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If it helps, at the moment I am able to do what I want using this methodology. I'm not sure if it's the best way and I have not tested it outside my development environment. It seems to work so far. I'm hoping this inspires some feedback and possibly other solutions. The basic idea is this: 1) Disable the built in calls to ShareThis that insert the buttons automatically on pages and posts (they do this with a call to 2) create my own action that can be called to insert the ShareThis widget where I want in my template. 3) Do all this in Solution
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Build Your Professional Learning Network (PLN): Expand Your BRAIN This group of educators I engage with every day are a living, organic, knowledge base. They are real people with real experiences, and a wealth of knowledge. When I reference my network of educators I call them my "brain trust." Whatever you call it, you have instant access to a community of educators dying to share fantastic ways to help you transform teaching, learning and leading. All you have to ask yourself is, am I willing?
WHY JUMP IN?Christopher Parsons shares that we need to do four things with the overwhelming amount of unorganized content — information, ideas, tips and how-to's, and personal information — we receive; the kind of content that might be useful in the future but today might be thrown away or filed away in a way — paper notes, e-mail, bookmarks — that would not be useful and would probably be forgotten. Those four things are:
If you fail to connect to the network of learners, you miss out on a global conversation about what you are passionate about. And missing out is a darn shame because it can save you time, energy, and increase your reach, no matter how brilliant (or not) you are. That's a powerful idea. Smart people get smarter because they have access to the network of learners. People who are just starting out are able to learn as fast as they can to accomplish what they need to do. When I meet folks who are just becoming aware of the global conversation — usually because I push them over the edge in a workshop — I like to share several tools with them. They are essential learning tools that every 21st century learner should have. Using them involves action, but it is the acts of use that cast out our fear of change. The act of building your own personal learning network (PLN) is your fundamental act of freedom. Start now. THE TOOLS YOU NEEDAlthough hundreds of tools are available, you only need a few to get started. Please be aware that the purpose of these suggested tools is to externalize the knowledge-building you do every day. It is also to take advantage of the potential power of networked learning. Thousands of educators are online, and you can tap into their collective knowledge to ask questions and have conversations about what you need to learn. The only expectation is that you share with them what you know. Each no-cost tool listed below does it in a slightly different, but complementary, way.Here are some to get started:
Let's take a more in-depth look at each of these! Please feel free to skip around. 1) Social Bookmarking - Get a Delicious.com account. Example: http://delicious.com/mguhlin Ever wish you could access your list of links from any computer, easily share them with others, and publish them to a variety of web sites (e.g. blogs, wikis, Moodle)? If so, then social bookmarking tools make those tasks easy! As wonderful as many social bookmarking sites are--several now feature highlighting, annotation, note-taking--they present problems due to cost. One free, longstanding service that remains is Delicious.com, a social bookmarking service, that allows you to bookmark (a.k.a. add to Favorites) web sites you visit that have relevant information. Once bookmarked, you can choose to share that web site link via email, add keyword descriptors (known as "tags") to organize the bookmarks. How To Bookmark Relevant how-to links that you may find useful appear below:
Since Delicious.com is about being social, you can do some useful things with Delicious.com. The list below is not exhaustive, so keep your eyes open: a) Theme your Tags - If you know you are doing research on "CivilWar" use that phrase as a tag for all CivilWar resources you find online. Then, share the link to those resources online or via email with one link to your colleagues and/or students. For example, my Civil War links might look like this: http://delicious.com/mguhlin/civilwar and result in a list of resources I think are relevant to that topic. However, you can also tap into a worldwide network of folks who are interested in the Civil War who may use a slightly different tag. By going to Delicious.com, you can find resources tagged in a variety of ways:
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You can easily find popular Civil War sites in this way: http://delicious.com/rss/popular/Civil_War+Abraham_Lincoln If you want the computer to do all the work, take advantage of Bookmark Insuggest service. You can enter your Delicious.com username, and then click on the tag for which you would like to see similar web sites suggested...and they appear! It looks like this: You can also keep up with what's "hot" in Delicious.com--what people are bookmarking--by subscribing to this Twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/HotOnDelicious b) Create LinkRolls that Fit On Your Web Site - Use Delicious.com Linkrolls--accessible via HELP. The benefit of this is that you can easily embed a list of links from Delicious.com--without having to copy-n-paste them one by one--onto a wiki, blog page or Moodle HTML block or discussion forum. This makes sharing links with your student a breeze! The word in bold (e.g. mgwrites) is the tag, or keyword, that I use to identify items I want to see in the sidebar when I'm bookmarking something. Here's the linkroll creation page: c) Syndicate Your Own Podcast Feed Using Delicious.com Have a web server where you can post audio? Or, maybe you want to create your own favorite list of podcasts--that either you've created or linked to--and then share that with others? You can do that easily with Delicious.com. Although we often think of creating podcasts by posting audio in blog entries that people can subscribe to--essentially, that is a podcast. Audio you can subscribe to!--you can create a Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feed using Delicious.com. One way to accomplish that is to tag all your podcasts as your "myfavpodcasts" and then view that list of links via Delicious.com. You'll note the orange RSS button, like the one shown below, appears at the BOTTOM of your Delicious.com link page: As you can imagine, this makes it very easy for folks to subscribe to content. For example, if you click this link in GoogleReader, you can subscribe to some of my favorite podcasts. You can also embed RSS content in a variety of places, such as Moodle...here are some suggestions for accomplishing that! Imagine bookmarking cyberbullying and digital citizenship information students and parents need to know and posting it on your District's (or your classroom's) Facebook page! Enhancing the Delicious.com Experience There are also a variety of tools available that can enhance your Delicious.com experience.
Clicking on Browse these Bookmarks will open up into a larger page as shown below: As you can see, this makes it possible to easily do a visual walkthrough of links, essentially creating a presentation based on the links. You can, of course, share the link to the visual walkthrough of web pages. 2) Use Twitter.com or Plurk.com to build a professional learning network. TWITTER "I have learned more about what people are discovering from Tweets," shares Porter Palmer, an educator in a university Master's course, "than any single blog could bring me. I especially like it when my edublogger friends' Tweets begin with, 'just blogged this…' I don't have to guess when they might have updated. I can just click over and read their blog!" Twitter is a powerful Web 2.0 tool to facilitate communication and collaboration--globally. It enables us to get in contact with educators from around the world. Many 21st century teachers are out there. Find them and create a Twitter network that can be a support group, provide inspiring projects, and keep you in touch with like-minded people. All of you participating in a workshop, for example, can be a group.
You can use Twitter specific tools to connect with others. One of my favorites is the Twitter search tool, accessible at http://search.twitter.com. It allows you to search the many "tweets" that occur each day (view a search on Education) and subscribe to the results via RSS. (See the "Google Reader" section of this article for more on RSS). That way, real-time comments about what is critical to your work come to you. Whenever there is contact with other educators, I find my enthusiasm and energy for education renewed. That's the power of communications. You select whose tweets you will receive so you can build your own professional learning network. Many 21st century teachers are out there. Find them and create a Twitter network that can be a support group, provide inspiring projects, and keep you in touch with like-minded people. All of you participating in a workshop, for example, can be a group. Locate one another in Twitter.com and become a network. You can use Twitter specific tools to connect with others. One of my favorites is TweetScan.com. It allows you to search the many "tweets" that occur each day (view a searchon Education) and subscribe to the results via RSS. (See the "Google Reader" section of this article for more on RSS). That way, real-time comments about what is critical to your work come to you. Some Twitter specific tools:
Whenever there is contact with other educators, there is hope. That's the power of communications. I can't begin to share the excitement I felt on September 19, 2000, while participating in a TeachMeet 7 taking place in Scotland. How did I find out about it? Obviously, I was not in Scotland. I was sitting at my desk working on work projects, when a "tweet" came in from Paul Harrington, an educator in Wales. As a result of his sharing via twitter, I was able to participate in the conference via my web browser and listen to speakers like Ewan McIntosh and others share what they are doing in schools in Scotland. Do you think that might have impacted my perspective about the power of global learning opportunities? How might participating in a dialogue with educators from around the world have impacted your perspective? By combining the power of Delicious.com and Twitter/Plurk, I am able to track more easily ad-hoc professional learning opportunities as they occur, as well as have conversations about them before and after they occur. That kind of just-in-time learning, as it happens, can be very powerful for educators. I invited other educators to join and now we have a collaboratively updated list of EDuStreams —educational professional learning happening online via uStream, Elluminate, Wimba.com sessions that are appearing online. EDuStreams are actually video/audio presentations and conversations done by educators about topics they are interested in. Twitter/Plurk allow us to share those at will, while Delicious.com allows us to keep track of those opportunities and share them with others, even if they are not on Twitter. You can also use a third-party service known as Packrati (http://packrati.us/) to save your tweets to Delicious.com bookmarks. As they describe it, "We follow your twitter feed, and whenever a status you tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and in tweets you mark as Favorites." Example: Norms for Online Behavior Find it here: http://twitter.com with a list of educators to follow at http://twitter.com/mguhlin. Others are building Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) using Plurk.com. While Twitter is white-water rafting in social media with a rapid flow of content, Plurk is a bit more reflective and allows for pauses in that flow. PLURK Having a Professional Learning Network in advance makes the Difference at a Conference or Learning Event.Note: The capitalization is there because I'm including Paula's paraphrase in a presentation I'm doing next week. For me, Paula's expression of this idea is an evolution of a blog entry she wrote reflecting on her ISTE experiences: Having connections to a PLN is very important for helping me stay current and continue my learning. Members of my PLN are the people I will turn to first when I want to work on collaborative projects in my classroom.For Paula, it appears that having a PLN in advance makes the difference, enabling her to put a handshake or hug, a physical presence, with the person they have been learning from all along: I have created quite an online presence. I was looking forward to meeting members of my PLN and I thought I would have to find them. I didn't think that they would be looking for me. When Peggy George come up to me and said she was so glad to finally meet me face to face I was floored. Kim Caise did the same thing, and so did so many people I know online. It was great to hear someone say, "Oh I follow you on Twitter", as I was introduced myself to them.The power of meeting your PLN is akin to "reuniting" with friends who are learning with us as we face challenges and work to overcome obstacles in our lives. Consider these remarks about Plurk and Twitter from actual educators:
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by social media tools...the output of these can make us feel inadequate to the task of managing it all. Perhaps that's why we see some expressing the opinion that it's easier to "follow conversations and get responses" in Plurk, as opposed to Twitter. Social media can also establish pools of quiet reflection, where we may, with others so inclined, recline and ponder what has been shared. Such pools of diversity are rich in ideas because they allow individuals to share what they are thinking rather than being focused on just sharing content. As a writer, I seek an audience. But now more than ever, I seek an audience that discusses what I've written, and more importantly, allows me to think about what others are sharing. It makes sharing more of a reciprocal dialogue than a casting of bread on the waters. What about for you? Consider the following "deep" conversations...
Get started! Plurk or Twitter. Here are some suggestions when getting started with Plurk. 3) Start blogging. Blogging is a process of reflecting on what you learn every day. How can anyone spend time blogging on top of what they do all day? The fact is that some of my best blogging research — when I decide on Future Blog Posts — occurs while I'm looking for something else. In fact, my focus during the day is learning something, either for work or to satisfy my own curiosity (which begins with a question or a wondering). At the end of the day, early evening in fact, I quickly look back at what I tagged for a Future Blog Post, which is actually a "tag" I keep in Delicious. I might bookmark many items, but I only blog about those that are immediately relevant or connected. In the past, I would copy-n-paste the link or the relevant quote or point that triggered my thinking into my blog program (e.g. Blogger) but now I just use the SHARE button on my GoogleToolbar. In that way, blogging for me isn't a "special" activity, but part of everything I do. When I'm asked about what I know about a particular topic relevant to my work as a technology director, I am able to check my bookmarks. If I have spent time reflecting on the implementation of a technolgy-related project in my blog, I usually bookmark that as well and quickly can pull up the needed information. That work prepares me in advance for questions my job naturally throws at me.
In a real way, this is a much different way of behaving and acting. Modeling it for our students is critical, as Cheri points out above, but understanding it ourselves is just as important. Before blogs (BB), I never would have done that (tag ideas, blog about my response/reflection, wikify my resources for others, podcast valuable conversations with other people for later listening). In fact, keeping a journal was a joke for me, even though I knew that every "good" writer kept one. It wasn't until I started blogging — with a real audience reading it — that I understood the power of blogging everything. Amy Gehran at Contentious Blog articulates this really well when she writes the following (via Teach-n-Babble):
In my recent Blog Your World! workshop at the PBS/KLRN ICTT 2007 Conference, I shared it in this way, as perceived by one of the newbie bloggers, Juliet Ray at Deep Thoughts (drop by and give her a comment):
This kind of externalization is useful to others. For example, back in 2005 I wrote a how-to for doing something in GNU/Linux operating system that used KDE as the GUI (as opposed to Gnome or the others out there). In September 20, 2007, someone found it and blogged about it…if I hadn't externalized my knowledge, made a "backup brain," then the information would not have been here for Jim Plumb to discover:
Another neat result of Jim's discovery is that I rediscover my own blog entry when Jim writes about it or interacts with it. It makes me want to re-read the entry. In reviewing my social bookmarking network, I noticed Mark Ahlness had picked up on one of my favorite blog entries, The List Article. I hadn't seen that blog entry in ages, even though every article I write is based on the structure outlined in it. Blog what you learn, what you do. Soon, you'll realize you know — and as importantly, discover more — about what is in your head than you think. Example: LeaderTalk Blog for school district administrators at http://leadertalk.org. Get started at Google's Blogger.com with an education-related blog about what you are learning and how it is relevant to your work. Ask yourself a few questions to get started, such as What are you most passionate about in your work? andWhat is the hardest thing you do in your work, and why is it challenging? Finally, share your successes — and failures – by answering such questions as What obstacle or problem have you encountered and how did you overcome it? Some common questions technology directors might want answered include:
Use Google Reader to Manage RSS Subscriptions: Most new web pages now have what is known as an RSS feed button. A web site with an RSS (real simple syndication) feed enables you to read the content without visiting the site beyond the first time. You can subscribe to a site's content — and subscription is free — and any updates/changes to the site will be delivered directly to you. (Watch this Video.) The benefit of that method is that creating a personal learning network will not result in more email, but less. Instead of receiving email notifications, you go to Google Reader to review the latest updates and changes, and participate when you have a need. My Example: Miguel's Shared Items in Google Reader Get Started at http://reader.google.com REFLECTING ON THE TOOLSThe tools discussed here can save a lot of time and energy as you try to join the flow of conversation. One of my favorite quotes — which came to me via Mark Wagner — is, "He who learns from one who is learning, drinks from a flowing river."I hope you'll continue to learn every moment and share that learning with others. The rewards are infinite. About the AuthorAs director of instructional technology for a large urban district in Texas, past president of the state-wide Technology Education Coordinators group in one of the largest U.S. technology educator organizations (TCEA), Miguel Guhlin continues to model the use of emerging technologies in schools. You can read his published writing or engage him in conversation via his blog at Around the Corner. He is also a Moodle course management system advocate and founder of Moodle Mayhem, a non-profit education group focused on facilitating learning conversations around Moodle's use in teaching and learning situations. |
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Seems like everybody on the web (or at least in our little Healthcare corner of it) has an opinion on the news that Google Health is shutting down. Just in case you're thinking about sending me the link --- yes, I've heard. :)
First off --- sincere thanks to Aaron, Adam, Missy, Paul, Marc, Crutcher, Alan, Eric, Alfred, and all the others over at Google who built a great service and fought hard for the idea that the only way to really fix healthcare is to consumerize it. There will continue to be plenty of short-term debates about privacy, data ownership, standards, etc., but ultimately it's inevitable --- we'll get there, and Google Health moved the ball forward.
Second --- what does this mean for HealthVault? The "buzz" online ranges wildly, but the real and simple answer is: nothing. As I said a few months ago, HealthVault is a key piece of our overall approach:
HealthVault is a critical component in our broader project strategy --- which is to (1) connect care across the ecosystem, from the home to the clinic to the hospital to the research lab, and (2) do so in a way that includes and encourages innovation from as many different organizations as possible.
Solving only the consumer side isn't enough --- that's why we have Microsoft Amalga on the enterprise side. Our two platforms combine to enable the transformative all-up story: enabling clinical integrations like mynyp.org and MedPlus, home monitoring programs with Kaiser, CCF and UMass, and so on.
Anyways, in case you were worried, HealthVault is indeed alive and kicking. Everybody here is seeing a real uptick in momentum --- our recent mobile (by the way, the iOS library was just released --- Android super-soon now!) and imaging announcements have kicked off a ton of new innovation, MU-based exchange is heating up with Direct and Blue Button, we have more and more HealthVault-connected patient portals coming online, Facebook authentication seems to be a big hit … all signs point to "awesome."
Now we're looking forward to providing an ongoing home for folks that have worked with Google Health in the past. Some specifics about how to do that:
1. How USERS can move their Google Health information to HealthVault
The great news here is that the Google team has been working with us to ensure that migration is as simple and painless as possible. Google is based on the CCR standard, and HealthVault has the ability to import CCR-based documents, so it's a pretty straightforward deal.
Google has detailed instructions for moving your profile data into HealthVault here.
For now, the process involves downloading your Google information as a special file called a "CCR" and then uploading that file to HealthVault where we'll incorporate it into a new record there. It might make sense to create your HealthVault account first at http://healthvault.com. The one thing to note is that you'll have to move your "Files" separately from the rest of your information. To do this, just save the files to your desktop and then re-upload them using the "Add" button on the HealthVault Documents page.
The really cool thing is that, within a week or so, Google is launching a "one click" (well ok, a few clicks) transfer of both the CCR information and files using the Direct project secure messaging protocol. As soon as that's ready, they'll have instructions on their own health pages, and I'll post a note here on the blog as well.
2. How DEVELOPERS can migrate their Google Health solutions to HealthVault
HealthVault was created so that developers could build great applications --- there's a ton of documentation and reference materials on our MSDN site. From there, you can also download our .NET SDK and be running a "hello world" application against our test site within just a few minutes. That's a great way to get your head around the platform, but it doesn't mean you have to use .NET to integrate with HealthVault. There are open source integration libraries for just about every platform around (did I mention iOS and WP7?). A quick search will get you there --- drop me a note if you don't find the one you're looking for.
If your application integrates with Google by sending and retrieving CCR documents, you'll find that converting it to work with HealthVault should be pretty painless. We can accept CCR uploads as well; users have the option to extract the individual items out into their record and/or leave them as discrete documents. You can also use platform-provided transforms to fetch information in CCR form as well.
A more interactive application will likely require a bit more work --- but we're here to help. For business stuff, our BD team at email@example.com is the way to start. On the technical side, the HealthVault forums are monitored both by professional support staff and our engineering team. We're always up for a quick discussion about how to approach a problem, so don't be shy.
We've gotten used to saying "you can do that with HealthVault or Google Health" --- it'll take a while to get used to being out there more or less on our own. But that's OK; we're confident in our direction and are having a great time working to change the world. Remember --- just keep swimming!
What about a small practice EMR/EHR solution from Microsoft? Or a hosted version of Amalga?
Great blog, Sean.
Classy post. Always sad when someone smart exits a market...
This is a nice blog. Thanks for answering a question that so many folks asked me in the last few days. Sorry, I disagree with "it'll take a while to get used to being out there more or less on our own". What about eClinicalWorks?
Okay, so what do those of us living outside the USA do?
Thanks for the migration tips. Having our own copy of a EMR has been a godsend in managing my wife's complex medical condition and the stress meter jumped when I heard that Google Health was going away.
I used Google Health all the time. Can't understand why they are shutting it down. But HealthVault is great. Will go there now.


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This quest is no longer available within the game. Kill 8 Paleblade Saurok. | Paleblade Saurok slain (8) |
<He looks down at the dead saurok at his feet, looks up at you, then points out down the lake shore. It seems he wants you to find and kill more of these saurok.>Completion
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Registered 11 years agoI know the boy Veysey got a bit of a slagging last night, and his figures weren't quite right on the Arsenal bid (but he broke it first), but this evening he says Suarez is about to hand in a transfer request.
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Orange 4,958 posts
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Registered 13 years agoRhodes is a gooner who knows fuck all about any other club, and not much about Arsenal. Veysey knows very little, just looks to generate easy hits for Goal.com.
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Registered 13 years agoBlotto wrote:
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Please, she's a gooner.
Queen is a Hammer.
Not the greatest source, but better than plain speculation...
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Registered 8 years agoOK, Brentan Rodgers is now saying that �40m is "nowhere near" how much Suarez is worth. That's mental. I'd say it's pretty near, one way or the other.
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Registered 10 years agoPleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase Madrid if you are reading this, Suarez is better than Bale, buy him -
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Registered 12 years agoimamazed wrote:
This is basically going to boil down to lawyers - Suarez' and our team think the clause in his contract allows him to leave, Liverpool don't and think he just has to be notified of the bid. So can't see us increasing any offer. Suspect this will drag on a while. It's not like he can play (domestically) anyway
Please don't be mugs and bid higher Arsenal! -
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Registered 8 years agoI wood of snapped up the 40 mil. Could bring in some good players for that amount. If he doesn't want to play for us, just get rid. Bales case is different as its one of the biggest clubs in the world after him. Xbox gamertag Clumsy Shooter
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I don't understand how they can get away with blatantly tapping up players year after year, makes my blood boil.
I know most teams do it but they seem to be incredibly sneaky and use under hand tactics.
Edited by ILoveThrashMetal at 09:51:52 25-07-2013Arsechickens
Dougs 71,217 posts
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Registered 12 years agospindle9988 wrote:
Aye, we have as much experience of that as anyone. Once they don't want to play for you, get rid ASAP. Pointless trying to hold them to contract etc, just becomes (more) disruptive
I wood of snapped up the 40 mil. Could bring in some good players for that amount. If he doesn't want to play for us, just get rid. Bales case is different as its one of the biggest clubs in the world after him. -
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Registered 3 years agoI think the one thing we have going for us in the Bale situation, is that he hasn't once said he wants to leave.
He seems far more professional than certain others that I wont mention. Therefore if we do sell him (which I don't think we will this year), he goes with the best wishes of most fans I would imagine.
Still plenty of time for this to change of course..... -
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To be completely honest, I think Bale and actually Spurs are both keeping their options open. There's been no firm commitment from him to stay (new contract signed), but no real noises about him going either. I think he's probably reasonably happy either way, and I think Spurs are too, in that they'd like to keep him, but they also probably wouldn't say no to �80m+. -
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Registered 3 years agoI think any offer over �50m would need serious consideration to be honest. I just can't see how club of our size could down that sort of money.
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Registered 3 years agoJesus Christ. Surprised it took so long really. PSN, XBL & NNID: Wedjwants
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They were the first to jump on the AVB IS FAILING AT SPURS cart as well. Ended up looking like cunts. -
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Registered 12 years agoSSN said that David Moyes says the Fabregas bid is ongoing.
SSN made that up.Come and get it cumslingers!
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It seems likely to me to do an 'ok' job, either neither be a crashing disaster, nor a roaring success
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I'm sure if they aren't top by mid-September then 606 will be full of die hard United fans from Kent calling for his head. -
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The Killing (film)
The Killing | |
Theatrical release poster
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick |
Produced by | James B. Harris |
Screenplay by | Stanley Kubrick |
Based on | Clean Break by Lionel White |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Art Gilmore |
Music by | Gerald Fried |
Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
Edited by | Betty Steinberg |
company |
Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates
Running time
83 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $320,000[1] |
The Killing is a 1956 film noir produced by James B. Harris and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White. The drama features Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Marie Windsor, and Elisha Cook Jr.[2]
Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay (Coleen Gray). He plans to rob two million dollars from the money-counting room of a racetrack during a featured race. He assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop (Ted de Corsia), a betting window teller (Elisha Cook Jr.) to gain access to the backroom, a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey) to shoot the favorite horse during the race to distract the crowd, a wrestler (Kola Kwariani) to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar, and a track bartender (Joe Sawyer).
George Peatty, the teller, tells his wife Sherry (Marie Windsor) about the impending robbery. Sherry is bitter at George for not delivering on the promises of wealth he once made her, so George hopes telling her about the robbery will placate and impress her. Sherry does not believe him at first but, after learning that the robbery is real, she enlists her lover Val Cannon (Vince Edwards) to steal the money from George and his associates.
The heist is successful, although the sharpshooter is shot and killed by the police. The conspirators gather at the apartment where they are to meet Johnny and divide the money. Before Johnny arrives, Val appears and holds them up. A shootout ensues and a badly wounded George is the sole survivor. He goes home and shoots Sherry before dying.
Johnny, on his way to the apartment, sees George staggering in the street and knows that something is wrong. He buys the biggest suitcase he can find to put the money in (and struggles to lock it properly). At the airport, Johnny and Fay aren't allowed to take the suitcase along as hand luggage because of its size, and instead must check it in as regular luggage. Johnny reluctantly complies. While waiting to board their plane, they watch as the suitcase falls off a cart, breaks open and the loose banknotes are swept away by the wind. They leave the airport but are unsuccessful at finding a cab. Fay urges Johnny to flee but he refuses, stating that there is no use trying to escape and utters the tagline for the movie: "What's the difference?". The film ends with two officers coming to arrest him.
- Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay
- Coleen Gray as Fay
- Vince Edwards as Val Cannon
- Jay C. Flippen as Marvin Unger
- Elisha Cook Jr. as George Peatty
- Marie Windsor as Sherry Peatty
- Ted de Corsia as Policeman Randy Kennan
- Joe Sawyer as Mike O'Reilly
- James Edwards as Track Parking Attendant
- Timothy Carey as Nikki Arane
- Joe Turkel as Tiny
- Jay Adler as Leo the Loanshark
- Kola Kwariani as Maurice Oboukhoff
- Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
" | I give Stanley a free hand to create, and he leaves the money problems to me. | " |
—James Harris[3] |
" | We want to make good movies, and make them cheap. The two are not incompatible. | " |
—Stanley Kubrick[3] |
While playing chess on Washington Square, Kubrick met producer James B. Harris, who was looking for a young new talent to produce for, having sold his film distribution company. Harris considered Kubrick to be "the most intelligent, most creative person [he had] ever come in contact with", and the two formed the Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation in 1955.[4] Harris purchased the rights to Lionel White novel Clean Break for $10,000, beating United Artists who were interested in the film as the next for Frank Sinatra.[4] Upon Kubrick's suggestion, they hired film noir novelist Jim Thompson to write the script for the film. United Artists stated that they would help finance the film if Harris and Kubrick could find a high-profile actor to star, which they did through Hayden, who agreed to accept $40,000 for the film. However, Hayden wasn't a big enough star for United Artists so they only put down $200,000 for the film; Harris financed the rest with $80,000 of his own money and a $50,000 loan from his father.[5] The film was the first of three on which Harris and Kubrick collaborated as producer and director in a span of less than ten years.[6] Working titles for the film were Clean Break and Bed of Fear.[6]
Three members of the cast, Hayden, de Corsia, and Carey, had appeared together the previous year in the low budget noir film, Crime Wave. The art director, Ruth Sobotka, was Kubrick's wife at the time.[6] Kubrick and Harris moved from New York to L.A. to shoot the picture, and Kubrick went unpaid for the time being, surviving on loans from Harris. Aside from Hayden whom Kubrick had been impressed with in The Asphalt Jungle, he cast actors from film noirs he had liked such as Timothy Carey, Ted de Corsia, Elisha Cook Jr. and Marie Windsor, and the wrestler in the film was an old chess friend of Kubrick's, Kola Kwariana.[5] The union in Hollywood stated that Kubrick would not be permitted to be both the director and cinematographer of the movie, so veteran cinematographer Lucien Ballard was hired for the shooting. The two men clashed during the shooting, and on one occasion Kubrick favored a long tracking shot, with the camera close to the actors with a 25mm wide angle lens to provide slight distortion of the image, but Ballard moved it further away and began using a 50mm lens. Kubrick sternly ordered Ballard to put the camera back or he was fired.[5]
Critical response[edit]
The film performed poorly at the box office, failing to secure a proper release across the United States, and it was only at the last minute that it was promoted as a second feature to Bandido! (1956), but failed to make money. However, it garnered critical acclaim, landing on several critical Top-Ten lists for the year. Time magazine wrongly predicted that it would "make a killing at the cash booths", asserting that Kubrick "has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll"[3]—recording a loss of $130,000.[7] A.H. Weiler, film critic for The New York Times, wrote, "Though The Killing is composed of familiar ingredients and it calls for fuller explanations, it evolves as a fairly diverting melodrama. ... Aficionados of the sport of kings will discover that Mr. Kubrick's cameras have captured some colorful shots of the ponies at Bay Meadows track. Other observers should find The Killing an engrossing little adventure."[8] Variety magazine liked the acting and wrote, "This story of a $2 million race track holdup and steps leading up to the robbery, occasionally told in a documentary style which at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup...Hayden socks over a restrained characterization, and Cook is a particular standout. Windsor is particularly good, as she digs the plan out of her husband and reveals it to her boyfriend."[9] Although Kubrick and Harris had thought that the positive reception from critics had made their presence known in Hollywood, Max Youngstein of United Artists still considered them to be "Not far from the bottom" of the pool of new talent at the time,[10] but Dore Schary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was impressed with the film, and offered the duo $75,000 to write, direct and produce a film, which became Paths of Glory (1957).[10]
Fifty seven years after release Rotten Tomatoes rates it 97% fresh, based on thirty-three reviews compiled retrospectively.[11] It has gained a "cult" following.[6] For example, Eddie Muller placed the film at 15th among his top 25 favorite noir films, saying "If you believe that a good script is a succession of great scenes, you can't do better than this. Hey, that scene was so good, let's do it again from somebody else's perspective".[12] In his 1999 book Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, Muller wrote, "With The Killing, Stanley Kubrick offered a monument to the classic caper film, and a fresh gust of filmmaking in one package. Who knew when he wrapped it, that it would be the last amusing movie he'd ever make?"[13]
In 1999, film critic Mike Emery wrote, "Kubrick's camerawork was well on the way to finding the fluid style of his later work, and the sparse, low-budget circumstances give the film a raw, urgent sort of look. As good as the story and direction are, though, the true strength of The Killing lies in the characters and characterizations."[14] The same year, director Peter Bogdanovich, writing for The New York Times, noted that while The Killing did not make money, it, along with Harris-Kubrick's second film Paths of Glory, established "Kubrick's reputation as a budding genius among critics and studio executives.".[15]
On January 9, 2012, Roger Ebert added The Killing in his list of "Great Movies". In his opening remarks, Ebert writes, "Stanley Kubrick considered 'The Killing' (1956) to be his first mature feature, after a couple of short warm-ups. He was 28 when it was released, having already been an obsessed chess player, a photographer for Look magazine and a director of 'March of Time' newsreels. It's tempting to search here for themes and a style he would return to in his later masterpieces, but few directors seemed so determined to make every one of his films an individual, free-standing work. Seeing it without his credit, would you guess it was by Kubrick? Would you connect 'Dr. Strangelove' with 'Barry Lyndon?'"[16]
Quentin Tarantino has said that The Killing was a significant influence on his 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs.[17] Both films feature the use of a fractured timeline from different character perspectives to tell their story, a technique Tarantino copied again for 1994's Pulp Fiction.
- BAFTA Film Award, Best Film from any Source, USA; 1957.
Home media[edit]
A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection.[18]
- ^ Stafford, Jeff. "The Killing". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
- ^ The Killing at the American Film Institute Catalog.
- ^ a b c "Cinema: The New Pictures". Time. June 4, 1956. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ^ a b Duncan 2003, p. 37.
- ^ a b c Duncan 2003, p. 38.
- ^ a b c d "Notes for The Killing (1956)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ^ Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company The Changed the Film Industry, Uni of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p 158
- ^ Weiler, A.H. (May 21, 1956). "The Killing: New Film at the Mayfair Concerns a Robbery". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
- ^ "The Killing". Variety. 1956. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
- ^ a b Duncan 2003, p. 42.
- ^ The Killing at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ^ Muller, Eddie. "Endless Night: 25 Noir Films That Will Stand the Test of Time". Muller's official website. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ^ Muller, Eddie (May 1998). Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. p. ?[page needed]. ISBN 0-312-18076-4.
- ^ Emery, Mike (March 15, 1999). "Film review". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
- ^ Bogdanovich, Peter (July 4, 1999). "What They Say About Stanley Kubrick". The New York Times. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (January 12, 2012). "The Killing (1956), Great Movies By Roger Ebert". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved August 10, 2013. Check date values in:
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(help).In 2015 Time Out named it the 2nd best gangster film ever made. - ^ "7 Classic Movies that Influenced Quentin Tarantino". Classicfilm.about.com. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
- ^ "The Killing". The Criterion Collection.
- Bibliography
- Duncan, Paul (2003). Stanley Kubrick: The Complete Films. Taschen GmbH. ISBN 978-3836527750.
External links[edit]
- The Killing at the Internet Movie Database
- The Killing at the American Film Institute Catalog
- The Killing at AllMovie
- The Killing at the TCM Movie Database
- The Killing at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Killing essay by Haden Guest at The Criterion Collection
- The Killing essay by Chuck Stephens at The Criterion Collection
- The Killing film trailer at the Internet Movie Database


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Maybe I'm wrong, but as famous as Tokyo is, it doesn't have one iconic landmark that so many other cities have. There's no Eiffel Tower, no Opera House or no Statue of Liberty. If I was pressed to pick one landmark though, which is more recognisable than any other, it would have to Shibuya Crossing, the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world.
I took this with a friend of mine called Cillian, a mate from my home town who now calls Tokyo home (I left him waiting 45 minutes on the night if I remember - sorry Cill!) To get this particular effect I used a tripod and a long exposure time. This means the signs are visible but the people are blurry as the shutter lens was open for a few seconds. Those of you interested in photography will know what I'm on about. Those of you who aren't, buy yourself a tripod and you'll get cool shots like the above.
While it's good taking photos of the crossing with people walking, it's best to actually get into the shot. This way you're still and the people behind you are moving, showing the business of the place. This is what we did with the below photograph.
But then if you want an even cooler effect, rather than having people in the background have cars. This is what we did in this next shot.
When I think of the world's ultimate cities, like what really epitomises what a city is, I always think of three places - London, New York and Tokyo. I know Tokyo (and Japan in general) has had its fair share of problems recently, but you should visit it if you can.
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Member Since: May 2000 Ordo Ignis: Novice RK: 12 MP: 5,919 | Friday February 4, 2005 4:00 PM This thread is to discuss and debate each of your favorite authors.Please feel free to use this thread to your heart's content! Death before Dishonor -- Nothing before Coffee Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione |
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Member Since: November 2004 Ordo Terra: Savant RK: 8 MP: 2,222 | Friday February 4, 2005 4:11 PM Ohh cool. Well, I got surprise by my love today, being handed a package and when I unwrapped it, I found 4 books I did not have yet from my favorite author, Raymond E Feist. That brings my total of his works on 23 books and only the last 4 not read, of course. I like his writing style, detailed where it needs to be and always a catching read. Discussing with a fool is like wrestling a pig in the mud, sooner or later you are bound to realise that the pig likes it. |
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Member Since: July 2002 Ordo Lucidus RK: 16 MP: 10,266 | Friday February 4, 2005 4:22 PM I have a few Raymond E. Feist books. I find him a bit.. pondering. While I enjoy his overall storylines... I'm simply not overly fond of the style he uses. To put it simply, I have a difficult time getting through his books, though they -are- good.When it comes to authors, I have four favorites. The first would be J.R.R. Tolkien. I love his epic style of mythology-style storytelling. Richard A. Knaak and Douglas Niles are two more of my favorites... very easy to read, yet rich styles of writing. And Michael Moorcock is the final favorite of mine. But really, I tend to shy away from 'favorite' authors. I simply prefer going on a case-by-case basis, judging the stories in their own merit within the context of the style the story is written in. I also really like lore and myth - The Song of Roland, the Illiad, the Odyssey, The Chanson de Gilles, Beowulf, etc.. American by birth. Anti-Christ by choice. "My god has a bigger dick than your god." "Tolerance is the policy of those men who no longer believe in anything." |
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Member Since: August 2001 Ordo Aqua: Novice RK: 3 MP: 451 | Monday February 7, 2005 1:58 PM well dark, you and me dont seem to agree on too much but i happen to really like niles and knaak both. just curious if theres any books that you prefered over others on the off chance ive not heard of/read them, as id like to read some more of his works.Hell hath no furry like a womans scorn for Sega !! |
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Member Since: January 2005 Membrum RK: 2 MP: 224 | Monday February 7, 2005 2:30 PM I enjoyed Knaak's work, however i'm not too proficient in Niles work. A personal favorite of mine is S.D. Perry. Nothing too serious, but it does make for an interesting read. She usually takes off of famous genres (Aliens, Resident Evil, Aliens vs Predator) and writes about the different details and other parts of the series and gives the characters life, even if it messes up one trivial part of the game. stuponfucious penny arcade Elan: Sigh. 'If you help with the verse, you'll just make things worse.' Order of the Stick Cervantes: I AM DELICATE INCARNATE! Radioactive Panda |
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Member Since: July 2002 Ordo Lucidus RK: 16 MP: 10,266 | Monday February 7, 2005 10:47 PM I probably don't have much you haven't heard of already.For Knaak.. there's the obvious Dragonlance books: The Legend of Huma, Kaz the Minotaur, Land of the Minotaurs and Reavers of the Blood Sea. Which is almost half of the books he's written for DL. The Citadel was good.. but it was a bit slow, and I wasn't huge on the plot, so it doesn't stand as one of my favorite Knaak books. The only other book by Knaak that I'm fond of is Day of the Dragon. It's a Warcraft novel. I'm not actually big on Warcraft, and I don't know too much about it, but I enjoyed Knaak's writing enough for the book to stand up as one of my favorites he's done. I want to get ahold of the War of the Ancients series - he wrote the entire thing. The first book is called The Well of Eternity. As for Niles.. He has his own fantasy series he created.. but I haven't had the pleasure of reading it. But pretty much every book he's written for Dragonlance was pure gold. I am EAGERLY awaiting Lord of the Rose.. the first book in the Solamnic Empire trilogy Niles is writing for DL. Oh yeah. American by birth. Anti-Christ by choice. "My god has a bigger dick than your god." "Tolerance is the policy of those men who no longer believe in anything." |
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Member Since: October 2000 Ordo Ignis: Savant RK: 14 MP: 7,202 | Tuesday February 8, 2005 12:19 AM My favorites...Gene Wolfe, M. John Harrison, John Crowley. Gene Wolfe is a favorite of many people, perhaps especially other writers of SF&F. his tales are always well-crafted and require some careful readings and thinking to 'get'. Even then re-reading it will show new subtleties and aspects. There is an almost dream-like quality to his prose, quiet, so easy to read you hardly realize what you are doing. M. John Harrison writes a bit differently. He is...I wouldn't say bleak. He writes extraordinarily well. I'm not a big fan of Hemmingway, but if Hemmingway had used a lot more vivid language, more descriptions, metaphors and similies, you might get the idea. His Viriconium series is great, and he can tell stories without any plot or point and have me drooling over his work. One of his pet projects is the death of fantasy. To clarify, he likes some fantasy, but get so sick of the countless Tolkien-clones, so he wrote his first Viriconium story as a reaction to all the conventions. He realized this was stupid, and his second story was a reaction to his first. He then realized this was stupid, too, and scrapped reacting to anything and just wrote stories he wanted to. One theme recurrent in his stories is the attempt to erase the boundary between 'fantasy' and 'reality'. He does it very well indeed. John Crowley is much like the others. Less cold and detached than Harrison, less ....I don't know, but less 'something' than Wolfe, but every bit as good. "Little, Big" is probably the book to read first. That or "A great work of time" I feel happy...I feel happy! "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts |
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Member Since: May 2001 Ordo Aer: Novice RK: 9 MP: 2,991 | Tuesday February 8, 2005 10:42 PM Douglas Niles is pretty hit and miss for me. Most of his DL novels are stellar. His FR ones, not so much though passable. His Watershed trilogy, couldn't get past the first book, they put me to sleep. He write's great battle scenes, I'll give him that.Favourite authors. Salman Rushdie. Salman Rushdie is to the written language as Mario Lemieux is to hockey. The guy's got magic in his fingers. Just try keeping up with his train of thoughts through the labyrinths of his sentence structures. Jorge Luis Borges. Probably the most influential short story writer of the twentieth century and for good reason. He didn't invent magic realism but he might as well have. Anne Carson. Canadian poet, my favourite poet. Her book, The Beauty of the Husband was one of the most amazing books I'd ever read. Mature, complicated look at relationships, something rarely seen in popular literature or film. all your wretched years, all your weeping... and your joy unbound. go down, be burned - rise again. |
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Member Since: October 2003 Ordo Terra: Savant RK: 8 MP: 2,249 | Monday February 14, 2005 12:38 PM well considering the fact that i just started reading again the ones i like so far areGeorge RR Martin Joanne Bertin Jane Yolen Thomas M Reid salvatore got old really quick Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you. Buttercup: But how can you be sure? Westley: This is true love - you think this happens every day? i'm going sane in a crazy world..... before you insult someone, you should first walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you insult them, you are a mile away and you have their shoes. |
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Member Since: May 2000 Ordo Nocturnus RK: 15 MP: 8,256 | Wednesday February 16, 2005 10:50 AM Always felt that whenever Salvator's doing trilogies, the first book tends to be the best one. |
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E komo mai! That's "Welcome Home" in Hawaiian - so welcome to the AULANI OWNERS THREAD! - Aloha! I could not find an established thread like this, just a bunch of different random threads about Aulani - points, opening dates, etc - so I figured I would take the plunge and start one. Here we can chat and discuss about our new island "home" - slated to open August 29, 2011. I'm pretty excited about it, even though my family won't be able to stay there until the summer of 2012 at the earliest, but that's okay... there will be years of memories to be made with hopefully lots of great trips to our little piece of Disney on the island of Oahu. Since the resort isn't open yet, there simply aren't a lot of photos yet, but there are some good stories to be found out on the internet in other websites that follow Disney to give us updates on the construction progress, as well as some members on the ground in Hawaii who have posted tidbits here and there. We do also have concept art renderings and a view of the model. Then when it opens and our first members actually stay there - hopefully they will start posting real pics for us all to enjoy, along with reviews, updated information about the restaurants, entertainment offerings and of course the neighboring community. EDITED: NOW that it IS open - I'm looking forward to seeing lots of pictures and TR info as members and their guests start to enjoy this beautiful resort! Can't wait to stay there myself in 2012 or 13. We know that there will be 460 villas, including 21 Grand Villas. On the other side of the resort will be 359 hotel rooms. There will be the wedding pavilion, the spa, fitness center, Aunty's Beach House children's play/care facility, as well as a couple of restaurants, room service, and the snorkeling lagoon. And of course O'ahu itself has a plethora of things to see and do. Looking back through past issues, I see that Aulani has been a featured highlight in at least three issues of Disney Files. Looking at Disney's official Aulani website, it seems to indicate that there will be concierge on staff to help in planning for events and excursions as well. Here's some concept art, copyright Disney of course a view of the model (that was on display at D23 last year and is, I believe, currently on display at Doorway to Dreams in Schaumburg, IL), the first view is of the resort from the ocean side and then from the opposite side, showing the front, including the porte cachere and the conference center and then also a closer view focusing specifically on the pool / water play area, with the volacanic caldera in the center with slides coming out from within. It looks awesome, and we can't wait to enjoy it. Here are a few photos of the model room from the local sales center All in all we have an exciting new resort on the horizon. It'll be fun to stay there, but at the same time, it will be fun to hear your thoughts, experiences and plans for the future at Aulani. Aloha!
Here are some links to past Aulani based threads that you might want to check out again Didn't Want Aulani Points until Today DVC Hawaii Stickers Visited Aulani Yesterday Aulani & Transient Accomodations Tax Question for Aulani Owners: What's Your Unit # We Are Now Aulani Owners Aulani Points Requirements Just Bought Aulani DVC Hawaii Aulani...How Far is resort from Honolulu Airport? Aulani Point Charts - Posted online by DVC Here are a few links that are NOT Aulani related, but rather related to all of our sister resorts within the greater DVC family, just for fun, but also in case anyone has specific questions about another resort, all of the DVC resort threads are in one place here... Animal Kingdom Lodge: ***Official AKV Owners and Lovers Thread*** Bay Lake Tower: ***Bay Lake Tower Owner's Thread*** Beach Club Villas: "STORMIN THE BEACH" BCV Owners - and GROUPIES WELCOME HOME! Boardwalk Villas: The I Love BWV (yes, Hallways and Clown Pool, too!) Grand Californian: The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Owners & Lovers Group - 2.0 Hilton Head: HHI Roll Call, Adoration & Information Thread 2010 Old Key West: OKW Lovers Thread !!! Saratoga Springs: SSR Lovers & Owners Part 2 Vero Beach: Vero Beach Adoration 2010 Thread... We Need New 2011 Thread...Somebody? Wilderness Lodge: VWL Lovers & Groupies Thread: It All Started with a Moose!
Here are a couple of new images. One is an overall map of the resort And the other information about driving to the resort from the airport
Thanks, stopher1, for starting this thread! Although we aren't Aulani owners, we definitely want to visit in 2012. Here is a link to some Aulani information I have posted on DVCNews about the Aulani room locations and views: http://dvcnews.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6530. It might be of some help when Members make room requests. Also, here is another link to a thread that explains how Aulani owners can access their deed at the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances website: http://dvcnews.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6874.
Here's a photo my DH took as we flew over the area back in 2007. Aulani will be at the green space at the top lagoon. We fell in love with the resort area and are happy to be owners at Aulani looking to make our first visit in October 2012 for our anniversary.
Thanks for the picture! It's great. I've tried to see aerial shots with construction, but each time I've tried to see it on Google Earth I just get this kind of pre-construction image... but it is still nice to be able to see it even without construction. I can't wait to be able to see it all in person...
Thanks for starting this thread. I am not an owner at Aulani but plan to stay there in November of 2011 if I can get in at the 7 month window. I own at the Marriott Beach Club on Lagoon 3 and have been going to Ko Olina for years. It is an awesome place! Disney knows how to pick the best locations! The pictures look fantastic.
Thank you so much for the awesome pictures going there in july and will be checking out the new resort hope to be able to stay there in the future your pictures look great and very exciting
We have plenty of points already to meet our needs and so don't plan to buy at Aulani. But I'm still subscribing to this thread because we are hoping to visit in December 2011 - before Christmas. We have back-up plans in case we aren't able to secure a ressie at 7 months but we're hopeful just the same!
http://www.yesterland.com/ Hope this site shows up and doesn't get blocked. Scroll down to DVC way down and 11 part series that if you haven't seen is quite awesome.
Happy to say we are owners here!!!!! planning first trip home in July 2012 once I am done with my masters program.
Great thread! I was planning on going December of next year but decided to do another ABD instead. Now I will probably stay at Aulani in 2012.
Man, I just looked more closely at the building plans for Aulani and Phase 1 seems tiny! I am preparing myself for the very real possibility of not getting a reservation at 7 months. Luckily we are looking at before Christmas rather than after but that is a popular DVC time so I don't know . . . I need to do some more research on back up places to stay because I'm sure I'll be booking airfare before the 7 month window opens!


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With the NFL draft lingering in our minds we decided to bring the Big 12 Imaginary Draft back to the Big 12 blog.
Last year saw hits and misses in the 2014 Imaginary Draft with Jake Trotter looking like a genius with his linebackers (Kansas' Ben Heeney, TCU's Paul Dawson, Oklahoma's Eric Striker), Max Olson building his defense around Baylor's Andrew Billings and Shawn Oakman and my team featuring the Big 12's only Outland Trophy finalist in Texas' Malcom Brown and the Big 12's top sackmaster in Texas Tech's Pete Robertson.
Meanwhile, none of us picked West Virginia receiver Kevin White (oops!).
Well, we're giving it another shot. Olson gets the top pick overall followed by myself and Trotter in a snake-draft format. To be clear, this is not a ranking of the Big 12's top players. Instead, we're picking the best possible teams from the pool of current Big 12 players heading into 2015. Today we kick things off with Rounds 1-7:
Round 1
Max Olson: QB Trevone Boykin, TCU
Brandon Chatmon: LB Eric Striker, Oklahoma
Jake Trotter: DE Shawn Oakman, Baylor
Analysis: I can't think of a better defender to build around than Striker. He's one of the best pass rushers in the nation and sets the tone with his active nature and intensity. Opponents have to build game plans with Striker in mind, which makes him the ideal No. 2 overall pick. -- ChatmonRound 2
Trotter: DE Emmanuel Ogbah, Oklahoma State
Chatmon: DT Andrew Billings, Baylor
Olson: T Spencer Drango, Baylor
Analysis: With the notable drop-off between Boykin and the other QBs, and given the depth in the league at running back and receiver, I opted to grab a pair of elite pass-rushers with my first two picks. Oakman and Ogbah combined for 22 sacks and 37 tackles for loss last year. Imagine the damage they could inflict playing together. -- TrotterRound 3
Olson: RB Samaje Perine, Oklahoma
Chatmon: T La'Raven Clark, Texas Tech
Trotter: S Karl Joseph, West Virginia
Analysis: I selected arguably the three best players in the Big 12 with my first three picks, establishing the foundation for one unstoppable offense. The pairing of Perine and Boykin makes for a thunder-and-lightning force in the run game, and nobody can protect Boykin better than Drango. -- OlsonRound 4
Trotter: QB Mason Rudolph, Oklahoma State
Chatmon: WR Sterling Sheperd, Oklahoma
Olson: DE Pete Robertson, Texas Tech
Analysis: Striker, Clark and Billings provide great players to build around, so it's time to go for a playmaker. Shepard fits the bill as a four-year starter who has shown he can carry a passing game on his own. I can't think of a better receiver to carry my passing attack. -- ChatmonRound 5
Olson: CB Zack Sanchez, Oklahoma
Chatmon: CB Daryl Worley, West Virginia
Trotter: WR Corey Coleman, Baylor
Analysis: Coleman is the best overall receiver in the league and one of the best in the country. To get him in the fifth round is highway robbery. With him on board, I can afford to address positions other than receiver over the next few rounds. — TrotterRound 6
Trotter: DT Davion Pierson, TCU
Chatmon: DT Hassan Ridgeway, Texas
Olson: WR K.D. Cannon, Baylor
Analysis: I really did want to take Pierson and/or Ridgeway, but that's OK. Instead I'm going with a receiver who would have a lot of fun playing with Boykin. Cannon averaged 62 yards per reception on his eight TDs last season and might be the Big 12's most dangerous vertical threat. — OlsonRound 7
Olson: OL Cody Whitehair, Kansas State
Chatmon: S Dante Barnett, Kansas State
Trotter: S Jordan Sterns, Oklahoma State
Analysis: I need an experienced leader in the secondary and Barnett is the guy. And, unlike others, he rewarded me for making him a part of my imaginary team a year ago. A key performer in K-State's defense since his sophomore season, Barnett should be even better as a senior and can impact a game in several different ways. -- Chatmon
Big 12 Imaginary Draft, Part I
With the NFL draft lingering in our minds we decided to bring the Big 12 Imaginary Draft back to the Big 12 blog.


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Reflective of this once-excellent game's age showing is that it only plays on XP and Vista. And they've never updated it to run on 7/8. So be advised, if'n you care.
Get your facts straight, don't comment with half baked info. You are looking at the "minumum" system requirements. Going by what you say, the game should also ONLY run on a computer with exactly 16 gb of hdd space.
I have 7 and it has been running perfectly on it the last two years.
Works just great on 7. Played it last year with newer HW and the game ran great. Not so much when it first came out, but with a PC that's even got 3 year old tech, should run smooth. Great game BTW
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Title: | Decision making in a nonprofit organization: A Case study |
Author: | Petersen, Mary J. |
Abstract: | Nonprofit organizations which are guided by volunteer boards generally do not apply business practices to decisions which have long range consequences for their organization or even for the industry they represent. The purpose of this study was to apply feasibility study guidelines to a decision facing the American Culinary Federation to expand its scope of accrediting activities to include culinary arts programs at the secondary level. A Task Force was assembled and guided through three meetings using methods of brainstorming, problem stating, analysis, and feedback mechanisms (both internally and externally). The study was concluded prior to final recommendations by the Task Force. However, by studying survey results and having multiple voices participate during its deliberations, the Task Force designed a pilot process based on consumer needs and identified constraints. |
Record URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12590 |
Date: | 1997 |
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