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3:40 PM EST Wed. Oct. 10, 2012A well-known executive in charge of ShoreTel's burgeoning cloud UC effort has left the company for an SVP-level position at hosted contact center and communications rival Fonality.
Fonality on Wednesday named Jeff Valentine its new senior vice president of corporate development, reporting to CEO David Scult. His purview will include evaluating new market initiatives and driving Fonality partnerships with distributors and allies in the CRM, SaaS and telecommunications spaces.
Said Scult: "Jeff's unique experience and background in telecommunications, product development and building strategic partnerships will accelerate Fonality's growth."
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Valentine was most recently product vice president in ShoreTel's Cloud Division, a role he gained following ShoreTel's $146 million acquisition of hosted VoIP provider M5 Networks earlier this year. At M5, Valentine had been senior vice president of product marketing, and before that, he'd been president and CEO of contact center software maker Callfinity, which M5 acquired in 2011.
"While other providers continue to move up-market and are distracted by enterprise customization requirements and channel conflict, Fonality focuses on market-driven requirements in our sweet spot and builds long-lasting partner relationships based on trust. I love the culture at Fonality -- I'm excited to join a team that drives more action than conversation," Valentine said in a statement.
Eight-year-old Fonality is an open-source VoIP and UC specialist that in the past year has changed CEOs and also mounted a substantial revamp of its channel partner program. Its Partner Plus Program, unveiled in 2011, includes a tiered compensation structure for partners, residual revenue for telecom agents and support for both hosted and hybrid-hosted Fonality offerings.
Scult, who joined Fonality in January, came from Microsoft, where he'd been general manager of the Office 365 unit.
"It's not often you find a venture-backed company of this size, about 250 folks, that's more than six years old and is in pretty good shape," Scult told CRN in April. "At that stage, the company is usually either looking to do a reboot, and that's why they bring in a CEO, or the founder kind of took it as far as he or she could and the board says, 'you need adult supervision.' This is unique because we're on a growth path and we don't need to shake much up."


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Posted 10 October 2003 - 10:52 AM
If so, have you ordered your update to Panther yet?
If so, are you as excited as me?
If so, are you planning on throwing a party when it arrives?
If so, are you as big a dork as I am?
I'm so excited about it!
It's going to have a bunch of really cool features and it's going to make me cooler than I already am!
Well. To myself, anyway.
I just thought I'd share that with you. The window-management stuff is going to save my butt, and fast user switching is going to make it easy for me to separate my business self from my personal self without buying a new computer. (I can switch my login between Business Me and Personal Me without having to exit any applications or anything at all. Very handy.)
But, I have a feeling nobody else cares, so I'm going to go now and get back to work at my boring day job and using my boring Win2K PC.
Posted 10 October 2003 - 11:30 AM
All the design and academic people I know adore Mac, and curse Uncle Bill every time they have to touch Windows. I just don't have any major problems with my XP box, so I don't see the point of learning a new OS.
But I recognize that Mac people, for better or worse, are special. Revel in your specialness, Mac-folk
Posted 10 October 2003 - 12:01 PM
It's just... it's just not as *pretty*. You can get Windows machines that are as well-put-together as Macs... they'll cost more, by the way... but they just won't have the same attention to detail, because nobody else puts the effort into the design. And it DOES make all the difference that I can adjust my monitor's position with my toe, and that the thing is adorable even when it's off. It just puts the joy back in computers.
Using my computer at home is something I do because I *like* it. It's pretty, it's convenient, there are all these little details that make it more pleasant for me to use it, there are all kinds of really cool programs built into the OS, or free or cheap. It's just nice, and fits my personality better.
Lick Me, I'm a Mac
I hope that link's not broken-- my boyfriend sent it to me. There's another little essay about why Macs are just *nice*.
Oh, p.s., they're coming out with The World's Best MP3-Playing Software, new Windows edition, next week. Or so it's rumored.
It's really not hard to learn Mac OS-- it took me like three days to adjust, and I've never really looked back since. Only problem I have with switching back and forth daily is that the ctrl key is used differently, and that the close and minimize boxes are on the left, not the right, of open windows. Other than that... Whatever, there's no difference except one's shinier and the other one just wishes it was.
Posted 10 October 2003 - 12:18 PM
That was one fetishistic little article. What was the line from that Prince song (slighly modified)... "I was drooling when I wrote this, forgive me if I go too far..."
Posted 10 October 2003 - 12:41 PM
Ah, thanks.
See, I couldn't see that webpage from inside my company intranet, because it was blocked by our filters, because... I don't know, but I can't see any news sites from California or Australia. No idea why. So I had to read the article in a screenshot PDF Dave sent me.
It was a really funny article. But, so true. And, so topical!
Posted 10 October 2003 - 12:51 PM
To the rest of us, I expect the reaction will not be "Wow. I should get myself one of those things." More likely it'll be "Ok, they packed it nicely. Calm down."
Are you familiar with Monty Python's "Eric the Half a Bee" sketch? In it, a man becomes very upset because someone says to him, "You must be a loony". He receives an apology, forgives the transgressor, and continues with his request for a license for his pet bee. The response to this is "You are a loony."
Posted 10 October 2003 - 02:30 PM
But... but... ATTENTION to DETAIL! Is so sorely lacking elsewhere in society! We must begin a revolution!!
OK, not really. I just think the best possible thing for the Internet would be if more people chose nonstandard operating systems-- so that one little bitty worm wouldn't take out so many people. Greater diversity means less devastation.
But, I was right-- nobody on this board uses anything but Windows, it would seem. Hmm...
Posted 10 October 2003 - 02:45 PM
I can't believe that. There are a lot of designers here, and I bet lots (ok, some) of them are on Macs. They're probably just afraid we Win-folk would mock them.nobody on this board uses anything but Windows, it would seem
For the record, I am not mocking Macs! When the new G-whatevers came out, ZDnet had an interview with the guy who was responsible for the case, and I thought all the little details he'd come up with were pretty ingenious.
And I can definitely relate to the point about nobody writing viruses that attack Macs. I've never been hit with one myself, but I've cleaned up a few viral Win boxes in my day. Of course, if Macs had a bigger market share, they'd probably get attacked more. So I guess that brings me back to my point that you lot should revel in your specialness.
Posted 10 October 2003 - 02:54 PM
Apple, Inc. has some very very good designers and it's a very good, very sophisticated niche that they cater to. I mean... have you ever been into an Apple store? They're amazing retail experiences. The one in Soho in NYC is incredible. Glass staircases, glass floors, etc. It's just amazing.
The fun thing now is to go with a friend, and find the two computers running iChatAV with the webcams on 'em. Then you can make faces at each other from across the store. And passersby will get very confused.
Posted 10 October 2003 - 03:17 PM
I volunteered at my daughter's kindergarten library just to be able to get near a Mac. They have the cool blue ones. I want an iMac and I am hoping to generate so much revenue that my boss might think of giving it to me as a bonus! Wishful thinking but who said I can't dream?!
I love it when my computer is as pretty as what I can do with it!
Posted 10 October 2003 - 03:45 PM
It doesn't even *have* to be, it just *is*.
People just don't understand how much it raises your spirits to enjoy the computer even when it's off. I can carry my computer in one hand. The whole thing. I carry the mouse and keyboard in the other. Only one cord has to plug into the wall, because I got a wireless ethernet card. (Internal antenna's built into the computer.)
It's pretty, it's functional, it's pleasant, it's nice to use, it's shiny. It's stable, it's intuitive, and everything Just Works.
Of course, I have a Mac software engineer close to hand, which is essential in the enjoyment of any computer. I have had one or two small problems that might have annoyed me if he weren't there to take care of it. (I couldn't get a program installed, I think. It was a pirate program anyway.)
It takes a mindset-- you can't haxor your own boxen unless you're a BSD expert, and you can't really build yourself a Mac from scratch. So if you're a leet haxor you're better off with a PC. But if you're willing to relinquish control and not worry about the desktop color scheme (which you can only adjust between two themes-- one with color, and one all in grayscale) and the like...
It's just a personal computing experience where the only thing you notice about the computer is how nice it is. You shouldn't have to think about the computer-- just your task.
I sound like a salesman, but I'm not-- I'm just happy I've found an operating system that makes me happy and productive. I don't think so many people are as happy with theirs. You have to get what you really want or it quietly oppresses your soul and you never realize. When we lived in Jersey City, my boyfriend didn't like it there, but never acknowledged that. He claimed his boss was annoying, his job was a pain, his food was tasteless, the weather was awful, etc. We moved across the river to a nicer apartment in a nicer neighborhood, and suddenly his job is awesome and the same food tastes good. See? Subtle soul oppression. Don't do it-- make yourself happy and your life improves.
Capitalism at its finest-- as a religion.
It would be nice of your job to give you one! You should drop lots of hints.
And set a picture of one as your wallpaper.
Posted 10 October 2003 - 03:54 PM
I remember being the first in my office to get his Win2k machine upgraded to XP and I was soooo thrilled. 2k always seemed too much like NT to me, and almost had me wishing I was running 98. But as happy as I am with XP, I still just think of my pc as nothing more than a tool. It's a tool I like using, but it's not "nice," you know?
Posted 10 October 2003 - 07:54 PM
I finally opted for a PC that could just get the job done, at far less cost and with far more power. When we switched to Windows, it was no problem because we could already run a Mac. They're very similar from the user perspective, if not identical.
Most of the people I know who are steadfast Mac users are print people; this stands to reason because Apple was the first to implement the Xerox graphical display (it didn't originate with Apple, doncha know) -- and thus the mystique about Macs and design. However, as far as I can see, use of a Mac does not create a better quality simply because of the machine; it's the designer's skill, talent and eye that's always been the issue. And, although my Mac print friends are also locked into using software that even they complain about (Quark comes to mind), there's something about having to replace software and making changes that kills the urge.
I feel the same way; I've been thinking of switching to some flavor of Linux but wanted to ensure that I don't have to replace the thousands of dollars in Windows software I need for my work and pleasure. That time is apparently already here.
Viruses? I had one sitting on one of my Windows computers for quite some time; it never got activated because of the software I use. Nowadays, I just screen out viruses on the server so that they never arrive. (The clients quite like this.)
I've now had, for a year and a half, an extremely stable Windows PC with a gig of RAM. This thing will do just about anything I want it to do, and will do it fast, and adding stuff to it is no problem.
As to colors of computers, I'm not crazy about the idea of working on a lime green computer; just not my thing. Some of the other Macs I've seen in pictures are really pretty; however, that doesn't make me want to change. But I don't fault anyone who likes Macs. As a Windows user, it's not about a "Users of X are better than users of Y" thing, and I don't fall for the "think different" advertising (it was a nice try, way back when). I just say: to each his own.
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Creation science is a movement within creationism which attempts to use scientific means to disprove evolutionary theories concerning life on Earth, and to prove the Genesis account of creation. Its most vocal proponents are conservative Christians in the United States who accept Biblical inerrancy. Key concepts in creation science include the idea of "creation ex nihilo", that mankind and other life on earth were created as unique, fixed kinds; and the notion that fossils found in geological strata are indicative of an historical flood which extended over the whole earth. While related, the field of "Intelligent Design" research holds a supernatural being (not necessarily the Christian God) created the universe.
The first creation science texts focused on concepts derived from a literal interpretation of the Bible and were overtly religious in nature, most notably linking Noah's flood in Genesis to the geological and fossil record in a system termed flood geology. Creation science came to the attention of the wider national and international public and scientific community when its followers launched objections to the teaching of evolution in public schools and other venues, and successfully persuaded some school boards and lawmakers that creation science deserved equal consideration alongside Darwinian evolution in the science curriculum. Revised creation science texts and curricula were developed for public schools which removed the theory's explicit references to Biblical and theological doctrine, and teaching of creation science was implemented in Louisiana, Arkansas, and other regions in the United States. By the 1980s, its influence was worldwide.
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nope its me, home for lunch. plan on washing the truck at some point today or tomorrow, and head to the local gun shop and try and get some ammo.
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03-15-2013, 01:42 PM #3243nope he was not. did my review. Im not great at reviews, hope I did not put to much or not enough info in it. By the way it is after noon . I got everything i wanted and didn't want to do today done. Time to check on the kid and get another pop . surreal you still here. your up
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03-15-2013, 05:07 PM #3244ROFL, you call it 'pop'. That's always cracked me up.
CR is next...
03-15-2013, 05:29 PM #3245LMAO, this site is suppose to be PG13 right. Here is the question @SurrealOne is it PG13 our time or new time because we all know it is different times, lol surreal again
03-15-2013, 05:45 PM #3246Huh? @Curky again...
03-15-2013, 05:53 PM #3247Ok,from the moment I joined, I have been told lets keep it clean and polite PG13, if you don't want your kids to see it don't post it.(which is why I stay, no BS).
PG13 10 years ago(no boobs) is completely different than PG13 now(boobs no under bellybutton)
Surreal again, while you come reply I will grab another POP
03-15-2013, 08:34 PM #3248@Curky, I guess I didn't see what that had to do with use of the word 'pop' to mean 'soda'. Heh.
I think CR's got a dance tonight, so I'm going to guess BTG...
03-15-2013, 08:54 PM #3249@SurrealOne ,nope BEER... Sureal again. I maybe be back tomorrow
03-15-2013, 09:46 PM #3250nope me again. I apolagize for not picking someone surreal.
also, surreal next! (see, i did it that time.)
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Gamescom 2010: Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Preview - The Thrill of The Chase Written Thursday, September 02, 2010 By Dan Webb View author's profile | |
Although Need For Speed got praised to the high heavens by ourselves at E3 this year, I did say I'd be more interested in seeing what Need For Speed has classically done best - street races with cop involvement - in its new form. Ask and ye shall receive would be about right, as one of Criterion's focuses at Gamescom this year was exactly that: 6 players, one track, lots of shortcuts, lots of cops and some high octane street racing. Beautiful stuff. Before we jump on to talk about our experience with the street race itself - ironically called 'Roadsters Reborn'… reborn indeed! - Criterion were keen to show off a few new things. Although the British based developer was keen to push their social networking side once again, we'll concentrate on the stuff that's actually going to matter with the vast majority of gamers out there; and that's the content itself. Moments before we picked up a pad to kick some serious ass, Criterion gave us a sneak peak at one of their time-trials in Hot Pursuit. I can hear you now, "Pffffft, a time trial? That's nothing new!" Well, the time trial itself wasn't new, or even the concept, but it gave Criterion a chance to highlight their weather effects and possibly more impressively, the night-day effects they have going on in Hot Pursuit. Racing against the clock to 30 Seconds to Mars' "Edge of the Earth", the track glistened as the 911 GT3 RS slid round corners with sublime ease. It's interesting that Criterion call it their weather effects though, because despite the wet track, there was no rain in sight. Sure, the thunder and lightning lit up the sky as the day started to turn to dusk, but whether they've included rainfall in the final version, and not just wet tracks, remains to be seen. That being said, the effects they've done on the wet track from a visual standpoint were a stunning sight. In fact, the whole transition from night to day, the high speeds and epic vistas all go far, to create an incredible piece of eye candy. Eye candy aside, it's time to get down and dirty, and our hands-on with Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit was one of the highlights of the show. Gravitating towards the Boxster Spyder - in metallic grey in case you were wondering - after the rolling start gave us control over our sexy super cars, the traditional Need For Speed play kicked in. To say there was a bit of argy-bargy is possibly underselling how manic the start was, as all of us attempted to knock our opponents into oncoming traffic and what not. The ability to build up your boost was key in the street race, harking back to more of the traditional Burnout style of play, and driving on the wrong side of the road, avoiding traffic, was possibly the easiest way to rack it up. Of course, everyone was attempting this and jostling for control of that outside lane was one of the draws of the multiplayer. Factor in the oncoming traffic and yeah, you can assume there is a lot of traffic. As Need For Speed was so many years ago, that reliance on taking risky shortcuts and using the cops to your advantage comes into play just as much here. If you're out in front, expect to be the target of a lot of heat, but hey, that's part and parcel of what made the franchise so great all those years ago. Incidentally, speaking of shortcuts, they adopt the same sort of high-risk, great return possibilities as they always have done, making them one of the true staples in the franchise. With over 100 miles of road and 30 miles of shortcuts, chances are you'll never be short of places to drive. About 50% of our way into the track, we found ourselves a good 4 seconds ahead of second, but in an instant that changed, highlighting the unpredictability of the gameplay. Opting to play it safe and not risk a shortcut, we took the long, but relatively easy route around a hairpin corner. Thinking to ourselves, "okay, if we don't take that, we still need to stay in the outside lane and accrue some boost"; moments later, we hit an oncoming car, wrecking our ride, while 2nd, 3rd and 4th all took the shortcut perfectly. Although at that moment in time, it sucked to be me, that's the beauty of the traditional Need For Speed gameplay. By the time we'd gathered our composure and were back on the straight and narrow, it was time for us to opt for all the high risk, great return shortcuts, maybe overdoing it in between trying to raise our boost by driving on the wrong side of the road. "Close calls?," you ask… yes, a few too many for my liking. That being said, it allowed us to get ourselves back into a position to fight for 1st. With the finish line a few mere miles away, it was time to make our final push and after boosting into 1st on one of the final corners, causing him to lose control, we took home the gold. Dirty, maybe, but hey, that's what Need For Speed is all about. This is not Forza Motorsport. Everything we've seen of the racer to-date has been nothing short of positive, proving that Criterion know what they need to do to get this once epic franchise back into first place. Admittedly, our only concern at the moment revolves around whether they can offer enough of this street racer combat to keep us satisfied, as I can't help but get the feeling that they're maybe missing the point with various other racer modes like Time Trial, Hot Pursuit, etc, but that's something that we'll only find out around launch. Needless to say though, everything else, from the visuals and the handling, right the way through to the intensity and constant jostling, has been right on the money. 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-- next guest says the economy is in serious trouble Scott Black as president of Delphi management.
Us now from -- said.
Scott you look at the NASDAQ in the broad market measure by the S&P 500 last year double digit gains were -- about up about 15%.
Is that not warranted.
Well let -- ask us multiples and cheap even if we look today.
On yesterday's close is roughly fourteen point one times expected earnings.
But the problems other corporate earnings are really trying to head down.
In the last latest reported quarter the S&P earnings were -- that's the first drop since the bottom of the -- market.
-- are only up one point 1% which is not good.
And truthfully -- estimates for next year like a 113 dollars on the S&P.
Right now we're at a level like 9976.
I don't see a lot of growth and earnings -- -- Operating margin is -- party -- they hit nine point 5% in the third quarter of last year they nine point 06% that's a big decline.
It doesn't bode well.
So it's hard to be very bullish on the market is so.
-- right when that -- that if he starts to should hit that he's starts to sure agents stocks all of a sudden look a lot more expensive.
I well -- -- you just got ready to mention the fiscal -- you most concerned about what is happening here in the United States.
Or what you see going on over in Europe again a big downgrade by Germany's Central Bank on growth there but what about here and our lack action in Washington.
Obviously I'm very concerned because a shows a lack of confidence for investors.
The public posturing is ridiculous just like the speech we heard pretty prior to my coming on by Boehner it's time that the president and Boehner and start going -- campaigning on their rhetoric which they did prior to that first Tuesday in Alabama.
Get behind closed doors in a serious way.
It's ridiculous that the Grover Norquist pledge is taken by people we need to raise revenue assumption -- point get out but the president has the lead and not follow from behind on cutting the growth and entitlements it's always a misnomer when people several gonna cut spending no -- cut the growth of spending.
But -- gonna have to put real things.
On the table Medicare Medicaid social security.
And -- -- discretionary.
Things in the budget because the gap as to why.
-- other people pointed out we need revenue -- about -- and a half percent of GDP we need expenditures in about 21%.
And now look at the economy going again -- -- better fiscal shape overall.
Another point that I wanted to make is that the consumers pretty much tapped out if you look at nominal GDP was up five point 4% in the last quarter.
Personal income was only up 3%.
That's a bad sign because it helped -- consumption is when he went to the seven and 1%.
About GDP at this point some people at this saving -- -- bomber credits going back up.
Contrary to the fact that people think.
His deleveraging actually against -- credits up eleven point 7% year over year lot of these factors don't bode well going to the coming year.
Thank you for shaking me up this move -- Scott above -- the weekend as great to see you as always.
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I've always enjoyed the Tycoon types of games, even though I'm not an extensive PC gamer. Currently I've started screwing around with Railroad Tycoon 3. Yeah, it's a bit on the older side, but not too old that Widows 7 might have issues. I was just wondering what some of more favorite tycoon type games that the members might have. As you are aware, it's usually a hit/miss with most of the PC games. Either they are great...or they suck.
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If Mario's not careful, he's going to lose his job.
Long Nintendo's heroic mascot, the smiling erstwhile plumber faces stiff competition for his role from a kid in an elf suit with a sword and a boomerang.
Link always receives second billing, while actually starring in the "Legend of Zelda" games. But for a growing number of Nintendo fans, his games, not Mario's, are the ones that generate the most excitement. With the release of "The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass," it's not hard to see why. A skillful update and continuation of Link's endless saga to save the hapless Princess Zelda, this new DS title tips its hat to the many conventions that made the series famous, while providing yet another massive update in terms of gameplay.
Featuring treasure chests scattered throughout countless dungeons, with boomerangs and the smiling merchant Beedle, this game borrows heavily from previous "Zelda" games, most notably "The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker." The cutesy anime graphics and big-eyed, baby-faced Link annoyed fans when "Wind Waker" first took the franchise in a new direction. Long-standing players saw the game's approach as kid stuff, when they were eager for their favorite hero to grow up. But this particular installment of the "Zelda" series was a needed change, and eventually it was viewed as a positive turn for the series.
"PH" would have sold just fine if it merely brought classic "Zelda" adventuring to the DS. Gamers happily would have played through a slightly revamped version of the timeless "Zelda" classic "A Link to the Past." What they got instead is a game that looks like the same old thing, even though it throws in enough new things to keep the most jaded "Zelda" aficionado entertained.
For the first time in the series, the player interacts with everything in the world without buttons. Navigation, combat and other tasks require the stylus and the DS touch screen. Reduced to pocket size, the "Wind Waker"-styled graphics seem less silly and more artful. And where classic settings and items appear, they sport a re-design that makes the same old thing feel fresh. Take, for example, Link's boomerang. Long a practical tool for light combat, in "PH" it turns into something else. When you draw a line on-screen, Link launches his boomerang, which careens through a physically improbable, but quite satisfying, trajectory. This device is the basis for all kinds of interesting puzzles, and during real-time battles, it quickly turns sketching lines into a dramatic combat ballet.
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One Hundred Years of the Indy 500
A century ago, the first Indianapolis 500 race started in high excitement and ended in a muddle
- By Charles Leerhsen
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The men of the early 20th-century motor press sometimes referred to the 13th circuit of an automobile racecourse as "the hoodoo lap," not because more bad stuff happened then, but because they fervently wished it would. Coming at that point, a wreck would play nicely into the tabloid trope that superstitions are not to be flouted, and it would give a long car race some much-needed narrative cord. And so it was on May 30, 1911, as several dozen reporters leaned forward anxiously to watch the 40-car field for the first-ever Indianapolis 500-mile race power past the starting line for the 12th time and roar yet again into turn one.
They weren't a bad lot, the newspapermen who had come to the two-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway to cover the event, but they required—and by some standards of judgment deserved—all the help they could get. Many by then had been in Indianapolis for a month or more, pumping up the importance of the Speedway and the coming sweepstakes—the longest race ever contested on the track—via the dispatches they filed for their far-flung dailies. They had recorded the arrival of virtually every "sweepstakes pilot" in the race, especially Ray Harroun, driver of the No. 32 Marmon "Wasp," an Indianapolis-built car and the only single-seater in the race. (All the other drivers traveled with "riding mechanics," who manually pumped oil and swiveled their heads constantly to check for oncoming traffic.) They interviewed drop-by celebrities like Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and "noted songstress" Alice Lynn, investigated the burgeoning supply of counterfeit $1 general admission tickets, and scrambled for stories about the Indianapolis house cat that "deliberately committed suicide" by jumping from a sixth-story window, the downstate chicken with 14 toes on its left foot and the rumored sightings of a PG-rated pervert known as Jack the Hugger. For men accustomed to doing little more on a workday than walking the length of a boxing ring to ask one toothless man his opinion of another, this was arduous labor.
But the 500-mile sweepstakes, when it finally transpired on that surprisingly cool Tuesday morning, wasn't paying the pressmen back in kind. The race had gotten off to a thrillingly raucous start replete with aerial bombs and a grandstand packed with an estimated 90,000 enthusiasts. People were excited by the amount of money at stake (the winner's share would be $10,000, an impressive sum in an era when Cobb, baseball's highest-paid player, made $10,000 a season) and the danger. (In the downtown saloons you could bet on how many drivers, who wore cloth or leather helmets and had no seat belts or roll bars, might be killed.) But with every mile the story line had become more and more scrambled and the spectators more and more subdued. Those charged with describing the "excitement" to an eager audience of millions were feeling the first damp signs of panic. Like every other lengthy automobile contest these experts on baseball and boxing had ever witnessed, this one was damnably confusing. The auto racing tracks of the day simply did not have the technology to keep track of split times and running order once cars began passing one another and going into and out of the pits.
On certain early developments almost everyone could agree. "Happy" Johnny Aitken, in the dark-blue No. 4 National car, had grabbed the early lead, only to be passed, after about seven miles, by Spencer Wishart, a mining magnate's son driving a squat, gray customized Mercedes said to have cost his daddy $62,000. Eight laps later Wishart (who wore a custom-made shirt and silk tie beneath his overalls) suddenly pitted with a bad tire, leaving the lead to a big brown Knox driven by an unheralded public-school kid from Springfield, Massachusetts, named Fred Belcher. Soon Wishart stormed back onto the course, but into what lap exactly no one, including the judges, could say for certain. The leaders, as mile 30 approached, were starting to lap the stragglers, so the field was a snake eating its own tail. Belcher now found himself running second to a ball of smoke concealing, it was generally believed, the dark red Fiat of 23-year-old David Bruce-Brown, a square-jawed, fair-haired New Yorker from a wealthy merchant family. A class-war theme might be emerging—trust-fund kids versus their working-class counterparts—but then again, perhaps not.
The crowd regained its focus and oohed each time a scoreboard worker indicated a change in running order by manually removing and rehanging the car numbers on their pegs. Still, the denizens of the infield press box—more skeptical than the average fan, and with a better perch—couldn't help noticing that the Speedway's four scoreboards were usually not in agreement, and that a crew from the timing department was frantically trying to repair a tripwire that had been snapped by who knows which automobile a lap or two back. (The crew succeeded, but the wire was immediately rebroken.) The Warner Horograph, as the Speedway's timing system was known, was a ridiculously Rube Goldbergesque device involving miles of wire as well as rolls of paper, typewriter ribbon, springs, hammers, telephones, Dictaphones, marbles and hundreds of human beings. Its sheer complexity was impressive, but the Horograph was utterly useless when it came to recording time and keeping track of races. Given such chaos, was it really so wrong to wish for a spectacular accident that would wipe away the early muddle and allow the beleaguered scribes a second chance at getting a grip on the action?
Of course it was wrong, but moral questions wither in the face of a hoodoo, even one conjured by a coven of pasty-faced, ink-stained hacks. Right on cue, the No. 44 Amplex, a bright red car driven by Arthur Greiner and traveling in mid-pack, lost a tire, though accounts vary as to which. The bare wooden wheel hit the bricks hard, causing Greiner's auto to swerve crazily and veer into the infield, where it plowed through tall meadow grass and began a somersault, only to stop in mid-maneuver, so that it stood straight up, balancing on its steaming grill. The 27-year-old Greiner was flipped from the cockpit like a shucked oyster, with the steering wheel somehow still in his mitts. Riding mechanic Sam Dickson, meanwhile, remained more or less in his bucket seat, one hand planted on the dashboard, the other clutching a leather side-handle, his only restraining device. This was the sort of heart-stopping moment that only auto racing could provide. If the car fell backward, returning to its three remaining tires, he might get nothing worse than a jolt. But if it fell forward, it would drive Dickson's head into the ground like a tent spike. The crowd fell silent. Dickson tensed. The Amplex rocked on its radiator.
Sensing disaster, scores of spectators began surging over the fence that separated the track apron from the homestretch. This was a common occurrence in the wake of a potentially fatal accident. So eager were some men, women and children to get a closer look that they would risk their own lives by running across a track teeming with racing machines.
In real time, the upended Amplex couldn't have taken more than a few seconds to fall. And when it did, it fell forward, killing Dickson. As Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote: "There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted." Dickson's body was taken with dispatch to the Speedway hospital tent and the race continued without interruption, with the drivers swerving around spectators unable to control their morbid curiosity.
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its funny and sad when men compete with machines....but we have a new sport!
Posted by Auto Repair Shop on July 16,2011 | 04:24 AM
I live within walking distance of the IMS. I didn't go to the race this year but my son and I walked there and people watched and got to see and hear some of the festivities. We had much fun and watching the stealth fly right above our heads was awesome!
Posted by Lee on June 8,2011 | 03:26 PM
Thanks so much for this article. Fred Belcher was my grandfather and all I have been able to research on this particular race you seem to have really been able to expand on and verify exactly what we might expect it was. Must have been a lot of fun!
Posted by Kirk on May 28,2011 | 09:52 PM
I read with interest your article about the Incy500. My father worked for the Marmon company then and often rode as the mechanic. Thanks.
Posted by Mary Moses on May 25,2011 | 12:25 AM
Good job Charles Leersen.
Posted by Tony Gray on May 23,2011 | 01:53 PM


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Graduates in this field can work in leadership and management positions in hospitals, doctors' offices, community healthcare facilities, long-term care facilities, and outpatient care centers.
*Data Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook - 2008-09 Edition
Future Possible Careers For This Program
51.0701 | Health Care Administration | |
11-9111.00 | Medical and Health Services Managers |
Time frame: July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 Award Year 2012-13
How long will it take to complete this program?
The program is designed to take 31 months to complete.
83% of graduates from this program finish in this time.
The median time for graduates to complete this program is 28 months.
What is the total cost of this program for me?
At ECPI University, programs are competitively priced and are designed to help you achieve your goals. Through our year-round schedule, you could earn your Bachelor's degree in 2.5 years. That can give you the edge over students at other colleges who might still be attending class.
Program Cost/Tuition Chart | |
Books & Supplies | $2,760.00 |
Tuition and Fees | $56,910.00 |
Total Tuition | $59,670.00 |
Foundation course requirements can result in additional costs and increase the time to graduation. Actual cost may vary depending on actual time to graduate, and subject to any necessary tuition increases. (for all programs and schools)
Time frame: July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 Award Year 2012-13.
What are my financing options to pay for the program?
In addition to any grant and scholarship aid for which they are eligible, graduates used loans to finance their education. The median debt for program graduates is:
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Federal Median Loans | $26,528.00 |
Private Median Loans | $0.00 |
Institutional Median Loans | $0.00 |


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Eat Pray Love
Director : Ryan Murphy
Screenplay : Ryan Murphy & Jennifer Salt (based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert)
MPAA Rating : PG-13
Year of Release : 2010
Stars : Julia Roberts (Liz Gilbert), James Franco (David Piccolo), Richard Jenkins (Richard From Texas), Viola Davis (Delia Shiraz), Billy Crudup (Stephen), Javier Bardem (Felipe), Giuseppe Gandini (Luca Spaghetti), Tuva Novotny (Sofi), Christine Hakim (Wayan Nuriyasih), Hadi Subiyanto (Ketut Liyer)
The producers of Eat Pray Love, which stars Julia Roberts and is based on a best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, are likely hoping that their film will be seen as an "adult" alternative to all the juvenile nonsense of the summer movie season. A continent-hopping drama about a woman's yearlong search for meaning in her life, it has all the requisite ingredients of something "important" by Hollywood's standards: good intentions sourced from a pre-sold property, first-rate production values, and a top-tier movie star to anchor the audience amid all the soul-searching and globe-trotting. The irony is that Eat Pray Love is just as shallow and self-serving as all the testosterone-packed idiocy of the typical Hollywood summer blockbusters; the only difference is its façade of intellectual, spiritual, and dramatic seriousness. At least The A-Team made no bones about its spiritual bankruptcy.
Roberts stars as Liz Gilbert, the screen surrogate of the real-life free-lance magazine writer and novelist Elizabeth Gilbert who, in her 2006 memoir of the same title (unread by me), chronicled her trip to Italy, India, and Bali in search of … well, something. When the film opens, Liz is a successful magazine travel writer who is married to a good-hearted, but flaky guy named Stephen (Billy Crudup) who never seems to know what he really wants to do. Liz feels stranded in her life, and after a heartfelt prayer to God on the bathroom floor, decides to end her marriage. She briefly takes up with an actor named David (James Franco) who is playing the lead role in a play she penned that is apparently about her own marital problems, and although the relationship ultimately crashes and burns, David introduces her to ideas about New Age mysticism that she can't quite shake. So, what's a wealthy, successful Manhattanite to do but store all her belongings and take off on a cross-continental soul-searching journey of gastronomic gluttony, ascetic living, and meet-cute romanticism?
That is precisely what Liz does, and Eat Pray Love's remaining two hours are split fairly evenly between her time in Italy, where she indulges in good food, wine, and conversation with a group of attractive (or at least eclectic) Europeans; India, where she joins an ashram and tries to learn the arts of meditation and self-sacrifice; and ultimately Bali, where she submits herself to the tutelage of a cutesy-old medicine man who predicted more than a year earlier that her marriage would end, she would lose all her money, and would come back to him to learn. In Bali she also finds love again, this time with Javier Bardem's hunky Brazilian divorcee Felipe, who is still nursing his own romantic wounds after more than a decade. The balance of these apparently competing ways of life--sensual gratification, spiritual dedication, and romantic fulfillment--are supposed to give the story some kind of sacred balance that we should all take to heart, but it's hard not to feel that the whole endeavor is just a glorified exercise in having your cake and eating it too.
Eat Pray Love is little more than a self-indulgent wallow in white upper-class privilege feigning depth by cloaking itself in fortune cookie wisdom. At no point is Liz's ability to leave her life behind and travel the world for a year presented as anything other than a simple opportunity that is ostensibly open to anyone. Even if the film's ideological intentions are pure, it immediately wrecks on the rocky shoals of Liz's unstated socioeconomic advantage, which allows her to experience Italy's best cafes and wile away her days in Bali in a seaside cottage. Its embrace of abject narcissism as personal growth is all the more grating given that it is premised on one's ability to indulge in the kind of pampered world travel that is out of the reach of all but the upper one percent. It doesn't help that Julia Roberts is movie-star radiant throughout the film; even when she's scrubbing floors in an Indian ashram, she looks like she just stepped from the set of a shampoo commercial. At no point do we sense in her the physical and emotional wear and tear of travel and isolation from one's native culture; the whole film could be a travel agency commercial. Even more insulting is a sequence in which she implores to a friend in Italy to let herself go and dig into the country's fattening buffet of pasta and pizza without concern for weight gain when Roberts never looks for a moment like she wears anything above a size 0. If we're going to be lectured about being above body-image issues, the least Roberts could have done was take a De Niro-esque vow of Method commitment and gain 20 pounds.
Granted, the film does have its charms and its moments of dramatic heft. The depiction of Liz's misguided desperation in dating David following her divorce will ring true with anyone who has ever felt suddenly cut adrift from a long-term commitment. The film also benefits significantly from the presence of Richard Jenkins as "Richard From Texas," a disarmingly direct American who is also studying at the ashram where Liz seeks spiritual enlightenment. With his grizzly beard and '50s glasses, Jenkins captures the essence of a man in search of something, although his primary role is to call Liz to the carpet for her frequently facile intentions, something the film as a whole never quite reconciles. Roberts' performance is genuinely good throughout, although it's hard not to feel frustrated with how wasted it is on the shallow material. Her prayer on the bathroom floor near the beginning of the film is particularly powerful, although the film doesn't have the guts to follow through with anything even remotely genuine regarding her spiritual development. Rather, Liz grows via a series of grab-bag spiritual moments that add up to nothing of any real substance. It is the film's supreme irony that Liz accuses Richard of speaking in bumper stickers, because the film itself rarely rises above such simplistic, easily digestible, but ultimately meaningless rhetoric.
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Pass the Heartburn
Sunday, November 20th, 2011 © by Susan SwartzI think about this every Thanksgiving. Somewhere a woman is crying. Some of you understand her suffering. It is gravy time.
The turkey is out of the oven and waiting to be sculpted by some proud swashbuckler. The mashed potatoes are fluffed and sitting patiently. Aunt Stephanie's creative broccoli and a Cranberry Something are lined up and ready to go.
It is time to create that unholy mixture of meat fat and flour that will suffocate all those subtle tastes labored on by the contributors to this feast. Even if it's the only time of the year that anyone even makes or eats gravy people expect perfection. In the end, all the guests will taste is the gravy. All they will remember is the gravy. The dinner will collapse or succeed on the perfect, silken, salty beauty of this chemical mix.
They will make little puddles of it in their crater of potatoes. They will sluice it into the moist stuffing. They will let it flood their crisp veggies and make the turkey slippery with it.
Gravy is the glue that holds the dinner together. But it is not supposed to taste or look like glue. Neither is it supposed to look like an oil slick, nor pour out in chunks. It should not be mistaken for tiny dumplings.
Thanksgiving and its allegiance to tradition – for why else do we continue to eat this stuff? – demands that the hostess or the mother or the grandmother be the gravy maker.
But not everyone knows how, nor will they ever. I have been gravy challenged since the days when cooks slid marshmallows and cream cheese inside green jello and called it a salad. My cooking and my tastes have progressed since then. But then comes Thanksgiving and that means turkey and the trimmings which include gravy. And while I have fond memories of my grandmother's and my mother's and my mother-in-law's gravy, it now represents nothing but heartburn to me.
So there you are with everything ready and you have to take time out to have a breakdown over this brown goop which tradition dictates cannot come out of a can or a bag. Not only are you expected to do it well, you are to do it effortlessly and in those last three minutes when the kitchen fills with starving guests, swilling wine, having a great old time as you dump flour into a pool of gurgling grease. You stir. You pray. It clots. You weep, more salt for the gravy.


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Out of the Game
Original Release Date: May 1, 2012
Track Listing
1. Out of the Game
2. Jericho
3. Rashida
4. Barbara
5. Welcome to the Ball
6. Montauk
7. Bitter Tears
8. Respectable Dive
9. Perfect Man
10. Sometimes You Need
11. Song of You
12. Candles
Loudon Wainwright III: Vocals (Background)
Nels Cline: Guitar (Electric)
Ross Cullum: A&R
Ted Jensen: Mastering
Anna McGarrigle: Accordion
Jenni Muldaur: Vocals (Background)
Chaim Tannenbaum: Vocals (Background)
Sean Lennon: Guitar (Acoustic)
Martha Wainwright: Vocals (Background)
Rufus Wainwright: Synthesizer, Guitar (Acoustic), Piano, Composer, Vocals
Michael Leonhart: Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Mellophone
Sloan Wainwright: Vocals (Background)
Julian Peploe: Art Direction, Design
Tom Arndt: Release Coordinator
Victor Axelrod: Organ, Synthesizer, Piano
Pat Barry: Creative Director
Tom Elmhirst: Mixing
Angee Blake: Vocals (Background)
David Budge: Drums
Anthony Rossomando: Guitar
Andrew Wyatt: Vocals (Background)
David Thomas: Stylist
Thomas Bartlett: Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Fender Rhodes
Vaughan Merrick: Engineer, Pro-Tools
Rutger: Groomer
Stuart Bogie: Sax (Tenor)
Barry J. Holmes: Photography
Mark Ronson: Bass, Producer, Drum Programming
Ian Hendrickson-Smith: Sax (Baritone)
Tina Tyrell: Photography
Nick Movshon: Bass, Percussion, Drums
Evelyn Morgan: Production Coordination, A&R
Homer Steinweiss: Drums
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Lucy Roche: Vocals (Background)
Thomas Brenneck: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Ukulele
Nick Zinner: Guitar (Electric)
Al O'Connell: Engineer, Vocal Engineer
Joshua Blair: Drum Engineering
Ted Tuthill: Assistant
Ben Baptie: Engineer, Mixing Assistant
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Larger Michigan cities see homicides rise in 2012
2012 homicide totals surpass previous year's figures in some of Michigan's largest cities
Several of Michigan's largest cities already have eclipsed last year's homicide totals.
Murders in Detroit, Saginaw and Grand Rapids are up over 2011.
The 66 homicides reported through Monday morning in Flint are tied with that city's 2011 tally.
The number of homicides in the city of Detroit is at the highest point it has been since 1994.
As of Dec. 16 there were 375 homicides in Detroit during 2012.
Grand Rapids reached its 18th homicide Saturday night. The number still is preliminary. There were 17 murders there last year, compared to nine each in 2009 and 2010. Grand Rapids recorded 23 murders in 2006, reports WOOD-TV.
Saginaw surpassed last year's 12 homicides by July. Through Dec. 22, there were 30 murders in the city.
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