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CHICAGO -- Minnesota running back Donnell Kirkwood was browsing the Web about the developments in the Ed O'Bannon antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA when two names caught his eye.
They belonged to his Gophers teammates Moses Alipate and Victor Keise.
"I was on the Internet and their names popped up and I was like, 'What?'" Kirkwood said Thursday at Big Ten media days. "We support them all the way with it, as long as it doesn't interfere with the team and bring negative attention. As long as they show up to workouts every day and do their part, I think it's all right."
Alipate and Keise are among six current FBS players who joined the O'Bannon lawsuit, which alleges that the NCAA, EA Sports and Collegiate Licensing Co., the nation's leading trademark and licensing firm, violated antitrust laws by using players' names, likenesses and images without compensation. Both Minnesota players are fifth-year seniors who haven't played much at the college level.
Kirkwood hasn't discussed the case with Alipate and Keise other than to ask one question.
"If y'all win, how much do we get?" he said with a laugh.
Like many college players, Kirkwood played the "NCAA" video game from EA Sports, which has contained his likeness in recent years. He doesn't feel as strongly as Alipate and Keise about the pay-for-play debate but would like to see the value of his athletic scholarship go a little further, a proposal the Big Ten has backed for several years.
"When I signed my letter of intent, I knew I wasn't going to be getting paid, so it never really crossed my mind," Kirkwood said. "I started finding out about the revenue when I got to college. It'd be nice to have a little extra money in your pocket when times get rough at the end of the month, but I know we're not NFL players and we shouldn't get millions of dollars in college."
A stipend could help players with basic living expenses, Kirkwood said, as well as help their families travel to far-away games. But the Gophers junior opposes a full-blown pay-for-play system in college football featuring agents and contracts.
"That would be too much," he said. "That might mess up the whole entire recruiting process. If they choose to do that, everybody should get the same amount across the country."


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Somerset County Council is asking residents to tell it how well they think it is supporting adults across the county.
Anyone who makes use of support services is being encouraged to complete an online survey which will seek their views on areas such as support for older people, people with Learning Disabilities and carers.
The results of the survey will be used, along with a wealth of other information and case studies, to produce the Council's 'Adult Social Care Local Account'. The account is required by Government to keep people informed about the standards of care in their area.
It will help the Council tell people about its successes, challenges and priorities for the future.
Cllr William Wallace, Somerset County Council's Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, said: "We want as many people as possible to tell us about their personal experiences of the care they receive and what is important to them.
"We are continuously looking to improve services and understanding the thoughts and views of those who make use of these services is an important part of that."
Using the results of the survey and other information, individual sections of the Local Account will be made available for members of the public to view as soon as they are completed and will published at www.somerset.gov.uk in the coming months.
More information, including our on-line survey which will be open until the 31 July 2014 can be found by visiting: http://somersetnewsroom.com/2014/06/03/adult-social-care-local-account/ Compass Disability Services, HealthWatch and the Council's social workers are providing users and carers with hard copies of the survey on request.

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Smartphone fingerprint scanners – what else should they be used for?
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1. emadshiny (Posts: 1144; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
Its still a gimmick.
Lets wait for some innovative companies to upgrade it to its highest levels.
14. rihel_95 (Posts: 301; Member since: 21 Mar 2012)
Loved point 3, and LoL at point 5!
15. ZeroCide (Posts: 785; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
So what this article is saying is that the this "feature" provides nothing that the phone didn't already have before in some other form, which may or may not have been easier to use. True seems like gimick feature.
16. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
its not cool nor gimic it is something that we must ask to be removed from the phone othervise the phone snatchers will also cutoff our fingers along
2. makio9 (Posts: 48; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
House Doors! Definitely homes
3. makio9 (Posts: 48; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
I'll take the security risk, I'm as lazy as they come and I want to stick my hand out. Nothing more.
4. chunky1x (Posts: 270; Member since: 28 Mar 2010)
My porn sites.
5. scriptwriter (Posts: 396; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
Finger print scanners on smartphones are old tech (Motorola Atrix). How bout making a phone with an iris (eye) scanner?
7. Raihanpatel111 (unregistered)
Nice thought man.... But I think finger-print scanner is enough for smart phone....
8. taikucing (unregistered)
but apple always claim they are the first
11. bucky (Posts: 3134; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Lol you guys are fighting amongst yourselves.
6. eddyphone (Posts: 9; Member since: 17 Sep 2013)
well I am not thrilled by that feature, simple
13. andynaija (Posts: 983; Member since: 08 Sep 2012)
What feature?
9. SonyPS4 (Posts: 346; Member since: 21 May 2013)
Fujitsu's Arrows Z ISW13F for Japan had this feature 1.5 years ago.
10. DONUT (Posts: 433; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
the first slide is very similar to LG's Guest Mode. however, considering how fingerprint scanners are easily "hacked" (granted not many ppl would go through the trouble), personally i think LG's Guest Mode is better
12. jad.boutary (Posts: 107; Member since: 04 Sep 2013)
I like the switch off setting hope they will do it.. maybe i will ask some developers at xda to do it


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AUGUSTA, Maine – State officials have begun drafting a new teacher evaluation system, but some are questioning the weight student achievement should have in a teacher's overall rating.
Earlier this year, Gov. Paul LePage and the Legislature passed a law requiring school districts to develop systems for evaluating educators based on professional practice, student learning and other measures. This is the first time the state has attempted to set common standards for all teachers.
The state Department of Education has announced it wants 25 percent of a teacher's evaluation to be linked to student achievement. That's more than double the 10 percent favored by some members of the Maine Educator Effectiveness Council, a state task force charged with developing the program, reports the Bangor Daily News.
Maine Education Association President Lois Kilby-Chesley said the state's recommendation could be cause for concern.
"Using the student growth model could cause problems," said Kilby-Chesley. "If multiple measures for evaluation are used then that would probably work. If only one measure is used to evaluate student growth and that measure turns out to be a standardized test, it probably won't work. Occasionally, tests don't match up to what's happening day-to-day in the classroom."
This argument is not new. Teachers unions have generally opposed to linking student achievement to teacher evaluations. But that leads to a simple question – what else matters if the kids don't learn? Teachers can have the best intentions but if their students aren't progressing, that's a problem. Districts should be free to look at other criteria that measures growth, but student achievement must be the bottom line.
David Connerty-Marin said the new evaluation system is about identifying the best educators and offering support to others. He said 25 percent is the norm when linking student achievement growth to teacher effectiveness.
"This is not about weeding out bad teachers," said David Connerty-Marin, spokesperson for the Department of Education. "Yes, there are a few teachers who should go and yes, there are mechanisms here to help that happen. But the goal is to help measure effective teaching and to help provide professional growth and support."
LePage, a proponent of education reform, said every student should have access to an excellent teacher. Moreover, he said every educator should know where they stand.
"…[E]very teacher and principal deserves clear expectations and a fair evaluation process that rewards effectiveness and supports teachers in constantly improving," the governor stated in a press release. "In private business, we call that professional development. Teachers deserve that as much as workers in private industry."
The DOE is required to propose standards for legislative approval by early January. A public hearing on the evaluation system is scheduled for Dec. 27. The DOE will accept written comments on its proposal through Jan. 7.


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Dorothy Arzner's work as a director is being appreciated anew at the Lumière Festival.
As Damon Wise perceptively writes in Variety, "Dorothy Arzner died with no Oscars to her name, honorary or otherwise, and to date, her only reward, to mark a prolific career that spanned from 1922 to 1943, is a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
And yet Arzner, who receives a tribute at France's Lumière Festival, remains one of the most interesting, if not one of the more significant, directors of the so-called Golden Age. Rising swiftly up through the ranks in the silent era, Arzner broke the glass ceiling at the age of 30, becoming one of the first ever women allowed to call the shots within the male-dominated studio system.
In retrospect, it was perhaps not so strange that Arzner, born in 1897, was attracted to the movies – while she was growing up, her father Louis ran a famous Hollywood restaurant that served all the heavy hitters of the silent era: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mack Sennett and directing legend D.W. Griffith.
Arzner originally aimed to pursue medicine, having studied the subject at USC, but dropped out shortly after WW1. By chance, a flu epidemic had swept the country, and every industry needed workers, no matter how inexperienced, and the movie business was no exception.
Hired by Cecil B DeMille's brother William, Arzner began at Famous Players-Lasky in the script room, and after six months progressed to the editing department, cutting, by her own estimation, some 52 movies, including the 1922 Rudolph Valentino classic Blood and Sand. Fatefully, Arzner also shot some (uncredited) bull-fighting scenes for that movie, and it was her desire to direct that brought matters to a head in 1927. Arzner had been moonlighting as a scriptwriter and was about to quit, to take up a directing job at Columbia.
But instead of walking out, Arzner wanted to say goodbye to someone – anyone – at the studio that had played fair by her. By chance, this turned out to producer Walter Wanger, who organized a summit meeting to keep her. Wanger offered her a directing job, but Arzner played hardball.
'Not unless I can be on a set in two weeks with an A-picture,' she insisted. 'I'd rather do a picture for a small company and have my own way than a B-picture for Paramount.' She got her wish: the result was Fashions For Women, with Esther Ralston, then a major star.
Arzner's deal with Paramount was good by anyone's standards. 'I was under contract to Paramount for three years at a time,' she told film historians Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary in a rare interview in 1974, '[and] paid by the week. I ended with a two-year contract, including choice of story. I never had to worry about control over phases of the production. The departments were geared to give a director what he wanted, if he knew exactly what he wanted.'
After five films, and a reshuffle of top brass, Arzner left Paramount to go freelance, which is when Arzner began to make her name as a director of women. Although she didn't get to realize one of several dream projects – an anti-war movie called Stepdaughters of War with Marlene Dietrich, Arzner worked with many big names of the '20s, '30s and '40s, including Clara Bow, Katherine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Lucille Ball.
The Wild Party, Arzner's 1929 film with Bow, her first talking picture, is often cited as a key work in the director's filmography, being the story of a college girl whose party lifestyle gets her into trouble. Made before the restrictive Hays Code was introduced in 1930, The Wild Party features many of the themes that would recur in Arzner's films, in which women choose independence and refuse to be dominated by men, or even each other.
Though Arzner remained private about her personal life, her sexuality was an open secret in Hollywood and has since made her films a treasure trove for latter-day critics and theorists. Legendary critic Pauline Kael described Arzner's 1933 film Christopher Strong, starring Katherine Hepburn as a female aviator, as 'one of the rare movies told from a woman's sexual point of view.'
Sadly, Arzner's most famous film is also one of her last; a film so ahead of its time that it didn't find its fanbase until the '70s. Starring Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) is an unlikely-female-buddy burlesque movie that conceals a withering attack on the male gaze under its showgirl wardrobe of sequins and feathers.
This was to be Arzner's penultimate film – after contracting pneumonia that laid her low for a year, the director – who died in 1979, aged 82 – made the decision in 1943 to quit for good, and stuck to it. The story might have ended there, but somehow Arzner's legacy endured, just as she herself had survived in her heyday. As Katharine Hepburn put it to Arzner in a telegram, when she was honoured by the DGA in 1975, 'Isn't it wonderful that you've had such a great career, when you had no right to have a career at all?'"
This last comment is a rather ironic comment coming from one of Hollywood's greatest women of the screen during the era; and incidentally, Arzner didn't quit the business in 1943 – in the middle of directing her last feature, First Comes Courage (1943), concerning a young woman, Nikki (Merle Oberon) who works undercover against the Nazis for the Swedish resistance, Arzner fell ill with pneumonia, and was replaced with another director, rather than allowing her to finish the film herself.
After that, it was Pepsi-Cola commercials for her long-time friend Joan Crawford, as well as a long career as a lecturer, teacher, and speaker. I've been saying this for years; why isn't there a box set of her work? But there isn't, and it isn't likely to happen now, but nevertheless Arzner's work remains, as a signpost to younger directors willing to take on the system and fight for what they believe – something that's even harder to do today than it was then.
Dorothy Arzner – one of the great pioneers of the American sound film.


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Hockey great Phil Esposito is putting his personal collection of memorabilia on the auction block. The Hall of Famer has consigned dozens of pieces including game used equipment, awards, rings, autographs, artwork and even a 39-year-old leg cast from a much talked about injury he suffered during the playoffs. Legendary Auctions will feature the Esposito collection in its … [Read more...]
Bruins Stanley Cup Game 6 Jerseys on the Block
The jerseys worn during the pivotal game six of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals are being sold by the victorious Boston Bruins. The 5-2 Boston victory is widely regarded as the most important in the last 39 years for the Boston franchise, propelling the franchise to a game 7 road win and their first Stanley Cup win since 1972. The Bruins-MeiGray Group Game-Worn Jersey … [Read more...]
Collection of Signed Topps Baseball Sets Stands at $75,000
A massive collection of autographed Topps baseball sets has been bid up to $75,000 in Collect Auctions' current sale. The auction is live now (www.collectauctions.com), with bidding ending Dec. 1. The Topps Baseball set run from 1974-90 includes all of the cards signed by the respective players, approximately 15,000 signatures with dozens of Hall of Famers, hundreds of … [Read more...]
Upper Deck's Day With the Cup Inserts Offer Unexpected Chase
by Nick Younker Hockey card collectors got a little surprise this month with unannounced, special inserts into Upper Deck's 2011-12 Series One packs that feature members of the Stanley Cup winners, the Boston Bruins, celebrating their victory with the Cup in tow in various locations around the world. Upper Deck discreetly put the cards into packs, and when people started … [Read more...]
Orr's 1976 Canada Cup Jersey Goes on Auction Block
Bobby Orr's 1976 Canada Cup jersey is about to go on the auction block. The red and white Team Canada shirt has been consigned to Classic Auctions and will be sold at auction next month. Classic didn't provide a pre-sale estimate, but it's likely the jersey will sell for deep into six figures. Last year, Classic sold Paul Henderson's Summit Series winning jersey for $1.275 … [Read more...]
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Baseball Card Exchange and PSA have teamed up for a special promotion during this year's National Sports Collectors Convention. Collectors who love to rip vintage wax packs may really get into this one. Here's how it works: Purchase any unopened material from Baseball Card Exchange and open it at the BBCE booth. Decide which cards you would like graded on-site with … [Read more...]
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K.Barteski signature script work is a feast for the eyes. Maybe you have seen it before! Put this gorgeous 68 page collection of some of her favourite brush script pieces on your coffee table. It's as random as it is beautiful. It's as striking as it is visually stimulating. Treat yourself to the adventure in black gouache and a sumi brush.
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Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
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- Publish Date Nov 28, 2013
- Language English
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Kal Barteski is an artist - who paints, designs, photographs and writes stuff. Everyday and all the time in all sorts of media. She's a award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. She loves to painting, polar bear, coffee and life. kalbarteski.com
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|but the function solves the problem if it can otherwise it passes the problem up further by throwing an exception
|Here are some "wrong exception-handling mindsets" in no apparent order:
* The Java mindset: In Java, non-memory resources are reclaimed via explicit try/finally blocks. When this mindset is used in C++, it results in a large number of unnecessary try blocks, which, compared with RAII, clutters the code and makes the logic harder to follow. Essentially the code swaps back and forth between the "good path" and the "bad path" (the latter meaning the path taken during an exception). With RAII, the code is mostly optimistic — it's all the "good path," and the cleanup code is buried in destructors of the resource-owning objects. This also helps reduce the cost of code reviews and unit-testing, since these "resource-owning objects" can be validated in isolation (with explicit try/catch blocks, each copy must be unit-tested and inspected individually; they cannot be handled as a group).
|plus all the disadvantages of error codes
|For example a simple failed HTTP request could be retried? Or maybe an SMTP request can look for a backup MX server?
open("hello.txt") of the same criticality as the error caused by
open(42)? I think not, but from a point of view of pure design (this was my real question. Sorry about not making it clearer):
open("hello.txt") actually failed. On the one hand, it tells the user whether "hello.txt" exists, so maybe it depends on the intent of the caller. On the other, the file is still not open after the return. Maybe it warrants a NotQuiteSuccessException, or FailureWithPostconditionsMetException?
|Regarding the original question, I'd say exceptions from check_parameters and assert/UB from do_it, unless wrong parameters can be presented to this function within the logically valid workflow (in which case the function should return whatever that logic demands)
|helios wrote:
|"How would you implement error handling for this function?"
|Is this a real world problem or just a thought experiment?
|the biggest issue here is that you are passing an array into this function for processing so no matter which solution you choose, an error in one object affects the processing of every other item in the array.
|Why not make this function into a member of the class so that each instance of 'param' can handle individual issues as they come up?
|That way data validation is done in the constructor and errors in execution can be handled on a case by case basis.
|Depending on specifics this approach might also open the door for each object to be processed in parallel.


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CHICAGO — With a pair of homers, strong work by James Shields and a two-run lead with seven outs to go, everything was going well for the Rays on Wednesday night.
And then it wasn't.
A sequence of seventh-inning mistakes turned a good night into a bad one, a 4-3 loss to the White Sox that dropped the Rays to 52-43 and 5½ games behind the AL East-leading Yankees, who come to the Trop on Monday
"One thing after another," Shields said.
"It just kind of didn't stop," reliever Dan Wheeler said.
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Shields, who pitched extremely well otherwise — allowing four hits over 62/3 innings — made the first mistake on his 111th and last pitch, walking rookie No. 9 hitter Gordon Beckham on a full-count pitch with two outs in the seventh.
"I thought I pitched well until the last hitter," he said. "I didn't do my job late in the game, and that's not me."
Next was Bartlett, misreading a slow bouncer Scott Podsednik hit off Randy Choate, then hurrying his throw and sailing it wide of first base, advancing the runners to second and third.
"I thought it was hit harder, and I was going to stay on the bag and tag it," Bartlett said.
"Then at the last second, I saw it wasn't coming to me and I rushed it."
Adding to the oddness was an aborted relief attempt by Chad Bradford, who warmed up but left without throwing a pitch due to back stiffness and was replaced by Wheeler, who was sitting in the bullpen at the time preparing to work the eighth.
Wheeler handled it well, said he was ready at the time and actually could have kept the score where it was — 3-1 Rays on the strength of homers by Pat Burrell and Gabe Gross off Sox rookie starter Carlos Torres — but umpire Diaz didn't give him the call on what looked like a pretty good 2-and-2 pitch.
"Strike three might have been there," Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
"I don't know," Wheeler said. "It looked good to me. But I'm a pitcher. You want it all."
Ramirez ripped the ensuing slider, and that's when Upton did his part.
He broke in a few steps on an Alexei Ramirez liner that was tough to read because it was hit right at him and ended up over his head, scoring two and setting up the decisive run.
Upton had some reasons: that Ramirez took an inside-out swing, he didn't believe it was well-hit; that he didn't see it well as it went by Wheeler and the umpire; that he slipped on the wet grass as he tried to reverse field.
But he really had no excuse: "It happens. There's not much you can say."
Wheeler then completed the collapse, allowing a single to Jermaine Dye.
All three games in Chicago have been tight (as they were in Kansas City), but the Rays lost two and have to face Sox All-Star Mark Buehrle in today's matinee. That makes Wednesday's handout even worse.
"We definitely had command of that game. And we made a couple mistakes, and they got us," Maddon said. "That's what it came down to."
"You've got to win the close ones," Upton said. "And we didn't do that today."


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Clean-Eating Fundamentals and Vega Product Knowledge
Vega Regional Educator: Elizabeth Jarrard, RD LDN
Monday, January 14, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (PST)
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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Start January on the right foot with dietitian Elizabeth Jarrard as we walk through the basics of clean eating, healthy weight management, and how to incorporate more activity into your daily life. You'll leave this hour-long class with quick recipes and plenty of easy tips to begin this year in the best heath.
** All participants, please park in the parking garage located under Pottery Barn across the street. Thank you for your cooperation!
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Monday, January 14, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (PST)
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Dubai, June 19: India's Ravindra Jadeja has gained three places in the latest ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers and has now moved to fourth following his fine performances in the ongoing Champions Trophy in England.
The latest rankings were released by the ICC on Tuesday (June 18) and the top ODI bowler is still West Indies' Sunil Narine.
Jadeja is the second highest wicket-taker in the Champions Trophy after the Group stage. He has 9 wickets from 3 matches with a best of 5/36.
England pace bowler Steven Finn has now moved up a place to joint second with Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal.
Also moving up is another England fast bowler James Anderson in fifth (up by four). Also returning to the top 10 is Sri Lanka's Nuwan Kulasekara in 10th (up by three).
New Zealand veteran Daniel Vettori has re-entered the rankings in 16th place.
Others moving in the right direction are Lasith Malinga in 11th (up by one), Kyle Mills in 12th (up by four), Kemar Roach in 18th (up by two), Rangana Herath in 24th (up by six), Shane Watson in 29th (up by two), Stuart Broad in 32nd (up by one), Ryan McLaren in 34th (up by 13) and Nathan McCullum in 38th (up by seven).
The highest wicket-taker of the tournament in the group stage with 11 wickets, New Zealand's Mitchell McClenaghan has jumped 15 places to 41st.
Meanwhile, England captain Alastair Cook has moved up two places to eighth in the latest ICC Rankings for ODI batsmen. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has jumped seven places to return to the top 10 and is now at 10th after scoring 173 runs from three matches.
Also moving in the right direction inside the top 20 are Suresh Raina in 14th (up by one), George Bailey in 17th (up by six) and Ian Bell in 18th (up by three).
Outside the top 20, the batsmen moving up are Kane Williamson in 21st (up by nine), Mahela Jayawardene in 24th (up by three), Chris Gayle in 34th (up by two), Joe Root in 35th (up by seven), Nasir Jamshaid in 38th (up by eight), Faf du Plessis in 43rd (up by seven) and Rohit Sharma in 47th (up by 11).
The highest run-getter of the tournament until the end of the group stage, Shikhar Dhawan, has re-entered the batting rankings in 50th place. Dhawan has scored 264 runs so far in the tournament, with two back-to-back hundreds.
The batting table is still topped by South Africa captain AB de Villiers, with teammate Hashim Amla in second place and India's Virat Kohli in third place.
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1 Nenokkadine comes as announced on 10th January and there is no second thought about it. During the last two days there have been rumors that the movie has not wrapped up its post production works and that its going to get delayed and so on. But the unit is in no mood to take it longer and believes time left is good enough to wrap up undone and work and that the movie will hit big screens as scheduled!
The censor of the movie has been done and it gets a U/A clearance and with such a huge previbe going about the movie the makers are planning for a never heard before kind of release with about over 600 shows on its first day of release in Hyderabad alone because Ram Charan's Yevadu will be releasing on 12th Jan. So the makers contemplating to pull it off from the word go.
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Dr Fabrizio Saccomanni, Director General of the Banca d'Italia (the Central Bank of Italia) and I have been engaged in a bit of a ding dong in the 'Letters to the Editor' section of the Financial Times. The issue is whether a recently established collateralised interbank lending scheme (the MIC) promoted by the Banca d'Italia (1) represents a balkanisation of the monetary policy implementation and liquidity management of the Eurosystem (the European Central Bank and the 16 national central banks (NCB's) of the Eurozone member states), and (2) involves the Banca d'Italia assuming credit risk and therefore potentially implies the need for recourse by the Banca d'Italia to the Italian sovereign, through the Italian Treasury.
Following my first blog post on the subject, three letters have been published thus far on the Letters to the Editor page of the Financial Times: (1), (2) and (3).
Dr Saccomanni's first reply has been reproduced in an earlier blog post of mine, along with an expanded version of my rejoinder to his first reply. I reproduce Dr. Saccomanni's rebuttal of my rejoinder to his first reply below:
A very Italian scheme for a European problem
From Mr Fabrizio Saccomanni.
Sir, I hesitate to reopen the discussion with Willem Buiter on the collateralised interbank market (MIC) launched by the Bank of Italy, but his reply (January 29) to my letter of January 27 deserves further comment.
First of all, I reject the accusation that this initiative contributes to the balkanisation of the European interbank market. In Europe there are already several differently organised markets, such as the GC Pooling run by Eurex and the repo segment of the MTS, which trade collateralised contracts. These markets have continued to perform well even in the most acute phases of the crisis and have provided banks with a vital instrument at a time when the uncollateralised segment of the interbank market has come to an almost complete standstill. Adding another trading venue to the existing ones does not entail any risk of balkanisation. In fact, it helps preserve a level playing field for all categories of operators. It should also contribute to reduce the still large risk spreads in the European interbank market, a clear sign of the persistent perception of counterparty risk. The scheme is designed to cope with this hopefully temporary malfunction and is expected to be terminated at the end of 2009.
Prof Buiter asks whether equal and uniform access to the MIC scheme is envisaged for all banks that are eligible counterparties of one of the national central banks in the Eurosystem. The answer is yes, and there is no need to have a branch or a subsidiary in Italy. The e-mid platform used by MIC already has 80 non-Italian participants. The condition for foreign participants to gain remote access to MIC is that their respective NCBs accept to take part in the guarantee scheme at the same conditions as the Bank of Italy does. Let me also reaffirm that there is no fiscal or quasi-fiscal subsidy inherent in the MIC. The risk management features of this market have been designed in such a way as to achieve a mutual sharing of risks among participants, thereby limiting the residual risks borne by the Bank of Italy to a standard liquidity risk that can be managed with ordinary instruments.
Finally, Prof Buiter seems uncomfortable with the fact that MIC is "a very Italian" scheme, probably not intending it as a compliment. It is an Italian contribution to finding a European solution to a European problem and we hope that, like the Wimbledon Championship at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, it will attract a wide range of foreign participants and promote free competition.
Fabrizio Saccomanni,
Director General,
Bank of Italy
My response to this rebuttal follows. It has not, at the moment I post this, been published on the Financial Times' Letters to the Editor page.
First, I was indeed unaware of the feature that foreign participants that are eligible counterparties of one of the NCBs in the Eurosystem can and do gain remote access to MIC without having a branch or subsidiary in Italy. My mistake. However, the Banca d'Italia imposes a reciprocity condition for such remote access: the NCB that is the counterparty of the foreign bank seeking remote access has to accept to take part in the guarantee scheme on the same terms as the Banca d'Italia.This mitigates but does not eliminate the balkanisation of the Eurosystem along national lines brought about by the MIC. Reciprocity is not the same as the 'most favoured nation' principle, giving any eligible counterparty of one of the NCBs in the Eurosystem unconditional remote access to MIC without having a branch or subsidiary in Italy on the same terms as Italian banks and banks with branches or subsidiaries in Italy. Only the 'MFN principle' rules out balkanisation along national lines.
Second, there obviously is a potential fiscal or quasi-fiscal subsidy inherent in the MIC. Even unlimited mutual sharing of risks among participants would not limit the residual risks borne by the Bank of Italy to a standard liquidity risk, since the entire pool of participants could default simultaneously. Furthermore, the mutual sharing of risks in the case of the MIC is limited.
Finally, I reject (and rather resent) the suggestion that the heading under which my letter appeared, which characterised the MIC as "a very Italian" scheme, was probably not intended as a compliment. Dr. Saccomanni ought to know that the headers are chosen by the editors, not by the authors of the letters, which are not even consulted. The context of my own reference to the MIC as " So far, so Italian" ought to make it clear that this characterisation summarised my (mis)interpretation of the MIC as being accessible only to Italian banks or banks with branches or subsidiaries in Italy. I was uninformed, but not a bigot. I don't speak for the editors of Letters to the Editor of the Financial Times, of course.
Yours sincerely,
Willem H. Buiter


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Building on the success of its inaugural Prague Seminar earlier this year, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC at Chapel Hill is now taking registrations for a return visit to the Czech Republic in June 2003.
The two-week program for library science students and professionals will begin June 1, and run through June 15. Modeled after the school's popular "Libraries and Librarianship: Past, Present and Future" seminar to Oxford and the Bodleian Library, now in its 11th year at SILS, the Prague program features lectures and tours relating to librarianship in the former communist nation.
Co-sponsored by Charles University, the seminar available for academic credit through UNC at Chapel Hill. A SILS faculty member will serve as the seminar's academic advisor.
Those interested in registering for this inaugural seminar should visit the school's Prague web site, which features detailed pricing information as well as a list of planned excursions and activities. Space is limited; early registration is encouraged.
SILS graduate student Nicole Urquhart, participated in this year's inaugural Prague seminar. "Prague is a wonderful city with many beautiful and interesting libraries," she said. "It was such a pleasure to visit the different institutions, both old and new, and at the same time get to know the city."


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The company
Global communications firm Golin, an IPG owned agency, currently operates in over 50 offices with approximately 30 affiliates. Founded in Chicago over 60 years ago by Al Golin, the firm is now a top ten firm, with over 1,000 employees and 150 clients. Along the way, they have aimed to keep their people-focused, mid-western culture embedded within the fabric of the company by trickling through the different aspects of what they work on.
Internally, the firm has a unique structure, organized in four specialty communities: Strategists, Creators, Connectors, and Catalysts. From those specialist communities, it's paired down by practices. They have eight different practices and, from there, based upon geographical locations. It's a complicated internal communications landscape.
The team at Golin have always tried to foster collaboration within their open-concept office layouts — they wanted to bring people together online to share expertise, work with different perspectives, and get great new unexpected solutions.
The challenge
Golin had a very silo-ed, outdated method of communicating globally to employees. For example, someone working in New Business needs to get content fast; it needs to be updated and current and what they were getting wasn't helping and ended up making their job more difficult.
The firm had multiple social portals, similar to Twitter, but they were closed by communities, where people weren't working together. They were just talking amongst themselves, which they can easily do in emails or shouting across the office. These platforms promoted a silo mentality and the team would see outdated content circulated, making it hard to manage.
They also had an extremely unpopular SharePoint-based intranet that was not aesthetically pleasing, not well organized, and well … ultimately not liked. No one was on it and it wasn't helping foster the collaboration that they created within the company.
Their old intranet was very much based upon transactions. There was a "command and control" approach with facts, dates and commitments. It was very much a single source of truth, the higher power of corporate and nothing else.
The strategy
Checking their stats on SharePoint, they could see that information wasn't being downloaded or read. Asking employees if they had read or seen the information did not yield better results. So, they decided to send a poll to employees worldwide to gauge how they felt and, from there, they looked into options.
They spoke with Igloo, Socialcast, Jive and a few others. It then became easier to pare down what was working and what wasn't. Since employees were complaining they couldn't share information quickly, they questioned the vendors about best practices, what they encountered in the past, what worked and what didn't.
They decided they needed their intranet to:
- Foster a global community instead of separating everyone by continent or office
- Promote ideas, insights and engagement
- Be an open forum, where everyone can grow together and share information
- Act as one place where everyone can get and share information
- Be scalable. It needed to grow with the company
- Work as a file storage/sharing system
- Needed to work with pre-existing essential apps
- Be mobile-friendly
- Be cost effective
In addition to making it easier to share knowledge, they wanted to decrease their dependency on emails. With a lot of larger files being circulated, it would be much easier to share items without a 20Mb limit of space. Throughout it all, there was persistent desire to stop duplicating work — they didn't want to have recreate documents that were hard to find. With these goals in mind, they needed to figure out what platform would achieve their goals.
Because their IT team supports multiple companies under the IPG umbrella, they didn't have a lot of technical support. They needed something that was intuitive and easy to use with a painless company-wide roll-out.
They needed Igloo.
Rolling out Igloo
After Golin decided to move ahead with implementing Igloo, they hosted focus groups to make sure they understood what employees wanted out of their intranet and what they wanted to maintain from their old intranet.
To get a head start on employee adoption, they brought employees into the naming process of their intranet, which, for an agency is an intensive process. The name needed to be original, cross-cultural, and easy to spell, say, and remember. An email was sent out to everyone, giving them a chance to submit their suggestions and be a part of the new intranet. Suggestions varied wildly, but in the end the winner was Simon. Playing off the 'Simon Says' reference as well as their previous intranet's name, Alvin, the name was also symbolic since it represented a business friend of their founder — someone who acted as a great sounding board.
Getting to know Simon
To ensure a smooth rollout, the team decided to start with a beta phase — launching to select groups in every level within each Community/Practice/Office and giving them a chance to test it extensively. Their new solution had to be specific to each groups, and this is an area where they looked to Igloo for expertise. They had an idea of what they wanted, but not the functionality or best practices — Igloo was able to help troubleshoot and figure out what would work best.
When employees got to Simon, they needed to be able to see top-light Agency news right away because they knew employees would be drilling down to their Communities, Practices, or Offices right away and ultimately skip over it. They made it very visual to catch their attention. Everything on the homepage is one click away, making it easy for them to get to watch a video, go to the Golin Awards, or even get a logo.
The team also wanted to have a robust search function. For example, they have a lot of RFP/RFI pitches that need to be stored and referenced on a regular basis. Thanks to Igloo, a simple search can bring back the exact pitch that they're looking for in seconds. This also lets employees search for certain answers to commonly asked questions, reducing the need to email a co-worker asking what was done in the past.
The results
Golin now has a smart, easy to use repository of knowledge, assets, and news. Employees can find everything, from credentials, to templates, to logos, to RFPs and case studies, and the Agency News Blog.
The Agency News Blog is also a great example of fostering a global community. The blog is a chance for the executive team and the marketing team to compose important agency news — for example, Golin's CEO, would post here about a major global hire. This information would normally be shared through email, but by posting it in the blog, he is sharing personal thoughts about a major initiative and he also has the opportunity create more of a multimedia experience by embedding a video of an interview with the new hire, giving a little bit more insight into what was planned for the new role. In addition to employees getting a firsthand conversation with the new hire, they can use the comment section to people can share what their thoughts and congratulate them on joining Golin. Thanks to this page, people feel comfortable interacting with their CEO.
The team also really wanted to promote collaboration. These areas were created for Specialists, but they can be accessed across the firm:
- Inspire Pages: share external items such as industry updates and competitor news
- Examples of work that did not get ultimate approval but that a team was really proud of
- Stories from the top major news outlets on the Media Specialist page, so employees can monitor for anything that would impact the clients that they manage.
For Golin, it was important for information to live in one place. They didn't want information to live in twenty different emails that are only available to the people on the recipients list. If anyone else needs to find this information, they can search for it. They will also know who the content owners are and can go directly to them if they have more questions.
Promoting culture
But it wasn't just about knowledge management, there was also a real drive to promote culture. Simon does have HR information and company news, but it also offers offices their own intranet space within the global sphere.
Offices have things like calendar events, photo albums, posts, and microblogs to bring people together. The London office, for example, shows off how social they are by gathering everyone in their office, going out for team building, and posting pictures the next day. Everyone else gets to see it, not only adding to the fun, but making them want to share more.
Helpful tips
- Executive buy-in and participation is important from the start. Not only are they the ones signing off on the budget and approving the project but, if they are as engaged in this intranet as you are, it's going to be a top-bottom trickle down.
- Plan and staff appropriately. This isn't a three person job, or even a one department job.
- Assign content owners. You need content owners at all levels of the organization, including the executive level.
- Communicate regularly with stakeholders. You need to have a unified mission that you stand behind as you move forward and build this out.
- Make it scalable. The team wanted a platform that could change after it was launched, in case employees' ideas changed.
- Plan beyond your launch. Having a 2-3 month communications plan won't cut it. This is ongoing.
- Get to know your "super users". "Super users" rise above the everyday and are going to be the one who are going to come up with solutions, interact with others and bring more people to the sites they want to hear from.
- Be patient. Old habits die hard - even though you might not be getting the engagement you are looking for in the first month or two, it will change. Stick with it.
- It's never 100% finished. Be comfortable with that, move forward and evolve with your company, instead of behind it.


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Free 'water ice' at Rita's today
Comments Off on Free 'water ice' at Rita's todayBy Kacie
Thanks to S.B. and Crystal, I know that today, I should walk down the street to Rita's and get myself a free "water ice"!
I've never had one of those before…but I'm excited! If you live near a Rita's, go get yourself a free treat today!
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