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Nevermind - not fixed.
Yes, I have the patch. Yes, I have the AudioOptions.ini file in there. Yes, I have changed all but the quiz slides and the slides that do something else on exit to "No Action" on exit. My projects are not that big - this one is 59 slides. The other that I am working on is 63.
SMattox wrote:
I did try that as well. Between the two fixes, they helped for most of the problems. But the audio is still where I have the most problems.
Don't know if it's related, but I also get a lot of gaps in the audio. I'll edit the slide markers very carefully between phrases, but then it seems like the audio shifts in the timeline and doesn't take the slide markers.
I think I'm having the same problem as well. I'm having so many audio issues, I can't even pinpoint the problems anymore.
The audio is just plain horrible. None of those three things fixed it. Why should I have to put spaces between each slide? If you are explaining how to use a program and showing someone, do you stop speaking at every click? That's ridiculous. I'm willing to put slide markers between words, just in case of millisecond long skips or gaps, but to have to put a half a second at the beginning and end of each slide - are you serious?
One tenth of a second is all you need. If you have even the slightest gap like this before and after the audio file, Captivate will break it up internally. If there is no gap, Captivate joins the audio, but synching can be an issue over time.
This solution doesn't work for me
My audio file (.mp3) is imported into a slide and then the 'Retain current slide duration and distribute the audio ....' option is selected.
I then pad the beginning and end of each slide with .1 second by sliding my audio track right and left using the Timeline.
Same result.
I gone back to using Captivate 3.
Terry Belliveau
506 855-4477
I've noticed that this problem varies in severity depending on the voice that we use. I've experimented with Neospeech and IVONA voices. The Neospeech voices show this cut-off problem consistently, on almost every slide. And with the IVONA voices, one of them (Brian 2) shows almost no cut-off, while the other (Kendra 2) shows only a minor issue, and only on one or two slides out of a 70+ slide project. I'm not sure if this is just coincidence, but I thought it would be worth mentioning. I have the patch and everything else applied for this issue, including the "No Action" defined on every slide.
RodWard wrote:
One tenth of a second is all you need. If you have even the slightest gap like this before and after the audio file, Captivate will break it up internally. If there is no gap, Captivate joins the audio, but synching can be an issue over time.
Silence or not, it seems to me that Captivate always breaks up the audio into separate files for each slide.
TtotheB wrote:
My audio file (.mp3) is imported into a slide and then the 'Retain current slide duration and distribute the audio ....' option is selected.
I did the same thing - is this a common thread through all of the projects with the issue?
New development: It doesn't happen on all computers, just most. It plays fine on one coworker's computer. Could it be flash-related then?
I once did a test of a number of Flash versions and we did find differences. Also, it is usually the case that if you play it once (and get the problem), if you rewind and play it again, it works.
Yes, I have found that too - but again, not always. In some cases, if I rewind it, the skip happens again in the same spot.
Sorry, I'm posting so frequently, but honestly, if this can't be fixed, I don't know what I can do. A lot of time and money has gone into this project already.
After re-reading the blog sync post, I think that not stitching is what's causing this particular problem. Splitting the audio into separate files seems to be causing them get cut off. Wouldn't this not happen if all the audio was one file? Of course, then we'd have the syncing problem, but at this point, I think I'm more comfortable with that. At least then, I could purposefully put the audio and corresponding slides into chunks and hope for the best. To try this, would I edit my AudioOptions.ini to say StitchPublishAudio=1 ?
After reviewing somewhat related topics:
I definitely believe that it is flash-related. Of course, this is all anecdotal, but if someone at Adobe or just another user has any input on this problem or the cause, I am willing to listen. I am pretty much willing to try anything.
Klepi, have you tried this?
If you look at the slide's audio track in the timeline you can see, if you hover the mouse over it, that there is a shadowy highlight, BUT you can see at the end of the slide, that the highlight doesn't go all the way to the end of the audio waveform. You will also see, if you play the slide, that the end of the waveform gets shorter after it plays the entire thing.
If you click on the audio track and "shake it" back and forth, or move it a little on the timeline, it will go away and fix the problem. You can see when the waveform snaps back into the highlighted area.
Not a solution, but it may help get your project done.
SMattox wrote:
Klepi, have you tried this?
If you look at the slide's audio track in the timeline you can see, if you hover the mouse over it, that there is a shadowy highlight, BUT you can see at the end of the slide, that the highlight doesn't go all the way to the end of the audio waveform. You will also see, if you play the slide, that the end of the waveform gets shorter after it plays the entire thing.
If you click on the audio track and "shake it" back and forth, or move it a little on the timeline, it will go away and fix the problem. You can see when the waveform snaps back into the highlighted area.
Not a solution, but it may help get your project done.
Yes, I have tried this, but thank you for your reply. At first, I didn't understand what the original poster meant, but once I got it, I did that to every slide in one project. I noticed that the audio extended past what was highlighted when I hover (as was said) for many of the slides and tried shaking it back and forth a little, which actually revealed a bit of the waveform at the beginning that had been hidden. After doing this to every slide (almost - only a few don't have audio), start to finish, I published and found that, while it was better than before, not all of the skips were gone. Perhaps this is due to an entirely different issue? As I mentioned before - it is fine on some computers (the Mac I made it on, my co-worker's Windows machine) and not on others (my Windows workstation, a Windows machine in a conference room). I even thought it may have been the connection and the pre-loader (set to 100%) not working right and copied the file to each computer. No difference.
Then, after that, I tried the trick mentioned very early on of adding audio to outer ends of the audio. I had tried this on a few slides originally, but it didn't seem to help much. Without any other options, I went all-in with that and tried it on every slide as well. What this seemed to do is to take away the parts that were automatically detected as silence. Essentially, now every slide has audio equal to the length of the slide. For example:
You can see I have an 8s slide with a ~1s sound (a sort of a chime) at 3s. The rest is silence. Before, this appeared only as a ~1s long chunk of sound, vs. this, where it shows 8s of sound with almost 7s of it being silence.
It seems that, based on my understanding of the syncing issue blog post and the original post with this solution, this is essentailly "re-stitching" the previously separated audio chunks. But, I am wondering now if that original poster had the updated AudioOptions.ini. Would changing this value allow the audio to be stitched? Would this make the audio and the slides unbearably out of sync?
Honestly, I am desperate for an answer and would be willing to do this horribly tedious edit to each slide as a stopgap until a more permanent and reasonable solution is found...if only it will work (consistently).
OK! It seems I ended up answering my own question. I set StitchPublishAudio to 1, which I assumed turns stitching back on. I noticed maybe 2 short skips (may have been breaks of silence in the middle of a word) that are probably from the ridiculous amount of audio editing I've been doing. I will have to reinsert my original audio. It's better than words being missing from it like before. This is only after watching the one project once and I haven't tried it in the conference room yet (which was the worst), but I wanted to share the news of my success! Hopefully, it's not premature!
Now, with my other project, I'll see what exact mix of workarounds I need to get on track and report back!
I apologize for posting on this again, but this is literally consuming my work life right now.
It seems I'm having trouble getting the audio on each slide to extend through the silence and force it to stitch the audio, particularly when there is silence. What would be ideal would be to have more direct control over what gets stitched and what doesn't for more advanced users. So, for example, I could group 5 or 10 slides together to be stitched into one audio file, independent of whether there is silence or not - instead of trying to trick the program into thinking there is something other than silence. But, I could also group them into logical chunks of audio (chunks that already have breaks in them) to reduce the sync issue.
I would love to hear an Adobe representatives input on this particular issue, because I can't really see the whole picture and maybe now they'd understand the issue I've been having and be able to shed more light on it.
Long time no update. Has anyone tried Cap 5.5 to see if this problem is resolved?
This issue kills my time lines!
Hi there,
If you are still facing Audio cut issues with Captivate even after following the below blog then please write to me at ashwin at adobe dot com. I will be happy to help you on the same
Blog link :http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2011/02/fix-for-audio-cut-issue-in-ca ptivate-5.html
Ashwin Bharghav B
Adobe Captivate Team
I have tried Cap 5.5 and it seems to have resolved my particular audio cut-off problems - Audio distributed across multiple slides would be 'cut-off' at the end of certain slides.
A source at Adobe confirmated that I could install Cap5.5 along with my existing Cap5 without any problems.
I opened my problem Cap 5 project file into Cap5.5 and my problems were cleared. I edited the audio to see if the problem would re-appear. It did not. I also re-imported the source audio file into the problems slides without regenerating the problem.
PLEASE NOTE: This resolved my particular audio problems. Your audio cut-off problems may be different.
Terry B
It seems to be resolved on a current project using Ashwan's last post's solution. I'll have to see how the next assignment goes.
Thanks for the answer!
Thanks for letting me know.. Others please chip in with your feedback after following the steps mentioned in the blog post.
Ashwin Bharghav b
Adobe Captivate Team
Hi again,
After continuing to fight with this issue (turned out that the above patch didn't work), and talking to Tech Support, they told me to update to Captivate 5.5 where the problem was fixed. It's not. Just working on a new project with about 111 slides, and after a few days of editing, it started doing the same thing.
I had to fight to get the $400 update to the eLearning Suite, and now have to tell them it didn't fix the problem. Not looking good, here.
Please find a fix!
My e-mail to Ashwin just bounced. Is there someone else working on this issue that I can send a project to?
I experienced audio clipping in Captivate 3 and continue to experience it in Captivate 5 (version 184.108.40.2061). At the beginning of some slides, the audio skips a second or two of dialog. The problem occurs on all projects. The problem does not occur on every slide and does not seem to re-occur on playback. I have not determined if there is an association between quiz questions and the problem. I've receive numerous comments on this problem from my customers. My audio files are set to play 1 to 1.5 seconds after the beginning of their respective slides. I installed the "AudioOptions.ini" file, changed Slide Exit actions to "No Action", and force re-publish all slides.
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with quizzes or other objects. As a work-around, you can go to each slide and "shake" the audio track back and forth in the timeline. You will see the ends jump into place on the ones that are getting cut off. (Look at the ends of previous slides, not the beginnings).
But yes, this is a BIG problem.
I can confirm that this audio clipping problem still exists in Captivate 5.5. We've wasted literally dozens of hours and many dollars trying to work around these issues, including updgrading to 5.5 from 5.0. It's pretty much a joke right, since we're now behind on our deliverables. The audio at the end of some slides becomes clipped by about 1 second. We've tried moving the audio to a slightly later start time, but that usually doesn't work, and sometimes makes it worse. The ini and slide transition solutions also do not work.
The best solution we've found so far is to add silence in at the end of each slide, so that it clips off that instead. Although, in a sad twist of fate, the add silence feature in the editor doesn't work, and captivate automatically clips silence off at the end of many of our slides, even if we save the silence in (i.e. it will appear in the editor and then disappear after we save it and exit the editor, it never appears in the slide). So we're working on adding a small click noise at the end of each slide or having the noise be "white noise". Maybe that will work.
I'm not an expert by any means, but it seems like the audio sometime starts a second later in the preview pane, and plays past the alotted time. Maybe something similar is happening in the publishing process, except that Captivate abruptly ends audio play back when the audio segment is supposed to end.
The solution I mentioned above does work, but you have to re-do it every time you go to every slide. Yes, it's still a HUGE waste of time.
This continues to happen with every single project. Yes, I have also upgraded to Captivate 5.5 and it continues to be a problem. Also, we now have more staff trained on Captivate - it's a problem, no matter what computer is used to publish.
Here is the workaround I (and all of my colleagues using Captivate) have been using:
First, I record audio outside of Captivate. I do this after the "rough draft" has been completed, either with rough audio recorded directly in Captivate or text-to-speech. We use Garageband because we have a few Macs, it's pretty easy to use and it has some presets that filter out the extra noise that gets picked up by our low quality mic.
After editing the audio, I export it from Garageband as one long, high quality, mono mp3 file (Garageband does not export as wav). Then I bring up Captivate, make the first slide with audio about a minute longer than it needs to be and I add the audio file to that slide, retaining slide duration.
Then, I edit audio for the entire project, placing the slide markers where appropriate. (This is where it is handy to have the extra time on the first slide. It allows you to use the "Start next slide at the cursor position..." button.) Because I know I have to do this, I usually create my projects with very short slides, leaving very little timing to the timeline. Instead of one slide with 3 key animations or whatever, I have 3 slides that are very similar. This gives you more control from the edit project audio screen. (Use the SWF preview to keep track of where you are.)
Once you have the length of each slide set to line up with your audio, go back and edit whichever slides need timing fixed individually, being very careful not to change the length of the slide. Once everything is set, grab the original mp3 file and drop it on the first slide with audio again. Select Retain slide duration. If you need CCs, turn them on now. If you do it earlier, they all get turned off again by this point.
Now publish. The audio won't skip. Unfortunately, if you have a long project, the audio might get a little out of sync with the video, but I really find this preferable.
The way I uderstand the problem is this: The audio and video are really played separately. Imagine 2 people running trying to keep pace with each other, but they can't see each other. One is audio and one is video. The beginning of you video is like a start line. If you have a start line at every slide, someone might not be allowed to finish (audio) on every slide because the video is done. If you remove the start lines in between and make it more like a marathon, you only get cut off at the end, but the difference in pacing gets more significant.
This idea, coupled with, what I think is a bug in Captivate that just cuts the beginning and end of audio files for no good reason, makes for a pretty terrible problem that honestly, I shouldn't have to work around on every project.
Unfortunately, the jiggling method doesn't work for us. I'll try the other technique tomorrow, but that will require some rehashing, since we currently have 35 slides, each with their own audio. Thank you for the replies, despite how ridiculous this is.
Due to this synchronisation issue when using audio spread over many slides, I prefer to record my audio for each slide separately. My high quality USB microphone has very low noise, but the silence before and after I speak is still just enough to prevent Captivate from clipping off the ends of the audio files. Thus avoiding the clipping issue.
My solution, if I ever encounter clipping , is just to leave about a half second of this "dirty silence" at the beginning and end of each audio clip. I found if you insert silence using the Captivate Audio dialog, the silence is too "pure" and Captivate chops it off at runtime. So if I need more silence at the end of a clip, I just copy some "dirty silence" from a pause somewhere in your voiceover and paste it in. In practice, I very rarely need to do this because each clip has a little bit of dirty silence at the end anyway.
I've learned to modulate my voice when recording slide audio so that I can start a sentence on one slide, pause at then end, then resume the sentence on the other slide, without the result sounding unnatural.
That would save me the step of editing out the AC noise.
I'll try leaving it in next time.
I'm so happy to see that I'm not the only one having this problem! I'm using Captivate 5.5 and Audacity to record the audio.
I haven't yet found a solution to it, but I've noticed that if I "rewind" the video a few seconds when it gets out of sync, it gets back in sync, at least for a while.
The patch you list in the blog post "http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2011/02/fix-for-audio-cut-issue-in-ca ptivate-5.html" is a patch for Captivate 5.0. Is there a patch for 5.5?
We have been using a licensed version of Captivate since 2008 (version 3), We upgraded to 5.5 in December 2011, and still experience this audio clipping problem. It's to the point where managment is ready to switch us to another authoring system. PLEASE HELP!
We are using the Neo Voices, Kate and Paul, in our demos.
I just found something that helped us eliminate the audio clipping:
I used VTML tags to specify a pause at the end of each slide in Speech Management.
This is an example:
Hello I am here. <vtml_pause time="1000"/>
This introduced a pause of 1 sec.
For slides where I didnt want much pause, i put in this: <vtml_pause time="150"/>
Here's a link to a post for more info:
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/04/vtml_tags_in_text_to_speech_1 .html
I'm experiencing this issue too. Audio is getting cut-off at the end of some slides. I'm using version 5.5.
If this has been ann issue for over two years and several versions of Captivate, why isn't anyone from Adobe chiming in here and helping us out?
Please see my post (66) above. The solution is NOT to have perfect silence at the end of your audio clips.
I agree that this issue should ideally be resolved. We'll have to see if it still exists in Captivate 6.
Hi there,
I have been experiencing this problem and resolved it.
I record a narration on each slide and found some of the audio was clipped off at the end of slides. Specially when adjusting the volume settings.
Open the Audio Edit and select Project. Then click the slide button to move along the slides till you find the slide where audio has been clipped. I found that the audio at the end of the slide encroaches over onto the beginning of the next slide. To fix cut the encroaching audio and paste it into its correct place on the previous slide, then add a little silence at the end. You may have to adjust the timing on a slide so you can add the cut segment.
Works a treat for me.
Hope this helps.
Hi Scambot and GunBroker,
Ashwin'd ID will not work, so can you please send your project to email@example.com , so we can take a look at them..
Be careful. You'll notice that if you leave a slide and then come back to it, it will happen again.
And to Rod: I had to fight for the $$ for the 5.5 upgrade because tech support told me it was fixed in that version.
It wasn't, and no way am I paying for 6 to fix it.
Adobe really needs to find a patch!
A word of advice: Tech Support don't always know the answer. If you wanted to make sure a new version ACTUALLY resolves some issue, the wise thing to do is download and test the trial version of the same app BEFORE you part with any money. That way, if the issue is still present, all you've wasted is a few hours downloading and testing.
I recommend you do the same with Captivate 6.
This is not a solution. Your "dirty silence" is still clipping - it's just because it's silence, you don't care.
But honestly, I can't inject a long enough silence into the end of every slide. It's just not a feasible solution.
I agree with SMattox - I shouldn't have to convince my organization which has 7 copies to upgrade all copies (we collaborate enough to require us to all be on the same version) just so a basic function works properly. This is a bug and it should be patched; it's not a feature to look forward to in the next version.
Strange that the "dirty silence" trick didn't work for you.
Just to check something: Are you recording your voiceover audio slide by slide, or as one long audio file that you then import into the project and time the slides to synch up to?
I sent an email to firstname.lastname@example.com three days ago and never received a reply. Is anyone going to help? Why isn't there a definitive workaround, let alone a FIX for this UNACCEPTABLE, SHOWSTOPPING problem???


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Miley Cyrus Responds to Hair Haters: I'm So Happy!by Hilton Hater at .
Miley Cyrus has undergone an extreme makeover, and she's received some extreme backlash in response.
Not long after the singer debuted a radically short haircut on Twitter, fans and celebrities alike shared their opinion on the light locks, many of them negative.
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"My dad Billy Ray Cyrus used to tell me, 'opinions are are like a**holes --everybody has one.' LOVE my hair. Feel so happy, pretty, and free."
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Well she can love it all she wants looks hideous which ever way she wants to see it, but i mean PINK has that hair and goes with her persona and career.. for miley.. uuuhhhh... well nothing but laughs really... doesn't even go with her career just as a useless way of trying to get attention i guess
Where are the stars that they are famous for their real talent like the stars back then in the 30`s, 40`s and 50`s instead of the ones of today which they do everything to get some media attention??!!
Today stars are more famous of the strange stuff and things they do instead of their talent (if they really do have talent like the Kardashians).Miley is one of them i think,she`s getting more famous for the way she dress,how much weight she lost,her hair cut and her engagment.
I like her haircut.It's cute and it has a lot more style and class than those tired long locks she had, which were just like everyone else's and therefore boring. I could definitely do without the peace sign or "gang hands" or whatever in hell that finger thing is that he's doing YET AGAIN. Sheesh, get a new schtick, girl! That one is so tired and played out already.


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If it weren't for the food, I wouldn't be much of an Independence Day fan. I find fireworks far too noisy and I get faint pleasure from parades. But light those sparklers and fire up the grill! I do love a good barbecue!
So let's talk about Fourth of July food, and let's assume you're going to be cooking and eating outside at your house or somebody else's.
Burgers and hot dogs on the grill are as easy as can be, and please nearly everyone (except for the vegetarians in your life; we'll get to them later). But if you want to get a little fancy with those burgers, you can do that without going to too much trouble. My family loves these Mushroom Pizza Burgers, and you can make the sauce ahead—even a few days before the Fourth—and make it even easier on yourself. I found this recipe in a Cooking Light magazine in 1996, and I've been making it ever since. Try this if you're cooking at home this Independence Day.
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1/4 cup diced onion
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 garlic clove, minced
1 cup canned crushed tomatoes, undrained
Coat a small nonstick skillet with spray; place over medium heat until hot. Add sliced mushrooms and onions, sauté 3 minutes. Add oregano and garlic; sauté 1 minute. Add tomatoes; cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally and squishing the tomatoes to break them down. Remove from heat. Set tomato sauce aside and keep warm if you're using it right away. Otherwise, store it in an airtight container for up to a week. (And yes, if you want to make this recipe even easier, you can use jarred pizza sauce and skip making this sauce altogether. It won't be quite as good, but it will be just fine.)
For the burgers:
1 pound ground round
1 1/2 cups finely chopped mushrooms
1/3 cup chopped fresh basil (or 5 teaspoons dried basil)
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons dry breadcrumbs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 egg white, lightly beaten
4 slices mozzarella cheese
Combine beef and the rest of the burger ingredients (not the cheese) in a bowl; stir well (using clean hands works the best). Divide the mixture into 4 equal portions, shaping into 1/2-inch-thick patties.
Prepare grill. Place patties on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill 5 minutes on each side or until done to your preference. Top each patty with cheese, and place each cheese-topped patty on the bottom half of a hamburger bun. Top with 2 tablespoons of the sauce. Put on the bun top and have at it!
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OK, now for those vegetarians. This is a fantastic side dish you can bring to someone else's barbecue bash, re-heat in their microwave and serve warm. And it will serve as a main course for someone who doesn't eat meat. I made up this recipe after reading about a couple of fancier ones involving goat cheese and homemade pasta. My version is easier, I promise. The only part that might seem a tiny bit tricky if you've never done it before is charring the peppers. It's not that hard, and you'll feel like you should have your own show on the Food Channel after you do it for the first time.
Cheese Ravioli with Red Bell Pepper Sauce
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For the sauce:
4 or 5 red bell peppers
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup diced canned tomatoes, undrained
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
Char the peppers over a grill flame or in a broiler or toaster oven, turning them every so often with tongs until they're completely blackened on all sides. Place the charred peppers in a paper bag; seal and let stand at room temperature for at least 15 minutes. Then you can easily peel and seed the peppers. Chop them up.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and tomatoes and cook until the onion begins to brown, about 4 minutes. Reduce heat to low; add chopped peppers and cook for a few minutes until the onion is very soft, stirring often. Add vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. Stir it all together and it's done.
For the ravioli:
2 pounds frozen cheese ravioli (Meijer brand is pretty good and use any size you choose)
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup sliced black olives
Parmesan cheese
Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat until it begins to brown. Cook ravioli following package directions for boiling method (takes 3 or 4 minutes). Drain cooked ravioli well. Toss ravioli in skillet with browned butter.
For serving:
Gently toss buttered ravioli with red pepper sauce (re-heated if you did it ahead of time). Serve sprinkled with sliced black olives and Parmesan.
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Here's one more side dish worthy of the Fourth, a classic Beef and Bean Barbecue Bake, to take the place of those canned baked beans, although they figure in this recipe. I usually make this with ground turkey instead of beef. It's good either way. You can make this well before your barbecue, cover it and store it in the frig, and re-heat it when the guests arrive or just before you bring it to share at someone else's party. I adapted this version from a recipe I found online about 10 years ago. You can easily adapt my version to suit yourself, adding cheese on the top at the end and baking it for a few more minutes, or even mixing in cooked macaroni. I like it this way, however:
Ground Meat and Bean Barbecue Bake
(makes about 6 servings)
2 tablespoons oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
1-2 tablespoons chopped fresh garlic
1 large celery rib, chopped
1 green or red bell pepper, chopped
2 or 3 shakes of dried red pepper flakes (or more if you like the heat)
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef or turkey
1 16-ounce can baked beans, undrained (Bush's is a good brand)
1 16-ounce can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 13-by-9-inch baking dish.
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions, celery and peppers; cook, stirring, for 5-6 minutes or until vegetables are softened. Add in the red pepper flakes, garlic and ground meat; cook, breaking up the meat with a fork or wooden spoon, for about 6 minutes, or until meat is no longer pink. Drain off all the fat in the skillet.
Stir in the baked beans, kidney beans, barbecue sauce, molasses, Worcestershire sauce and mustard. Mix well to combine.
Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Bake uncovered for about 40 minutes.
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Cons – Does not have good Work-Life balance. Senior Management is not effective in Strategic planning and execution. Lacking in proper Risk Management. Purely bonus driven performance culture. Organization has primarily grown through acquisitions and cost control measures. There is a general lack of knowledge and experience among Senior Management in what it takes to build Mission Critical and Enterprise applications.
Advice to Senior Management – Senior management is too focused on improving profitability and NASDAQ OMX share price to care about how things really work (or don't work) on the ground.
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I worked at NASDAQ OMX Group
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Cons – senior management has no direction
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Pros – Tasks keep you busy daily. Client-facing opportunities. Good mix of financial services and technology platform. Corporate environment.
Cons – Very limited workspace, such as desks, conference rooms, kitchen, restroom.
Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to your shining stars from the ground up. Some middle managers are not fully qualified for their roles - keeps saying "I don't know" when you ask technical questions rather than mobilize resources to get answers.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
I worked at NASDAQ OMX Group
Pros – It's a great place to learn about the U.S. securities exchanges and financial services industry. You will always be learning something new each day.
Cons – Depending on the department, opportunities for attending formal training may not always be available.
I have been working at NASDAQ OMX Group as a contractor for less than a year
Pros – Brand recognition, intense work environment, never a dull moment. Learn a lot on your own.
Cons – Poor management decision making, understaffed, cutting to the bone, overworked, no training. Cost cutters celebrated but the negative impact on quality will be noticed and likely blamed elsewhere. No training. Bottom line is king. The best and brightest not promoted. Favoritism rules. Across the board dissatisfaction and people trying to leave.
Advice to Senior Management – Find out what's going on below you. Your decision making is so clouded by cost cutting that you are increasingly jeopardizing quality over low cost. Will have a real impact when the problems become so big it can't be ignored and clients will notice - p.s., they already have....
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
I worked at NASDAQ OMX Group full-time
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Stable, with great long term opportunities.
Cons – Inability to execute - think Facebook IPO.
Micromanagement from the very top.
I have been working at NASDAQ OMX Group full-time for more than 5 years
Pros – Great group of people who are very talented and smart work at NASDAQ.
Cons – No clear direction and very thin staff makes for difficulty in keeping things running up to par with how things should be.
Advice to Senior Management – Put money into more development and talent. It will pay off
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
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Regular "downsizing".
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Jerry Markbreit only wishes he could laugh about it.
Too many times during an unacceptable preseason for the men (and woman) in striped shirts, it has been hard to tell. Replacement officials have erred enough to conclude the integrity of the game will be compromised unless the NFL and NFL Referees Association agree on a new contract before the regular season opens Sept. 5.
It is one thing for a blown call in a Chargers-Cowboys exhibition game to cost the Cowboys a possession and likely points in a game they lost 28-20. It will resonate much more with NFL fans currently shrugging if a similar gaffe by overmatched officials costs their favorite team a regular-season victory — and perhaps a playoff spot.
Welcome to 2012, potentially the year of the asterisk in the NFL.
Figure it out, fellas. Consider your legacy, Commish. Roger Goodell's $9 billion enterprise pinching pennies with NFL officials smacks of hypocrisy from a league that has identified player safety as its No. 1 priority. A salary dispute that could be resolved if every NFL team paid $100,000 apiece unnecessarily risks injuries as much as outcomes.
For rules changes intended to protect players to work, they need to be enforced. To be enforced, they have to be identified. How can the NFL trust replacement refs to identify illegal hits they can't see? Replacement officials have adjusted to the NFL pace like someone driving in the Indianapolis 500 weeks after getting a learner's permit.
"It takes a qualified, good Division I official three or four years to get acclimated to the speed of the game in the NFL,'' said Markbreit, who lives in Skokie. "Now, you have seven guys who never have worked professional football and there's nobody to help them out there.''
The league wanted Markbreit's help. But he and eight fellow NFL officiating trainers, all non-union members, refused to work with replacement officials, so they were dismissed days after the June 3 lockout.
Markbreit anticipated a quick remedy given the NFLRA seeking what officials considered a reasonable 8 percent pay increase — top guys earn about $90,000 annually. The union says the NFL — the only major U.S. sports league still using part-time officials — offered a 2.85 percent raise despite NFL vice president Ray Anderson reportedly calling the proposed bumps from "5 to 11 percent."
What price, competency?
"At first I couldn't watch, but now I do because I see how inept they are,'' Markbreit said. "I know they're working their fannies off. But these people are not schooled in professional football. They don't know the rules. They can have supervisors on the sideline, they still can't officiate the game. The integrity of the game is everything.''
Call by call throughout August, it keeps disintegrating.
After a questionable pass-interference penalty against Bears cornerback Charles Tillman on the final play of the first quarter Friday night, officials incorrectly allowed the Giants to run an untimed play. The call so incensed mild-mannered Lovie Smith that his protestations caused players to be "taken aback,'' according to WBBM-AM 780.
Days before that blunder, Bears kicker Robbie Gould reflected growing player concerns by tweeting, "…the refs (are) clueless @nfl when did you stop caring about integrity of the game(?)''
The NFL cares about three-hour games, but who really expects those without a settlement? Markbreit recalled one replay review Sunday lasting five minutes. In Minnesota, Vikings punter Chris Kluwe concisely echoed a league consensus getting louder.
"Frankly," Kluwe tweeted, "it's kind of embarrassing."
Coaches Marvin Lewis and Jim Harbaugh have been the most outspoken to agree. Mockingly, Titans defensive coordinator Jerry Gray made "Three Stooges'' comparisons. Everybody in the league fears what seemingly everybody but those in the league office know: Disaster looms. Only a lack of confidence exceeds the officials' lack of competence, as Packers cornerback Charles Woodson noted.
"They haven't been very good," Woodson told USA Today. "Now, could they go through a season and get better? Sure. But there's going to be a lot of bad officiating until they catch up."
One bad officiating Sunday can ruin a team's season. More than one could harm the NFL's reputation.
"The commissioner said it would take a week for our guys to get ready for a game once they reach an agreement,'' Markbreit said. "Our guys could work tonight.''
A league in danger of losing something more important than money needed a resolution yesterday.
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PREVIEW: BPL teams look for winning 2013 start
Manchester United finished 2012 on top of the Premier League and will now be looking to extend their advantage in the first game of the new year.
Seven points separate Manchester United and fierce title rivals Manchester City.
Sir Alex Ferguson's men will want to keep it that way when they take on Wigan on Tuesday night, putting further pressure on their neighbours who face a tricky tie against Stoke City.
With 12 Premier League titles under his belt, Ryan Giggs knows all about what it takes to come out on top at the end of the season and the Welshman was quick to dispel talk of United running away with the championship at this point in the campaign.
"We were this many points ahead with fewer games to go last season and it wasn't enough," said Giggs.
"We are only halfway there and there are a lot of tough games to come.
"There is also the FA Cup and the Champions League, so there are other things to consider.
"We are in a great position and are happy where we are, but we know we have to carry on."
Premier League New Year's Day Team News
A bulk of the goals scored by the Red Devils has come off the boot of Robin van Persie, a player Roberto Mancini would definitely find useful when up against the defensive wall that is Stoke.
The Italian said: "We wanted Van Persie because we knew he could be an important player.
"He is totally different from our other strikers. We wanted him for the Champions League and for the Premier League.
"We were very close. We were sure he was for us but this did not happen and now we can do nothing.
"We were very close three or four months before he joined United."
Meanwhile, Chelsea, coming off the back of four consecutive victories will hope to keep their winning run going when they host strugglers Queens Park Rangers.
If the rumours surrounding Frank Lampard are proven true, it will be the Englishman's final month with the Champions League winners. Nonetheless, he remains totally focused on the team's domestic campaign.
"Of course we can still win the league, it is possible," said the midfielder.
"If we concentrate on ourselves, win our games, put a long run together and we can put pressure on Man United, who knows?"
"It's the position we've put ourselves in because we had a funny run in November and December and we were top and now all of a sudden we are adrift - but we can't look back at that," said Lampard.
"We have to be positive and the big change going into games is attitude with a desire not only to pass and move the ball but to get close and work for your team-mates.
"When we have that we can do what we want we need to carry on that starting with QPR."
Fellow London side Tottenham find themselves in the midst of a similarly good run of form after picking up seven points from the last nine on offer and manager Andres Villas-Boas hopes to bank on that to brush aside upcoming opponents Reading.
"We have to keep our home form going and it would be silly for us not to continue at this level, so it is a fixture in which we really want to get the three points to close finally the festive fixtures with three wins, hopefully, and one draw." Villas-Boas said.
"They [the Tottenham players] have been excellent. The December that we had shows exactly that.
"We had big, big results against difficult teams and the Europa League in between.
"If we manage to take this form into January, it would be excellent."
Arsenal will be poised to pounce on any slip-up by Tottenham when they travel to St Mary's Stadium to play Southampton, while Alan Pardew will urge Newcastle to pick up their first win in three games when they host high-flying Everton.
Having failed to pick up three points from any of their last four games, Fulham take on West Brom with hopes of starting the new year on the right note, whereas Sunderland will go into their fixture against Liverpool in a buoyant mood after defeating City in their previous game.
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup has kept mum about the possibility of unleashing star player Michu against Aston Villa after the Spaniard limped out with an ankle injury in their Boxing Day clash against Reading.
Elswhere, West Ham and Norwich have it all to play for at Upton Park, with Sam Allardyce's men primed to leapfrog their opponents in the league table should they record a victory.
Tuesday's Premier League Fixtures
West Brom vs Fulham
Clarke keeps Baggies ambition in check
West Ham vs Norwich
Allardyce wants Hammers to fight back
Hughton banking on Norwich character
Wigan vs Man United
Giggs not carried away by huge lead
Swansea vs Aston Villa
Laudrup backs Villa to end slump
Tottenham vs Reading
AVB wants Spurs to keep high standards
Fatigue the least of McDermott's fears
Man City vs Stoke
Southampton vs Arsenal
Walcott relishing Saints clash
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A Partisan Politician
Two years ago, the United States began looking for ways to become less polarized politically. Dissatisfied with the policies of the Bush administration, we sought a new beginning. Whether or not we had one, we did not go in the correct direction. We elected a president who campaigned on the promise of bringing people together. In debates, candidate Barack Obama touted his talent of having the ability to bring people who disagreed together. Since becoming president, President Obama has done the opposite. He has continued the polarization of political ideologies in this country. We have become less united.
After passing a boondoggle of a health care reform bill, President Obama has taunted the citizens of this country to be calm and stay more divided. After passing this train wreck of a bill, one would think the president of the United States would try to reach out to the people who disagreed with him and tried to bring them into the fold. But, Obama has done the opposite. Obama's idea of bringing people together is to forget your own ideas, and come over to his side. Oh yes, and don't forget to buy into all of the lies and misleading statements that the administration is trying to sell us.
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When health care reform monstrosity was passed, President Barack Obama drew a conclusion that the American people would suddenly begin to like it once they saw what was in it. According to recent polls, more than half of the citizens in America statistically, still oppose this bill and they do not like it.
President Obama's plans for the summer include touring the country and stopping off in Democratic districts with the need to continue to sell this bill to the American people. We still don't like it.
They Would Be Saying Thank You
In a recent speech, President Barack Obama once again demonstrated how arrogant and out of touch he is with mainstream America. It was also a very poor attempt at humor. It was not funny. He was speaking to a lefty group of core constituents who are probably in the 47% of America that does not pay taxes and can't get enough of a "stick it to the rich"attitude.
What is a joke is the fact that President Obama believes he can continue his progressive agenda by imposing more regulation and higher taxes on the American people. The tough fighting ahead and order to make a bunch of backroom deals and arm-twisting with health care reform bill along with his dwindling poll numbers, you'd think that President Obama would take a step back and perhaps listen to his constituency -- the American people.
Taxpayers Helped By Non-Passage of Bills
The state legislative year ended on Apr 22, 2010. As one commenter put it, it went out with a whimper and not a bang. For the most part, this is good news.
As part of Jim Doyle's lasting legacy, he was going to push through a Cap and Trade bill for only Wisconsin. Yes, my fellow citizens, Wisconsin alone was going to keep the globe from warming up and melting the polar ice caps if not to do anything more than set an example for the rest of the country. If this bill had been passed, there may not have been a volcano eruption in Iceland. Who should we blame for this? The Republicans? The previous administration? Now, how will the citizens of this fine state be subjected to higher utility bills? I guess WE energies will just have to keep going back to the public service commission to request rate increases just like they do every six weeks. Only using this method, the government doesn't get their larger share. They'll have to work a little harder to increase taxes now. As they say in sports, there's always next year.
Crime Pays; Pays Big
In a recent front-page story, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a news item about a citizen who effectively stole $700,000 from the Wisconsin Shares program. This is a state run program that shells out money to just about everyone who completes the paperwork. You don't have to do anything at all to earn it other than to from the government and the taxpaying citizens of the state. The cases that have come to light have shown that there are no consequences criminally for cashing in on this generous program. After all, it's for the children.
I don't know the name of the citizen, and frankly I don't care. While it is doesn't matter. It's all the cases being handled and reported which makes it worth mentioning. This scum bucket noble citizen steals $700,000 (that's the amount he was caught with) and his only crime is that he did not report it when he declared bankruptcy. Being that the non reporting was the only crime and not the taking of the $700,000 from the taxpayers, he only has to spend six months in jail. Does that make it a felony? Maybe not. As an added bonus for the entrepreneurship, this model citizen gets to keep all but $40,000. So after a six-month jail sentence, he gets to come back to $640,000 of it plus whatever debts had been discharged in his bankruptcy case. That sounds like a pretty good deal. The newspaper didn't even mention the best part, he gets first rate health care coverage while he's in jail. There just isn't a downside to this.
The Summer of Division
You may have lived through the Summer of love. You may have watched the Summer of George. What will 2010 bring? If it's anything like the direction that the country has been going in the past year and a half, we are in for finger-pointing, name-calling, hate mongering and polarization.
Two years after looking for a new direction in the government, one that is more cohesive, cooperative and cordial, we have gotten just the opposite. We elected a president and Congress based on the promises that they are going to work together with the other party to get America on the right path. What a mistake that was. We elected a president and Congress that has been more divisive and more polarized and has let us in the wrong direction. Yet the speed to get in the wrong direction has picked up.