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Albert Evans, 68, B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has been appointed vice president of advanced programs and technology for BAE Systems in Lansdale, PA.
Carol Ann Hackley, 61, B.A., Journalism, has been promoted to full professor at the University of Pacific. Hackley has also been re-elected national vice president for public relations and publications of the Navy League of the U.S.
Peter Sarellana, 69, B.S., Business Administration, B.A., Anthropology, recently retired as deputy county executive officer with Placer County. He will be spending his leisure time working on his tree ranch at Omo Ranch in El Dorado County.
Linda Whitney, 64, B.A., Education, retired as principal of Caroline Wenzel Elementary School in Sacramento.
Dennis Dart, 79, M.A., History, is an in-house attorney for Heitman Financial LLC in Warsaw, Poland.
G. Douglas Glysson, 70, B.S., Civil Engineering, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va., is a 2002 recipient of the ASTM Award of Merit. Glyssons career has concentrated on surface water data collection techniques, sediment data collection and analysis, interpretation, and teaching sediment data collection and records computations.
Michael Hall, 75, M.A., Education, has retired after 35 years in education. Hall was a teacher for 10 years and a principal for 25 years. He worked in the Sacramento City and San Juan school districts.
Clifton Harrison, Sr., 78, B.A., Recreation Administration, works for the California Youth Correctional Facility as a vocation education teacher.
Jim Jenkins III, 75, B.A., Journalism/Communication Studies, is in his 24th year with the Sacramento Bee. Jenkins is a pro football and boxing writer. He previously spent 17 years with the Sacramento Union as a staff writer and assistant sports editor.
W. Walter Liang, 70, B.S., Finance, was appointed by Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao as her representative covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Prior, Liang was a Congressional appointee to the Census Monitoring Board. He was also the governors liaison to the Asian community in California, an appointee to the Small Business Administration under President George H. W. Bush and assistant state treasurer for California.
Ingrid Lundquist, 72, M.A., Art, has been awarded the Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP) designation. Lundquist is one of 109 professionals in the world to hold the certification. For more than 20 years Lundquists Sacramento-based firm, The Lundquist Company, has specialized in producing high-profile events for corporations and nonprofit cultural organizations.
Glenn Peterson, 79, B.S., Business Administration, is marketing director for Gonzalez Team Racing.
Chuck Trainor, 73, B.S., Business Administration, was honored at the annual Doctor Lawyer Dinner for his community involvement. Proceeds from the event benefited the WIND Youth Center, which provides basic needs, counseling, schooling and support for homeless teenagers. Trainor is the senior partner of Trainor Robertson, the Sacramento-based law firm that he founded 24 years ago.
Michael Ueltzen, 70, M.B.A., was awarded the California Society of CPAs 2002 Distinguished Service Award, its highest honor. Ueltzen, the managing partner of Ueltzen & Company, was CalCPAs president and has served as the associations vice president and treasurer. His community involvement includes the CSUS Accounting Advisory Council, the Sacramento Blood Center and the Center for Blood Research. Ueltzen has been a faculty member of the National Judicial College in Reno and the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. He is a contributor to the book Developing and Managing a Litigation Services Practice.
Cordia Wade, 76, M.A., Sociology, is a member of the Sacramento County Adult and Aging Commission and other committees involved in services to seniors and their caregivers.
Timothy Appel, 80, B.S., Biological Sciences, is working with Department of Justice State of California Toxicology Laboratory performing drug analyses.
David Carle, 81, M.S., Recreation Administration, recently had his book Burning Questions, Americans Fight With Natures Fire published, a history of the debates over wild land fire policy in the U.S. during the last century. He is working on a book for the California Natural History Guide series, entitled California Water. Carle recently retired after a 27-year career as a California state park ranger.
Suzanne Mounira Chammout, 88, B.S., Nursing, was promoted to chief of the Sacramento Licensing Branch, Office of Health Plan Oversight, Department of Managed Health Care.
Kati (Dyer) DeLaurier, 86, B.S., Dietetics, has been working with Clinica Sierra Vista/WIC program in Bakersfield for the last four years and was recently promoted to supervising dietitian. DeLaurier lives in Pine Mountain Club, CA. Cheryl Dell, 82, B.A., Communication Studies, was named publisher of the Tri-City Herald, which is owned by McClatchy Newspapers.
M.S. Enkoji, 80, B.A., Government/Journalism, is a reporter for the Sacramento Bee. Prior to that, Enkoji worked for the San Bernardino County Sun covering social issues and general news. Her coverage includes welfare reform, Northern California issues and criminal justice.
Gil Fried, 86, B.S., Business Administration, is a lawyer and an associate professor University of New Haven School of Business. Fried has written three textbooks and over 120 articles on the sport business industry. While a student at CSUS, he was a coach/player on the badminton team and also taught badminton classes.
Cory Hall, 86, B.A., Music, received a D.M.A. in piano and M.M. in musicology from the University of Kansas. He is an adjunct instructor of music and humanities at St. Petersburg College in Florida, where he teaches Western humanities, music appreciation and piano. He is also organist and accompanist at Anona United Methodist Church in Largo, FL. He recently published On Bach and Courante Tempos in Clavier and presented Bachs Use of the S-D-G Motive for the 2001 AMS Southern Chapter in Baton Rouge and 2001 CMS National Conference in Santa Fe.
Susan Kossack, 83, M.B.A., has accepted a position as advertising director for the California Department of Consumer Affairs. Prior to this, Kossack spent 15 years with the California Lottery, also as an advertising director.
Paul Kronenberg, 87, M.A., Government, is president of Family Winemakers of California, a trade association of California wineries.
Kim Kuenlen, 82, B.A., Psychology, is the Director of Development at the CSUS Library. She is raising money for the library to build a reading room.
Sandra Lawson, 89, B.A., Music, was promoted to assistant controller of advertising revenue at the Sacramento Bee.
Carrie Markel, 88, B.A., Art, was in Americas Whos Who of Outstanding Teachers 2002/03 edition.
Tari Martin, 86, B.S., Business Administration, and David Martin, 87, B.S., Business Administration, have started their own health and nutrition business.
Lillian Miller, 88, M.S.W., recently retired from her position as supervising parole agent at the Department of Youth Authority, where she was employed for 33 years.
Karla Oppliger, 84, M.S., Counseling, has earned her Certified Residential Specialist designation, which is held by just 5 percent of the nations realtors.
Jose Ramirez, 82, B.A., Biological Sciences, has recently relocated his medical practice to 7600 Hospital Drive, Suite H, in Sacramento.
Linda Reifschneider, 86, B.A., Communication Studies, received the Statewide Partnership Award and the Innovator of the Year Award from the State Chancellors Economic Development Association.
Kathy Sanborn, 89, B.A., Psychology, is a corporate consultant, career coach and author. McGraw-Hill will publish her latest book, The Seasons of Your Career, in spring 2003.
Dan Teresa, 87, B.A., Physical Education, is an instructor and head baseball coach at Hartnell Community College in Salinas. His team shared the Coast Conference baseball title this season, the first time the college has won a title in 24 years. He was also named Coach of the Year. Teresa was an Olympic Torch Bearer for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
David Trimingham, 81, B.S., Recreation Administration, is retiring after 20 years in the U.S. Air Force.
Robert Wood, 85, B.A., Government/International Relations, was recently selected for captain and assigned as the deputy chief of staff for intelligence programs for Commander Naval Reserve Forces Command in New Orleans. Paula Wilson Youra, 83, B.A., Communication Studies, is associate professor of communication studies at Lynchburg College and has been named an outstanding Woman of Achievement for 2002 by the Lynchburg YWCAs Academy of Women. She was cited for bringing a wealth of experience to the college and Central Virginia and using innovative teaching ideas that integrate the students and community. Youra also holds an M.A. from UC Davis, and a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University. She joined the Lynchburg College faculty in 1991.
Scott Adams, 90, B.A., English, and Sherri Dozier Adams, 86, B.A., Communication Studies, welcomed their first child, Charles Scott Adams, in March. Scott Adams works in the CSUS advancement office and Sherri Dozier Adams works as a bookkeeper for Pool Master.
Daniel Ballard, 97, B.S., Biological Sciences, has joined McDonough, Holland & Allen and focuses on patent and intellectual property law. Ballard is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He served as a flight medic in the U.S. Air Force, and has worked for a number of years as a laboratory technologist. He received his law degree in 2001 from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
Patricia Bechtold, 99, M.S., Career Counseling, recently opened Career Artistry, a private career counseling and life coaching practice. She uses creative strategies to help clients explore their hopes and dreams
Connie Carter, 93, B.S., Nursing, is an epidemiology nurse with El Dorado County Public Health.
Johnathon Doull, 96, B.S., Criminal Justice, is completing his fifth year as a California Highway Patrol Officer. He is a field-training officer and assigned to the community outreach program.
Brian Fujita, 99, B.S., Business Administration, is a logistics coordinator at the American Cancer Society. He is performing federal government relations for the Relay for Life Celebration on the Hill, a grassroots event celebrating cancer survivorship and advocating for laws to help people fight cancer.
Bobbie Hales, 94, B.S., Accounting, is a manager at Gilbert Associates, a provider of accounting and advisory services in the Sacramento area. She previously worked as audit manager and human resources coordinator at Richardson & Company. Prior to that, she was with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Anthony Hayes, 93, B.A., Biological Sciences, earned a medical degree at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio. Hayes now expects to complete a residency in general surgery at Martin Luther King, Jr./Drew Hospital in Los Angeles.
R. Scott Mackey, 97, M.A., Communication Studies, recently had his second book, Blood Runs Deep, published by the Brookfield Reader. He lives in Sacramento with his wife (also a CSUS alum) and their two children.
Kathleen Palmer, 99, B.S., Business Administration, recently graduated from the UC Davis Law School.
Donald Petron, 91, B.A., Communication Studies, is working as an instrument technician for California Air Resources Board.
Deni Polstra, 93, B.A., Art, has been doing volunteer work and photography for YWCA, Cystic Fibrosis, and has had some photography jobs with Quest, Sutter Hospital and Crossroads Church.
Luis Rios, Jr., 98, M.A., Multicultural Education, is currently a doctoral candidate in Spanish language and literature at Columbia University in New York. Rios is also a Spanish instructor at Columbia University.
Eva L. Santos-Phillips, 90, M.A., Spanish, received tenure and was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Timoth Shestek, 91, B.A., Government, is director, state and local public affairs, for the American Chemistry Council, a national trade association of the U.S. chemical and plastic industries.
Steven Shultz, 90, B.A., Government/Journalism, is assistant director of communications for the Port of San Diego. He plays a lead role in media relations, community outreach and other communications duties. Shultz serves on the Public Relations Committee of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) and is a member of the San Diego World Affairs Council and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). He is a three-time winner of the Edward L. Bernays Mark of Excellence Award from PRSA San Diego, and holds several national honors in the field of public relations. Shultz also holds a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Steven Stapp, 91, B.S., Accountancy, is senior vice president of branch operations for the Golden 1 Credit Union. Golden 1 is the largest credit union in the state.
John Tehaney, 90, B.S., Civil Engineering, passed Californias structural engineering exam. He is a senior structural engineer for the Office of Statewide Health, Planning and Development in the Facilities Development Division, where he is working on the Hospital Seismic Retrofit Program.
Janet Tisue, 96, M.A., Education, is teaching the History Alive Program for World History at Rio Linda High School.
Peggy Vande Vooren, 90, B.S., Accountancy, has become a shareholder of Gilbert Associates. Formerly a senior manager with Gilbert Associates, Vande Vooren specializes in auditing and consulting for governmental and nonprofit organizations. Vande Vooren is also responsible for coordinating the firms in-house staff training programs.
Nicole Vinh, 95, B.A., Communication Studies, with a minor in Journalism, is a contract manager with the California Department of Health Services. She interened with KOVR Channel 13 News and Montoya Bilingual Communications. She earned scholarships with the Asian American Journalists Association and CSUS Asian Studies Program.
Cary Williams, B.A., 96, Environmental Studies, is owner of Prime Time Boxing & Fitness in Sacramento. Williams is also a certified Olympic Boxing Coach, one of only three in the United States. She has created a nonprofit youth activities center within her gym and is co-director of that organization. Williams and her husband conduct a boxing camp open to the non-competitive boxer. Williams periodically writes a fitness column for the Sacramento Bee and is a competitive boxer.
Mike Wilson, 93, M.B.A., is Coors Brewing Companys national field marketing director of the year for the second consecutive year. Wilson is responsible for Coors advertising and marketing in 10 Western states.
Deanna Aldeghi, 01, B.S., Business Administration, is chair of student relations for the CSUS Business Alumni Chapter.
Sonia Kuar, 00, B.A., Communication Studies, is working for Barcellona Communications as an account executive. Kuars clients include the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, Twelve Bridges, a master planned community, Lenar Communities, Meritage Homes, Sun Ridge Systems and Wood Rogers. Prior to joining Barcellona Communications, Kuar worked as an account executive at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in Sacramento.
Molly McGuire, 01, M.S.W., is a social worker for the Sacramento County Childrens Protective Services.
Joshua Moody, 01, M.S., Civil Engineering, is structural department director for the structural department at Cannon Associates, where he has worked for more than four years. Cannon Associates specializes in a variety of areas that include development, energy, environmental, food processing/wineries, public works, water supply and sanitation, and schools and institutions.
Robert Purnell, 01, B.S., Criminal Justice, is a Vallejo police officer.
Adrienne Schmeling, 01, B.S., Business Administration, works for the League of California Cities magazine Western City, and two of its affiliations, California Society of Municipal Finance Officers and the California Association of Public Information Officials.
Cynthia West, 00, B.A., English, and a partner have started Women of Words, a business offering writing, editing, proofreading, research, indexing, book cataloguing, and desktop publishing services.


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Parks and Recreation Season 3 Quotes
That painting is not gonna be destroyed. Every great work of art contains a message. And the message of this painting is get out of my way unless you want an arrow in your ass Marsha.Leslie
Chris: Fresh lettuce is my all-time favorite food. What's your favorite food?
Andy: Oh, I take Skittles and I put it between two Starbursts. Know what I call it?
Chris: Skittle Sandwich?
Andy: ...That's pretty good. No, I call it Andy's Mouth Surprise. It's nice because the flavor of the Starbursts really bring out a similar flavor in the Skittles.
(referencing Lil Sebastian) I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?Ben
Ron: Who the hell is 'Fwarp'?
April: I don't know. I couldn't really hear him. It sounded like his name was Fwarp.
Ron: Get his number?
April: No.
Ron: Good girl.
Leslie: Yellow haired female... likes waffles and news.
Ann: Sexy, well-read blonde... loves the sweeter things in life.
Leslie: Much better.
Ann: Hobbies?
Leslie: Organizing my agenda. Wait, that doesn't sound fun...jammin' on my planner!
Ann: Favorite place?
Leslie: Upstairs there's this mural of wildflowers, and I like to sit on a bench in front of it.
Ann: Really? It could be anywhere in the world: Paris, Hawaii, the Grand Canyon...
Leslie: Nope. Just the bench in front of the mural.
Ann: What about an actual meadow, where wildflowers are?
Leslie: Eww, Ann, I'm scared of bees, mural!
Ann: Okay, what do you think of dogs?
Leslie: Love!
Ann: Cats?
Leslie: Love!
Ann: Fish?
Leslie: Love!
Ann: Turtles?
Leslie: No opinion. They're condescending.
Ann: Describe your ideal man.
Leslie: He's dark and mysterious, and he can sing. And he plays the organ.
Ann: I think you just described the Phantom of the Opera.
Zerts are what I call deserts, tray trays are what I call entrees, sandwiches are sammies, sandoozles or Adam Sandlers, air conditioners are cool blaterz with a "z" ... I don't know where that came from. I call cakes big ol' cookies, I call noodles long ass rice, fried chicken is fry fry chicky chick, chicken parmesan is chicky chicky parm parm, chicken caciatore is chicky catch, I call eggs pre-birds or future birds, root beer is super water, tortillas are bean blankets, and I call forks... food rakes!Tom
Here's mine. It's a hamburger made out of meat on a bun with nothing. Add ketchup if you want I couldn't care less.Ron
Kyle: I love the Umami flavor.
Jerry: Stop being so pretentious Kyle.
I call eggs pre-birds or future birds.Tom
Chris: What's your favorite food?
Andy: I take skittles and I put it between two Starbursts.
Employee: Sir, is there a problem?
Ron: I'm just making sure no one ever has to eat this.
Yellow haired female likes waffles and news.Leslie

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Whether you're re-heating some leftovers or preparing a whole meal, a Kenwood microwave can shave time off your meal prep with their high power and range of settings. Kenwood microwaves are available from under £60 and come in a variety of colours, capabilities and designs to suit every kind of kitchen.
If you're looking for a straight up microwave then a solo Kenwood microwave will suit you just fine. Available with either 800 or 900 watts of power, simply pop in your food, select the right setting and it'll be done in no time.
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House Republicans plan to advance a package of bills this month in response to the recent Internal Revenue Service controversies involving inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups and lavish spending on a 2010 conference in Anaheim.
One of the measures, bound to meet with opposition from the federal workforce, would allow agencies to place senior career officials on paid or unpaid leave while they are under investigation for abuses.
Another proposal in the GOP package would require agency leaders to approve government conferences and hold them accountable for over-the-top spending on such events.
Among the other measures: One would allow citizens to record their conversations with federal enforcement officials and another would prohibit the IRS from enforcing the insurance mandate from President Obama's health-care law.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) outlined the bills during the weekly Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday. "The public feels a growing sense of distrust of what this administration and what Washington is doing," he told reporters after the meeting.
The proposal to allow unpaid leave for senior executives may sound like another Republican attempt to score points on the IRS scandals, but the House passed a similar measure last year. That bill died in the Senate.
A Washington Post report in December showed that federal agencies sometimes pay employees for years while the workers are on leave and under investigation for wrongdoing.
The Senior Executives Association, a group that advocates for government officials, has criticized the unpaid-leave proposal.
"This is a bill that declares Senior Executives guilty until proven innocent and does nothing to address the issues at the heart of these so-called scandals," said association president Carol Bonosaro. "The bill's provision taking away Merit Systems appeals rights may be unconstitutional and carries with it a serious risk of politicizing the career Senior Executive Service."
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Release Date: 2009 |
Thompson D. Gerhart STAFF (2.5)A flub, pure and simple. Let's hope Killswitch Engage re-evaluate their "new direction" an...Phantom (2.5)"Killswitch Engage" covers no real new ground in terms of musical progression, with the ba...Nosferatwo (3)Killswitch puts on the brakes and stops their descent into self-parody....Crownley (2.5)Killswitch Engage attempts to appeal to a larger audience, but forgets how to appeal to th...
when_darkness_falls (3)More of the same from Metalcore icons makes for dull listening.......Blindsided (4)Brutal, crushing, melodic and just as metal as you ordered your Killswitch....Oneiron (1.5)Lamb of God isn't the only band into ripping themselves off anymore....ZomarK (2.5)Progression? I see no Progression. Sure they are more technical but I was really lookin fo...
Locrian (3)Although it doesn't live up to what the band promised, Killswitch Engage's fifth album is ...
This really didn't need another review.
Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound OffThis really didn't need another review.
^ What they said.
Album Rating: 3.5This review is .5 higher than others so its ok
Album Rating: 3.0I think that if my rating was 2.5, then it really would have been useless i admit. But it's a bit higher and wanted to do it so why not?
love the user name, very clever.
Digging: Beastmilk - Climax
yeah^ First time I saw it I thought man this jackass cant even spell Portnoy right
Album Rating: 4.0Decent review.
I don't want to listen to this for fear of being very disappointed.
Album Rating: 3.0After listening to it again and again, i conclude that the best song on the album is without a doubt Never Again.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Free Sheet Music for Trumpet with Piano Accompaniment
October 2, 2008
Make some music with your friends with these easy trumpet solo arrangements with piano accompaniment. These free printable sheet music arrangements from MakingMusicFun.net can be performed by intermediate level piano students.
Trumpet Solos
Jingle Bells Boogie for Trumpet Solo by Andrew Fling
Ode to Joy for Trumpet Solo by Ludwig van Beethoven
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for Trumpet Solo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Entertainer for Trumpet Solo by Scott Joplin
In the Hall of the Mountain King for Trumpet Solo by Edvard Grieg
The Kerry Dance for Trumpet Solo | Irish
The Minstrel Boy for Trumpet Solo | Irish Patriotic Song
Scarborough Fair for Trumpet Solo | English Ballad
Triumphal March for Trumpet Solo from "Aida" by Giuseppi Verdi
1) Practice each measure slowly and carefully. You will learn the piece faster, improve at a greater speed, and play the piece with more precision.2) Always make good tone a goal over going fast. It's fun to go fast, though it is best to be patient until you know the piece well.3) Think about your breath support. Good breath support can make all the difference in playing with a good tone and playing with endurance.
Other Free Sheet Music Arrangements
Do you have friends that play the flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, trombone or violin? There are more free intermediate level arrangements for solo instrument with piano accompaniment to print. Visit the Piano Student posts below to see what's available.


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I tried searching the forum - but unfortunately I kept getting server errors.
Here is my HTML:
<select name="drpYear[]" id="drpYearID" multiple="multiple" size="5">
<option value="2011" > 2011
<option value="2010" > 2010
<option value="2009" > 2009
<option value="2008" > 2008
<option value="2007" > 2007
this all appears fine on my page
However, when this gets POSTed - i'm only able to see the topmost selected item.
$cnt = count( $_POST[ "drpYear" ] );
$yrlist = $_POST[ "drpYear" ];
$yr = implode( ', ', $yrlist );
No matter how many I select, $cnt = 1 & $yr comes back with 2011 ( or whichever the highest one selected is ).
Now, everything I read said adding [] to the select name, and making the ID differ would work - but its not working for me.
Any ideas?
That doesn't look right (but I've been bouncing between php and c# all day, so take that with a grain of salt....)
Try this:
$yearList = $_POST['drpYear'];
if ($yearList) {
foreach ($yr as $yearList) {
echo "<p>{$yr}</p>";
You got your foreach backwards, Dave. foreach($yearList as $yr)
Thanks -
However - the implode is right and works fine ( I am using it elsewhere on the page in a similar way ( using multiple check boxes for the months ) ), and I've used it before on other items.
The issue is that $cnt = 1 - and it should equal 3 ( i'm testing with 3 years selected ). And $yr should equal 2011, 2009, 2007 as those are the ones i've selected. But my post[ 'drpYear' ] is not bringing those over.
Standard issue Response:
Result is...?
Result is:
array(1) { [0]=> string(4) "2011"}
Again - select 2011, 2009, 2007
Forgive the dumb question, but how come in your example you didn't close the option tags?
Probably because all of the examples I was using for Multiple Selects were older and didn't have the </option> on it - so I didn't think about it.
and that'd probably solve your problem...the problem doesnt seem to be in PHP, it's in your HTML. Only 1 item is being passed on.
Well - I added that on - and it didn't fix anything...
Here is the results from firebug in Mozilla for that section of the code:
<select name="drpYear[]" id="drpYearID" multiple="multiple" size="5"><option value="2011" >2011</option><option value="2009" >2009</option><option value="2008" >2008</option><option value="2007" >2007</option><option value="2010" >2010</option></select>
and here is my var_dump again:
array(1) {
string(4) "2011"
So - no difference with the </option>
<form action="" method="POST">
<select name="drpYear[]" id="drpYearID" multiple="multiple" size="5">
<option value="2011" > 2011</option>
<option value="2010" > 2010</option>
<option value="2009" > 2009</option>
<option value="2008" > 2008</option>
<option value="2007" > 2007</option>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="POST" />
I just ran this and ran print_r($_POST) and got all options I selected. Can you trying running this and tell us what you get?


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Chelsea are close to securing the services of Antonio Conte after reports claimed he is due to arrive in London to pen his contract.
Conte has been heavily linked with the Chelsea hot seat following the sacking of Jose Mourinho and the Italian is poised to replace interim boss Guus Hiddink at the end of the season.
Despite confirming he will step down as Italy coach after Euro 2016, Conte insisted he had yet to make up his mind about where he will coach next season.
However a deal with Chelsea has been in the pipeline for some time and reports in Italy claim that Conte will arrive in London early this week to put pen-to-paper on his contract.
Although he is busy preparing for the European Championships, Conte is also believed to have given the Chelsea hierarchy a list of players he would like to have on board for next season.


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Unemployment up 7.3 per cent in the North West
12:28pm Wednesday 18th March 2009
12:28pm Wednesday 18th March 2009
UNEMPLOYMENT in the North West rose by 7.3 per cent in the past three months, official figures have revealed.
The jobless total in the region hit 281,000 last month, according to Government figures, up from 262,000 during the previous quarter.
The region's unemployment rate now stands at 7.7 per cent.
Across the UK, unemployment surged past two million for the first time in 12 years, while the number of people nationwide signing on for benefit soared by a record 138,000 last month.
The total number of people out of work in the UK, including those not eligible for benefit, jumped by 165,000 in the quarter to January to 2.03 million, the worst figure since Labour came to power in the summer of 1997.
The quarterly rise was the highest since 1991, and the total has now increased by 421,000 over the past year, said the Office for National Statistics.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "This is another milestone in the return of mass unemployment to the UK, and it will get worse before it gets better as unemployment always persists even after a recovery starts."
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB, said: "As well as the misery for the two million on the dole, add the fear of millions of others who know that they too are at risk of redundancy. We do not know who the next million to lose their job will be."
David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "The outlook for unemployment is worsening and there is an urgent need for action. At this rate, unemployment looks set to reach 3.2 million in 2010.
"Even with some staff accepting pay freezes and working fewer hours, it is clear that employers are facing significant financial pressures."
The data also showed a 48,000 fall in the number of people in full-time employment in the latest quarter, to 21.8 million, and a 50,000 increase in part-time workers, to 7.55 million.
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I Spy Window Art
Age: 18 Months - 5 Years (younger ones need more supervision)
Theme: Open
Books: Any of the I Spy series
Contact Paper (sticky clear stuff)Transparency Paper
Assorted scraps of paper, yarn, tissue, sequins, spangles, foam pieces, etc
Adults get to use Colored Masking Tape and Scissors
Prep: Cut (1) piece of contact paper per child slightly larger than the sheet of transparency paper (so if 8-1/2 x 11 then 9 x 12 etc). Remove the paper backing. Using tabs of masking tape, secure the contact paper to the table sticky side up.
Activity: Each child gets to decorate the contact paper, covering it with items of their choosing. When they are finished, an adult can assist with placing the transparency paper over their design to seal it in.
Finishing: (Can be done by just an adult or older kids can help) Trim the excess contact paper so that it is flush with the transparency. 'Edge' the entire design with colored masking tape folded over the sides. This will both create a frame and further secure the items inside.
Notes/Tips: It is a lot easier if you can set this project up in advance of the kids coming to the work space. Choose age appropriate items to go inside (no spangles for the wee ones). Distributing the little items on a paper plate will save on a ton of clean-up!


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Thousands protest against Australian shark cull
Thousands of people have attended rallies on beaches in Australia in protest at a controversial new scheme to cull large sharks in a bid to reduce human casualties and boost tourism.
Shark attack victims were among those protesting against the kill, which critics have said is cruel and ineffective.
Australians are divided over Western Australia's trial scheme to catch and kill large sharks in the waters around popular beaches, which was given the green light last month after six fatal attacks in the past two years.
Baited tethers will be set up to catch sharks, which will be killed if they are longer than three metres (10 feet) and deemed to be a threat - including great white, bull and tiger sharks.
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If the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School was to be a part of Athens-Clarke County for another half-century or more, there would be no complaints from any quarter of the community. The school's multimillion-dollar annual impact on the local economy and, more importantly, its students' and staff's volunteer efforts across the community, make it an integral part of life here.
Sadly, that relationship is scheduled to wind down to an end during the next few years, as the federal government's Base Realignment and Closure initiative dictates the school's move to a Rhode Island campus. By 2011, the school only will exist in the pages of local history.
Like other communities facing BRAC-related losses of military installations and the benefits those installations bestow on their host communities, Athens-Clarke County officials and citizens spent months developing alternative plans for the 58-acre Navy school campus along Prince and Oglethorpe avenues, in efforts led by Local Redevelopment Authorities.
Athens-Clarke County was particularly fortunate in this regard, as local businessman Buddy Allen agreed to serve as chairman of the local authority. Allen, who has taken a low-key, behind-the-scenes approach to civic involvement, brought that same mindset to service as the Navy Supply Corps School LRA chairman.
The job presented a particularly difficult challenge, because it represented a new process for this community. Allen immersed himself in the details of base redevelopment, to the point of actually touring the facilities of local social-service providers in an effort to gain an understanding of the services they provide to the homeless. One of the requirements of the base redevelopment process is that the needs of the homeless be considered. The LRA's response to that requirement, which will allow five homeless assistance providers to do their important work, was lauded by a consultant working with the LRA as a particularly creative way of meeting the federal mandate.
The University of Georgia's proposal to establish a medical campus - including a medical college and other health-education institutions - on the Navy school site certainly provided an immediately appealing alternative use for the tract. But Allen's due diligence on the issue, in setting benchmarks for the university with regard to implementation of its plan, and providing for an alternative scenario if the university can't meet those benchmarks, ensures that whatever course it takes, redevelopment of the Navy school will be an asset for the immediate neighborhood and the community at large.
Certainly, Allen was ably assisted by the other members of the LRA - Barbara Bacon, Paul Chambers, Sue Custance, Heidi Davison, Katrina Evans, Brad Griffin, Hank Huckaby, Ralph Johnson, Brian Kemp, Amy Kissane, David Lynn, Charlie Maddox, Patrick O'Brien, Anne Sweaney, Courtney Tobin and Mike Beatty - and by the work of Base Reuse Coordinator Holly Reed.
But, as in all endeavors of this type, the results of the work owe much to the leadership given to that work.
In that regard, Buddy Allen was the right man, in the right place, at the right time.
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Applied Mathematics for Engineers provides readers with a comprehensive knowledge of fundamental concepts and methods of applied mathematics used in different engineering disciplines. Each topic is presented in great detail and accompanied by a large number of thoroughly worked-out examples, as well as several related exercises. Engineering applications, ranging from mechanical and electrical to structural systems, are stressed and integrated throughout the book.
An introduction to MATLAB is included in a chapter, and MATLAB is used to solve numerous examples.
Ramin S. Esfandiari, California State University
Atlantis Publishing Company, 2013
Language: English


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I recently did up a batch of ground elk, leaving pink in it, and rice for an elderly cat at the kennel. I had a container left, so tried it on my herd. They got to really like it!
I did too -as the litter boxes didn't stink hardly at all! lol
I will still use some of the Origen kibble on top. My question is - can I use ground beef from the store?
It would be way more affordable for me. But how much to feed for 2 twelve pound cats and 1 ten pound cat? And is there taurine in raw meat?


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WTF America (Ep100) (Part 2)
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Every week Improv!? and Fredara would give the world their best shit talking and play the best music they could find.
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Well we did!
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We love y'all!
On this episode we get deep into politics and how are we going to survive after this mess of a Presidential elections.
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Dolphin Integration opens competency center in Israel
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PARIS EDA and IP company Dolphin Integration SA (Meylan, France) has created Dolphin Integration Ltd. in Netania, Israel, in a view to foster the company's product developments in advanced memories, analog and mixed-signal circuits.
Dolphin Integration said the choice of Israel was motivated by the availability of highly skilled designers, specifying that "this professional density relying on a true entrepreneurial spirit is the foundation for an exceptional basis of semiconductor fabless suppliers."
The launching phase has started with a couple of experienced specialists, the company said.
The launch of Dolphin Integration Ltd. in Israel follows the creations of Dolphin Integration GmbH in Duisburg, Germany, specialized in MEMS modeling and simulation, and of Dolphin Integration Inc. in Montreal, Quebec, specialized in embedded inductorless power regulators.
Mid-October, Dolphin Integration reported unaudited revenues of
And, looking ahead, the France-based company declared: "The high rate of upgrades imposed by our market position, in both the Library and the Audio converter businesses, has been faced positively so that the company is facing the new fiscal year in a promising posture."


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Bos promoted to professor at Tusculum College
Dr. Antonio Bos, who has taught at Tusculum College for 11 years, has been promoted to professor of business administration.
Dr. Bos' promotion was approved by the college's Board of Trustees during its meeting on May 19.
He earned his doctorate at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and was a post-doctoral fellow in Health Economics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md.
He has research interests in health economics, especially concerning the relationship between the social-economic circumstances and the health status of the elderly in Brazil, his home country.
"I provide a unique perspective based on my international background, personal experiences and research endeavors," Dr. Bos says. "In all my years at Tusculum, I have always been able to maintain a good rapport with students and I enjoy teaching at our college."
Professional organizations in which he is involved include the American Economics Association, International Health Economics Association, and American Health Economics Association.
Casteel promoted to associate professor at Tusculum College
Dr. DiAnn Casteel, who has taught in both the traditional and adult programs at Tusculum College, has been promoted to associate professor of education.
Dr. Casteel's promotion was approved by the college's Board of Trustees during its meeting on May 19.
She taught in Tusculum's Graduate and Professional Studies program for eight years and began teaching traditional classes in the fall 2004 semester.
Dr. Casteel has 30 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in the Greene County School System. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Intermont College, Walters State Community College, and for Tusculum in the early 1990s.
She earned her doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis at East Tennessee State University and also received an M.A. as a reading specialist from ETSU. She is also a Certified Novell Administrator, has written book review articles for a professional journal, "The School Administrator," and presented a paper to the Mid-South Educational Research Association.
Dr. Casteel has also served as a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education and the Tennessee Department of Education. Active in the community, Dr. Casteel has served and provided leadership in such organizations as 4-H, the Girl Scouts, and USS Greeneville Inc, the organization that helped work for a naming of a U.S. Navy submarine for Greeneville and provides support for the sailors on the boat. She was a member of Rotary International's first Women's Group Study Exchange Team to visit India. As a result of this trip, she began to contribute books and materials that led to the formation of a Library/English Medium School in Chirala, India, and also obtained sponsors for more than 20 cases of materials and books for use in the library/school.
Darko promoted to associate professor at Tusculum College
Dr. George Darko, who has taught at Tusculum College since 2003, has been promoted to associate professor of economics.
Dr. Darko's promotion was approved by the college's Board of Trustees during its meeting on May 19.
He teaches organizational management courses, primarily Finance and Economics, in the Organizational Management program.
Previously an instructor at Mid-Continent College in Kentucky, Dr. Darko earned his Doctorate of Arts in economics from Middle Tennessee State University, and also received his master's degree from that school. He completed undergraduate studies at Arkansas State University.
He is involved in a number of community service projects in the Knoxville area. He recently published an article in the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development entitled, "The gains from trade in a small monetary economy" (with Richard Dusansky & Pankaj Maskara & Nadeem Naqvi).
McCallister promoted to associate professor at Tusculum College
Ron McCallister, who has taught at Tusculum College since 2000, has been promoted to associate professor of computer science.
McCallister's promotion was approved by the college's Board of Trustees during its meeting on May 19.
McCallister was born in Alaska but grew up in Nashville. He attended Middle Tennessee State University and received a B.A. in history. He earned a master's in history at East Tennessee State University, then later a second master's, this time in computer science.
He joined Tusculum College's history department in 1994-95, served there two years, then became Director of Institutional Research, the Director of Advising, the Director of Registration, and the Coordinator for the Society of Cicero. After leaving administrative work he rejoined the Tusculum faculty in computer science and served as program chair for three years. He is currently serving as Chair of the Admissions & Standards Committee, and is working on a doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He is an avid pilot and motorcyclist and enjoys spending time with his wife and young daughter.
McCallister was recently appointed the Director of the School of Arts and Sciences at the college. He will assume these duties beginning July 1. As school director, he will serve as the key coordinator for all academic programs in the Arts & Sciences disciplines, both in the traditional college programs and the Gateway program of the Graduate and Professional Studies program.
Paulling promoted to professor at Tusculum College
Dr. John Paulling, who has taught at Tusculum College for 12 years, has been promoted to professor of mathematics.
Dr. Paulling's promotion was approved by the college's Board of Trustees during its meeting on May 19.
He serves as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science at the college where he has taught all mathematics courses except for Trigonometry and basic Math.
Dr. Paulling previously held professorial appointments at the University of South Carolina, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Wofford College, and Texas Tech University.
He is the author of 17 books and two research papers in mathematics and has translated an advanced mathematics text for Springer Verlag. Dr. Paulling has conducted workshops on the use of graphing calculators, and taught courses in programming, foreign languages (German and Spanish), culture (German, Spanish, and Caribbean), and literature. Dr. Paulling completed a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University and joined the US Army, where he completed language school qualified in at least seven foreign languages, served in the Office of the Chief of Staff, Pentagon, and was a member of the team responsible for directing and advertising the transfer to an all volunteer force. Interested in many areas of knowledge, he studied German at the Universität Freiburg, and had extensive undergraduate coursework at Georgia Institute of Technology in physics, English, and German.


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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) warned Tuesday that if the Treasury secretary quits anytime soon, his position might remain unfilled.
There have been reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner would leave after a deal was reached to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
Warner said Geithner's post would be in danger of staying unfilled thanks to a trend of appointment confirmations stalled in Senate committees.
"Since at this point all of the nominees ... are put on hold by some of my Republican colleagues, I'm not sure we'd get to a Treasury secretary confirmation," he said on MSNBC. "Which isn't the way a government should work ... [we should] vote a guy up or down; don't leave him hanging."
Warner said he hoped that Geithner would remain in his position for the foreseeable future. "I think Secretary Geithner has navigated some very tough challenges."
In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday, Geithner dodged questions about whether he would leave his post now that the deal is done.
"I've been a little busy. I haven't had a ton of time to think about that," he said.
"I'll make that decision at the right moment," he noted.
Geithner had harsh words for the behavior of Congress during the debt-ceiling negotiations, but he also indicated that he approved of the deal passed by the House on Monday evening.
"This is a good result, but a terrible process," he said. "Confidence in the United States was absolutely damaged by this spectacle that they've seen here in Washington."
Although members of Congress might be breathing a sigh of relief at having the debt-ceiling vote behind them — the Senate is expected to pass the bill by Tuesday afternoon — Geithner isn't counting on fewer challenges ahead for the administration.
He said the near-term cuts included in the deal are modest enough that they will not hurt the already slow economic recovery. But he could not guarantee that the threat of a downgraded U.S. credit rating had been averted by the last-minute deal.
"This is in some ways a judgment on the capacity of Congress to act," Geithner said.


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Mango, a 19-year-old Syria brown bear, underwent an unprecedented surgery Wednesday at the Ramat Gan Zoological Center to repair a herniated vertebra causing paralysis in his hind legs.
"This type of surgery is usually conducted on humans and small animals, but this one is unprecedented on such a big animal," Dr. Merav Shamir, the veterinarian who conducted the operation, told Ynetnews.
The surgery, which was conducted at the Wildlife Hospital at the Ramat Gan Safari, lasted nine hours, with participation of no less than 36 people - 25 safari care takers carried Mango, eight assisted in the operation and three veterinarians operated on her.
Mango, who was born and raised at the Safari, was put under anesthesia for tests a week ago. After five hours of x-rays and various tests, the veterinarian medical team discovered a herniated disc between vertebrae T2-T3, zoo spokeswoman Sagit Horowitz told Ynetnews.
Mango's care takers decided to conduct the x-rays after they noticed he was dragging his hind legs. 48 hours later, Mango's hind legs were completely paralyzed.
Dr. Merav Shamir, an expert in veterinarian neurology and neurosurgery of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Hebrew University at Beit Dagan, was called in to examine the bear.
"When I tested Mango I discovered he was suffering from a spinal cord injury in his chest area and I knew his only option was surgery," Shamir said.
The surgery proved to be quite a challenge due to the sheer size of the bear, who weights 250-kilo (550-pound).
"One of the major issues we had in this surgery was the anesthesia. It is a very complicate mission to know and understand how much anesthetics are needed in order to put such a heavy animal to sleep for long enough, while at the same time keeping it alive," Shamir said.
The zoo recruited the help of Dr. Yishai Kushnir, an expert anesthesiologist.
Kushnir "did a wonderful job with Mango allowing it to undergo a nine-hour surgery without any life threatening incidents," Shamir noted.
"We are going to watch him closely, and, because of various obstacles in his usual environment, we arranged a more comfortable surroundings for him until he makes a full recovery," Shamir added.


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From Nookipedia, the Animal Crossing wiki
Pete (ぺりお, Perio) is a pelican that delivers mail in all of the Animal Crossing games.
Animal Crossing[edit]
In Animal Crossing, he takes the mail after the player has sent Pelly or Phyllis five letters. He flies down towards the player's house at 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM to deliver mail and lands by the bulletin board. He will walk to each letterbox and place mail inside of each one, unless disturbed by the player, whom he will talk to. Once the mail has been delivered, he will take off and fly away within two acres. His love for Phyllis is often talked about among the villagers.
Animal Crossing: Wild World[edit]
He continues to be the mail carrier in Animal Crossing: Wild World, but with a slightly different role. In the game, he cannot be seen delivering the mail, but can be seen flying above the town where he can be shot down with a slingshot at exactly 9:00 AM or 5:00 PM on random weekdays, and he will not be aware who shot him down. He will not appear during rain. He can be found near the player, laying face down. He will proceed to get up once talked to. Once he is shot, the player will not be able to move until he falls on the ground.
His relationship with Pelly is complicated in comparison to other games. Pelly really likes Pete, but she does not think he likes her in return. In fact, Pete actually has a crush on Pelly's sister Phyllis, who in return hates him. Unlike in the first Animal Crossing, he has a higher pitched voice.
Animal Crossing: City Folk[edit]
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, Pete appears walking around town at 5:00 PM to deliver the mail, at the same time as he did in Animal Crossing. He also appears when Nintendo sends DLC to a player. However, he randomly appears in the town, rather than flies in. He will only talk once to the player, when spoken to. Afterward, he only says that he has to get to work.
It is clear that Pete does not have feelings for Pelly in City Folk, but seems to be interested in her sister, Phyllis because she is more mature than her younger and nicer sister. When talking to him he blushes while mentioning that Phyllis' perfume smells "exotic," and giggles when he mentions that she said "good night" to him.
When he is in town, some villagers will start rumors about Pete and other villagers, some even suggesting they are in a relationship with him. If you listen to some of their conversations, snooty and cranky villagers will say how they have changed the name plates on other snooty and cranky villagers' homes to "Phyllis' House," usually involving this with other arguments, like giving other villagers fleas for revenge. Booker will not know when Pete is in town because Pete flies into town, rather than goes through the Town Gate.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf[edit]
He retains the same role in Animal Crossing: New Leaf as in Animal Crossing: City Folk; he can be seen walking around town at mail delivery times and delivering certain DLC, although some DLC in Animal Crossing: New Leaf must be claimed at the Post Office instead. He can let the player know if another player in town has a full mailbox, however.
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Roundtable: The Trouble With ROIBy CIOinsight | Posted 11-15-2003
Roundtable: The Trouble With ROI
Something is wrong with this picture. In December 2002 CIO Insight surveyed
378 IT executives on their attitudes and practices regarding return on investment.
The headline of the results we published in March 2003 sum up our findings:
"Do You Have Any Faith In The Numbers?" Even though 60 percent of the respondents
said the pressure to demonstrate ROI had increased in the past 12 months, and
76 percent said the pressure to place a dollar value on intangible benefits
had increased, many IT executives found ROI to be a frustrating and difficult
exercise. Fully 70 percent conceded their metrics don't adequately capture the
business value of their projects; indeed, half weren't sure their companies
used the right approach. Many simply distrusted their own numbers: 46 percent
did not believe their methods were accurate, and 44 percent believed the results
of their ROI calculations were subjective.
We were intrigued to find CIOs so dissatisfied with a metric that they are under increasing pressure to use. It led us to wonder just what's causing so much discontentindeed, whether the concept of ROI needs to reconsidered, or even abandoned in favor of a different way of looking at the value IT brings to companies. And so CIO Insight Executive Editor Allan Alter, on August 11, convened a discussion at the magazine's editorial offices to discuss the problems and limitations of ROI. Participants included CIOs, financial executives and business management experts, including an IT executive who refuses to use ROI at all. Are there viable alternatives?
The following is an edited transcript; For the full transcript please click here.
CIO Insight: Is the often elusive quest for ROI a symptom of a bigger problem,
like a lack of trust between the business side and the IT side?
Barkley: One of the former presidents of our company was always fearful
of "the system that ate Chicago." So yes, you're right. There's a fair amount
of mistrust of the financial analysis capabilities of information technology
people. And there's a fair mistrust of the technical competence of the financial
Murphy: The trust issue goes beyond IT and finance. Our finance group requires ROIs for any capital expenditure beyond $150,000, and that includes building a new ship. Once I, as CIO, have established that I have a methodology and my team has process and discipline for doing these things effectively, however, that changes the conversation. That's where the trust comes. But that's no different from any other business unit.
Hirji: I think IT professionals probably brought this upon themselves in some way. When I was a consultant, it was not uncommon to have projects between $200 million to $500 million in size, most of which failed. They got three-quarters of the way through implementation, but the systems didn't get turned on. So it was easy to calculate ROI on thosezero.
What's the problem here? Poor leadership?
Riazi: They say the life of a CIO is three years, because the first year is infrastructure, the second year is begging for money to do ERP and the third year is when you actually do it. And by the third year, you have the whole organization ready to shoot you. You learn as a CIO how to separate those who hate you from those who are undecided. How do you get ROI? I think we start looking at our failures, because our success has been abysmal. Our credibility is really shot. And that's why I refuse to go to see my CFO with an ROI case; he's going to laugh at me and kick me out of his office. [Laughter]
So how does any CIO survive?
Riazi: I don't use ROI. I don't think CIOs should use ROI because the "R" isn't in my department; the "I" is in my department. The R is in the business, over which I have absolutely no control. So why should I use it?
Cameron: I disagree. The bottom line is not that ROI fails or that the projects fail or that maybe there's a bad odor of IT history. It's that we in IT have tried to do these things alone. The cultural change is for us to become part of the business so that we relate to the rest of the firm like a manufacturing plant general manager does.
Fletcher: You need to get over that sort of silo thing. The R and the I all end up in shareholder value.
Gardner: I don't think that we can escape this question of how we measure the value of IT, because management will always have a problem with IT as long as you can't measure its value.
Cameron: Is there a value for IT? I would argue there isn't. There's a value for business execution or delivery or value delivery with IT as a component.
Gardner: Which is fine. You've got to look at what IT is doing to contribute to the overall value of the company. I think there's also an issue around precision. I remember seeing a vendor ROI analysis that came up with a number like 3,287 percent for some system. That's just not the way to think about these things. And you need to look at risk and return together, and risk is completely left out of the equation. For those things that you can't quantify and that are very uncertain and ambiguous, one can at least make an estimate of the risk. Is it something that could affect the entire success of the project, or will it have a negligible effect? You can at least do that kind of thing.
Kalafut: We know there is no magical power in the technology itself. Erik Brynjolfsson and his colleagues at MIT have studied companies' investments in IT and found that they're almost invariably accompanied by much larger investments in intangibles such as training and by the empowerment of employees as well. All of it actually comes down to how you empower people to use those technologies rather than the technologies themselves.
Atti, are vendors part of the problem?
Riazi: Yes. They come in, they sell you a concept that just looks terrific and wonderful, and they promise the ROI without sharing the issues related to change in the organization with the CFOs and the CEOs. We are discussing an illogical issue in a very logical way. We are talking about people, and when you implement technology, you change the way they work. ROI fails because we forget these are people who are going to worry about their jobs and their training and experience, and wonder what's going to happen to me. Hundreds of people have lost jobs, but that's considered irrelevant. Between the vendors and us CIOs, there is a responsibility to look at what happens when technology changes the way an organization works. But the vendors have underestimated the importance of that. They say you put this ERP in and it's going to reduce head count and make you more efficient and better. You put CRM in and you're going to automatically increase customers. It's not real.
Schwartz: There are really two aspects to how vendors use ROI. One, they're trying to make a compelling value proposition to get the CIO's attention. Two, they're trying to help their clients and customers create an internal justification to build a business case. Some vendors are going to do this very well, and others are not going to do this very well at all. They're learning as well.
Fletcher: It seems to me that it's very difficult to expect the vendor to have an understanding of what is going to drive the return on investment. For one thing, the discount rate that is used on the return on investment must reflect the capital costs of the company, not of the vendor. Second, I don't know how a vendor could possibly understand all of those soft, cultural costs that Atti was talking about. It's hard enough for internal corporate management to assess those costs.
Schwartz: Vendors will never understand their customers' business the way their customers do. You know your businesses inside and out. But what vendors can do is bring a very valuable outside perspective and perhaps some other experience, some benchmarks, some research on what other companies have achieved.
Riazi: I want a vendor that understands my business and understands my problem. It's their job to understand it if they're going to sell to me. I rarely get a vendor in my office that says, "I understand you're facing this problem in the advertising business, and I believe this could address this part of the problem. It's not going to be easy to put it in. I can promise you it will be hard. And the users may not want it because it's going to change the way they work. But I think it's the right solution." That is so much more genuine than a person who just comes to me and says this is going to give me a competitive edge. Partnership is crucial to the success of ROI.
Murphy: I cannot imagine such a scenario where we would have a project go forward at Royal Caribbean where I was developing the ROI. It isn't done. The business unit has to be accountable for the return on investment, except for a few real core infrastructure-types of initiatives, and even then I can show the value to the business.
Barkley: We require that the business case on every project over $1 million comes to my desk. Before it gets to my desk, it's signed off by the business CFO. Even after he signs it, I'll call him up and ask, did you understand what you signed? Do you understand how you're going to find a savings? Because I'm not the guy who's going to look for them, you are. We require that.
Okay, so despite problems around the concept of ROI, it seems like ROI is still something people need to measure. Is that right?
Barkley: Maybe we're overly focused on ROI. Here's why. At our company we suddenly realized, in looking at our budget process over the past two years, that we spend 85 percent of our time on 30 percent of the budget. Projects are important, capital investment is important, but 68 percent of our money is to keep the lights on and the business running. We hadn't done a good job at budgeting and analyzing that. We had to figure out a way to do a better job of budgeting "keeping the lights on" spending, and aligning those systems with the strategic intentions of the company. So we've actually changed our budget process where we do the lights on budget first. Then late in the budget process, we get the project budget from the businesses and go through a strategic alignment value analysis where we measure, among other things, internal rate of return, business value risk and dependency.
Fletcher: A couple of thoughts. ROI is a good tool, I think, as long as it is used consistently throughout the company for all kinds of different decisions, whether it's marketing, HR or anything else. You can't just say IT goes the ROI way but marketing does its own spiel. That doesn't work. Second, I think ROI is a very useful tool for allocating funds if you have a lot of demand for those funds, and you have to make a judgment call between one versus another. If you don't have that kind of situation and you have all the funds that you need in the world, I think free cash flow is a much better tool. It too, though, is subject to lack of specificity or subjectivity because, let's face it, we're all human and we all make projections from right now. If you ask people to make a projection now about revenue growth, their projection would be very different from anybody's projections three years ago. I think the most important thing is always the strategic driver. Why are we making this investment? If I have only a $100 million and I have to decide whether I'm going to go with Atti's project or I'm going to go with a marketing guy's project, I've got to make some kind of an allocation decision. But if I don't have that challenge, as long as it's free cash flow positive, let's go do them both.
Bobby, is looking at IT investments the way investors look at portfolios a helpful way to look at and think about ROI?
Cameron: Let me make a couple of comments before I answer that. One is that it really is about the process. If the process doesn't involve business and IT equally, nothing works. Second, we've focused on ROI as if it was the be all and end all, but not everything can be justified. Neither mandatory nor biggest-customer-tells-me-I've-got-to investments are justified based on ROI. Return on investment is really calculated for a portion of the investment stream that is justified based on changes to operations. There are firms committed to ROI that also justify projects based on softer metrics. EMC Corp., for instance, uses soft metrics for things that might improve customer satisfaction, but would be very difficult to prove an ROI.
That lays the ground for what I'm about to say, which is that most firms want to invest to drive competitive advantage and improve stakeholder value. Frequently, firms do their darndest to understand what the strategies are, and what they need in order to accomplish these goals. The problem is there's usually no linkage between that planning and investments in the prioritization process. What I've seen emerging is, in fact, a portfolio mechanism, meaning we look at everything as a group of investments and we compare them to each other, and that the process attempts to adjust priorities to strategic needs. But there is no correlation in the data we've picked up between having a portfolio and success at prioritization.
So what are the two or three things that companies need to do first and foremost?
Cameron: The best firms start by committing capital investment dollars in specific buckets. For instance, if I have $100 million to invest in capital projects, I say 60 percent is going to customer value, 30 to value creation (manufacturing or back-office systems) and 10 to enabling. By breaking them into buckets, you start to clean up the conversation. Then, those buckets have specific business goals they're trying to achieve. Improving employee productivity might be a good one in the value creation. Then the third step is to prioritize projects based on their impact on those objectives, some of which are ROI and some of which are soft.
Denise, you were a CFO. Would this approach pass muster on the business side?
Fletcher: Well, I start off with shareholder value. That is the driver, nothing else is. Then the next step is, what drives shareholder value? The only thing that studies have shown that actually, truly correlates to shareholder value is free cash flow.
In my view, the key is not bucketing or anything like that. The key is to start your process with a strategy. Where are you taking the company? Once you've identified where you're taking the company, the next step is to identify the strategic drivers that are actually going to shift the company to where you want it to go. Then you look at the strategic drivers and you ask, what IT, what infrastructure do I need to make the strategic driver happy? And if I can't swing that, I obviously have to get rid of some of the things that I've been doing until now. As I see it, the benefit of going through a process like this, where you identify the strategy first, is that IT flows in as an enabler of the strategy, not as somebody trying to implement a specific thing.
Hirji: I think the cardinal rule has to be to keep it simple. Anyone can take something and make it overly complex. It looks very precise, and tons of man-hours get chewed up doing it. Everyone feels better, but the reality is you're no further ahead. So the real genius is making decision-making simple.
Let me walk you through how we do it. We have specifically identified what our strategy imperatives are. We have very clear goals and we can align all the projects against them. If it doesn't meet one of the goals, it's off the table. Next, every week the business and technology folks get together and run through the prioritization, and they list it one through ten in terms of what they want. We do that weekly because our projects are small and the marketplace changes; what was important last week may not be important this week. Before any project gets on that list, it has had a business case developed, which has a number of things in it that say this is why it's important. Sometimes it's ROI; sometimes it's a bunch of things. Whether it's ROI or not is irrelevant. The important point is that that process gets both the IT folks and the business folks to say we jointly believe this should be on the list, we think it should be number X out of 50 on the list. It's irrelevant what the number is. What's more relevant is getting the alignment.
Fletcher: The thing about ROI is this: The input is critical to the output. Let me explain. I was CFO of MasterCard until a little while ago. One of the major investments that we decided to make was in brand. Investing further in brand meant that we were going to get more response from customers, and to deal with that we needed to add storage capacity. If I look at my investment in brand and include in that my storage capacity, it will give a very positive return. If I look at storage separately, it is not likely to give me a very high return. So I think the most critical thing is investment with the overall strategy of the company. I think ROI is only a tool, and the tool is only as good as the input that goes into it and as good as the boundaries that are defined around it.
Atti, does this begin to address your concerns about bringing back the human element when looking at value?
Riazi: I'm not certain. I've heard a lot of great ideas here. But we always fall back on our comfort zone, and I think we are falling back to a logical approach to a problem which I find to be emotional. The best way to make ROI work is to look at an organization organically. You have to look at it strategically, look at it organically, and acknowledge IT will help, but ROI shouldn't drive it. The reason ROI has failed miserably is because it's been sold as a driver, and that's when it becomes very difficult for it to deliver. I think we have sold technology to the business in isolation. Here it is, you put it in and it's going to be wonderful. I call it the diet pill: You take it, you lose 50 pounds and you don't have to worry about anything else.
Let me share one story about my 8-year-old nephew. I went to buy him a Halloween costume; he wanted to be Superman, so I bought him a Superman costume. I took the costume home and I looked in the back and it said: "This does not enable you to fly." [Laughter] That's an important lesson for us. The message out there is all this wonderful technology stuff is going to make you fly. It doesn't, and it won't. Somehow we need to come to terms with that.
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The best way to sum up what I am about is probably William Gibson's quote:
"The future is already here —
it's just not very evenly distributed"
So I try to distribute the future more evenly, at the moment by writing code and doing other computer things for fun, profit & Tictail. You can get in touch with me on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Like everyone else I also have this blog I rarely update.


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The scramble begins with registration at 8:30 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at 10 a.m. Lunch and an awards program immediately follows the completion of the tournament at approximately 3 p.m.
Tournament registration is $125 per golfer or $500 per four-person team, and includes 18 holes of golf with a cart, lunch, driving range access prior to the event, on-course games and contests, and refreshments. In addition, a variety of sponsorship packages are available, ranging in price from $1,000 to $5,000. To register for the tournament or for more information, visit www.park.edu/golf.
Park University is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the American Midwest Conference. The University competes in 13 intercollegiate sports: men's and women's basketball, cross country, soccer, track and field, and volleyball; men's baseball; and women's golf and softball. In 2013-14, Park had 89 academic all-conference honorees, 40 all-conference performers, six All-Americans, one Capital One Academic All-American and 21 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. The Pirates won the 2014 NAIA men's volleyball national championship, the fourth in school history, and four teams won conference championships.
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Tuna Cashew Casserole
There are many different variations of this recipe. Where I added cannellini beans, some people use water chestnuts or chopped green pepper. You can also try cream of celery soup instead of cream of mushroom. Some people even use broken ramen noodle bits instead of chow mein noodles.
About the author:: Lee Zalben was a PB&J-loving kid that grew up to be the founder and president of Peanut Butter & Co., which began as a Greenwich Village sandwich shop serving nothing but peanut butter sandwiches and expanded to include the now-famous line of all natural flavored peanut butter. Lee is a graduate of Vassar College and enjoys traveling the world in search of interesting foods made with peanuts, tree nuts, and seeds. When he's not working, eating, flying or writing, he enjoys scuba diving and training elephants.
- Yield:serves 6
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:1 1/2 hours
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (or other light vegetable oil)
- 1 cup onion, diced (about 1 medium)
- 1 cup celery, diced (about 2 large stalks)
- 2 (5-ounce) cans tuna (solid white albacore in water)
- One (14-ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup roasted unsalted cashews
- 1 1/2 cups chow mein noodles
- 1 (15-ounce can) cannellini beans, drained
Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 350°F. Heat the olive oil in the skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add onions and celery and cook, stirring frequently, until translucent, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat and transfer vegetables to a large bowl.
Add the tuna, mushroom soup, lemon juice, 1/4 cup of water, black pepper, and 2/3 cup of cashews. Mix well. Gently fold in 1 1/4 cup of the noodles and the beans.
Apply a light coating cooking spray to the baking dish. Add the casserole and top with the remaining cashews and noodles.
Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for an additional 30 minutes. Be careful to make sure that the cashews and noodles don't burn. Let the casserole rest for at least 20 minutes before serving.


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First, I want to state that I fully understand that in the field of religious liberty we must consider and appreciate the cultural and religious heritage of a given nation. I also appreciate the political realities in the drafting of constitutions and laws that give birth to compromise. My purpose is not to be critical of any country's model of religious liberty, but to observe the reality of the present situation. I will be discussing four different country models, as they relate to the subject of religious freedom. Of course, this overview will only provide a brief encapsulated explanation, and a very short description of the models from my own particular point of view.
First, the Greek model, which I refer to as the official state church model, which recognizes the Eastern Orthodox Church as the official religion of the Greek state. The Orthodox Church is given special legal status, and it provides certain exclusive benefits. Under the Greek Constitution, the Greek Orthodox Church is guaranteed the right of self-government, and is governed by a holy synod. However, all decisions made by persons entrusted by the state with the administration of the Greek Orthodox Church, other than those matters relating to doctrinal concerns, can be submitted to and canceled by the Council of State. Compared to the privileged status of the Orthodox Church, other religions are relegated to a disadvantaged status. Further, Article 13.2 of the Greek Constitution guarantees freedom of worship only to "known religions." However, the constitution fails to set forth any definition for known religions, and that has proved particularly problematic.
Under Article 3.1 of the constitution, only a member of the Orthodox Church can be elected President of Greece. Article 13.2 of the constitution prohibits proselytization, which although not defined in the constitution, is defined in two rather old statutes as direct or indirect attempts to influence or alter the religious beliefs of others, in particular by fraudulent means, or with the promise of material gain or moral gains. Most religions engage in persuasion at some level, including promising the receipt of material or spiritual benefits. For example, the Bible teaches that the reward for striving to eliminate sin from one's life is eternal life. The Bible also teaches that one who gives a faithful tithe will be abundantly rewarded. The focus on fraudulent means of religious activity is a more plausible means for limiting religious expression. Yet, problems exist for proving fraud when dealing with the highly subjective concerns as to spiritual benefits.
Next is the Austrian model, which I shall refer to as the official multireligion state church model. Under this model, churches are subject to an 1874 law, the Law of Recognition of Churches. Those 12 churches which were recognized under the law have certain specific rights, including the right to participate in the state-controlled religious taxation program, to engage in religious education, and import religious workers.
In December of last year, as you probably all know, the Austrian Parliament enacted an amendment to the Law of Church Recognition, which permits non-recognized religious groups to obtain status as a "confessional community." Before they can do so, however, they must first demonstrate that they have a membership of at least 300 individuals, and submit documents for government determination as to whether, in the opinion of someone in the government, the group would violate public security, public order, health and morals, or the rights and freedoms of other citizens. Once recognized as a religious community, if all goes well during a 20-year observation period, the group may be granted the higher "recognized church" status, if it has achieved a certain increase in membership. Numerical requirements, such as those imposed by Austrian law, are problematic at best. Religious human rights are not dependent on the number of individuals within a religious group. Registration requirements may have as their major purpose the exclusion of many religious groups from the religious marketplace within a particular country.
The next model is the Spanish model, which I refer to as a multilevel pluralistic model. This model provides substantial religious freedom, but is divided into four levels, or classifications, of religious groups. These four levels afford varying non-equal degrees of protection, and enjoy different relations with the state. The 1978 Spanish constitution recognizes the following principles: the fundamental rights of ideological liberty, religious liberty and freedom of worship for both individuals and groups, equal treatment under the law with no discrimination on the basis of religion, non-establishment of any religious belief, and cooperative church-state relationship.
Under the Spanish Religious Freedom Law of 1980, individuals are free to practice any or no religious belief, to change religions, and to express religious beliefs openly. They also have the right of freedom of religious worship, the right to instruct and be instructed in religious teachings, and the right to engage in religious activity. These rights are subject to restrictions, including restrictions on any activity related to psychic and parapsychological phenomena, the spread of humanistic and spiritualistic values, or foreign religious values.
Not all religious groups are officially recognized, or treated, the same. As I have indicated, there are four basic levels. First, there is the Roman Catholic Church, which has a special relationship with the state. Then, there are three additional religious groups that each have separate agreements with the state. These are the evangelic, or Protestant group, the Jewish faith, and the Muslim faith. On the third level, other churches and religious communities, which do not have a special agreement with the state, but which are inscribed in the State Religious Entities Registry, have an official status. Finally, fourth, the remaining religious groups that lack legal status as religious organizations, because they have not satisfied all the requirements of the state to be considered a religious organization. These groups may qualify for legal status as private associations, but do not have the rights and benefits of religious organizations.
The fourth model is the Netherlands model, which I refer to as the full pluralistic model. In the Netherlands, churches are not even mentioned in the constitution, but they enjoy full and equal religious freedom. This is because it is generally accepted that religious groups and organizations, as well as individuals, are guaranteed certain fundamental rights, including the right to freely organize and structure themselves, obtain buildings suitable for worship, train, appoint or dismiss their clergy, and generally posses the capacity to operate freely in society. A very important aspect of the constitution, since 1953, is the provision that grants courts the right to review legislation for its compatibility with provisions of treaties, including Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Under the Netherlands code, all churches are legal entities, and there is no registration requirement. In fact, there are no formulated criteria for church status.
In my opinion, the Netherlands model most clearly reflects the model for religious freedom envisioned by the Council of Europe, as set forth in Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Both the Greek and Austrian models seem to violate the letter and spirit of Article 9 of the European Convention. Those nations, such as Russia, that have patterned their new legislation after the Greek and Austrian models, appear out of step with the standards set by the Council of Europe.
In conclusion, let me say that in the religious freedom arena, I would suggest certain principles, which I believe to be rather basic and essential for the full enjoyment of religious freedom.
First, the state should ensure full equality before the law of all religious organizations.
Second, all religious groups should be provided an equal opportunity to enter the religious marketplace, and to propagate their religious views, regardless of their size or age.
Third, the state should be prohibited from intruding into the internal affairs of religious organizations.
Fourth, the state should permit all religious organizations to fully function, without regard to national boundaries.
Fifth, discrimination based on an individual's religious belief or membership should be prohibited.
Sixth, an individual should be permitted to manifest their religious beliefs in public, and in private.
Seventh, the individual should be unrestricted, and fully protected with respect to their right to believe or not to believe, and be equally free to change their religious belief.
Eighth, individuals should be permitted to worship, either individually or in community, with others.
Ninth, the varied religious beliefs and practices of all should be accommodated by the state, unless the state is able to demonstrate a legitimate state interest that cannot be otherwise served by actions less intrusive to religious belief and expression.


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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- You'd think Tom Hanks would have had enough of isolated islands, but "Cast Away" star is spending his summer holiday with his family on a small Aegean Sea island reachable only by a slow ferry.
Hanks, his wife, Rita Wilson, and children have settled in on Antiparos, about 240 miles southeast of Athens and just across from the more cosmopolitan Paros in the Cyclades. The couple arrived on a yacht that press reports said belongs to a Greek shipping tycoon.
The island of 800 is apparently expecting other celebrity guests. The Greek press is full of speculation that stars such as Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston could also come ashore.
Hollywood stars often pick hard-to-reach Greek islands to thwart paparazzi.
In the 2000 movie "Cast Away," Hanks' character is stranded on a remote island for four years.
Portland beach serves as California coastline
PORTLAND, Maine -- Old Orchard Beach may not strike many people as looking like the California coast, but that's what it will be serving as in a new movie being filmed in Portland.
The independent movie "Straight Out of Compton 2" is being shot this week in Portland and southern Maine, said Lea Girardin, director of the Maine Film Office.
Girardin said filmmakers will be in Maine for two or three weeks, shooting interior office scenes in Portland and exteriors at Old Orchard Beach, which will pass for California beach scenes.
For some movie fans, the most exciting part may be the chance to spot its director of photography, Danny Moder, especially if he's accompanied by his wife, Julia Roberts. She's reportedly taking a break from filming "Ocean's Twelve," the sequel to "Ocean's Eleven," in Rome to visit her husband in Portland.
Bill Wilson and his three teenage daughters were among the people who flocked to the lobby of the Eastland Hotel Sunday, hoping for a glimpse of Roberts. Wilson later spotted her getting into a silver sports car.
"We didn't see her again," he said. "I think my daughters want to go back."
Roberts, 36, is pregnant with twins. She's expected to give birth early next year.
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The water cooler chat in the LATimes D.C. bureau has Jon Peterson, Alan Miller and (recent arrival) Joe Mathews taking the buyout (there's talk of one more, too, but no one seems to know for sure).
Joe has been with the LAT for a while but is new to the D.C. bureau and was brought here to cover the presidential campaign. Miller is a Pulitzer winner.
It could be the the first in a wave of people fleeing the LAT bureau following the crazed rant by Sam Zell last week when he showed up in DC. Lots of LATimes'rs are convinced he's out to destroy the bureau, so people are trying to decide whether to stay and fight or get the hell out.
UPDATE: From a tipster…
Joe Mathews has already taken the buyout from the LAT. He's moving back to LA with his wife, who works at the WSJ. The journal just hired someone to fill her job.


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