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April 1st, 2014 12:48 PM #11
I love Ira! I've had it on my long list for a long time but it's a no go with my fiance.- Favorites -
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I know an Ira and to be honest, I cringed when I heard that he was being named after his father. But, now that he's a little older (almost 3) his name has really grown to suit him. He's a spunky and adventurous boy and his name no longer makes me wish his mother had named him something else. Now, that's not to say that he might face some challenging school-age years since his name is so diferent. But as a happy and well-adjusted 2-year-old, the name Ira fits him just fine
April 1st, 2014 02:52 PM #15
I'm personally not a fan because it stands for the Irish Republican Army which isn't a good associationHappiness is a choice
August Leo Wilder - Jude Ronan Gatsby - Stellan Evander Fox
Roscoe Alexander Bodhi - Emerson Patrick Monroe
Luna Florence Greer
Nelly Greyson Alba Marnie Ezra Ike North Hugo Thea Willa Otto Amias Everett Flynn Luka Jasper Etta Linus Asa Dune
Meaning of names are more important that anything else
April 1st, 2014 08:40 PM #17
Wow, I loved hearing the response to this! I'm not really old enough to fully understand what an IRA account is lol but I can see how it would be a problem.
@oliviasarah I love Enzo and Theo! I don't think I would use Enzo because of Snookie's baby, but Theo is a definite maybe. I read a birth announcements one time of a Theo Atlas and thought that was a perfect combo!Kaitlyn | Name lover | No babies, just planning.
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Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Hamburg, 1954–74. Author of Theological Ethics and others.
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philosophically oriented discipline of religious speculation and apologetics that is traditionally restricted, because of its origins and format, to Christianity but that may also encompass, because of its themes, other religions, including especially Islam and Judaism. The themes of theology include God, humanity, the world, salvation, and eschatology (the study of last times). The subject matter of the discipline is treated in a number of other articles. For a survey of systematic interpretations of the divine or sacred, see agnosticism; atheism; deism; dualism; monotheism; nature worship; pantheism; polytheism; theism; and totemism. For a survey of major theological concerns within particular religions, see doctrine and dogma. For treatment of Judeo-Christian theology in the context of other aspects of the tradition, see biblical literature; Christianity; Eastern Orthodoxy; Judaism; Protestantism; and Roman Catholicism. For a treatment of Islamic theology, see Islam. Nature of...

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- Released: Sep 23, 2003
- Sound: 9
- Lyrics: 8
- Overall Impression: 9
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Sound — 9
For anyone unfamiliar with this band, this is a great album to check out. Formed out of the breakup of several Chicago bands, The Lawrence Arms really start to shine with their unique sound on this release. The album opens with a brief acoustic intro, and right into The Raw and Searing Flesh, sung by Chris. Chris's songs generally seem to have a slower, and more melodic sound to them with lyrics to be more self reflected. On With The Show is the track that really opens the album up, with it's fast pace, and lyrics typical to that of the Lawrence Arms. The songs alertante back and forth between Chris and Brendan doing vocals. As stated, Chris sings softer, and slower, while Brendans songs are fast, and energetic. Alert the Audience is another great track, with the lyrics tying into pop culture. The standout tracks on this album are On With the Show, The Ramblin Boys of Pleasure, and The Disaster March.
Lyrics — 8
The lyrics range from anything to everything. Chris's songs seem more self focused and personal, as Brendan's seem more about fun, and tie in stuff from old tv shows and books. Chris has the softer and melodic voice, which does seem to make his songs sound the same however. Brendan seems to have a greater range, and has a very disticnt voice that is a combination of screaming, years of alcohol and cigarette abuse.
Overall Impression — 9
This is a very strong outing from The Lawrence Arms. It stands up strong, but falls short only to Oh! Calcutta!. The songs that really seem to stand out as far as lyrics and sound are A Wishful Puppeteer, The Disaster March, and Alert the Audience!. If your a fan of the Lawrence Arms, you'll love this album. The faster songs are the strong points, while, Chris's slower songs get very repetative because he sings them the same. This is still a very good album and a good pick if your just getting into them.


text: Issue 133: xmonad-contrib source code "cleanup" - in search of a user code location http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=133 New issue report by andrea.rossato: I think we should find a better way to separate modules for user interfaces, and modules for developers APIs. For instance, in the IRC channel there were complains about the fact the XMonad.Layout.Decoration did not have user documentation and a user could not figure how to turn decorations on. The fact is that Decoration is just an API, and you can find user code in Tabbed. SimpleDecoration and DwmStyle are combinators, and I do not really judge the user code, but APIs. Since it seems we can get to a quite expressive level of layers composition, I suggest to elaborate a strategy for placing user code in a single place. On a longer period of time, I hope that the class system and the related instances (even Decoration - with (this is necessary :( the needed XUtils and Font libraries) will be proven safe enough to be included in the core, that would just export an abstract layer that can provide the full functionality of a highly programmable WM *without* any sensitive Xlib call. This hope guided my last hacking efforts. Issue attributes: Status: Accepted Owner: andrea.rossato Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings


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We CAN hit migrant cuts target, insists David Cameron despite continued flood from EU
DAVID Cameron insisted last night that his target for cutting immigration was still "achievable" – despite a continuing flood of new arrivals from EU countries.
Official figures are expected to show today that at least 30,000 Romanians and Bulgarians came to Britain since the beginning of the year.
Net migration soared to 212,000 last year, raising fears that the Home Office will not meet its target of reducing the annual figure to "tens of thousands" before next year's General Election.
Mr Cameron said he had not given up on the target but conceded the Government has limited powers.
"The target remains, I think it is absolutely achievable," he told a committee of senior MPs.
But apparently admitting the target could be missed, he accepted there were "big increases" in the numbers of newcomers from economically struggling eurozone countries, including Spain, Italy and France. Labour MP Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Commons Liaison Committee, told the Prime Minister it was not possible for the Government to control net migration.
He said: "You simply can't control the numbers of people who leave the country. So you aren't going to make that target."
Mr Cameron responded: "The figures will be what the figures are. But my job is to do everything I can in order to make progress towards that target."
The PM admitted cutting migration was harder than delivering other policy commitments. He said: "When we took power in 2010, net migration was well over 200,000 every year. That is much too high and I want to get it back under 100,000, which it was in the 1980s."
The Government has succeeded in cutting the influx from outside the EU by a third, he added.
Bogus colleges that allowed foreign workers to pose as students have been shut and widespread abuse of family visas has been tackled.


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Phil Jagielka tips new Man United captain Wayne Rooney to skipper England too [ITV]
Phil Jagielka has tipped Wayne Rooney to be made the new captain of England, report ITV.
Rooney has just been named as new Manchester United captain and Jagielka thinks that Rooney could lead another team when he's not representing his club side.
Speaking at the official Premier League launch, Jagielka said: "It looks like Wayne's going to be the main candidate for it, so I don't see why not.
If you look at the way he's matured over the last few years, obviously there's games where he probably does get a little too heated up, but that's what we love about the way he plays – his passion.
And I'm sure the England fans would love that as well.
I think it's definitely a good decision for Manchester United to make him captain and I think the way he's progressed over the last few years, settling down with a family and all sorts, I think he'd be a great choice as England captain."
Has Rooney the leadership qualities to warrant being awarded BOTH the Man United and England armbands?


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New York makes me voracious. Maybe I'm making up for lost time – it has taken many visits to lose that childhood sense of the city as epicentre of danger – but now I dash around in a kind of fearless ecstasy, day or night, alone or accompanied. Even accompanied by my young daughter.
It's thrilling to introduce someone you love to something you love, but how do we satisfy both our needs? A carefully curated girls weekend. For her, a sampling of kids programs and entertainment, as offered by one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and for me, a little bit of freedom. Freedom to watch, listen, smell and most of all, taste ever-changing, trend-launching and totally delicious New York.
We fly into Newark and, pulling our small black suitcases behind us like little dogs, board the train, to be released into the chaos of Penn Station. My chatty girl goes wide-eyed and silent as we fight our way to street level and I get my bearings. Right. First stop – lunch at The Breslin. It's walking distance from the station and a three-in-one destination: The restaurant is inside The Ace Hotel, whose dark, buzzing lobby makes us both feel like movie stars, and Stumptown Coffee, adjacent to the hotel, pulls one of the best espressos in Manhattan. But first, the nose-to-tail Michelin-starred restaurant with the friendly vibe and menu to please us both. I have a grilled tongue sandwich with sweet and sour borscht. Maya has amazing house-made potato chips. And fries. And a baked three-cheese sandwich. And glorious fresh doughnuts with dark caramel, chocolate and maple sauces she wants to lick out of the little dishes.
We waddle out to find a cab and head over to our hotel, the Gansevoort Meatpacking, chosen for its location and its promise to please girls both little and big. It's a beautiful afternoon and the chic lobby feels airy and relaxed. We leave our bags and wander, exploring (well, skirting) Theory and Stella McCartney as we head toward the High Line, the elevated railway turned one-kilometre trail. The trees are flowering and the park is full of people squinting at the sun. You can look west toward the Hudson, or you can turn around and look at people buying $800 shoes beside warehouses butchering whole pigs, cows and lambs. With her super-keen sense of smell, Maya can actually pick up a bit of a meaty aroma, but the strutting fashionistas are so compelling, she forgets to complain.
A few hours later, we are cleaned up for dinner and back on the street. Although Maya is tired, I persuade her to walk for a little while. It works – she becomes so engrossed in the shops and people of the West Village that soon we have covered more than a dozen blocks, until at last we burst into Lupa barely late for our reservation. I take everyone to Lupa, a truly excellent restaurant with a cozy brick interior and zero attitude. If it had been a Tuesday, I'd have ordered the crispy duck, but as it was, the handmade pastas were tender and flavourful.
When you put a little girl in a bed comfy enough for a princess, she wakes up like one, so it was NOT easy getting out the door and uptown to the American Museum of Natural History for 9 the next morning. Maya was off to try DNA Camp, a school-break program. I was going to have a break too. I kiss her goodbye at the huge canoe and pick up a big coffee. Then it's off to Central Park with my very New York-y book, Blood, Bones & Butter by the chef from Prune in the Lower East Side. The birds chirp and the hours fly – soon it's time to head back. Over hot dogs in the park, Maya happily reports that she extracted DNA from a strawberry with two boys from Brooklyn.
In the afternoon, we head to the Jewish Museum to catch an exhibit by Maira Kalman, artist and adored children's author. We divided our time between Kalman's richly coloured, whimsical illustrations and Maya's own, which she is invited to create at a kids workshop. That night, we have a bite across the street from the hotel, at trendy Pastis, before heading to see Wonderland, an adaptation of the old Alice story, new on Broadway. Perhaps the music is a bit unmemorable, but the performances and costumes are riveting to a young girl, and the young girl, her finger tightly intertwined with mine, is riveting to me.
On our last morning, we make our way to Union Square and walk though the farmers market to an urban-rustic brunch at ABC Kitchen. Then, while I dip into Macy's, Maya is off to Camp Broadway, where she is coached in acting and singing.
A walk through Chelsea Market to collect snacks for the ride home, a stop to get our bags and, far too soon, we're heading home. Maybe Maya is carrying a heavy American Girl bag, but it doesn't mean I caved. I'm carrying a package just as pretty from Kate Spade.
To Newark: Porter flies from Toronto City Centre Airport to Newark up to 11 times a day; one-way fares start at $149. The extra fun of taking the ferry is free. 1-888-619-8622; flyporter.com.
To New Jersey Transit station: From the Newark terminal, follow the AirTrain signs (logo is a plane on a train track) to the shuttle platform. After an eight-minute shuttle ride, you'll be at the NJTransit Station. One way to Penn Station is 25 minutes: adults, $12.50; kids $3.25, free on weekends, njtransit.com.
Sleep: Hotel Gansevoort Meatpacking: Helpful and kid-friendly service in a sleek and sophisticated setting. Don't let the busy rooftop bar stop you from using the adjoining swimming pool. 18 Ninth Ave. (at 13th Street); 1-877-426-7386; hotelgansevoort.com; from $435.
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text: Farley is my favourite judge by far. He seems to try to say something useful to each contestant and is very pleasant about it. I met him in NS last year. He has the same likeable personality off screen... he is also a very large guy, which you can tell on the show. Huge shoulders... he must lift a lot of weights. He was wearing the spiffiest suit I had ever seen. The jacket was knee length and very tailored. He is a real classy guy.


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Oh Esteban, I hardly knew ye...
― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 26 February 2006 08:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
you hear all sorts, though
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 February 2006 10:56 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― john clarkson, Sunday, 26 February 2006 10:57 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― S- (sgh), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:41 (eleven years ago) Permalink
― wmlynch (wlynch), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink
so I was drinking nice german lager from a bottle the other day in a shopping mall. took one swig, it was alright, took another swig, when I lowered the bottle, all of a sudden there was a groundswell of carbonation and beer came shooting up out of the top and all around me! luckily noone got hit but I felt embarrassed as hell. why does this happen?
see also: belgian beers which overflow as soon as you open them, despite you not having touched them for a good 36 hours.
― dyao, Saturday, 13 February 2010 09:14 (seven years ago) Permalink
beer spouting out of the bottle is super embarrassing
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 13 February 2010 09:15 (seven years ago) Permalink
People who drink beer from cans are disgusting savages.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 13 February 2010 12:41 (seven years ago) Permalink
Everything tastes better out of a bottle but cans always seem to be bigger and better value.― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:37 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― chris nibbs (cozen), Saturday, 13 February 2010 12:50 (seven years ago) Permalink
It's not better value if it's not as good, is it?
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 13 February 2010 13:03 (seven years ago) Permalink
i drink beer from cans, it's pretty good!
― wilter, Saturday, 13 February 2010 13:30 (seven years ago) Permalink
soooooooo good. right now.
― a single goddamn marshmallow fucked me for LIFE (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:36 (five years ago) Permalink
i did not realize til i just went to their site that it's 6.5%, that's always a plus.
― a single goddamn marshmallow fucked me for LIFE (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:38 (five years ago) Permalink
I don't think I've ever had an Oskar Blues beer, but there's a couple of local craft breweries here in Chicago (Half Acre, Finch's) that use cans exclusively for their year-round releases, so I no longer associate canned beer exclusively with shitty corporate lager. Ska's Modus Hoperandi is one that I see fairly often, too.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:12 (five years ago) Permalink
the new Deviant Dale's is pretty killer -- not sure how far & wide it's being distributed. i live down the street from the oskar blues brewery.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:14 (five years ago) Permalink
I've heard of Oskar Blues, but I don't recall ever having seen it locally. Maybe Jeff or askance johnson or t0dd sw1ss can correct me.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:17 (five years ago) Permalink
sixpoint was pretty much the nail in the coffin for my bottle snobbery. But I don't drink from the can, I pour it into a glass. Can taste is still gross.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:20 (five years ago) Permalink
I don't think cans taste any worse than bottles, honestly, but I pour into a glass whenever possible as well.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:22 (five years ago) Permalink
Surly really changed my mind on this, but i am also warming up to the 21st amendment brewery stuff too.
― Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:23 (five years ago) Permalink
tbh I just like bottles because they are bottles
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:25 (five years ago) Permalink
i thought this would be about the new miller lite can that makes it even easier to shotgun beers
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:27 (five years ago) Permalink
tell me more
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:28 (five years ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:29 (five years ago) Permalink
I hope they have an ad campaign that ends with a message to shotgun responsibly and know your limit
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:29 (five years ago) Permalink
psh, whole point of shotgunning is drinking the beer out of anywhere but the top of the can.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:33 (five years ago) Permalink
love dale's and surly and i totally get why cans would be better for transporting/storing beer, but i still like drinking out of bottles better (hurting otm, you can taste the aluminum). if it's good beer in a can, i'll decant too.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:36 (five years ago) Permalink
even bad cheap beer tastes way better out of a bottle than straight from a can. in fact sometimes it stops tasting so bad.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:40 (five years ago) Permalink
Vessel matters not to me.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:41 (five years ago) Permalink
me neither. oskar blues convinced me a few years back. don't think any beer nowadays tastes different out of a bottle than out of a can. definitely used to, back in the old days, before they started lining the cans w plastic or whatever.
― 10. "Pour Some Sugar On Me" – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:57 (five years ago) Permalink
ha, very timely -- a friend just sent me news of this, the latest oskar blues beer, in an aluminum bottlehttp://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/assets_c/2012/05/B%20Stiff%20Root%20Beer%20Can-thumb-180x335.jpgmore info: http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/05/nice_package_oskar_blues_packa.php
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:03 (five years ago) Permalink
can debate ends here btw:
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:24 (five years ago) Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:43 (five years ago) Permalink
whoah sorry about huge img
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:44 (five years ago) Permalink


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WASHINGTON — Public ambivalence about the Senate's new tax-reform package is confirmed in ho-hum national opinion polls. This underscores an insufficiently discussed political dynamic: The real spur for overhaul is now coming from elites--liberal and conservative, greedy and idealistic alike.
Two abstract visions are at work. The one side, enraptured by the idea of a 27% top tax bracket applicable to both David Rockefeller and a Los Angeles police lieutenant, imagines a return to the capitalist heyday of the 1920s. The other perceives a progressive triumph, as the tax-sheltered rich take on added burdens to remove the poor from the rolls. The result is that enactment seems ever more likely, although each week keeps turning up new warts, new revenue problems and new state and local tax tie-ins. Middle-income citizens in many areas may pay enough additional in state taxes, higher rents or lost real estate buildup to negate any minor federal tax savings.
But then, hardly anyone in power has ever held this out as a great middle -c lass tax cut. For better or worse, the supporting argument has been broader. The United States, protagonists say, is poised to enter a great new growth era, spurred by lower tax burdens, rising entrepreneurship and declining interest rates. The private sector--the fabled marketplace--will allocate resources far better than existing tax-code preferences and government decisions.


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The Faculty of Physical Education, Salem is a constituent college of Vinayaka Missions University, Salem. The college has been functioning since the academic year 2005-06, on getting the approval from the National Council for Teacher Education, Bangalore. The college, from its inception has been actively involved in various extension services, which include organizing various sports and games activities for other institutions and associations in the Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri and Erode districts. The academic courses conducted by the college are B.P.Ed. (1 year), M.Phil. and Ph.D. (Full Time / Part Time) in Physical Education. The college is fully equipped with a library and laboratory facilities in various disciplines like sports medicine, sports psychology, sports management and exercise physiology to conduct various physical, physiological, psychological and motor fitness tests. The college strives also to help the students develop their personality to enable them to reach great academic heights. On graduation the students assume offices of lecture or Director of Physical Education at various colleges and universities so also Physical Education teachers in the different schools in Tamil Nadu. Many of our students have joined the uniform services like the defence, especially the Tamil Nadu Police and Fire Service. The college has earned for itself the reputation of a well-disciplined college where the thrust is on quality education for the young minds.
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Young Bobby Ray had some leisure time while he was out and about on his tour of Asia. But there's not slacking when you're apart of #TeamBOB. As he gears up for album numero dos, he's putting together another free mixtape for the fans and he wants you all to experience a taste of the "High Life" just like he did from the women of Singapore.
Ask him what happened after the cameras went off @bobatl.
Previously: B.o.B Presents The Asian Adventures Of Bobby Ray


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RI is getting skunked with all this se/ne bull**** swell
Good. It's giving you the gift of missing it after waist to chest S/SSW the first 6 weeks of summah. Now carpool with shark-hunter, give him some snaps on the petrol and join Northern New England's chargers the next few days.
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Mexico restores psyche with confidence-building win
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- After the Mexican national team finally exorcised its demons against the U.S. with a 5-0 pounding of its archrival in Sunday's Gold Cup final at Giants Stadium -- El Tri's first win on American soil in more than a decade -- the attention immediately turned to the Aug. 12 rematch at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.
Many thought -- and still think -- it will be as good a chance as the Yanks have ever had. After all, Mexico has struggled mightily in qualifying (it is in fourth place halfway through the docket), and the U.S. regulars are high on confidence coming off a unprecedented runner-up finish at June's FIFA Confederations Cup.
And, for whatever reason, the Americans have enjoyed a clear psychological advantage over their arguably more talented southern neighbors, who had seemed simply incapable of beating the U.S. anywhere other than Azteca over the past 10 years. At least, that is, until Black Sunday.
"This win gives us confidence," Mexican forward Giovani dos Santos said afterward. "The U.S. is doing a great job -- they played in the final of the Confederations Cup. But this win injects in us a bit of motivation, confidence, security."
Mexican coach Javier Aguirre echoed the tourney MVP's comments, albeit a bit more cautiously.
"We feel good, but you can't carry history with you," Aguirre said. "Aug. 12 is a completely different game."
As for this one, the Americans probably had the loss coming. Every streak ends sometime, and national team fans should be happy it didn't happen in a World Cup qualifier, which it certainly could have. It's easy to forget that in the 2-0 qualifying win over El Tri in February, the U.S. team dodged a bullet in the opening minutes when dos Santos squandered an easy chance. Had that one gone in, the result -- not to mention the Hexagonal standings -- could look quite different heading into Mexico City.
At the Gold Cup, Bradley eventually was burned for sticking with a C-team as green as Mexico's jerseys, one that had exceeded expectations until the wheels fell off in such spectacular fashion in the finale.
Not that the coach had much wiggle room roster-wise, despite being gifted seven extra spots due to the Americans' participation in South Africa in June. Those players either needed a break or needed to return to the clubs that pay their salaries after a month away.
So in hindsight, losing this game shouldn't be all that surprising. To think that the U.S. would be able to win the Gold Cup with such an inexperienced squad was pretty ambitious, considering that Mexico brought a number of first-teamers, including perhaps the two best attack-minded youngsters the country has produced in a generation, Tottenham's dos Santos and Arsenal's Carlos Vela.
It's not surprising that the floodgates opened, either. The naivety of Bradley's XI was on full display in the moments after they conceded the opener. Instead of settling down and clawing their way back into the game -- they had a half hour-plus left to find the equalizer -- they completely panicked, pushing numbers forward and conceding so much space in the back that keeper Troy Perkins was forced to make a pair of miraculous stops before the inevitable second goal came in the 64th minute.
After that, the visitors were only too happy to run up the score on the team that had tormented them on U.S. soil for so long, despite largely pro-Mexican crowds in all but a few cases.
However, a visibly gutted Bradley chose to accentuate the positive looking forward.
"When you have a game that feels like this at the end, you don't forget it," Bradley said. "Hopefully we can use it in a way that we're better from it."
Up-and-comers like Chad Marshall and Stuart Holden certainly will have gained confidence from the Gold Cup experience, much like Charlie Davies and Jay DeMerit did from playing with another undermanned U.S. team in the 2007 Copa America, in which they absorbed an ugly defeat to Argentina along the way.
The latter two players figure to be on the A-team Bradley takes to Mexico's capital two and a half weeks from now, one that has an opportunity to erase the bad feelings that come with the Americans' most lopsided loss to El Tri since a 7-2 setback in 1957.
"Today is their day, and they can celebrate," Bradley said.
"Once we go into Azteca, it's 90 minutes, and we start over. And we have a chance to do something that the U.S. hasn't done before.
"When the game starts that day, we'll be ready."
Doug McIntyre is a soccer columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPNsoccernet.
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Reading every word on every résumé simply isn't a luxury HR professionals can afford.
In fact, more than half of HR managers (56%) say they average less than one minute reviewing each résumé, according a CareerBuilder.com survey.
If you quickly scan résumés, however, you probably live in constant fear of discarding potential winners.
Advice: Spot-read résumés during the first round to determine if they merit a more detailed review. Use the following advice to make sure your quick read won't reject promising candidates:
Jump to the end. Applicants often reserve the end of résumés for negative information, such as explanations about gaps between jobs and short stays with organizations.
Scan for key words. Look for phrases and words that match the title and description of the job. Search quickly for acronyms that indicate the training or education the position requires, such as SQL or MS Access for some technology jobs.
Move quickly past canned, generic descriptions. Such sentences often start with phrases such as "I have knowledge about" or "I'm familiar with." Pick out key words such as managed, profits, supervised, results and accomplished.
Zero in on the length of time worked at each job. If there are large gaps, move on to the next résumé.
3 résumé-sorting mistakes
1. Reflexively discarding long résumés. Some lengthy résumés may merit a second look due to experience and qualifications.
2. Judging job-hopping too strictly. If such a résumé matches all of a job's requirements, you may want to talk with the candidate and references for explanations.
3. Declining to get a second opinion. If you're on the fence about whether to interview a promising candidate due to questions about the résumé, pass it on to another HR person or hiring manager for another opinion.
Online resource: Read our article, 10 ways to smoke out exaggerations on résumés.


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"Paul's Hat Works is a 100-year-old hat shop in San Francisco's Richmond District. Four ladies run the shop and fabricate custom-made men's hats. One of the owners, Olivia Griffin, took me on a tour and shared the secrets of her craft. I spent two days with dapper hat-makers in a workshop worthy of Mister Geppetto's, recording century-old tools and women working with their hands. At Paul's Hat Works, each hat has a story waiting to be told. This is the making of a hat."
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The department said Thursday it expects gasoline prices to average $2.35 a gallon nationwide in May, the dawn of the heavy summer driving season. Motorists paid an average of $2.22 a gallon last week, 44 cents more than a year ago.
If anyone thinks prices will dip below $2, once a benchmark rarely seen, they're mistaken, says Guy Caruso, head of the Energy Information Administration, the DOE's statistical agency.
Caruso said the forecast is for prices to average $2.28 a gallon through September and remain high after that, well into 2006, mainly because of lingering high crude oil prices and growing demand. He said crude prices, which briefly reached $58 this week, are likely to stay above $50 a barrel well into next year.
Ironically, just as the federal officials were talking about higher prices, crude tumbled nearly $2 a barrel to just over $54 a barrel and gasoline futures fell nearly 11 cents before slightly rebounding Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Will that have any impact on prices at the pump? "Probably not," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago. "We're in a new era of high gas prices. The economy is strong and people don't care as much as they did. It's kind of weird," Flynn said in a telephone interview.
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Eoin Ryan and Paul McGurrell are two runners who share one big goal: to make it to the finish line of the famous Marathon des Sables – a running challenge of 243k (151 miles) that takes place over six stages through some of the harshest environments on the planet.
Wexford native Ryan and McGurrell, from Swords, Co Dublin, have been training together for several months for their big challenge in the Moroccan Sahara. The training has been tough and relentless and includes 60k runs circuiting Howth Head.
Their big challenge is due to start on April 6 and both runners are using the event as a fundraiser: Eoin's charity is Pieta House and Paul has adopted the LauraLynn Foundation.
The Marathon des Sables is often referred to as "the toughest foot race on earth" but Eoin and Paul are not daunted. They have consulted other Irish runners who have completed the event and are preparing diligently.
The inaugural Marathon des Sables was organised by a French concert promoter, Patrick Bauer, who in 1984 decided that he wanted to complete an epic walk. He chose the Moroccan Sahara for this adventure and, on completing 200k, he decided to share his experience by creating a challenge that would have multi-cultural appeal.
The first Marathon des Sables event took place in 1986 with 186 competitors. This year's event will have 1,000 entrants, 200 press and a course management team of 400. The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, will welcome the runners, while local running legend Lahcen Ahansal has won the event on 10 occasions – averaging 19/20 hours to complete the 243k.
Eoin and Paul have not set themselves any time targets for their challenge and their focus will be one of survival. Eoin (39) is no stranger to stiff tests. He has completed two Ironman triathlons (a PB of 11:14) and he has a marathon best time of 3:30. Back in 2008, Eoin ran seven marathons in six days as a fundraiser for Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin.
He took up running at age 18 after a blossoming hurling career came to an abrupt end when he accidentally severed a finger. His dream was to play for his native Wexford county hurling team and he had already represented the county's underage teams.
Running gave him a new focus and today it has become his business too, as he is race director for a number of events that include the Wicklow Half-Marathon and 10k on April 27, the Craic Dublin Mud Run in Palmerstown on May 10 and the Clontarf Half-Marathon and 5-Mile race on July 5.
Paul is a fireman in his native Swords and has been running since 2006. It was a broken ankle he sustained playing soccer that changed his sporting focus and he has a marathon PB of 3:40 – a big improvement on his 4:12 debut in Dublin in 2006.
Last October, Paul (34) ran back-to-back marathons in Dublin – starting out at 4am on Marathon Monday with his fireman colleague Padraig Thompson, who sacrificed his own Dublin Marathon medal and T-shirt to run the first leg of the marathon double with his friend. That was a big gesture that Paul greatly appreciated and he was able to average finishing times of 4:30 for his double marathon stint.
Over the six stages of the Marathon des Sables event, Eoin and Paul will have to carry everything they need on their backs: food, clothing, first aid and so on. The only help provided is water and shelter. The running surface they encounter will be uneven and an estimated 15-20pc of the six-stage course includes difficult sand dunes. Temperatures in the Sahara can rise to 50C and plummet to –5C at night. Although water is available, it is tightly rationed. The fourth stage is reputed to be the toughest when competitors have to complete back-to-back marathons.
Eoin and Paul have discovered a novel way of preparing for the hot desert conditions by taking up Bikram yoga three times a week – 90-minute sessions in an enclosed heat chamber where temperatures rise to 50C. "It's a way of tricking the body into getting used to this type of heat," Eoin said of their preparations. "But no matter how things go in the desert next month, I am delighted that because of taking up this challenge, I feel that I have also made a friend for life," Eoin said of Paul.
To support Eoin Ryan and Paul McGurrell's fundraising efforts, visit www.mycharity.ie and type in either of their names
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How Seattle VCs Are Adapting to the UW TechTransfer Revolution
[This is Part 1 of a two-part series on how the process of identifying venture-backed startup opportunities at the University of Washington is evolving—Eds.]
Back in February, we reported on the "VC revolution" happening on the campus of the University of Washington. Six months into her tenure as vice provost of UW TechTransfer, Linden Rhoads sat down for a Q&A with Luke to discuss how her team has been connecting researchers with venture firms and technology companies at an early stage in the commercialization game.
"We're combing the nation for the venture capitalists who are truly aware of a specific research area," Rhoads said. "We are hosting meetings for researchers too. You'll find all over campus that there have been meetings with a researcher, with people from industry, and a venture capitalist. We don't do this in the hope that a license will come out of it, but that a relationship will come out of it…It's something most tech transfer offices don't undertake. It's a more proactive and longer-term approach."
It's also part of a broader shakeup in how the venture community views working with the UW—which has a reputation for winning lots of federal support for research, without translating much of it into startup businesses, as compared to MIT or Stanford University. Certainly not all great startups come from academia, but few would argue that more shouldn't be coming out of the UW, given its research stature in fields like computer science, advanced materials, and biochemistry. So how are Rhoads's efforts going over with local venture firms? Will we see more competition among venture capitalists, both locally and nationally, to invest in UW spinouts? How are VCs adjusting their strategy to work with the "new UW" and gain access to top entrepreneurial researchers at an earlier stage, and how will it all play out?
The feedback so far from Seattle-area venture capitalists has been very positive. Brad Silverberg of Ignition Partners speaks for many when he says UW TechTransfer's work is "very encouraging and definitely going in the right direction." He adds that it's a "good thing for all concerned—the UW, entrepreneurs, VCs." Bill Bryant of Draper Fisher Jurvetson says the investing community is excited and optimistic about changes like "more visibility on promising technologies, additional pre-work to move the technologies closer to the point of commercialization, and soliciting input from numerous outside parties on how best to structure TechTransfer for outside consumption."
But real change won't come quickly, or easily. "The enthusiasm is tempered only in light of a 30-plus-year institutional legacy and history that needs to be overcome," Bryant says. "Will change happen sooner than the rear guard can mount its inevitable counterattack? Finding the appropriate balance in mission for a research university like the UW between 'fundamental, theoretical' research and 'applied, commercially useful' research is going to take years and a cultural mindshift."
On this point, Lucinda Stewart of OVP Venture Partners says, "There's obviously risk in hiring aggressive people like Janis [Machala] and Linden. They're not academics, they're on the for-profit, commercial side. They're kick-butt women, which is awesome." Indeed, from any venture capitalist's perspective, the change has been dramatically for the better. "When I was working for the Washington Research Foundation in 1998, TechTransfer was much less 'user friendly' than it is now under Linden and Janis's leadership," says Erik Benson of Voyager Capital. "They know the university's ecosystem, they know the best entrepreneurs, and they know which VCs are best for each opportunity."
So how are venture capitalists going about their business on campus these days? Madrona Venture Group and Arch Venture Partners have had a strong presence at the UW since the 1990s. Madrona has been particularly active in the computer science and engineering department: Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld are full-time UW professors who spend part of their time advising Madrona about startups. Madrona is also known for holding "office hours" in the computer science building, where researchers can come in and talk with a VC about technology commercialization and starting companies. (New Seattle software startup PetraVM has its roots in one of these meetings with Madrona's Matt McIlwain.)
But that's barely scratching the surface of the hard work it takes for a venture firm to build expertise and relationships that will lead to a successful startup. "You don't just show up and fund a company the next minute," says Greg Gottesman of Madrona. "We want to build long-term relationships with graduate students and professors in areas they're interested in. They provide such great insight about what's possible. They're looking three, five, 10 years out…We can provide a real sense of what are people doing in the startup/venture world with technologies like this, and a real business perspective—how can we turn what you're doing into a business opportunity? It's not one meeting, but often over several years."
OVP, for its part, is holding its first office hours at the UW on April 23. Stewart says it will be a quarterly event, and the inaugural session will focus on areas like enterprise infrastructure, software as a service, analytics, and cleantech. In terms of OVP's broader approach to working with researchers, she says, "We like to come in really early. Rick [LeFaivre], myself, and Mark [Ashida] are all assigned to the UW. We're triple-teaming it. If we wait until the time companies are ready to raise money in Series A, it's often too late. We'll back projects at the prototype level. We know four or five professors in different areas—security, search, cleantech—and we're trying to make sure the handful of people we should know, we know."
Down the road, closer to commercialization, UW TechTransfer can offer a venture firm a complete package. "By the time I see a project," Stewart says, "Janis will say, 'There's this great enterprise security, or a new way of tracking data on the Internet for advertisers. It works, and here are the milestones the guy has hit. And I have someone in mind to run the company.'" In recent months, OVP has backed EnerG2, an energy-storage and materials startup, and is involved with Arzeda, which designs enzymes for biotech and cleantech applications—both UW spinouts.
Madrona's Gottesman says he and his colleagues are spending more time on campus these days, in part because their firm is involved with more startups with roots there. Madrona says it has put $50 million into 11 companies from the UW in the past decade, including Farecast (bought by Microsoft for $115 million last year), radio-frequency identification firm Impinj, cloud-computing startup Skytap, and PetraVM. "You'll see us, if anything, step up our involvement and desire," Gottesman says.
Other VCs say their approach is not all that different now—they're not trying to get to know researchers and projects at an earlier stage, for instance. Bryant of Draper Fisher Jurvetson says he's "not really" over at the UW more often these days. "I'm a great believer in the entrepreneur behind a startup," Bryant says. "The IP/technology/idea is secondary. The scarcity lies in entrepreneurs, not technology. I don't see high leverage in getting to know individual professors and their respective projects. I figure that entities like Tech Transfer and key on-campus figures like [computer science professor] Ed Lazowska…will get in touch with me if they identify an appropriate technology that comes with an entrepreneurial professor as a founder."
So how will all of this positioning shake out in the coming years? Will Madrona, for example, face more competitors trying to get in deals than in the past? "The fight for UW spinouts will ultimately come through Tech Transfer," says Voyager's Benson. "The attention UW is getting is at an all-time high. It will be wide open within a couple of years."
For now, though, VCs are talking more about open opportunities and collaboration, rather than any competition. "UW has not been a competitive place," says Stewart. "It's the opposite of Stanford, where there's a venture guy per day. More attention around UW is good for the whole region. It still takes work. It takes the type of firm and venture partner who will roll up their sleeves. It's not a mass market opportunity…All the [VC] firms here could do spinouts. But the reality is, it won't get overly competitive."
Gottesman agrees, "There will be plenty of opportunities for us and other VCs to spin out companies…There's more than enough to go around for a lot of folks." But it's clear that a firm like Madrona, with its extensive track record at the UW, will continue to press its advantage in terms of the relationships it has built on campus over the years. "We'll do more than our fair share of startups," Gottesman says.
[Stay tuned for Part 2, where we'll hear from Linden Rhoads of UW Tech Transfer, and more VC thoughts on specific areas of interest—Eds.]
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Molecular characterization of extended-spectrum β-lactamases in clinical Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from Surabaya, Indonesia
Background: No detailed reports regarding extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae are currently available from Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world. Methods: A survey was carried out to investigate the molecular epidemiology and genetic characteristics of clinical ESBL-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates originating from the Dr. Soetomo Academic Hospital in Surabaya, Indonesia, over a 4 month period (January to April 2005). ESBLs were characterized by isoelectric focusing and PCR assays. Clonality of the isolates was assessed by PFGE and repetitive-sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR). Phylogenetic grouping was performed among CTX-M-15-producing E. coli. Results: In total, 73 consecutive non-duplicate ESBL-positive E. coli and 72 K. pneumoniae strains were isolated. The blaCTX-M-15gene was found to be highly prevalent (69/73 strains, 94.5%) among the 73 ESBL-positive E. coli isolates. The gene was detected in both clonal and non-clonal isolates, as defined by PFGE and rep-PCR. Sixteen CTX-M-15-positive E. coli could be assigned to a single rep-PCR type and phylogenetic group B2 and belonged to the well-known O25b-ST131 clone. Among the 72 ESBL-positive K. pneumoniae isolates, blaCTX-M-15was again the most prevalent ESBL (40/72, 55.6%). Several SHV-type enzymes were also frequently detected: SHV-5 (n=28); SHV-12 (n=13); and SHV-2 (n=6). TEM-type ESBLs were not detected in any of the isolates. Conclusions: Indonesia is another developing country affected by the emergence and spread of bacterial strains harbouring ESBL genes, including the CTX-M-15-producing B2-E. coli O25b-ST131 clone.
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Severin, J.A, Mertaniasih, N.M, Kuntaman, K, Lestari, E.S, Purwanta, M, Lemmens-den Toom, N, … Goessens, W.H.F. (2010). Molecular characterization of extended-spectrum β-lactamases in clinical Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from Surabaya, Indonesia. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 65(3), 465–469. doi:10.1093/jac/dkp471


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I began volunteering for the African Library Project (ALP) in January 2012. For the last several years, I have worked with a variety of non-profits to raise awareness on human rights and literacy. ALP by far is one of the most organized non-profits I have worked with, which is made even more impressive by the fact that the organization is driven solely by volunteers. For a business model like this to operate successfully, it takes incredible dedication and passion from each individual.
ALP impacts not only those throughout Africa, but also our book drive organizers and their communities. ALP offers volunteers a concrete opportunity to make a real, significant, and lasting difference in the lives of children and adults in African villages. Many of these regions never before had libraries, and had limited--or no--access to books. I love that instead of used books winding up in the trash, they are saved and given to people who truly cherish them.
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BOULDER, Colo. - Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops envisioned it going down to the wire. Colorado's Dan Hawkins had a hunch his team would pull off the big upset.
Both coaches turned out to be correct, and the Buffaloes dealt a serious blow to the Sooners' national title hopes when Kevin Eberhart kicked a career-long 45-yard field goal as time expired to send Colorado past No. 3 Oklahoma, 27-24, yesterday.
"I told them all week they're going to win the game," Hawkins said. "You know when your team's ready, you know when you're poised."
His players certainly didn't doubt his weeklong declarations of this impending upset.
"He just reinforced what we already knew," defensive tackle George Hypolite said.
This was the Buffaloes' first win over a top-five team since Dec. 1, 2001, when they beat Texas in the Big 12 title game, and their most significant victory in Boulder since a 62-36 drubbing of second-ranked Nebraska a week before that Texas win.
"They outplayed us and outcoached us," Stoops said. "They fought their way to a heck of a win."
After Eberhart's kick cleared the crossbar, the Sooners, who had blown a 24-7 second-half lead, walked off dejected, trying to avoid the onslaught of Buffs fans storming the field in celebration of what they hope is a revival of the once-proud program.
The Sooners (4-1, 0-1) came in averaging a whopping 61.5 points to lead the nation. But behind a tough defense, the Buffs (3-2, 1-0) earned their first big win under Hawkins, who went 2-10 in his inaugural season last year.
The Buffaloes trailed, 24-7, after Allen Patrick scored from 17 yards following safety D.J. Wolfe's second interception. His first one led to Juaquin Iglesias's 13-yard TD catch in the first half.
But Oklahoma, which had scored 50-plus points in each of its first four games, was stifled after that, and Colorado outgained the Sooners, 219 yards to 56, in the second half.
"It was just everybody doing their job and doing the right thing when they had to do it," said linebacker Jordon Dizon, the nation's leading tackler.
Colorado began its comeback with Eberhart's 41-yarder to make it 24-10 in the third quarter. After Ryan Walters picked off Sam Bradford, Cody Hawkins hit Tyson DeVree for the score on fourth and goal from the 4, pulling Colorado to 24-17 on the first play of the fourth quarter.
The Sooners gave the Buffaloes a huge assist in their comeback when Reggie Smith muffed a fair catch and Colorado's Justin Drescher recovered at the Oklahoma 16. Four plays later, Colorado tied it on Hawkins's 15-yard touchdown strike to Dusty Sprague with 4:05 remaining.
The Buffaloes forced another punt and Chase McBride's 33-yard return set up Colorado at midfield. Hawkins drove to the 27, where Eberhart made the winning kick to give Colorado its biggest upset in years.
Next week's Texas-Oklahoma matchup lost a lot of its luster with the Sooners' loss and Kansas State's equally stunning rout of the seventh-ranked Longhorns in Austin yesterday.
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Leading CX Priorities for 2015 Are Projects Aimed at Improving Consistency Across Channels and Acting as "One" Unified Organization
Organizations have changed their customer experience (CX) priorities for 2015, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey took place in January 2015 among Gartner Research Circle Members, a Gartner-managed panel composed of IT and business leaders. In total, 289 members participated. Respondents were responsible for CX projects, working on CX projects, or were familiar or indirectly impacted by such projects.
"The study examines what CX projects have been carried out in 2014 and what projects are being worked on in 2015. This provides a great overview of how things are changing in CX," said Nick Inglebrecht, research director at Gartner. "The findings also underline the fact that customer experience improvements are complex undertakings. There is no silver bullet that will, by itself, improve the overall experience. But the combination of projects, if implemented well, can cumulatively contribute to the improvement of an organization's customer experiences."
The survey found that organizations implemented an average of 5.7 CX projects during 2014, with the biggest focus on programs to improve the collection and analysis of customer feedback and "opening up" the organization. When presented with a list of 16 generic CX improvement projects conducted during 2014, the most frequently cited projects were those associated with collecting and analyzing customer feedback and communicating actions to employees and customers (capturing the voice of the customer) followed by reconfiguring customer process. Third was activating self-service and tools to select, order, track and stop product purchases. The least-cited projects were standardizing approaches to segmentation and honoring data privacy and focusing on the benefits of building trust, rather than just the legal risks and mapping customer journeys.
More than one-third of survey participants said their customer experience improvement projects during 2014 involved significant changes of their business models. The majority of business model changes mentioned by the participants involved changes to the process around the production of products and services, including supply chain and internal processes. In one-third of cases, the business model changes related to changes in the way the customer interacts with the organization.
"Not all business model changes are of equal significance, but there appears to be a recognition among the more mature organizations that CX projects span organizational boundaries and fundamentally affect the way the organization operates," said Mr. Ingelbrecht. "As a result, Gartner predicts that by 2018, more than 50 percent of organizations will implement significant business model changes in their efforts to improve customer experience."
Survey participants also provided a perspective on their 2015 plans for CX improvement projects. This year, their strategic focus has changed somewhat. The leading CX priorities for 2015 are projects aimed at improving consistency across channels and acting as "one" unified organization. Improving customer satisfaction is still important in 2015, but there is increased focus this year on driving customer loyalty and driving advocacy. "There are perhaps signs of a realization here that CX is more than just customer satisfaction (CSAT); you actually have to drive word-of-mouth recommendations and give your existing customers more reasons to keep coming back to you," said Mr. Ingelbrecht.
The top three projects planned for 2015 are self-service CX projects, multichannel orchestration activities, and, as in 2014, collecting and analyzing customer feedback. Honoring data privacy gets even less attention in 2015 than last year and standardizing approaches segmentation also continues to register quite low in the list of projects planned for 2015.
Multichannel consistency is the No. 1 focus for 2015, up from the seventh position in the 2014 project list. The top-ranked voice of the customer projects of 2014 has slipped to third place in 2015, while customer metrics stayed the same.
More detailed analysis is available in the report "Survey Analysis: The State of Customer Experience Innovation, 2015." This report is part of the Gartner Special Report "Customer Experience Emerges as the New Competitive Battlefield." This report focuses on how greater competition and growing consumer power have eroded traditional product- and service-based differentiation, forcing firms to seek new, more durable forms of competitive advantage.
Analysts will explore the latest thinking in customer trends at the Gartner Customer Strategies & Technologies Summit in London, U.K. on June 10-11 and the Gartner Customer 360 Summit in San Diego, September 9-11. You can find more content and updates on these events on Twitter using the hashtag #GartnerCRM.
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Ignatius Press - A leading Catholic Book
Publisher (home page)
Tolkien: Man and Myth
Joseph Pearce
J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most popular writers of our age. His Lord of the
Rings was voted the greatest book of the century in several British surveys.
This major new study of his life and his work explores the background of the
man and the culture in which he wrote, and his relationships with other great
literary writers, including C.S. Lewis.
257 pp, Sewn Hardcover, $24.95
Wisdom and Innocence
Joseph Pearce
Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of
G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce presents a major biography of a 20th century
literary giant, providing much important information on GKC never before
published. A thoroughly delightful biography. Illustrated.
536 pp, Sewn Softcover, $19.95
Literary Converts
Joseph Pearce
Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of
some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn
Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, Edith Sitwell,
Siegfried Sassoon, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T.S.
Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien. The role of George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells in
intensifying the religious debate despite not being converts themselves is
also considered.
Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary
heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief
surprising or even controversial. Whatever viewpoint we may have, Literary
Converts touches on some of the most important questions of the twentieth
century, making it a fascinating read.
Sewn Hardcover, $24.95
Length: 464 pages
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"THE HIDDEN TREASURE OF GLASTON, Eleanore M. Jewett; Illustrated by
Frederick Chapman
"Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his
father who must flee England too swiftly to be burdened by a crippled son.
Ashamed of his physical weakness, yet possessed of a stout heart, Hugh finds
that life at the abbey is surprisingly full in this year 1171, in the
turbulent days of King Henry II. Hugh, his friend Dickon and their strange
friend, the mad Bleheris, uncover a treasure trove and with it a deeper
mystery of the sort that could only occur in Glastonbury where Joseph of
Arimithea was said to have lived out his last years. Before all is done, more
is resolved than Hugh could ever have hoped. A Newbery Honor winner.
"Quality Softcover "
This was a childhood favorite that I'm happy to see in print again. Not a
fantasy, but great for lovers of Arthuriana - and their children.
I note that Ignatius' sponsored series of "Bethlehem Books," which seem to be
reprints of older books for children, mostly historical fiction, also
includes one by Andre' Norton, not generally considered a Catholic author :)
It's a tale of ancient Egypt, titled SHADOW HAWK. Not on the web page, but
listed in the catalog as catalog no. SHAH-P.
There is also an illustrated and annotated edn. of Chesterton's BALLAD OF THE
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Post-Spanish Grand Prix test: The line-up
12 May 2014 – Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya plays host to 2014's second in-season test. Ahead of the two-day gathering, GPUpdate.net has put together a list of the drivers scheduled to get behind the wheel.
Spain's testing line-up is as follows:
Red Bull
Tuesday: Sébastien Buemi
Wednesday: Sebastian Vettel
Tuesday: Lewis Hamilton
Wednesday: Nico Rosberg
Tuesday: Kimi Räikkönen
Wednesday: Kimi Räikkönen
Tuesday: Charles Pic
Wednesday: Pastor Maldonado
Tuesday: Jenson Button
Wednesday: Stoffel Vandoorne
Force India
Tuesday: Nico Hülkenberg
Wednesday: Daniel Juncadella
Tuesday: Giedo van der Garde
Wednesday: Esteban Gutiérrez
Toro Rosso
Tuesday: Jean-Éric Vergne
Wednesday: Daniil Kvyat
Tuesday: Felipe Massa
Wednesday: Susie Wolff
Tuesday: Max Chilton
Wednesday: Jules Bianchi
Tuesday: Kamui Kobayashi
Wednesday: Robin Frijns
This year, each team must dedicate one of their in-season test days to tyre testing for Pirelli. On Tuesday, Sauber and Toro Rosso will test for the brand, followed by McLaren and Force India on Wednesday.


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A former Playboy Playmate who later married television producer Marty Krofft has died in Los Angeles of natural causes at age 70.
Family spokesman Christoph Buerger says Christa Speck died March 22 at home.
Speck, a model and actress, was named Playboy's "Playmate of the Month" in September 1961, and "Playmate of the Year" in 1962.
German-born Speck was discovered by Playboy while working as a secretary at Bank of America. She was a Playboy Bunny at Hugh Hefner's Chicago nightclub and lived at the Playboy Mansion. She appeared in many pictorials.
She is survived by her husband, the producer of "H.R. Pufnstuf," and their three daughters.
The family said in a statement that she was the rare sort of person who didn't judge others and saw good in everyone.


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Is nuclear energy the solution to our environmental woes – and can it save the climate bill? Apparently, the answer depends on who you ask. Some promote the benefits of nuclear power (for example, its lack of carbon emissions), while others argue its drawbacks (for example, the issue of storage, and whether nuclear is the most efficient use of clean energy funds). Meanwhile, some believe nuclear power could salvage the energy bill; the Senate is already considering including nuclear in new climate legislation. A peek into the blogosphere reveals the multifaceted nature of the nuclear power issue.
A treehugger.com article discusses the (perceived) benefits and downsides of investing in nuclear power versus investing in energy efficiency, in the opinions of RMI chairman Amory Lovins, University of Chicago's Robert Rosner, and PG&E's Peter Darbee. The benefits? Nuclear is a relatively cheap electricity source, and, Rosner emphasizes, it already accounts for 50 percent the U.S.'s energy sourcing (versus less than 2 percent for wind and solar combined). The drawbacks? There are more efficient ways to conserve power (for example, wind energy or co-generation), Lovins says, and buying new nuclear power results in more carbon release than implementing efficiency measures. Moreover, nuclear power will likely develop too slowly to have a timely impact.
Meanwhile, while the Senate is nothing close to "united" on clean energy legislation, it's not completely at odds regarding nuclear power. According to a Houston Chronicle report, when senators began negotiating the Kerry-Boxer climate bill Tuesday, some pushed for expanding nuclear power and offshore drilling (thereby altering the original bill) and implementing a cap-and-trade plan. In some analyses, including nuclear power and offshore drilling in the bill could quicken the bill's passage, since it could attract Republicans opposed to other components of the bill (i.e. cap-and-trade). Meanwhile, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander reportedly supports nuclear development for other reasons: he sees nuclear as an alternative to the "energy sprawl" that could, he said, result from expanding wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources. (Check out greenbiz.com's article discussing Alexander's analysis.)
Economics aside, the issue of nuclear power is also messy from a social perspective (think Chernobyl, fear of fuel gone missing, and the whole "not in my backyard" problem). Would Americans "buy" the notion of increasing nuclear energy investment over safer options like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power, or even non-renewable power sources? What impact could these issues have on including nuclear power in climate legislation?
What are your thoughts on the role of nuclear power in creating effective, timely climate legislation?


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Some PCs, particularly laptops, are not able to connect to the E9340A. As an initial troubleshooting step, please install the most recent version of the operating system software for E9340A. As of this writing, version 1.21 is the most recent and is known to solve certain connectivity problems. You may order the upgrade CD free-of-charge at http://software.cos.agilent.com/LogicWave
Or, you may download the software at LogicWave Application Software (Version 1.21)
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A patient had a tissue sample taken from the wrong organ during a biopsy at Princess Royal Hospital.
A sample from a patient's liver was removed during a pancreas biopsy.
This information was revealed in a Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust board meeting paper from the end of July.
The mistake was picked up at the end of the procedure in June and hospital staff apologised to the patient.
A spokesman for the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust said that this type of incident was known as a 'Never Event'.
Never Events are serious, largely preventable patient safety incidents that should not occur if the available preventative measures have been implemented.
The spokesman said these events are very rare and the majority cause minimal or no harm to the patients involved.
He said: "We realise that these incidents are called 'Never Events' because they should never happen and we have made significant improvements in recent years to try to ensure that all preventable incidents do not occur.
"Whenever we have reported a 'Never Event', we have always informed the patient involved and their family, we have thoroughly investigate it and we have put measures in place to prevent it from happening again."
The trust has commissioned an external review from an expert in patient safety and the findings are due imminently.
The board report said the investigation was ongoing but all theatre personnel had been made aware of the incident and checklist procedures reinforced.
Princess Royal Hospital's latest CQC report was published in June last year.
It concluded that the hospital was meeting all standards apart from 'safety and suitability of premises'.
The report stated that the hospital had not met that standard because of concerns about the storage of clinical waste, the security of the premises and the hospital's computer system and the maintenance of some corridor areas.
These issues were judged to have a minor impact on people who used the service.
The report also stated that the hospital was clean and procedures were in place to prevent and control the spread of infections.


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Staff Writer Lucy Sosa reports: A DART police officer was seriously injured after being thrown from his motorcycle following a collision.
The officer was driving home from work shortly after midnight Wednesday when his motorcycle was hit by a car in the intersection of Denley Drive and Illinois Avenue in East Oak Cliff.
The driver of the other vehicle failed to yield while turning on a green light in the intersection. The officer struck the vehicle and was thrown from his motorcycle. He suffered a broken collarbone and broken ribs.
He was transported to Methodist Dallas Medical Center.


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SAN DIEGO - A Rancho Peñasquitos man was in his garage when a gunman raised the door and robbed him, San Diego police said Tuesday.
The victim was watching TV in the garage of his home on Caminito Rimini, near Carmel Mountain Road, about 1:30 p.m. Monday. A stranger rolled up the door, pointed a pistol at the victim, then stole a Chargers backpack containing cash and personal items, police said.
The robber was black, in his 20s, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, of medium build, with a buzz-cut hairstyle. He wore a blue hoodie and shorts.


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June 22, 2010
Town Board Comments on NYS PSC Case
Regarding O&R Right of Way Management Program
City, NY) Clarkstown Town Supervisor Alex Gromack and the Town Board are
asking the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to replace an order
that mandates area utilities cut down trees arbitrarily in Clarkstown
neighborhoods. Under the PSC rules, any undesirable vegetation,
including trees, may be razed so as to clear electrical transmission
There are approximately 22 miles of Orange & Rockland
transmission lines, comprising approximately 270 acres and traversing over 560
parcels of land, including individual homes, residential subdivisions and town
parkland in Clarkstown. In 2007, the Town was informed by O&R that
the PSCs 2005 Order in Case No. 04-E-0822 (order) mandates that any
undesirable vegetation in a utilitys right of way (ROW) that in any way
encroaches into a priority zone (ie. within a transmission line ROW) shall be
completely removed by each of the utilities to the floor or ground-level of the
Prior to 2007, O & R had discretion terms of right of way
management, and the utility routinely worked collaboratively with property
owners with respect to tree trimming, removal, etc.
The policy in place prior to 2007 worked well, in that we
received few, if any, constituent complaints regarding utility ROW management,
said Supervisor Alex Gromack. The public response to the new policy,
however, was nothing short of outrage. Entire neighborhoods, as well as
two Town parks, were negatively impacted.
While most residents understood that their property was encumbered
by utility easements that provided for access and trimming, Supervisor Gromack
said, they were astonished that the PSCs policy not only allowed but mandated
the clear cutting of enormous swaths of land. Many, including the Town
Board, questioned whether the PSC had conducted a sufficient environmental
review of its action. The Town did not receive any notification or
opportunity to comment prior to the issuance of the Order.
The PSC prepared a Short Form Environmental Assessment Form, and
concluded that the action would have no significant environmental
impacts. However, state law provides that projects or actions which
involve the physical alteration of 10 acres are Type I actions under the State
Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). Type I actions carry the
presumption that the action is likely to have an adverse environmental impact
and generally require the preparation of an Environmental Impact
Statement. Clearly, the Order involves the physical alteration of more
than 10 acres (indeed, over 270 acres are impacted in Clarkstown alone) and is
precisely the type of action for which an Environmental Impact Statement should
have been prepared.
Recently, the PSC sent a notice of
invitation asking for public comments on nine environmental impacts
after the order was issued many months ago.
Asking ratepayers, property owners and
municipalities to comment on these very important issues after the order has
been issued, and outside of the SEQRA review process, is improper, said
Supervisor Gromack. In fact, the identification of these potential
environmental impacts five years after the order was issued only underscores
the inadequacy of the original SEQRA review.
The Town Board sent the attached letter requesting that the Order
be repealed and that a full environmental impact statement be prepared in
connection with the action. In addition, the Town requests that each
community though which transmission lines pass, property owners whose property
is encumbered by utility easements, and O&R ratepayers be included in the
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VERNAL — Jamie Toftum wants to make life easier for kids who have cancer, so she's set out to build up their spirits with small plastic bricks.
"There's no words to describe when you touch a child, when you help that child and give them a moment of joy," Toftum said.
As director for the Utah chapter of LEGOs for Leukemia, she said the children who endure chemotherapy and long hospital stays at Primary Children's Medical Center are the real heroes, not her. But she will not deny the special connection she has with them.
"For anybody to hear the words, 'You have cancer,' it's devastating," Toftum said.
Toftum has heard those words herself — twice. She vividly remembers a visit to her doctor's office two years ago.
"I actually said to my husband, right before she came in, I said, 'She's going to come in and tell me I'm a hypochondriac and there's nothing wrong with me, I need a psychologist,'" Toftum recalled.
The problem wasn't in Toftum's head, though. It was in her blood.
"She came in and said, 'You have leukemia,'" Toftum said.
Never one to sit around feeling sorry for herself, Toftum discovered LEGOs for Leukemia — a charity started in 2009 by a Colorado teen who lost his father and his grandparents to cancer. She quickly became head of the program's Utah chapter.
"The majority of my donations come from people who have either lost someone to cancer or know someone who's fighting cancer," Toftum said.
One of the first LEGO sets Toftum sent out went to Carter Hadlock, a 6-year-old Washington state boy with Utah ties who is battling leukemia.
"It was nice to see him really excited over something for the first time in several weeks, and he immediately opened his package and started building all sorts of contraptions and things with his LEGOs," said Amanda Hadlock, Carter's mother.
In March 2012, the Utah LEGOs for Leukemia chapter dropped off 100 boxes of donated LEGO bricks at Primary Children's Medical Center. Toftum wants to collect 900 LEGO brick sets this year. That's the average number of children who annually receive treatment for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses at Primary Children's, she said.
"That would be a dream," Toftum said, "that every child has something that gives them a creative outlet to deal with this illness."Comment on this story
Hadlock believes the folks who run LEGOs for Leukemia are heroes, whose kindness has helped to brighten some of her family's darkest days.
"A box of LEGOs can make the difference between a really, really crummy day and a day that isn't so bad," Hadlock said.
Toftum is still fighting her own battle with leukemia. She was also diagnosed in February with thyroid cancer. Still, she plans to make her annual LEGO donation to Primary Children's Medical Center on April 26.
For more information on where to donate, contact Toftum by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Seth Rogen, the star, executive producer and writer of the movie says he based his, Green Hornet character on Paris Hilton and Keith Moon of The Who. The character trashes hotels in Keith Moon fashion and parties like Paris Hilton, drinking and acting pretty much like a spoiled brat throughout the movie.
Plus, we get a special surprise when actor Robert Davi barges into the studio to catch up and tell us about his big Davi Sings Sinatra concert this weekend, which happens to fall on Gary's birthday!
We love surprises, and nothing is better when our good friend and talented actor/singer Robert Davi popped in the studio unannounced this morning!
Robert is performing with a 50 piece orchestra for a tribute show to one of his close friends and the greatest entertainer in history, Frank Sinatra, on January 15th at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Oh, and it just so happens that it's also Gary Bryan's Birthday!!! Gary and Lisa will be there to introduce Davi on stage, and you can catch all the action this Saturday by purchasing tickets at Ticketmaster.com or at DaviSingsSinatra.com.
Check out all the photos of Robert in studio this morning!
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The republic of Zaire is located in central Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. Area: 2,344,858 sq km (905,354 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 43,901,000 (excluding 1.1 million Rwandan refugees). Cap.: Kinshasa. Monetary unit: new zaïre, with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of 5,422 new zaïres to U.S. $1 (8,572 new zaïres = £ 1 sterling). President in 1995, Mobutu Sese Seko; first state commissioner (prime minister), Joseph Kengo Wa Dondo.
In his 1995 New Year message, Pres. Mobutu Sese Seko said that the future prosperity of the country depended upon putting an end to political confusion. Soon afterward direct talks began between government representatives and members of the Sacred Union of the Radical Opposition and Allies (USORAS), which led to an announcement of cooperation by opposition leader and former prime minister Étienne Tshisekedi on January 7. The press was more skeptical, accusing members of the national legislature of devoting more time to political squabbles than to legislative business, and by January 27 USORAS was demanding that the Supreme Court annul the appointment of Kengo Wa Dondo as prime minister. Yet it was Kengo's appointment that encouraged foreign governments, including the U.S., to look more favourably on relations with Zaire. Meanwhile, none appeared capable of halting or even of slowing down the galloping inflation that had driven the majority of people to rely on barter. The prime minister's efforts to bring the banks back into operation were foundering owing to a shortage of cash.
Concern for the political stability of the country was briefly pushed aside in May by news of deaths from the Ebola virus in Kikwit, 500 km (310 mi) east of Kinshasa. The outbreak, the origin of which remained obscure, was quickly contained, and fewer than 300 people died from the disease. The speed with which the infection overwhelmed its victims and the dreadful nature of its progress caused widespread disquiet, however.
The announcement that the transitional government would continue in office for an additional two years because it was impossible to arrange elections in time to meet the deadline previously set gave rise to another wave of unrest. Clashes on July 29 between security forces and demonstrators loyal to the memory of assassinated former prime minister Patrice Lumumba resulted in the deaths of nine civilians and one police officer. Leaders of USORAS, while dissociating themselves from the Lumumbist cause, insisted that the clashes would not deter them from conducting a campaign to oust Kengo Wa Dondo and to reinstate Tshisekedi as prime minister. A rally called to launch the campaign on August 6 took place peacefully.
Later in August attention became focused on the more than one million refugees from Rwanda and Burundi who were living in camps just inside the country's eastern border. The local population had for some time complained of food shortages in the region and said that the refugees were cutting down vast numbers of trees to use for firewood and as building materials. In June and July more than 100 Zaireans were reported to have been killed in clashes with the refugees, which prompted the prime minister to ask the refugees to return home. The government was gravely concerned about the security problems created by the existence of the camps and was dissatisfied with the inadequate provisions made for the refugees by the international community. When the UN Security Council resolved on August 16 to end its embargo on the sale of arms to Rwanda, the government protested. It argued that this could only lead to attacks on the camps by Rwandan soldiers seeking reprisals against those responsible for the massacres in Rwanda that had led to the revolution there.
Zaire's response was to begin the forcible repatriation of refugees on August 19. This caused an international outcry, but representatives of aid agencies in the camps recognized that the government's action had encouraged many of the refugees who wanted to go home to say so openly. Previously, they had been afraid to act because of rumours that they would be arrested or killed if they did so. As a result, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees offered on August 24 to transform the expulsion program into a scheme for voluntary repatriation, an offer that the government readily accepted.
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