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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By JOE PETRONE
In a May 2010 article in the Harvard Business Review, Jocelyn Davis and Tom Atkinson refer to a study they conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit of 343 businesses, which found that "companies that embraced initiatives and chose to go, go, go… ended up with lower sales and operating profits than those that paused at key moments to make sure they were on the right track"'
How can you not only make sure you are on the right track, but also stay on the tracks? One approach is to use a systematic strategy execution model. Results show that within one to six months, most sales and service organizations achieve a significant improvement in sales growth and customer retention through effective execution. What does effective execution mean? Simply, prioritizing action plans to overcome the most common barriers to strategy execution.
The three stages for strategy execution are Architect, Navigate and Farm. The Architect stage includes your leadership system such as the vision, strategies and core values. Most organizations use an outside-in approach in developing their leadership system by scanning their environment so that the strategies provide the direction, capitalize on opportunities and inspire sales teams.
The Navigate stage translates the leadership system into action by sales management's sensitivity to various team member attitudes and skills. How sales management translates the leadership system and direction into a diverse team environment is not an easy task. Communicate one message to eight direct reports and it is not uncommon for sales representatives to use selective filtering on what they want to hear. Messaging on all matters (e.g. promotions, recognition, feedback) must be aligned with the strategies and core values.
Finally, the Farm stage develops and reinforces the desired sales representative behaviors that will move the organization to its vision. Normally we spend time on training and compensation to get orders. However, the engine of the farm stage is moving performance management from an annual to a periodic review of how gaps – behavioral and performance – are being closed. Here is a challenge for you. Take your performance management system and list all the factors that are measurable. Do the same in your compensation plan. Unless most of the measurements in both of these systems align with your leadership system, you are falling into the trap of measuring and rewarding A while hoping for B.
Staying aligned and on the tracks means making the most important choices and actions everyday. So you can prioritize action plans, seven principles in total will guide you through each of the three stages. The Architect Stage has three principles that tie to accountability – one of the most important key success factors. The Navigate Stage's two principles will tenderize your messaging and feedback, so that your team can chew on and digest your strategic direction. Finally, the Farm Stage's two principles will enable you to overcome the most common obstacles to flawless execution-measuring what matters.
Systematic strategy execution model and principles
Architect Stage
Whether you are a field sales manager or the vice president of sales, the above seven principles apply. Keep in mind that the most important principles are in the Architect and Navigate stages.
Laying the blueprint in the Architect Stage
Build alliances immediately with all direct reports and the five key players most important to your and your team's success
Start by doing an alliance-building interview with your direct reports. The purpose of an alliance is to create a balance of power between you and your reps in achievement of a goal. What this means is that you will come alongside your reps in supporting their attainment of territory plans and goals. Below is an example set of questions to ask in your first alliance interview.
How do you define success?
What are your strengths? Obstacles? Challenges?
What is demotivating?
How do you like to communicate?
How will I know when you are stuck?
What would you like to learn but have not had the support or the time?
Once you have completed interviews with direct reports, start interviewing the five key players most important to your success. This could be your boss, your boss's boss, vice presidents in product management, operations, finance and human resources. Adapt the above questions toward more of an understanding of their goals for their function. Ask what expectations they have of you and your team. If you find yourself avoiding key management personnel in other functions while in the home office, this is the best time to start arranging an alliance-building interview with them.
Experience proves that these interviews can condense six months of communication into a one to two hour exchange that naturally leads to greater accountability. After doing research with the APQC in Houston, it became clear that accountability to your leadership system is the single most important thing you can do in your role. Do what you say you are going to do consistent with core values, strategies and the mission!
Instill accountability by your actions.
You'll always have executives from other functions blame you. Avoid falling into their trap by blaming them. Take accountability even when the finger is pointed at you. During a high pressure international forecast call, a vice president of product management blamed each country leader for below plan performance in his product line. Each county leader had implemented action plans and struggled through the recession, but clearly this VP never did take the mirror test on how he can support the country leaders. It's tough taking body blows when numbers are below expectations. Rather than blame the economy or marketing, work with your European counterparts or others to identify best practices, so that you can regain confidence and momentum in the US among other functional leaders.
Tell a story when communicating your leadership system
A medical diagnostic company created a one-page leadership system using an Excel template. At the top of the cascade chart was the vision, followed by the mission, core values, strategies, key success factors and metrics. What I was most impressed with was not only did most employees post their leadership system on their cubicle wall, but also they exemplified core values such as delivering on customer commitments. Their actions showed that meeting customer expectations for quality were more important than shipping hastily at the end of the quarter for revenue.
One actionable step to communicating your leadership system is by your weekly conference calls out to your team. Collect success stories relevant to strategy execution and core values. For instance, one of our sales reps, Harry, sold a new technology that required team selling to Pfizer. Because one of our strategies involved cross selling with other team members at strategic accounts, I recognized Harry by recalling the story of the Pfizer order.
Key Success Factors
Here's our first of three key success factors. These factors are from the research completed with the APQC. They represent the most common barriers to strategy execution.
Integrity is doing what you say even when others are not looking. Build trust between frontline employees and management by exemplifying and reinforcing the core values and strategies of the organization thru alliance building interviews, personal accountability and telling stories
Navigate the blueprint into the hearts of your team.
Navigating the message to sales team members is assessing their abilities and motivation, adapting your leadership style and giving laser-focused feedback to your team. This stage is the pivot point that can sustain profitable growth.
Assess your team abilities and attitude.
In order to assess abilities, focus on the one or two mission critical tasks important to execution of strategy. One key task might be new account development. Assessing your team's new business development abilities can be accomplished by applying the best practices separating exemplary from average performers. On attitude, determine if your team members have the confidence to make new introductions. One way to discover attitude is by weaving questions into your alliance building interviews such as how they view success in getting new business vs. servicing existing business? High performing representatives work deals and develop partnerships with other suppliers, so they can leverage partnerships into multiple new orders. Meanwhile, the average performer may simply focus on activity like making 10 new calls a week, and they may spend most of their time visiting existing customers.
Adapt your leadership style to each member of your team with laser-focused feedback.
The difference among direct reports is one of the most stated first impressions of new sales managers. Moving from awareness to being intentional can motivate and gain trust between the new manager and their direct reports.
One intentional approach is applying Blanchard's Situational Leadership Styles[i](SLS). SLS creates a matrix, whereby you list high and low along both the x and y-axes. One axis is labeled confidence and the other axis abilities. The essence of Blanchard's model is that there are two styles: directive and supportive. A directive style is comparable to mentoring a sales representative in that you provide the objectives and the tasks to accomplish your organization's goals. Usually this style is reserved for a new hire or to jump-start an underperforming team member. The supportive style asks the right questions to get your rep unstuck, so that he can develop breakthrough objectives and tasks. For example a sales representative with low confidence/ high abilities and low performance is best served with a supportive leadership style.
After adapting your leadership style (directive or supportive), provide laser-focused feedback aligned with your leadership system, keeping communication simple. It's great to emphasize profitable growth as part of a strategy, but when your feedback reverts to statements like, "What price do we need to come in to get this order?" profitable growth will become a slogan.
Key Success Factor: Ask your direct reports for feedback on your leadership style every six months on what they wish you would continue, stop and do more of.
Farming the right behaviors and metrics
Summarizing, the Architect stage engages the mind with the blueprint or leadership system. The Navigate stage engages the heart by your sensitivity to different team member abilities and confidence. Now it's time to get the hands working. The Farm stage is where most of the go, go, go initiatives start. Our first principle focuses on how we can engage the hands of our team.
Progressively improve performance thru just in time performance management and training.
You might discover that one of your reps is not covering a high potential part of their territory. Besides advising your rep to get out into the territory more, what if you asked them to develop their own goals for maximizing territory coverage? If your rep lacks territory management skills, you might have to be directive and lend a helping hand to create their first goal-setting plan.
Make sure your goal setting session is tied to your performance management process. This will enable you to revisit goals aligned to your performance management process on a quarterly to monthly basis. Two results follow: 1) Your direct reports know their performance rating before the annual performance review 2) You have aligned one of your strategic systems with field operations.
Reinforce desired behaviors thru informal rewards.
Once you start to observe progressive improvement in goals, develop a unique approach to rewarding those reps, who are continually improving their behaviors aligned with your leadership system. Why not develop a monthly informal reward system for your sales team? Each month the rep who attains quota performance and achieves the most new customers- a possible aligned goal with your strategies- receives an informal reward. By continually communicating, recognizing and rewarding the desired behaviors and performance, your team will not only feel appreciated and recognized, but also they will learn from your leadership.
Key Success Factor
Avoid the folly of measuring and rewarding for A while you hope for B.
Is there any difference between organizations that do/do not use a systematic approach to strategy execution? Besides the study that Jocelyn Davis and Tom Atkinson completed, my personal experiences reveal a significant difference. The absence of a systematic approach resulted in a hit or miss aim at our sales targets. It's like throwing darts at a dartboard to get at your number. With an approach like the one mentioned here, our sales management team's effectiveness soared, sales representatives were inspired to our leadership system, and most important we advanced our sales organization and customers' businesses during one of the most difficult economic periods.
Joe Petrone is the author of "Building the High Performance Sales Force" and a management consultant at Mutatio. The content and quality of this article would not be possible without the flawless execution of his sales management team at Perkin Elmer (ASLS), and his colleagues at the San Diego Life Science Roundtabl. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mid-February usually brings the first signs of grass fever as cattlemen begin gathering cattle for grazing programs. But continuing drought across the Central Plains this year has removed most of the optimism from grazing cattle markets, and cattlemen are left in a dilemma. If they buy cattle and it doesn't rain they'll be forced to sell their herd into a softer market. If they wait until it rains to start buying prices could be substantially higher.
Last week the collective decision seemed to be to wait on rain as stocker and feeder cattle traded significantly lower. Compared to the previous week, feeder cattle and calves sold $5 to $8 per hundredweight lower, with many instances $10 lower on all classes and as much as $15 lower on lightweight stocker calves.
Heavy losses on cattle coming out of feedyards, and bleak prospects for the coming months, has forced feedyards to re-evaluate their buying habits. Many just sat on their hands last week despite an ever-tightening supply of yearling feeder cattle.
"Mainstream feeder buyers collectively decided to drastically adjust the one cattle feeding variable that they have the most control over in an effort to stop the flow of red ink on closeouts," says USDA Market News reporter Corbitt Wall. "Price levels started the week sharply lower with additional weakness tacked-on as the week progressed. By Wednesday it appeared that the feeder cattle market had given up demand for lent as auction markets struggled to sell cattle even remotely close to recent weeks."
Harvest-ready cattle sold at $123 per hundredweight last week in a light trade, $2 lower for the week. Dressed prices were quoted at $194 to $196 per hundredweight, $4 to $6 lower. Live Cattle futures prices trended higher for the week.
Boxed beef prices were called flat for the week and demand was sluggish. Choice boxed beef declined $0.17 on the week to close Friday at $181.95. Select boxed beef was up $0.78 for the week to close at $180.40. The Choice-Select spread was $1.55.
Last week's auction receipts totaled 219,000, compared to 238,600 the previous week and 213,900 last year. Direct sales of stocker and feeder cattle totaled 12,900 with video/Internet sales at 36,400. The weekly total was 268,300, compared to 337,700 last year
Slaughter cows sold $2 to $4 per hundredweight lower, bulls sold $2 lower. USDA's Cutter cow carcass cut-out value Friday morning was $167.49 per hundredweight, up $1.53 from the previous Friday.

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A beauty therapist has spoken of her upset after thieves stole £300 in cash from a locked drawer in reception.
Annette Luker, 31, who works at Body Beauty by Bernice, in Royal Wootton Bassett, had stepped into another room for a few minutes when two women entered.
When she returned to reception she saw the two women leaving but, by the time she realised the cash and several cheques had gone, it was too late.
"It took me a few minutes to come through from the back. I saw them when they were at the top of the stairs and were just about to leave," said Mrs Luker.
"I asked if I could help them and one of them asked if we had any hair dye, which we don't. I could just tell from their body language something was wrong. I only realised the money and cheques were gone when they left."
The cheques have been cancelled but the cash is still missing.
Mrs Luker has worked with police to create an e-fit picture of the woman who asked for the hair dye. She was white with long dark hair and was about 20 years old.
The other woman was the same age but had dyed red hair. Both were wearing dark clothing.
"I didn't recognise them but if they had been here before they might have known that was where the money was," said Mrs Luker.
"We have made a lot of changes since it happened. It used to be a lot more obvious where the money was but it's not now. We have taken steps to make sure it won't happen again.
"It shook me up a bit at the time. It's just frustrating that someone thinks it is OK to do that."
The incident took place at about 2.30pm on November 29.
PC Nick Spargo, community beat manager for the area, said: "Town centre CCTV picks the two females up as they are walking up the High Street past St Bartholomew's Church and can be seen running off down Wood Street to make their escape.
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... In his Atlas of Creation, published in more than 10 languages, Oktar aims to prove that creation is the answer to the question of how life came into being and claims that "Darwinists concealed fossils that proved there have been no changes in animals' skeletons." Oktar also says that Darwinism is one of the causes behind September 11 and the Second World War.
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I'm giving the couch a break. It needs one. It has provided sterling service over the last seven weeks but it is time to remove my posterior, poke my head outside the front door and reacquaint myself with natural daylight and fresh air.
The Indian Premier League is dangerous. It can become seriously addictive and once you're hooked it's tough to quit. Leaving the couch -- other than for a strategic time out -- becomes a daily battle. Everyday chores are delayed or ignored, and lame excuses are offered in the hope of placating loved ones.
The fifth edition of IPL was tortuous. The plot contained more twists and turns than a theme park rollercoaster. Opting to ignore the drama merely led to a feeling of negligence, an urge to catch up and a resolution that this would not happen again.
It was compelling stuff from beginning to end. Before a ball was bowled the owners of the Pune Warriors kicked up a stink over sponsorship and threatened not to take part at all. In the event, the franchise would hardly have been missed. Its expensively assembled squad failed to launch and limped in at the bottom of the standings.
The best batsman in Twenty20 cricket also missed out. Chris Gayle is a danger to bowlers and spectators alike. He sent a little girl to hospital with a broken nose after clobbering one of his mighty sixes into the crowd. She forgave him when he visited her but probably not the Bangalore franchise. Not even Gayle's monumental efforts were enough to hoist the Royal Challengers into the playoffs.
Mumbai got there but the search for success goes on. For a team so deep in talent, it was another campaign which promised much but ultimately fell flat. History will remember 2012 as the year in which Sachin Tendulkar finally completed a lifetime's work by reaching 100 international centuries, not the one in which he helped his hometown Indians to the IPL title.


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Ida hype fails to impress experts, according to articles in Live Science, ScienceNOW and Access Research Network, The Guardian and Wall Street Journal. The small primate fossil nicknamed Ida was launched into the public eye with a blaze of media hyperbole involving a Museum show presided over by Mayor Bloomberg of New York, a Google logo, a David Attenborough documentary, and a website named "Revealing the Link". But the media "made monkeys of themselves" and many palaeontologists were not impressed with the extravagant claims, which include being called the "eighth wonder of the world", along with aggrandizing statements by the following people:
Jorn Hurum, Norwegian fossil scientist, University of Oslo Natural History Museum: "This is the first link to all humans ... truly a fossil that links world heritage."
Philip Gingerich, of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan:"It's really a kind of Rosetta Stone," and "This is the first link in human evolution. A find like this is something for all humankind. It tells a part of our evolution that's been hidden so far... This is our Mona Lisa and it will be ... for the next 100 years."
Nancy Dubuc of the History Channel: "(Ida) promised to change everything that we thought we understood about the origins of human life." David Attenborough: "This little creature is going to show us our connection with all the rest of the mammals. The link they would have said until now is missing ... it is no longer missing."
The term "missing link" was bandied about numerous times and a book entitled "The Link" accompanies the TV documentary. However, even the scientists who studied it are not claiming it as a direct ancestor of humans. Jens Franzen of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, who helped analyse the fossil, commented that it is "a representative of an ancestor group that gave rise to higher primates" but he stopped short of calling the animal a direct human ancestor. He claimed: "She's not our great-great-great-grandmother, but our great-great-great-aunt." Chris Beard, a curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh commented to Live Science: "It's not a missing link, it's not even a terribly close relative to monkeys, apes and humans, which is the point they're trying to make." He also said: "This fossil has been hailed as the eighth wonder of the world. Frankly I've got 10 more in my basement. In some ways the most amazing and startling result of all of this is that we've now set a new standard in how to promote a new fossil, and I have mixed feelings about that.
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Editorial Comment: All the extravagant claims about this fossil remind us of the old joke: "Be sure brain is engaged before shooting mouth off". Even without fanciful comparisons with the Rosetta Stone and the Mona Lisa, any connection between this fossil and human beings is purely in the minds of evolutionists, who already believe by faith that people used to be small tree dwelling quadrupeds. The overplayed evolutionary story about this fossil has distracted people from its real value as a particularly well preserved and complete animal fossil that reveals a unique mixture of non-unique characteristics. This is what you would expect if it was a separate created kind, as Genesis says. (Ref. propaganda, publicity, anthropology)
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Son of David E. Beaty and Anna Elizabeth Ross, of Butler Co., OH, who later relocated to Jerseyville, IL. In 1866, Ninian married Catherine E. Bonnell. With her, he had five children: David Beckett; Herbert Bonnell; Bertha; George Ninian; and Henry Ross. During the Civil War, Ninian served in the Union army, and later collected a pension for his service. Towards the end of his life, he and Kate moved to St. Louis, where he died in 1902. The name listed on his headstone is "Nenian C. Beaty."
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I know I need it … though I might not be able to see it tonight due to other commitments. Anyway, I will put up the season's first "It's Go Time!" this evening, for anybody who wants to watch the game together right here, as always.
I have a few guest reviewers lined up for the Traverse City tournament games. Nobody's going to review tonight's game because I wanted to spend tomorrow talking about 9/11 and the Rangers, and what you guys remember. I know, in a week after we got hit by a hurricane, and then saw a massive hockey tragedy unfold in Russia, maybe we need to have some hockey for light-hearted talk.
And maybe we do. But 9/11 was a day that, in my mind, will always be tied to the Rangers, because I was in Manhattan with them that day. And this anniversary is something in which I've been pretty involved, writing vignettes on a number of the victims, and also a couple of rather lengthy columns of inspiration that have grown out of the worst day most of us will ever see.
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George Frideric Handel was one of Nelson Mandela's favourite composers of classical music.
Former South African president, Rolihlahla Mandela, was born on 18 July 1918 in a small village in the Transkei called Mvezo. Later he was sent to school in the small town of Qunu where a teacher gave him the name 'Nelson'.
Although of royal lineage, Mandela was the only member of his family to receive formal education, and so, from a very young age, he started to unwittingly prepare himself for the great task that lay ahead.
In 1939, he enrolled at Fort Hare (the only black university in South Africa at the time) where he forged lifelong friendships with many of those who fought the struggle for freedom with him. He was expelled from university a year later for his political activities but later completed his studies through UNISA.
From 1942 onwards he became increasingly active within the African National Congress whilst working as an apprentice at a legal firm in Johannesburg and furthering his studies. He later started the first black legal firm, Mandela and Tambo, with friend and fellow activist Oliver Tambo in 1952.
During this time, Mandela's natural authority and strategic mind saw him start to emerge as one of the party's leaders and a proponent of the armed struggle, a role that led to several arrests and brushes with the law during the 1950s Defiance Campaign.
But Mandela's luck finally ran out on August 5 in 1962 when he was arrested outside the town of Howick in KwaZulu-Natal, disguised as a chauffeur, after having paid a secret visit to ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli who was living in Groutville under house arrest.
Mandela had been on the run for 17 months and had just returned from a trip through Africa where he had received military training and to London where he went to seek support for the ANC.
This arrest was the start of what was to become a 27-year incarceration during which he would become the most famous political prisoner in the world and emerge as the future president of South Africa.
Initially, he was sentenced for five years for leaving the country illegally and incitement but then came the Rivonia Trial during which he was sentenced to life, starting his incarceration on Robben Island on June 13 in 1964.
At the closing of the Rivonia trial, Nelson Mandela uttered these famous words on behalf of his co-accused: "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
And when he emerged from prison in 1990, his most remarkable feat was that he was able to lead the country without bitterness about the past whilst living out his ideal of creating a non-racial country where everybody was treated with the same dignity.
And that is why, decades after South Africa's first democratic election, and even after his death, every South African and every freedom lover around the world will continue to hold Nelson Mandela, or Madiba (his clan name), in the highest regard.


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CAMBRIDGE – Penn is Ivy League champion.
Needing a victory to take the Ancient Eight, Penn scored twice before the match was 12' old and held off an expected Harvard charge for a 2-0 win at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium.
The win gives Penn its eighth Ivy League championship and first since 2008. The title is an outright crown for the Quakers, the third in program history and first since 1972.
With the magnitude of the match, it was no surprise that both teams came out firing. Harvard had an early chance, but it was the Quakers who had the first true chances of the match. In the 4', Duke Lacroix and Alec Neumann had successive chances, but each was saved by Evan Mendez.
Moments later, though, the Red and Blue would strike first. Lacroix would attempt a cross from the left side, but Harvard was first to the ball. The clear from the Crimson was not successful, and found the boot of senior Nicky Yin who knocked a laser to the top right corner for his first career goal to give Penn a 1-0 lead.
The Crimson had a chance to tie in the 11', but A.J. Agha's chip shot was wide. Less than a minute later, the Quakers would double their lead on a Duke Lacroix goal. The junior was alone at the top of the box after Alec Neumann blocked a Harvard clearing pass and Lacroix would dribble past a defender and sneak high eighth of the season inside the right post.
Penn was dangerously close to a third goal in the 28', but Travis Pillon had a point-blank shot denied by Mendez.
The match's final moments weren't without a shortness of breath for the Quakers as Louis Schott was called for an intentional handball in the 90' and was sent off. In addition, Harvard had a penalty kick to get within one. Kevin Harrington took the penalty, but it hit the post and the clock ran out on Harvard.
Penn will host Providence in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night at Rhodes Field at 7 p.m.
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THE brother and best friends of Tom Edwards, who went missing for five days from Swindon before he was found dead by the side of a railway line in Chippenham last summer, ran the Bath Half in his memory.
Tom, 32, of Derry Hill, was a good runner and had planned to take part in the half marathon himself.
Brother Will Edwards, 36, who owns First Step Gym in Corsham, said: "Everybody got Team Tom T-shirts so for the whole 13 miles we had people chanting Go on Tom, which was really inspiring. It was amazing to be running knowing you were raising money for a great group of people, and in memory of my brother.
"He would have loved everyone running for him. He would have loved to have been able to be there and do it himself, and he probably would have been the first one of us back home as well."
Will said it was a difficult day, especially for Tom's mum and wife, who were there cheering them on from the sidelines.
Tom's disappearance after a night out in Rudi's in Swindon town centre on June 28 prompted a five-day search. He had been out with colleagues from Nationwide, where he worked as a financial analyst.
Will said he was amazed at the amount the Run For Tom team have raised for the Wiltshire search and rescue charity WILSAR, which so far stands at more than £8,800.
To donate, go to https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/runfortom Jason King, 36, of Chippenham, was due to run the half marathon alongside Tom for the Forever Friends Appeal at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. He completed the course on Sunday in 1 hour 50 and raised just over £1,050, joined by friends Tom Wilmot, Will Walder, Wayne Bond and Michael Freegard.
He said: "Tommy was always into Iron Man events and we agreed to do it in May last year.
"I think he would have been proud I carried on and did it, but particularly of Tom and Will for finishing because they're not really runners."
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How long after quitting smoking does it take for your carbon monoxide levels to return to normal and nicotine is out of your system?
Carbon monoxide and nicotine are two markers of cigarette smoking. The time for any product to clear from the body depends on the amount in your system when you decide to quit smoking. Higher levels in your body will take longer to clear. Carbon monoxide and nicotine would generally be cleared in a day or so. A breakdown product of nicotine is called cotinine, which could take several days to a week to clear from your system.
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"When whales walked the earth" proclaimed the cover of Nature, 20 Sep 2001, which featured two fossils that palaeontologists claim to be "archaic cetaceans," i.e. primitive whales. According to the report in Nature vol 413, p277, the two fossils are named Pakicetus attocki and Ichthyolestes pinfoldi and had skulls, leg bones and backbones similar in size and shape to land dwelling animals such as wolves and foxes. Prior to these findings Pakicetus was only known from fossilised teeth, jaws and one braincase. The teeth and ear bones were similar to those of whales. However, the new findings of backbone and limbs indicate the animals were well designed for running along the ground.
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After last night's game, Matt Harvey has logged seven starts, or approximately 20 percent of a full big league season. Just to put his level of effectiveness in context, here is what that would be, extrapolated over a full year.
Matt Harvey: 211 2/3 innings, 2.76 ERA, 85 walks, 245 strikeouts, 15 HR allowed, 1.0 WAR.
Where would that put him among the National League leaders? He'd be tied for fourth in ERA with R.A. Dickey. He'd be on pace for more strikeouts per inning than anyone but Stephen Strasburg, meaning that he's likely lead the NL in strikeouts. And only Johnny Cueto, and possibly Clayton Kershaw, look like they'd best him in WAR.
None of this means that Matt Harvey can be called one of the best pitchers in the National League on the strength of seven starts. 42 1/3 innings just isn't enough to determine that. And the ability to throw 200 innings itself is a marker he'll need to reach to be in that conversation, not simply to be on pace to do so.
But it does say something about the quality of Harvey's start as a Met. Most pitchers struggle to adapt to the new, higher level of competition when they reach the major leagues. That Harvey not only hasn't done that, but has been dominant, speaks awfully well to his future.


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Diana Fayt will conduct this three day, hands-on workshop devoted to drawing and painting on three dimensional surfaces. Participants will explore composition which is not limited by edges and boundaries, taking into consideration all aspects of the three dimensional surface. The class will address how to transfer your images onto clay surfaces without sophisticated drawing skills.
Diana's daily demonstrations will include using molds to build simple forms, surface applications such as layering of slips and underglazes to create rich fields of color, drawing on and in the clay, the use of oxides, firing strategies, and tips and tricks to obtaining clean crisp lines in clay. The workshop will delve into of elements of design, and how to push the boundaries and see your pieces as limitless surfaces for expressing your visual ideas.
Diana will also discuss and demonstrate other ceramic mediums and processes to create rich and interesting surfaces on your three dimensional forms, using things like cardboard letter stencils and old letterpress typeface.
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August 6-8, 2010
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Diana Fayt was born in Los Angeles, California and has lived in Northern California for most of her life. In 1983 she spent a year living with family in Budapest, Hungary and when returning began her journey towards her career as an artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics and Printmaking from the College of Arts (and Crafts) in 1992. In 1994 she developed a process with ceramics in which she combines all of her loves; drawing, painting, printmaking and clay and refers to it as "as etchings in clay." She has also dabbled in ceramic design and created a line of tabletop ceramic ware in 1999 and most recently has ventured into graphics and illustration. Diana is both a traveler and a lover of home. She gleans inspiration from nature, the mundane and life's stories. Her ceramic pieces are often narrative with marks of time, events and images seen and experienced and then drawn into the surface of her clay platters bowls and vases. By doing this she hopes to leave a permanent mark that expresses her vision of what she experiences in the world around her. Diana currently exhibits her work in galleries and fine boutiques throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe.
Diana Fayt Artist Statement
A white crane dropped an inky haired child on a doorstep in Sunnyvale, California in 1964. Swaddled in clean rags, the child was absorbed into the bonds of a Hungarian family by the name of Fayt. The name Diana was chosen to honor the bright October moonlit night the child had arrived.
Diana's parents are resourceful people from an old world. Diana, an introspective child, watched her mother make clothes from whole cloth and assisted in hand cranking pork sausages in their garage. Her father, an intensely quiet person, was a tool and die man of great precision who later went on to make jewelry.
Diana craved independence from an early age and found a job at fourteen at a hardware store. It was a creaky old-fashioned store run by a fine Italian family. She enjoyed the small drawers filled with sundry nuts and bolts. In winter, she gift wrapped large household appliances with deft skill.
She graduated to spinning pizzas in Santa Cruz at the time of her emancipation. 'Mirror in the Bathroom' played on the radio a lot and people wore assymetrical haircuts, belts around sweaters and multiple rubber bracelets. Diana was not fond of this decade anymore than she was of the swinging 'find yourself' decade that preceded it.
It was then that Diana decided to explore her origins and traveled to Hungary. There she lodged with distant relatives and learned the language of her people with her six year-old cousin as her primary tutor. She explored Communist Hungary with a pack former circus stars who drove an old Cadillac, frequented burlesque shows and liked to "Boogie."
Returning to the States, she made her way cocktailing at a ski resort for cocaine cowboys. She lived on a mountain in isolation. She did not care for the snowstorms that raged inside and outside the lodge.
Fleeing with the arrival of the first thaw, she embarked upon a coastal bicycle trip with a bearded boy from New Hampshire. A year later they tackled the East coast, eventually reaching a fork in the road. Diana landed in Berkeley and became au pair for two toe headed children. It was while she was an au pair that she first set foot in a ceramics studio, visiting with another au pair who was taking a class. She knew immediately that she had found her home. She enrolled in a class but never finished because (in her own words), "I could never find parking." She attempted another class apparently within walking distance and completed the course.
Diana entered the California College of Arts and Crafts. She experimented with printmaking and ceramics and by the end of her four years, had initiated the course toward her present work.
Moving to S.F. in the early nineties, Diana has made her way as a server in restaurants while cultivating her artistic vision. Diana has made her home at Firefly Restaurant for a decade, where she is well regarded for her knowledge of corn pone and corn smut and other esoteric foods.
It is at Firefly where she met businesswoman Maggie Nugent of Synergy Designs, a ceramics wholesale outfit. Diana began designing for Synergy shortly thereafter. Her tenure with Synergy sent her back to Hungary, a factory in Hodmezovasarhely (Beavertown) where the Diana Fayt collection was produced. The work was imported and sold in the U.S.
Diana has continued to produce her own enigmatic work and has had solo shows in the U.S. and Tokyo, has been featured in several Japanese publications and continues to sell her work here and abroad. Diana is a member of the Clay and Glass Association in California. She resides in San Francisco.


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I used to read Doonesbury regularly. Garry Trudeau had a unique way of looking at many of the world's problems. One strip still sticks out in my mind: Duke, a character inspired by Hunter S. Thompson, was presenting his case for abolishing gun control before a Congressional hearing with the hypothetical question, "What if you came home and your wife started shooting at you? Wouldn't you want to be in the position to return fire?"
While Duke's logic is inherently faulty, it seems to be embraced by a larger number of U.S. citizens then ever before. Let's look at the figures.
According to a recent article in Time magazine (Dec. 15, 2012), there have been at least 62 mass shootings in America since 1982. (The FBI uses several criteria to determine if a gun crime is a mass shooting, but the main criterion is at least four dead, not including the shooter.) That equates to two a year, except it doesn't — not really. Twenty-five of those shootings have happened since 2006. More than six shootings a year on average. In fact, in 2012, there were seven mass shootings across the country with a total of 151 victims.
That number bears repeating: 151 victims in seven shootings, and just under 100 of the victims died. A disproportionate number of the dead were under 10 years old.
If there was ever a year where gun control should have been at the forefront of the thoughts of a majority of Americans, 2012 was it. Yet a Pew Research Poll in 2012 indicates only 47 percent of Americans favor gun control — admittedly a slight majority over the 46 percent who oppose such restrictions. Additionally, the FBI has reported a record number of background checks for gun purchases this year — 1.68 million.
An interesting fact: According to the Time magazine article, most weapons used in the mass shootings were legally acquired.
By now, you're probably thinking I'm calling for a major overhaul of gun laws, perhaps an all-out ban on gun ownership. You're wrong.
Yes, gun crime is out of control. However, placing a ban on something in the U.S. doesn't work too often. (Remember Prohibition?) There's just too many guns out there, and the only people who would be affected by a ban are the law-abiding citizens who would actually turn in their weapons. However, there are some definite areas current gun laws need improvement.
Competency with firearms should be a direct factor in gun ownership. When putting a pistol in your hand makes you a bigger danger to yourself than taking it away from you, you don't need one.
The NRA doesn't like the idea of a ban on assault rifles, but let's make one thing abundantly clear: Assault rifles are not built for hunting. Assault rifles are not built for target shooting. The manufacturers of assault rifles would likely tell you the purpose of these weapons is right in the name — assault. An assault rifle is meant to kill — quickly, but not necessarily cleanly.
Some people should not even be considered to be gun owners. If you've got a history of violence, wanton property damage or DWI charges, I think it's in my best interests to make sure you're unarmed.
The genie is out of the bottle; guns have been freely (compared to the rest of the world) available for most of our nation's history, and making the owners of those weapons give them up is problematic at best. We can't ban guns, but can we at least approach the problem with a little common sense?
And if not, could you at least wait until I'm in a position where I can return fire?
Staff writer Ken Schroeder can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Occupying an unrivalled location on the River Thames in Windsor, The Oakley Court is a unique historic hotel offering an exceptional luxury experience. An English classic, the hotel's Victorian facade is an imposing collection of magnificent turrets and pointed arches.
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The 12m² room is ideal for up to 2 guests. It is tastefully furnished and includes a double bed, a refrigerator, and TV. Free Wi-Fi are also included. The shared bathroom is fully equipped with a shower. A large window with panoramic sea views is the highlight in this comfortable room.
Guests will find themselves only 30 metres from the sea. It is 300 metres to a bus stop serving the old town centre in 15 minutes. The apartment is one kilometre from the largest beach in Dubrovnik, Lapad Beach.
Closeby are a selection of restaurants, cafes, and shops.
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We had a great time at Leonardo's!
Lapad Beach is within walking distance and there are many restaruants and bars on the way to the beach and at the sea front.
Just a few stairs down from the house you can sit at the water and watch the cruisers and sailing boats, or you enjoy the view from the outside dining area.
Just down the road is a small supermarket.
The bus station is a 5-10 minute walk away and the buses run every 10 minutes until late at night and bring you to the beautiful old town in about 10 minutes.
The family also lives in the house, and whenever we had a question there was always someone to help us. Most of them spoke English and everyone was very friendly. At our arrival we got a short introduction on where to go and what to do in Dubrivnik, including a free map. They also offer transfer to the port or airport at extra cost.
The room is not very big, but there was everything we needed, it was clean and looked just like in the pictures.
Everything was fine and as in the description. It is possible to walk to the center but it is quiet a long walk. But the owner provided us also with public transport information.
We just stayed there for one night and we basically only slept there.
The place is actually a room with own bathroom in a bigger house, where also the family lives and there are more than one tourist apartments.
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Very nice apartment with a beautiful terrace, where we had our breakfast every day :) Good located in Babin Kuk! 30-minute walk to the old town. Nothing to complain aboout. Highly recommended!
The apartment was very good,clean and in perfect state. The position is excellent and not far from bus stop that goes direclty in the old town, near the sea places and a market store.
Leonardo is a fantastic person,gently and very discreet.
It was a fantastic week in Dubrovink I suggest to go there.
The apartment was very beautiful,very clean and we had everything we needed.
The host is lovely and we got the whole Dubrovnik city and area shown and explained on a map. We were greated with a glass of croatian wine and upon commenting the grapes hanging on the terrace, we got even some grapes cut off and given as a present. The family and the host are very friendly,helpful and relaxed. Highly recommended, and we are sure to return...
Great location, nice area and very close to the clean & nice beach. Even on walking distance it's really close to main objects also bus stop and shopping. The place and hostel´s room, shower & toilet, balcony, are beautiful, new, quiet and clean but room was not cleaned up everyday. The view from the room was also very nice. Wi-Fi works very well. The owners are kindness. We was here 7 days and love it.
The room is clean, spacious and with a beautiful terrace and sea view. Near the port, but far from the Old city. Too bad the shared bathroom ... it shares the house with the family very friendly and helpful. Dubrovnick is FANTASTIC.!?
La stanza è pulita, ampia e con un bel terrazzo e vista mare. Vicina al porto ma lontana dall'old city. Peccato il bagno in comune...Si condivide la casa con la famiglia molto cordiale e disponibile. Dubrovnick è FANTASTICA.!?
Great place and wonderful people. Very clean, with private bathroom and nice hospitality from all the members of the family.Worth to visit.
Very nice facility, the hosts very nice, everything ok
Obiekt bardzo ładny, gospodarze bardzo mili, wszystko ok
Very clean, in a quiet and friendly neighborhood 10 minutes walk from a nice beach pebbles. The sea boils still a small square port and other roofs, but with a small terrace still well appreciated. Welcoming host.
Chambre très propre, dans un quartier calme et sympa à 10min à pied d'une plage de galets bien agréable. La vue sur mer se résume tout de même à un petit carré du port et d'autres toits, mais avec une petite terrasse malgré tout bien appréciable. Hôte accueillant.
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I am trying to launch a game from the windows 8 store from steam.
However windows 8 apparently will not let you just run the executable from windwos 8 store within steam. It has to be ran from the metro. ....I hate windows. I thought this was bogus until i tried to link the exe as a non steam game, and it did fail to launch the game from within steam, but not from metro.
i found a way to run the game from command line, thus my first thought was to: make a script to subprocess the same command, compile it with py2exe, and just link that exe to steam to launch the game from within steam. However, that command ran within the command prompt works and starts up the game, but the same string ran in subprocess gives me a popup with the error:
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#HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Classes > Extensions > Contractld > Windows.Protocol >Packageld >{APPNAME} > ActivableClassId > CustomProperties > {name value}
import subprocess
name = 'xboxliveapp-1297292137'
cmd = r'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "" "{}:"'.format(name)
the path in the string is empty, but i am not sure why it works in command in any directory, but not in python subprocess. If i add a path to the empty string in the command it just open a file manager in that directory.
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
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C:\Users\metul_000>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "" "xboxliveapp-12972921
C:\Users\metul_000>cd C:\
C:\>C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "" "xboxliveapp-1297292137:"
each time launching the game
I tried c++ modifying the cmd path and it works, the same modification to python though gives the old error
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#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
int main(){
std::string name = "xboxliveapp-1297292137";
std::string cmd = "cmd.exe /c start \"\" \""+ name +":\"";
std::cout << cmd << std::endl;
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C:\Users\metul_000>g++ test.cpp -o test
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "" "xboxliveapp-1297292137:"
And this just launches the game, in steam or not. So why does python's subprocess have a problem with it?


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(SportsNetwork.com) - It's easy to measure speed, strength and explosion when evaluating prospects for the NFL Draft.
Until the number crunchers finally figure out how to quantify instinct, however, players like former University of Wisconsin star Chris Borland will likely have to settle for being selected on the second or third days of the process, and earning the tag overachiever when they become productive players at the professional level.
Borland, a bruising linebacker with an innate feel for the game, reads and diagnoses so well that he can turn a 4.9 on the stopwatch into a 4.5 rather quickly.
And while "safe" isn't always the most popular adjective to describe people these days, NFL teams aren't teenage girls, so they should be running toward, can't-miss contributors like Borland, the 2013 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year with the Badgers.
There are no false steps with Borland, no taking on the wrong shoulder in the running game, no getting caught up in the wash between the tackles and no biting on play action in coverage. In other words, there is no wasted movement from Borland once the ball is snapped and that's the kind of aptitude which simply can't be taught.
He's also a form tackler in an era when that attribute is becoming an anomaly.
So what's the catch?
Well, Borland doesn't possess sideline-to-sideline speed (4.83 seconds in the 40), is just 5-foot-11 and possesses short arms, something that makes it very difficult to gain leverage in a sport in which leverage is everything.
NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock has projected Borland as a second-round pick and compared the Ohio native favorably with Buffalo Bills linebacker Kiko Alonso, the 46th overall pick in the 2013 draft who hit the ground running and was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year by the Pro Football Writers of America.
Borland's ceiling in May's draft is probably the Denver Broncos, who have a hole at middle linebacker on their depth chart, with the 31st overall pick in the first round.
"Borland is one of my two or three favorite players in this draft," Mayock said. "The way I came on him was funny because I was getting ready to do a Notre Dame game. I was doing homework on BYU. The tape I happened to put in was Wisconsin. And I'm like, this 44 (Borland) is everywhere.
"(What) I've seen since then just reinforces to me that he's kind of like, he could have the ability to be the Kiko Alonso of this year's group. I think he is going to start for whatever team takes him. And as long as he stays healthy, he is just going to keep making plays. The kid makes plays. He's around the football all the time."
Interestingly, Alonso was downgraded a bit last year due to what some described as a tentativeness between the tackles and when taking on lead blockers. He also took some hits for shoddy production on misdirection plays while at Oregon and his tendency to turn and look at receivers in coverage.
In reality, scouts thought Alonso just didn't have the foot speed to excel at the NFL level. The kid who has showed up in western New York, however, was a smart, disciplined read-and-react defender who excelled from Day 1.
Mayock's comparison has some merit because many personnel people are taking similar shots at Borland's stopwatch speed while failing to recognize his instinctive play. At the same time, it's also a little off-base because at 6-3, Alonso does have the height NFL teams covet while Borland simply does not.
Borland comes across as a carbon copy of former Miami star Zach Thomas, a 1996 fifth-round pick who morphed into a five-time All Pro, with a little Ed McDaniel, the former undersized but athletic Minnesota middle linebacker, mixed in.
"Yeah, there's a lot of guys that have gotten it done at a high level being under six feet," Borland said. "London Fletcher, he's a guy I watched. Zack Thomas, Chris Spielman is about six feet. A lot of guys have played very well at that size and they kind of paved the way for guys like me."
On film Borland explodes out of his stance, shedding blockers with impressive side steps or swim moves. He has the vision to find the football quickly and often bursts through the gap, blowing up plays in the backfield. He also has an extremely powerful lower body and the ability to fill the hole on short yardage.
"Football's extremely important to me, it's my passion," he said. "I put everything into it, and I think that's more valuable than a half inch or an inch (of height)."
Being vertically challenged, though, can make it difficult for Borland to release from blockers when engaged, and makes it easier for quarterbacks to throw the ball over him down the seam.
All that said, even the top linebacker prospects available like Khalil Mack of Buffalo, C.J. Mosley of Alabama and Anthony Barr of UCLA have holes in their games that must be addressed.
Borland, on the other hand, remains a scheme-versatile prospect who could play in the middle or weak side of a traditional 4-3 or flourish as an inside player in an attacking 3-4.
"Safe" may not always be sexy, but it can be awfully productive.
"I don't know that there are a lot of players that are a better all-around athlete," Borland said. "I don't get maybe a lot of credit for it. I'm small, and straight-line speed is not my strong suit necessarily ... but as far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires."
The Sports Network's top inside linebackers in the 2014 NFL Draft:
1. - C.J. Mosley, Alabama
2. - Chris Borland, Wisconsin
3. - Shayne Skov, Stanford
4. - Max Bullough, Michigan State
5. - Lamin Barrow, LSU
6. - Preston Brown, Louisville
7. - Glenn Carson, Penn State
8. - Telvin Smith, Florida State
9. - Yawin Smallwood, UConn
10. - James Morris, Iowa
The Sports Network's Stock Watch:
Sleeper - Dan Fox, Notre Dame
Small School Standouts - Brock Coyle, Montana; Brandon Denmark, Florida A&M
Risk/Reward - Barrow
The Sports Network's top outside linebackers in the 2014 NFL Draft:
1. - Khalil Mack, Buffalo
2. - Anthony Barr, UCLA
3. - Ryan Shazier, Ohio State
4. - Dee Ford, Auburn
5. - Kyle Van Noy, BYU
6. - Jeremiah Attaochu, Georgia Tech
7. - Carl Bradford, Arizona State
8. - Prince Shembo, Notre Dame
9. - Demarcus Lawrence, Boise State
10. - Jackson Jeffcoat, Texas
The Sports Network's Stock Watch:
Sleeper - Dan Fox, Notre Dame
Small School Standouts - Jordan Tripp, Montana; Tyler Starr, South Dakota
Risk/Reward - Michael Sam, Missouri; Morgan Breslin, Southern Cal


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EMERALDS started well with steady passing down the court, but couldn't quite settle to a rhythm leaving Bishops leading 11-8.
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Emeralds were determined throughout the quarter with accurate passes down through the centre court, but the game ended 47-20 to Bishops.
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GEMS first match of 2014 started closely but Gems took advantage of any possession they had and pulled ahead by six goals in the first quarter.
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Collections and Bankruptcy
This section collects debts on behalf of every state agency and represents all state agencies in bankruptcy court.
This section defends the state against charges of civil rights violations and employment discrimination, defends challenges raised against state laws, civil statutes, regulations and policies. It also initiates legal proceedings on behalf of regulatory agencies that are seeking enforcement against violators.
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This section defends the state and its agencies against claims regarding personal injury and property damage that arise from the conduct of state personnel or the condition of the state's property.
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This section works closely with the Indiana Department of Transportation on legal work, including administrative hearings, contracts and condemnations.


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Major in Physics
The major in physics consists of a minimum of 11 semester physics courses, as outlined below, chosen in consultation with members of the department so as to form a coherent program in support of the student's interests and goals.
Required courses
PHYS 170 OR PHYS 180 Enhanced Introductory Physics I
PHYS 171 OR PHYS 181 Introductory Physics II (Enhanced)
PHYS 225 Modern Physics
PHYS 311 Classical Mechanics
PHYS 350 Experimental Physics
The following three core physics courses. With department approval, another 300-level physics course may replace ONE of these courses, but students considering graduate school in physics or astronomy should take all three.
PHYS 310 Statistical and Thermal Physics
PHYS 314 Electric and Magnetic Fields
PHYS 370 Quantum Mechanics
Two or more of the following courses:
PHYS 110 Electronic Circuits
PHYS 226 Optics
PHYS 227 Remote Sensing
PHYS 228 Scientific Computing
AST 272 Introduction to Astrophysics
PHYS 298 Meteorology and Oceanography
AST 302 Advanced Astrophysics
PHYS 360 Geophysics
Mathematics requirement
MATH 236 Multivariable Calculus
CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE: All majors in their junior and senior year are required to participate in a research project for one semester or for a summer. Each student is required to write a report and give an oral presentation about the project.
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Major in Astronomy and Physics
Astronomy and Physics major worksheet
This interdisciplinary major, requiring at least 10 courses, provides an opportunity for students to pursue their interest in astronomy at a deeper level than is possible through the minor in astronomy by taking courses in physics that provide additional perspective on the fundamental principles underlying astronomical research. This major is not recommended for students planning to do graduate work in astronomy; such students should major in physics.
Required courses
AST 130 The Universe
AST 140 The Solar System
AST 202 Frontiers of Astronomy
AST 305 Observational Astronomy
PHYS 225 Modern Physics
PHYS 350 Experimental Physics
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AST 250 Ancient Astronomies
AST 272 Introduction to Astrophysics
AST 302 Advanced Astrophysics
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Hello programmers!I have been given a project to make an online school admission system, but I don't have much ideas how to do that. So, I need your help. What things I should consider and how the look of the website should be and how to maintain the database? What to understand first? etcSo, please help me as much as you can. By suggesting some samples that you have etc.Thanks.
Hey you must understand what are the procedures including in admission process.For that you can consult a school management or the person who give you the task.After understanding the process and the needs you will get an idea.So that you design it by yourself.Also search for a software for admission process on Google you can get many samples.
I have done that today. Now I know pretty well what I have to do. Now what technology process will it be?
Well thats an incredibly vague and uninterpreted request.
What does your project require you to do? What have you done already?
We're not going to make your site for you. If you want that, look at the Marketplace. However we will help -you- with -your- ideas and code.
It's important to know what the needs of the school are before you begin. For example will the school be using this to track and take attendance? If so, have you thought through what this will require? Let's put it this way, taking attendance is like the final chapter of the book and many parts of the story need to be in place for things to work. You'll need to define school years and because they span two years you'll need to define what month the school year changes (probably July). You'll need some type of login system to only allow approved staff to view and update any records so you have an interface for adding, banning (staff changes) these people. As far as student names, I would suggest a master list of students for each school year. If you wish to further define each class by teacher, period etc, students should be grabbed off the master list so student names and student ID's match. As you can see from that last sentence "Staff" rolls will now need defined e.g. Office Staff, Teacher, and Administrator etc. Periods also need to be defined. Depending on the needs, Teacher/Period may also be broken into Subject or class name. Once all these things are in place, you could then select a class and have a list of students in this class and take attendance. The point is to get a good grasp of the information required to do the final task. It's pretty easy to make a wish list. You just need to think through what information you need to get the job done and how it will be defined and stored.
Hi, Rizwan you can use open source school administration system like fedena, openadmin, opensishere i am giving you url of themhttp://richtech.ca/openadmin/http://www.opensis.com/http://fedena.org/
Ok Thanks. Now please help me with the code how to start first things first. I will have to make a form which will be filled by people to get admission, right? Now can you give me a sample code for this form?
Here is my purposal that I gave to my supervisor, see it and you will understand what I want:
Project Title:
Online Center / School Admission System
The objective of this project is to avoid tiresome and time-consuming process of getting admission in a center or school. Parents and individuals face the several hardships in visiting the place several times. It saves much time and money of the parents and individuals to get admission in the desired institute.
Admission is necessary part of every student's life. Parents of a child have to get their child admitted in a school or center.
This online admission system allows students and parents to get admission just by sitting at home. The system asks for all the necessary information of a student and keeps it in the database.
Purpose of the project:
• To manage online admissions• To help the institute administration keep the record of admission online• To help students and parents get admission in the desired institute easily• To save time and money in applying just by sitting at home
Is there a reason why you aren't looking at software solutions that are already on the market?
There's dozens of them available: https://www.google.com/search?q=school+admissions+software
What I might do is start calling various schools in your area similar to yours and see if you can ask their IT department about what software they use and if they like it or not, and if there are any big or unusual problems with it.
And.. what code have you written for this project so far? Again, we're not going to write your code for you. We're here to help you with problems you have with your code that you have written.
You might want to look at the links Tony posted, but somehow i dont think your professor is looking for you to use an already-made system. Unless i'm mistaken, the point of the assignment is for -YOU- to do the work.
You've got an outline, which is a good start. So now start defining what pages you think you will need. A login page? a student-info entering form? An admin page? More?
Moderator comment: This topic was originally posted twice. The two threads have been merged.
First you should be create a list in which you can put timing and closings the school also which date admission is closed what are the facility school provides. the image of school must be clear in your website.<snip/>
...and as I mentioned in my post above you need to really think about the back end of things not just the html shown. What database tables are needed? What fields are needed for each table? Again mentioning the School Years, say you make a table to hold this info called SchoolYears. Fields might be year_id as primary index AUTO_INCREMENT, school_year varchar(9) so you can hold "2013-2014" and current_yrTINYINT(1) so you can define the current school year with 1 or 0. Now that you have this table you could think about an administration page where you can add and edit this information. More than likely this "page" will have two forms, one where you can add a year, e.g. "2013-2014" with a submit button. The other would be a list displaying what is stored in the database with a radio button indicating the "Current Year". On submission of this second form you would update the current year in the database. So something as simple as defining the school year takes a little thought and probably more work than you might think at first but once you get it working you'll say "that wasn't so hard. What do I need next" and move on with your project.
My point again, you've got that "final chapter" in your head of what you'd like, now go back and develop the story adding required database tables, interface pages and forms. "What it looks like" is all secondary. A functioning "story" can be put in any cover.
So you make a little page. What's it going to take to make this work?
I'm going to be incredibly blunt here and I really mean in a GOOD way. Hopefully, you'll read my comments as constructive criticism. First, asking what to do for building entire application from beginning to end sounds like you're not fit to do this. Second, asking what technology to use is the same thing. I strongly advise that you or school hires professional to do this. Not sure if it's me but building Online school admission system seem very important and should not be mess with someone who didn't create other similar applications. If you build it poorly then there's a good chance the site will be buggy and even leave a big hacking hole where the student can register a class when it's full. Imagine the system goes down for weeks and the course registration deadline is approaching? Are you going to have a back-up system? Can it support 100 concurrent users? Anyways, if the system goes down then be ready to get blamed and may even lose the job.
Wait.. is this for your class project? If so, then do your own damn homework.


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The Lowy family's investment vehicle, run by the eldest son David, is looking to raise close to $665 million through the sale of the family's entire 7 per cent stake in Westfield Retail Trust.
Broking house UBS has been instructed to sell 214.8 million securities in WRT, which is equal to 7 per cent of securities on issue at $3.09 apiece. It is currently being undertaken by way of a fixed price bookbuild.
The sale comes only 24 hours after the co chief executives Steven and Peter Lowy reported an 18 per cent rise in net profit to $1.7 billion for the Westfield group's full year result.
The spin-off Westfield Retail Trust, which has a 50 per cent stake in Westfield's Australian and NZ centres, reported a net profit of $830.8 million for the 2012 year, which was a drop on the $849.1 million a year earlier, due to a fall in some property valuations.
Both groups said the results were amid a tough retail sales environment in Australia, which is being partially offset by a rise in sales in the United States and Britain.
The Lowy family has extensive interests in a range of assets, and has been steadily selling down its direct holdings. In the parent group Westfield it holds about 8 per cent.
Westfield Retail Trust was formed in December 2012 and owns a half share in Westfield's 54 shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand, worth about $12 billion.
By separating the businesses, the Westfield Group wanted to focus on developing and upgrading existing centres across the globe, while the trust manages the Australian and NZ centres.
Westfield Retail Trust's full year distributable earnings was $572.6 million, 2 per cent up on the previous corresponding period and in line with market expectations.
The sale is timed with the 9.5 cent dividend on the WRT securities due to be paid today, so the family will get to keep its $20 million dividend.


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Posts Tagged 'Michael Cremo'
Darwin's Designer Dogs – Not
Are we drowning in hoaxes?
Was Darwin yet another hoax?
Are we deliberately being led to stand on a web of falsities?
As for the designer dogs; just when did we breed them?
And why do our Museums and history classes start with the Romans, or just maybe the Greeks or Monotheism, what about all the evidence all around the world for previous civilisations?


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James Patrick Kelly (born 1951 in Mineola, New York) is a Hugo- and Nebula-award winning American science fiction author who began publishing in the 1970s and remains to this day an important figure in the SF field.
Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975, and has since been a major force in the science fiction field. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1972, with… (more)
James Patrick Kelly is an amazing writer: he truly understands that the one and only goal of SF is to explore the human soul.
I haven't been disappointed by a single of his short stories so far.


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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Cutaneous Sarcoid
I have had all sorts of treatment on my face but nothing seems to work (even steroid injections directly on the skin plaques). I am going on holiday soon and am worried about exposure in the sun. What can I use on my face to help soothe? Is anit malaria drug the only treatment?
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In some cases, the skin manifestations of sarcoidosis can be very difficult to treat. In particular, discolored, raised and irregularly shaped plaques, commonly referred to as "lupus pernio", are commonly (not always) resistant to usual therapies such as steroids, methotrexate or anti-malarial drugs (hydroxychloroquine). However, the anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha drugs (e.g., Remicade) are often effective.
The decision to treat with strong medications, such as Remicade, have to be carefully weighed against the risks. You should consult your doctors about the best treatment options for you.
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Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University