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The German government says strong demand from outside the eurozone helped the country's industrial orders rise a stronger-than-expected 1.7 percent in December.
The Economy Ministry says Monday that the monthly rise follows a revised 4.9 percent drop in November.
Economists had been predicting a 1 percent rise in December.
The figures are adjusted for seasonal factors.
The rebound was driven by a strong 12.3 percent monthly increase from non-eurozone countries. By contrast, eurozone orders were down 6.8 percent and domestic orders fell 1.4 percent.


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By George Hay and Antony Currie
LONDON/NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Regulators in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States all agree on the need to protect their lenders from the casino-like antics of investment bankers. That's no great surprise: who wouldn't want to shield regular customers from the billions of pounds of losses caused by rogue traders like Kweku Adoboli of UBS UBSN.VX? But beyond this shared objective, there's little agreement.
The United States kicked things off in 2010 with proposals to prohibit deposit-taking firms from proprietary trading in what was dubbed the "Volcker Rule" after the former Federal Reserve chairman who created it. In the United Kingdom, a commission headed by Sir John Vickers concluded that retail deposit-taking institutions should be "ring-fenced" from investment-banking arms, which should be legally separated with their own capital and funding. More recently, a European Commission working group chaired by Finnish central bank Governor Erkki Liikanen recommended that Europe's banks should firewall all trading assets, be they prop or market-making.
Why all the different ideas?
It's partly politics: one of the reasons President Obama embraced the Volcker Rule was to try to deflect criticism after losing his supermajority in the senate. But the main factor is that U.S. and European banks are structured differently.
A Vickers-style firewall between the safe and risky bits of banks would not have cut the mustard in America: its lenders are already carved into legally separate entities with restrictions on intra-group exposures. Yet that didn't prevent investment-banking shenanigans from landing the likes of Citi (C.N) and Bank of America (BAC.N) in hot water.
UK and European universal banks, on the other hand, have historically allowed deposit-taking retail activities and investment banking to co-exist within the same legal entity.
Policymakers in all three regions worry that investment banks get cheaper funding if they're tacked on to an entity that creditors know will be bailed out. But the issue is especially emotive in the United Kingdom, which is home to more than its fair share of big banks. Rescuing them all in a crisis would cripple British taxpayers.
Which plan is most conservative?
Tough one. Vickers is the only one to build a firewall around the supposedly "safe" retail bit. But that's no guarantee of success: witness the $6 billion-odd trading loss the so-called London Whale caused at JPMorgan (JPM.N) when supposedly hedging the bank's excess deposits. And if Barclays'(BARC.L) investment bank collapsed, it's a fair bet that retail depositors would rush to pull their money out. UK authorities might prefer to use taxpayer money to bail out the trading arm than risk repeating the Lehman debacle.
Both Volcker and Liikanen judge proprietary trading to be "risky" and market-making "safe". But the losses caused by Adoboli and the Whale were not prop trading. And the main reason U.S. regulators have yet to finalise, let alone implement, the Volcker Rule, is because it has proved exceptionally tricky to define where market-making ends and prop trading begins. In other words, putting only pure prop trading behind a firewall will not remove all the risk from the system.
So what's the point of firewalls, then?
Global capital and liquidity reforms from the Basel Committee have already made banks safer – and have made prop trading prohibitively expensive. However, banks are still too big to fail. Solving this problem requires global progress on resolution and recovery plans, which enable a failing bank to be safely wound down. Firewalls are a useful first step in this process.
Will there be any nasty side effects?
There could be. Volcker bans prop trading with any U.S. institution, even if the counterparty is outside the United States. This extra-territorial bit of rule-making could effectively extend the rule to non-U.S. banks. Volcker also allows prop trading in American sovereign debt but not in that of any other countries. As currently drafted, this would mean that the likes of Citi or Bank of America Merrill Lynch might withdraw from underwriting primary issuance of Canadian or UK sovereign debt.
Vickers already penalises UK banks: forcing all their market-making and prop trading outside the ring-fence will raise funding costs. But Liikanen could heap further misery on UK lenders. France and Germany, worried about the effect of regulation on economic growth, are likely to adopt a kind of "Liikanen-lite", whereby they only firewall prop trading. This means a U.S. manufacturer that sells to German consumers might find hedging its dollar/euro currency risk pricier in London, and decide to do so in Paris or Frankfurt instead. Finally, no Asian jurisdiction is currently considering firewalls. That means the region's banks will be less constrained at the same time as their economies are growing faster than those in the West.
How much does any of this matter?
Right now, it's too early to tell. Crucial details are still up in the air. The size of the Vickers ring-fence will depend on secondary legislation, the European Union has not yet given its official response to Liikanen, and Volcker's definition of what will count as proprietary trading is still being debated. But even if regulators stick to the current drafts, it's hard to see firewalls as the game-changer politicians might like to pretend they are. Most of the other critical recent reforms – such as the Basel capital and liquidity rules, and global resolution and recovery schemes – will make global banks more alike. Ultimately, different countries' structural reforms partly reflect the fact that banking systems were different even before the crisis. Regulators will - and probably can afford to - agree to disagree.
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Offaly hard task for Antrim
Antrim will be hoping that success breeds success.
The footballers are guaranteed Division Three football next season, due in no small measure to the managerial skills of Liam Bradley.
On Sunday afternoon the hurlers face Offaly with promotion again the prize on offer.
But it's a tall order asking them to overcome Offaly in Tullamore.
The Saffrons currently third in Division Two behind both Offaly and Wexford have had a mixed season to date.
Beating Wexford in Casement Park was a huge achievement, but their inability to build on that result might yet prove their undoing.
They certainly didn't play like promotion hopefuls when carelessly dropping points to also-rans Carlow and Westmeath.
It's that inability to kill off the so called weaker teams that must be so frustrating for the management team of Dominic McKinley and Sambo McNaughton.
Only one side gets promoted out of Division Two this season, the winner of the final featuring the top two on May 3 and there are still three counties in with a realistic chance of securing Division One hurling next season.
Wexford are currently second in the table and are expected to secure their place in the play off by beating Carlow on Sunday afternoon.
"Before the league began we could have been classed as the third placed team and rightly so," said Sambo.
"We're not expected to beat Offaly, but then that's the way it's always been with Antrim hurlers.
"But it's a task we're relishing for effectively it's now in our own hands, We're no longer depending on favours from elsewhere," he said.
And yet it could al have been so different had the Saffrons not slipped up so dramatically when inexcusably dropping points against both Carlow and Westmeath.
Sunday will be a huge day for hurling in Antrim, but of even more importance will be the Leinster championship clash with Dublin that is fast approaching.
Victory then and all will be forgotten and forgiven.
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Lovotics, Academic Studies of Love and Friendship with Robots EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Adrian David Cheok, Japan HONORARY EDITOR David Levy, UK Dear Colleague, I am writing to invite you to submit an article to the journal "Lovotics: Academic Studies of Love and Friendship with Robots," which is is an open-access peer-reviewed, and fully refereed journal that aims to cover a broad spectrum of topics related to the latest technologies, new research results and developments in the area of lovotics on all levels including theory, methodology, design, implementation and application. Topics of interest for the scientific papers and letters include but are not limited to: Human-robot relationship Affective and cognitive sciences for interactive robots Context awareness, expectation and intention understanding Design methodologies and aesthetics of designing interactive robots Bio-mechatronics, neuro-robotics, and neurological aspect of Lovotics-based emotions Artificial emotions and emotion synthesis Scientific aspects of love Affective computing and emotional intelligence Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interactions Intelligent control and artificial intelligence for robotics Knowledge representation, information acquisition, and decision making Learning, adaptation and evolution of affection and intelligence Interaction and collaboration between robots, humans and environments Multimodal perception and communication within Lovotics robots Ethics of Lovotics Social acceptance and impact in the society Cultural implications of human-to-robot love and robot co-relations Compliance, safety and compatibility in the design of social robots "living" with humans Considerations of security, safety and compatibility regarding human-robot co-inhabitants Software architecture and development tools for Lovotics Human-robot interaction and robot-robot interaction Models of human and animal social behavior as applied to robots Evaluation and measurement of love Philosophical ramifications of love between humans and robots Methodologies of verbal and kinetic reaction systems Tangible Interfaces for transferring affection Embodiment: How robotic affection can be transferred through technological mediation. Invoking human emotions from non-human partners Behavioral studies of human and robot behaviors The journal has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has a broad international coverage. A current list of the journal's editors can be found at http://www.ashdin.com/journals/lt/editors.aspx. Manuscripts can be submitted online at http://mts.ashdin.com/. If you have not already an account, then create one by clicking on the "Register" link. You then will be able to submit your manuscript in an electronic form (.PDF). Manuscripts submitted in response to this initial invitation will be published FREE, i.e., without any article processing charges. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the journal. Best regards, John Costa Ashdin Publishing 2E, rue de la Vallee 7387 Roisin, Honnelles Belgium http://www.ashdin.com


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I'm the founder and Chairman for the Community Watch Coordinaotrs (CWC) which meets monthly. It is comprised of 32 Neighborhood Watch Coordinators in the Lee County Sheriff's Bravo District. Our goals are to maintain neighborhood watches once they are started by sharing ideas and activities that work. We also carry a large voice to our local politicians as we partner with them to ensure that county resources are applied where they are needed most. We have gotten roads paved, speed limits reduced and posted, the right-of-ways mowed, street lighting and so much more. We clean up our own neighborhoods with the help of Adopt-A-Road. Our neighborhoods have shown so much improvement that some are reporting zeero crime - although our district has had one of the highest crime rates in the county. Our relationship with the Lee County Sheriff's Office is so amazing that each year neighborhood watch groups play a softball game against the deputies and compete for a huge traveling trophy. And more about me, I also serve on the Board of Directors for Keep Lehigh Acres Beautiful, was the Secretary for a Weed & Seed project in Lehigh, as well as Chairman for the Community Policing Subcommittee. Between 2007 - 2010 I held neighborhood clean-ups throughout Lehigh Acres with 70-200 volunteers for each project and removed between 1-4 tons of trash, tires and debris. As a community leader in Lehigh I strive to improve Lehigh Acres, one neighborhood at a time. As a Real Estate Agent I strive to improve Lehigh Acres, one home and one family at a time.
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The globalisation with all its risks and opportunities is unstoppable. Nevertheless, there are still some national specifics. This applies at least to the world wide metal community. As you surely know, Australia has established a very independent extreme metal scene. Its protagonists play an utterly intense combination of black metal and thrash. The glorious Deströyer 666 or the less known Mongrel´s Cross must be mentioned in this context. Not surprisingly, Denouncement Pyre also belong to the representatives of this extreme art from Down Under. Of course, these bands need a powerful production in order to make the full effect of their compositions come true. Fortunately, the here presented output bares its tremendous teeth. Its dense and malignant sound does not refer to the old school of the albums of the eighties, but makes full use of the modern techniques. Nevertheless, I am not talking about a sterile production which is lacking a soul. Nobody needs to be afraid that this album hails modernity as an end in itself.
Passion and vehemence are no foreign words for the band. The guys reveal additionally a weakness for blasphemous melody lines that add the harmonic yet ironclad touch. As if this was not enough, Denouncement Pyre also have some mesmerizing parts in their repertory. "An Extension of the Void", the first track after the fairly unnecessary intro, shows this clearly. Its instrumental second half is a hypnotizing sound collage whose evil aura grows constantly. As mentioned above, intensity is one of the crucial factors and the merciless riffing of this section leaves no doubt in that respect. Call it repetitive or protracted, but the effect of this approach should not be underestimated. Denouncement Pyre stakes its claim right from the get-go and the insensitive band does it in a ferocious yet calculated manner. Further highlights like "He Who Conquers All" and "Darkness Manifest" also leave no wishes open.
Although this part belongs to the best moments of "Almighty Arckanum", it goes without saying that I appreciate the fact that the second record of the formation is not a pure instrumental work. Admittedly, the raw lead vocals do not shape the sound of the group in a significant way and unique features are missing. But lead vocalist "D." delivers the usual amount of harshness and hostility. Therefore, he underlines the atmosphere of the music in an appropriate manner. Its negativity is not based on utterly violent compositions. The band is not interested in delivering the most extreme album of all times. These guys have another aim. While reaching a more than solid level of aggression, they add an extra dose of malignancy in order to create a murderous atmosphere - and they are successful, not least because of the almost excessive number of venomous riffs and leads. The listener is at risk to drown in the roaring maelstrom that the musicians generate. Not only fans of Razor of Occam, another band that comes originally from Australia, should keep an eye on Denouncement Pyre.
Australia's own black metallers, Denouncement Pyre, have returned again after 2010's critically-lauded full-length release "World Cremation" with the equally well-named "Almighty Arcanum". Fans who enjoyed the band's previous effort will find this new release to be the gratifying finishing touch to the endearing epicness that Denouncement Pyre established for themselves with "World Cremation", a foundation that helped seal the band's status as one of Australia's darkest black metal exports.
For those who have not heard the band's previous effort, the new album will still tug at all the right strings, that is if you're crazy for black metal. They meet all the standard criteria: morbid lyrics, searing guitars, unrelenting rhythm, and evil atmosphere. But this band possesses an edge over the horde of black metal bands the record industry is spewing out these days, an edge that stems from sheer quality. Like most black metal songs, Denouncement Pyre's songs all have their foundation laid on a strict and fast drum rhythm. That being said, the band carries on their motto of quality by not settling with the simple kicker rhythm. They go on to infuse carefully constructed atmospheres into their songs, which is a wise move seeing as it does its part to enshrine the tone and feel of the record.
A perfect example of the band's great use of atmosphere is in the first track itself, "Intro: Breath of Tehom". Now, I don't know who Tehom is, but I'm assuming his breath must be one hell of a killer because that was one truly scary track. The band's technical prowess and musical message shines through their more violent, heavy tracks such as "Almighty Arcanum" and the thunderous "Circle Of Serpents". Both efforts are incredible black metal pieces with attitude to boot.
Vocalist Decaylust has a deeper voice with a more concrete growl in contrast with the more airy, high-pitched typical black metal screams. There are a variety of riffs present on the album from fast shredding to slower, more ominous chugging. Throw in that nice dose of atmosphere that the band loves so much and you've got one vivid record. Followers of Marduk, Enthroned, and Angelcorpse will find this record to be running in a similar wavelength. Even Watain, now black metal's hottest representative, will be seen to share the same kind of thoughtful, quality work with the band.
Denouncement Pyre has managed to wow me with their efforts, if not intimidate my eardrums into making me proclaim them as Satan's favourite musicians, and in Denouncement Pyre's case, the more Satan seems to like them, the better off they are.
Originally written for http://www.metal-temple.com.
The second album from Australia's rising black/death metal horde Denouncement Pyre is one of the finer examples of Australian extreme metal and have produced one of the better black metal releases of the year, as this will surely be at or near the top of many best-of lists months from now despite being released so early on, it's that impressive and bodes well for the group in the future.
With intro 'Breath of Tehom' setting the stage for the events to come, proper first track 'Extension of the Void' starts off with the band in full-force, kicking in immediately without any build-up with it's hellfire-like riffs, pounding drums and caustic vocals that blast through at warp speed, recalling a faster Grief of Emerald at times, especially on the eerie middle which features the band riffing for what seems like ages but manages to keep the ferocity and intensity intact. The title track continues the tradition with a rather blaring guitar tone and a thunderous drumming display that marks off one of the finest tracks on the album as well as one of its fastest, along with other stand-out speed-freak 'The Deceiver' generating some strong influences with its unholy guitars and frenetic pacing. The other great track here, ending cut 'The Redeemer' with its' precision-drumming and extreme tempo changes makes for a wholly impressive offering that just seems to get better as the song winds through it's epic-length running time featuring solos and an epic outro-piece that is quite impressive, offering some of the best representative work of the band as a whole.
Even second-tier tracks, like 'He Who Conquers All' or 'Circle of Serpents' are rather fun here, which is quite nice to see since there's those really impressive riffing done that screams infernal black metal to their core, great drum-work and caustic vocals that not only work for their style of music but really create a properly imposing atmosphere here that makes this such a blast to listen to. That is very well one of the defining points of the album, that it is so dark and atmospheric that is generally represented by the old-school black metal groups but here is mixed with the death metal influences to offer up a really good offering that is as catchy as extreme metal will get but is handled just perfectly here as the songwriting is far beyond their years to be able to mix them together throughout so effectively.
There's not too much to dislike here, as the rather brief running time is rather difficult to get a handle on initially until it's realized that two of the tracks are instrumental solo takes that barely last a minute leaving this with seven proper songs. While this isn't necessarily a real problem, the fact that there's just not a lot of time here makes this one seem to go by so quickly that right when it gets good there's the ending track so it appears to end on a quick note which isn't so bad at times but here tends to make this feel too brief. As well, the drum-patterns throughout are impressive but tend to be too weak in the mix, standing to get bumped up a notch and come through even more forcefully but which is overall not a detrimental flaw here at all and makes this one stand up as one of the best efforts so far.
If 2010's World Cremation was the right hook pummeling you to the arena mat, then Almighty Arcanum must be the pinning maneuver, because it more or less takes everything I enjoyed about that album and fleshes it out into a more appreciable set of songs that had me straining my neck in bestial, barbaric deference. Like the last album, the worst I can ever say for Denouncement Pyre is they lack a real sense for creativity or innovation, but when you're having as much fun as you will listening through these tracks, then that shouldn't prove a hindrance in eagerly recommending this to the followers of groups like Deströyer 666, Marduk, (90s) Enthroned, (late 80s) Bathory, Angelcorpse, Bestial Warlust, and other purveyors of comparable, cacophonous, blitzkrieg bombast.
This is a fast record, but not to a fault. Blasting sequences are measured out against slower, warlike segues where the drums are just as intense, like artillery treads about to crush a few hillocks of human bones. As with the prior album, the band accrues more black metal brownie points than death (for a hybrid), but you can feel the presence of the latter medium through the more robust, growled vocals. What separates the Australians from a number of similar, savagery-borne outfits who try to thrive on simple formulas of blasts and tremolo patterns is that Denouncement Pyre fuse a little more atmosphere into even the most standard numbers like "An Extention of the Void" and the eerie keening behind the meaty bridge riff; or the slower, ominous riffing of "The Deceiver". That said, they truly shine when they barrel forward through pieces such as the titular "Almighty Arcanum" or the superb, driving "Circle of Serpents". If you're not throwing your horns at the abyss within about :30 of the early riffs in these, then you're probably late for Communion, clearly in the wrong place. Almighty Arcanum is not filled to the bloody gills with excellent, memorable rhythms, leads, or transitions, but it's entirely well put together, a noteworthy opus of infernal craftsmanship.
Much of this can be attributed to the emboldened, incendiary production, which transforms what might otherwise be the most banal of riffing sequences into a poignant discharge of bright, intimidating anger. The drums and vocals sound great, but the guitars have an exemplary mix whether they're surging along in some black/thrash configuration, twisting into a vile tremolo picking, or a more solemn, crushing abrasion. Bass is not too much of a standout in terms of adding depth and dimension, but you can still hear it plugging along somewhere, and it doesn't detracted from the dominant guitar seated above it. The vocals of Decaylust (aka 'D) aren't exactly novel, but they're abusive enough, and I like the wavering fountain of vomited blood he invokes on the sustained notes. All told, Almighty Arcanum is an impressive, smash-up job, even if the pale quartet on the cover seem like they've turned their ouroboros into some hellish trampoline. Plenty of seething bursts of Satanic celerity here to counteract the occult mortar-shell certainty of the mid-paced fare, and if you ignored them the last time they put out an album (a good one, I might add), it'll be a little harder in 2013, since Denouncement Pyre will piss demon-spunk all over you.


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Georgina C. Peace, 91, of Elyria, died Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain. She was born November 25, 1921 in Newport, Kentucky, where she lived until moving to Elyria in 1960.
Georgina was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking, gardening and ceramics. She was a member of St. Agnes Church in Elyria.
Georgina is survived by her sons, Barry (Ella) Peace of North Carolina and Jack (Lori) Peace of Elyria; granddaughters Jennifer Vanderputten and Jessica Chabotte; and grandsons Barry Peace, Jr. and Joshua Peace.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack R. Peace in 2011.
A graveside service will be Friday, August 2, 2013 at 10 A.M. at Fields Cemetery, North Ridgeville. Reverend Charles T. Diedrick, Pastor of St. Mary Church in Elyria, will officiate.
Dicken Funeral Home, Elyria, is in charge of arrangements.
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Critical Transport Infrastructure in Urban Areas: Impacts of Traffic Incidents Assessed Using Accessibility-Based Network Vulnerability Analysis
Incidents (vehicle breakdowns, crashes, roadworks, lane blockages, severe weather, etc.) are believed responsible for about 50 percent of traffic congestion in Australia's major cities, which is a similar situation to that found in cities in many other parts of the developed world. Incident-based congestion is particularly disruptive because of its random occurrence in space and time, which maximises the operational impacts of the congestion on social and economic activities. This paper discusses a method for assessing critical locations-congestion "hot spots"-in urban road networks, and the development and application of diagnostic tools that will allow urban road system managers to anticipate potential vulnerabilities to incident-related congestion and take proactive action to avoid congestion rather than react to it. The expected outcomes are then reduced congestion, delays, and pollution; significantly improved performance from the existing urban road system; and reduced pressure to build more roads. The method involves modelling of travel demand, network topology, capacity and road geometry, the identification and assessment of impacts of traffic incidents at specific locations in a road network, and the use of accessibility impact analysis to assess system-wide effects. Accessibility impact analysis is undertaken using an accessibility framework, which can account for time of day, transport mode and destination choices by individuals, and level of traffic congestion among other factors. A case-study application to a specific (potential) incident in a real-world network indicates that the proposed method is feasible and demonstrates its power in identifying not just total impacts but the distribution of those impacts across a region or community. While current approaches to urban road network planning and management tend to be reactive-finding cures for problems as they arise or addressing locations of recurrent congestion or bad incident record-the vulnerability analysis method described in the paper should lend itself to a proactive approach that can anticipate structural weaknesses and vulnerabilities and help to avoid or at least temper potential adverse effects, rather than to react to them afterwards. Copyright (c) 2008 Copyright the Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc..
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Yankees 6
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Yankees 6
Devil Rays 3
Even Yogi might say it's over.
As the Yankees complete the Kansas State portion of their schedule, it is becoming abundantly clear the AL East race is done.
Yesterday and last night at a soggy Stadium, the Yankees beat up their latest cream-puff opponent, the Devil Rays, twice.
Ruben Sierra led the way, hitting the game-winning homer in the first game and driving in three runs in the second.
The Yankee victories – 6-5 in the day game and 6-3 in the nightcap – allowed them to tie their season-best winning streak of eight games and give them the best record in baseball at 92-56.
With the Red Sox loss, it pushed the magic number down to 10 and Boston 5½ games back wit 14 to play.
"It's significant," Joe Torre said of yesterday's 1½-game turnaround.
In the night game, Sierra knocked an RBI single in the first and a two-run double in the fifth. The struggling Jason Giambi smacked a solo homer, winner Mike Mussina pitched seven innings of two-run (one earned) ball and Mariano Rivera picked up his second save of the day.
In the day game, Sierra slammed a game-winning eighth inning homer to give the Yankees a 6-5 victory. Bernie Williams, on his 35th birthday, added two homers. Gabe White got the win.
Yesterday's double-header delight began at 1:09 with a confident Jeff Weaver firing a first-pitch strike. By 1:12 p.m., an already dejected Weaver allowed the day's first run. Weaver only allowed three runs in five innings, which doesn't sound as bad as it looked.
He gave up nine hits and afterward hung on to the idea that he was one of the best players on the team, even though a postseason roster spot seems unlikely.
Sierra's place on the playoff roster is assured, but his part is still somewhat undetermined. Torre is wrestling Sierra's excellent offense against his below-average defense.
Yesterday in game one, Torre fought his choices. Before Hideki Matsui hurt his knee in the seventh, forcing Torre to remove him, Sierra – who played right field in the day – was headed for the bench.
Torre planned on putting the superior defender and the right-handed hitting Juan Rivera in right. Rivera would have been due up in the eighth to face lefty reliever Joe Kennedy. With only another lefty, Karim Garcia, available, Torre stuck with Sierra.
"I'd rather be lucky than good," Torre said.
Leading off the eighth, Sierra crushed a Kennedy fastball. Sierra, doing his patented celebratory skip that pre-dates Sammy Sosa's version, watched the ball climb over the 408-sign in center.
Torre got plenty lucky in the second game. In the fifth, Derek Jeter stole second and saw with the Devil Ray's in a Jason Giambi shift, there was no one on third. Jeter outraced third baseman Jared Sandberg to third. But with Sandberg almost riding Jeter like a jockey, Jeter over slid the bag. The lucky, but good part? Jeter was not injured.


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Trying to clean out my tea cupboard a bit, and the best way to do that is to make iced tea since it uses so much leaf. My Teavana stuff is getting on in age, so I'm trying to work through that. I figure there isn't much time left this season for iced tea and I was thirsty today, so iced tea it is.
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Michael is a professor of Mathematics with DeVry University and is going to prepare a series of statistical or charts which show the academic success rates of students for each earned letter grade including A, B, C, D, and F letter values. The charts will be presented to all math majors during a special scheduled session and then to all non-math majors during other multiple scheduled sessions. Before any presentation, Michael had a meeting with the academic chair, Sally, and the following concerns were expressed. You decide to help Michael create a document formalizing suggestions based on your extensive experience working with Microsoft Excel charts.
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Sunshine, sunnies, seniors and smiles
Seniors reeled in a good time under blue skies, during the 29th annual Senior Fishing Day on July 11.
The popular event, hosted by Viking Sportsmen and many volunteers, is a day where senior citizens and special handicapped people have the opportunity to ride along on pontoons to fish or sightsee for a few hours.
"The seniors just love it. The next day at the senior center they have already started to talk about next year. And if their friends missed it then they would tell them all about it and how good of a time it was," Arlene Bosek, director of the event noted. "I hear about it all year round."
This year, more than 120 seniors from around the Alexandria area, including veterans from Fergus Falls, gathered at Arrowwood Resort and Conference Center to go fishing.
Later, they were taken to the 4-H building at the fairgrounds for a fish fry from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
The number of people fed during the fish fry has grown each year; this year they fed more than 400 people.
Though there were hundreds of volunteers at the event, a large portion of the volunteers are Junior Vikings and 4-H Chippewans.
The kids ride along in the boats with the seniors, help bait the hooks and remove fish when they are caught.
"The seniors really enjoy having the kids onboard because they are able to talk and communicate with them - something they don't have the opportunity to do nowadays," Bosek noted.
In total, the event used about 15 pontoons, all of which were donated by Viking Sportsmen and people Bosek knew.
The bait and refreshments were also donated by Bosek Fisheries, Speedy Bait and Viking Coca-Cola.
"The seniors appreciate what we do so much, and they make the volunteers know it, so it is all worthwhile," she said.
Bosek gave a special thanks to Arrowwood Resort, which provides the use of their grounds, docks and their pontoon boats, Bosek Fisheries and Speedy Bait, Viking Coca-Cola, District 206 bus drivers, and all of the volunteers.
"The bus drivers brought the seniors to Arrowwood and then to the fish fry and back home. They were so friendly and cooperative," Bosek noted. "I wouldn't have been able to do this without all of my volunteers, but also without all the people who came."


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Sheriff outlines Hudson standoff with suicidal teen
A police standoff with a suicidal teen in Hudson Tuesday afternoon and night ended peacefully, with neither the teen nor police officers injured. But there were several tense moments during the 13-hour standoff, that included at least 10 rounds fired by the teen in the home in which he barricaded himself.
Sheriff Dennis Hillstead said the incident started at noon Tuesday and ended close to 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Agencies responding to the incident included up to 30 people from St. Croix County (deputies, traffic, containment and negotiating personnel), eight deputies from Pierce County, Hudson Police Department (traffic control), Hudson Fire Department (traffic control) and a Union Pacific Railroad detective.
"It was a very expensive operation," Hillstead said. "There was a lot of overtime."
He did not yet have a final estimate on the cost.
Hillstead said the incident ended at about 1 a.m. Wednesday when the 16-year-old boy finally came out of the attic in a home on highway 12, just south of the Nor Lake plant in the town of Hudson. The incident began at noon Tuesday.
"The young man was a run-away from a few days ago," Hillstead said. "He left home and stole a pistol and made threats against his life and any officers that would come after him. We've been on the lookout for a few days."
It turns out that the juvenile was being hidden in the closet in the home of his girl friend, the home where the incident began. Earlier in the day the father of the girl found out about it and told the girl she could not see the juvenile male. The male left the home, but returned with the gun.
"He came back and threatened to kill himself," Hillstead said. "The girls father called our department and we responded at about noon Tuesday.
"When the deputies arrived, the juvenile came out of the house and had the gun pointed at his head."
In the meantime, the father and girl left the home. The juvenile made some remarks to the deputies when they arrived and retreated back into the home - the standoff began.
Hillstead said authorities were in communication with the teen by cell phone and text messaging.
"At about 8 p.m. the messages stopped. By then he had already fired about six rounds in the house and we determined we needed to enter the property," Hillstead said. "We introduced a chemical agent and waited.
"We then intercepted a text message to someone else, so we knew he was still alert. We introduced more chemical agents and waited."
At about midnight, a team entered the low level of the home. Once that level was cleared, the team made it to the second level. It was there that deputies found a crawl space that leads to an attic.
"We made verbal contact at that point," Hillstead said. "He fire four more rounds, but not at officers. We introduced another chemical agent into the attic and about 45 minutes later he tossed out his pistol from the attic and exited."
The teen was then decontaminated, examined at Hudson Hospital and sent to the juvenile detention center in Eau Claire. He was scheduled for a court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 15.


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Dane Reynolds (born September 7, 1985 in Long Beach, California) is an American professional surfer from Ventura, California.[1] He is known for his "go for broke" style of surfing that includes many experimental and aerial maneuvers.[2]
Reynolds started surfing at the age of 10 after he moved from Bakersfield, California to Ventura.[3] It was here on the point breaks around Santa Barbara and Ventura that he honed his progressive style of surfing. Reynolds first started competing at age 13 and at 16 had dropped out of school to surf.[4]
Reynolds competed in the 2003 and 2004 X-Games and received the highest single wave score both years.[5] The 2008 ASP World Tour marked his rookie year on the esteemed tour after finishing 2nd on the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) behind Jordy Smith. His ranking on the WCT in 2008 was 19th with 4066 points, then he moved up to the coveted "Top Ten" (10th) in 2009 with 5219 points.[1] In 2010 Reynolds had a breakout year, ending up tied for fourth in the 2010 ASP World Tour with Taj Burrow. His 2011 tour started disappointly missing the first three events due to a knee injury.[6]
Reynold's first video, "First Chapter", won Best Male Performance in a Video and Video of the Year at the 2006 Surfer Poll Awards.[5]
Major sponsors of Dane Reynolds include Channel Islands,
Dane Reynolds started Summer Teeth with his manager Blair Marlin. It was started as a kitschy beach gear brand, they now produce t-shirts and other apparel.[7]
In August 2012, Reynolds was inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California.[8]
In Late 2011 Dane distinguished himself from other pro surfers by shaping his own surfboard called the Channel Islands Sperm Whale.[9] Rob Machado and others have created their own surfboards as well, instead of relying on a surfboard shaper.
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- ^ a b "ASP Surfer Profile". ASP.
- ^ "Dane Reynolds – The best free surfer in the world". Newquay Surfer. 2009.
- ^ "SURFER INTERVIEW: Dane Reynolds". Surfer Mag. 2010.
- ^ Ben Ehrenreich. "The Pro Surfer". Men's Vogue. Archived from the original on June 2008.
- ^ a b "Quiksilver Team Profile". Quiksilver Europe.
- ^ "We Miss Dane on Surfline.com". ASP International.
- ^ Bradstreet, Kailee. "DANE REYNOLDS BARES HIS SUMMER TEETH". Transworld Business. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ Carroll, Corky (August 2, 2012). "Honoring a champion's champion, title or otherwise". Huntington Beach Wave (OC Register). p. 4.
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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says he was subjected to what he felt was a racist comment by Alex Segura, head of the Utah Minuteman Project.
The remark was made, Shurtleff said, after he respectfully declined an invitation by Segura to attend a Minuteman rally.
The group opposes illegal entry into the United States and current movements to resolve some of the problems related to illegal immigration. Minuteman groups have sent members to informally patrol the U.S./Mexican border.
"I've heard people over time refer to Alex and the people with the Minutemen as being racist but have tended not to believe it," Shurtleff told the Deseret Morning News, but he said what Segura told him in an e-mail sent to him last Tuesday was outright racist. "It's almost code for things that I won't repeat," Shurtleff said.
The issue began when Segura invited Shurtleff to attend the May 1 "Wake-Up America Rally" at the Salt Lake City & County Building.
Shurtleff said he e-mailed Segura, telling him that he was scheduled to argue before a subcommittee of the Utah Supreme Court at the same time and could not make it. "I won't be able to join you," Shurtleff wrote back.
What followed was a caustic reaction by Segura, Shurtleff said. Segura pointed out that illegal aliens have called Minutemen "every nasty name in the book" and have made rude finger gestures and waved Mexican flags. Later, Segura sent another e-mail saying, "No surprise that you have declined, it's just what we expect from you. You're La Raza in your black heart and not an American in my opinion. And you wanted to be governor? Sure!"
La Raza is in apparent reference to the Hispanic community advocacy group the Utah Coalition of La Raza. The group has radically differing views from the Minuteman Project on various immigration matters.
"I don't know why he's so mad at me," Shurtleff said. He said he takes the comment as an example of Segura and others showing racist tendencies. "It's as if people who have brown skin or people who support anyone of Hispanic descent are being un-American. Just because someone has a differing point of view on the subject of immigration, they are labeled as un-American," Shurtleff said.
Segura accused Shurtleff of using his comment as a way to deflect attention from the fact that Shurtleff chose to attend a Hispanic rally but declined to attend his rally.
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Segura said that, being of Hispanic descent himself, he has a right to "criticize my brown brethren. If you haven't noticed or not, I'm Hispanic, so I can be La Raza if I wanted to be. I kind of see this as a cheap shot."
"This guy (Segura) is racist through and through," said Archie Archuleta, chairman of Utah Coalition of La Raza. He said he and other members were deeply offended by Segura's reference to their organization. "We've heard some of his comments and others from some of his cohorts, and they are just astoundingly stupid and inane."
Archuleta said Shurtleff has been a good friend to the Hispanic community and has been "very just" on immigration issues.There is a chance Shurtleff and Segura may run into each other at today's Salt Lake County Republican convention. Segura is vying for a bid to unseat Rep. Neal Hendrickson in House District 33 in West Valley City. When asked if he would have anything to say to Shurtleff at the convention, Segura said it would be "business as usual. I have nothing to say to him."
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This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The second funding round for the Global Poverty Action Fund Innovation Window is now open. The deadline for applications is 23 June 2011.
The GPAF was launched on 27 October 2010. It is a demand-led fund supporting projects focused on poverty reduction and the most off-track Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in selected poor countries. Projects are selected on the basis of demonstrable impact on poverty, clarity of outputs and outcomes, and value for money.
The GPAF programme objectives have been broadened to include some of the initiatives previously covered by the Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF), which is no longer open for applications. The GPAF will now support projects focused on poverty reduction and pursuit of the MDGs through tangible changes to poor people's lives including through: service delivery, empowerment and accountability and work on conflict, security and justice.
Learning from the first GPAF Innovation round has led to a number of changes, to make this window more accessible to organisations with innovative approaches to poverty reduction. A concept note stage has been introduced to make it easier for applicant organisations to present their innovative ideas and to reduce the amount of time and effort required in preparing an application.
We would welcome applications from any eligible UK-based organisations.
For further information, including the application form and eligibility criteria please visit our Global Poverty Action Fund webpage.
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Tiling a picture in Microsoft Word is helpful when you want to create art and newsletters, or when you want to feature a watermark or logo in the background of important documents. To tile a picture in Word, you must insert an image as a fill effect.
1Open the Word document in which you want to tile a picture.
2Click on "Page Layout" or "Design," then click on "Page Color."[1]
3Click on "Fill Effects." This opens the Fill Effects menu.
4Click on the "Picture" tab, then click "Select Picture."[2]
5Select the picture or image you want tiled, then click "Insert." The image will appear in the preview pane of your document.
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VANADIUM Overview Information
Vanadium is a mineral. It was named for the Norse goddess of beauty, Vanadis, because of its beautiful colors. Vanadium supplements are used as medicine.
Vanadium is used for treating diabetes, low blood sugar, high cholesterol, heart disease, tuberculosis, syphilis, a form of "tired blood" (anemia), and water retention (edema); for improving athletic performance in weight training; and for preventing cancer.
How does it work?
There is some evidence that vanadium might act like insulin, or help to increase the effects of insulin.
VANADIUM Uses & Effectiveness
Likely Effective for:
- Preventing vanadium deficiency, a condition in which the body doesn't have enough vanadium.
Insufficient Evidence for:
- Diabetes. There is some evidence that high doses of vanadyl sulfate (100 mg daily, providing 31 mg elemental vanadium) might improve the way people with type 2 diabetes use insulin, the hormone that processes sugar. The study suggested that high-dose vanadium might lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. But there are two big concerns about this study. First, it only involved 40 people, so the conclusions need to be confirmed using a bigger study group. Secondly, even if high-dose vanadium works for diabetes, these high doses, used long-term, might not be safe. It's not known if lower doses work as well. For now, don't use vanadium to treat type 2 diabetes. Wait to see if additional larger studies show benefit and safety.
- Heart disease.
- High cholesterol.
- Water retention (edema).
- Preventing cancer.
- Other conditions.
VANADIUM Side Effects & Safety
Vanadium is LIKELY SAFE in adults, if less than 1.8 mg per day is taken. At higher doses, such as those used to treat diabetes, vanadium frequently causes unwanted side effects including abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, nausea, and gas. It can also cause a greenish tongue, loss of energy, and problems with the nervous system.
Vanadium is UNSAFE when used in large amounts and for a long time. This increases the risk of serious side effects including kidney damage.
Vanadium might lower blood sugar. People with diabetes should check their blood sugar carefully and watch for signs of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).
Vanadium is LIKELY SAFE in children when taken in amounts found in foods. Don't give children supplements. Not enough is known about the safety of these larger doses in children.
Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy and breast-feeding: If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, limit your intake of vanadium to the amount found in food. Not enough is known about the safety of taking larger doses.
Diabetes: The vanadyl sulfate form of vanadium might lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Monitor your blood sugar carefully.
Kidney problems: There is developing evidence that vanadium might harm the kidneys. If you have kidney disease, don't use vanadium supplements.
VANADIUM Interactions
Moderate Interaction Be cautious with this combination
- Medications for diabetes (Antidiabetes drugs) interacts with VANADIUM
Vanadium seems to decrease blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes medications are also used to lower blood sugar. Taking vanadium along with diabetes medications might cause your blood sugar to go too low. Monitor your blood sugar closely. The dose of your diabetes medication might need to be changed.
Some medications used for diabetes include glimepiride (Amaryl), glyburide (DiaBeta, Glynase PresTab, Micronase), insulin, pioglitazone (Actos), rosiglitazone (Avandia), chlorpropamide (Diabinese), glipizide (Glucotrol), tolbutamide (Orinase), and others.
- Medications that slow blood clotting (Anticoagulant / Antiplatelet drugs) interacts with VANADIUM
Vanadium might slow blood clotting. Taking vanadium along with medications that also slow clotting might increase the chances of bruising and bleeding.
Some medications that slow blood clotting include aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix), diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Anaprox, Naprosyn, others), dalteparin (Fragmin), enoxaparin (Lovenox), heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and others.
VANADIUM Dosing
The following doses have been studied in scientific research:
- People get vanadium from food and from supplements. An average diet provides 6 to 18 mcg of vanadium per day. The various vanadium supplements contain a different amount of vanadium, depending on the chemical compound used. For example, vanadyl sulfate contains 31% elemental vanadium; sodium metavanadate contains 42% elemental vanadium; and sodium orthovanadate contains 28% elemental vanadium.
- The National Institute of Medicine has set the tolerable upper intake level (UL) of vanadium, the highest intake amount for which no unwanted side effects are expected, at 1.8 mg per day of elemental vanadium for adults. No UL has been set for infants, children, and pregnant or breast-feeding women. In these groups, vanadium intake should be limited to food or infant formula.


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Central Valley Congressman Honored for Efforts to Improve Access to Health Care Services
Aug 24, 2010, 15:46 ET from California Hospital Association
Rep. Dennis Cardoza Receives CHA Health Care Champion Award
MODESTO, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Merced) is being honored by California's hospitals and the patients they serve for his leadership and dedicated commitment to improving patient access to health care services during the health care reform debate in Congress earlier this year.
Rep. Cardoza, who serves in his party's leadership as an advocate for moderate Democrats, is the recipient of the Health Care Champion Award presented by the California Hospital Association (CHA). The award was presented during a special ceremony hosted by Doctors Medical Center in Modesto.
"Rep. Cardoza was a key negotiator during the health care reform debate, bringing sage advice at crucial parts of the debate," said CHA President and CEO C. Duane Dauner. "From his vantage point as a member of the House Rules Committee and a leader of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition, Rep. Cardoza played a pivotal role in preventing as much as $3 billion in Medicare funds from being shifted from California hospitals to hospitals in other states."
"From countless conference calls, literally at all hours of the day and night, to emails and strategy sessions, Rep. Cardoza made it clear that improving access to high quality, affordable care for all of his constituents was his number one priority," Dauner added. "Because of Rep. Cardoza's unwavering commitment, patients throughout the Central Valley and across the state can be assured that they will have access to vital health care services when they need it."
Dauner noted that Rep. Cardoza's district –which encompasses the northern San Joaquin Valley stretching from Stockton south to Fresno - has the highest number of uninsured in California.
In accepting the CHA award, Rep. Cardoza noted that providing access to quality health care has been a significant challenge in the district for many years, and is among the key reasons he initially ran for Congress in 2003.
"Having the opportunity to advocate the needs of my community as the health care reform legislation was developed will forever standout as one of the high points of my career in public service," Rep. Cardoza stated. "I am grateful and humbled that I had such an opportunity. I am equally grateful and humbled by this award and all that it represents."
As one of the largest health care trade associations in the nation, CHA represents more than 400 hospitals and health systems in California. The association provides its members with public policy development, issues management and legislative advocacy services at the state and federal levels. CHA has offices in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
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TOA Technologies named a 'Leader' in Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2012
Evaluation based on ability to execute and completeness of vision
Oct 22, 2012, 07:14 ET from TOA Technologies
CLEVELAND, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuous invention and innovation, the driving force behind TOA Technologies, enables businesses with field service teams to operate more predictively, productively and with a focus on superior customer service. In seven consecutive years of double-digit worldwide growth and through strong relationships with customers and partners, TOA brings significant momentum to cloud-based enterprise technology and mobile workforce management software. TOA believes the successful execution of this approach has been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2012* in which TOA Technologies has been named a "Leader."
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"TOA Technologies is heralding the dawning of a new age in field service management," said Yuval Brisker, co-founder and CEO, TOA Technologies. "We are excited about the tectonic shifts in the technological landscape that have provided immense opportunities to solution providers like TOA and to our customers. Social, mobile, cloud and a focus on intelligent process automation are the major paradigm shifts that are driving businesses today. TOA has embraced them.
"We are convinced that solutions in the field service management market should optimize every process in the service cycle by learning, predicting and personalizing the workday for each and every mobile employee. They should analyze all potential variables of an appointment and allow field service organizations real-time visibility into all field operations. They should work on any device, in all conditions. They should be consistently deployed in weeks or months, not years. And, they should provide customers with a complete end-to-end solution for all of their field service needs, deliver unquestionable results from day one and continue to evolve with the needs of the businesses using them, empowering future growth," said Brisker.
"We consider being recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2012 a testament that this kind of innovative approach is key to market leadership in mobile workforce management."
Nearly a decade ago, Brisker spent most of a day waiting for an installer to arrive at his home. Instead of venting, he and Irad Carmi, TOA's CTO, invented the core ideas that are the foundation for the ETAdirect solution. Since the company's founding in 2003, TOA has become a respected global provider of mobile workforce management solutions, now with customers in 17 countries on four continents, and growing rapidly.
TOA Technologies maintains its focus on helping all businesses with field workforces achieve Service Everywhere™. With a complete suite of field service management solutions – ETAdirect Enterprise, ETAdirect Professional, ETAworkforce for Salesforce users – and a commitment to delivering on its promises to its customers, TOA continues to evolve and execute on its unique vision.
TOA Technologies differentiates itself by:
- Offering the only solutions that optimize field service using time. TOA's solutions measure the time that individual employees take to complete specific tasks or to travel from job to job, then use that information to create a personal performance profile for each person – a work "fingerprint." TOA's patented algorithms analyze these profiles to calculate the most intelligent job assignments, the most reliable schedules, the most efficient travel routes and the most precise appointments times. This allows field service employees and teams to complete jobs more effectively, while also helping the business better meet the service commitments made to customers.
- Extending field service management to include the end customer. From day one, TOA Technologies built its solution to bring the end customer into the loop of the service process, enabling businesses to dynamically engage in a two-way collaboration with their customers before, during and after the appointment. Customers are more informed and empowered, resulting in a more satisfying service experience.
- Pioneering advancements in cloud, social and mobile technology. TOA Technologies' ETAdirect was the first in its market to be delivered reliably and securely in the cloud. It was the first to natively offer communication and collaboration tools that intelligently connect the back office to field teams to customers. And the solution was the first to offer mobile applications that are completely browser-based and HTML5-driven so they can run on any device.
- Delivering solutions that work for its customers, meeting their needs and exceeding their expectations. TOA Technologies has a proven track record of delivery success and treats its customers as long-term partners; 100 percent of TOA's customers are references.
"Field service management is a fast-paced growing industry that continues to evolve with the rapid changes in the technology world. It's right at the center of Gartner's Nexus of Forces – the convergence of the mobile, social and cloud revolutions. At TOA, we know that being recognized as a leader in our market confirms that our focus on continuous invention and innovation is the right way to ensure our success," said Brisker. "But we refuse to be content. Our customers' businesses and the technology that surrounds us are only going to continue to change, and do so more rapidly. We view this challenge as an opportunity – an opportunity to continue to differentiate ourselves in the market by delivering new solutions that are even easier to use, deploy and maintain for our growing customer community. We are prepared to aggressively pursue this opportunity, today and into the future."
To learn more about what makes TOA Technologies a field service management leader, download the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2012.
About TOA Technologies
TOA Technologies is the leading provider of field service management applications. ETAdirect, TOA's patented platform, improves customer service while dramatically reducing operational costs and delivering immediate and lasting return on investment. As the industry's only complete on-demand solution, ETAdirect uses time-based pattern recognition and predictive analytics to provide the most advanced and accurate field service management application on the market. ETAdirect reduces customer wait times while increasing field workforce efficiency. TOA's solutions are cloud-based, quickly deployed, highly configurable and easily integrated with existing CRM, ERP and other solutions.
Across four continents, ETAdirect manages mobile workforces for some of the world's most recognizable global brands in the satellite/cable/broadband, telecom, utilities, insurance, home services and retail industries. TOA Technologies is headquartered in the United States and has offices throughout Europe, Latin America and Australasia. For more information about TOA Technologies, visit http://www.toatech.com.
About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
* Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management" by William McNeill, Michael Maoz, Gordon Van Huizen, 17 October 2012.
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In June 2010 I was a resident Joya artist at Cortijada Los Gazquez in Southern Spain. For two weeks I was a guest in this creative retreat/eco-guest house' in the Parque Natural Sierra Maria-Los Velez in Eastern Andalucia, having sole use of a thirty square meter studio and 20 hectares of land. With the assistance of Simon Beckman I turned the studio into a walk-in camera obscura and photographed the internal workings. These images show photographs of the landscape outside Los Gazquez reflected upside-down inside the studio. I created three apertures to experiment with multiple exposures and photographed the sunrise in the morning of the summer solstice.


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Every once in a while I run across a film that I don't understand – and frankly, don't even see the point of – yet still find immensely enjoyable. Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of those films.
Set somewhere in a fictionalized European nation called the Republic of Zubrowka circa 1932, The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the story of Zero, a young orphan from a war-torn country who lands a job as a bell hop in The Grand Budapest Hotel. It flows something like a storybook, with plenty of bright colors, a flair for the theatrical, moments of cartoonish action, and a hotel that looks like a cake. It starts in the present day, with a writer at his desk bluntly breaking the fourth wall and telling the audience about the story he is about to recount, which was told to him back during a stay at the Grand Budapest Hotel by the owner himself. Safely buried and filtered under two narrators, the tragic rags-to-riches tale begins.
At the center of said tale is Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's concierge and epitome of an English gentleman. His diction is impeccable and sophisticated, his love for poetry delightful and spontaneous, and his alacrity for the task of hotel management venerable and disciplined. But though having all the outward marks of a gentleman his honor suffers at several points. Namely, he fornicates shamelessly with a certain category of clientele: old, wealthy, lonely, desperate blonde women (yes, for some reason, notes the narrator curiously, they were always blonde). It is this vice that lands him in trouble and so provides the film's inciting incident. When one of his mistresses passes away, she leaves behind a massive inheritance. The most valuable of all her possessions, a painting of unsurpassed beauty called "Boy with Apple," she bequeaths in a last-minute will to M. Gustave. Her surviving family, of course, is furious and prepared to challenge the legitimacy of the will, so he secretly takes the painting with him after paying his respects and before all the legalities can be worked out.
The subsequent adventures involve a prison escape, running from a brass-knuckled hit man (played by a perfectly typecast Willem Dafoe) and a ski chase down a hill from a monastery called Our Holy Father of the Sudelten Waltz. They all culminate in a generally happy ending in the short term. (SPOILERS) That is, at the end of the film's retelling. Zero gets married to a girl from the bakery and M. Gustave gets the inheritance and the Grand Budapest. But shortly after Zero notes that his wife died from a now easily treatable disease, and his beloved friend and mentor, M. Gustave, soon passed away as well, leaving everything to him to enjoy in loneliness and decay.It leaves the audience with a tension that, upon reflection, I could only laugh at. How are you supposed to feel after that?
If there is anything redemptive to be found in The Grand Budapest Hotel, it is Anderson's creative world-building and artistic flair. He manages to construct an entire universe by reinventing 1930s Europe so that it is ahistorical – reminiscent of our world in style and ethnic dynamic yet entirely different in particulars, full of European-sounding names and Gestapo-like soldiers. The makeover works because we understand it and can make sense of the characters while encountering something entirely fresh. And while the film may not have the emotional weight to tug on our heartstrings, it has heart in the sense that the film as a whole – as a work of art – is a labor of love, carefully (if irreverently) crafted into something quite impressive.
I'm still not sure exactly what this "something" is, but whatever it is one can't contest that The Grand Budapest Hotel is wicked, wicked smart. Many of the deadpan jokes drop after a series of quick, accented, brilliantly crafted lines (I would watch it again for this very reason). Others humorous moments come in bursts of unexpected profanity, violence, and the taboo. Combined, these form an avant-garde color of comedy that appeals to both the sophisticated and edgy impulses of a well-versed filmgoer. The cinematography further enhances this deadpan humor with deadpan shots – straightforward and blunt, with just the right pacing to perfectly land every punch line.
Even without catching every clever moment, I at least walked out of The Grand Budapest Hotel with the satisfying sense that I had seen something with some original thought behind it, which is more than we can say about a lot of movies these days. And as for the storybook absurdity, well, it adds to the charm. Memory has a knack for playing tricks on us, after all, and life is more fun when embellished by a little theatrical imagination.