text:
Communauté ibm.com
GRC Maturity: From Disorganized to Integrated Risk and Performance - Part IV
Liz Andrews 2700041WEU email@example.com | | Etiquettes :  compliance risk openpages grc | 0 commentaires | 2 163 visites
Getting to the Head of the Class: Advancing Your Organizations GRC Maturity
Organizations with GRC processes siloed within departments operate at the Unaware, Fragmented, or Integrated stage. At these stages GRC may be effective within a silo, but lacks an enterprise perspective of risk and compliance and gains no efficiencies from shared processes. Different departments may be at different levels of maturity.
The Aligned and Optimized maturity levels represent maturity of organizations with an enterprise GRC strategy, focused on developing a common GRC process, information and technology architecture. These organizations report process effi
Considerations for Moving From Fragmented to Integrated
Departments at the Fragmented stage have siloed approaches to risk and compliance at the department level. This means no integration or sharing of risk and compliance information, processes or technology.
To move from Fragmented to Integrated requires the department reduce manual data integration and improve overall visibility into risk exposure. Organizations should consider defining GRC process and information architecture at the department level and implement technology to manage multiple risk and compliance initiatives cohesively.
Considerations for Moving From Integrated to Aligned
Departments at the Integrated maturity stage are in a good place to lead the organization in an integrated GRC strategy to the Aligned stage. They have a strategic approach to GRC at the department level, supported by mature GRC processes that can be extended to other departments. These organizations have a shared-services approach to GRC to deliver common processes and integrated information.
To move from the Integrated to the Aligned stage requires a common risk catalog that shows the relationship of risks across the business and risk ownership. The purpose is to enable the business to make risk-informed decisions. Orga
Considerations for Moving From Aligned to Optimized
To difference between the Aligned to Optimized stage is primarily one of context. At the Aligned stage the orga
Achieving the Optimized stage requires GRC expectations set as part of the annual strategic planning processes. The organization has extensive measurement and monitoring of GRC in the context of business strategy, performance and objectives. There is shared information and technology between risk, control and compliance management as well as decision support, optimization and business intelligence. The organization has integrated risk and finance data to drive performance and maximize value creation.
Fundamental Steps to Establishing Your GRC StrategyTo achieve the benefits other organizations have seen from a GRC strategic plan and common approach, Corporate Inte


text:
The Sheffield Doc/Fest is hosting the World Premiere of Mark Levinson's new film "Particle Fever," edited by Walter Murch ("Apocalypse Now"). The film follows six international scientists as they work on the most expensive science experiment in history.Read More »
The Sheffield Doc/Fest is celebrating its 20th year with a slew of nonstop screenings and events that will run from June 12-16. Instead of launching with one opening night film, the fest will launch with a whopping three, one of which will be screened in Europe's largest cave opening, Peak District ...Read More »
Indiewire's Crowdfunding Market scours Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and other crowdfunding sites to find awesome films looking for distribution and outreach funds and filmmaking tools that deserve your support. Because these campaign are for events and films and helpful filmmaking tools that hav...Read More »
The panel discussions at Sheffield Doc/Fest earlier this year included a 90-minute session on the ethically fraught territory of documentary fundraising. "Fund Your Doc, but at What Price?" was moderated by Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas, and included Mette Hoffman Meyer of...Read More »
The 2012 Sheffield Doc/Fest, which had a record 2,657 delegates from over 60 countries, wrapped up the 19th edition of its film festival with the winner of its Audience Award. This year, the award went to Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi for "5 Broken Cameras." The film was followed in second pl...Read More »
England's Sheffield Doc/Fest, which concluded yesterday, announced the winners of its seven award categories and the addition of a new award for its 2013 season. The Tim Hetherington Award, presented by Dogwoof, will join the Inspiration Award, Special Jury Award, Sheffield Innovation Award...Read More »
Occupy Wall Street made it all the way to Sheffield, England over the weekend when Tim Pool -- the online videographer who became a phenomenon the night Occupy was first evicted from Zuccotti Park, attracting more than 250,000 unique visitors to his live stream throughout the course of the day -- dr...Read More »
Documentary editors have a challenge dramatic ones don't: they have to find the narrative. When a documentary goes into the cutting room, it's the editor's job to work out not just what the story is, but how best to tell it. Now with the advent of digital technology, documentary filmmake...Read More »
Kickstarter is on track to fund more projects than the National Endowment of the Arts in the U.S. in 2012. To address the widespread popularity of the fundraising platform, this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest features a number of panels centered on how to best use the tool to your advantage.Read More »
What's a film festival opening day without a little controversy?Read More »

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Redhawks tangle with Washington Huskies on Tuesday at KeyArena
This time of year, college basketball players sweat until their skin itches — until their egos vanish — for a chance to have one shining moment.
They all want in the NCAA tournament, and they'll dive, elbow, scrape, bite and sacrifice just to shimmy in the most joyous dance in sports. Even if their team isn't good enough to win the national title, there's always celebrated consolation in simply being invited, more so than in any other sport's postseason. Everyone would jump into the bleachers just to be featured in that unabashedly maudlin song at the end of the championship game.
One shining moment.
- Students seeking sugar daddies for tuition, rent
- What's the top spelling 'mistake' in Washington state? The answer could make you sick
- Seattle-based seafood company shuts down
- UW receiver Isaiah Renfro opens up about depression, announces he's leaving team
- So the NRA sends a questionnaire to a Seattle state senator ...
Most Read Stories
Love it. Crave it. Dream it.
Unless you play for Seattle University.
Still in transition to become Division I members with full privileges, the Redhawks can't compete for a bid until the 2012-13 season. Instead, their goal has been to qualify for and win the next best thing, the NIT, but with a 10-16 record, those hopes have expired.
So as the Redhawks play host Tuesday night to a Washington team intent on making a push toward March Madness, the difference between the Haves and Have Dreams is considerable.
You must wonder: What is Seattle U. playing for?
That's one shining question, actually.
It illuminates the determination of a team that will be undetectable on even the best radar come March.
"Our one shining moment is being in an atmosphere that wants us," senior guard Garrett Lever said. "It's being where we're loved and appreciated. We aren't high recruits. We aren't players that a lot of coaches saw as Division I caliber. But we're here, playing at a great school, learning from a great coach. We've beaten big-name schools that people thought we couldn't beat. We're right here, playing hard, in the moment. In our minds, we're no different from everybody else right now."
In their grandest dreams, these players will be the trailblazers of a revival. Seattle U. is only in its third season since returning to Division I after a 29-year hiatus. I spent a week recently getting an all-access look at the program, and though the challenges are enormous, the Redhawks' vision — look at coach Cameron Dollar's wide eyes — is as invigorating as it is impossible.
Dollar doesn't want to build a program that can stay above .500 regularly. He doesn't want to build a program that will experience a growth stunt once it reaches mid-major status. He wants to win a national championship, and he wants to do it within 14 years. He wants back what the program had during the old days of Elgin Baylor and Co. And then he wants more.
Dollar wants it even though the college basketball landscape has changed greatly, even though the system is designed for the big boys with BCS football programs to stomp on the little guys and the ambitious startups, even though Washington, Gonzaga and Washington State present intrastate hurdles.
He's nuts. He's inspiring.
"He's the most motivating person I've ever met," senior forward Alex Jones said of his coach. "He'll never give up. I have no doubts that he's going to bring this program back."
Jones is an incredible story of college growth. He's 6 feet 8, but he averaged less than two points and one rebound as a senior at Arcadia High School in Phoenix. He enrolled at Arizona State University strictly as a student, but during an open gym, he showed enough to convince Scottsdale Community College that he was a worthy project. By the end of his two years there, he was an all-conference player.
Former Seattle U. coach Joe Callero recruited him here, but when the coach left for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo two years ago, Jones considered his options before deciding to stick with the new coach, Dollar. Now, he's averaging 11.2 points for a Division I program.
Nuts. Inspiring.
That's definitely a shining accomplishment.
"When I was playing at first in junior college, I was horrible," Jones said. "If you had told me then that I'd play D-I, I would've thought you were crazy.
"I was just kind of floating through college. I figured I'd get my bachelor's degree and just go work for my dad. Now, my eyes are open to all kinds of possibilities."
He has a vision now. He won't be discouraged. This is Dollar's most elementary coaching principle, and it's a universal motivator.
The Redhawks will experience what it's like to face a team making a late-February tournament push Tuesday at KeyArena.
The Huskies see themselves making the Big Dance and grooving for a while. After a loss to Arizona on Saturday, they'll bring an extreme sense of urgency to this game. It could get ugly.
But Seattle U. will run with them for as long as it can. For the Redhawks, this is an urgent time, too. They're going nowhere this season, but the bridge will be down soon. So they better make the most of their final five games.
"Even as we are building for the future, we still can accomplish great things while we're here," said junior forward Aaron Broussard, the team's leading scorer and rebounder. "Our one shining moment is enjoying the present. We're lucky to be playing this game."
And that's one shining perspective.
Jerry Brewer: 206-464-2277 or email@example.com, Twitter: @Jerry_Brewer


text:
David Cameron is facing increasing pressure from his own backbenchers as he heads to a make-or-break European summit in Brussels.
Downing Street insisted on Thursday morning that the prime minister was "focused on securing the best deal for Britain" at the summit, which concludes on Friday. But by the afternoon he was compared to Neville Chamberlain by eurosceptic backbench MP Edward Leigh.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are expected to call for measures prohibiting eurozone countries from accruing too much debt, and a eurozone rulebook to encourage greater fiscal integration.
Their plans come as European Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso urged European leaders to "do everything" to save the euro, saying: "The world awaits not more national problems but European solutions."
Cameron faces a challenge from his own European counterparts, with German chancellor Merkel suggesting she will reject his demands to protect Britain's interests, saying the key is saving the eurozone.
But backbench Conservatives have also urged the government to use the summit as an opportunity to repatriate powers back from the European Union.
Former leadership candidate David Davis said on Thursday morning: "The raw politics of this is that if there is a significant change in the balance of power in Europe - that's the test. If there's a significant change in the balance of power, it has big implications for our future, that's the point at which you have to have a referendum."
And top Tories including Cabinet minister Owen Paterson and Mayor of London Boris Johnson said a referendum on the UK's position in Europe would be inevitable if this week's meeting led to treaty changes.
Despite this Cameron has promised to bring the "British bulldog" spirit to Brussels. Speaking ahead of his trip, he said Britain needed the european market but acknowledged "the euro, the single currency, isn't working properly".
"That's having a terrible effect on those countries, but it's also having a big impact on us, and we need those eurozone countries to come together, to make changes, to sort out their problems, and to get the institutions of the eurozone behind that currency, so they get their economies moving again, and that'll be good for us", he said on Thursday morning.
Chancellor George Osborne has also vowed to protect the interests of states that were not in the eurozone, to avoid a two-tier Europe.
"You're right to point to the risk of caucusing," he told the Lords on Thursday.
"There was a concern about caucusing when the euro was created. If anything there probably hasn't been enough coordination in the euro zone. That's why we're seeking protections for the 27 members of the EU," he said.
On Wednesday evening, Standard and Poor's put the EU's AAA credit rating on negative watch.
The politics of dissent: What key figures are saying about the eurozone
The former Tory leadership candidate: "The Government wrote that bill very narrowly - they were criticised for it - but it's not as narrow as they think. But secondly, the raw politics of this is that if there is a significant change in the balance of power in Europe - that's the test. If there's a significant change in the balance of power, it has big implications for our future, that's the point at which you have to have a referendum."
Jenkin, a Conservative backbencher, claims: "The only reason they want it is so they can tax the City of London. We've got to get out from under those sorts of arrangements, and that means changing the relationship we have with the European Union. And the difficulty we've got now is that the eurozone states, there's 17 of them, and if they're allowed to create this economic bloc with this new treaty, they're going to outvote us on everything. "It's going to be a completely different European Union. There are going to be two Europes; there's going to be the eurozone Europe, and there's going to be countries like Britain which are just satellites on the outside that are just dragged along in the slipstream. "You're going to hear Michael Fallon say this has no effect on the United Kingdom, no legal effect. Well that's real dancing angels on a pinhead. It's going to have a massive effect on our relationship, this big change in European, and therefore we're entitled to ask for a change, and if we don't get that change, then we're entitled to say this should be put to the British people, and then the British people can vote no so we can get a better deal."
Said the Conservative member for Sevenoaks: "We don't yet know whether the changes that are being proposed would fundamentally alter the nature of the European Union. If they want to use the institutions of the European Union, if they want to use European law for any new bloc, then of course we can demand safeguards, because we would have to agree to that, but that's not yet been put on the table."
The former Tory leader said: "What is pressing at the moment as we sit here today, is the need to help the eurozone overcome its crisis, because the world economy is in a very fragile state and a disorderly break-up of the eurozone could bring about an economic catastrophe on a global scale. "Why do you think the American Treasury Secretary has been visiting Europe so frequently over the last few months? So the challenge facing the Prime Minister today and tomorrow is to help the eurozone to overcome that crisis while of course making sure - and I'm sure that he will do this - that Britain's interests are safeguarded."
The former leader of the Liberal Democrats said: "I personally feel that a referendum is now pretty well inevitable because of the position that Mr Cameron has got himself into... I was the first person to coin the phrase if we're going to pass more power to Europe we cannot do it unless you consult the British people on the referendum. If that's what's going to happen then there has to be a referendum."
"The Prime Minister has been quite clear, and this is something that we all share in this Coalition Government, I mean I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the Prime Minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe."
"The basic falsity of the whole thing is that its nonsense. As we argued at the time of the Maastricht Treaty to think that you can have a single a interest rate for a whole variety of countries at different stages in their development."
POLL: Should Cameron protect UK interests and veto EU treaty changes? Click here!


text:
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- First the Fiscal Cliff, now the environment.
Starbucks has announced it will start to sell reusable mugs in all its U.S. stores.
The coffee cups will cost $1 and customers can get a ten cent discount on each refill.
The move comes after increasing pressure on the chain and other retailers to ditch foam cups for recyclable alternatives.


text:
Getting everything out of the box, I'd be inclined to think that I've officially found the only company that sends you an entire roll of bubble wrap with their item, Also included in the box with the case was a wee brown box, holding a token I/O shield, two bags of screws (with two mini speakers, oddly enough), and a manual for the LCD's "alarm" function. Overall, all the necessities, something you'd expect from a quality SFF case.
The first thing you'll think when you see this case from the front is that it IS a clone of one of Aspire's finest, and to be honest, I'd have trouble telling them apart too. Framed by a silver inset (on this model, at least), the front bezel houses a pair of 5 1/4" bays, along with an external 3 1/2" bay. Housed in a small silver bay below your optical hideout, and next to the vacant floppy bay is a wee LCD, lit in blue when the system is powered on, and intended to read the temperature of a moveable internal probe.
Past a brief silver ridge, below these bays, the front I/O ports, buttons and LEDs are visible. Overall, their layout is sensible, and their security is strong, which is nice, though our case had a slight issue. Unfortunately, "the few and the proud" of the Microfly cases came out of the factory with the Mic and Headphone ports reversed. Though there is a replacement cable available for free from Ultra Products to remedy this problem, I was a touch too lazy to bother wanting to rip out the front bezel to fix it, so I just opted to remembering that the pink plug went on the left, and the green plug was on the right. Normal production units should be unaffected by this "bug". Sorry for the pun, folks. Found right below this silver cluster, a molded handle is worked into the front panel, and swings out with minimal effort. While initial worry said that this handle wouldn't be the best thing, I found it was sturdy enough to pick the case up by, even when it was loaded up, the plastic of the bezel - even the vents around the handle - didn't seem to flex, or feel any stress. Of course, this handle is for moving the case a few feet, not carrying it to a LAN party a town over.
Slipping along the chassis, there are a number of things I could have seen. Though there was a model of this case with side windows, my contact inside Ultra opted not to fire one of those my way - which I'm thankful for - as it gives a blank canvas, and a good way to hide my currently abhorrent wiring. Instead, I'm left with a view of glimmering, incredibly glossy aluminum, much like what was visible on the Aluminus chassis. Unfortunately, also much like the Aluminus chassis, these side panels will require special handling, as they can and will scratch quite easily. In order to access the interior of this case, the top panel must be pulled back, and its notches pull out of the side panels. It can then be lifted off and set aside. Then, to remove the side panels, just pull upwards on them, and they come right out. While this may seem flimsy to some, they all stay in place quite well once the single screw of the top panel is in place. While it is a mite frustrating to have to do things this way, it really is no problem compared to the hassles of a one piece cover. Now, once the smooth side panels have been passed, the rear of the case needs examination.
After the unbroken expanses we've just passed, I'd guess it's a bit of a relief to come to an area which is so busy. The first thing to note is that this case will support a 120mm fan, regular sized ATX PSU (modifications will be needed for cases that are even minimally longer), and a removable and vented motherboard tray. Unfortunately, if you try mounting a 120mm fan so that it blows into the case (or blows out, if you have a strange fan like my Nidec Beta V, or one of Arctic Cooling's upcoming TC 120mm fans), the raised aluminum bump at the center of the grille will make it so that the center of the fan scrapes nosily against this area. The simplest solution is to put a flat fan grille onto the fan, so that it can't be pushed down. As to the PSU problem, the included V-Series (if you go for one, that is) supply should have enough gusto to handle even a downright mean machine (FX class processor and X1900 anyone?) On the plus side, though, the PSU stays well supported thanks to a pair of internal crossbars. Unfortunately, the motherboard tray, though secured at four points, has a slight issue with bending (it's essentially single sheets of metal), so care must be taken when sliding it in and out of the case. On the plus side, it does look good once properly installed. With this tour of the exterior out of the way, it's about time to see what sets this chassis apart inside.


text:
Sign in now to view, license and download this image or contact us to see this image without a watermark. Want to embed this image on a non-commercial website or blog? Learn more.
Similar imagesView all
Wetland Habitat On Horseshoe Lake At Daybreak In Ontarios Muskoka Region Ontario Canada Stock PhotoCanada,Colour Image,Coniferous,Day,Evergreen,Fog,Green,Horizontal,Horseshoe Lake,Lake,Muskoka,Nature,No People,Ontario - Canada,Outdoors,Photography,Plant,The Natural World,Water,Wet AreaPhotographer Andrew McLachlanCollection: All Canada Photos Wetland habitat on Horseshoe Lake at daybreak in Ontarios Muskoka region, Ontario, Canada


text:
We offer what you need to achieve success. Come explore with us and find out why so many students have decided to call the Alamo Colleges the pathway to their future.
Not sure where to start? Our Career Assessment Tool can help.
Online Catalog
Library Guides
Library Instruction
Library Services
Children's Library
Academic Calendar
Aquatic Center
Campus Map
Course Catalog
Distance Learning
Student Parking
Student Resources
May 25Sign-up for the Summer Basket Men's Open League before the May 25 deadline. Read More >
Sign-up for the Summer Basket Men's Open League before the May 25 deadline. Read More >
Please join us in honoring our fallen heroes during a short solemn ceremony on May 30, as classes and offices remain open during usual hours. Read More >
Classes for Summer I and Summer 8-week 2016 sessions begin on June 6. Read More >
There are currently no events available for this date.
There are currently no events scheduled.
1400 W. Villaret Blvd, San Antonio, Texas 78224 (210) 486-3000


text:
Range of models planned for the new 900cc engine
We exclusively revealed last autumn that Husqvarna would have a new street bike range topped by a 900cc parallel twin machine in 2012 – and now it's all been officially confirmed.
As we suggested, the big engine will be based on the Rotax-made parallel twin used in BMW's F800, reworked and bored out to turn it into a 900.
The first machine will be a naked street bike, with two versions on offer, and in following years we'll see a range of other models around the same powerplant.
Massimo Granata, General Manager at HVUK Ltd: "We are very excited about the future for Husqvarna. Thanks to the massive resources BMW is able to put in place, Husqvarna will benefit from their R&D capabilities and expertise to launch a new breed of road motorcycles that will hit UK showrooms over the next few years. The first bike to be launched using the new 900cc power plant will be a naked street bike in both 'factory' and standard versions. The bike will retain the distinctive Husqvarna aggressive lines, performance and balance. The same power plant will then be the base for other exciting new Husqvarna models that will be launched in the years to come."
Become a fan of Visordown
Follow us on twitter
Click here
Other Immediate Media Sites
Our eCommerce Platform
About Visordown
Your Visordown
© Immediate Media Company Ltd. 2016 This website is owned and published by Immediate Media Company Limited. www.immediate.co.uk
Version 2016.3.1.0


text:
biscuits, breads, rusks and dairy products.
These changes have also meant some price revisions across our products which are, by and large, in line with the industry. The new legal metrology guidelines for packaged products called for some changes in our product-pack configurations, said a Britannia spokesperson.
PepsiCo India, which offers products at various price points from Rs 2 to Rs 60 in snacks and Rs 7 to Rs 99 in beverages, is fine-tuning its pack sizes to comply with the government's new rules. While we will comply with the new packaging norms, it will be our endeavour to minimise the impact of such change on the pricing by leveraging local and global expertise in sourcing, supply change management and production efficiencies, said a PepsiCo India spokesperson.
Like other companies, Duncan Tea is revamping its line of 50-g tea packs. With tea prices going up, the prices of 50-g packs had gone beyond the Rs 10 mark. With this ruling, we had to reduce the price of these packs to Rs 10 levels. We are revamping the line of 50-g packs, said MC Appiah, COO of Duncan Tea.
A shift to standard packaging will mean higher retail cost of products, which may dent a company's sales performance. Will Indian consumers benefit from the government's new rules? Its too early talk about the impact of these new packs. As consumers are now getting lower weightage of products for the same price, I think it is not beneficial for consumers, said Parle Products' Kulkarni.
However, RS Sodhi, managing director of Amul, said with the government's new rules, consumers can compare different products available in standard sizes. It's a welcome move and is very beneficial to consumers. At Amul, we have complied with the new guidelines for standard packaging, he said.


text:
Uma Thurman Wants To Move To LATrix
Uma Thurman is afraid. She's afraid she spent too much time in New York working, instead of Los Angeles.
She's stayed in New York for years, because she wanted to be close to her kids. She wants to return to LA, now. She wants to go back now, because she's afraid she won't have a career to go back to.
"I am a mother, but I need to do what I'm good at doing. Even your kids need you to be who you are.
"I've been living at home for work for a long time. If I don't leave soon, I'm going to literally choke my career to death."
So does that mean the kids are going to go to LA with her. This seems like an odd time to uproot them. They're 11 and 7 and in school and have friends.
My son was done with kindergarten when we moved and it was hard to move him from him friends.


text:
"Dear Steve, National debt cures has scammed me out of $1,300 by withdrawing $ from my bank account without any permission, written or verbal. There is no contract or anything that gives permission. I was in the hospital for 5 months for a bone marrow transplant when this began and I had no way of knowing what was going on ... Read More »
National Debt Cures – Scam, Complaint, Review, or Praise?
Please share your experience with this debt relief company and provide your review and feedback, in the comments section below. The goal of this page is to allow people to share information that may be important to help others to make a more informed decision regarding their experience with this debt relief company. Here are some potential questions you might ... Read More »
The Elusive USOBA Membership List Made Public
Below you will find a document that was given to me by a USOBA member with a soul. They sent it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I've actually had this for some time and I was giving the United States Organization of Bankruptcy Alternatives (USOBA) multiple chances to release to me a current membership list. After repeated requests, they simply ignored ... Read More »


text:
The Wayland, Massachusetts-based firm announced recently that it plans to add 100 employees to its base of about 200 during the coming year. Softscape, which offers applications ranging from basic human resources information management to workforce planning and recruiting, also said it has hired five HR technology veterans to bolster its services division.
The swelling ranks come in the wake of a 22 percent rise in annual revenue last year, says Christopher Faust, Softscape's executive vice president of global strategy. And Faust says the company is looking forward to another year of significant growth in 2006.
Softscape's pace has fallen from 2004, when its annual revenue jumped by about 40 percent. But that's partly a result of having a larger base of business against which to measure progress. The 10-year-old company is starting to rake in serious annual sales. "We'll probably break $40 million this year," Faust says.
Along with vendors such as Taleo, Kenexa, Oracle and SAP, Softscape competes in the field of performance and talent management software. That's the hottest part of the human capital management market, and it should grow 20 percent annually through 2009, says Forrester Research analyst Paul Hamerman. Softscape's expansion goals reflect both the company's own success and the vigor of the performance and talent management arena, Hamerman says.
"It seems to be a strong player in the strategic segment of the market," he says.
That assessment echoes a report last year by research firm Gartner. In a study of 26 employee performance management software systems, Gartner analyst Jim Holincheck rated Softscape, SuccessFactors and Halogen Software as the only vendors meriting a "strong positive" rating, the highest classification.
In the past several years, there have been several mergers and acquisitions among smaller vendors of talent management software. For potential customers, that raises questions about whether anyone will be around in the future to support and maintain software they adopt.
Softscape has fielded some acquisition inquiries, according to Faust. But he says the firm is not shopping itself around. That's in part because the company, unlike some of its competitors, was not financed by venture capital, Faust says. Companies that are backed by venture capital often must satisfy investors who are antsy for a flipped company and a quick return.
"We're here for the long term," Faust says. "We don't have investors that are looking for an exit strategy in the next 18 to 24 months."
Softscape serves both large organizations and midsize firms. It offers software in a number of ways, including as a service rented over the Internet. That approach, known as software as a service, is becoming more popular, thanks in part to lower upfront costs and faster upgrades.
One of Softscape's priorities is to expand its consulting operations. Faust says adopting new HR systems is almost invariably challenging, despite vendor claims to the contrary.
"It's not easy," he says. "That's why we have a services organization."
Despite its growth, Softscape may find it hard to get its voice heard, given all the vendors clamoring for business. "The space is getting pretty crowded," Hamerman says.
Workforce Management, June 26, 2006, p. 18 --Subscribe Now!


text:
- Camping and Cottages
- Trails
- Sports and Leisure Activities
- Nature/History Programs
- School Group Programs
- Summer Camps
- Indian River Marina
- Museums, Attractions, Brandywine Zoo
- Weddings, Meetings
and Celebrations
- General Information
- Resident Curatorships
- Volunteering & Friends' Groups
- Internships
- Passes and Fees
- Rules
- Donate
- Home
Please Choose a Park:
Fox Point State Park
Wilmington, Delaware
Open Daily 8 a.m. to Sunset
Reclaiming a Toxic Waste Site
Fox Point State Park is the culmination of neary fifty years' work. The land that the park occupies was created when the Pennsylvania Railroad began filling in the bank of the river along its right-of-way to create additional industrial land. S. Marston Fox, for whom the park is named, began a battle in 1958 to stop the filling process and turn the four-mile stretch of shoreline over to the people of Delaware. It wasn't until the late 1970s that the land finally was turned over to public control. Led by Rep. David Ennis and Eugene "Tom" Snell, the Fox Point Civic Association took up the fight to turn the area into parkland following Fox's death in 1982. In 1990, the land was turned over to the state by New Castle County and the remediation process began.
Past dumping practices at Fox Point had contaminated the soil at the site.These practices included the disposal of industrial waste and the application of sewage sludge. In order to use the land as a park without endangering the health of the employees and visitors, specialists were called in.
While remediating hazardous waste sites is a daily function of DNREC's Site Investigation and Restoration (Superfund) Branch, the ultimate goal of making this property a riverfront park gave this cleanup a unique twist. The proposed remedy selected for this site is one commonly used at landfills - a cap system. Under this plan, an impermeable layer of thick plastic was placed over the 15 acre surface of the site to isolate the contaminated material. Layers of sand, clean fill and topsoil were placed above and below this plastic liner for drainage and the support of future vegetation.
Using a cap to transform this hazardous waste site into a functional state park involved some challenging decisions. For example, a method of installing foundations for park pavilions and other structures without puncturing the plastic liner, had to be considered.
DNREC's involvement has not ended. Monitoring and maintenance of the protective remedy is ongoing. A mesh fence serves as a border to the remaining acreage of the park that awaits remediation.
Phase II improvements on the 40-acre tract of land located north of the area now open to the public will include parking and restroom facilities, trails, a scenic overlook, and landscaping. Once completed, park visitors will have access to over 55 acres along the Delaware River for walking, jogging, biking and picnicking.
These improvements are possible through a cooperative effort between DNREC's Site Investigation and Restoration Branch (SIRB) and the Division of Parks and Recreation with help from Delaware's Department of Transportation (DelDOT). SIRB will provide installation and extension of stormwater culverts, placement of fill to eliminate the existing open drainage channels, placement and grading of earth fill, topsoil and seeding, and the construction of an access road. A separate DelDOT contract will provide the additional earth fill needed to cap the existing soil to complete this phase of the remediation for the parcel.
The Division of Parks and Recreation has taken advantage of a unique opportunity to incorporate basic park improvements into the remediation project to realize cost savings in both design and construction.


text:
When it was announced that Joe Buck would announce the football game at Candlestick Park and the baseball game at AT&T Park on Sunday, most local sports fans who care about such things cringed in hopes that a couple of wins would help dull the earache.
Many figured he'd seamlessly go from talking up Eli Manning, Victor Cruz and the Giants of New York before scurrying over to a slightly more affluent part of San Francisco where Buck would sing the praises of Carlos Beltran, Jon Jay and the Cardinals of St. Louis.
Since I was in the press box at Candlestick watching that abomination this afternoon, I didn't hear a word Buck said until I got home in the 4th inning. And I'll readily admit that I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to what Buck or Tim McCarver said through the 9th inning. I've learned to pay more attention to the ambient noise coming from the crowd, which turns Buck and McCarver into ambient noise as well.
Does Buck really hate San Francisco? Who knows, but it seemed like he knew how we feel about him as he signed off after the Giants lost to the Cardinals to complete Buck's own personal sweep. Yes, before Fox segued to a Buck-centric montage that included footage of the Fox announcer's journey from one Park to the other, he said "Good night, from Frisco."
(Video length: 14 seconds; "Frisco" count: 1)


text:
I am stuck on this question and attempting to answer it makes me feel that its equivalent to searching for a needle in a large pond...
I need help with this, can someone explain how I even attempt to find the solution to this?
Question: Find a logical statement equivalent to $(A \to B) \& \sim C$, the statement must use only operators $\sim, |$.
I know that I can do $(A \& \sim B) \, | \, C$ which is logically equivalent but it says not to use anything other than $\sim, |$. The statement I have uses "$\&$".


text:
Companies with high amount of pledged promoter shareholding are susceptible to erosion in stock prices. The number of such companies has seen the highest quarterly jump in at least three years
A close look into the finances of companies is a must for stock market investors, especially at a time when there has been a rise in uncertainty, volatility and dynamics around rupee, while interest rates and liquidity are fast altering the financial position of companies. As fund raising for companies is becoming a challenge, pledging of shares by promoters has been on the rise. For the quarter ended June 2013, the percentage of promoter holding pledged witnessed the highest quarterly jump in at least three years 11.4 per cent in March 2013 to 12.4 per cent in June 2013 with a large number of companies witnessing a sharp rise in their promoters holding being pledged.
So as the environment opens up new challenges for the economy and the companies operating within the same, investors need to carefully analyse the companies before they enter them in search of high returns and fall into the valuation trap.
A look into the share prices of the companies with market capital of over Rs 1,000 crore and with significant rise in their promoters holding pledged over the previous quarter, shows a significant fall in their prices. While the Sensex fell by 6 per cent between January 1 and August 29, the share price of several of these companies fell by over 40 per cent in the same period.
Rise in share pledging
According to a report prepared by ICICIdirect based on shareholding data made public by 3,935 companies, over the last couple of years the percentage of promoters holding pledged has risen sharply from 9.4 per cent in June 2011 and has now gone up to 12.4 per cent. There has also been a significant rise in the percentage of total equity pledged in the system. While the pledged shares stood at 6 per cent of the total equity in March 2013, it has gone up to 6.6 per cent in just one quarter.
While there are various sources that companies and their promoters adopt to raise funds for their business needs or their personal needs, pledging of shares is one such source that gained prominence. Promoters in this method pledge their shares with lenders in the market to meet their requirement.
These loans typically have a


text:
A human rights organisation has accused the Israeli military of committing a war crime by placing military hardware, including artillery positions, inside Arab towns and villages during the war with Lebanon in July 2006. The group last week published a report claiming Arab communities were used as "human shields" by the Israeli military. The danger this posed to the Arab population was far from "theoretical": Arab communities hit by Hezbollah's retaliatory rockets were overwhelmingly those in which the Israeli army maintained a presence.
Israel's air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the context of events unfolding since its assault last summer on neighboring Lebanon. From the leaks so far, it seems that more than half a dozen Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace to drop munitions on a site close to the border with Turkey. We also know from the US media that the raid occurred in close coordination with the White House. But what was the purpose and significance of the attack?
It is an honour of a kind, I suppose, to briefly have the most active thread on the CiF site. But not much of one when 95 per cent of the posts rarely rose above the level of vitriolic name-calling. The posters probably know that by now I am immune to playground taunts of "scum" and "Nazi", but the abuse, I suspect, is meant more as a warning to others who might criticise Israel. Keep quiet — or else.
This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting — mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks from the Shia militia Hizbullah on northern Israel in response — ended with more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians and a small but unknown number of Hizbullah fighters dead, as well as 119 Israeli soldiers and 43 civilians. But many significant developments since the war have gone unnoticed, including several that seriously put in question Israel's account of what happened last summer.
Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the latest media reports are to be trusted, it looks like they may again be winning the battle for hearts and minds: Vice-President Dick Cheney is said to be diverting the White House back on track to launch a military strike.
Israel's parliament last week approved by an overwhelming majority the first reading of a bill to ensure that much of the country's inhabited land remains accessible to Jewish citizens only — a move described by one leading local newspaper as turning Israel into a "racist Jewish state". The private member's bill, called the Jewish National Fund Law, has received cross-party support.
The boycott by Israel and the international community of the Palestinian Authority finally blew up in their faces with Hamas' recent bloody takeover of Gaza. Or so argues Gideon Levy, one of the saner voices still to be found in Israel. But has Levy got it wrong? The faces of Israeli and American politicians, including Ehud Olmert and George Bush, appear soot-free. On the contrary. Over the past fortnight they have been looking and sounding even more smug than usual.
With the 3.7 million Palestinians in the occupied territories caged inside their ghettos, unable to protest their treatment behind fences and walls, the turn has come of Israel's Palestinian citizens. The crushing of these more than one million unwanted citizens currently inside the walls of the fortress – the Achilles' heel of the Jewish state – is likely to be just as ruthless as that of the Palestinians under occupation.
In late 2002 Tanya Reinhart published her book Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, a debunking of the myths that quickly took root about Israel's "generous offer" to the Palestinians at Camp David in July 2000 and an examination of the initial phases of Israel's military onslaught against the Palestinian uprising, the al-Aqsa intifada. Four years later, Reinhart completes the saga by exploring how Israel's response unfolded, culminating in the disengagement from Gaza in August 2005.
Israel's supposedly "defensive" assault on Hizbullah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country's south with cluster bombs, was cast in a definitively different light last week by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. His leaked testimony to the Winograd Committee suggests that he had been preparing for such a war at least four months before the official casus belli.
The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. A tall, thin elderly man, walking stick in hand, makes a detour past the line of Palestinians, many of them young men, waiting obediently behind concrete barriers for permission from an Israeli soldier to leave one Palestinian area, the city of Nablus, to enter another Palestinian area, the neighbouring village of Huwara. The long queue is moving slowly, the soldier taking his time to check each person's papers. The old man heads off purposefully down a parallel but empty lane reserved for vehicle inspections. A young soldier controlling the human traffic spots him and orders him back in line.
The state of Israel seems poised to impose its Zionist character using the force of the law. With this legislating of loyalty, it reveals its racism, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I sought not only to explain what lay behind Israeli policies since the failed Camp David negotiations nearly seven years ago, including the disengagement from Gaza and the building of a wall across the West Bank, but I also offered a few suggestions about where Israel might head next.
A new report alleges that Israeli security officials are being given a free hand by airports around the world to use racial profiling against Arab passengers, in violation of international law and the host countries' domestic legislation. Israeli media have for several years reported on suspicions that non-Jews, including Israel's more than one million Arab citizens, are being routinely subjected to lengthy interrogations, bag checks and invasive body searches at Israeli airports and land crossings. The report, Suspected Citizens, collects for the first time personal testimony from Arab citizens to support claims of discriminatory and humiliating treatment by Israeli staff at Israeli airports.
There is an absurd scene in Palestinian writer Suad Amiry's recent book "Sharon and My Mother-in-Law" that is revealing about Israeli Jews' attitude to the two other monotheistic religions. In 1992, long before Israel turned Amiry's home city of Ramallah into a permanent ghetto behind checkpoints and walls, it was still possible for West Bank Palestinians to drive to Jerusalem and even into Israel — at least if they had the right permit. On one occasion Amiry ventures out in her car to East Jerusalem, the half of the city that was Palestinian before the 1967 war and has since been engulfed by relentless illegal and state-organised Jewish settlement.


text:
Woodinville's mayor has become the target of attack ads as he campaigns for re-election to the City Council.
The ads — which call Mayor Bernie Talmas a bully and accuse him of using an informant — aren't sponsored by his election opponent or a registered political-action committee, but by a shadowy entity that isn't saying where it gets its funds.
It's the latest eruption of heated rhetoric involving members of the City Council, often directed by one member toward another.
Unpleasantness has included accusations of conflicts of interest, a challenge of a council member's residence in the city and an anonymous letter suggesting a member's mouth be sewn shut.
- Students seeking sugar daddies for tuition, rent
- Purple Heart plant bed vandalized days before Memorial Day
- Refusal in Bernie Sandersland to accept reality is really unreal
- Central District's shrinking black community wonders what's next
- All's still not smooth for Uber after its bumpy ride to Sea-Tac Airport
Most Read Stories
The council is considering a proposal under which members could be censured for insulting or slandering their colleagues.
Even as "Ethical Woodinville," the sponsor of recent ads attacking Talmas, calls for "stricter ethics rules for Council conduct," targets of the ads say the anonymous name-calling ignores voters' right to know who is underwriting independent election expenditures.
Councilmember Susan Boundy-Sanders, a target of some of the ads, filed a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission last week alleging the ad campaign violates multiple sections of the law.
A mailing received by voters Tuesday said Talmas "had an informant who watched the home of another Councilman late at night," and labeled the mayor "Peeping Bernie."
Boundy-Sanders gave the PDC recordings of two robocalls and copies of four mailings that refer voters to www.EthicalWoodinville.com.
She said the city has a long history of anonymous political attacks, "always supporting the same slate of candidates, always nasty, deceitful, always with the claim, 'Oh, we're just your neighbors concerned about Woodinville's future.' "
PDC spokeswoman Lori Anderson said she doesn't expect commission staff to investigate the complaint before the Nov. 5 election because of the volume of other investigations under way.
The Public Disclosure Act requires that anyone spending $1,000 or more on direct mail, newspaper or TV advertising that mentions a candidate's name within 60 days of an election, report the source of the funds. Ethical Woodinville has submitted no reports to the PDC.
Talmas said the anonymous advertisers were making "deliberately false attacks on me" with the intention of swaying voters away from him and toward challenger Brad Walker.
But, he added: "I think most people are savvy enough to understand when they get this kind of attack from an anonymous group to take it with a grain of salt and not to pay attention to it."
Walker said he and his campaign aren't involved in Ethical Woodinville. "As to where my backers put money, I don't know. I would hope not," he said.
"I don't feel it's necessary; I don't think it's required; I don't think it's merited," he said of the ad campaign.
An unidentified person answering a query to an email link on the Ethical Woodinville website said the group's goal isn't to sway the election.
"We do not advocate the election or defeat of any candidate. The election is irrelevant to this issue …" the email said. "If and when the City Council passes stronger ethics rules governing council behavior we will stop pushing for stronger ethics in Woodinville."
The writer of the email declined to provide his or her name, or to offer any information about the ad campaign's financial backers.
Boundy-Sanders, who is running unopposed for re-election, said the mailings went to every household she has doorbelled. Assuming the mailings went to all voters, she estimated their cost at $7,000, plus a consultant's fee, and additional charges for robocalls.
An ad targeted Boundy-Sanders over an email she sent to political allies supporting another candidate and referring to Councilmember Liz Aspen as "The Mean Cafeteria Lady" and insulting former Mayor Lucy DeYoung.
That email led Aspen to complain about "cyberbullying" by council members and to propose a process for censuring those who do it.
"In the event that this occurs in the future, we need to have a formalized procedure to address it. That's all I want," Aspen said this week
In August, an anonymous letter was sent to council members with a needle, thread and handwritten message on a printout from the Ethical Woodinville website: "The simplest solution would be to sew shut Aspen's mouth."
Neither Aspen nor Police Chief Sydney Jackson saw the letter as a violent threat, but Aspen said it "was just stepping over the line."
Several Ethical Woodinville ads focus on Talmas' statement at a council meeting that he believed Councilmember Scott Hageman had moved out of the city and was no longer eligible to serve on the council.
Talmas told the council Hageman had bought a house in Kirkland and "it was reported to me that someone saw you at that residence" late at night. Hageman explained that his wife and son had moved into the Kirkland house, which he visited, but that he was living in a rented house in Woodinville.
Talmas said he wasn't involved in any spying, a claim he dismissed as "preposterous."
Hageman said he has nothing to do with the Ethical Woodinville ads and doesn't know who's behind them.
But, he said, "I know several people that have told me enough's enough already. Woodinville citizens, including at least a couple council members, actually are glad that somebody's finally shining the light in some of the dark places."
Keith Ervin: 206-464-2105 or firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
MTV News' Sway Calloway spoke to Guru's musical partner and business manager Solar this week. In the wake of Monday's tragic announcement of Guru's death, Solar has been scrutinized by Hip Hop fans for both his relationship with Guru's blood relatives, as well as suspicions that he wrote a damaging letter, making allegations of a Guru-led foundation that family members were unaware of.
Sway boldly asked Solar about a potential homosexual relationship between the artists, that Sway referred to as "romantic in nature." Solar quickly waved doing those rumors, in saying, "Yeah, that's untrue. Completely unfounded and true. Guru's a family man. I'm a family man. And it's always been that way." Independent of his and Guru's relationship, Solar also asserted both artists heterosexuality. "We're straight men. Down the line." The New York producer who had worked with Guru since 2004 continued, "He dealt with women and family. I dealt with women and family. It's the way it is, it's the way it's always been, and there's never been any blurring of the lines whatsoever."
As the interview continued, Sway asked about rumors of physical abuse, specifically Solar being physically harmful to Guru. With a gasp, the producer replied, "Wow. Me and Guru, we used to play-fight. Rough-house. Not only with him, but other members of the band when you're on the road. You knock around, and that's it. I can't even begin to imagine where that would come from. It's idiotic. Again, these are all kinds of accusations [made] without Guru to be here and look you in the eye and say, 'This is just ridiculous.' Now it's just me saying this is ridiculous." Earlier this week, a member of that band, the duo's deejay, Doo Wop, who had worked with Guru for almost 10 years previously, spoke of an altercation while on tour, although the other party was not specified.
Additionally, Sway asked Solar about Each One Counts. In Guru's alleged final letter, the children's charity organization was mentioned, despite the Elam Family being unaware that such a foundation even existed. "That's an organization that was started by Guru, myself and my people. Hopefully, it'll grow to be a huge, worldwide charitable organization," defended Solar. "There's a lot of things Guru's done in his life with his business that [the Elam Family] doesn't know about. He doesn't report to them. He never did report to them. Guru's a full-grown man." Further speaking of family relations, Solar said that it would be the family's responsibility to provide Guru with a proper funeral. "I'm done with that. That's on...that's between...that's on them." The production and business partner of the last six years added that after this past week's emotional duress, he was unsure if he'll attend the funeral.
Moments later, in a detailed conversation about the Elam Family, Solar stated, "I've got the utmost respect for his family." The producer spoke of meeting Guru's father, and commented that Guru's only mentions of his sister were that they were not close, and presently estranged in his final days.
Sway also confronted Solar about Guru's dying letter. Many have questioned how much of the peculiar statements were authored by the Gang Starr founder. "Guru wrote some of it himself. Some of it he was able to write," said Solar, referring to Guru's declining physical abilities. The parts that Guru did not pen himself, Solar said were tracked by him. "I made a lot of notes that was kept on my own."
The full interview segments are below, which touch more on the letter, family visitation rights, and more.


text:
Hotel address172,rue de Paris
How to reach the hotel
Contact the hotel
- Tel. (+33)3/20300054
- Fax. (+33)3/20576666
- firstname.lastname@example.com
Recently viewed hotels
ibis Styles Lille Centre Gare Beffroi - hotel description
Hotel code: 1384
Breakfast + unlimited WIFI are included in all prices at the ibis Styles Lille Centre Gares hotel. This 3-star hotel is located close to the Lille Flandre train station and is just 10 minutes' walk from the Lille Europe train station, Old Lille and the Grand Palais. The ibis Styles Lille Centre Gares hotel is ideal for business travel or leisure stays. The hotel has a colorful, contemporary and stylish feel and boasts a communal area. Relax and stay connected! What could be simpler?
See the rooms
See the meeting rooms
Extras of this hotel
As well as its central location near both train stations and included breakfast + unlimited WIFI, the ibis Styles Lille Centre Gares hotel has 2 meeting rooms at its disposal to host your skills enhancement courses, seminars, study days, and conferences.
Message from the hotel manager
Mr Olivier CAUET, the manager of the ibis Styles Lille Centre Gare Beffroi hotel, would like to welcome you.
Destination overview
Close to the Lille Flandre and Lille Europe train stations as well as the Grand Place, Old Lille and the Grand Palais, the ibis Styles Lille Centre Gares hotel is ideally located for business or leisure stays.Discover the rich cultural scene in Lilles at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée Comtesse, the Tri Postal, the Sébastopol, the Zénith, the Aeronef, or visit sporting venues such as the Stade Pierre Mauroy or the Max Dormoy Olympic pool (10 mins by Metro)
See you in Lille
Work in this hotel
These prices may be based on different room types. Depending on the country, these prices may not include taxes, may include VAT only or may include all taxes (VAT and city tax). When prices do not include all taxes, the relevant taxes (VAT and/or city tax) will be stated in the following stages of the reservation process. The price is only guaranteed at the time of reservation.
2. Paying
Hotel classifications (1 to 5 stars for France) correspond to criteria laid down by local regulations.


text:
Images: Hanuman Guardian 2013 beings during 180 years of US, Thai alliance [Image 5 of 5]
Photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Richardson
Brig. Gen. Chris Gentry, the deputy commanding general of sustainment, Eighth Army, stand with Maj. Gen. Apichai Hongthong, the commanding general of the Infantry Center at Fort Thanarat, along with staff members pose at the feet of the Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's statue during the wreath laying portion of the 2013 bilateral training exercise, Hanuman Guardian, opening ceremony on Fort Thanarat, Thailand, June 17. Field Marshal Thanarat is honored at the beginning of the exercise because he was instrumental in reestablishing partnership with the Thai and U.S. during World War II. (U.S. Army photo by, Staff Sgt. Kyle J. Richardson, 1st ABCT PAO)
This work, Hanuman Guardian 2013 beings during 180 years of US, Thai alliance [Image 1 of 5], by SSG Kyle Richardson, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
Date Taken:06.17.2013
Date Posted:07.17.2013 01:49
Photo ID:973090
Size:4.54 MB
Location:PRANBURI, TH
Gallery Images
Associated News
Hanuman Guardian 2013 beings during 180 years of U.S., Thai alliance


text:
The Top Prospect
Keith Ford, a 5-foot-11, 195-pound 5-star running back from Cypress (Texas) Ranch High was the first commit in a class that ended up rated as the No. 1 class in the Big 12 once again. He is a bruiser who will run physically in between the tackles and blast defenders in the mouth, but he also has some nifty feet and open field skills, a lethal combination. He showed that flash as an Under-Armour All-American., where he earned the opportunity to return kicks.
The Sleeper
Was thinking about going out of region for my sleeper pick again this year with an eye on Ahmad Thomas., but instead will keep it local with Norman (Texas) North linebacker Jordan Evans. The 6-foot-3, 210-pounder earned his scholarship by working hard and making plays all over the field as a senior. That work ethic and desire can not be coached in to a player and expect him to carry a chip on his shoulder in to his college playing days.
The Late Addition
Dakota Austin, a 5-foot-11, 165-pound cornerback from Lancaster (Texas) High has an interestingly ironic story as it relates to the Sooners. He comes from the same high school as Demontre Hurst, has a similar build and like the outgoing Sooner he came on his official visit , got offered and committed just days before National Letter of Intent Day. If he can have a similar impact as Hurst then it would be a great late signing indeed.
The One Who Got Away
There is no doubt that this honor belongs Dallas (Texas) Kimball high defensive tackle Justin Manning. The 6-foot-2, 285-pounder is the brother of former OU defensive tackle DeMarcus Granger and it seemed like the Sooners had the inside track. Justin, after all, was with Demarcus on his official visit to Soonerland years ago. In the end , he opted to start a new legacy in College Station.


text:
Drug suspect accused of dealing heroin
Police say Assalaam Wilson sold heroin to support his girlfriend and bring in resources for his own heroin addiction.
Edwardsville police arrested him Friday in Eagle Ridge Apartments, the same apartment complex where police organized controlled purchases from Wilson and where borough officials will soon be placing a full-time officer.
Wilson had an address listed for the apartment complex and for 292 Carey Ave., Wilkes-Barre, on arrest papers. The 33-year-old goes by the name "Sincere," according to arrest documents.
Officers from Edwardsville and Kingston working under the aegis of the Luzerne County Drug Task Force made a heroin buy from Wilson through a confidential informant on March 25, according to a criminal complaint. Police field tested the substance and sent it to the state police laboratory at the Wyoming barracks for further testing.
Police said they served warrants Friday after making numerous purchases from Wilson in the apartment complex. They said they found $654 and two cellphones belonging to him. He was also wanted by Wilkes-Barre police for drug charges and was turned over to city police by Edwardsville officers.
Edwardsville police charged Wilson with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, criminal use of a communications facility, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He lodged in Luzerne County Correctional Facility on $100,000 bail.
To comment you must first create a profile and sign-in with a verified DISQUS account or social network ID. Sign up here.
Comments in violation of the rules will be denied, and repeat violators will be banned. Please help police the community by flagging offensive comments for our moderators to review. By posting a comment, you agree to our full terms and conditions. Click here to read terms and conditions.


text:
36th annual Sussex County Prayer Breakfast
|Cape Life
|Jun 18, 2013
36th annual Sussex County Prayer Breakfast, 6:45 a.m., Crossroad Community Church, Del. Rt. 404 and State Forest Rd., west of Georgetown. Pastor Anthony Wallace from Crossroad Christian Church in Dover will be guest speaker. Tickets $15/person, $110/table of eight. For details call 875-7551.


text:
Bechtel, William (2012) From molecules to behavior and the clinic: Integration in Chronobiology. [Preprint]
Download (666Kb) | Preview
Chronobiology, especially the study of circadian rhythms, provides a model scientific field in which philosophers can study how investigators from a variety of disciplines working at different levels of organization are each contributing to a multi-level account of the responsible mechanism. I focus on how the framework of mechanistic explanation integrates research designed to decompose the mechanism with efforts directed at recomposition that relies especially on computation models. I also examine how recently the integration has extended beyond basic research to the processes through which the disruption of circadian rhythms contributes to disease, including various forms of cancer. Understanding these linkages has been facilitated by discoveries about how circadian mechanisms interact with mechanisms involved in other physiological processes, including the cell cycle and the immune system.
|EndNote | BibTeX | Dublin Core | ASCII/Text Citation (Chicago) | HTML Citation | OpenURL
|Social Networking:
Share |
|Item Type:
|mechanistic explanation, dynamic mechanistic explanation, circadian rhythms, integration in science
|Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics
General Issues > Explanation
Specific Sciences > Biology > Neuroscience
General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
|Depositing User:
|Professor William Bechtel
|Date Deposited:
|25 Jul 2012 11:35
|Last Modified:
|25 Jul 2012 11:35
|Item ID:
Actions (login required)
|View Item


text:
Its not often you come across a piece of software that is truly amazing, today I found Luakit and it blew my mind.
I use vim at work and home all the time to do my text editing and have played around with a few vimish plugins/extensions/browsers before but have always found them in some respects lacking. Luakit feels however as if it was written for me, without even reading a guide an intermediate vim'er can effortlessly glide across pages with only the use of a keyboard.
If you plan to give luakit ago some helpful hints
- Default configuration is stored /etc/xdg/luakit/ and should be copied to ~/.config/luakit/
- o for open t for new tab
- when opening or a new tab typing will search, leading with a search engines name will search using that service. ie : open wikipedia lua – will search for lua on wikipedia
- pressing 'f' will highlight all the links on a page and allow you to follow them by typing the corresponding number.
- Quickmarks – a common feature amoungst minimal browsers allows you to assign pages to certain buttons. To assign type 'M' followed by the key you wish to map the page to. Opening a quickmark is easy as go[MARK] to open in current tab and gn[MARK] for a new tab.
Here are the obligatory screen shots of luakit in action


text:
Professional Web Designers London, Web Designing Experts London
Services4theWeb is Web Design and Web Development Company in London, UK. Webx specializing in website optimization, website design, web development, web site reconstruction, graphics design, reliable web hosting, Web development, e-commerce websites, business websites, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Software Development, SEO Top Ranking.
Services4theWeb London focus on Web Development, web design, web marketing and web promotion, building search engine friendly websites as well as managing reciprocal linking campaigns if you're looking for improving your site visibility and search engine rankings. Google site optimization and Google Web Marketing is just one of our services that we focus on during your site development. There's many extras we offer but basic web site optimization is something we believe should always be included, thereby ensuring you have a website that is prime picking for the search engines.
Web Design
We offer custom website design services to our clients across the globe. Our highlights essentially include flash animations, web based graphics & logo design to cater to the specific business requirements.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO):
Let us optimize your website by using White Hat SEO Techniques to get you noticed amongst the top 20 rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN and more!
Internet Marketing:
Use the Internet to promote your website. Our Internet Marketing services include: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Viral Marketing, PPC, E-mail Marketing etc.


text:
Centerstream Publishing Mandolin Chords Plus Technique Book
Sku #900243000000000
Centerstream Publishing
Mandolin Instruction
- Write a Review
- Seen a Lower Price? Click Here.
45 day price guarantee, 45 day return policy, 100% secure shopping
Centerstream Publishing Mandolin Chords Plus Technique Book
A great introduction to playing mandolin.
Handy guide to mandolin chords, scales, and tuning plus "hot licks" for turnarounds, intros, and endings. Mandolin Chords Plus includes tab for 2 classic mandolin tunes. 7 pages.
review resources /productDetail/reviews/productReviews.jsp 1
write a review
Also consider


text:
hi there, is there any one who takes a laptop with him/her to work? but not in a backpack, on a rack or pannier maybe...thanks
hi there, is there any one who takes a laptop with him/her to work? but not in a backpack, on a rack or pannier maybe...thanks
If you do a search, it's been covered lots of times. Pretty split between those that carry in a backpack so the laptop doesn't get jarred around and those that put it in panniers. I'm in the backpack crowd personally.
and I'm in the pannier crowd
As CCrew noted, it's pretty split. I use a backpack, but there are panniers specifically built for laptops.
replace it with an iphone -- you can put it in your pocket.
I had a HP Compaq nx6110 (15 inch 4:3) on my back once and it wasn't comfortable. If I had a full rack and not a seat post rack, I'd probably have one of the ones linked below.
Since I don't take the laptop home anymore, I don't worry about it.
Pannier (Ortlieb Back Roller Classic) it is for me. No sleeve or anything. Hasn't done any damage so far and my back is much happier than it used to be in the backpack days.
Just have a good backup strategy and your worries will be gone.
There's always the Arkel commuter also .. Not cheap but seems pretty good.. Planning on getting one myself shortly.
I carry an 14" iBook in my pannier.
Laptop sleeve into the Delta Metro Elite pannier. I"ve carried it in a normal pannier, but I also added some styrafoam to fill out the bag and keep the laptop "tight" in there. Did the backpack thing once. Hated it.
I use a backpack. It's great.
JesseDuncan:I just love how "cars will be forced to cross the double yellow lines on dangerous limited visibility roads".
I don't want to have a head on but oh god, I HAVE to fling myself into oncoming traffic to pass, theres no alternative!!!
I use a Jansport Firewire to carry my notebook, cloths, food, etc. Commute is 13mi. roundtrip, mostly flat. I have been looking for a pannier solution because the backpack is very hot for must of the summer when afternoon temps get above 90.
'08 Jamis Dakota 29er, '06 LeMond Sarthe, '92 Hardrock, '80 Schwinn Voyager 11.8
I like this idea. I have the rack to mate it with, but can't bring myself to pull the trigger on a bag I've never seen in person:
I just drop mine in the pannier. Never had a problem.
I used to use an Arkel Utility Basket, but now I use a Carradice SQR Slim. In either case, I still put my laptop in a sleeve. No problems with using either one.
2009 Motobecane Fantom CX
2008 Jamis Coda
1999 Trek 930
ISO: Carradice SQR Rucksack Harness.
I would say it might be a function of how long your commute is. The longer ride you have, the more uncomfortable a backpack can be. I have a short commute, 2.5 miles, but even that is to long for a back pack. I use a laptop sleeve inside a pannier and it works very well. I'd rather not have weight on my shoulders.


text:
First of all, the positive points. The build quality is really top notch and considering the screen is gorilla glass so you dont have to worry about scratching, the back plate is made from kevlar so you have a strong core enclosing all the other parts but in a really thin case which is quite something to look at.
With 16GB of built in storage and expandable for another 32GB, this is a great handset for a music lover or someone who wants to put a lot of movies on their phone for on the move. 32GB cards still sell for a lot of money but even 16GB will double the built in storage and give you more than enough space to play with.
The screen is large and bright which is great for both indoor and outdoor use. The resolution at 540 x 960 is also there to give a crisp clear video playback as well as when viewing photos you have taken on the camera.
Now onto the negative points found and the first has to be the battery. Even with a massive 1780mAh battery with normal use the RAZR hardly lasted a day, I often found myself needing to top-up the battery at work to make sure I can listen to music on the way home or to make phone calls after 6pm.
Then there is the horrible Motorola customized interface like MotoBlur which is just horrible.. The only key feature it seems to bring is a list of settings for accounts such as Linked In, Google and Picasa but these can be used via 3rd party applications from the market anyway. What Motorola also do is change nearly every part of Android to make is stand out, which it does but will soon see you rushing to the Market to download a 3rd party launcher like Launcher Pro.
If I had to score the Motorola RAZR out of 10, I'd personally score it a 7. The key selling points are the large touch screen, thin design and HDMI use with the key let downs being the poor battery life, shutter lag on the camera and overall Motorola customization of the UI.
Read original review at Coolsmartphone.


text:
1. This is R.A. Dickey. He's the defending NL Cy Young winner, and the newest member of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Kathy Willens, File / AP
2. Dickey is a knuckleball pitcher. The knuckleball is thrown with as little spin as possible, which makes its trajectory nearly impossible to predict. It also makes it look like magic controls the ball.
3. This high-quality GIF went viral when Dickey was traded to the Blue Jays last week. Nothing sums up the insanity of this pitch better, except perhaps seeing it from the batters' box with your own two eyes (no offense intended to all one-eyed ball play
4. In conclusion:
Kathy Willens / AP
Preview Your Response
In The News Today
- Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Japan. The "memory of August 6, 1945 must never fade."
- A Silicon Valley college faked grades, dodged immigration authorities, and made a fortune, BuzzFeed News has found 💰🎓
- And do you know what happened in the news this week? Take our quiz 💯