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Top 10 Technology Projects in '07
If there is any question that technology initiatives must respond to business needs, it is put to rest by what readers of this magazine say they're focusing on in 2007.
More than a third of those who took our top-projects survey say they are looking to do business process improvement. The next hottest areas, customer relationship management and business analytics, also require collaboration between information technologists and business people. Nowadays, businesses aren't funding anything whose return on investment they can't see.
"The projects we have scheduled for 2007 all answer a particular business need," says Gabrielle Wolfson, chief information officer of Spring Valley, N.Y.-based Par Pharmaceutical. "You're not going to implement technology for the sake of technology."
The unrelenting focus on ROI is leading companies to do more pilot projects and cut the number of risky big-bang initiatives they take on.
The ROI focus is also prompting companies to make better use of the systems they have in place. That's what the new push toward service-oriented architectures is all about. Indeed, while SOA itself doesn't appear on our list of the top 10 projects (it was the 12th-most-common project, cited by 12% of our readers), its principles of making better use of existing infrastructure and leveraging applications already in place are behind several of those that do, including Web services (No. 5 on our list) and enterprise systems planning (No. 9).
A total of 363 readers in I.T. and business management responded to Baseline's survey, which was conducted in January. For a look at their top priorities, turn the page.
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Project #1: Business Process Management/Improvement
Participants: Usually a joint effort of I.T. and a business unit. In a few isolated instances, BPM initiatives do not involve any technologists.
Price tag: From $20,000 on the low end to tens of millions on the high end.
Time line: A department-level pilot could be started and finished in five days. An enterprisewide project could take several years.
The project area that technology managers put first this year is also the slipperiest. "BPM is one of those things that mean 20 different things to 10 different people," says Chris Curran, chief technology officer at Chicago-based Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. "It's a term that has popped up because of vendors."
What BPM projects boil down to are efforts to break down business functions, figure out better methods of executing them, and build technology systems in support of the new methods. The business functions undergoing evaluation are industry-specific, but some common ones include order-processing and getting a new employee up and running.
Of course, there are actual BPM tools. The toolsfrom companies like Oracle and BEA Systemshelp companies understand their existing business processes and design new ones. This is something companies have done manually for years, by having a business analyst define requirements and hand them off to a development team.
Some of the newer software tools can automatically generate code to run the improved business process. Canned code, however, only goes so far at big enterprises. So, while billions will be spent on BPM in 2007, look for the spending to be primarily on consultants and staff salaries, not software.
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Project #2: Customer Relationship Management
Participants: Shared by technology and business units.
Price tag: Streamlining a process might cost as little as $50,000. A global CRM rollout at a big company could cost $50 million.
Time line: Payback usually comes in two to three years.
One measure of CRM's growing stature is that professional services firms like Deloitte, Infosys and IBM have been turning away prospective clients. "A lot of the vendors' professional practices are sold out," says Isher Kaila, who covers CRM for research firm Gartner. "This is a boom time."
Why now? There are a couple of reasons. Merger activity has put customers up for grabs in some industries. And then there's the impact of globalization and the Internet, two things that have put new power into customers' hands. Companies are doing whatever they can to keep customers in the fold, rather than risk losing them to a Web site that can provide the same service faster, cheaper or better.
Despite all the excitement, one in three CRM projects still fails, Gartner says. Aware of this, many companies are getting smarter about their tactics.
In particular, some are opting to do more prototyping and more pilots as proofs of concept. "Organizations are very shy about committing to multiyear, multilevel CRM road maps," Kaila says. CRM is now happening in "more bite-sized chunks."
Software-as-a-service offerings, including those from Salesforce.com, are another thing that is making CRM implementations simpler and improving ROI. For instance, Amicas, a Boston-based company that provides billing services for radiologists, is using its Salesforce.com system not just to track its business but to do customer satisfaction surveys. "The detail we can get back out of it is great," says Nancy Elliott, manager of client services for Amicas' financial group.
But companies shouldn't make the mistake of assuming that their initiatives are a success just because CRM has become easier. "Just because you can talk to more customers and engage more customers doesn't mean you can increase business value," Kaila points out. "At the end of the day, you have to drive profitability."
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Project #3: Business Analytics/Business Intelligence
Participants: I.T. extracts the data; business analyzes it.
Price tag: A big-company project could easily run into the millions.
Time line: From a few days to a year or more.
A lot of success in business is contingent on analyzing what's happening and formulating strategies about how to respond. Wouldn't it be great if we could transform the data at our companies into real information?
That is the promise of business analytics software, which sucks the data from a company's disparate systemsthe I.T. partand passes it on to business users for analysis.
It is no simple task. The data at many companies resides in systems that are 20 to 30 years old. The extract, transform and load process that does the initial work is far from infallible, even with the help of software from firms like Informatica, Cognos and Ab Initio.
Given the potential payoff, though, it's not surprising that companies keep tryingoften by limiting the scope of the projects they're taking on. For instance, Progressive Medical, a $150 million insurance-industry broker in Westerville, Ohio, expects this year to combine internal data with industry data to determine how it measures up in key categories such as processing time per claim and cost per claim. "We're also trying to provide a next-level reporting mechanism for our customers," allowing them to see for themselves how much they're saving by working with Progressive, says chief information officer Angelo Mazzocco.
The "think small" approach is also smart for big companies. Consultant Curran says a telecommunications company might see what it could learn about the success of a pricing plan by having "a couple of I.T. guys and biz guys" look at a few customers in one state. "You do a proof of concept before you build a multimillion-dollar project."
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Project #4: Desktop/Laptop Upgrades
Participants: I.T. sets the policies; business pays the freight.
Price tag: Varies with configuration. The decline in PC prices is being mitigated somewhat by the arrival of Microsoft's new Vista operating system.
The shift toward laptop computers will continue this year; IDC says that more than two of every five new computers bought by companies will be laptops, up from one in three in 2005.
The improved quality and ever-shrinking footprint of laptops themselves is one factor. Another is the increasing availability of wireless Internet service. Wireless local-area networks (the phenomenon enabled by WiFi) have given users a first taste of freedom; even more freedom is coming in the form of cellular wide-area service.
Companies like laptops because they extend the workday. "Let's say you leave the office at 5 p.m. to beat traffic," says IDC analyst Richard Shim. "If you have a desktop and you can't access e-mail, you're done for the day." That isn't the case with a worker who carries a laptop home with him.
Companies "want to make sure their users have the tools to be not only competitive but productive," Shim points out.
By contrast, many companies have slowed their purchases of desktops, and some manufacturers have seen their sales shrink. Still, the desktops that are getting bought tend to be very robust, particularly at companies that are upgrading to Vista, Microsoft's new operating system. That is mitigating the loss in revenue that desktop manufacturers are experiencing from any decline in unit shipments, Shim says.
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Project #5: Web Services
Participants: The CIO's A-team.
Price tag: Whatever it costs to employ six crackerjack software designers for the length of the project.
Time line: It's generally a year and a half before any sort of payback is realized. Break-even takes longer.
It is one of the most common flaws of big-company technology deployments: Applications get built for one business unit, but are unavailable to others. Or data can't be shared.
Technology silos may still be around, but Web services, including the messaging protocol SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), are linking them in a way that holds considerable promise.
To some extent, Web services are just the successors to the middleware connectors of old. Whereas companies once used proprietary software from vendors like Tibco and WebMethods to connect their heterogeneous systems, now they are doing it using standard protocols and approaches. "A lot of functionality is implemented in mainframes and other systems," says Vijay Tella, chief strategy officer of Oracle Fusion Middleware. "Companies want to move toward more modern applications that are easy to understand and change and get intelligence out of."
An even bigger payoff is coming through the creation of shared servicesapplications that exist within one department of a company that may now be made available to other departments.
For instance, a company may have a perfectly sound back-office process for taking orders. Web services can help the company use that process in new channels, such as an outsourced call center and on a Web site. "If you share this thing three times, you've given yourself a 2X savings," says Gartner analyst Dan Sholler. "That becomes a huge amount of leverage because people spend a lot of money on software."
Because Web services are so new, though, companies face some big challenges. One is finding developers who understand the model and can execute it. The other is organizational; the multi-business-unit nature of shared services means you "run into a whole mess of governance problems," Sholler says. To date, the earliest adopters have been in the financial services industry. This year, Sholler expects more government organizations to jump in.
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Project #6: Disaster Planning/Recovery
Participants: Senior business executives, up to and including the chief executive, usually have input. The board of directors often has oversight responsibility.
"Thinking big" was once an unambiguously positive thing in business. The last few years have brought the realization that big can sometimes be bad, too.
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina, enterprises have turned to companies like SunGard to prepare for the possibility not just of lost data but of even more frightening things. "What if telecommunications and the cellular infrastructure go down?" says Jon Oltsik, an information security analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "What if people are killed? Who is the next in line?
"People are thinking through this in a lot more depth," he adds. "It's unfortunate, but it's necessary."
The services provided include plain vanilla office buildings, their uninhabited cubicles and empty conference rooms providing insurance against the unwanted day when a company's headquarters are rendered unusable by some catastrophe.
Financial institutions are the biggest consumers of disaster insurance, partly because of requirements imposed by regulatory agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and partly because they're prime targets for terrorists. Many financial institutions pay millions of dollars annually for disaster recovery services, Oltsik says.
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Project #7: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Participants: Managers from both the security and network teams.
Price tag: Hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
Time line: Ongoing.
Last year, it was a computer stolen from a Department of Veterans Affairs worker; this year, it was customer information pilfered from the T.J. Maxx retail chain. There always seems to be another computer break-in in the news.
Until recently, companies were focused mainly on shoring up their perimeterskeeping outsiders from hacking into their systems over the Internet. Many companies are still concerned about that. Progressive Medical CIO Mazzocco, for instance, recently brought in a set of consultants to do some intrusion testing. Their assignment: Try to break into Progressive's systems: "They were able to find some issues that we solved," Mazzocco says.
With their perimeters more secure, some companies are shifting their attention to internal threats, including viruses inadvertently introduced by a laptop user plugging back into the network, or good old-fashioned electronic vandalism from a disgruntled or simply mischievous employee.
When a company is lucky, such events fall into the realm of the merely embarrassing. In some cases, though, they can cost a company millions of dollars. "There's no shortage of breaches" and many causes, says security analyst Oltsik.
When they work well, security systems can help CIOs sleep better at night. But a security system, like a chemotherapy treatment, can be a blunt instrument, obstructing the good things along with the bad. As Oltsik puts it, "The last thing you want to do is shut down legit traffic, because it'll be your phone that rings."
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Project #8: Server Upgrades
Participants: A routine task handled by the technology department.
The unglamorous business of upgrading servers is an every three- to five-year exercise for most companies, so it's not surprising to see it on the list of projects most often cited by I.T. managers.
For Progressive Medical's Mazzocco, the upgrade cycle came last year. The company spent about $150,000 replacing 20 servers that housed its accounting, CRM and Web systems. All together, Progressive has about 50 servers, running Windows, Unix and Linux.
While financial problems prompt some firms to keep their servers for more than five years, that was not the case at Progressive, which has been growing quickly and is trying to double productivity per employee. "This investment in new infrastructure will take us to the next level," Mazzocco says.
Moore's law, which predicts the rise in computing power, is still happening "at a good rate," Mazzocco adds. "We're seeing the cost per store and the cost per performance both decrease."
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Project #9: Enterprise Systems Planning
Participants: The technical executives with the broadest view of a company's systems. Often, they'll get some assistance from the chief financial officer.
Price tag: High in terms of management time.
You hear it all the time, about companies that have grown through acquisition: They have a dozen database vendors. Or seven enterprise resource planning systems.
Enterprise systems planning is the discipline some companies apply to get a handle on their sprawling applications. It starts with defining business requirements, and then mapping the technologies the company already has against them.
"I was working with a company that had 25 different CRM systems," says Diamond Management's Curran. "The question I asked was, 'Do you have an opportunity to take it down from 25 to three? Then you'll have one support organization working on it instead of five.'"
Enterprise systems planning is part of what has to happen for a company to operate efficiently after a mergerand to have the leanness to avoid becoming a buyout target itself. The attention being paid it is no surprise.
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Project #10: Financial reporting
Participants: The place where the CIO's world intersects most closely with the CFO's.
Price tag: Most companies now spend about 5% of their I.T. budget on compliance.
At most organizations, particularly big public companies, Sarbanes-Oxley has focused attention on systems for financial reporting. The idea is to capture financial data rigorously and have a single view of it, so things are locked down if the Securities and Exchange Commission comes calling. "Everything ends up in Finance," says Par Pharmaceutical CIO Wolfson.
That may be true, but technologists' approaches to fulfilling their responsibilities in this area vary widely. While there are some CIOs who prefer to keep it simpledoing everything with financial software from SAP or PeopleSoftothers opt for a best-of-breed approach.
Wolfson, for instance, says she may use Hyperion as a financial data warehouse but turn to the analytical software company SAS for forecasting and other functions.


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The PS3 for the most part does not take advantage of SSDs.
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Good to know. I had upgraded a macbook with an SSD the other day, and the boost is amazing.
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Jordan Campbell, MLB/OLB N.M.H.U HGT: 5-11 WGT: 230 Out of Nor Co High School, Campbell originally attend the University of Southern California but decided to transfer prior to the 2010 season, sighting Pete Carroll's departure being the reason for transferring. Campbell then attend Louisville, but never played due to eligibility issues and finally found a home at Division II New Mexico Highlands University. It has always been my rule of thumb that in order for a small-school prospect to be considered for the next level, the prospect would have had to dominate the level at which he played at, N.M.H.U's Jordan Campbell has done just that since stepping foot on campus prior to the 2011 season. The RMAC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year finished his senior campaign with a team leading 104 tackles, 23 tackles for a loss of 127 yards, 12 sacks for a loss of 77 yards, three pass break-ups, eight quarterback hurries, one fumble recovery and three forced fumbles. Campbell set the RMAC Record for Tackles for Loss in a Season with 28.5 in the 2011 season; he then tied the RMAC Record for Second Most Tackles for Loss in a Game in 2012 with six against WNMU. PROS: Very explosive athlete, who displays athleticism in every aspect of his game. Campbell dominated the Division II level, which is what you like to see from a small-school prospect. Campbell is well built and and plays with power. On tape Campbell shows the ability to play sideline to sideline from the Middle Linebacker spot. Plays with good natural instincts: does a good job of recognizing pullers, gets over the top of blocks when he recognizes full flow, triggers gap down hill when he reads run at him. Does a decent job at walling-off and collisioning routes. Has a natural nose for the ball that leads him to creating turnovers and getting pass break-ups. Shows the ability to rush the passer with some pretty savvy pass-rush moves (quick swim, quick chop and double swipe). Has lined up at both Outside and Middle linebacker. Has big play ability and is a force on the Special Teams. CONS: Campbell is limited in his length, at just 5'11 many NFL scouts believe Campbell can only play MLB. Although Campbell played against elite competition when he was at USC, his role was predominantly on special teams. As an every-down starter, Campbell has not played against elite competition. Campbell needs to be more physical/stout at the point of attack taking on blocks, at times he takes them on with high pad level and picks a side which allows blockers to seal him off. Needs to get better using his hands when pass-rushing and when fighting through blocks in traffic. At times over peruses when tracking ball carries, needs to be under control and shimmy feet down to make the sure tackle instead of looking for the big hit. Needs to work on becoming more fluid in pass-drops. At times needs to improve pad level especially when asked to drop in to coverage. NOTE: Jordan Campbell's production over the past two season is impressive no matter what level he competed at. Campbell is a very intriguing prospect in that he possess the raw talent, work ethic and natural instincts to make it in the NFL. One thing is for sure, the all-star bowl games and workouts will prove to be pivotal for Campbell in the evaluation process. On paper Campbell's Combine testing marks project him at the top of almost every category for Linebackers. I personally think if given a chance, Jordan Campbell will make an NFL roster and will make an immediate impact on Special Teams and could even possibly play fullback. FINAL STATISTICS FROM 2012 and 2011 Category 2012 2011 Total Tackles 104 110 Tackles for Loss 23 28.5 Sacks 12 5 QB Hurries 8 5 Break Ups 3 5 Forced Fumbles 3 1 Recoveries 1 1 Interceptions - 2
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Do Leveraged ETFs Cause Volatility?
MILLBURN, N.J. ( Stockpickr) -- An active topic of discussion on RealMoney has taken place for some time concerning the impact of leveraged -- long and short -- ETFs, collectively referred to as ultras, upon the broader markets. Jim Cramer, Eric Oberg and I have argued that ultra activities are a proximate cause for market volatility and, in a related way, selloffs.
To a great extent, the algorithmic and high-frequency traders that I've written about before utilize these instruments, along with their derivative securities, to create and profit from market volatility.
I decided to perform some research to determine whether there is a link between ultra activity and market volatility. First, let me describe some of the parameters and assumptions I used in my study.
First, I created a database of of trading volumes for the ProShares Ultra S&P 500 (SSO) and ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 (SDS) and closing prices for the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). I used data for the period from Jan. 1, 2008, through June 15, 2010. It was in the beginning of 2008 that ultras first became popular trading vehicles.I then performed a series of regression analyses to determine the relationship of the movement of volatility to transaction volume in ultras as it pertains to the SPX. VIX was my "Y," and ultras were my "X" for the regressions. I was seeking high levels of R-squared, a statistical measure of how well a regression line approximates the sample data points. The R-squared tells us how much of the return of the Y variable can be explained by the X variable. An R-squared of 1 is a perfect fit. The regressions were run with a 95% confidence level. What is the VIX? The VIX, originally introduced in a paper by Robert Whaley , is a "key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices," according to the CBOE, and is widely considered to be the world's "to be the world's premier barometer of investor sentiment and market volatility." Be aware that the VIX is a measure of expected or perceived volatility and not realized or actual volatility. Thus, the VIX is what investors are willing to pay for options, not necessarily what the options are worth.
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., April 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Mr. Zafar Brooks, executive director, Hyundai Hope On Wheels:
"As executive director of Hyundai Hope On Wheels, I'm delighted that President Barack Obama used the power of the pen yesterday to sign into law the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, named in honor of the fearless 10-year-old Virginia girl who died in October 2013 of brain cancer.
On behalf of the more than 15,000 children who will be diagnosed with a form of cancer this year and the families who support them, I applaud the President and both Chambers of the United States Congress for showing leadership and directing $126 million for pediatric medical research.
For more than 16 years, and with the help of a dedicated group of doctors, parents and Hyundai dealers, Hope On Wheels has worked to help fund research that would eradicate pediatric cancer. With generous support from Hyundai Motor America, the Foundation has donated an unprecedented $86 million to hospitals and health care systems across the nation, specifically targeting pediatric cancer research. Since 1998, we've attracted the support of thousands of volunteers, local, state and national political leaders and, of course, doctors dedicated to finding a cure for cancer and supporting the families impacted by it.Each year during September, the Hope On Wheels Foundation escorts more than 100 children, families, doctors and thought leaders to Washington, DC to exchange ideas, celebrate the progress and remind political leaders there's more work yet to be done. We encourage everyone to join us in our cause." For more information on Hyundai Hope On Wheels please visit www.hyundaihopeonwheels.org. Follow us on Twitter: @hopeonwheels and Facebook: Hyundai Hope On Wheels
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After a series of interviews discussing such issues as corporate control of America and the grim realities facing the economy and environment, The Real News Network's Paul Jay asks Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges what he thinks is "the key link for what's next."
Here's how he responded:
The more we create self-sustainable systems that are local, the more we sever ourselves from these corporate forces, the less we need them. And the less we need them—I mean, let's remember that 70 percent of the U.S. economy is driven through consumption—the less we need them, the more we impoverish them. I mean, the goal has to be to break these corporate power, this entity that has seized control of our government, our systems of communication, our judiciary.
I mean, now we're watching them eviscerate our systems of education. Anytime hedge fund managers walk into a city like Baltimore and propose charter schools, it's not because they want to teach people to read and write. It's because they know the federal government spends about $600 billion a year on education, and they want it, and they're getting it.
So I think that building local centers that are self-sustaining and that can create forms of community that are not dependent on these corporate forces is a political act, because these corporate forces need us to continue to consume their products and rely on their services. And the less we consume and the less we are hostage, the less we need these forces, the more independent we become.
Now, that has to come with a kind of political consciousness, but I think they come hand-in-hand, that both things—I think that as people take control, once again, of their own lives, that will bring a kind of consciousness, because these corporate forces, especially if they begin to feel threatened, are going to see these acts as political acts and are going to move—as we have seen corporate farming move against organic farming, they are going to move to try and destroy these forces.
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Tennessee senior tight end Brad Cottam sustained a left wrist injury during Tuesday's scrimmage and is sidelined until late October or possibly November.
UT head athletic trainer Jason McVeigh reports that Cottam underwent successful surgery Tuesday night at UT Medical Center by Dr. Robert Ivy of the Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic. Cottam is being released from the hospital later today.
The Germantown native had a career-high 14 receptions last season for 182 yards, a 14-yard average per catch. A three-time Academic All-SEC honoree, Cottam graduated last spring with a degree in business studies and has begun work on his master's in sport studies.
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Welcome to the 2014-2015 Vegas Elite Basketball Club season. For those returning, we welcome you back and look forward to another great year, and for you new members, we welcome you to the largest and most competitive youth basketball club in the state of Nevada. We have some exciting new changes and additions to our training methods, our staff, and our administration policies that we feel will provide a better club experience for all members this year.
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Registration for the 2014-2015 season is now open!!! This year we have a new online registration process that will streamline everything to the new software for better communication and organization. Every child will be required to register online. Please click here or use the "Registration" icon below. There is a $15 registration fee that must be paid at the time of online registration to continue. After you complete the registration process, you will need to bring your child to the evaluation day/time listed below for your child's grade. Your child will be evaluated based on physical size, athletic ability, skill level and experience. Once evaluated, he/she will be placed into a program and on a team. All practices are held at the Heinrich YMCA.
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Every Monday & Wednesday - first time registrations only4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: K - 2nd grade5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: 3rd - 4th grade6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: 5th - 6th grade7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: 7th - 8th grade HS Boys: Evaluations on Monday & Wednesday (Dec. 15th & 17th) at 7:00pm Evaluation Process:All new and returning members must go through the evaluation process. The evaluation process includes participation in two 60-minute training sessions (for K-4th grade) or 90-minute training sessions (5th-8th grade) and one competitive game. Participation in all three activities is highly recommended for proper placement in the program. There will be no evaluations the week of Dec. 22nd and Dec. 29th. Evaluations will resume after the holidays on January 5, 2015.-
The primary focus of the VEBC (Vegas Elite Basketball Club) has always been on the development of the individual player. We feel as our individual members improve, so will our teams. During competition, our focus is more on the improvement of our members and teams, rather than on the wins and losses. Sometimes this can be a difficult concept to grasp within a competitive club, but we believe that by challenging our members and teams to compete at all times at the highest levels of their capability that, win or lose, through competition comes the greatest development. Then, the wins and losses become insignificant and the ability to compete becomes the focus.
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Kindle has a new update rolling out to its Kindle e-reader device hardware, which includes new features for the latest Kindle, Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite devices. The update includes the new Word Wise feature that automatically shows definitions to difficult words above the within text on compatible titles, as well as Family Library, which lets you access not only your own books, but… Read More
Amazon Doubles The Storage Of The Existing Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon hasn't introduced a splashy Kindle update this year, but the company did confirm to TechCrunch it has increased storage on its devices from 2GB to 4GB (of which a portion is dedicated to system software), meaning those who purchased the gadget since around last month or so are able to hold about twice the number of digital books on their devices. The boost was originally spotted… Read More
Wunderlist 3 Gets Real-Time Sync And Public Lists
You may have thought of Wunderlist as that popular to do list app, especially since that's how it has been marketed since its launch. With today's release, Wunderlist 3 wants to become the world's hub for lists. Read More
StumbleUpon Gets A Redesign In Version 4.0 For Android
StumbleUpon released version 4.0 of StumbleUpon for Android today, bringing a complete user interface overhaul, including navigation changes and a new way for users to find content. The design fits Google's Android app design guidelines, with pages you can slide in from the left and right and a flat look that is has hints of Android L's Material design. The drawer slide menu gets… Read More
Beats Music Mobile App Gets Recommendation Tweaking, Verified Profiles And More
Beats Music has updated its iOS, Android and Windows Phone applications with a few new features, including a way to tune the Beats recommendation engine manually for better suggestions, a new history view for The Sentence, the Songza-like Madlibs playback engine, and Verified Badges, which add a checkmark to celebrity profiles so you know they're the real deal. Read More
Google Maps Update Lets You Measure Distance, Draw Crude Pictures
Google Maps just released a small, useful update for its Maps desktop product (via TNW). On the web, you can now right-click on any map and select "Measure Distance" to start charting a path and adding points, with Google offering up distances for each of the segments you create. It's a handy way to find out approximately how far you'll be travelling for a backwoods hike… Read More
BBM Gets Stickers, Larger File Attachments And Group Photo Sharing
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Secret Adds Subscribe/Unsubscribe Options, Post Flagging, Unlinking And More
Hot anonymous social network Secret has just pushed an update for its app that addresses a number of issues and improves performance. The new version allows users to subscribe or unsubscribe to any Secret post by swiping left, adds flagging of content that might be inappropriate, enables unlinking (more below on what that means), and speeds up the process of "hearting"… Read More
Nvidia Adds Console Mode To Outclass The Ouya, Updates To Android 4.3
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Apple's iOS 7 Update Now Available, All Eyes Turn To Adoption Rates
Get your motor running, head out on the highway – and download some software. Apple's big iOS 7 update is now available to all, or at least to anyone with an iPhone 4 or higher, iPad 2 or above, iPad mini or 5th generation iPod touch. The big question will be whether people are as quick to update to iOS 7 as they have generally been with less extreme mobile OS changes from Apple. Read More
Google Glass Update Adds Hangout, Google+ Notifications, Long Press For Search Throughout The UI
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Photo Sharing App Pictorious Adds Branded Photo Challenges And Photo Showdown
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Foursquare's Upcoming iOS Release Is A Pivotal Moment For The Company, As In It's "Now Or Never"
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Tumblr Overhauls Its Android App With Path-Like Interface, Brings "Take A Photo" Back To The Desktop
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Mobli Update to iOS App Lets You Switch Between Your Smartphone's Cameras While Recording Video
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Pebble Firmware Update 1.9 Delivers A Non-Watchface App – The Classic Game Of Snake
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Twitter Isn't Leaving Out BlackBerry Users, Updates Its App To Include "Connect" Interactions
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Skype Gets Retina-Ready, Adds Multi-Window Chat And Live Messenger Support
Skype hit version 6 today, with a rare simultaneous release for both Windows and Mac. This brings a whole bunch of new features to the table, including single sign-on with both Facebook and Microsoft credentials, so that new users don't even have to sign up for Skype itself, Retina display compatibility for Macs, and multi-window chats. Read More
Evernote Listens To Unhappy Skitch 2.0 Users: Brings Back Some Old Features And Version 1.0
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SNL & Amy Poehler show you what an Obama presidency would be like (with 3am phone calls for help)
This job is hard.
Experience matters.
We all know, too well, what happens when someone people want to have a beer with finds himself behind the Resolute Desk, without any real idea of what he's going to do to keep all his poetic campaign promises.
Fool us once, shame on Bush. Fool us twice, shame on us.
Hillary Cares A Lot
Newspapers in Upcoming States
Here is a resource of newspapers for the upcoming contests. Check them out and spread HillBuzz all over these states. Buzz, buzz, buzz.
Links to spread:
Pennsylvania — April 22nd (188 delegates – Primary)
Indiana – May 6th (84 – Primary)
North Carolina – Mary 6th (134 – Primary)
West Virginia – May 13th (39 – Primary)
Kentucky – May 20th (60 – Primary)
Oregon – May 20th (65 – Primary)
Puerto Rico – June 1st (63 – Primary)
Montana – June 3rd (24 – Primary)
South Dakota – June 3rd (23 – Primary)
Why doesn't Obama have any accomplishments in the Senate?
Obama's a celebrity in the Senate, with no accomplishments
We at HillBuzz keep thinking about job interviews. When someone applies for a job, he tells his prospective employer the things he did in his current or past jobs, to warrant the new position he seeks (especially in terms of promotion).
Barack Obama wants to be promoted from the Senate to the White House — but what has he done for the people of Illinois in the Senate? What has he done to reach across the partisan aisle while in the US Senate?
What's on his Senate resume?
When even his own supporters can't think of anything Obama has accomplished, it seems pretty clear to us at HillBuzz that Obama's not ready for any promotion.
"Polished Like Gold"
"American, our country, is down at the foot of the mountain. And we need someone with experience, who is ready, willing and able to bring America back up to be polished like gold."
91 year old supporter, Jewel Hodges
Obama smells like old time Chicago politics
Obama smells like old time Chicago politics
The Travelocity of Hope
We can make two assertions: Mr. Obama is confident in his front-runner status with his eye on the General Election. Mr. Obama can afford to abandon the Primary race and the voices of those yet to weigh in because of a cocksure belief in his grasp on the concerns of the American people from Jackson, to Phili, to Raleigh, to Indianapolis, to Charleston, to Frankfort.
Vote for Hillary in this CBS news poll on momentum!
Here is a poll CBS news is doing here in Chicago.
We need you to go to this site and vote for Hillary (CBS2 Chicago).
When you are at the site, scroll down a little and you will see the poll in the middle of the page, slightly to the left. The poll reads: "Who do you think has the momentum in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination?"
Right now, at 1109pm 3/7/08, Hillary has 45% and Obama has 55%.
Let's give her a landslide!
* Note: I voted on the two computers I have access to, and switched both of them through different wireless networks so my IP address was different each time, and have been able to vote numerous times on each computer
The latest on the Rezko trial and Obama
Rezko Watch is a great site for people who need a quick summary on the trial of Obama's longtime friend and political fixer, Antoin "Big Tony" Rezko.
First Obama said he didn't know the guy, then he didn't know him well, then he only sort of knew him, then he just gave Obama a tour of the mansion Obama wanted to buy, then he only helped Obama buy the Obama Mansion, but of course didn't want anything in return. "Big Tony" is just a really nice guy, I guess: a nice guy who has inconveniently been indicted.
More likely than not, Rezko is going to take the Governor of Illinois, another longtime Obama supporter, down as his trial proceeds. No one knows what's going to happen, but there's no real reason for Rezko to protect Obama, either, as his fate hangs in the balance.
Monstergate reveals a lot about Obama and his campaign
Obama is having trouble handling a media that's suddenly wide awake and actually paying attention to things he does (thank you Tina Fey):
"In a post a few days ago, I remarked on the somewhat contentious news conference that Obama held last Monday in San Antonio, the one that ended with reporters annoyed at its brevity and Obama saying, plaintively, "C'mon, guys, I just answered, like, eight questions."
Last night at dinner with two of the savviest political analysts I know, one of them maintained that this was an utterance infinitely revealing about Obama — the equivalent of "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" for WJC or "No controlling legal authority" for Al Gore. I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, but I do believe that it speaks volumes about BHO's mind-set and expectations regarding the national media. (Let's not forget that Obama himself at first denied that the Goolsbee meeting with the Canadians ever took place.) It also gives off the distinct whiff of arrogance and entitlement that's lately been emanating from him. Eight questions! OMG! That's, like, three more than I usually answer — and five more than I should have to answer!"


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Re: DISCUSSION - Colombia temporarily suspends US military basing agreement over constitutionality
Released on 2013-02-13 00:00 GMT
|2010-08-18 17:35:38
military assistance and help is still good for another year. the only
thing is that the US personnel canA't use Colombian military base, but the
partnership is still the same.
Paulo Gregoire
From: "Reva Bhalla" <email@example.com>
To: "Analyst List" <email@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:22:17 AM
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - Colombia temporarily suspends US
military basing agreement over constitutionality
there are some conflicting rports... we are trying to verify this now
On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Michael Wilson wrote:
I'm confused
I was under the impression the court was saying you can pretend that
this thing is still good for one year....if you cant get Congress to
pass it by then, at that point everything better be out
Reva Bhalla wrote:
There is going to be disruption, but the US is going to try and
minimize that as much as possible by negotiating with Bogota to keep
enough personnel and equipment there while they sort this thing out.
This is why I was asking if you guys could tap your DEA sources to
see where they're at in these negotiations, what level of disruption
are they expecting and what's the contingency plan
from a security perspective, the last thing Santos wants is for the
disruption in the US presence in Colombia to allow for a
restrengthening of FARC
On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:06 AM, scott stewart wrote:
But you said below that this is going to limit what the US can do
and that the US has to withdraw people and equipment currently
there. How will that not disrupt things?
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[mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Reva Bhalla
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:58 AM
To: Analyst List
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - Colombia temporarily suspends US military
basing agreement over constitutionality
That's what the US is going to be negotiating now, to prevent as
much disruption as possible and get a quick congressional approval.
Overall, I doubt this is going to impact the overall US mission in
the region. It's more of a temporary snag. the problem is that
Colombia could be under pressure to revise some points now that it's
in this delicate position with VZ
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Karen Hooper wrote:
Seems like the critical question here is what does this do to US
missions in South America and the Caribbean. We were already looking
at a shifted mission since they got kicked out of Manta, and now
they're moving assets out of Colombia, too? Do we have a good feel
for how this will affect drug interdictions?
On 8/18/10 10:41 AM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
Late last night, Colombia's constitutional court suspended a
US-Colombia military basing agreement that was signed last year
under Uribe. The reason behind the decision was because Uribe did
not seek Congressional approval for the deal, declaring it was
unnecessary since it was a continuation of policy. The deal allowed
US access to 7 military bases and gives US troops immunity from
Colombian prosecution.
Now, the basing agreement is in Santos's hands, and the US and
Colombia have a year to renegotiate parts if needed and resubmit to
congress for approval. In the meantime, personnel and equipment that
Colombia has received since the signing of the agreement are
supposed to be returned to the US, which means for some time the US
will have to limit its operations in Colombia.
This doesn't mean that US-Colombian defense relations are in a
crisis, but it is a snag at a very delicate diplomatic juncture for
Bogota. Since Santos took power in early August, he has rapidly
restored relations with Venezuela, in spite of Colombia having
presented what they referred to as irrefutable evidence of VZ
harboring FARC. Colombia and VZ are even discussing a bilateral
organic border law that would establish binational municipalities
along the border to further integrate the two countries in trade and
security. Though Colombia benefits from having the trade embargo
lifted with VZ, everyone seems to be ignoring the glaring fact that
there are still no signs that VZ has done anything different toward
FARC. I have not been able to confirm with anyone yet that VZ is
even making limited concessions behind the scenes.
VZ will now hold its newly-established cooperation with Colombia
hostage to the renegotiation of the US-Colombia basing agreement by
telling Santos, 'hey, if you guys want to continue this friendship
and keep trade flowing, then it's time for you to adjust your
defense relationship with the US. Colombia is also going to face
pressure from its neighbors in this regard... Ecuador, who also is
showing willingess to mend relations with Colombia, wants to see
Bogota limit its relationship with the US. Brazil, who referred to
Colombia's FARC problem with Venezuela as an 'internal matter,' not
only wants to avoid picking sides on the continent, but also has
real political reasons for avoiding calling attention to ties
between FARC and members of the ruling PT. Colombia realized very
quickly after presenting its evidence at the OAS that, with the
exception of Paraguay, it was sorely lacking allies in the
neighborhood to defend against VZ.
At the end of the day, Colombia can't compromise on its defense
relationship with the US, esp when FARC and VZ's support for FARC
remains a problem. The longer Santos acts chummy toward VZ without
getting results on FARC, the weaker he will look. It will just take
one big FARC attack to do him in. This means that it's only a
matter of time before the Colombian-VZ relationship hits another
serious rough patch.
We talked a bit about this in a previous analysis, but am opening up
the discussion to see if anyone has additional thoughts or if this
is worth addressing for the site.
Michael Wilson
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