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Nobody Remembers Democratic Senator Huey Long
Nobody Remembers
—-Huey Long (D. Senator from Louisiana), because our schools make darn sure our kids don't know much about anything…but thanks to YouTube, we can visit the early seeds of Obama's democratic/Marxist philosophy, made long ago…and here Huey delivers it with a lot of what looks like drunken flair, delivered with down-home cornporn passoion…The utopian Marxist dream of redistributing the wealth is displayed here on steroids. It's pretty funny to watch.
Here's some more of what Huey said on the radio in 1934:
Now, my friends, it makes no difference who is President or who is senator. America is for 125 million people and the unborn to come. We ran Mr. Roosevelt for the Presidency of the United States because he promised to us by word of mouth and in writing;1. That the size of the big man's fortune would be reduced so as to give the masses at the bottom enough to wipe out all poverty: and 2. That the house of labor would be so reduced that all would share in the work to be done and in consuming the abundance mankind produced. There are thousands of share-our-wealth societies organized in the United States now. (In 2012 it's just one society of Democratics)
Huey went on to suggest that all the multimillionaires and billionaires wealth shall be reduced so that nobody had more than one million.
"But $3 to $4 million is enough for any one person and his children and his children's children. We propose to limit the amount any one man can earn in one year or inherit to $1 million to the person."
Huey said that with the money they got from the rich
"We could provide a home and the comforts of home with such common conveniences as radio and automobile, for every family in America, free of debts. We guarantee food and clothing and employment for everyone who should work by shortening the hours of labor to 30 hours per week. Provide education, to everyone, including college. We would give a pension to all persons about sixty years of age. And would grant a moratorium on all debts which people owe that they cannot pay.
(Nobody says that already do that here in St. Louis. Every year, any one who got a ticket in St. Louis can line up and for $5.00, get their fines dismissed!)
Tell me…isn't this exactly what they've been trying to do for the last decade? Someday when our deficit becomes to big for our children to pay, are they just going take GE's profits and spread it around?
By the way…just so you know and do not remember: Huey Long was assassinated….
Makes you wonder if Obama just learned about Huey.
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What a way to get everyone in marrying spirit by pitting them against each other in a set of challenges?! Haha! Love it! All the details below.
Carrie and Sean's Wedding Field Day
From the moment we stepped foot on the grounds of our wedding venue, Mayacamas Ranch, we knew it was made for fun and games. Plus, our friends share our love of silly competitions, so we knew it would be perfect. The idea just kind of came to us that first day – elementary school-style field day.
The idea grew and grew and we realized it would also be a great way for different groups of friends and family to meet each other before the wedding. We wanted to keep the competitions silly (i.e. the javelin was made of foam) so that everyone could compete, but also make the stakes high enough for our ultra-competitive friends (who knew the trophy was going to be a plastic vase from the dollar store filled with beer?).
The two of us, along with our parents and other family members, were referees and all took our jobs very seriously. One team was disqualified for secretly stuffing the foam javelin with a rock. Others lost points for arguing with the judges (hey, it was our day).
We spent a lot of time planning (in Sean's case, exponentially more than for our actual wedding), and it wasn't easy. It took a lot of coordination, shopping, keeping everyone's attention after a couple hours of drinking, etc., but it was totally worth it. Field Day could not have turned out better. Our family and friends loved it and there were a couple of moments we will never forget, such as when Sean's friends tipped over during the canoe race.
The theme of the day: "Play like children before we officially become grown ups."
The events were:
- Partner water balloon toss
- Foam Javelin toss for distance
- Bozo buckets
- Race around cones with golf ball balancing on spoon
- Swimming race in the pool (the one actual athletic event)
- Dive for plastic pool toys
- Canoe race (doubles)
- Sponge relay
- The Eliminator. For any guys whose wives are showing them wedding blogs, yes that Eliminator from American Gladiators where the "Gladiator" or team in this case that's behind has to start later but whoever finishes first wins the whole competition. This was important because even if a team was way behind, they still had a chance at the end.

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On Oct. 10, at 6:30 p.m., sunset, Thomas D. Wuethrich and Karen Thorkildsen exchanged romantic wedding vows in a private ceremony at the location of Seven Lakes on the second tee of the golf course overlooking the fountain in the background. Red, yellow, and white rose petals surrounded the couple as they stood at the white podium to exchange their vows. Best man was David B. Kull. Matron of honor was Kathleen Kull.
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Question: I'm involved in a project to design a database schema and some of the tables are expected to have millions of rows and a large amount of LOB data (a mixture of binary and character). I know there are a bunch of options for storing this data but I'm struggling with how to choose between them. Can you help?
Answer: The answer to this question depends on the size of the data and how it will be used.
There are two kinds of data type for storing LOB data – true LOB data types that can store more than 8000 bytes and the limited data types that can store up to 8000 bytes – and of course there are pros and cons for each type.
If your data is going to be less than 8000 bytes then it makes sense to use one of the limited data types – (n)varchar (1-8000) or varbinary (1-8000). When the data type becomes really small (say less than 5 bytes), you need to decide whether to use a fixed-length type – (n)char – instead of a variable length type, to avoid the two-byte overhead that comes with variable-length columns. If you need to store 2-byte character set data, you'll have to use nchar or nvarchar.
These data types are always stored 'in-row' – i.e. inline with the row they are part of on the same data file page (except for the special case when the row grows beyond 8060 bytes, but that's beyond the scope of this answer). This means that the rows may become quite large and so very few rows can be stored per data file page. If the LOB data is not going to be used very often, this reduces the data density of the columns that are going to be used frequently – meaning more data file pages will have to be read and stored in memory to process the columns being used and lowering the efficiency of data processing operations.
You may decide, if this is the case, to store the seldom-used LOB columns in a separate table, and JOIN to them when they are needed, or to store them in true LOB columns that are stored off-row (i.e. in separate data file pages, but still in the same table). This increases the data density of the commonly-used data because the data rows are much smaller and many more can fit on each data file page – at the expense of extra overhead to access the off-row (or separate-table) LOB data. It's a trade-off decision you need to make.
Of course, if the data is usually larger than 8000 bytes, you have no choice but to use one of the true LOB columns – (n)varchar (max) or varbinary (max) – (n)text and image have been deprecated and should not be used in new designs. You have the same data density dilemma here too as both of these types can be stored 'in-row' or 'off-row'. There is the additional consideration of index maintenance operations with true LOB columns – in all releases until SQL Server 2012, the presence of a true LOB column in a table prevents online index operations on the table's clustered index. This may force you to store the true LOB columns in a separate table and JOIN to them when needed.
If you need to store data larger than 2GB per value, or require very fast access to the data then you may consider the FILESTREAM data type as well. You can read about it in the whitepaper I wrote: FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008
I've really just touched the tip of the iceberg here. I go into more detail in a blog post I wrote a couple of years ago but this should have given you an idea of the considerations and trade-offs you need to make.


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1) BJ jokes whenever I mention the Blue Jackets
2) Reasonable analysis of the Avs and things that effect the Avs
3) Mucho hate for that whiny bitch-ass coward, Dion Phaneuf.
Today is a special day, because I am combining 2) and 3) to give you a reasonable analysis why that whiny bitch-ass coward, Dion Phaneuf, is a whiny bitch-ass coward. Maybe I'll even throw in a BJ joke to complete the Holy Grail of Jibbles Blogging.
I think the best way to go about this is to prove, with evidence, that Dion Phaneuf is, indeed, a cowardly jack-ass. It's already assumed, as evidenced by Greg Wyshanski's NHL closer on Deadspin today. Here on this site I have mentioned this as fact because it's one of those things that just seems like they don't actually need proved, it's so completely obvious that anyone with half a brain could see this. Even when Joe @MHH inexplicably gives him some respect, he has to in the context of saying he's a whiny bitch-ass coward, or some variant of. However some people, like those that follow the Eastern conference, only get exposed to Dion Phaenuf's blinding douchebaggery every once in a while. Then there's the poor soul who made a poor choice for a blog name and is now stuck with it for life, kind of like that college freshman who decided to get that tattoo of Tweety on her lower stomach, got pregnant and now it looks like Big Bird after a serious meth bender. (Unfortunately she has recently gone on sabbatical from blogging, but the tattoo, er, blog name remains. It's too bad it's a good blog with a bad name).
A few weeks ago the jibblewife came up with a very astute way of observing Cody McLeod doing some of the crap that in general makes him a hockey uncle-fucker. These included: Fights with people who don't usually fight, taking runs at guys for no apparent reason. I think this is an excellent criteria, mainly because only a coward will fight someone who doesn't fight, but backs down to people who, you know, might actually kick his ass. I think taking runs/cheap shots at players, especially players who aren't known to be pests, is a general measure of basic spinelessness. I think those are two acceptable criteria to prove that Dion Phaneuf is, in fact, a whiny bitch-ass coward.
Fights: In Adrian Dater's recent blog entry, where he calls Dion Phaneuf a "punk" (which is a synonym for whiny bitch-ass coward if you are under the constraint of editors, word counts and profanity regulations which I, thankfully, am not) there is actually a decent defense of Dion Phaenuf in the comments:
This BLOG is a joke. Phaneuf a coward? Hides behind his shield? The guy has 9 fights this year (that is more than any AVS player with the exception of lappy and McLeod) and still averages over 26 minutes of ice time a game (2nd in the league!)...A fair point, Phaneuf has 9 fights this season. Let's see who he has fought this season, and how much those guys have fought all season. (For reference Dion Phaneuf is 6'3" 215lbs)
Stephane Villeux (6'1", 181 lbs) (MIN)- 3 fights in '07-'08
Mattius Ohlund (6'2", 220 lbs) (VAN)- 2 fights
Andreas Lilja (6'3", 230 lbs) (DET)- 3 fights
Keith Tkachuck (6'2", 225 lbs) (StL)- 1 fight
Travis Moen (6'2", 211 lbs) (ANH)- 7 fights
Shane Doan (6'2", 216 lbs) (PHX)- 1 fight
Ethan Moreau(x2) (6'2", 220 lbs) (EDM)- 3 fights
Todd Bertuzzi (6'3", 245 lbs) (ANH)- 3 fights
Wow those are some major heavyweights right there! Andreas Lilja and Ethan Moreau(x2)! I mean that's a lot like Boogard and Parros. If you take out their fights with Dion Phaneuf, his 9 opponent's have a whopping 15 fights combined this season, 6 of them belonging to Travis Moen. In Phaneuf's defense he is at least fighting people his size.
Now fighting people who don't normally fight isn't quite enough to make you a coward, it makes you pretty pathetic, but not quite enough to drive you over that edge to yellow-bellied bona fide whiny bitch-ass coward. No that takes picking on people smaller than you. So let's take a look at how some of those fights actually started:
Nov. 27th - vs Andreas Lilja:Typical whiny bitch-ass coward play. Phaneuf tries to make a nice open-ice hit on an, admittedly, head down Jiri Hudler. But the douche inside Phaneuf takes over and he leaves his skates to make the hit (the 52 second/53 second mark is the best view of him leaving his skates, oh and Stars fans should point to this when they argue Steve Otts recent suspension by the way) so Lilja, that notorious sherrif, comes and protects his teammate.
Here's another one by Phaneuf:
Again leaving his feet to take out Duncan Keith, another one of those notorious brutes.
Here's the one against Villieux:Again look how he elbows Foy's head into the glass form behind. And now the classic cowardly bitch-ass hit on Arnason that Lappy resonds to. Just to remind everyone this was done in a meaningless game on the last day of last season when Calgary had wrapped up a playoff spot:
And just to prove it here's one that didn't result in a fight, but was still cowardly and dirty:
Now that he may be dating Elisha Cuthbert, he is a prime candidate to end up on this blog, as soon as someone photo's them in public.
The prosecution rests, I believe that I have proved beyond a shadow of reasonable doubt, that Dion Phaneuf = whiny bitch-ass coward.


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Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It's a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs.
This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren't selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I was the judge. It was mostly painful. I'm not saying the companies were bad – many were not. But their presentations were not well prepared, not well delivered and lacking in a compelling story that captured the imagination of the audience (or me).
So I thought I'd write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News. I'll put up the video when they post it on their website.
1. Show some energy! – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation. You're not lecturing to a college class, you're not at a cocktail party and you're not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. You're on stage! People are sitting in their chairs for too long – most of them squirming. Many of them have their iPhones and laptops ready to command their attention the moment that you start sucking. You're on stage – act like it! Get out of your comfort zone. You need to be an order of magnitude more perky than you would feel comfortable with in a normal conversation.
Project your voice. Use your hands. Don't mumble. Speak quickly sometimes. Speak slowly to emphasize a point. This is called "vocal variety" and it's critical. Speaking in a monotone voice is, well, monotonous. A friend of mine once said about public speaking, "it's far more interesting to the audience if you're loud and evocative than if you're actually making great points." This is so true. Even better when you're: loud, evocative and have compelling content.
If this isn't naturally you then you need to learn it. Go join your local Toastmasters. It's the best way to learn. It's how I did. Or take an acting class. No joke. If you care about being a compelling presenter you need to work on it if it doesn't already come naturally.
2. Tell a story – Every great presentation tells a story. Stories have starts, middles and ends. They are human and touch emotions. The bring your product to life. They are not buzzwords or bullet points. Why do people think that buzzwords are going to interest audiences?
I always tell people that if you're not creative in how you tell stories the simplest way to do so is by telling "a day in the life" of your potential user. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Help us to get to know him or her. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they'll have when they're using your product.
NEVER lead with features. No one gives a shite about your features other than your product manager and your developers. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you're demo'ing. Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. Don't: show us every single feature – we don't care. Don't: tell us, "and now I enter my name, and then I put in my email address, and then I can pull in my social graph through Facebook Connect, and then then I can select the button here to Tweet out my actions on Twitter." Zzzzzzzzz.
3. Learn how to structure – Telling a story is one thing. But make sure that you're structured in the way you communicate. You need to break down your message into key components. It is generally best if you have a "theme" or "thesis" which if the main point you want to get across. You then need sub-themes or "supporting evidence" to reinforce your key theme. These are weaved through your story.
If you're not naturally talented at good, logical structures you may consider purchasing The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto. She wrote the book that inspired the way that people at McKinsey and Accenture do presentations. OK, hold back on your consulting humor. But seriously her book is spot on.
3. Know your audience – I always try to find out something about the audience before I present. I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. Before the event I wanted to find out what I could about the students. I found out that they were older than most typical MBA programs. They had more advanced degrees. 50% of them were interested in life sciences, 50% in tech (e.g. much more focused on life sciences than most audiences where I present).
I was the keynote for a dinner. I walked around to a few tables and I asked students what would interest them. I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences.
My choices – talk about the VC industry and where it is heading (which is what the dean asked me to cover), talk about how to start companies (which is partly what Lada Rasochova, the director of the entrepreneurship program asked me to cover), talk about how to get into VC (which a few students asked me to cover) or give advice on what the Rady School's venture fund should think about when investing (the event was a kick off for this new fund).
My constituencies were broad and I felt like going deep into one single area would have bored large groups of the people on any topic I picked. So I decided at the last minute to do a very quick & punchy version of all of them. I had prepared notes in advance for any of the topics because I felt so confused before coming on my remit. I think (?) it went down pretty well. Usually you can tell when it does and when it doesn't.
I also sometimes start a speech by asked for people to raise their hands if they fit a certain demographic. "Raise your hand if you're an entrepreneur, raise your hand if you plan to raise venture capital in the next year, raise your hand if you're a service provider to the startup industry," etc. I can then change my focus based on the results. But ONLY do this if you plan to adjust your approach. If you don't think you're skilled enough to do it then asking my make you more nervous at the last minute than you need to be. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like.
4. Be unique / memorable – The stand out presentation at the actual Twiistup event was Geodelic evidenced by their winning the "audience award" for best presentation. The CEO, Rahul Sonnad, played the ukulele and sang a song about what their product did. He did a great parody of a heavy Indian accent. They had slides with moving images and music. They planted fake questions in the audience with Geodelic team members posing as normal audience members shouting out something like, "can't you just tell us what this means in normal words?"
OK, it was WAY over the top and I don't recommend it for most people. Rahul and Co. obviously have a great sense of humor and pulled it off. But for you it is worth thinking about what you can do in more humble ways to be unique – memorable. Remember that at many of these shows you'll be up against 9 or 10 other companies that have also been selected (or in the case of TC50 – 49 other companies!). They all start to blend together. Do SOMETHING that makes you stand out. For almost everybody – DO NOT attempt humor. If you're not already the funniest person you know in social situations you're not likely to be funny on stage. Nothing is worse than bombing at jokes on stage.
5. KISS – (keep it simple, stupid) The goal of the presentation is just to give the audience a basic sense of what you do and why it matters. Don't confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. They simply need to know: who has a problem? how are you solving this problem? why does this matter? how big of a problem is it – really?
So I recommend that you GREATLY simplify your message. The conventional wisdom is that the audience can only remember 3 simple things about any presentation 10 minutes after they've seen it. I think 3 might be an exaggeration. You're there to leave an impression – not to educate. It's OK to throw in some facts & figures that people won't remember because giving people numbers helps them understand the magnitude of the problem you're solving.
6. Summarize – The old line about presenting was, "tell us what you're going to tell us, tell us and then tell us what you told us." If you literally do this it will be very boring. But the core idea is right. If you want the audience to remember what you covered you need to be slightly repetitive with your key take-away message. I like to have an "anchor line" which is my big take-away point and have it repeated three times throughout the presentation.
Example: you're a fitness tracking company like FitOrbit. You might say early on, "75% of Americans are overweight. They've tried diet plans but nothing works. In fact, they spent $2.4 billion on such plans last year. You manage what you measure so the key to solving the problem is getting people used to tracking their performance. You need to make it easy. We're offering an online community that connects personal trainers and people who want to get fit." Then you go deeper into the problem and the solution. You remind people that it's a big industry and people need to get online and track their eating and fitness to be successful. Connecting to a trainer helps keep you in line.
Closing line: "FitOrbit is an online community for the $2.4 billion diet & fitness industry that connects people who want to be in better shape with trainers who can help them online. Remember, you only manage what you measure."
All numbers above made up. Actual lines used are not from FitOrbit, they're from me just for an example. The point is – you need to revisit your key theme repeatedly for it to stick and you NEED to close with it. Don't make the audience think too hard – spoon feed them.
7. Make it visual – Bullet point were the worst thing ever created for group presentations. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. If you're going to do that why not just print out your presentation and leave it on my seat. Far more expedient. You presentation should have almost no bullet points. The way to capture an audience's attention is visually. Pictures set the image, your voice tells what would have been in the bullet points.
You need to memorize what you're going to say when each image comes up. If you wants some words to support the image – fine. But make them sparse and make the B-I-G! If you really get nervous and are afraid you'll forget your lines have one 3X5 cue card in your hands for each slide. Don't write sentences on the – only key words to help you remember what you're going to say.
One strategy I often employ. I often do two versions of my presentations – one that has mostly images and one with a lot of supporting text. I use the latter if I send out the deck after the presentation. Sending out a follow up deck with a lot of images is silly – no one remembers the "meat." But writing lots of words on a slide you put up on a big screen so that later people will be able to understand what you said is also suboptimal. My dual approach solves both needs.
8. For fawk sake, practice! – It was clear many of the people who presented at Twiistup's Pre-Demo Night hadn't practiced enough. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand. You actually need to do a dry run in front of friends, colleagues and others. People don't like to do this because it feels funny "pretending" to deliver a presentation. That's not you. You're going to read out your points like it is for real. You're not going to stop and go out of character and say, "oh, that didn't sound right. I'm gonna do this page over from the start." You wouldn't say that on stage.
There is only one way to know how your presentation will go – to do it in advance. Get real feedback from your listeners. Ask them to be harsh. Better that you know now than in front of 300 people.
9. Stick to your fracking time – If you've been given 6 minutes then plan a presentation that can be done in 5. Trust me – whatever amount of time you've gone over in practice it will be longer when you're on stage. And if you're done a minute early – bravo! The audience will love you. The best way to manage to a time is: a) practice with a stop watch and b) have less slides than you think you'll need. There is nothing worse than a presentation that runs over the end of the allotted time. Oh wait, there is. A presentation that is CUT OFF because it ran long. And you don't get to finish your points or summarize at the end. Don't be this person.
10. Have a "Plan B" – the show must go on – As was evidenced at the UCLA event and at many, many events I've been to – there are times when you have technical difficulties. The show must go on. Have a plan b that you can fall back on. Where you planning to demo? Fine, but if it isn't working you need to call an audible. If it's a really important show there's an easy solution. Have a PowerPoint deck with screen shots that you can walk through. Simply say, "Obviously I preferred to do a live demo but I have a deck with screen shots just in case this happened. Whew."
11. Have someone else drive the demo – Don't try to be super human. Have somebody else drive the demo. There's nothing worse than the presenter constantly stopping their speaking to concentrate on typing text, clicking on tabs or futzing with the computer. Have another person that drives the demo. There actions need to be scripted so that you know exactly what's going to happen. They obviously need to practice just as much as you do. If they do something out of sequence don't hesitate to politely instruct them. Tell them in advance to listen for your cues in case this happens.
Some final "no no's"
– "how's everybody doing today?" – lots of people start with stupid chatter like that at the start of their presentations. It adds nothing. You're not a comedian warming up the audience. Get right down to business. I hate time wasters at the start of a presentation. You're already trying to stick to a rigid time plan.
– how many of you "X"? – OK, I already said above that you can ask if people are entrepreneurs, investors, etc. But please don't say things like "how many of you have ever had problems with Outlook?" or "How many of you are frustrated with Facebook?" or some similar line to prove your point. You never know how the audience will react. If you don't get the response you expect it ruins your tempo and the audience will start to question your premise. The risks outweigh the benefits.
– don't turn around and read the screen – ooooh. Big pet peeve. If you don't put up bullet points this will never happen to you! But it looks really stupid PLUS your voice projects in the wrong direction. Many, many people make this mistake. Yuck.
– never say, "I know this slide is really busy and hard to read" – if it's so busy and hard to read then WTF did you put it in your deck? Are you a moron? If you practiced you sure would realize that nobody could read it. People say this all the time. I cringe when I see it happen. It definitely is an IQ test thing for me.
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Jokabofe? did I spell that correctly?Otherwise, welcome new and powerful overlord type.
...so it doesn't suck as much as the Lakers (what round will they choke in this year Matt?).
Hopefully that's around the time that my Raiders finally wake up as well!
Dave's going to refresh my memory in a moment here as to who his NBA team is. It's not the Sonics though, I know that much. He's not even from Seattle, so I find his Seahawk fandom a bit curious... Care to explain D.?
EDIT: OK, looks like Dave's off the hook for the NBA. Just baseball, football, and hockey. He's a N.Y. Rangers fan though, so have at 'em!
...but hey, at least my new york yankees make up for a little bit of that
I see no Ewok avatar so he's good.
Just remembered something I wanted to ask you:Is that just a repro vintage Rocket Fett you've got in your collection, or is it the real deal...? I'd have to assume the former (just due to it's insane price), which would still be pretty cool. Where'd you get it?
Quote from: jokabofe on November 8, 2003, 01:28 AM...but hey, at least my new york yankees make up for a little bit of that As for the Seahawks explanation - I thought only girls picked teams based on them having prettier colors or designs than the other teams...
unfortunately, it is a repro that i bought off of ryan (bantha5) on the 'scum forums. ... ryan does great work and is a great guy to deal with.
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The crop of quarterbacks in this year's draft class has widely been criticized for its supposed lack of talent. There isn't an Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III in this year's class and every quarterback in this draft has significant holes that can be poked in their games.
But is the talent truly as bad as everyone is suggesting? Buffalo Bills general manager Buddy Nix tried to claim the talent isn't actually that poor and that a quarterback wouldn't be a reach in the top 10. Now a member of the New York Jets front office is echoing those statements. According to Conor Orr of the Star-Ledger, Jets scouting director Jeff Bauer doesn't believe the quarterback class is nearly as poor as advertised.
"There's some good quarterbacks out there, you can see a lot of these guys coming in and playing and having very successful careers," Bauer said.
The Jets have done their due diligence with several of the quarterbacks in this year's draft class. They've hosted E.J. Manuel, Geno Smith and Zac Dysert and also met with Ryan Nassib, Matt Barkley and Mike Glennon.
"Obviously we've studied the quarterback class and still are studying the quarterback class," said Bauer. "Obviously we can't say where our quarterbacks are ranked, that wouldn't be prudent of us, but there are some quarterbacks who will come out and play in this league, and they're going to start. If that's at the No. 9 pick, we can't say."
Of course with the draft set to get underway next Thursday, trusting anything NFL personnel guys say at this point in the process is a difficult proposition in itself. For a class that some say doesn't deserve to have a quarterback selected in the first round, only time will be able to truly judge the validity of the passers that will land on NFL rosters by the end of next week.


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The Christian Community Development Fund was formed of a theory.
The Christian Community Development Fund was formed of a theory.
A proposition that there was an unmet need for a bridge from the community to the elderly and those on fixed incomes.
Whether that bridge was a wheelchair ramp, assistance with a utility bill or a visit to ensure safety and good health.
More than a decade later, the theory has proved prescient.
More than 600 homes rehabilitated or renovated.
An ongoing partnership with the Gulf Coast Workforce Board and Washington Improvement Group established the North Port St. Joe Community Resource Center which offers a wide range of assistance, from utility bill assistance to food to job assistance.
Two times a year a group of students from the University of Auburn arrives in the community to perform home rehabs, interact with the community through church and faith.
Not only do they boost the community spiritually, physically, emotionally, they do so economically.
Two years ago, during the four days in March the students were here, they spent, conservatively said Diana Sealey Burkett, executive director of the CCDF, whose staff must track such items, $32,000 in the community on rent, food, gas and other living expenses.
And the student count has grown since that March.
The CCDF has accomplished all that on a shoestring.
With a staff of four, the non-profit has relied almost exclusively on grants, the largest from the Jessie Ball DuPont Foundation.
There are also dollars from the Tapper Foundation, Alfred I. DuPont Foundation and donations from the Lions Club, Centennial Bank, First Baptist Church, Oak Grove Church and others.
�Centennial Bank is committed to the local community and we pride ourselves on building strong community relationships,� said Port St. Joe Centennial Bank manager Hiram Nix. �We are honored and proud to support the Christian Community Development Fund and the work they do in our local community.�
But to rehab 600 houses, to serve those coming to the Resource Center located on Peters Street in Port St. Joe, the organization heavily relies on volunteer labor to do much of the heavy lifting.
�We saw a need in this community to help the elderly and those on fixed incomes,� Burkett said. �Primarily, we wanted to help keep them in their homes. I think we fly under the radar.
�Our organization is not only helping people � but we contribute to the economy. The money is spent locally. We help local residents.�
As the organization has bloomed, its reach has extended, from exclusively Port St. Joe to now serving folks from Wewahitchka to Mexico Beach and places in between.
Between November 2012 and June 2013 the Community Resource Center has assisted 220 families with utility bills, referred 50 people to the First Methodist Church Care Closet for clothes and referred 25 people to the Lions Club for eye care.
The Center has cooperative relationships with the Gulf County Health Department and Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf in identifying medical care for the needy, according to Midge Askew, an emergency assistance coordinator at the Community Resource Center.
�We have been very successful working with the community to find furniture and appliances for those in need,� she added.
The end of the Christmas holiday will bring planning for projects to be undertaken in 2014, with the first key window the spring � in March � arrival of Auburn students.
Burkett will also begin an outreach campaign to promote the community aspect of her organization as it sees the Jessie Ball DuPont Grant wind down in the next several years.
Changes in how the state funds and distributes dollars for the State Housing Initiative Program (SHIP) have also impacted the CCDF, which has worked through local SHIP program coordinators to fund many rehabilitation projects.
During the first quarter of 2014, Burkett said she will speak to any organization or civic group that will provide an audience in order to bring more local economy stability to an organization that has stabilized so many over more than 10 years.
Burkett said she always envisioned CCDF that did not have to rely so heavily on filling out extensive and time-consuming grant paperwork each year to survive, an organization that could receive as good as it gives locally.
�I really need the community and businesses to step up,� Burkett said. �I need Gulf County and Mexico Beach to pull together to keep this program going. My hope is that the community will pick up some of the slack.
�I think it is a good time to ask the community to step up and help us with what we haven�t asked for in 10 years.�


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Beast Wars Transformers Icebird Toy Review
The evil Megatron has developed an experimental anti-conversion virus with which he plans to win the Beast Wars! This toxin infects its host and prevents the ability to change into Bear Mode - eventually causing permanent shutdown. But something went wrong...when unleashed on several Fuzors, it caused a reconfiguration of their conversion abilities, trapping their Bear Modes inside two different Owl Modes. Now, bewildered by new and potent extrasensory powers plus the ability to change into two ferocious animals, these Transformers join together to form a renegade band of warriors. This is...Mutant Beast Wars!
Name: Icebird
Function: Mutant Beast Commander
Motto: "He who fights with monsters should take care lest he become a monster."
Sage-like leader of the mutants. Very wise and powerful. Possesses colossal size and strength in bear mode - silent aerial abilities in owl mode. Resentful of his lost ability to convert to Bear Mode. Believes mission is to nullify technology completely and evolve into a purely organic existence. Does not fight with the Maximals, but believes they are a necessary component of the organic evolution. Can communicate telepathically, become invisible, read minds and shut down machinery at will. Views Optimus Primal's heroics with forgiving tolerance. Greatly feared by Megatron.
|Strength: 8.4
|Intelligence: 8.9
|Speed: 7.9
|Endurance: 7.5
|Rank: 10.0
|Courage: 9.0
|Firepower: 8.9
|Skill: 9.0
- On Card
- Scan of Card
- Scan of Insert
- Owl Mode
- Owl Mode (Side)
- Owl Mode (Back)
- Owl Mode (Close up)
- Owl Mode (Angle view)
- Owl Mode (Mutant symbol)
- Owl Mode (Panel open)
- Mutant Head
- Bear Mode
- Bear Mode (Side)
- Bear Mode (Back)
- Bear Mode (Forward View)
- Bear Mode (Angle view)
- Bear Mode (Close up of head)
Icebird is the leader of the group of "Mutant" Beast Wars toys to be released in the 2000 line. This concept is explained above, but adds a nice link between the Beast Wars and Beast Machines toy universes. Beast Machines involves Megatron beginning his new assault on the Transformers by using a anti-transformation virus, and the virus that affects the Mutant Beast Wars appears to be a predecessor to that virus.
Polar Bear Mode:
In polar bear mode, Icebird is mostly an off white color. His sides are a dull metallic grey, which is a bit of a disadvantage since it stands out so much against the white. It would have been better to make this side of the side panels white and leave the metallic grey on the other side for the owl mode. The upper part of his chest has some yellow and dark green patterns on them which are parts that will carry over to the owl mode. His claws and bear eyes are bright red and his teeth are a metallic blue grey. If you open up the mouth, he has a tongue in there painted pink, a nice touch of detail.
Icebird is much more accurate to a genuine polar bear than his predecessor, Polar Claw. However, a good deal of license was taken with the design. First, the proportions are a off for his legs. Polar bear front paws and legs are not generally that much larger than the rear ones, but here the difference is enormous. Also, polar bears do have claws, but now huge bright red ones. Keeping in mind that this is a "Mutant" however helps explain the discrepencies.
In polar bear mode, Icebird has thirteen points of articulation. This includes his head, mouth and tail. On his upper right forearm you will see the Mutator symbol in silver chrome. You can lift that section to reveal mechanical detailing on the inside. Fold down the bear head and lift up his back panel to reveal a robot head representing the "trapped soul" of the robot inside. Note: Both the robot head and the mechanical detailing under the arm panel are dull metallic grey here, but the prototype at Toy Fair had red coloring for these parts instead. However, I believe that was only for the prototype.
Transformation to Owl mode:
Begin Icebird's transformation by folding out the sides of the bear to reveal the owl wings. Fold the panels out to completely expand the wings. Next, straighten out the bear forearms and rotate half of the claws around to form the owl feet. Now fold out the halves of the bear body. Open up the panel on the back of the bear and fold out the rear owl feathers while folding in the bear head. Flip out the rear side feathers. Rotate the rear bear feet around and straighten out the rear legs so the feet point down. Close up the halves of the main body. Fold down the polar bear tail on top of the owl head and Icebird is now in owl mode.
Owl mode:
In owl mode, Icebird retains the color scheme from the polar bear mode. Now however, more dull metallic grey shows via his wings and owl face. Dark metallic green details are used on the wings to make the feathers more distinctive. In this mode, Icebird has fifteen points of articulation. A mechanism is built into his owl head which allows one to make his beak move by pressing down on the polar bear tail on the top of his head. The transformation instructions were not well detailed for this section, but it does function.
Overall, Icebird is a very cool toy and combines two great animals. A
Additional Notes (June 2012):
The "Mutants" are not the most loved part of "Transformers" lore. Most people either don't like them or outright ignore them. My understanding (years after the fact) is that these figures were originally meant to be part of the "Animorphs" toy line, but when that line was cancelled they were quickly moved over to the "Transformers" toy line with some retooling (robot heads in place of human heads etc.). I'm glad they did make it as they're really interesting. Icebird works very well since both his Owl Modes feature colors that can work for both critters (as opposed to a green wolverine). He remains one of my favorite characters to this day partly due to his two modes and his tech specs. This is one powerful Transformer!


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OLE DB Provider for Exchange
The Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Exchange exposes data stored in a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Web Store in tabular form. This data can be queried using an SQL-like language that is similar to the SQL subset supported by the OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Indexing Service.
Microsoft SQL Server distributed queries can be used to query data from the Exchange Web Store through this OLE DB Provider and can be joined to tables in SQL Server. The Exchange Web Store should be located in the same computer as SQL Server. Web Stores located in other computers cannot be accessed by using the OLE DB Provider for Exchange.
The OLE DB Provider for Exchange is available as part of Microsoft Exchange 2000.
To create a linked server against an Exchange Web Store
Use 'exoledb.DataSource.1' as the provider_name argument, and the URL corresponding to the root folder of the Web Store as the data_source argument of the sp_addlinkedserver system stored procedure:
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'exchange', 'Exchange OLE DB provider', 'exoledb.DataSource.1', 'file:\\.\backofficestorage\localhost\public folders'
For Windows authenticated logins, there are no login mappings required. The logins are impersonated by SQL Server when it connects to the OLE DB Provider for Exchange. For SQL Server authenticated logins, set up login mappings by supplying the user name and password, as required.
The following restrictions apply when querying data from the OLE DB Provider for Exchange:
Only pass-through queries are supported. Four-part names cannot be used against the Exchange OLE DB provider.
All character columns from the OLE DB Provider for Exchange are exposed to SQL Server as ntext columns. To perform comparisons against these columns, the columns must be converted explicitly to nvarchar by using the CONVERT function.
Multivalued columns from the Exchange provider with OLE DB DBTYPE DBTYPE_VECTOR are not supported from SQL Server distributed queries.
To access data in the Exchange Web Store from SQL Server, through a linked server as previously established
Create views that retrieve the required properties as columns from the Web Store folder of interest. The view definition converts string columns to nvarchar so that they can be filtered through conditions in the WHERE clause.
For example, let the Web Store contain a folder named Contacts that contains a list of contacts. The following script creates a view against the Contacts folder and retrieves the first name, last name, company name, and date of birth of each contact.
CREATE VIEW Contacts AS SELECT convert(nvarchar(30),"urn:schemas:contacts:sn") LastName, Convert(nvarchar(30),"urn:schemas:contacts:givenname") FirstName, Convert(nvarchar(30), "urn:schemas:contacts:o") Company, Convert(nvarchar(50), "urn:schemas:contacts:email1") Email, "urn:schemas:contacts:bday" BirthDay FROM OpenQuery(Exchange, 'SELECT "urn:schemas:contact:sn", "urn:schema:contacts:givenname", "urn:schemas:contacts:o", "urn:schemas:contacts:email1", "urn:schemas:contacts:bday" FROM ''.\contacts''')
Now the views can be queried and joined to local SQL Server tables like regular tables. For example, the Contacts view can be joined to a local Suppliers table to determine contact information for the list of supplier companies.
SELECT FirstName, LastName, Email, Company FROM Suppliers S, Contacts C WHERE S.Company = C.CompanyName
For information about the SQL language supported by the Exchange OLE DB provider, see the Microsoft Exchange 2000 documentation.
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Judicial Yuan must earn public confidence
By Chan Shun-kuei 詹順貴
The Ministry of Labor on Monday said it will not appeal the verdict in a case involving more than 1,000 laid-off workers.
The case began in 2012, when the ministry's predecessor, the Council of Labor Affairs, filed a lawsuit against workers who had failed to repay loans from the council. The council claimed the loans had been re-employment assistance after the employees were laid off without severance or retirement pay in the 1990s.
Regardless of the real reasons behind this policy change, the ministry's press release makes it clear that it is displeased with the judiciary.
The ministry begins by pointing out that the verdict differs greatly from past decisions by district courts around the nation, which typically ruled in favor of the council. The press release also said that other courts had asked the Council of Grand Justices to issue a constitutional interpretation of the case, as it was clear that different courts and judges had different interpretations and opinions, meaning that it would be impossible to reach a final, uniform judgement in the short term.
These comments amount to an accusation against the judiciary and have an even deeper impact on the public and lawyers than on the parties involved in the case.
One reason that similar cases yield different rulings is that individual judges have different points of view and interpretations of the law. Allowing judges independent jurisdiction and respecting their free and discretionary evaluations are unavoidable effects of democracy, the rule of law and the insistence on an independent judiciary.
Rulings are almost always a zero-sum game. Unless a settlement is reached, the winning side will be thankful and happy, and the losing side unsatisfied and critical. There are also rulings in which both sides are dissatisfied. Given that modern law stresses judicial independence, a ruling from a judge who has received extensive training and possesses a lot of experience will search for the truth, be objective, be guided by the law and not influenced by external influences, including public opinion.
However, in cases like the ones mentioned here, the facts and evidence were the same, with the exception of the individual workers in each case. Yet still, the rulings differed. Even if the Judicial Yuan does not respond to the ministry's accusations, it should still think deeply about how to best avoid repeating situations like this one, in which no one finds clarity and no agreement can be reached.
While the independent jurisdiction of judges is necessary for an independent judiciary, it is hard for people who lack legal knowledge to understand why some judges viewed the cases as falling under private law involving loans, while others viewed them as part of public law involving re-employment assistance. This will have a major negative impact on the public's already flagging confidence in the judiciary.
Just as former grand justice Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力) has said, when it comes to legal disputes between the government and the public, lawyers interpreting the law should focus on protecting the weaker parties.
Judge Wen Tsung-ling (溫宗玲), who was instrumental in helping the laid-off workers win their cases and was the first person to show the courage to define the cases as disputes of public law, as well as Judge Wang Pi-fang (王碧芳), who presided over the turnaround of five recent cases at the Taipei High Administrative Court, are both admirable.
The Judicial Yuan should use this case as an opportunity to win back the public's trust. Another urgent task is the reform of legal documents on rulings to make them understandable to the public.
Chan Shun-kuei is a lawyer and chairman of the Taiwan Bar Association's environmental law committee.
Translated by Drew Cameron
From TaipeiTimes :http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2014/03/18/2003585924
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2014


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Time travel, anyone?
When the New Year's countdown begins in Berlin, people in Auckland are already sleeping off their hangover, but the bubbly has only just been put on ice in Hawaii. So how did it come about, our curious system of dividing the world into time zones?
Strange things happen to time when you travel. There's that magical moment upon arrival in a far-off land when you reach for your watch and send the hands spinning past all the hours and minutes on the dial. It's a small miracle: We've reached a different time zone and are obliged to physically change time. This gives us a strange sense of distance, of the size and dimensions of the earth, and also at that precise moment, an inkling of where we are: on a planet continually rotating in space, orbiting the sun.
How long was the flight? Nine hours? Twelve? Maybe it's still bright daylight outside, or suddenly pitch-black? The moon may be out, or the sun up again. Night has flown by. What time is it exactly, here and now? And what does our internal clock say? A journey across time zones can be pretty discombobulating. We gain time, we lose time. We have to be awake when we want to sleep; we are expected to doze off even though we are wide awake. There's also something exciting about traveling across 360 degrees of longitude – 180 in the East and 180 in the West. We could almost be on board the Starship Enterprise.
If we land in HKT, for instance, the time is suddenly UTC + 0800. Say again? Well, the clocks here tick according to Hong Kong time, which means eight hours have to be added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Conversely, if we step off our plane in Tahiti, we have to deduct 10 hours from UTC. On the Chatham Islands in the South Pacific, it's 12 hours and 45 minutes later than in London, and on the Line Islands, as much as 14 hours later. Confusing? You bet! But then, we all feel a little out of sync when the hours are flying around our ears. As familiar as we all are with the phenomenon of time change, not least through our personal experience of jet lag, the questions remain: Why do time zones exist? Where do they come from? Who invented them?
Strictly speaking, the sun is responsible for time zones because time was once measured solely by the sun. When sundials indicated the hour of the day, each place on earth had its own time. Noon was when the sun had reached its zenith on any given degree of longitude. High noon was precisely when the sunlight fell vertically, and the shadow the wandering sun cast was the hand of the clock. It was an ingenious idea, simple and reliable, except that the time was different in every place that was not on the same degree of longitude, even if those places were not very far apart. Cologne, for example, is near the seventh degree of longitude, Berlin near the 13th. Munich lies much farther west than Dresden – and everywhere, the sun reaches its highest point at a different time. So time – or to be more exact, true local time, varid from village to village. That's why Cologne train station had signs up saying: "Difference in local time to Berlin, 25 minutes."
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For a long time, this sort of thing didn't cause any problems. People moved slowly, traveling on foot, horseback or by horse-drawn carriage, so a few minutes made no difference. But that all changed with the advent of railroads in the mid-19th century. Based on local times in Berlin and Cologne, one and the same train would have left Berlin later than the time on the noticeboard in Cologne. And when the same train arrived in Cologne, the clocks would say a different time than clocks in Berlin. Complete chaos and minute-by-minute conversions would have been the consequence nationwide. And so a standard timetable with coordinated departure and arrival times was needed, hence the establishment of national standard times based on the time in the capital cities. Soon, Berlin time applied throughout Prussia, Munich time, throughout Bavaria. In the United States, where locomotives had to travel from New York to California, developments were quicker. By 1883, North America was already divided into four time zones, which would later become five.
Thinking in time zones as opposed to using sundials not only made life simpler and easier to coordinate and plan; it was also necessary because the world was moving faster and faster as technology came into its own. Telegraphy also called for synchronized clocks, initially in America but very soon worldwide. Representatives of 25 nations convened at the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington and ultimately established the Greenwich Meridian as the Prime Meridian – zero degrees of longitude running through the London district of Greenwich. The world's present 24 time zones irradiate from it around the globe in 15-degree steps, westward and eastward – until they meet at the International Date Line (IDL) in the Pacific Ocean. All people had done was distribute time on the planet more roughly into a clear map of hours. That way, it was now far easier to coordinate when what happens where.
The true course of time, however, continues to run in cosmic dimensions with little regard for our human way of thinking. And where better to experience this than on a plane? Whether we fly west, following the sun, or east, from the setting sun into the night, we really do fly through days and nights, with no regard for the petty passing of minutes. In a small way, we return to an aboriginal state in which we measured time naturally and thought in terms of sunrises and moons.
Today, the experts are already forging new plans. Whereas at the end of the 19th century, it was the railroads that spelled the end of local, solar time, the Internet, global trade and international data communications are constantly shrinking time and space today. And also destroying them. That's why Steve Hanke and Dick Henry, economics professors at Johns Hopkins University, claim that what we now need is a single world time completely divorced from the sun. That would mean that if it were 7 am in New York, for instance, the clocks in Frankfurt, Tokyo and Honolulu would also say seven in the morning. Across the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic, everywhere the clocks would say the same time. Crazy? Yes and no – and ultimately just a further simplification of our concept of time.
The advantage: No one would have to think in strange time zones anymore, or change the time on their watch ever again. There would be one single standard time for global data traffic, for commerce, for everything.
The downside would be that most people on the planet would have to forget their cultural habits and get used to a new interpretation of time. While the people of New York (and everyone else on the same degree of longitude) could continue to rise with the new day and eat breakfast at seven, others would be taking their lunch break at seven, and in other places, going to bed at seven. The time would no longer say anything about everyday situations – in the end, it would have no relation to the position of the sun, to day and night. Would that be effective? Possibly.
But would it be good? Picture this: At midnight on New Year's, the world's entire population would be popping the corks – but in many places, the sun would still be high in the sky. Nighttime firework displays would no longer light up the skies in those places, and many people would be raising a glass to the New Year the moment they got up: sipping bubbly instead of brushing their teeth. The sun cares little about any of this, and as an old Indian saying goes: "People say time passes. Time says that people pass."
Important abbreviations
Local Apparent Time is based solely on the actual position of the sun overhead.
Greenwich Mean Time is based on the Prime Meridian, which passes through the London district of Greenwich.
Coordinated Universal Time was introduced in 1972. It takes the Prime Meridian as its reference point, just like GMT.
Central European Time is the official time standard for Central Europe and parts of Africa.
Marc Bielefeld
Marc Bielefeld likes flying through time, particularly eastward into the night with the sun setting at his back rising in front of him. He wrote our story about the history of time zones.


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Physician Search 2.0 brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 13 Designs von 4 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Physician Search 2.0
I am the founder and CEO of Priority MD Search, LLC. We do what physician job boards and physician recruiters cannot. Built from the ground up to be a personalized physician search engine, Physician Search 2.0 (our mantra and calling card) combines C-level recruitment analytics with deep reach physician communication. Hospitals and clinics engage us to find doctors where they live, work & play online. We deliver a legendary physician search experience that leaves everything, including legacy recruiting, in its wake.
I used to work for one of the nations largest physician search and consulting firms and saw first hand how their methods of finding doctors hearkened back to the 80's: direct mail. With over 12M-14M letters sent out annually and only .01% to .04% response rate, I knew there had to be a better, less invasive and more powerful way to reach physicians.
Realizing that physicians are simply people as well, they live, work and play online just like you and I. Google did a study that found that 86% of physicians are online + their #1 action is to use search engines and 92% of them used Google. They also blog & they're on T, LI & FB.
We've created an interactive recruiting marketing platform that lets the client simply enter the job opportunity. We turn the job into a living web page that is SEO optimized and can be found online by google, linked and facebook.
Our target audience is segmented into two groups:
1. Group 1 is the 6k hospitals & 36k clinics in the USA
2. Group 2 are the 650k physician who are in private practice (out of 850k)
95% of all hospitals along with ~70% of all clinics are currently recruiting doctors as there is a war for physician talent.
The challenge for hospitals is that the retained recruiting firms are charging $25k to $50 per search assignment & not delivering 75% of the time. Our solution collapses this cost to a fraction of the $25k to $50k. Clients can't believe our pricing, our delivery & our reach as we reach the 70% of the passive physician talent pool job boards & recruiters cannot.
The challenge for doctors is that the physician job boards require them to sign up & provide phone# & other personal information just to see the jobs, jobs they say that are looked over again & again by the usual suspects (same active doctors on the prowl looking for jobs). They also have grown tired of the sales cold calls from headhunters all day and night. They prefer to look on their time, online, in places they already live, work & play (Facebook, LinkeIn, Twitter, Blogs, Search Engines). Additionally they prefer to be anonymous when then search until they see something they like & they are ready to apply. We build our solution specifically for them with the help of their feedback & concerns.
some url's for you to review before you get started:
- jivesoftware.com
- hubspot.com
- ph-creative.com
- prioritymd.storme.com - we have terminated our relationship with them
OUR EXISTING PHYSICIAN PAGE (landing page) WORK DONE BY ANOTHER CO :)
- prioritymdsearch.stage.jobs2web.com - we love them, great job + love the
look and feel for our physician visitors/candidates.
- Please note that our homepage design should not be dependent on this
landing page design except for the logo and colors. Feel free to be
creative with these specs in mind.
1. Website design for our home new home page :)
2. Website design for our master theme page
- Match design theme to our logo colors
- Home Page design should be clean, fresh, attractive to physicians,
hospital CEO's and hospital recruiters
- Home Page layout/instructions is detailed in the attached Word document
- Theme Page layout/instructions also detailed in attached Word doc
We would like to thank all of you in advance for your interest, your time and your hard work. We look forward to working with you. We plan on working with the winner and maybe even the top 3 a lot in the future so let's go baby!


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There's this new-age idea that we should all be completely in the present at all times, ignoring the past and the future. Some people go so far as to parrot phrases like "the present is the only thing that really exists", or "live every day like it's your last!". I disagree. I think that there's value in considering all three time periods, as long as they're looked at differently. The problem is that most people treat them in the same way.
Take the past. Most people look at the past as something that could somehow be changed if they wished hard enough. They don't actually believe that, but they act like it, saying things like, "If only I had _____". A better way to see the past is like a series of completed experiments. Everything, from before you were born until the moment you read the previous sentence is now set in stone and cannot be changed. The value we can get from this is to learn from our mistakes, failures, and pure observation.
It's possible to live in the past, to rehash things that happened and associate their greatness or tragedy with the present. We are the product of nothing but the past, but on the other hand the past is only a series of experiments. We aren't bound to make the same mistakes, and we aren't guaranteed the same successes, especially if we can't emotionally distance ourselves from what has happened, and rationally extract all of the available lessons from it.
The past is also available to help you keep your emotional well being. Your primary source of happiness should be from the present, but if you can forgive and forget slights and remember the great things that have happened in your life, you'll have a well of positive emotions to draw upon when times are more difficult.
Two practical examples that we've all seen people get caught up in:
-- Breaking up with someone. The only value to be extracted from this situation is to think about what you could have done better, in the context of the relationship. That's obviously not the only factor in the relationship or the breakup, but it's probably the only one that's actionable. A breakup is a good time to think about what you did well, and what you did poorly. Most people spend their attention pining or blaming, but neither of these things will do any good. I know that this approach is easier said than done, and that no one is actually going to be a complete rational robot, but aiming in that direction can help.
The time is spent and the chips have fallen, so there's no point in regretting a relationship or wishing that the other person (or you) had done something differently. Instead, think about all the great times you had, the ways you grew as a person, the lasting positive impact you have had on each other, and use those memories as your lasting impression of the relationship.
-- Falling from grace. Call it high school football star syndrome. This is where someone had some period of glory which eventually ended, but they're unable to let it go. It's the definition of living in the past. I listened to a Radio Lab episode last night about a guy who had a small part in the movie Analyze This. He wasn't able to get any other parts after that, but he continued to portray himself as some sort of movie star, substituting past success for current achievement. He even moved to a small town, presented himself as a celebrity, and then gave everyone parts in his "new movie". When it came time to pay the crew, he skipped town.
The benefit you've gained from your past actions is the experience that you can use to shape the present. Try to seek glory only through present achievement, not from past actions or even future actions.
Although I wouldn't go so far as to say that the present is the only time exists, it is the place where you apply leverage. You have no control over the past, and your control over the future is only realized by acting now in the present moment. Besides being the time where action takes place, it's also the time to evaluate yourself. Don't beat yourself up or give yourself too much credit for stuff you've already done, and don't pat yourself on the back for the great things you'll do in the future. Do great things right now. Do normal things, and do them greatly. The only way you judge yourself in the present should be, "Am I doing the best I can do right now?".
Doing your best in the moment isn't just for work. It's for appreciating the moment you're living, the people that are around you, and the setting you're in. Doing this poorly means that you're focused on the past or fantasizing or worrying about the future. Doing it well means that you're accepting the present and responding to it as best as possible. That might mean working hard, but it might mean focusing all of your attention on whoever you're talking to, listening, and responding when the time comes.
A critically important concept is that how you act in the present is also how you will act in the future. Studies have been done that show that people tend to think that in the future they will procrastinate less, be more focused, have more time, and accomplish more. The reality is that however you are acting now is how you are most likely to act in the future. Your habits now are the habits you will likely have in the future. That doesn't mean that you can't change, but it does mean that if you aren't working on changing right now, you probably won't in the future either.
I see my duty to the future as being two things. In the near future, I'd like to provide myself the best possible "present". In other words, I understand that my leverage comes from the present, and that things I do now will affect what that present is for Future Tynan. For example, I save money and live below my means so that in the future I can focus not on paying my bills, but on living and working in the present. I eat healthy foods now so that my mind will stay sharp for as long as possible. I meditate, work out, floss, learn languages, sleep well, and do a million other things to increase my capabilities and thus give myself more leverage in the future.
Longer term, I think about how my trajectory will trace through the future depending on decisions I make. With my current habits, will I leave a lasting mark on the world and make it a better place, much as people before me have? If I tweak this particular habit, will I be able to compound the amount of impact I'm able to have? Will the things that I do in the present accumulate to become something valuable for myself and others, or are they relative wastes of time?
The future may never come for me. I may be hit by a bus tomorrow. But there's no point in planning for that event, so I plan for the most likely event: that I will continue to live a life and be given roughly the same good luck and bad luck as anyone else in my situation. I steel myself a bit for the worst case scenarios, keep an eye out for excellent opportunities that may cross my path, but mostly I plan for the average and try to improve what that will look like.
I think of goals as moving targets, not so much fixed destinations, but rather a point to which I can draw a path from where I am. Goals and circumstances change, but by having them I'm able to plan a few steps in advance and try to make my work more efficient.
The future is for planning purposes, not for living, though. I take my pleasure only in the present, in both the great experiences I have, and in the struggle and examination of working hard and the challenges I face. It's dangerous to plan to be happy later, because if you're not happy now, you probably won't be then either.
To wrap this all up, I think that all three moving phases of time are important, but they have to be treated uniquely. Learn from your past, execute and enjoy in the present, and plan for the future.
Photo is one of the first pianos ever built, taken in the Met.
I've really been thinking a lot about future vs. present, ever since reading The Time Paradox. Do you live every day like it's your last, do you save everything for the future, or do you find a happy medium?
One of the conclusions that I've come to, which might be blatantly obvious to everyone but me, is that time management should be exactly like money management. It's the same problem: how do you use a finite resource throughout your whole life for maximum benefit?
Thinking of time like money rules out the extreme ends of the spectrum. We all know what it looks like when someone spends every dollar they get as soon as it's dropped into their hands, and none of us envy that person (although some imitate him). Saving everything and never spending any money isn't that great of an idea, either. What's the point of having money if it gets buried next to you?
I took this picture in Kochi a long time back but I think the traffic sign saying GO SLOW has a deeper meaning - we are sprinting towards a hoped for future; slow down and take stock for a change. NO MOBILE IN DRIVING - focus on what you are doing right now!
Hope is a wonderful thing. Its great to have hopes and to be hopeful. Hope is like an ointment or a pain relieving gel, isn't it? It reduces the pain you are experiencing now, reduces the intensity of the difficulties you are in at the moment as you hope for a better tomorrow. But that is all it does though, unfortunately. It makes us yearn for a future but doesn't help us with the present. While hope is a real catalyst for our future by giving us a picture to look at, in reality hope doesn't get you that future; it cant. You need to be alive, first of all, and you need to resolve your present woes before you get anywhere else. How do you get out of the present mess? And, how do you ensure you don't find yourself here again? Well, merely hoping is kind of hopeless!
We need to act now. We need to do something now. Whatever that might be. Too much hoping takes you away from the present. All your achievements and your dreams can only be played out in the present. Your hard work towards it, your perseverance, can only be played out now.
Our way of life puts way too much emphasis on the future and little on the present. Of course we get by but rather unconsciously. Our eyes are gazing out into the future or we get muddled by something from the past. This is how we live. And in the present, we just go on doing things without knowing why exactly nor without understanding if some of the causes of our problems stem from these things.


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Under proposal, plant would continue operating under a variance from federal secondary sewage treatment standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed to renew the city of San Diego's discharge permit for the E.W. Blom Point Loma Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant and Ocean Outfall. Under the proposal, the city would continue to operate its municipal wastewater treatment plant and ocean outfall under a variance from federal secondary sewage treatment standards.
"Today we have made a tentative determination that the city of San Diego may continue its discharge from the Point Loma treatment plant under a Clean Water Act variance from secondary treatment," said Wayne Nastri, the EPA's administrator for the Pacific Southwest region. "The city's application demonstrates that plant operations, including the recent upgrade to disinfect treated wastewater, result in a discharge that protects recreational users of San Diego's ocean waters and ensures a healthy marine ecosystem."
San Diego's Point Loma plant is currently operating under a variance from the Clean Water Act's secondary sewage treatment standards. If the state of California concurs, and the EPA proposal becomes final, a renewed permit incorporating a variance will be issued.
The EPA's tentative decision, along with the draft permit for renewal, will be available for public comment through January 28. A public hearing, conducted by both the EPA and San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, on the EPA's tentative decision and the draft permit, will be held on Jan. 21 at 9 a.m. at the regional board's office. At the completion of the public comment period, the EPA will consider all public comments and make a final decision on the city's variance request.
As a general matter, primary treatment involves screening out large floating objects such as rags and sticks, removing grit, such as cinders, sand and small stones, and allowing wastewater to settle, followed by removal of collected solids. When secondary treatment is used, primary-treated wastewater flows into another process, where a large portion of the organic matter in the wastewater is removed by making use of the bacteria in the sewage. There are a variety of different biological treatment techniques that allow the bacteria to consume most of the wastewater's organic matter.
The Point Loma plant operates as a chemically assisted primary wastewater treatment plant. At Point Loma, the primary treatment process is enhanced by the addition of chemicals that improve the solids settling process. Chlorine is added to the treated wastewater prior to its discharge via an outfall pipe terminating 4.5 miles off the Pacific Coast, at a depth of approximately 300 ft.
The Clean Water Act generally requires municipal sewage treatment plants to use both primary and secondary treatment. Amendments to the Act in 1977 and 1994 continue to allow the city to apply for a variance from federal secondary sewage treatment standards for the Point Loma plant, provided the plant meets water quality standards and other specific statutory criteria.
Under the terms of the proposed permit, San Diego will be able to continue its current level of sewage treatment, with the addition of chlorination. The proposed permit sets specific parameters for wastewater discharge and monitoring that ensure protection of offshore waters. The discharge permit, including the variance from secondary sewage treatment standards, is renewable every five years.
For more information, please visit: www.epa.gov/region09/water/npdes/pubnotices.html.


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Did you ever wonder why the Mass is structured the way it is? Latin-rite Catholics — 90 percent of us — have been celebrating Mass in the ordinary form we know today for about 45 years. That is longer than over half of today's Catholics have been alive.
The Mass we know today has its roots in antiquity, but the nuts and bolts came about because of a strong liturgical renewal movement that began early in the 20th century and reached its zenith in the Second Vatican Council.
Liturgy was the first topic taken up be the council because, as one of the council fathers pointed out, liturgy is where Jesus' redemptive act of salvation is lived every day.
CNS described the beginning of the council fathers' work on liturgical renewal in its Oct. 22, 1962, dispatch from Rome:
The council press office said in a bulletin that the liturgy was scheduled as the first topic because the work of the council is directed primarily toward the task of an internal renewal of the Church.
The project on the sacred liturgy consists of a preface and eight chapters.
The first chapter outlines the general principles for renewal and promotion of the liturgy. It explains the nature and importance of the liturgy in the life of the Church and then deals with liturgical formation and with participation of the faithful in the liturgy, outlining the rules and general principles which must be respected for renewal and reform.
The first chapter ends with paragraphs concerning liturgical life in the diocese and in the parish and with ways of promoting pastoral action.
The second chapter deals with the mystery of the Eucharist, the Holy Mass and with sacramental concelebration. The third chapter is devoted to sacraments and to sacramentals and revision of the ritual. There also are paragraphs which deal with burial.
Chapter four deals with the Divine Office and other prayers. The fifth is concerned with the liturgical year and calendar. The sixth deals with sacred vestments and vessels. The seventh and eighth are dedicated to sacred music and art.
The council fathers discussed liturgical renewal of the church for over a month. The discussions were fascinating. They ranged from the use of vernacular — already in practice by the many of the Eastern and Oriental rites — to greater participation in the Mass by the faithful to the kind of music that should be used. The discussion ranged widely, but an amazing consensus emerged — amazing, that is, for 2,200 council fathers from all over the world.
The council's work eventually became the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, one of the four constitutions decreed by the council.
You can follow the day-by-day discussion of the council fathers on the liturgy and learn why they made the decisions they did on the CNS blog, Vatican II: 50 years ago today. This year's entries will continue through Dec. 8, the anniversary of the closing of the first session of the council.


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Dave and Gail
We did a night cache with Frank and Sharon last night, and come to find out it was #1200 for them. That is totally awesome. We are pleased that we have had a chance to meet these nice folks and do some caching with them also. Congratulations on this milestone and hopefully many more to you folks. By the way,,after the cache we had beer and pizza at Pat's in orono, and we very much enjoyed the company of these two veteran cachers, as well as Mainiac1957, Dave1976 and Girlmate. These folks are kind of instrumental in keeping our interest in caching, as we were with them on some of our first caches. Thanks guys, and once again,,,CONGRATULATIONS ON 1200. "Dave and Gail" and Shamis


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During the last week i decided to sort all my parts. You must understand that untill now, i had NO order. I had a desk full of parts and parts in various boxes all mixed up. Finding stuff was getting difficult, and knowing which parts i had and in what quantities was basically impossible.
Therefore i decided to sort everything out. I bought sorting boxes and started sorting. First the brand new unused parts, then the older used parts. Box by box. I have documented all of this for your enjoyment and divided it into three galleries:


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So this past Monday I had the privilege of being on The Home Recording show with John Tidey and Ryan Canestro.
Here's the link: http://www.homerecordingshow.com/2012/06/show-172-mixing-with-a-subwoofer-kickstarter-and-more/
I've had this podcast at the top of my list for a good little while now, and it was great fun to get to jump on and talk audio with those guys. I actually catch quite a few different podcast on a regular basis, an THRS always jumps to the top of my list when a new one comes out.
I dig this podcast because it's got a killer structure (Ryan and John read all of the reader's comments and joke around to start the show, then they do segments) and the guys are knowledgable, fun to listen to and the running inside jokes remind me of the antics that happen on my fav sports radio station (the Ticket).
The whole experience was super chilled out and fun. John asked if I wanted to do a show, I said sure, he pinged me one day and asked if I would jump on, and away we went. Because I've been a fan of the show for a while, it felt very comfortable just hanging out with a couple of guys that I feel like I already know and talking about whatever.
So head on over to their website, subscribe to the podcast, buy through their amazon link, etc. This is a good show to support.
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|== Checking GNUstep out of SVN Anonymously ==
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|Using SVN+SSH will not work unless you are a developer. You cannot check out /devmodules unless you are a developer. /modules is the same as devmodules, except the SVN external references work for anonymous SVN checkouts.
|== Setting up Subversion for Developer Use ==
|== Setting up Subversion for Developer Use ==
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Checking GNUstep out of SVN Anonymously
(this is what 90% of you will want) Simply run:
svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/modules
Using SVN+SSH will not work unless you are a developer. You cannot check out /devmodules unless you are a developer. /modules is the same as devmodules, except the SVN external references work for anonymous SVN checkouts.
Setting up Subversion for Developer Use
The first thing you will want to do is setup the ssh access to svn.gna.org. If you cannot type
svn list svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/devmodules
without having to type a password or in some way change the above command, you will need to visit the Svn SSH Setup page (this includes if you have to specify a different user).
Some background on repository layout
To familiarize yourself with the layout, I would recommend looking at the web-access to svn for GNUstep. You will notice that every project is in its own portion of the repository. For example:
/libs /libs/gui /libs/gui/trunk /libs/gui/branches /libs/gui/branches/dawn /libs/gui/branches/... /libs/gui/tags /libs/gui/tags/alex_last_semistable /libs/gui/tags/...
This layout is very handy for having a per-project repository. I can easily branch or tag just /libs/gui and it all stays in its own namespace. However, what this DOES mean is that you cannot simply checkout /libs/gui or you will end up with several copies of the source. To get around this, we are using a nifty feature of Subversion called externals. Externals are metadata on a directory that basically tell the svn client to checkout some other url into a subdirectory when it is checked out. So if I type:
svn proplist -v svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/devmodules/core
It will tell me that the svn:externals property contains:
gui svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/gui/trunk back svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/trunk base svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/base/trunk make svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/tools/make/trunk
So everytime I checkout /devmodules/core the svn client will automatically go to these URLs and check them out into subdirectories. When I make changes in gui/ and commit them, it will really commit to /libs/gui/trunk. For the most part if you checkout /devmodules, the externals have already been setup such that it will checkout something similar to checking out the whole repository before.
Tips, Tricks, and Resources
- Version Control with Subversion
- Appendix A: Subversion for CVS Users
- GCC's SVN Setup page - Look especially at the section on ssh connection caching.
- Subversion_Migration - Some initial notes on the layout of the repository.
- ZSH svn tab completion - On this page is a tab completion module that can tab complete into subversion repositories. Very handy for ZSH users.