the churros developed a split and the chocolate sauce proceeded to drip all over my suit and shirt, despite the churros being inside a paper bag.
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Verdict: I'm glad I gave Churros Plus another go and obviously ordering the filled churros is the way to go. This version was hot, soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside, rolled in plenty of sugar to provide ample sweetness, and the lovely chocolate sauce provides the yum factor. Maybe a tad pricey at $3.90.
Price: Bargain
Taste: Delicious
Value: Reasonable
Recommendation: Recommend
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Looking for a breeder
I will travel, or ship. Price is not a huge factor, but I'm not rich. For the right pup I will pay what I must.
I want a pet/companion/best friend first and foremost. I would prefer it have the potential to work, not compete, work. I may or may not go back to my previous line of work so tracking, detection, protection and patrol are all possible.
If titling is required I'm willing, it's just I'm not a real people person.
Stable temperament, good nerves, health and longevity are a must. No hips and elbows breeders.
I like drive but not crazy high, I need a dog that will chill and be a friend to. I am familiar with the breed and well used to the teenage phase. I recently lost my old girl at 12, have an almost 11 year old male and a 3 year old female. I am aware of SSA issues and am well used to the crate and rotate game, in fact my home is set up for it. I want a female, I work better with the girls and prefer them. I will NOT spay prior to 2 years of age. I have almost 3 decades with dogs in my home and have never had an 'oops' litter, I just really dislike juvenile spays, on my own dogs. I have zero interest in breeding, I foster enough pups.
I dislike breeders who demand vaccination schedules, specific diets and early spay/neuter. I am educated and aware and prefer to make informed choices. I am looking for a breeder who will work with me. I'm not in a rush and I am prepared to wait for the right pup.
It would help if you could post your general location or state..You might get better hits if you do so , of someone in your area
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We love this breeder.
I didn't want to post my location, because the breeders in Canada are largely iffy, and the breeders in Alberta are, well, lets just say they don't have what I want. But you are correct I suppose. I currently live in Calgary, Alberta. I am however looking at a transfer to Ottawa, Ontario which is why I would prefer a litter in the fall or later. I don't really want to travel across the country with 3 dogs, one being a pup. I will if needed, I did it with 5, but I can think of more enjoyable experiences.
I really just want a good dog.
Welcome from Ottawa :) Good breeders are hard to find no matter where you look and usually have long waiting lists which makes it even harder to get a pup! But they're well worth it that's for sure.
Do you have a preference for show or working lines?
Check out Lee Hanrahan at vTH German Shepherds Ottawa She has a really nice litter coming up. Her female is super nice and highly accomplished. I would recommend the litter and her as a breed for sure.
Shade working for sure SL is a bit soft for me. I like the ones that challenge and push. I enjoy the search for the key that turns them 'on'. I love, love, love watching a good dog work. It's like cookie dough ice cream with chocolate sauce:laugh: One of my favorite dogs used to bite me if I made a mistake handling, or missed a cue.
GSD2727 thank you I will check that out.
I will wait as long as I have to, and travel to wherever I need to.
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I know I need these things to prevent ice dams causing issues with a home, but my question is how do I insulate and vent a home that has no soffit and is a 1.5 story? The upper level is a bedroom and has dormers that are used for storing/hanging clothing.
Right now there is blown in insulation that is held in place by cardboard stapled to the bottom of the ceiling joist with no air movement.
Of course this causes major ice dams and causing leaking.
I want a permanent fix to this issue but no one I talk to seems to be of much help.
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I tried to, but didn't find anything when the roof doesn't overhang the side of the house. I'm at a loss on how to get proper ventilation.
I don't have a pic, but I gave a crude drawing
Search for SmartVent or vented drip edge. You'll need some form of ventilation at the drip edge or behind the fascia
Thank you Gary, I saw that topic right after I posted:laughing:
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Very very interesting. Way to pay attention and not be one of the sheeple. I'm sure the police appreciate the heads up as well. All it takes is one observant citizen to foil crime. Stay safe.
This is a discussion on Bible/Church people knocked on my door followed shortly by some scum within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Just this morning, two very nice gentleman knocked on my door and tried to provide me some religious brochures and other information. I didn't open ...
Just this morning, two very nice gentleman knocked on my door and tried to provide me some religious brochures and other information. I didn't open the door all the way, because of my dogs, and just spoke to them through the screen door. My dogs were excited but quiet and controllable and without disrespect, I sent the gentleman on their way. The interaction was quick, and if you didn't see the main door open you might not realize I ever answered the door.
Maybe 10-15 minutes later, I had another knock on the door and my dogs went NUTS, barking and jumping all over the place to get to the door. This time it was two guys probably in early 20's smoking, and looking like they haven't showered in 3 days. I was at the door immediately since I saw them coming. The surprise on their face appeared to me as if they were thinking "OMG someone is home" and one was obviously scared of the dogs (had taken 2 or three steps back down the steps). When I answered, one stammered something and tried to hand me the same brochure that the previous gentleman had tried to give me. I told them to please leave my property immediately and they left faster than they walked up to my door.
Does anyone see this as the second set of guys potentially following these church gentleman, letting them figure out who is home, and who isn't then following quickly behind to do their deed?
I did call it in and shortly I saw a police officer patrolling the area. I also called the church that the original men were from and left a message telling them what just happened.
I have heard reports of break-ins in the area that are happening during the day, and am wondering if there is a connection.
Yes, I was armed.
"Gun Free Zones" is where only criminals carry guns.
Very very interesting. Way to pay attention and not be one of the sheeple. I'm sure the police appreciate the heads up as well. All it takes is one observant citizen to foil crime. Stay safe.
I can clearly see who's at my door, so I tend to answer a knock. Bible thumpers ar common here and get the quick, "Not interested, have a nice day." Others get closer scrutiny. Both get the same preparation.
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Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid... Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Smart tactic, if you think about it.
It's leveraging the lookout/screen up ahead, to warn of danger. The apparent crooks can watch to see what happens with two well-dressed, ostensibly upstanding folk coming to a door, gauging the delay as an indicator of whether someone was home, and then going after those homes where it's a good bet nobody was there. Better than knocking and being seen at most homes. They can filter out most of the homes where someone's already there.
Thanks for the heads-up. Haven't seen this one, myself, but it doesn't surprise me in the least.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Good thing you were home to foil those crooks plans. I'm glad it ended well. Good call notifying the police.
I think your theory could be right. If you didn't step out the door, or open it much, they probably thought no one was home from where they were watching from.
I do have a question if you can remember any details like this, what was the body language of the first 2 men who came up? If you were watching them from the side and from a distance, would you be able to tell that they were speaking to somebody, or could it have just looked like they were standing and waiting for someone to answer the door?
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable- JFK
Definitely,SOP for these dirt bags.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunder bolt...... Sun Tzu.
The supreme art of war is to defeat the enemy without fighting........ Sun Tzu.
Very interesting scheme, good for all to be alert. Usually don't answer the door at all though unless its a known person.
"Good decisions come from experience;
experience comes from bad decisions"
There is a tree by our front door, so the way the front door and the screen door are laid out tree there you can't tell the front door was opened. If they were observing from the west end, no, they would not be able see the if they talked to someone (me) through the screen door since the tree blocks that view. If they were looking from the east end, then they might have been able to tell that they briefly talked to me.
I really don't think that the two "missionaries" knew anything about the guys behind them.
"Gun Free Zones" is where only criminals carry guns.
Most of the church people are well dressed and clean. Sounds fishy to me..
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Interesting, but also smart, and something I will remember, since my area has many church door-to-door knockers... Easy way to see if someone is home or not.
Glad to read that all worked out for you.
When anyone comes a knocking at my house they without hesitation will have the hair on their body stand on end when greeted by my dog BUSTER. That good old boy is a land shark.
"Good boy Buster, now give the nice man his leg back"!
They two dirt bags were looking to see if anyone was home and using the "we're church guys" as a ruse.
This is what happend in my neighbourhood when we had a burglary. Reports of two scruffy looking guys knocking on doors and running when someone appeared to be home.
They targeted our house when we were gone to church on a Sunday evening putting on a play with the church kids.
You were smart in calling the cops. The dirtbags would probably have come back when you were gone.
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Thanks for sharing this. One more item for my mental checklist.
You did all you could have/should have done.
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Explain how so many languages spoken in south asia are related?
I know very little about Asian languages, but this example from Europe may help you.
Latin is the apparent base language in much of Europe, although the ancient Romans borrowed many words from Greek. As the Roman Empire expanded, the Latin language was spread throughout most of Europe. It merged with the indigenous languages to produce French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.
Meanwhile, in northern Europe, Germanic languages remained dominant with several variations. The British originally spoke variations of German until the Romans conquered Britain. Latin creeped into their languages. The Norman Conquest brought French to Britain and within about three centuries, the Germanic, French, and Latin languages merged to form Old English. Languages constantly evolve so that most of us can read few words of Old English. However, if you look up the etymology of English words, you'll find the majority of our short words come from ancient Germanic words while our longer words come from Latin and/or Greek. Of course we've also borrowed a few words from many other world languages, such as American Indian tongues, Spanish, French, and Arabic.
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Quoting Quiverfull: Respond Like Jesus?
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Well, I can't find the bullet from any of the reloading suppliers at this point. Too bad.
Other forums don't seem to have the answer either. I may just have to get some of the loaded ammo. It boasts some pretty good velocities (according to some reports) from short-barreled weapons, so I might have a hard time duplicating the recipe even if I could find the bullet.


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Solos and Duos Series: Mark Dresser
September 18, 2014
8:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall
UMass Amherst Campus
Mark Dresser kicks off the Solos and Duos Series with a solo bass recital.
"Mark Dresser is an inventor," says Harvey Pekar. "He also may be the most important bassist to emerge since 1980 in jazz or classical music."
Called "one of the few virtuosos of so-called avant-garde jazz," by the Village Voice, Mark Dresser has been composing and performing solo contrabass and ensemble music professionally since 1972 throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. Emerging from the L.A. "free" jazz scene of the early 70's, Dresser performed with the "Black Music Infinity", led by Stanley Crouch, and included Bobby Bradford, Arthur Blythe, David Murray and James Newton. Concurrently he was performing with the San Diego Symphony.
After completing B.A. and M.A. degrees at UC, San Diego where he studied with contrabass virtuoso Bertram Turetzky and a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy with maestro Franco Petracchi, Dresser relocated to New York in 1986 after being invited to join the quartet of composer/saxophonist, Anthony Braxton. Dresser played with Braxton's longest performing quartet for nine years. Once in New York, Dresser also began working with a wide variety of musicians including Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Davis, Fred Frith, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, and others. A former professor at Hampshire College, Dresser is currently a professor at UCSD.
A founding member of the Arcado String Trio, Dresser has written and performed original music for the stage (the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Henry VI), and silent films ("Un Chien Andalou" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari").
"You're got to pity Dresser's poor bass," wrote The New Yorker, "you wouldn't treat a dog the way he manhandles his instrument. But the gnarled tones and vicious swing he tortures out of it are worth the abuse."
At the core of his solo music is an artistic obsession and commitment to expanding the sonic and musical possibilities of the double bass through the use of unconventional amplification and extended techniques. His solo works include the DVD/CD/art booklet, Guts: Bass Explorations, Investigations, and Explanations (2010) and CDs Unveil (2006) and Invocation (1994). A chapter on his extended techniques, "A Personal Pedogogy," appears in the book, ARCANA (Granary Press). Dresser has written two articles on extended techniques for The Strad magazine: "Double Bass Harmonics" (October 2008) and an "Introduction to Multiphonics" (October 2009). Dresser presented a lecture/demonstration titled "Discover, Develop, Integrate: Techniques Revealed" at the 2009 International Society of Bassists convention, where he curated a New Music Summit featuring lectures, performances, and panel discussions on improvisation and contemporary music performance.
"Mark Dresser has created a fantastic language for the double bass," writes Bill Shoemaker, "one that rivals any created with machines in its ability to fascinate. Dresser uses his language to pull the listener into, for the lack of a mushless term, another world."
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Al Adam deserves a council seat
In light of the unexpected departure of Thousand Oaks City Councilmember Dennis Gillette, it now falls to the remaining council members to decide on how to fill the vacancy.
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Unless they can quickly identify another candidate that has that measure of support, this seems to be a pretty simple decision.
I encourage our council to do the right thing: appoint Al Adam to fill the remaining term.
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Community and social computing
with Tags: education X
my dW Interview
In the mix of the travel and other things, I'd almost forgotten about this dW podcast interview I did earlier this month. Scott and I talk about the online communities course in this interview.
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Upgrading the Managing Online Communities course
We'll be upgrading the Managing online commuities course next semester. The last I heard, the new course number will be MIS 424/524. This means that it will be a both undergrad (senior) & grad level course. Partially it is administrivia: grad students and professionals want to take it and can't do that as a 300-level (junior) course. Next semester, you don't have to be a degree-seeking student to register for this course, but yes, it is still local (rather than an online course) and a full semester long.
To go with that we will need to revise some of the cirriculum as well as add additional work appropriate for graduate level students. Unfortunately, I have not had much time to think about that and may not have it done before I leave on vacation in two weeks. I guess I get to take my laptop along and work a little over the holidays.
One of the regular assignments we have is analysis of news articles and papers on Web 2.0 and social projects and sites, and a presentation to the class. This semester has been more freeform to see what students will come across. For the grad level, I think we will need them to provide greater insight into the site they review: what is their business model/how do they make money or pay for it; how do they attract/retain visitors; how do they reward members; etc.
The final project also needs to start much earlier to give our students more time to complete the work. Apparently there was some confusion on what they were supposed to do. Also the selection of tools at their disposal were not sufficiently varied. We'll try and look for more tools per my previous note.
We like the aspect of interfacing with high schools, but we may need to expand to more schools to have a larger user base. The complication is that each trip to the high school has some overhead involved for both parties; the high school computers have firewalls/filters for some sites which are relevant; they may not be adequately equipped for enough students; high school classes may have a lot of movement (people come in and out of class often). A better way would be to bus the high school students to a controlled environment like the Hoffman ecommerce lab at UAMIS.
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Managing Online Communities course on local ABC TV
The local ABC affiliate in Tucson (KGUN9) came by on Monday and recorded our Managing Online Communities class. Our students were presenting their final project concepts at Howenstine High school at the time, so you won't see me in it. The video shows some of the students presenting as well as the high school students participating. They interviewed one of the high school students, their teacher and the UAMIS teacher, Andrea Winkle, talking about the event.
It was a little chaotic from the students presentations' perspective: power was out for half the workstations and they were trying to fix it in the middle of class; the media crew and later the photographer (hired by the University) were all around; the high school Internet access blocked some of the sites that our students built their project on; and people just kept coming in and leaving for random reasons. Anyway, I still think it was successful but we may need to rethink the format a little and perhaps the tools our students can use.
Their final project requires them to create and build a concept for what their audience may want to use out of any combination of Web 2.0 tools they want. Some of our students are more technical than others so some actually wrote the software, while others used the service apps we had or on other sites. We can't show the projects until our students are done with it but I can describe some of them:
I think next semester we need to pick out a selection of free resources they can build their project on. From the Web 2.0 Summit, I added to my list of such resources that let you build your own social network on their service: Ning.com, GoingOn.com, Xing.com, netvibes's ecosystems, ITtoolbox.com.
I'll keep looking for more; we want to offer people a number of different options so they can work on innovative ideas. Again, this is not a programming class, and we don't expect that they'll build one of their own or modify these extensively, but you never know what will happen.
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Tim Berners-Lee initiates "Web Science" academic research
According to a recent New York Times article, Tim Berners-Lee is partnering with MIT and the Univ of Southampton (UK) to launch their Web Science Research Initiative. I don't have much more information than that but it sounds like a graduate level research space into a more modern version of social networking analysis. The key people are Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall (head of School of Electronics and CS at U of Southampton), Nigel Shadbot (prof of AI, Univ of Southampton), and Daniel Weitzner (principal research scientist at MIT).
Quote from the release:
Commenting on the new initiative, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of theWorld Wide Web and a founding director of WSRI, said, "As the webcelebrates its first decade of widespread use, we still knowsurprisingly little about how it evolved, and we have only scratchedthe surface of what could be realized with deeper scientificinvestigation into its design, operation and impact on society.
"The Web Science Research Initiative will allow researchers to take theweb seriously as an object of scientific inquiry, with the goal ofhelping to foster the web's growth and fulfill its great potential as apowerful tool for humanity."
I'm pretty sure the web is already an object of serious scientific and even commercial inquiry, but more effort is always a good thing. In comparison, our undergraduate UAMIS class seems much less conceptual. I'm sure those ideas will eventually trickle down to us too. Social network analysis is a complex enough task, and not a simple topic; i.e., it'd need a full-blown semester to teach.
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MIS course in the press (a list)
Several people have asked me where this news about the MIS course went out, so I've compiled a list and placed it on my wiki. There are at least 10 articles in traditional media and a bunch of blog entries.
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Web2.0 conference, topics and the course
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No end of activities going on for me. I just returned from a trip to talk about Web 2.0. Lot's of interesting discussion and actually the bigger interest was on how dW manages a community.
I should be heading out again to the Web 2.0 conference by O'Reilly in November. (If you are at the show please come by the developerWorks booth and keep me company for a few minutes.) Things are obviously heating up for the startup market in this area. I'm going to have to take a closer look at some of the companies going to the conference.
One question I do get about our MIS course is what Web2.0 products we use and talk about. We use mostly open source tools like MoinMoin for a wiki, Wordpress for blogs, and Audacity for recording podcasts. However, we do talk about a whole lot more sites and products than what we use. Obviously it is hard to put all of these into use for several reasons: (a) time, (b) longevity, (c) utility, and (d) topic.
Even with a 14-week semester course there is a whole lot to discuss in this space. Any tool that you put into the course requires us to at least have a half-class on using the tool (as well as time in followup classes to discuss uses), and preparing a proper assignment for the tool. Next, the Web2.0 market is changing so rapidly, today's players may be tomorrow's laggards; it's hard enough to follow. The utility of the tool may depend on the environment we have; not all tools are readily something you can use for a class environment. Finally, the most important is if it fits into the overall topic. This is not intended to be a tools or programming class and we want to build a general knowledge about the types or categories of tools that are the most prevalent or significant.
This is why the majority of the tools mentioned in the course are discussion or presentation items only. In time, we may accommodate more tooling but that is still secondary to the knowledge we want the students to gain.
So for the Web2.0 conference, I'll be keeping an eye out for dW, for this class, and just for general interest too.
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Crowdsourcing community use-case
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We talked about crowdsourcing as a particular community use-case. It definitely counts as a use-case because of the use of multiple community services, tools and need for potential CMs.
(I looked up Wikipedia but there's no entry right now, so perhaps I'll have to add one)
The concept itself is far from new but the delivery is. The core idea is that you pick a topic, invite a crowd to discuss or brainstorm on it, pick top ideas, let people vote on it. The way it's being applied in online communities is interesting. Take a look at a recent Businessweek story on this (and an earlier one from July).
The following is from our slide on this item that draws some from this:
There are plenty of other examples I'm sure that I left out.
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Class notes from the MIS course
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I do get requests from others on what the notes for this couse contains. The course is definitely one "in the moment", as in, "it's trying to keep up with the latest." The topics we discuss does involve tooling but more for experiential purposes than core training. Because it's so recent, I have not found a single book that could apply across the whole topic. I found about a good 15 books or so that could do it, but I don't think the students would enjoy having that much to read. Nonetheless, there's a need for a book and the students expect it.
In the meantime, the course is a combination of :
I'll ask the public: do you think I should put this information together into a book?
I've written or co-written about 6-7 books already but they are always so much more work than the time/payoff. There are a lot of books out there but as I said, this is a how-to course and not specifically on tools or a particular category (e.g., blogging). Anyway, let me know what you think.
So far, I have not mentioned more details of the final project because we have not yet told the students--if you're reading this--what it entails. We'll probably describe this in the next week or so, and I'll post it then.
I've asked our dev team to set up a wiki for me and hopefully should have one soon. I'll see about post the notes, and files there.
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UofA MIS 300 student blogs
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As part of the Managing online communities course, students have a semester-long assignment to blog weekly. This is to force the habit of writing on a regular basis and feeling the experience for themselves. As a Community manager they would have to try to encourage other people to blog regularly, but as most bloggers know (most blogs fail due to lack of updates) it isn't trivial to write on a regular basis. When you hit the workforce, it becomes even more difficult.
In any case, all our MIS 300 blogs can be read by the public. I think only the first 38 of those blogs are operational (the number of students we have). You'll find varying degrees of creativity and coverage, but that is to be expected.
Other tools-based assignments include those on forums, group editing a wiki, and creating a podcast. I'll try to point to those when they are ready.
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MIS 300 Managing online communities going well
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I've certainly been slow blogging this month, and I'm using the "new baby" excuse :) Not entirely true, but I'm catching up with things at work and the on-going projects we have.
The UofArizona MIS 300 course is going well. We're about a month into the semester and the enrollment has been at 37 students. It's larger than we expected but not unmanageable. Per my previous post, this course is on preparing students for roles in community management. We certainly have hands-on work with social software tools, but the overall goal is more around designing and planning your community, how to keep it growing, how to market and measure it.
The course is also about cooperation, communication, and leadership, so there are other in-class exercises when the Junior level undergrads have to do activities like presentations, pair tasks, group tasks and of course the final project of building a community of other real students and helping to train their community. It helps also to make it fun.
The hopeful outcome is a base level of understanding where they can go into a new entry level position as community manager for a company. Since these roles are still quite varied and evolving, there would be a lot of learning on the job that still needs to happen, but at least they will understand the basics and the personality aspects required of them.
My other hope is that we can reach out to other companies who are looking for such people for coops or internships with these skills.
This week we've started everyone on blogging. They each have to post several times a week on Wordpress accounts and connect with other bloggers, and continue doing so for the rest of the semester. This will likely be trivial for some but not for others. It takes a bit of motivation to blog on such regular frequency and that depends upon the people. Hopefully later this year, I'll demo some of this. This is so they understand what they are asking of a potential blogging community, learn the components of blogs, and experience the issues themselves.
They will also go through assignments to collaborate on a wiki, create their own podcast or videocast, and so on, all the let them become familiar with these from a users perspective.
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Subject: Re: RE: Finding a relative prime
Timur Tabi,timur at tabi.org wrote:
> I'm using Mathematica 3.0 for the Mac,and I'm trying to figure out how
> to get it to pick a random number that is relatively prime to another
> number,p-1,where p is prime.In other words,pick a random number k
> such that 1) k is between 2 and p-1,and 2) k is relatively prime to
> How can I do that in Mathematica 3.0?
There was a very lively and interesting discussion of this problem in
the MathGroup.
It is clearly irrelevant here whether p is a prime or not. So we can
reformulate the problem
as follows: given an integer n >2, select at random an integer k < n
such that k is relatively
prime to n.. A simple solution , which will insure that the numbers are
selected with equal
probability, is to find the rpLst of all numbers k < n which are
relatively prime to n and
then to select a random element of that list with
The main problem is, consequently, to find the most efficient way to
construct the list.
of integers < n and relatively prime to n.An immediate candidate is the
relPrimes[n_] = Select[Range[n],GCD[#,n]==1&];
This function clearly cannot be very fast for large values of n because
it has to examine
every element of the list Range[n].
{17.0333 Second,Null}
A faster function can be constructed by using Eratosthenes Sieve and the
fact that an
integer < n is relatively prime to n if it is not divisible by any prime
divisor of n. The
list of prime divisors of n is obtained by
If d is a prime divisor of n, then
Complement[Range[n], d Range[n / d]]
is a list of numbers between 1 and n which are not divisible by d.We
have to take all these
lists, for all prime divisors of n, and their intersection will be then
the list of all numbers
k<n which are relatively prime to n.
It is now easy to see that the rpLst of integers < n and relatively
prime to n can be defined
as follows:
rpLst[n_] :=
Module[{g=Complement[Range[n],# Range[n / #]]&,
With this function we have
{4.11667 Second,Null}
Finally, a list of 1000 randomly selected and uniformly distributed
integers < 100 and
relatively prime to 100 can be defined by
Ranko Bojanic
bojanic at math.ohio-state.edu


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Graeme McDowell
Born July 30, 1979, Graeme calls Portrush, Northern Ireland, and Lake Nona, Florida, home. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Industrial Distribution in 2002, and turned professional after graduation. He started his career playing on the European Tour, but now splits his time and competes on both the PGA TOUR® and European Tour. Graeme is considered one of the top golfers in the world, and has been a Mastercard Ambassador since 2010.
In 2010, Graeme enjoyed a breakout year. He won the U.S. Open, becoming the first European winner in 40 years, and beat Tiger Woods in a playoff to win the Chevron World Challenge. He also clinched the 2010 Ryder Cup for Team Europe with his putt on the 17th green of the final day.
In 2012, Graeme had another stellar year and didn't finish outside of the top 12 at any of the four major championships, including a T-2nd at the US Open. He had four top-10 finishes during the year and finished 11th on the PGA TOUR money list.
In 2013, Graeme added three victories to his resume. He won the RBC Heritage on the PGA TOUR and then added two victories on the European Tour at the Volvo World Match Play Championship and the Alstom Open de France.
In 2014 Graeme successfully defended his title winning the Alstom Open de France in back to back years.
Off the course, Graeme is heavily involved in the G-Mac Foundation, a charity he founded in 2011 to support children's medical research in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and the United States.