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tickets are up on groovetickets and resident advisor, still 15 on groovetix
tickets are up on groovetickets and resident advisor, still 15 on groovetix
Last year was awesome besides myself being super fucking tired.I'm going get a ticket soon as I double check shows playing that weekend.
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Kraftwerk @ Fox Theater 03/23/13
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ The Warfield 07/07/14
oh yeah, i got a $15 ticket. can't wait for this. might do this then rrose then the standard rooftop. have school on monday so have to go big the last weekend.

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Cardinals DC Horton knows Falcons QB presents great challenge
A huge reason for the Falcons' success and 8-1 start is quarterback Matt Ryan. Arizona defensive coordinator Ray Horton knows it will be a challenge for his players, and he talked about what makes Ryan so good.
"Accuracy and probably the word I use most after watching him, which I've never played him, is trust," Horton said Friday. "He trusts that whoever is going to be there is there. He throws guys open where when he throws the ball you're like �oh boy', and then all of a sudden wherever they say to be, they do so."
Ryan is fourth in the league in passer rating with a mark of 102.6, and owns a completion percentage of 68.4 this season.
According to Horton, Ryan's got all the skills a top-flight passer needs.
"Trust, his accuracy, arm strength, he can make all the throws, he can run, he gets them in the right (spot)," he said.
The Falcons' quarterback has never been successful in the postseason, but Horton doesn't think that means much.
"Probably the biggest knock on him, from what I hear, is he hasn't won a playoff game so that's why you don't talk about him like Aaron Rodgers or some other guys that have won deep into the playoffs," he said.
Ryan is also fortunate to have two of the best receivers in the game right now with Roddy White and Julio Jones. Jones did not practice this week with an ankle injury and is listed as questionable for Sunday.
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Most likely, AMD discovered it ain't so easy to transfer Havok calls to their GPUs so they gave up on it. That, or Intel did something to shoo them away. There was talks of Havok FX (Havok on GPU) a long time ago but it never happened. Havok just appears to be in limbo. Intel doesn't want to do anything with it because of the issues with Larrabee. They are just expanding the libraries to do more stuff like AI pathfinding and cloth. But think about it: what is Havok's speciality? Making physics code believable but not very intensive so it can run on the CPU without causing problems. There really is no market for them to make a more complex physics engine (like PhysX) that increases the hardware burden substantially and the end user can't tell a difference. Havok is havok--works great and is hardware friendly. Maybe Intel, Havok, and AMD discovered this so Havok is now just minding their own businesses improving on their already successful product?
What? So you can use PhysX for all of those PhysX games? I hear Fermi's love Florida this time of year.
Yeah the few that offer it. Plus the folding aspect of them and TWIMTBP program are both nice. We have Stream/Open CL that supports.........um? Oh an no Fermi. To hot for my region. I have to wait until the next gen.
It doesn't matter to me bud. Do we know folding performance yet? I've been playing plenty of "PhysX" games just fine with my card. None of these features to me are anything to get rid of my current card over. Though, I would gladly replace it with a GTX 480 on performance alone. OMG NO YOU!!!!
I'm just waiting for the free nvidia card with TWIMTBP branded games,otherwise i will just avoid them in future if i can.I am sick of nvidia giving game companies back handers to make sure games run like crap on ati hardware.
I am waiting for a day when Intel bans Havok on AMD chips. Hopefully it doesnt happen, but there might be a possibility.
I play lots, and lots, and lots of games. Overall, I think there's fewer problems with AMD cards than NVIDIA cards for one simple reason: AMD releases drivers monthly while NVIDIA is doing good to release them bi-annually. If there is a problem, AMD is likely to get it fixed long before NVIDIA does. Lets also not forget that NVIDIA is the reason DX 10.1 exists (DX 10.1 features were intended to be part of DX 10 but NVIDIA couldn't make Microsoft's deadline so they had to release DX 10 and later DX 10.1 with the features NVIDIA couldn't support but AMD could) and even then, it took them years to finally adapt it. NVIDIA was also late in releasing DX11 parts by about half a year. Oh, and the obscenely high failure rates on GeForce 8 series cards. All of the above are the reasons I went back to AMD. If Intel did that, Havok would be like PhysX with rare implementations. Intel won't do that for the sake of keeping Havok a viable company.
This is total and complete BS. I get so sick of this claim. Not even ATI themselves make this claim. TWIMTBP does not cripple ATI hardware, PERIOD. It just means nVidia took the time to give help to the dev to get their hardware optimized. Optimizing for nVidia is not the same as crippling ATI. ATI has the same opportunities to offer dev help, but usually choose not to. How is this, in any way, "evil" nVidia crippling ATI? PS: Sorry I sound snippy, tig. It's not meant to be personal, it's just a frustrating topic to see always popping up. Except that for the past 1 1/2 years, it's been ATI with the more bug laden drivers. nVidia's turn will come back around again tho. Both companies go back and forth on driver quality, just like they go back and forth in performance. And the failure rate on 8 series cards did not seem that high to me. Certainly not much different than ATI. Unless you meant the big defective batch of mGPUs?
i agree with wile E. i mean the way i can relate to it is a recent project i had in english 12. we had a group of 4, acting a scene in Macbeth(i hate eng 12). one of our group wasn't there for the script writing. we wrote ours, and then had to write his. he didn't really care for his but we were fine with ours. Are we "evil" or wrong for writing his script cause he wasn't there? no. Is nvidia wrong for helping dev's on their hardware when ATI isn't helping dev's on theirs? no.
So, just because ATI dont shout about it at every opportunity like Nvidia do means they dont work with game developers? Nonsense. http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/interviews/2010/01/06/interview-amd-on-game-development-and-dx11/1
That wasn't the point at all. The point was TWIMTBP is not anti-ATI. Besides, nVidia still does it more, and has stronger ties to more devs. ATI (and AMD in general, actually) does not push itself as hard in the market as they could, especially compared to their competitors. PS: ATI is launching their answer to TWIMTBP this year, from what I understand. So we may be seeing more of them in the dev process of games. It's about damn time, too.
nVidia added it to the engine themselves, and did not test on ATI hardware (and why would they?). Of course they locked it out. And him claiming that it worked perfectly fine on ATI hardware is a bold faced lie. It was shown that it doesn't work properly on ATI, even if you spoof it. There were screenshots all over the place proving it when the game released. ATI did not apply AA on shadows and other weird anomalies. They may have since fixed it in drivers, but at launch it was, in fact, broken. And it was not nVidia's job to get it working on ATI hardware either. If the would've left it unlocked, they would've caught hell for it being broken, and we still would've seen people claiming they did it on purpose. They were damned if they did, and damned if they didn't.
Just to be clear Batman:AA now does in fact offer AA on ATI drivers. I proved it..... http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=119242
via in game settings, or CCC? edit: read the thread. The fact you need to FORCE AA, means that the game does NOT "offer" AA on ATI drivers - it just means there is a way to make it work, even if it is performance heavy.
Well before you couldnt do it. Now you can and to be honest its the Unreal 3 engine which you could force AA on every other title but Batman.....until now
yeah, but let credit go where credit is due - ATI allow you to do it via CCC, B:AA and its sponsors are still doing everything they can to block you.
Not unlocking AA for ATI is not the same as blocking ATI. At this point, it's purely up to the dev to unlock it in a patch if ATI does have it working properly.


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August 28, 2009
Is a Sugar Shortage Looming?
It's often said that Americans are addicted to oil—witness the tizzy that ensued last summer when pump prices topped $4 per gallon in many places. But if there's one substance we're nearly as dependent on, it's sugar—in our treats, in our packaged foods, in our coffee (America may "run on Dunkin'," but not just for the caffeine). So what would happen if we ran out? That's what a group of food companies, including Kraft, General Foods and Hershey, warned could happen soon if the government doesn't allow more sugar imports, in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on August 5.
According to Bloomberg news, damaged crops in India and Brazil are leading to a record two-year shortfall in world sugar production versus global demand—and to record sugar prices.
A lot of people (myself included) might react to the prospect of life without sugar the same way Stephen Colbert did last week on his Comedy Central show The Colbert Report: with an extended banshee scream. (He then proceeded to shower himself in a cascade of sugar.) But, his guest, the well-known nutrition professor Marion Nestle (no relation to the Nestlés of Crunch-bar and Toll-House fame), made the case that the shortage is "a manufactured crisis because the food companies want to have cheap sugar from other countries."
At least, she tried to make the case. As she learned (and later explained on her blog at The Atlantic's food site), a fake news show is no place to discuss the issues behind actual news stories. In this instance, those issues include the system of quotas and tariffs the government imposes on imported sugar. Calling U.S. sugar the "single most heavily protected agricultural commodity," Nestle writes that only 15 percent of total sugar in this country is allowed to come from imports. That 15 percent is controlled by quotas distributed among 20 countries, who have to pay high tariffs for anything additional (except for Mexico, because of NAFTA).
Further complicating things is the fact that many food makers are responding to the (unwarranted, according to Nestle) public backlash against high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) by using more cane and beet sugar. At the same time, corn that once was grown for sweeteners is now going to produce ethanol, raising the price of HFCS, too.
But, just as the gas-price freak-out last year forced Americans to, at least temporarily, evaluate their driving habits, a sugar crisis—manufactured or not—might be a good time to look at the amount of sugars in our diets. According to a recent statement from the American Heart Association, "between 1970 and 2005, average annual availability of sugars/added sugars increased by 19%, which added 76 calories to Americans' average daily energy." In 2001 to 2004, the usual intake of added sugars for Americans was 22.2 teaspoons, or 355 calories, per day. And that isn't even counting naturally occurring sugars, which the body doesn't distinguish from the white stuff.
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David Farrier, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Natural Resources Law and Policy at the University of Wollongong
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Dr John Drinan a researcher, educator, administrator, consultant and farmer
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Ever wonder why is seems like some companies employ technology in ways that actually decrease their efficiency or harm their customer service? It's amazing how this happens over and over again. Of course it all started years ago when phone systems introduced the autoattendant. The initial idea was to use technology to reduce the manpower and provide better options to callers: routing them to helpful departments with less wait time. Well we all know what happened with that, don't we? Today's autoattendants are labyrinths of chaos offering so may choices that callers end up going in circles jabbing "0" repeatedly to get to someone live and defeating the whole purpose of adding technology in the first place. Same thing has happened with the real estate industry, it seems. The biggest example is the advent of the online "inquiry" form on listings. The idea is that the e-consumer can "conveniently" browse listings on the web then fill out a quick form requesting additional information. And, as we all know, what does the consumer get from this techno-innovation? Nothing. Literally. Ok, maybe they get an "auto response" which is basically an email "confirming" that someone is actually ignoring you (your email is sitting in a queue somewhere waiting for someone to get around to it.) At least half of the time (according to NAR stats) email inquiries from the public end up in the same routing hell as the autoattendant system. No wonder why customers are giving up. Want to know why they don't respond to your email marketing? Want to know why some people just hang up before their call is connected to someone (other than the fact that your recording speaks too fast)? Maybe it's just a little "payback" - the customer's way of getting a little revenge for their experience frustration. Whether you're the check-in counter in the airport (whose computers seem perpetually down) or the showings reservation system taking calls at the front desk, it's not sufficient to simply install some technology and train the internal users. It's critical to test the technology's impact on the customer's experience.Automation should be for the customer's sake, not an internal purpose, alone.Every broker and agent should "shop" their customer experiences from time to time. Try calling your office and think like a first time consumer. Send some emails to your own website and measure the reaction. Sign up for copies of your own email alerts or e-newsletters. At every point where you have technology touching customers, by itself or by assisting your people, measure the experience and make sure it's better. Please! Otherwise you'll end up like the central air conditioning company I called yesterday for a service appointment. The young lady on the phone was very nice, but she was totally ineffective because her computer system was completely consumer-unfriendly. Since I'm on the road a lot my schedule is booked weeks in advance: I needed to schedule an appointment for sometime three or four weeks in the future. And the computer system wouldn't allow it. Imagine that! I wanted to pre-schedule some future business for this company and the system couldn't display appointment dates more than two weeks away! Clearly, someone installed a fancy-schmancy system but never thought about the customer whose busy life today is always scheduled a month in advance. So, technology? Yes. Better? No. Of course we did make an appointment. The young lady simply used some better technology: a pencil and paper.


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Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy
A bone marrow aspiration and biopsy removes a small amount of bone and a small amount of fluid and cells from inside the bone (bone marrow). It is often done to find the reason for many blood disorders and may be used to find out if cancer or infection has spread to the bone marrow.
Biopsy results are ready in 1 to 7 days. The bone is put into a solution that breaks down its calcium before it is stained. The bone marrow sample is often treated with special dyes (stains) to see any changes in the blood cells more clearly.
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The marrow has normal amounts of fat, connective tissue, and iron. Normal numbers of both mature and immature (growing) bone marrow cells are present. |
No signs of infection are seen. |
No cancer cells, such as leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma, are seen. |
No cancer cells have spread from other cancer sites, such as breast cancer. |
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The cells in the bone marrow do not look normal. |
There are too many or too few bone marrow cells. The bone tissue does not look normal. |
Too much iron or too little iron (iron deficiency anemia) is seen in the bone marrow. |
Signs of infection are seen in the bone marrow. |
Cancer cells, such as leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma, are seen. |
The bone marrow has been replaced by scar tissue. |
What Affects the Test
You may not be able to have the test if you:
- Have bleeding problems or are taking blood thinners such as aspirin, heparin, or warfarin (Coumadin).
- Cannot be still during the procedure.
Sometimes not enough bone marrow fluid is collected in a bone marrow aspiration. This is called a dry tap. If this happens, a biopsy to obtain bone marrow tissue is usually done.
What To Think About
- If you have an infection, a culture and sensitivity test of the bone marrow sample can be done. If the infection is caused by a bacteria or fungus, the sensitivity test will show which antibiotics will work best to treat the infection.
- Normal bone marrow in one site does not mean that all sites in the body are normal.
Other Works Consulted
Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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As President and CEO of ForeSee, Larry is responsible for managing the company's strategy and growth. Since the company's founding in 2001, he has overseen significant growth in its client base, revenues and staff. Larry brings more than 20 years experience in senior management and in directing e-commerce and technology initiatives to ForeSee.
An expert on web customer satisfaction, Larry speaks extensively on the topic at private and public sector industry events and has been quoted in numerous publications and media, including CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Investor's Business Weekly, Internet Retailer, Multichannel Merchant, DM News, Computerworld, Federal Computer Week and Government Executive, among many others. Larry is the author of a new book on customer satisfaction released in 2011, Managing Forward: How to Move from Measuring the Past to Managing the Future.
Previously, Larry held several senior executive positions at Compuware Corporation, leading a variety of e-commerce and professional services programs. Most recently, he served as Vice President of e-Business, where he was responsible for directing the national e-Business practice and for the design, development and implementation of e-Business strategies for numerous companies.
Before joining Compuware, Larry held various positions including Chief Technology Officer at Bank One (formerly First Chicago NBD and NBD Bank).
Larry is currently on the Board of Directors and the executive committee of the Ann Arbor IT Zone, and previously held leadership positions at ASC X12, a national EDI standards group, and various other industry groups.
Larry holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Wayne State University.
Jeff Blackman, CFO
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Jeff came to ForeSee from ePrize, LLC, the worldwide leader in interactive promotions and loyalty programs, where he was the Chief Financial Officer. Jeff led the company through exponential growth while building the foundational business processes and procedures. Jeff not only led the company's refinancing, but also was responsible for large operational initiatives, such as revamping the pricing policies and compensation plans.
Prior to ePrize, Jeff was the Director of Financial Services at Valassis, the industry leader in promotional inserts. The company grew from $600M to over $1B during his tenure with the company. Jeff handled all aspects of M&A, treasury, tax, SEC reporting, SOX compliance, and many other areas. In fact, Jeff led the company's largest M&A and financing transactions in the company's history.
Jeff began his career at Ernst & Young as an auditor in the Detroit office, where he obtained his CPA.
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Dave Scott, Chief Marketing Officer
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Prior to coming to ForeSee, Dave founded and served as CEO for Marketfish, a technology platform for lead generation and data management. Dave served as Global Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Intermec, Inc. and has also served in leadership roles at AT&T Wireless, Boston Consulting Group and General Electric.
Dave earned dual bachelor degrees in computer science and political philosophy from The College of William and Mary, and earned his MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with distinction. At Wharton, Dave was a Sol C Snider and Robert A. Toigo fellow. Dave is also the author of The New Rules of Lead Generation: Proven Strategies to Maximize Marketing ROI published by AMACOM.
John Williams, Senior Vice President, Product and Delivery
As Senior Vice President of Product and Delivery, John Williams is responsible for the strategic oversight of our existing products, as well as development of new products for the company. John has responsibility for Product Management and Research. The Product Management team defines product direction and drives the development and enhancement of current and new products based upon customer, market and competitive drivers. The Research team assures that all of ForeSee's capabilities rest on a solid, proven theoretical foundation. The Research team also conducts and publishes syndicated research studies on key industry topics, such as retail, online banking, e-commerce, and social media value.
John has 30 years of experience in Research and Development, Product Line Management, M&A, and Business Management in high-tech industries ranging from telecommunications to digital electronics to mobile to enterprise software. Prior to joining ForeSee, John led the divestiture of a division of Compuware Corporation and the rollup into a larger business unit through a combination with Borland Software. Previous roles include Senior VP, Product Solutions at Compuware, Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Consulting Engineer at John F.X. Browne & Associates.
John graduated with Electrical Engineering and Engineering Mathematics degrees from the University of Michigan and completed post-graduate work in Computer Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Cia McCaffrey, Vice President
Cia McCaffrey is a Vice President at ForeSee, where she is responsible for strategically managing the staff of the organization. This involves the development of the current resources and the continued organization structure to support the growth of ForeSee. Her responsibilities include recruiting, human resources, corporate training and office facilities.
In this role, Cia manages a recruiting team that searches for the best talent to contribute to the growth of ForeSee, which has experienced employee growth of at least 25% per year since it was formed. She is responsible for the corporate Human Resource group. This team provides guidance to and development of the employees as well as management. They create policies and procedures to support corporate best practices. Initial and ongoing corporate training is essential to maintain the level of expertise ForeSee offers. Cia oversees the infusion of knowledge to new and existing employees to reach this goal. In addition, she ensures the efficient operations of the 50,000 square foot Ann Arbor office as well as the Vancouver office and focuses on creating a comfortable, productive employee environment.
Cia has been with ForeSee since its inception. She came to ForeSee with over eight years of managing IT recruiting and seven years of human resource management experience. She was with Compuware Corporation for over three years before joining ForeSee. In her role there, she managed the Human Resources and Recruiting for the Specialty Practices Division of Compuware, including the e-Business, Product Support and various Professional Services groups.
Cia graduated from Northwood University with a B.A. in Business Administration.
Dave Lewan, Vice President of Sales, Public Sector - West Region
Dave Lewan manages the sales organization focused on the public sector, including government departments and agencies, non-profit organizations, and higher education institutions. He leads ForeSee continuing expansion in these markets to help organizations measure and manage satisfaction of their channels. He has additional oversight on private sector sales on the West Coast.
Dave brings more than 20 years of experience with sales, leadership, online strategy, technology, and consulting. Most recently, he served as vice president of product marketing and management at Gevity HR, where he served as the primary leadership and planning force for Gevity's product and solutions strategy.
Dave graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Speech Communications.
Don Morrison, Senior Vice President, Sales
Don Morrison, Senior Vice President of Sales, is responsible for continuing ForeSee's growth. His focus is to leverage ForeSee's existing multi-national client base, best-in-class methodologies, and research staff into a world wide presence. He is also responsible for managing ForeSee's continued development of strategic partnerships and channels of distribution.
Don has almost 30 years experience in sales management, consulting, and strategic planning including several international assignments. Prior to ForeSee, he was an executive for GMAC Commercial Finance and Compuware Corporation. Don has also held senior management positions with MascoTech, Inc., Coopers & Lybrand, and Deloitte & Touche.
Don received his MBA degree for Bowling Green State University and BBA degree from Eastern Michigan University.
Mitchell Cohen, Vice President, Technology
Mitchell Cohen is Vice President of Technology for ForeSee. He has primary responsibility for all corporate technical operations - planning, organizing and directing the company's Information Systems programs and activities. He also provides guidance and counsel on the examination and definition of objectives for existing and proposed systems. Mitchell brings a combination of sophisticated technology and leadership skills to ForeSee.
Prior to joining ForeSee in 2006, Mitchell was Director of Application Architecture and Development for Ciber, Inc., a leading international systems integration consultancy. While at Ciber, he oversaw both domestic and off-shored development activities. He led teams in improvements resulting in the consistent delivery of on-time and on-budget technical solutions and millions of dollars of new business for the company.
Mitchell has also served as the Director of Technology for eePulse, where he led corporate IT strategy, business analysis and technical management activities through the company's start-up phase. Prior to ePulse, Mitchell was a Managing Partner/Director of Software Development for Integral Software Systems, a company he founded.
Mitchell holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan.
Aaron Watson, Vice President, Business Development
As the Vice President of Business Development at ForeSee, Aaron Watson leads the strategic relationship strategy of the company. This includes the identification and delivery of key alliances and partnerships that enhance value delivery to customers, expand reach within relevant markets, reaffirm intellectual leadership, and generally drive the business forward. He also oversees the management of ForeSee's rapidly growing partner community, which expands the impact of customer experience analytics via the collaboration and integration of complementary products and services.
Aaron has over 15 years of experience in online business and technology. Prior to joining ForeSee, he served as Vice President of Sales at DigiCert, one of the world's largest online authentication and certificate authorities, which experienced a 2X revenue increase during his tenure. Before that, he served as Sr. Director of Strategic Alliances for the Omniture Business Unit of Adobe Systems, where he was instrumental in driving an alliance strategy that led to an eco-system of over 250 partners and 10,000 developers. Both of those roles yielded substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions. He also held management positions at ADP Benefit Services and GE Capital.
Aaron completed his undergraduate work at the University of Utah in Mass Communication and Public Relations and earned his MBA from the David Eccles School of Business, also at the University of Utah.
Eric Head, Senior Director, Sales
Eric manages the sales team responsible for measurement of stores, contact centers and the SessionReplay product. Eric also plays a key role in the strategic growth of the organization, and was critical in helping ForeSee expand into the European market. He has been with ForeSee since 2001 and brings more than 20 years of experience managing advanced technology products and programs.
Eric has managed key client engagements at ForeSee and frequently speaks at industry conferences on behalf of the organization.
Prior to joining ForeSee, Eric was Director of Automotive Programs for Internet Operations Center, a leading regional Internet applications service provider. His role at IOC was to bring new Internet and E-commerce applications and solutions to the Automotive Industry, including a web-based "Dealer E-mail" program for Ford and a web-enabled EDI system.
Eric received a B.S. in Marketing from the Miami University-Oxford and his M.B.A with Distinction from the University of Michigan.
Eric Feinberg, Senior Director, Mobile, Media & Entertainment
As Senior Director of Mobile, Media & Entertainment, Eric provides leadership to ForeSee's mobile solutions as well as solutions related to the media and entertainment industries. He is responsible for working with product, delivery, sales, and marketing teams to ensure that ForeSee continues to bring innovation and operational excellence to its mobile offerings. Since joining ForeSee in 2004, Eric has been contributing to the strategic growth of the organization. He brings 15 years of customer-focused experience to the team, and is a frequent presenter at conferences in the U.S. and UK.
Eric is currently on the Board of Directors for the Digital Analytics Association (DAA), formerly the Web Analytics Association, and serves as an instructor for various trade groups on the importance and application of attitudinal analytics. Previously, he has held positions that include web analyst, multichannel strategy consultant, usability specialist and focus group moderator. His goal is to best understand and motivate multi-channel consumers on behalf of his clients.
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Our two boys linger around the kitchen when these aromatic cookies are baking. I make them throughout the year using a variety of cookie cutters.
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- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 Eggland's Best Egg
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Vanilla frosting of your choice
- Red and green paste food coloring
- In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight or until easy to handle.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 2-1/2-in. cookie cutters. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are firm. Remove to wire racks to cool. Tint some of the frosting red and some green. Decorate cookies. Yield: 5 dozen.
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These were absolutely delicious. The dough was so nice to work with and the kids loved decorating them!!
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Had to add water to the dough - otherwise I couldn't roll it out because it just crumbled. Totally bland (reminiscent of cardboard) and needed a lot more sweetness! I would never eat these. On the plus side the cookies did have a nice chewy texture.
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Great taste, like the traditional ones I remember. I didn't have enough molasses, so used 1/4 c of honey. worked well. Next time I will add a little more water to keep dough from crumbling. All over, a great cookie. Really tasty.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2012
Very good. Easy to make. Make A LOT of cookies.
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Simple Gingerbread cookie recipe & good.
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> because parity has to be calculated and written to the disk. In fact this > performance penalty has lead to a campaign against RAID5: > > http://www.baarf.com/ bah. redundancy costs - your only choice is what kind of redundancy you want. raid5 has its issues, but really what's needed is redundancy managed by the filesystem. doing it block-level is what introduces the pain. >> 3) I'll leave the /boot partition on one of the 3 disks and it will NOT >> be included in the RAID array, is this ok? > > I think you'd be better off putting your system one one of your three disks, > and making a RAID1 for /home from the other two. This will give you a I disagree. for one, I strongly advice against partition-o-philia: the somewhat traditional practice of putting lots of separate partitions on a system. but for 3 disks, linux MD has a nice mode where each block is stored twice. so you get 2/3 space efficiency and potentially better performance. > It works, and you do get HA, but performance is not good. I'm now simplifying > and upgrading the systems by fitting a 3ware 8006-2 hardware RAID1 controller my experience with old 3ware boards was quite poor performance - much slower than MD. >= 95xx are respectable, though. > One thing you need to bear in mind in relation to HA is that software RAID > does not support hot-swap - That's why I chose the 3ware 8006-2, which is not > very expensive. It doesn't automatically detect new disks and rebuild the > RAID, but it does support hot-swap and has a web GUI: > > http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp MD software raid certainly can support HS - it's mainly a feature of the controller. (this is not to say that most controllers do HS well.)
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- Migration of plants, animals and other species outside their native ecological niches represents a danger overhyped by some ecologists, contends a scientist who once decried such threats.
- Mark Davis of Macalester College asserts that we should worry about invasive species only when they create a direct threat to health or economic well-being. Extinctions from invaders remain the exception. Nonnative species do not usually drive out plants and animals when they reach a new place.
- Isolated places, such as islands, represent the one setting in which the nonnatives can frequently cause the endemic population to disappear.
- Davis maintains that we simply must get used to the reality that species do not stay put.
Plant ecologist Mark A. Davis will not participate in this year's "Buckthorn Roundups" around his St. Paul, Minn., neighborhood. Davis will not tag along as these intrepid crusaders set out to eradicate the common and glossy buckthorn, two ornamental shrubs imported in the 19th century from Europe. The nonnatives have now taken over some Midwestern forests, prairies and wetlands. That is why eco-minded volunteers eagerly wrench young weeds from the soil, hack away at thick stems and douse remaining stumps with herbicides. Their hope: a return of Minnesota to its primeval state.
At one time, Davis, too, could see the logic in eradicating these "invaders." He even advocated planting only Minnesota native plants on the Macalester College campus where he teaches. That changed in 1994, when he read an essay by journalist Michael Pollan in the New York Times Magazine that made his blood boil. He bristled at Pollan's statement that turning the "ecological clock to 1492 is a fool's errand, futile and pointless to boot."
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One of the most enduring brands in the home plumbing industry is Grohe, whose rich history of innovation and design saw this small German company plummet into the forefront to become a premier leader in high end fixtures for the kitchen and the bath. The first to build a kitchen faucet with a spray nozzle, Grohe continually exceeds expectations in bringing its loyal customer base the most attractive and longest lasting plumbing products in the world. (Read more on Grohe's rise to prestige below). Take a closer look at this ever-growing company who sets the standards in quality, technology, and design.
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To really grasp just how far Grohe has comes since its inception in 1948, we must first look at the entrepreneurial spirit of his father, Hans Grohe. The older Grohe was born the sixth son of a weaver in Berlin, Germany in the late 1800s. Always industrious, Hans Grohe opened his first business in 1901 in the small town of Schiltach, Germany, making metal casings for a larger company that produced alarm clocks. (His company is now known as Hansgrohe, a separate entity from Grohe, yet still a family business). He expanded his business into a factory that produced stovepipe rings, spigots, shower heads, faucets, and other bathroom fixtures. By 1928, Hans Grohe's first factory was employing a remarkable 100 people. Continue reading Grohe history.
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"Don't double dip! It's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip! From now on, when you take a chip – just take one dip and end it!" ~Timmy to George (Seinfeld)
As a kid I wouldn't touch Mexican food. This was mainly because my Auntie Bev called refried beans "rechewed beans." As in, "Let's go out for Mexican and get that dip with the rechewed beans in it." In my young mind that meant that all Mexican food was...well, you get the picture.
Flash forward a few years and I'm at a party, looking down at a lovely dip surrounded by tortilla chips. I turn to my friend's mom and ask what it is. She tells me that it is a Mexican Seven Layer Dip. I then ask, very seriously, "Does it have rechewed beans in it?"
After she stops laughing, wipes her eyes and hands me a small plate of dip and chips, she informs me that it does not, in fact, contain rechewed beans. It does however, have refried beans. Aha. I immediately dig in, and in that moment my love of Mexican food takes root.
Though this is technically an American dish, it is usually referred to as Mexican so why don't we split the difference and call it "Mexican-American." There are many ways to make this dip. You can skip the ground beef to keep it vegetarian, add a layer of jalapenos to spice it up or mix cream cheese in with the sour cream. Any way you make it, it's sure to please a crowd.
Seven Layers of Goodness Dip
- 1 1/2 lbs lean ground beef
- 1 pkg taco seasoning mix
- 1 16 oz can rechewed (I mean refried) beans
- 4 cups shredded Cheddar Jack cheese
- 1 8 oz container sour cream
- 2 cups guacamole (I used 2 pkgs of Wholly Guacamole)
- 1 cup salsa
- 2 small chopped tomatoes
- 4 chopped green onions
- 1 2.25 oz can sliced black olives, drained
- Brown ground beef.
- Drain the beef and mix packet of taco seasoning into it. Set aside.
- Spread beans into the bottom and onto sides of a 9 x 13 glass dish.
- Add 2 cups cheese onto beans.
- Layer ground beef on top of cheese.
- Spread sour cream onto the beef.
- Spread guacamole on top of sour cream.
- Pour salsa over guacamole and spread evenly.
- Add remaining 2 cups cheese on top of guacamole.
- Top with tomatoes, onions and olives.


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I thought it was maybe something to do with the fact that i was running it on a virtual machine on the mac, so installed on a Win XP laptop, and ..it is still weird
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Guide For The Central Public Information Officers
The Right to Information Act, 2005 empowers citizens to get information from any 'public authority'. The Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of a public authority plays a pivotal role in making the right of a citizen to information a reality. The casts specific duties on him and makes him liable for penalty in case of default. It is, therefore, essential for a CPIO to study the Act carefully and understand its provisions correctly. Following aspects should particularly be kept in view while dealing with the applications under the Act.
What is Information
Information is any material in any from. If includes records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic from. It also includes information relating to any private body which can be accessed by the public authority under any law for the time being in force.
Right to Information under the Act
- A citizen has a right to seek such information from a public authority which is held by the public authority or which is held under its control. This right includes inspection of work, documents and records; taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records; and taking certified samples of material held by the public authority or held under the control of the public authority.
- The Act gives the citizens a right to information at par with he Members of Parliament and the Members of States Legislatures. According to the Act, the information which cannot be denied to the Parliament or a State Legislature, shall not be denied to any person.
- A citizen has a right to obtain an information in the from of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or though print -outs provided such information is already stored in a computer or in any other device from which the information may be transferred to diskettes etc.
- The information to the applicant should ordinarily be provided in the from in which it is sought. However, if the supply of information sought in a particular from would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority or may cause harm to the safety or preservation of the records, supply of information in the that form may be denied.
- The Act gives the right to information only to the citizen of India. It dose not make provision for giving information to Corporations, Associations, Companies etc. which are legal entities/persons, but not citizens. However, if an application is made by employee or office- bearer of any Corporation, Association, Company, NGO etc. indicating his name and such employee/office bearer is a citizen of India, information may be supplied to him/her. In such cases, it would be presumed that a citizen has sought information at the address of the Corporation etc.
- Only such information is requires to be supplied under the Act which already exists and is held by the public authority or held under the control of the public authority. The CPIO is not supposed to create information; or to interpret information; or to solve the problems raised by the applicants; or to furnish replies to hypothetical questions.


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The Family that Reads Together…a family's reflection on "True Diary"
Each year, MHC encourages people across Maryland to read and then discuss the One Maryland One Book selection. We believe a great work of literature provides an excellent springboard for discussion about issues critical to our lives and communities.
The following is the first in a series of three guest posts in which the Derlan Family—mother, father and son—discuss the value they find in reading the same book and then talking about it as a family. They read this year's book, Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Thank you to the Derlan Family, for their participation!
When I was in second grade, our teacher Miss Brown read The Boxcar Children aloud to us. She read only a few pages each day, so when we got to the part where Violet gets sick, we had to wait to hear what happened. Almost 40 years later at a class reunion, my friends and I remembered that anxiety and suspense. It was almost as if those children in the book had been our classmates. My brothers and sisters and I are very different, but we all read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school and we all love the book. We know which of us is most like Scout, and which is more like Jem and we know our dad, who died when the oldest of us was only 10, was like Atticus.
My husband and I wanted to give our son the pleasure we have in words and reading. When he was small we read aloud to him, and the stories we all shared became part of our relationship. We'd quote from the books, "Love you forever, like you for always…" After reading Audrey Penn's The Kissing Hand, we all gave each other goodbye kisses that way for years.
As Ben grew, it became a little more difficult to share stories this way, but Harry Potter saved us. We all read all of the books, first reading aloud to Ben, and later each of us reading them in turns. We found books on CD to listen in the car on long road trips, like P.B. Kerr's The Akhenaten Adventure. It is so easy to grow apart as children grow more independent. For me the value of reading and talking about books is in keeping a part of the closeness alive. I also want my son to have the memories of special books; connected to the people he has grown up with, as I have had.
One of the interesting things we've found with Absolutely True Diary is that I focused so much more on Junior's sister, Mary Runs Away than either my husband or son did. She is a girl I have met many times in my teaching career. Talking about the character of Mary led me to talk about some events from my childhood, and about some of the students I taught many years ago. Sharing the book, helps us to share ourselves.
Sharon Derlan teaches English at Northern Garrett High School. She is an active volunteer with the New Embassy Theatre of Cumberland, MD. Mrs. Derlan is married to Bill, an editor at Cumberland Times-News and the proud mother of Ben, a student at Allegany High School.
Have you read the book yet? If so, what character stood out to you in an unexpected way? What do you think Mary Runs away represents in the story…to Junior? We'd love to read your comments and reflections.
Tags: Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council, One Maryland One Book, Reading, Sherman Alexie, True Diary


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The City Council may vote on a bond ordinance this month for money to repair the foundations of Pier A Park, the park that juts into the water near First Street. But the vote will depend on whether negotiations to pay the costs of the bond issue from a Pier A maintenance fund are successful.
The council held a special meeting Wednesday to discuss Pier A Park and the planned 9/11 memorial that would be erected there. Councilpersons Beth Mason and Michael Russo were absent from the meeting.
According to a memo from Mayor Dawn Zimmer, the support structure of Pier A is in need of "major repair" due to shifts in the river that have exposed the steel pipe pilings to corrosion.
"I have a problem with this entire meeting." – Councilman Tim Occhipinti
As part of agreements, nearby developers have been required to make annual payments of approximately $700,000 to a dedicated fund for Pier A maintenance, Zimmer said. The balance of that fund is currently $2.9 million. During Wednesday's meeting, however, Director of Health and Human Services Leo Pellegrini said that as of now, the city cannot use the $2.9 million for the full repairs.
"[We'd like to] see if we can possibly change the language in the agreement to include [the fund]," said Pellegrini.
Zimmer said in the memo that the city is negotiating with the Port Authority and developers to expand the use of the fund to pay for the maintenance of the understructure as well as surface repairs of the park.
"These negotiations are going well," said Zimmer in the memo, "and we are hopeful that an agreement can be finalized soon."
Officials said that if an agreement is reached, the fund can be used to pay the costs of an approximately $3.5 million bond issue for repairs to the park, at no cost to the city's taxpayers.
To be adopted, the $3.5 million bond ordinance will require six votes. Zimmer currently has five allies on the council.
Timeline concerns
Councilman Tim Occhipinti, a member of the council's minority faction typically opposed to the administration, read from a memo sent from Zimmer to the council before a Jan. 19 meeting last year. Occhipinti said he had issues with how long it has taken for the repairs to be addressed.
"These repairs must be done expeditiously," said Zimmer in last year's memo, adding that she has directed engineers to prepare bid specifications as soon as possible.
"[This was] well over a year and a half ago," said Occhipinti. "You were indicated by the mayor to prepare bid specifications. What happened? Where's the disconnect here?"
Occhipinti also asked if Zimmer had used the word "expeditiously" because there was a safety concern with the park.
"If there was a safety issue," said Pellegrini, "[our engineers] would have recommended us to shut down that area, and that didn't happen."
Pellegrini said that the holdup has been the city's search for a funding source, later adding, "I think there was a sense of urgency, but I don't think it needed to be done immediately."
"There's a distinction between "urgently" and "expeditiously," said Council President Ravi Bhalla, an ally of the administration. "It sounds like we're getting into semantics at this point."
More parks
The council unanimously passed a resolution in a 6-1 vote to award a contract not to exceed $50,000 to Sedita Campisano and Campisano. The firm will be tasked with reviewing properties in the 3rd and 5th wards to determine whether they pose a legal risk or are environmentally safe.
During last month's meeting, the council authorized eminent domain as a negotiation tool for the process of acquiring property in the 3rd and 5th wards for park land. The firm will now analyze these properties to ascertain their environmental conditions.
The administration would like to acquire the former Henkel/Cognis chemical plant in the northwest section, and the former Pino towing yard. Properties in the northwest section have often required environmental remediation because they once housed chemical and other industrial facilities.
Wanda Monahan, a partner for the firm, said that site investigation would determine the administration's potential areas of concern when acquiring property.
"At the end of the day, the state of New Jersey has two people to go after [in an environmental lawsuit]: the seller and buyer," said Monahan. "You're never really relieved of the statutory obligations for environmental remediation."
Other affairs
Helen Hirsch, a resident and frequent meeting attendee, expressed her concerns with a perceived lack of transparency in the administration.
"This administration has kept everything under covers," said Hirsch. "There is no reason why the announcement was not made [at] last Wednesday's [council meeting] that there would be a special meeting today. What was so important?"
"There's no secrecy involved with this process," said Bhalla. "There was notice provided pursuant to the law. There's no conspiracy theory [and] no attempt to hide this from the public."
At another point in the meeting, Occhipinti asked why the contract to Sedita Campisano and Campisano wasn't heard at a regularly scheduled meeting.
"What are the extenuating circumstances that this contract needs to be awarded at this meeting," asked Occhipinti. "I have a problem with this entire meeting. Why is it not being handled at our regularly scheduled meetings?"
Assistant Business Administrator Stephen Marks said the item was held from the last meeting so that the two firms being considered for the land analysis could further be reviewed.
"I know the administration and council is very anxious to move forward with open space [acquisition]," said Marks, later adding that the administration needed legal representation before engaging with property owners and their attorneys.
"Anxious does not constitute a special meeting, sorry," said Theresa Castellano, a member of the council typically opposed to the administration.
The council also discussed the status of the 9/11 memorial. Pellegrini said that the city will need an additional $200,000 for the memorial due to the planned surrounding glass structure's need for additional support. Pellegrini said that similar to Pier A repairs, the city is trying to use part of the $2.9 developer fund to cover the additional cost of the memorial.
If the funding is not secured in a timely fashion, and a contract is not awarded, the city could lose a $250,000 Department of Community Affairs grant intended for the memorial's construction.
Officials said that the memorial should be complete by September of this year.
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Peter Armitage, who has been working on topological insulating behavior in bismuth-based compounds at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that in the field of condensed-matter physics, experiment usually leads theory, but this is a remarkable example of the opposite. He is now hoping to start experiments on SmB6in the next week or two to confirm and study the surface states. "These are beautiful effects that were hiding under our noses," he says. "This is a very big advance."
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on December 11, 2012.