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Nonprofit Online University Appoints 13 State Leaders
AUSTIN An innovative newcomer to Texas higher education, online university WGU Texas, is tapping key state leaders from business, education, healthcare and public policy to serve on its Advisory Board.
Members will provide advice and counsel to WGU Texas' chancellor, Dr. Mark David Milliron, to help shape the future direction of the university, established by the state last fall. The nonprofit institution is self sufficient on tuition and does not receive state funding.
WGU Texas Advisory Board members will play a lead role in guiding the university's support of economic development in Texas by advancing this new option for adult students to complete affordable, graduate and undergraduate degrees. In addition, the advisory board will help identify and develop partnerships with lead employers to help meet state workforce needs.
Board members are invited to serve for three-year terms, bringing expertise that aligns with the university's four colleges and 50 industry-relevant accredited bachelor's and master's degrees in business, information technology, health professions, including nursing, and teacher education.
The newly-appointed Advisory Board members are:
- Andres Alcantar Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, Austin (effective May 1, 2012)
- Jelynne LeBlanc-Burley Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, CPS Energy, San Antonio
- Patricia Diaz Dennis Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Retired, AT&T, San Antonio
- John Fitzpatrick Executive Director of Educate Texas, Austin and Dallas
- Bernie Francis Owner and CEO of Business Control Systems, and First Class Caregivers, Inc., Dallas
- Reynaldo García President and CEO of the Texas Association of Community Colleges, Austin
- Karen Garza Superintendent, Lubbock Independent School District, Lubbock
- Bonnie Gonzalez Chief Executive Officer, Workforce Solutions, McAllen
- Woody Hunt Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hunt Companies, El Paso
- Alice Rodriguez Business Banking Executive, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Dallas
- Robert Scott Texas Commissioner of Education, Head of the Texas Education Agency, Austin
- L. E. Simmons Founder and President of SCF Partners, Houston
- Lora Villarreal Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer for Xerox Services, Dallas
"We are fortunate to have this diverse and accomplished group of leaders help guide our important first years in the state. Their collective expertise and in-depth industry insight will be invaluable as we position WGU Texas to help thousands of Texans successfully take the pathway to possibility that is higher education," said Chancellor Milliron.


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Wild Swans is a Collaborative Kaleidoscope
by Rick Fournier
Also see Elizabeth's review of Twelve Angry Men
Wild Swans, a lively and complex tale conceived, directed and designed by Beth Peterson, is taken from five similar fairy tales by the creative team of playwright Nancy Olesen, lyricist/poet Roy MCBride, set designer Duane Tougas, and dramaturg Lynn Jeffries. They are joined by a highly accomplished musical team, as well as Dennis Spears and Geoffrey Jones as male vocalists. The show delights for the most part when it sticks to its fairy tale base, but over-reaches when it attempts to touch on current political situations concerning immigration.
The story is about Alma, played by Julie Kastigar, a girl who is born because her mother, expressing an overwhelming wish for a girl child, indicates a willingness to give up her six sons in order to have one daughter. The Old Woman, played very effectively by Laurie Witzkowski, also the story's narrator, overhears this moment of weakness and grants the wish. In this "be-careful-what-you-wish-for-moment," the sons are gone, turned into swans, and Alma arrives to become the only child. As she grows up, Alma senses that she has brothers who are gone and decides to go in search of them.
In act one, Alma's search takes her into the world, but also into The Forest of the Heart as well. Her character appears as a puppet which interacts with the Old Woman as well as many other characters in the forms of animals and mountains, set pieces and props which take on a life of their own, sometimes creating situations that are humorous. These character pieces move about a layered stage that opens itself up in a number of fanciful and colorful ways. Fabrics and windows both hide and reveal action as the story unfolds. All of this is accompanied by the music of a small orchestra and the drums and sound effects produced by the Old Woman/narrator. Her singing and the singing of the male vocalist add richness.
As the second act begins, Alma, now an actress in a large mask, continues her journey to the place where she learns what she must do to bring her swan brothers back to human form: spin stinging nettles into shirts for each of them, but not utter a word until she has completed her task. Discovered by an ineffectual king who marries her, Alma goes with him to the castle to face his hateful sister and a prime minister who wants her dead and gets his way. Overcoming this and all other obstacles, Alma is united with five of her brothers and gives them their shirts, restoring their humanity.
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater has produced a rich, multi-layered production using an amazing variety of scenic elements. It will play at 7:30 PM on Fridays, 2 & 7 PM on Saturdays, and 2 PM on Sundays, through December 30th at Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater Mainstage in Minneapolis. Tickets prices range from $13 to $18. 612-721-2535 for reservations.Be sure to check the current schedule for theatre in the Twin Cities area


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June 04, 2011 at 02:30:34 Jun 04, 2011 @ 02:30
Hey guys, first post on this thread.
I am about to graduate college and being in college I always find myself with no time to eat right (typically eating 2 meals a day if that...) and work out due to school, homework and my internship (just an excuse to myself ). That being said, I have easily been apart of the "freshman 15" demographic but it has carried along with me into my senior year unfortunately. Since I am graduating in two weeks, I finally have the time to eat right and work out. IF I did find time in my schedule, I would work out for like 3 weeks straight and then find myself being lazy again so my workout schedule would be on and off, rinse and repeat...
I'm trying to lose weight while getting cut. I stand at a tall 5'6 lol and weigh about 157...
I plan on doing some fat burning workouts paired with running (working out 3-4 days a week and running 5-6). After about two-three weeks, I want to start the fat burning version of p90x (I can't think of the name).
Also since I am graduating along with a lot of my friends, I can expect tons of graduation parties full of bad food and tons of alcohol. Will consuming alcohol while trying to lose weight simply omit my efforts?
I just want to know your thoughts and if you guys had any tips for a pretty average fit person?
The real science of the matter is this: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. If you eat less calories than you burn, you lose weight. If you eat and burn an equal number, you maintain your weight. If weight loss is your only goal, you don't even have to work out. Just focus on your diet. Your maintenance is probably around 2000-2500 calories a day. Eat 5 calories less than that.
The only thing working out really does, when it comes to losing weight, is makes you burn more calories throughout the day. So if you have a maintenance of 2500, and then you go running and burn an additional 500, it means if you eat under 3000 calories, you will lose weight. Fat is the first thing your body eats when it doesn't have enough calories. So I'd suggest "cutting" (losing fat) until you're at least somewhat happy with your weight. Then start lifting and get ripped!


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Eli wrote: > 2. Last time I checked, there was room for improving some of the code. > (But I remember much more code, so maybe things changed?) We've been revising the shootout tests to make them a bit more realistic in terms of the tasks they perform, as well as trying to make it harder for smart compilers like GHC to toss aside useless computations. A view of the original shootout tests are available here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/old/benchmark.php?test=all〈=mzscheme&lang2=python As far as the implementations go, I'm sure there is room for improvement -- I'm no expert with Scheme, though I am learning... -Brent
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Retired Maj. Gen. Stewart C. Meyer, who commanded the former Test and Experimental Command at West Fort Hood and later served as Harker Heights' mayor in the mid-1990s, died Monday night at Metroplex Hospital. He was 91.
A 1943 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of three wars, Meyer served 36 years in the Army, retiring in 1979. During his distinguished career, he earned a Silver Star for gallantry, five Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and 16 air medals.
A resident of Harker Heights since 1980, Meyer was elected as the city's mayor in 1993, serving until late 1997, when he resigned to run for Bell County judge with the goal of unifying east and west Bell County. He was defeated in the Republican primary by current Judge Jon Burrows.
Meyer was born April 14, 1921, in El Paso, the son of an Army brigadier general.
Soon after his West Point graduation, Meyer was deployed to Europe at the height of World War II.
He spent nearly nine months in Normandy and joined his division as it organized to head east into Europe. In October 1944, during combat in Germany, he was wounded when a shell fragment penetrated his right foot.
After the war, Meyer held several positions, including executive officer of the ROTC detachment at the University of William & Mary.
He earned his master's degree from the University of Michigan and attended the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
Meyer served in Korea during the 1950s and two tours in Vietnam during the 1960s and '70s. Meyer also served three years at the Pentagon and two years in Washington, D.C., but he told the Herald in a 2007 interview that his favorite times were those he spent with fellow soldiers.
"I didn't care for Washington much," he recalled. "I would rather be with troop units."
His last position was as director of the Army's Ballistic Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.
After his military retirement, Meyer was active as a consultant in space and conventional warfare programs.
As Harker Heights mayor, Meyer was at the forefront of a concerted effort to raise business standards in the city, as well as build a new city hall.
"I think we were very successful in putting together ordinances that we thought would be inclined for progress in the city," Meyer later said of the City Council's actions during his tenure.
However, he declined to claim credit for the city's rebirth in the mid-1990s.
"Some of it just sort of grows while you are in office, and the only thing you can claim is that you encouraged it," Meyer said in the 2007 interview. "Mostly, I am proud of the citizens of Harker Heights, that they worked so hard to develop Harker Heights."
After leaving office, Meyer worked to encourage voter registration and voter participation in the Killeen-Harker Heights area, through the Alliance of Central Texas.
He was a longtime member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Killeen, where he served in several capacities, including senior warden.
Meyer also was a member of the Rotary Club and Kiwanis Club.
Survivors include Mari, his wife of almost 33 years; three daughters, Ann Parker, Margaret Surdyk and Catherine Meyer-Seligman; three stepsons, Luis Jac Morton, Parker Meyer and John Morton; and a stepdaughter, Leslie Green.
Services for Meyer are pending with Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Killeen.


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HIGH Wycombe Ladies have the title in sight after crushing top of the table Underhill at Green Dragon Lane on Sunday.
Wycombe won the toss and inserted their guests, and Mandy Prime's wicket early in the match was a sign of their intent.
Captain Angeli Lotay turned the screw further with two wickets in the fifth over and further wickets from Eleanor Gill, Shona Heal and a catch from the skipper at mid-wicket demolished Underhill's batting order.
They were all out of just 62 in the 25th over, which never troubled High Wycombe.
Openers Katie Hudson and Lotay did the business themselves, finishing unbeaten on 34 and 25 respectively to wrap up a ten-wicket demolition.
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Today, my parents said that they bought me a car. I had been begging for one for a year and they always said that I would have to pay for it myself. I got really excited and went to the garage to see my new ride. It was a Hot Wheels car with a note saying "save your money". FML
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FOSTORIA, OHIO – Roppe Corporation recently announced that its commercial flooring products have been approved for FloorScore® Indoor Air Quality certification by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), the leading environmental certifier in the United States.
The FloorScore program, developed by the Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) in conjunction with SCS, tests and certifies flooring products for compliance with indoor air quality emission requirements adopted nationwide. A flooring product bearing the FloorScore seal has been independently certified by SCS to comply with the volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions criteria of the California Section 01350 standard.
These flooring products qualify for use in high-performance schools and office buildings. Products with the FloorScore seal have passed a third-party certification process and are recognized as contributing to good indoor air quality in order to protect human health. Products bearing the FloorScore label meet the indoor air emissions criteria of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), LEED® Green Building Rating System, and the Green Guide for Health Care.
"Roppe has been in the forefront of the green movement since introducing our LEED contributable products under the EcoEffects® brand in 2003, and later qualifying for CHPS compliance in 2006," says Dee Dee Brickner, marketing coordinator for Roppe. "It seemed like a natural progression for us to seek FloorScore certification as we strive to continue to be a leading flooring partner for green building designs."
Roppe Corporation has three manufacturing facilities within the continental United States that service the U.S. and International commercial building markets. Roppe manufactures a wide variety of floor covering products designed for the health care and education market as well as the retail, corporate and hospitality market segments. Roppe has been preserving jobs and improving the quality of life for the residents of Fostoria, Ohio, since the company's inception in 1955. For more information or to find the Roppe certified products list, visit www.scscertified.com/products.


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Traditional CRM is outmoded, says Brian Kardon - so it's time for predictive CRM, something that will take sales from art to science.
Predictive CRM: The next wave of CRM?
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-- Head of Marketing at T-Impact - IBM and Avaya partner - expert in Business Process Management (BPM)
Kristin Zhivago's piece this morning shows how this is a step forward, but from the wrong place.
If you still operate with the idea that sales reps contacting people makes them buy, then this is a step forward.
If your business still works on metrics such as likelihood to close as the main reason for calling people (in other words calling the easy ones first) then you've already lost.
B2B buying is a collaborative process.
The CRM should be telling you the people in the organisation you haven't met yet, who influence that decision.
It should be telling you who is influencing them.
It should be showing you the news, articles and reports they are viewing which will influence their behaviour.
Then you might understand the customer relationship well enough to be able to manage it.
Last but not least. Most of a buying decision happens outside of a formal buying process. People learn about solutions, vendors to trust etc. BEFORE they start the buying process. If you are judging them on closing metrics, you've already lost.
Good article. Social CRM is the new trend in customer relationship management which integrates social media with traditional CRM to connect with customer better. More information on the same can be found @ http://bit.ly/UDUptM
That's the real trick, right there: "if it's a really good system where salespeople have used it..." There aren't too many of those out there that are both good and that the salespeople have used them. Usually these go together perfectly; when one is off, the other is too (and visa versa). I can think of very few CRM software out there that are successful on these two fronts.
The other thing I would take caution in is the idea of converting sales into a science. Usually the mentality behind science is mathematic, habit, calculated, numbers, nothing more. There's no soul or feeling behind it. If we start turning all our customers into simple numbers, we'll end up ruining the purpose of CRM: building relationships.


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City of London still tops finance league
If the first and worst global recession of the 21st century cannot knock London off its perch as top financial centre probably nothing can, writes Elliott Wilson in a City Focus.
Top for people: City of London still boasts deepest pool of banking talent on the planet
At the height of the financial crisis, the German magazine Spiegel thrust the knife into the UK, then twisted it.
Great Britain, it warned darkly in a 2009 leader article, stood on the 'brink of economic ruin'.
The future of London and its vast financial sector was in doubt.
Britain, it concluded, was set to match the demise of a genuinely bankrupt North Atlantic island, becoming, as the article claimed in its headline, 'Iceland on the Thames'.
There is a German word for it: Schadenfreude.
But Spiegel was wrong - at least about the fate of the City. The UK's economic rebound may have stalled for now but London - despite the financial crisis, and despite the threats to move to lower-taxed locations from banks and hedge funds - is powering ahead.
The banks were miffed at the moves in the Budget this week to increase the £2.5bn levy so they do not gain from the lowering of corporation tax rates.
Chancellor George Osborne also moved to close a loophole that allowed highly-paid individuals to channel their rewards through lightly-taxed employee benefit trusts.
He signalled a decisive break with the love-in between politicians and the City, saying while he wants 'the City of London to remain the world's leading centre for financial services', he also wants to rebalance the economy.
Regardless of its cries of woe, London has not been dislodged as the world's premier financial hub.
In its twice-yearly ranking of 75 cities, London retained the edge over New York and Hong Kong as the top venue for banking and financial services.
The report is based on surveys of industry professionals and objective factors such as office rental rates, airport satisfaction and transport.
London came first in every category bar two, where it lost out to New York.
Jobseekers are flooding to London again, from Europe and North America, and also from booming Asia. Investment banks employed aggressively across the City last year and the hiring continues, with Barclays Capital, Citi and Nomura among others restocking their depleted trading floors and banking teams.
But the City and Canary Wharf aren't just magnets for big banks. And far from leaving, banks are coming here - even German ones.
Berenberg Bank, a 420-year-old private outfit based in Hamburg, this year opted to open its global private banking offices in the heart of the City.
The bank is chasing non-doms, foundations with cash to invest; investment bankers with cash to burn; and the landed gentry - families with mottos, crests and deep pockets.
'We believe in London,' says managing partner Andreas Brodtmann. 'If you read German newspapers, they saw the negative side but we see so much potential.'
The City still boasts the deepest pool of banking talent on the planet. Perfectly positioned between New York and the Far East, it is a global hub for everything from fashion and media to accounting and medicine.
Then there is the property market. Wealthy Indian buyers opt for property in Mayfair. Singaporean and Cantonese buyers prefer posh new-builds such as The Hawksmoors near London Bridge.
Amous Lee, director of international investment at property developer Knight Frank in Hong Kong, has been run off his feet in recent months.
In December, he sold a £15m Kensington mansion to a Chinese businessman. In February a Malaysian businesswoman snapped up a Belgravia townhouse for £1.2m.
'She called me at 10am from London looking for a property,' remembers Lee, 'and bought 24 hours later, the full amount in one payment.'
Last year six in 10 new central London properties were sold to customers from the Orient including a new category: mainland Chinese, high on their country's economic boom. The only looming dangers, it seems, are a repeat recession and a deepening of the 'banker bashing' of recent years.
'The UK has always prided itself on being open to firms and people from around the world, but this message has become distinctly blurred in recent times,' warns Stuart Fraser, policy chairman at the City of London Corporation.
But if anything, the financial crisis has reinforced the City's status. After all, if the first and worst global recession of the 21st century cannot knock London off its perch, probably nothing can.
And we all have the Olympics to look forward to and the tourism dollars, euros and yen it will bring.
London may not be fully off the hook yet, but it is certainly back in business.
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not everyday im asking a question!
I havent taken my E30 out for a few weeks now between driving my E34 and a E36, i got in it today, and the RPM gauge is flickery.
take a look at this
I would usually diagnose this as a CPS issue, but the engine does not stutter or anything, and i swear its not me with the clutch in giving her a squirt
any ideas?
also theres proof of my fantastic fuel economy in this car, backed up by calculated figures!
I never had this happen with the TACH but my speedo acted like that. The fix was to R&R the assemble and soldier the connections on the circuit boards.
Might be worth a try.
come on mang, you should know this one.
loose connection or the SI batteries.
Mine did that to until the accident:dunno: now its fine?
Gotta go with solder joints and SI batteries. Don't think having a crash on the chance it might fix it is worth the risk LOL
Hahahaha I want suggesting he crash his e30 I'd also say solder joints or batteries
i could be wrong, but it shouldn't be the SI batteries, the RPM gauge has nothing to do with the rest of the gauge and is a self contrainted unit. Non the less ill take it out when i get a chance and have a look. Im tracking my E34 this weekend so wont have time this one.
You just finished the v12 swap..
So why are you selling it after all this?
So i dont know why, and i cant see the logic, but i still hadn't got round to taking a look at the cluster. But i did leave my lights on a few nights back and the battery went flat on the car, but now after charging the car and driving around like normal again, its gone back to working 100% normally! how strange right!
Recharged the SI batteries?
ill update this, after that event, still working 100% fine a few months later! very peculiar!
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Parcel delivery is becoming the new bread and butter for Australia Post as online retailing grows and the number of letters falls, chief executive
Mr Fahour said Australia Post experienced a 10.9 per cent increase in parcel delivery volumes last financial year.
He said this was a growth rate that was sustainable over the next five years as the consumer love affair with online shopping continued to blossom.
"It's becoming very quickly, our parcels business, our new core," Mr Fahour told a business lunch in Sydney on Wednesday.
"We are confident that these volumes will continue to increase as e-commerce continues to grow in Australia."
Mr Fahour said about 70 per cent of the parcels business's revenue - or about $1 billion - was "generated by a mouse click".
Industry figures estimated online shopping made up about 3 per cent of Australian retail sales, compared with about 7 per cent in the UK or US.
Mr Fahour, a former senior executive of National Australia Bank, said the number of letters Australia Post delivered peaked in 2008 and had declined by 14 per cent since then.
He said the number of text messages sent by Australians had grown to 27 billion in 2010, from nothing 10 years ago.
"If the current rate of consumption of technology continues, then we would expect, we forecast, a 40 per cent decline in letter volumes by 2020," Mr Fahour said.
"So this is a major and dramatic change in our core business."
The Australia Post annual report showed its letter delivery unit posted a loss of about $90 million in the past financial year, which was an improvement from the prior year.
Mr Fahour said letter delivery was not expected to be profitable but he hoped to minimise those losses.
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By Josh Stone
The job market in the United States is depressing. It really goes without saying, but I said it anyway. Times are tough, and finding a job is even tougher. Those lucky enough to have a comfortable job right now sure as hell arenÆt going anywhere, even those with less than comfortable jobs arenÆt planning on moving any time soon. Which just makes it harder for those without a job to acquire one. Last month a position at the library I work at opened up that I qualified for, itÆs one rank higher than I am now, but itÆs still considered an entry-level position. Anyway, all it really requires is a high school diploma and some experience with the library or something similar, and over 80 people applied, for one part-time position. WhatÆs worse is, the great vast of them were over-qualified, some even had masterÆs degrees. So, it goes without saying that I did not obtain this job.
All that rambling leads me, in a round about way, to the vast number of writers and artists trying to break into the comic business. Getting into the comic business is one of the hardest jobs to come by. Unlike the rest of the job market, the comic book business has been this way for quite some time. I thought over 80 people applying for one job was bad, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people trying to become comic book creators. If you sit and think about it, like I so often do, there are only so many available comic gigs out; that is, with the big boys. If you want to write or draw comics and make money, you only have two real companies to look at and they only produce a handful of regular titles. On top of that, the regular titles that they do have are pretty much booked up, and usually with a creator thatÆs doing several of their titles.
So, there are hundreds of people trying to break into comics. We all know that, but do we realize it? Not too long ago CBR started a contest called ōComic Book Idolö where a bunch of amateur artists posted their artwork on a message board and a panel of judges selected the best. Again, IÆm sure everyone knows that, but did you look at how many people submitted their art? I lost count, but it was incredibly high. Out of all those people who submitted, only one person will win, only ONE. Sure a few of them will be getting jobs because of that exposure, but only one person won the actual prize. I think thatÆs a great way for artists to break into the business, or at least get their name out there. IÆm sure it wonÆt be the last contest thatÆs held, and IÆm sure other companies and other sites are going to be doing their own version of ōComic Book Idol.ö ThatÆs all great for the artists out there, but what about writers? Artists pretty much had it easy before (that is if they had the talent), they had conventions where creators and editors and art directors would look at their portfolio and get a business card. For a creator who canÆt draw their way out of a paper bag, that really cuts the job market down immensely.
The best way for either a writer or an artist to get into the business is creator owned, small press comics. ThereÆs really no set limit of titles to work on since you create the title. However, as many people know, itÆs not as easy as it sounds. If you want your created title to stand any fighting chance, itÆs best to submit it to a smaller company that has connections into bookshops, and these companies donÆt have the money to produce everything that is solicited to them. Then again, if that route doesnÆt work, you can always self publish, if youÆve got that kind of cash. So, once again, itÆs another tricky and slippery road into the comic book business. Even those lucky enough to have their creations published arenÆt always guaranteed to have a free ride into the bigger publishers, thereÆs always an intern waiting in the shadows to take the good jobs.
I went through all of that just to say how unbelievably hard it is to make it inside the comic industry. Then again, I wouldnÆt want it any other way. If every writer or every artist out there could get into the business, it wouldnÆt be as special or significant. Besides, there would be a lot more crap books out then there are now. For all the trials and tribulations that creators endure, in the end if they make it, itÆs all worth it. If you have the talent and you have the drive, there is no reason why you canÆt make it as a writer or artist. People get piles of rejection letters before they get their first acceptance, unless youÆre that damn good. So, the real purpose of this essay is to tell those reading it who want to make it in the business (like I do) to go after your dream wholeheartedly. DonÆt let all the horror stories scare you off, get what you want out of your life and do it by any legal means. The only thing is, make sure the talent really is there, donÆt bog down the rest of us with your crap art or your piss-poor writing. Sadly there is enough of that around.
The Good
Last week there was no The Good, but there was a review I did for The Crow: Flesh & Blood which can be found by clicking the following link The Crow: Flesh & Blood.
With that out of the way, letÆs get to this weekÆs selection for The Good. This past week was rather special for me, instead of living for Wednesday, I was living for Tuesday. As you all know, Tuesday is the day for new music and movies, and this Tuesday saw the return of A Perfect Circle. Their new album; Thirteenth Step hit the shelves and I was there with money in hand. If you havenÆt already bought this album, itÆs time you do. ItÆs the best new album since; well, ToolÆs Lateralus. Maynard James Keenan has the best voice known to man, and the music on Thirteenth Step is simply unbelievable. ThereÆs been a lot of band member changes since APCÆs first album, which gives the new music a darker feel.
Seriously, you can not go wrong with this album. Do not have a friend burn it for you, do not download it off Kazaa or whatever you use, go buy it. Support the few talented musicians the world has left. If you feel the need to rip off musicians download all the new Limp Dickshit songs just for the hell of it, I donÆt recommend listening to it, just download it so they stop making money.
For more information on APC go to A Perfect Circle.
Alright folks, thatÆll do it for me this week. I know youÆre going to miss me, but donÆt fret, IÆll be back next Saturday with a brand new column. If you get lonesome you can always e-mail me or post on the Soapbox message board. æTil next timeģ
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Is Snake Breeding A Good Business?
Asking if snake breeding is a good business to get into really isn't a fair question. The emphasis seems to be on the snake, while the emphasis really should be on business. If you love snakes it helps, and can make the difference between success and failure. What many don't realize, is you have to have a passion for doing business as well, or you probably won't succeed. Just because you happen to love snakes and know a great deal about them, don't decide to go into the breeding and retail business one day and quit your regular job the next.
Basic Issues - One reason for going into the snake breeding business is that, when you do the math, and figure the number of baby snakes you can sell, your parent snakes begin to look a little bit like money machines. In a successful business they are of course, but doing the math and sitting back and waiting for the money to come in isn't a very workable approach. You've got to know two things to get into the business, know your snakes and know your business. Snake breeding for fun and profit can be very rewarding if you start small, slowly taking a hobby of raising, caring for, and breeding snakes, into the world of business. Patience and the ability to bounce back from reversals which are bound to happen are two other key elements to success.
Doing The Math - Can a snake breeding business be profitable? A little simple math suggests that it can be, not necessarily that it's guaranteed to be. As an example, if you have a pair of breeding snakes which cost $100 each, you have a $200 investment (which is probably tax deductible). If this pair produces 50 baby snakes over a year's time, and you sell each little snake for $4, you'd cover your investment. You'll do much better than that of course. Asking for $100 per snake or more doesn't make sense though. If you paid $100 for a snake, why should someone else pay more. They can go to the same breeder you did, and get a snake for $100. A better price might be $50, and even if you just asked $25 for each baby, you'd still make $1,250. Multiply that by a dozen or more pairs of breeder snakes and now you're starting to make some money. It can be a little different if you deal only in rare snakes, where you may pay $1,000 for a snake, and be able to sell a baby for almost the same amount or an amount just a bit lower. Multiply that times 50, and now we're talking even more money.
Have A Proper Facility - Still, you're probably better off if you keep your passion for snakes alive, and don't let the $-signs become your only priority. You've got to keep your breeding facilities up to date, and large enough to handle perhaps hundreds of snakes. If you live in a residential area, you may run into a problem with neighbors who are uneasy about knowing there are 500 or 600 snakes just next door, even if they (the snakes, not the neighbors) aren't particularly dangerous. One is bound to get loose on occasion and if it's more than a few feet long, you could run into some problems.
Customers And Mentors - Finally, before you get to the point where baby snakes are hatching left and right, you're going to have to have some customers, which probably won't be your neighbors. Part of a successful snake breeding business is going to be attending trade shows, reptile shows, and even small business clinics, to discover how best to locate and win customers. One good piece of advice might be to find a long time snake breeder who is breeding and selling snakes of a different kind than yours. If that breeder doesn't see you as a potential competitor, you may have found a valuable mentor.


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Delirium in early-stage Alzheimer's disease : enhancing cognitive reserve as a possible preventive measure
Fick, Donna M., Kolanowski, Ann, Beattie, Elizabeth, & McCrow, Judy (2009) Delirium in early-stage Alzheimer's disease : enhancing cognitive reserve as a possible preventive measure. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 35(3), pp. 30-38.
Delirium is a disorder of acute onset with fluctuating symptoms and is characterized by inattention, disorganized thinking, and altered levels of consciousness. The risk for delirium is greatest in individuals with dementia, and the incidence of both is increasing worldwide because of the aging of our population. Although several clinical trials have tested interventions for delirium prevention in individuals without dementia, little is known about the mechanisms for the prevention of delirium in early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD). The purpose of this article is to explore ways of preventing delirium and slowing the rate of cognitive decline in early-stage AD by enhancing cognitive reserve. An agenda for future research on interventions to prevent delirium in individuals with early-stage AD is also presented.
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Following the first laps on track of the E22, drivers Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado look to the season ahead.
Romain Grosjean: "I'm ready to lead the way"
Romain heads into his third season as race driver for Lotus F1 Team with the confidence and experience to lead the team to greater things.
New season, new rules and new cars; how much of a challenge do you see the coming months to be? New season, new car, news rules - everything it pretty new and our challenge is pretty big. It's very exciting though! We don't know exactly what's going on and where people are, it's the same every year when we start the season, but it's particularly the case right now with all the changes and new rules. The changing of engines, the changing of aerodynamics, more electrical help in the car, so yes some tough work for the engineers and drivers to understand and get on top of everything as quick as we can and hopefully faster than the others.
You are going into your third season as race driver for the team; will the continuity enable you to continue to learn and grow as a driver? I think continuity will be important this year with all the rule changes, and it's my third year at Enstone so it feels like home. I like the team and I think we do a very good job together so I'm happy to keep going, and I'm happy that we're together for this challenge. We have a common aim for the future and we want to win races and win Championships. We'll work as hard as we did to achieve even more than last year. I am ready to lead the way with this challenge.
You've been on the podium 9 times so far. Is that first win within reach? I don't know when it will come, I've come close a few times and nine podiums with the team is a good record. We just need to keep doing our best, keep trying to optimise everything we can from the first day we have on a race track to the Sunday and to get a good car. I trust the people here to try to give me all the tools we need to achieve that win - it's a good car, a good engine, we have good strategy, we have good engineers and mechanics, and a good driver. So I'm looking forward to try and will go for it, and the day it comes, we'll have a big party!
What do you think of the E22 and the design team which has created it? I like the colour of the car, it's nice. I think with the rule change it's very interesting to see how people have understood it, and the direction people have taken. Our guys have been pretty clever with it; I really like the idea of trying something different, and we'll just need to see when we get to Melbourne where we are. But I really like the car, and if it's a winning car then I will love it!
What are your targets and objectives for 2014? Targets and objectives are always the same when you start a new season - trying to win the title. It sounds optimistic sometimes, but I think we are all here to try and win races; the team in Enstone, the team on the racetrack and myself, so we'll do everything we can, do our best, and see if it's good enough!
Why the number 8? Simply I like this number, plus it has some significance to me. My wife was born the 8th of December, we started dating in 2008 and, to my eyes my son is the 8th wonder of the world. That's why I picked up number 8.
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After three seasons in Formula 1, Pastor Maldonado comes to Lotus F1 Team with the objective of being one of the best and fighting for wins.
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You have 58 Grands Prix starts under your belt; what experience can you bring to the team? I've been learning a lot, especially in the first two years. I don't count last year as it was so difficult, but even in the difficult times you can learn a lot and I've used all of that as an experience and I feel ready to get back to the top. In the past I've been quite good in my last team, and maybe here I will get extra power to be more consistent and I think together we can make a very strong team.
You already know Romain Grosjean, are you looking forward to working together? I know Romain from some years ago, he's a good guy. He's a great driver and we've competed in the lower categories together. We've both always been at the top so I'm really looking forward to working with him. I think we are both real fighters on track, so I hope we can both do our best for the team.
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The day is Sunday, September 28, 2008. The Milwaukee Brewers are playing the Chicago Cubs in front of a packed house of 45,299 raving fans. The Brewers take the field in the top of the first inning. Looking at this image, one would not see anything particularly out of the ordinary. Look closer though, and one would notice the Brewers, on this day in September, are playing four African-Americans out of a total of nine men. Prince Fielder, C.C. Sabathia, Mike Cameron, and Ray Durham represent a sight that for some reason, is rarely seen in today's game.
Flash back a little further to April 15, 1947. Jackie Robinson takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in front of 26,623 fans, 14,000 of which were black. That day, Robinson became the first African-American player in the history of Major League Baseball. Such a feat seemingly opened the doors wide for players of all races, colors, and creeds to enter into professional sports. The percentage of African-Americans in baseball increased all the way to 27% in 1975, a staggering statistic considering that this was just 28 years since that fateful day back in 1947.
That 1975 figure though, has since been on the decline up until 2006. Coming up on the 60th anniversary of Robinson's debut, the idea of racial equality received a punch in the stomach. According to studies done by the University of Central Florida organization, just 8.4% of Major League players were black in 2006, a stark contrast from the totals in 1975. At the same time, the baseball institution is not completely without its diversity.
Well-represented on the racial spectrum in baseball are Hispanics, at 29.4 percent of all players. Combine that percentage with African-Americans at 8.4, and Asians at 2.4 percent, and roughly 40 percent of all Major League players are minorities.
"A lot of Hispanics are now getting the chances blacks got in the 1940's," says Doc Graham, a former Negro League baseball player, in an interview with John Helyar of ESPN.
The sharp decline of African-American's combined with the rapid rise of Latinos in baseball have led to frustration among many black players. Gary Sheffield, a left fielder for the Detroit Tigers let loose allegations in 2007 that led to an uproar of malcontent.
Said Sheffield, "What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain't no English going to be coming out. ... [It's about] being able to tell [Hispanic players] what to do, being able to control them" (June 2007 issue of GQ).
Such a racially tinged outburst illustrates the frustration that is currently present in the sports world today, and raises the question of why such a massive discrepancy exists.
The decline of African-American's in baseball can be partly attributed to redistribution. In one study done in 2004, Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Mark Lelinwalla said "the NBA's black-player population was 77 percent, while the white-player population was 21 percent. Of the white players, 55 percent were American-born and 45 percent were international players."
Such a stark contrast can be seen in the NFL as well, with the most recent tallies in 2007 putting African-Americans at 67 percent of all players.
These figures leave many Americans scratching their heads to the amount of discrepancy not just intra-sport, but inter-sport as well. There are a myriad of explanations that people can only speculate on.
Of the three most popular American sports, why would the minority population drift towards basketball and football, and in turn begin a mass exodus from baseball?
John Entine, author of Why Blacks Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It puts forth an interesting view.
"White parents are partly responsible because some see basketball as a ghetto sport now," said Entine in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Such an attitude, Entine argues, has driven whites away from basketball and towards sports deemed "more acceptable" by parents.
"Some parents discourage their kids from playing (basketball), and in the process, their children aren't able to access their full potential," Entine said.
This proposes the argument that whites, blacks, Latinos, etc., aren't necessarily being excluded from any particular sport per say, rather ethnicities are merely being shuffled around among multiple sports.
A similar opinion is offered by the Gerald Early of the blog "Extra Bases" Calling it an "unpopular answer to a popular question," Early, director of the humanities center at Washington University, St. Louis, states frankly that "I assume black Americans don't play Major League baseball so much these days because they don't want to. This answer never satisfies anyone."
This, some sociologists argue, is partly attributed to the financial difficulty that being a professional baseball player offers to a family with limited funds.
Early cites a story in the St. Louis Dispatch that attempts to explain this trend. "To become an elite player today means participating in programs that can be prohibitively expensive for families with little financial wiggle room" (St. Louis Dispatch, June 18, 2008).
According to Early, such a thought process "is called deficit theory, that is, that one group does not does not do what another group does because it lacks the resources to do it." In short, deficit theory states that African-Americans growing up in poor neighborhoods are less likely to go out and buy a mitt, baseball bat, ball(s), cap, and cleats as they are to buy a cheap basketball or football.
Playing the devil's advocate, Early also claims that "deficit theory is almost always wrong." Such a generalization does not account for the black players in the early 1900's who, despite torrent racism and lack of equipment, still managed to find ways to play baseball. Black athletes today manage to play sports like basketball and football that require more than just a ball (i.e. uniforms, cleats/shoes, organizations/teams, large fields/courts).
A lack of interest in the so-called nostalgia of baseball is a driving force towards the African-American community's disinterest in the timely sport. "Baseball sells itself through nostalgia. Going back into baseball's past only leads to segregation, and something called white baseball and something else called black baseball," says Early.
Claude Johnson of the "Black Fives Blog" goes so far as to say that baseball was not even the leader in the integration of professional sports teams.
"To say that basketball 'must still acknowledge baseball's contribution to their diversity' is not even in the ballpark. [Jackie] Robinson himself played for a racially integrated professional basketball team prior to his first at-bat with the Brooklyn Dodgers," said Johnson.
In some ways though, the deficit theory seemingly does apply. "It's not completely racism, but there's definitely some cultural resonance. I wouldn't completely rule out the deficit model," says Dr. Julie Harms-Cannon, professor of sociology at Seattle University. "In poor neighborhoods, what's available in terms of activities?" The argument here is that baseball is an expensive pastime that is underemphasized by the school system and the media.
Says Harms-Cannon, "High schools put a greater emphasis on sports like football, especially in southern states. Who do we see on TV, and who the stars we all know best?" Sports like football and basketball become more prominent in the minds of black youths, and as such carry a certain "cultural resonance."
Baseball is a sport that requires a player to be drafted, move through an endless series of minor league teams, and then maybe that player will receive a call to play in the Major Leagues. Compare that to football and basketball, where a player is drafted out of college, and then goes straight to the "big team." Baseball does not provide the immediate gratification that other sports can grant in terms of money or prestige.
Because of this, "baseball is simply not culturally important (to African-Americans)," says Harms-Cannon.
This being so, the argument can be made that blacks are not terribly under-represented in baseball, with 12 percent of the American population being black. "If anything," says Harms-Cannon, "African-Americans are numerically over-represented in basketball in football."


text: there's an additional issue here. how to define "spam". in my case, the customer who sends the message is the originator. He is liable for any spam complaints. However I can not filter messages away because what I see as "spam" he might not see as spam and the receiver neither. The receiver might have agreed to receive advertisement messages from the sender. The second issue is that we are not allowed to look at the content. Privacy laws are very strict. Telecommunications are covered under privacy. You can not wiretap your customers phone line neither. The third issue is the customer pays you money to deliver the messages. So you are obliged to deliver them. Normally what we see is that operators put pretty clear rules into their contracts. If you get complaints from the receivers, you can simply hold the sender liable. In other words, "not your problem". On 19.11.2009, at 06:43, Alejandro Guerrieri wrote: > smppbox has a plugin mechanism you could hook into. That would be the most elegant approach imho. Check the examples, there's a C plugin showing how to do it. > > Regards, > -- > Alejandro Guerrieri > aguerrieri at kannel.org > > > > On 19/11/2009, at 4:23, Sreekanth GS wrote: > >> Hello Nikos, >> >> 1. The SMPP Connection is not used by a single client, he re-distributes it to n levels. So the source of spam may not be from the direct client. In countries like ours [India], there is no spam filtration from the operator, and we are directly connected to the operator. So, above us, no spam filtration works. >> >> 2. We transmit around 1-1.5 million messages a day, in a 16 hour window, and hence we badly need the spam filtration mechanism, and it is not viable for us to reject messages assuming spam, and we can only hold, verify and then release to the SMSC. >> >> 3. Even if a message is caught as spam, and rejected, we need to acknowledge back that it was rejected due to spam. I really dont think a firewall would be above to send back that rejected PDU information, rather than dropping the packets. >> >> Regards, >> Sreekanth >> >> 2009/11/19 Nikos Balkanas <nbal at amdtelecom.net> >> Hi, >> >> I will have to agree with Alvaro. Data mining, fraud, illegal and spam messages are a can of worms that if kannel ever gets into, there is no way out, with all legal ramifications. Not to mention a performance killer. Plus a modular front end filtering would be much more flexible and customizable. >> >> For the smppbox interface I would like to stress 2 things: >> >> 1) The average spammer or drug dealer won't use an SMPP connection to send their messages. Upstream ESMEs will take responsibility for filtering them. >> 2) An intelligent firewall could be used, one that would block all offensive packages, based on content. >> >> BR, >> Nikos >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: <sreekanth at tngicube.co.in> >> To: "Alvaro Cornejo" <cornejo.alvaro at gmail.com> >> Cc: <devel at kannel.org> >> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:41 AM >> >> Subject: Re: Interface to bearerbox >> >> >> Hello Alvaro, >> >> Indeed the same would suffice for kannel, but when the it comes to usage with smppbox, I personally don't think it is enough for that is our experience. >> >> Regards, >> Sreekanth >> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alvaro Cornejo <cornejo.alvaro at gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:44 >> To: Sreekanth GS<sreekanth at tngicube.co.in> >> Cc: <devel at kannel.org> >> Subject: Re: Interface to bearerbox >> >> Hi >> >> Kannel is a backend or a gateway for sending/receiving messages. >> Kannel is designed to handle huge amount of SMS traffic transparently >> to/from any external application, so you don΄t need to handle all kind >> of protocol issues. >> >> All you said is usually done through an external application of your >> own, with whom you can do all filtering/billing/features you >> need/want/desire. >> >> You do not need to patch / modify kannel for do what you want. Just >> with your own frontend will suffice. >> >> Regards >> >> Alvaro >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Sreekanth GS <sreekanth at tngicube.co.in> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> We are presently engaged in using kannel as our SMPP Client, and for the >> backend of smppbox. However, the interfacing to bearerboxes has been quite >> inadequate for us. >> >> Hence, we plan to develop a viable interface to bearerbox that will/can: >> >> 1. Accept connections from smppbox, smsbox, sqlbox etc. >> 2. Log received MSG structs to a db pool. >> 3. Select specific messages from db pool using regex. >> 4. Transmit selected messages in (3) to bearerbox. >> >> Similarly, catch MO/DLR returned by bearerbox. >> 1. Select specific messages from db MO/DLR pool using regex. >> 2. Send back the same to smppbox, smsbox, sqlbox etc. >> >> Why all this? >> >> smppbox transmits messages directly to bearerbox. >> -> There is no hold and transmit scenario. >> -> Manual approval of messages is not possible (in case of spam threats). >> -> In between prioritizing of messages is not possible. >> -> Manual modification of data is impossible, only automates is possible >> using plugins. >> -> Reject messages, hold messages (in case of queues at off-times/night) for >> a duration is impossible >> -> There is no flexible control over the messages. >> >> How to proceed: >> 1. Accept connections from other boxes. >> 2. Communicate with other boxes. >> 3. Store and retrieve data to and from db pool. >> 4. 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Turkey Tetrazzini
The countdown to Thanksgiving is officially on! That means that my kitchen is going to be a hot mess of pies, cranberry sauce, stuffing, peeled potatoes, and roasted butternut squash today as I prep as much as possible before dinner tomorrow. I'll be happy when I can kick back, fill my plate with a little bit of everything, and stuff my belly. It seems that no matter how much we manage to eat on Thanksgiving day, there is always an infinite amount of leftovers. The good news is, Thanksgiving leftovers take very well to reheating, making them easy to eat again and again. The bad news? There are only so many turkey sandwiches one can eat. It gets boring, fast. Luckily, we're not relegated to turkey sandwich prison; you can repurpose that turkey in a ton of different ways. Previously, I've made my grandma's famous Thanksgiving leftovers casserole, a turkey-rice soup and turkey pot pie. Those are all fabulous, but I have to say, I think turkey tetrazzini definitely takes the cake.
I really can't resist any type of baked noodle dish, be it baked ziti, macaroni and cheese, or something like tetrazzini.
I also can't help myself when it comes to picking the crunchy, bread crumb and cheese-coated noodles off of the top layer. Shhh, if anyone asks, it wasn't me!
I won't lie. I ate this tetrazzini for lunch and dinner multiple days in a row after making it. That's sort of a big deal for me, as I tend to accumulate leftovers without finishing them off. Ask my Chief Culinary Consultant about the sheer number of take out and Tupperware containers that threaten to take over a refrigerator. It's downright scary. Not this time, though. This time I finished every last morsel and was seriously bummed when I realized it was gone. I secretly didn't even want to share it. Between the noodles, the creamy sauce, mushrooms, turkey and peas, it was baked perfection.
This is a total no-brainer when it comes to using up some of that leftover turkey, plus, don't throw away that almost-empty bottle of wine! You can use it in this, too!
What's your favorite way to use up leftover turkey?
One year ago: Perfect Mashed Potatoes
Two years ago: Thanksgiving Leftovers Casserole
Turkey Tetrazzini
A fabulous turkey noodle casserole recipe – a great way to use up any leftover turkey!
- 12 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 11 tablespoons (5½ ounces) unsalted butter, divided
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 12 ounces egg noodles
- 1½ cups whole milk
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- 2 cups turkey stock (can substitute chicken stock/broth)
- ¼ cup white wine (can substitute stock or broth)
- 3 cups chopped cooked turkey
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 6 ounces Gruyère cheese, shredded (about ¾ cup shredded), divided
- 3 ounces grated Parmesan cheese (about ⅔ cup), divided
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 cup plain bread crumbs
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a 9×13-inch baking dish; set aside. Fill a large pot with water and put it over high heat to boil.
- In a large, 12-inch skillet with sides, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until all of the liquid has evaporated, about 10 minutes. Transfer the mushrooms to a bowl and set aside.
- In the same skillet, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and cook, whisking occasionally, until the flour is browned and has a nutty aroma, about 3 minutes.
- While the flour cooks, add the noodles to the boiling water and cook to al dente. While the noodles are cooking, continue on with the recipe.
- Slowly whisk the milk, cream, turkey stock and wine into the butter/flour mixture. Bring to a simmer, then reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce is thickened, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Drain the pasta when it is finished, then add the cooked pasta, mushrooms, turkey and peas to the sauce in the skillet, tossing everything together until it is evenly coated. Add half of the Gruyere and half of the Parmesan cheese, stirring until the cheese is melted. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
- Melt the remaining 4 tablespoons unsalted butter. In a small bowl, toss together the bread crumbs, remaining Gruyere, remaining Parmesan and the melted butter. Toss with a fork until the bread crumbs and Parmesan are evenly moistened. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the top of the tetrazzini.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the filling is bubbling and the top is golden brown. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
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The private equity owners of Australia's second-biggest private hospital operator,
Healthscope's owners, TPG and The Carlyle Group, have written to eight investment banks, asking them to pitch sale structures and ideas for what could be the largest initial public offering since the $4.6 billion float of rail business QR National in November 2010.
It is understood TPG and Carlyle, which paid $2.7 billion for Healthscope in 2010, will consider a float, selling the business to an offshore hospital operator or finding separate buyers for the hospital properties and operating businesses.
The sale also comes as the federal government prepares to receive the results of a scoping study into the potential sale of health insurer Medibank Private at the end of February.
Healthscope owns 44 private hospitals in Australia and pathology operations in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand. With a 16 per cent market share, it ranks behind Paul Ramsay's
The success of Ramsay, whose shares are up 50 per cent in the past 12 months, is likely to be a key selling point for banks vying for advisory roles.
TPG and Carlyle have called for Healthscope submissions by next Wednesday. Market sources said the deal was dubbed "Daisy Thomas" after the Collingwood AFL player who defected to Carlton last year. The co-head of TPG's Asian business, Ben Gray, is a big Carlton fan.
Investment banks Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CIMB, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Macquarie Capital, Morgan Stanley and UBS have all been asked to apply for a role. It is believed two or three of the banks will be selected.
Under chief executive Rob Cooke, Healthscope made $328.1 million before earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in financial 2013. Around 81 per cent of EBITDA was generated by its hospitals with the remainder coming from domestic and offshore pathology.
Healthscope has extracted higher-than-average price rises from health insurers. The company has also managed to stabilise its struggling pathology operations.
The hospitals group has attracted several potential Asian buyers over the past 12 months and will be pitched as a way to play Australia's ageing population and demands on the public health system. A number of investment banks have already sounded out institutional investors on their interest in the asset, arguing the company would be better suited to an initial public offering.
It is believed TPG and Carlyle, who edged out rival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to buy Healthscope, would also consider holding the asset and partnering with sovereign wealth funds or other entities. TPG was behind the 2009 float of department store chain Myer, which is yet to trade above its $4.10 issue price. Private equity owners tended to hold stock in last year's float rush that included companies retailer Dick Smith, media company Nine Entertainment Co and credit reporting company Veda.
The Australian Financial Review


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Fratelli Milano Celebrates the Dog Days of Summer With a Photo Contest
Whatever Lola wants...Lola gets. And Lola wants pasta.
Courtesy Fratelli Milano
Hello and welcome to the "dog days" of summer.
Let's face it. August is the price we pay for living in paradise. And you know what? A little 95-degree weather pales in comparison to sub-zero temperatures, any day!
That being said, Ristorante Fratelli Milano is celebrating the "dog days" of summer by hosting the most doggone terrific contest ever -- a search for the cutest dog photos in Miami!
The idea came about when Fratelli Milano's twin-brother chefs Roberto and Emanuele Bearzi started posting pictures of their kids on Facebook.
Sure there are human children, but take a peek at chef Robert's pictures and you'll see more pictures of Lola, his four-legged baby, than anyone else. Lola, by the way, is the absolutely adorable unofficial mascot of the restaurant.
A chef and his pup -- cuteness overload.
Courtesy Fratelli Milano
That prompted Fratelli Milano to hold their search for the most adorable doggie. The contest runs throughout the month of August and it's pretty simple to enter.
Just post a pic of your favorite pooch on Facebook and tag @RistoranteFratelliMilano or @FratelliMilano. They've also designated a hashtag #DogDays.
Each Friday (August 9, 16, 23, and 30), the cutest picture will be chosen and the winner will be announced on Facebook.
Each week's winner can then stop in for lunch -- and Lola will "eat" the check. (In other words, lunch is on Fratelli Milano.)
Don't forget to bring your fabulous canine, since there are plenty of sidewalk tables for the two of you to dine alfresco. After all, who got you that free meal in the first place?
So break out the silly hats and frilly dresses, the homemade "Pastafarian" outfits and the "Will Beg for Pizza" signs. Because cuteness counts -- and your dog will get over the 30 seconds of shame when you share your "Carne dei Fratelli" with him.
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Rattling the Cage: Not Nitzanim (JERUSALEM POST) By LARRY DERFNER 04/27/05)
Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1114568597754
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I know it isn´t nice to knock the Gush Katif settlers, especially those prepared to leave voluntarily, but their demand to be resettled amid the protected sand dunes by the stunning beaches of Nitzanim shouldn´t be surprising.
The movement they´ve been a part of has never given a damn about how it treats the actual land of the Land of Israel. The only thing West Bank and Gaza settlers have ever really wanted to do was cover that land with as much Jewish-owned concrete and asphalt as possible.
They look at the pastoral, biblical landscapes of Judea and Samaria and what do they envision? Row after row of stone Jewish houses with red-tiled Jewish roofs, Jewish roads, Jewish schools, Jewish shopping centers, Jewish parking lots.
They´ve been in a nationalist struggle against the Palestinians over the land, and their notion of city planning, or suburban planning, has grown out of that struggle. They want to mark their territory as far and wide as they can. They want to develop as much land per Jewish resident as possible. Every hill, every pasture must be "redeemed" by Jewish cranes and bulldozers.
So why not mark Nitzanim too? Hurry up, before the Beduin take it.
I once asked a spokesman for the Yesha Council why there were no high-rise apartment buildings in settlements like there were on the other side of the Green Line. Societies everywhere had realized that people were multiplying but the earth wasn´t getting bigger, so it was vital to conserve land not only for the land´s sake, but for people´s sake. For the scenery, if nothing else.
In Israel proper, in countries all over, there were efforts to build up, not out. Why couldn´t the settlements, which sit on some of the most beautiful land in the region, start putting up high-rises too?
"We don´t want to live in beehives," replied the Yesha spokesman.
The Gush Katif settlers demanding Nitzanim don´t want to live in beehives, either and they don´t want to live in half-empty kibbutzim, or aging moshavim, or villages that never grew, or any of the other nearby, available pieces of land that have already been cleared, where there is already infrastructure, where new homes could be built without gobbling up more nature.
No, they want one of Israel´s few undeveloped natural treasures. It´s the closest thing there is to the landscape of Gush Katif, it´s right up the coast, and the Gaza settlers would all be able to stay together. As for that other stuff, in the famous old words of some master Israeli builder, ecology, shmecology.
To be fair, though, the settlers of the West Bank and Gaza didn´t invent Zionism´s conquest-minded approach to the land. To this day, a true Israeli patriot is supposed to sigh when he sees the endless sands of the Negev and fields of the Galilee: Oh, why aren´t they filled with Jews?
This is the new, post-disengagement Zionist mission, this is what we need masses of Jews from the Diaspora to move to Israel for: To settle the Galilee and Negev.
Not to farm, not to make the desert bloom, just to outnumber the Arabs down south and up north. To ensure a Jewish majority not only nationally but regionally as well.
There are so many hills, valleys and craters just sitting there going to waste. They´re waiting to be redeemed. The time is now, before the Beduin take them. Only in Israel is there still, in the 21st century, a consensus that wilderness is something to be "tamed." When I was living in the US, I didn´t care about the environment, mainly because there was so much of it. If they ruined a lake, so what? There were 10,000 more of them in Minnesota alone. If they tore up a forest or a beachfront for some housing project, I really couldn´t get worked up about it. In America, the land went on forever.
Only after I came to Israel and saw how little of it there was did I begin to care about what happened to the countryside. I think it was also the crowdedness and noise of Israeli cities along with the eyesore of most Israeli architecture that brought home to me the necessity of preserving natural, wide-open spaces.
In this claustrophobic little country above all.
But nationalism isn´t the only acquisitive ideology that´s threatening the land around here; swinish capitalism, in Shimon Peres´s phrase, is another. Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been saying for years how he´d love to free up Israel´s land reserves for development, to make it easier and cheaper to pave over. Now he´s got the power, and this is one of the pillars of his free market revolution, and Israeli developers are just rubbing their hands.
In light of all this, it´s embarrassing to think how Israelis claim to love their land like no other people on earth. What is Zionism without love of this land?
Yet look at what Israeli patriots have been doing to this land during the last couple of generations. Decide if Israelis and their leaders really love this land not by their rhetoric, but by the actual, physical mark they´ve left on the land, and by the longer, wider mark they have in mind. May the Land of Israel be protected from their love.
Starting with Nitzanim. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is leaning toward giving it to the Gush Katif settlers, and he has to be stopped.
Let the government give the settlers more money, if necessary, to build new homes where they could live alongside hundreds of their current neighbors in new neighborhoods close by. What is this sentimental nonsense that all 8,000 of them have to stay right next to one another wherever they go?
We can afford to give these people lots of money and plenty of already-developed land. We cannot afford to give them Nitzanim. Israel doesn´t have places like that to spare. (© 1995-2005, The Jerusalem Post 04/27/05)
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