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Rotary International uses a Graco LineLazer to carry out voluntary work
The Rotary Club Belgrade Metropolitan has made social responsibility an integral part of their business model. Their latest action took place in a school for the blind and near-blind children in Belgrade whereby, one of their members, Darko Šovran, owner of the company GFP and Graco distributor in Serbia, helped to paint curbs and stairs.
The school for blind and near-blind children "Veljko Ramdanovic" has a very big school yard and several facilities where children play and walk from one building to another every day. In the current conditions, children couldn't run and play without the risk of tripping over curbs.
Rotary club Belgrade Metropolitan decided that a change was needed to enable the children to have a normal childhood, as physical activities are very important for the development of children.
A Graco unit, the LineLazer was used to paint all the curbs in the playground with yellow road paint, donated by paint producer "Pitura". The result is that the children can now see when they need to be careful while running and playing.
This action is the second one, as a similar project had already been carried out in another school for blind and near-blind children in Belgrade. Since there are only two schools in Belgrade for groups with this disability, this project will be continued in other cities in Serbia.

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Manama: As Saudis have engaged in a debate over the merit of switching the weekend from Thursday-Friday to Friday-Saturday as recommended by the Shura (Consultative) Council, a Shura member said that the process could take up to one year to become reality.
On Monday, the Shura voted 83-41 in support of the switch, arguing that aligning the weekend with the other Gulf states and reducing the number of days off that do not coincide with other countries would have outstanding social and economic benefits for the country and people.
"Following the recommendation by the Shura Council, the civil service ministry conducts a study on the issue in coordination with the relevant parties to assess its advantages and disadvantages," Shura Member Sadaqa Fadhil said. "The study is expected to take up to six months. It will then be referred to the Shura Council and will take up to one month to be voted. The study suggestions are then submitted to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [the king] who will sign the draft into law if he approves it. The whole process might last one year," he said, local news site Sabq reported on Tuesday.
The Shura member said that the strong support for the switch call indicated the people's interest in aligning their weekends with those in the neighbouring countries.
Oman earlier this month became the fifth Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country to make the switch, leaving only Saudi Arabia with the Thursday-Friday weekend. Oman will start the application of the new weekly break in May.
The other GCC members, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE, have already made the switch.
According to Sadaqa Fadil, the Shura members who voted against the switch thought that it would not result in special benefits or wanted to keep a tradition that set Saudi Arabia apart from other countries.
Social networks and the blogosphere were flooded with remarks supporting or opposing the switch.
For many, it was synonymous with social benefits that included being able to visit and spend more time with relatives and friends in the other GCC countries. Some bloggers highlighted the benefits of having more common open days with businesses in other countries.
One blogger said that he would devote Friday to prayers in the morning and family in the afternoon while Saturday would be the fun day before a new week of professional commitments.
A business expert said that he expected the electronics market to grow by at least 30 per cent following the application of the new weekend break.
However, some economic analysts said that the financial institutions would not be benefit largely from the switch, claiming that 90 per cent of their business was with the local market.
Some bloggers said that they were not "really concerned" about the switch and wanted the Shura Council to debate "more concrete issues, such as housing and employment".
Highly optimistic remarks suggested a three-day weekend — Thursday, Friday and Saturday — as a compromise to please all sides.


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Hello. I've been reading cookbooks.
There's a certain kind of cookbook that you — or at least I — can read like it's fiction. Science fiction, even. I was talking with Janice Wang, a researcher at MIT Media Lab, about this at South By the other day. (That was a really interesting visit, by the way.) She was trying to put together a thing about food in science fiction, and having a little trouble finding too much about food culture in sf. And all I could think of was the three cookbooks I'd gotten recently, written by chefs from NOMA. NOMA is a Nordic restaurant dedicated to reinventing hyperlocal, firmly seasonal foodstuffs with Science. And science is still the best poetic fiction there is.
The NOMA Leaf Broth requires fallen autumn leaves of two different vintages: the current year and the year before. They employ car parks full of dehydrators to smash plants down to a perfect powdered essence. Moss is a regular ingredient. Centrifuges and frozen gasses. All the foods are found within a certain radius around the NOMA location. It is near impossible to prepare many of the meals outside that area or without their lab. But that's not the point.
These are books intended to make you think again about where you live. They serve the essential journalistic element of social fiction: this is where I think I am today and this is what I think it looks like. And then they apply technologies entirely unexpected in the culinary context — like their forebears, people like Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adria — to try and make us reconsider the possibilities inherent in our current context. Cookbooks of the Science Fiction Condition. Take your eyes off the rear view mirror for a second and see people using Mad Scientist shit to make dinner.
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June 17-19: Portland Pride
This year's official theme is "Make It Happen!," and the "it" is pride. Events include the Pulse dance party, Waterfront Festival, Dyke March, Pride Drag Race and Pride Parade. Headliners include Deborah Cox, Lea DeLaria and Camille Bloom. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 700 SW Naito Parkway, pridenw.org. 6-10 pm Friday, noon-9 pm Saturday, noon-6 pm Sunday.
June 18: World Naked Bike Ride
Whether protesting fossil fuels and the vulnerability of cyclists or just exercising a need to lose some threads, 10,000 people stripped down for the 2010 WNBR. Even more are expected this year. Shoes and helmets are "strongly encouraged." Southeast Water Avenue and Salmon Street, wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org. 10 pm. Free.
June 24-26: North American Organic Brewers Festival
"Saving the planet, one beer at a time," this festival combines organic beer and sustainability. The brews and ciders will be from around the world, including locals like Alameda Brewhouse and Upright Brewing Company. But there's more than just beer; there will be sustainable-product vendors, nonprofits and live music. Overlook Park, 1301 N Fremont St., naobf.org. Noon-9 pm Friday-Saturday, noon-5pm Sunday. Free. Minors admitted with parents.
June 24-26: No.Fest Music and Arts Fair
Three friends created this all encompassing festival after an attempt to fill Proper Eats Market and Cafe with the best of their friends' bands in 2008. Last year, this music and arts fair grew to include 50 bands, as well as visual arts and spoken word. Various venues in St. Johns, nofest.net.
June 26: North Portland Sunday Parkways
Eight miles of streets between Peninsula and McCoy parks will be closed to cars for five hours, with food, music and family activities in parks and on sidewalks along the route. 11 am-4 pm. See route at portlandsundayparkways.org.
June 26-Sept. 10: Summer Free For All Movies in the Park
Portland Parks and Recreation presents movies in parks across the city. Schedule at portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=52643. Free.
June 28: My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket brings its genre-bending alt-country sounds to Troutdale for the Edgefield Summer concert series. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. 6:30 pm. $40-$43.
June 29: Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss signed with Rounder Records when she was just 14; since then, she's won more Grammys than any other female artist (26) and has collaborated with Yo Yo Ma, James Taylor and Dolly Parton. See what the embodiment of musical success looks like when Krauss and the Union Station band bring their take on roots, country and pop to the Edgefield lawn. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. 6:30 pm. $49-$79.
June 30-July 28: Sundown at Ecotrust
Each Thursday, Ecotrust presents an environmentally themed concert (e.g., Energy, Water and Reliable Propensity) powered entirely by a solar generator, with free music by local talent like Typhoon and Y La Bamba. 721 NW 9th Ave., ecotrust.org. 5:30-8:30 pm Thursdays. Free.
July 1-4: Waterfront Blues Festival
The second-largest blues festival in the nation, behind only Chicago, these four days will ensure you get your blues fix. Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams, and Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are just a few acts in the lineup. There will be fireworks over the Willamette on July 4. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 700 SW Naito Parkway, waterfrontbluesfest.org. 2-11 pm Friday, 11 am-11 pm Saturday-Sunday, 11 am-10 pm Monday. $40 four-day festival pass.
July 2: Modest Mouse
Portland's indie kings play their first local performance since 2009 to celebrate Edgefield's 100th birthday. There will also be musical merriment throughout the grounds, historical tours, and drink tastings. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. 6:30 pm. $44-$48.
July 4-Aug. 25: Top Down Rooftop Cinema
Cross your fingers for this one, folks. If it's a dry Portland summer—maybe knock on wood, too—the Northwest Film Center will reprise its series of great outdoor cinema. Top Down will be held six nights this summer atop the Hotel deLuxe's rooftop garage. The party starts at 8 pm, with live bands and refreshments; once sun sets, the films start. This seasons screenings include: Missile to the Moon July 4, Female July 28, Viva Las Vegas Aug. 4, The Outsiders Aug. 11, Police Story Aug. 18, and Goldfinger Aug. 25. 729 SW 15th Ave., nwfilm.org. $9.
July 5-Sept. 7: Summer Free for All Concerts in the Park
You have no excuses for a boring night this summer: Summer Free for All presents Concerts in the Park every night of the week from July to August (dates in September are reserved for rain dates). Enjoy all kinds of music, from Celtic to neo-Bohemian cabaret, throughout the summer. Various parks across Portland, see portlandonline.com/parks. All ages. Free.
July 8: Neko Case
Neko Case's sound is the oatmeal of the musical world: unadorned, but it sticks with you. Feast on her hauntingly beautiful vocals at Edgefield. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. 6:30 pm. $35-$38.
July 15-17: Portland International Beer Festival
This event is on a "secret mission to make you a beer geek," but even if you don't end the weekend in a SNOB shirt and thick-rimmed glasses, you're still likely to find a beer you love out of the 150 different brews on offer. North Park Blocks at Northwest Park Avenue and Davis Street, seattlebeerfest.com/Index2 PIB.htm. 4-10 pm Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday, noon-7 pm Sunday. $20 advance, $25 at gate. 21+.
July 16: Portland Highland Games
Originally reserved for kings and chiefs, these crass displays of stamina settled who would be "the best man at arms." Today, it's more of a celebration of Scottish custom than a show of superiority. A one-mile kilted race, fiddling competition, dance competitions and other physical contests round out this 23-year-old tradition at Mount Hood Community College. 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham, phga.org. 8 am Saturday. $20 adults, $10 children ages 6-17.
July 18-24: Puckerfest
Sour beers can take up to three years to barrel-age, a sometimes risky venture, and for the fifth year running Belmont Station is celebrating them for one week in July. 4500 SE Stark St., 232-8538, belmont-station.com.
July 21-24: Northwest String Summit
Experience some of the best acoustic performances that the Northwest has to offer at this year's Northwest String Summit in the picturesque Horning's Hideout. This year, the Yonder Mountain String Band will play for three nights. Horning's Hideout, 21277 NW Brunswick Canyon Road, North Plains, stringsummit.com. $20-$155.
July 22: TV on the Radio
This year marked the release of what has been called TV on the Radio's most user-friendly album, Nine Types of Light, a small move away from the band's historically undefinable musical creations. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. $34-$38.
July 22-24: PDX Pop Now! Summer Festival
Unlike festivals that charge high ticket fees or bar underage music-lovers from attending, PDX Pop Now! remains open to all ages and is completely free. Refuge PDX, 116 SE Yamhill St., pdxpopnow.com. All ages. Free.
July 22-Aug. 19: Flicks on the Bricks
For five weeks this summer, Friday night means movie night at Pioneer Courthouse Square. BYOC (bring your own chair) and snag some free popcorn as SmartPark presents five movies: Top Gun July 22, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade July 29, West Side Story Aug. 5, Despicable Me Aug. 12 and Stand by Me Aug. 19. Pioneer Courthouse Square, Southwest Morrison Street and Broadway, pcspdx.org. Fridays at dusk. Free.
July 24: Fleet Foxes
Robin Pecknold, who recently moved to Portland from Seattle, joins his band for a performance on the Edgefield lawn, where the band's signature folk sound is sure to evoke images of lands both distant and familiar. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. $37-$38.
July 24: Los Lobos
Get your howling in order: The wolves come to the Oregon Zoo to perform with Los Lonely Boys. Los Lobos have been jamming with their current lineup for the past 30 years—proving that the pack that plays together stays together. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, oregonzoo.org. $26.
July 24: Westside Sunday Parkways
Six miles of streets between Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront and Wallace parks will be closed to cars for five hours, with food, music and family activities in parks and on sidewalks along the route. 11 am-4 pm. See route at portlandsundayparkways.org.
July 28-31: Oregon Brewers Festival
From 10 Barrel Brewing to Widmer Brothers, they're all here. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, main entrance at Southwest Oak Street and Naito Parkway, oregonbrewfest.com. Noon-9 pm Thursday–Saturday, noon-7 pm Sunday. Free entry, tasting mugs $6, tastes $1-$4.
July 29: Willie Nelson
Get your bandannas ready; Willie Nelson & Family return to the Edgefield amphitheater for another round of country jams. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. $59-$63.
July 31: IPNC Passport to Pinot
Marvel at the astonishing debauchery of tasting the wares 70 pinot noir producers (and 60 or so chefs and food artisans) at the culminating event of the International Pinot Noir celebration in McMinnville. Linfield College campus, 900 SE Baker St., McMinnville, ipnc.org. 1-4:30 pm Sunday. $150.
Aug. 5-6: Smmr Bmmr
Check your vowels at the door—you won't need them anyway, with all the fist-pounding raging bound to be had at Smmr Bmmr. This annual garage-rock festival will feature the colorfully named musical drama of King Tuff, Shannon and the Clams and Personal and the Pizzas, among others. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., dmmrbmmr.com.
Aug. 5-7: Pickathon
The city's biggest outdoor festival continues to drift away from its old-timey origins, but with headliners like Mavis Staples, Black Mountain, Grupo Fantasma and Damien Jurado, it's hard to pine for the good ol' days. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley, pickathon.com. $145 for the weekend.
Aug. 6-7: Bones and Brew Festival
Over 30 brews from Oregon craft breweries, live music, a barbecue cooking contest and plenty of brisket and ribs from local restaurants for this celebration of the American barbecue, benefiting the Oregon Zoo. Northwest 14th Avenue and Flanders Street, rogue.com/events/bones-and-brew.php. 11 am-9 pm Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday. $3 suggested donation.
Aug. 11: Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton settles into the zoo for the long haul: This three-hour performance includes his album Frampton Comes Alive! in its entirety, along with various highlights from the rest of his extensive canon. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, oregonzoo.org. $27.50.
Aug. 12: Portland Twilight Criterium
Closed-off blocks of Old Town streets are filled with spectators, food carts and activities, such as a hand-built bike show and a beer garden, all situated in the middle of the course of this high-speed street race. Free bike parking at Northwest Park Avenue and Flanders Street. North Park Blocks, Northwest 9th Avenue and Couch Street, portlandtwilight.com. Races begin 4 pm. $25-$30.
Aug. 12-14: The Bite of Oregon
It's more about the music, wine and beer than the food, really—only restaurants with large catering operations can muster enough food and manpower for a weekend-long festival—but the annual benefit for Special Olympics Oregon is always pleasant. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 700 Southwest Naito Parkway, biteoforegon.com. $10 single day pass, $15 full weekend.
Aug. 13: Adult Soapbox Derby
Remember that childhood soapbox, built in the garage through hours of blood and sweat and with the certainty that this year would mark your crushing victory over the neighbor boy's fancier, faster model? Never happened? Then here's your chance to bring childhood racing fantasies to life in all their beer-soaked glory at the PDX Adult Soapbox Derby. Mount Tabor Park, Southeast 60th Avenue and Salmon Street, soapboxracer.com. Races start at 10 am. Free to watch.
Aug. 14: Providence Bridge Pedal
Nearly 20,000 bicyclists and pedestrians fill Willamette River bridges to support the Providence Heart and Vascular Institute. Routes from 13 to 36 miles long include the top decks of the Fremont and Marquam bridges. Southwest Salmon Street and 14th Avenue, blog.bridgepedal.com. 7 am. $25-$45.
Aug. 15-19: Paddle Oregon
Paddle 105 miles of the Willamette over five days. After each day on the river, enjoy a night of camping punctuated by speakers, entertainment and catered meals. A portion of the registration fee supports the efforts of Willamette Riverkeeper to preserve and restore the river. Event starts at Crystal Lake Boat Ramp in Corvallis, see paddleoregon.org. $535 youth, $635 adult.
Aug. 21: Freshwater Trust Portland Triathlon
Swim, bike and run courses woven in and around downtown in one of the "greenest" races in the world (according to Triathlete magazine), the Freshwater Trust Triathlon. Among the green features: bib numbers made from recycled material, local organic food at aid stations, nontoxic body marking courtesy of the Portland Society for Calligraphy, and bamboo bike racks. Tom McCall Waterfront Park between Southwest Harrison and Northwest Glisan streets, portlandtri.com. $70-$185. 13+.
Aug. 21: Portland Century
Take in eye-catching views of Portland and surrounding areas such as Bull Run, Marine Drive and the Willamette Bluff while riding routes of 40, 75 or 100 miles, with gourmet food and refreshments along the way. Ride begins at Portland State University behind Smith Memorial Student Union, Southwest Montgomery Street and Park Avenue, portlandcentury.com. Check-in times 6-9 am, depending on route. $70 adults in advance, $80 at event, $10 under age 10.
Aug. 25-27: Festa Italiana
Pioneer Courthouse Square becomes "Piazza Italia" for the 20th annual celebration of everything Italian. Events include a grape stomp, pizza toss, bocce tournament and free Italian movie night. Don't worry, they didn't forget the food, beer, wine or dancing. Southwest Morrison Street and Broadway, festaitalianaportland.shutterfly.com. 11 am-11 pm Thursday-Saturday. Free.
Aug. 26-27: Hood to Coast Relay
The world's largest relay turns 30 this year, and 15,000 runners will celebrate from Timberline Lodge to Seaside while raising money for the American Cancer Society. After the teams complete the 200-mile route, spectators can meet them in Seaside for a beach party with live music, vendor booths, giveaways and an awards ceremony (beach ball not included). See hoodtocoast.com.
Aug. 26-Sept. 5: Oregon State Fair
If corn dogs, Skee-Ball and that swinging Viking boat define your idea of a perfect summer evening, head down to Salem for the Oregon State Fair. Peruse 500 exhibits and graze 75 restaurants, or try your hand at a carnival game (good luck knocking those jars down). The 11-day event attracts so many visitors it could qualify as Oregon's second-largest city—with Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen as this year's mayor. Oregon State Fairgrounds, 2330 17th Street NE, Salem, oregonstatefair.org. 10 am-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 10 am-11 pm Friday-Saturday. Ticket prices TBA.
Aug. 26-28: Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival
Wine, jazz and art. In Vancouver! Esther Short Park, 8th and Columbia streets, Vancouver, vancouverwinejazz.com. 4-10 pm Friday, 11 am–10 pm Saturday, 11 am–9 pm Sunday. $17-$25.
Aug. 27: Huey Lewis and the News
Prepare to be blown away by the power of love! Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, oregonzoo.org/concerts. $39.
Aug. 28: Southeast Sunday Parkways
Six miles of streets between Buckman and Mount Tabor will be closed to cars for five hours, with food, music and family activities in parks and on sidewalks along the route, coinciding with the Hawthorne Street Fair. 11 am-4 pm. See route at portlandsundayparkways.org.
Sept. 1: Oregon Symphony Waterfront Concert
Join the Oregon Symphony to kick off the 2011-12 season with a free concert at Portland's Waterfront Park. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 700 SW Naito Parkway, orsymphony.org/edu/comm_neigh.aspx. 5 pm Portland Youth Philharmonic, 7 pm symphony program. Free.
Sept. 7-11: MusicfestNW
MusicFestNW is back for its 11th year as Portland's largest music festival. Following last year's two al fresco shows, the festival has added a third night at Pioneer Courthouse Square, with Iron and Wine, Explosions in the Sky, and Band of Horses headlining. Various locations throughout Portland, see musicfestnw.com. $70 all indoor shows and one show at the square, $115 all indoor shows and all three shows at the square, $250 all-access VIP pass.
Sept. 8-18: TBA Festival
From workshops by morning to impromptu galleries by night, the Time-Based Art Festival turns Portland into an all-hours exhibit of contemporary visual and performing arts. Around-the-clock contemporary art enthusiasts can choose from a bevy of festival events, from stage performances to visual installations, including the premiere of Mike Daisey's 24-hour monologue, All the hours of the day. Various locations, see pica.org/tba. $8-$25 individual events, $250 full-festival pass. All ages.
Sept. 10: John Prine
One of America's most enduring songwriters, John Prine has a career that's spanned almost four decades. Catch Prine with Ani DiFranco as he performs his poignant songs to round out Edgefield's summer concerts. McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, edgefieldconcerts.com. $42-$74.
Sept. 25: Northeast Sunday Parkways
Eight miles of streets between Woodlawn Park and Northeast Cully Boulevard will be closed to cars for five hours, with food, music and family activities in parks and on sidewalks along the route. Noon-5 pm. See route at portlandsundayparkways.org.
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PASADENA, Calif. — NASA has successfully commanded the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to reboot its computer.
Mission manager Gaylon McSmith of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the restart on Wednesday went without a hitch.
Scientists wanted to reboot the computer because they're worried that its memory may have been corrupted from years of exposure to space radiation. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since 2001.
McSmith says the procedure also restored the spacecraft's backup systems. Engineers hadn't been sure those would work because a power component had become inoperable.
The reboot was delayed a day after engineers noticed a temperature spike. An investigation revealed that a heater circuit was temporarily stuck in the "on" position. The heater was turned off in advance of the reboot.
The Odyssey orbiter can resume operations after several days. Its best-known instrument is the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS for short. THEMIS and other instruments on the spacecraft have helped researchers identify huge reservoirs of water ice on the Red Planet.
This report was supplemented by msnbc.com.
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007. Revenue for the first quarter 2007 was $139.3 million, an 11 percent increase over fourth quarter 2006 revenue of $125.7 million, and a 53 percent increase over first quarter 2006 revenue of $90.8 million.
Akamai's first quarter consolidated financial results include 18 days of activity from Netli, Inc. following the closing of Akamai's acquisition of Netli on March 13, 2007. Netli contributed approximately $500,000 of revenue during the first quarter of 2007.
"Demand for our core content delivery and application acceleration services grew in all sectors of our business and helped us to achieve record performance in the first quarter," said Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai. "With our ongoing investment in internal research and development, along with key strategic acquisitions of Nine Systems, Netli, and most recently Red Swoosh, we continue to innovate to meet our customers' high expectations for quality delivery and enhanced functionality that will help them achieve their online business objectives."
Net income in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, for the first quarter of 2007 was $19.2 million, or $0.11 per diluted share.
The Company generated normalized net income* of $50.7 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2007, a seven percent increase over fourth quarter 2006 normalized net income of $47.5 million, or $0.27 per diluted share. (*See Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures below for definitions.)
Adjusted EBITDA* for the first quarter of 2007 was $58.8 million, up from $53.0 million in the fourth quarter 2006, and $33.4 million in the first quarter of 2006. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the first quarter was 42 percent, a 5 point improvement over the first quarter of last year. (*See Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures below for definitions.)
Cash from operations was $56.3 million, or 40 percent of revenue. At the end of the first quarter, the Company had approximately $480 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
The Company had approximately 164 million shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2007.
Akamai added 89 net new customers under long-term services contracts during the first quarter of 2007 and Netli contributed an additional 45 net new customers, bringing Akamai's total quarter-end number of customers under long-term services contracts to 2,481.
Sales through resellers and sales outside the United States accounted for 20 percent and 22 percent, respectively, of revenue for the first quarter 2007.
Akamai will host a conference call today at 4:30 p.m. ET that can be accessed through 1-888-689-4521 (or 1-706-645-9202 for international calls). A live Webcast of the call may be accessed at www.akamai.com in the Investor section. In addition, a replay of the call will be available for one week following the conference through the Akamai Website or by calling 1-800-642-1687 (or 1-706-645-9291 for international calls) and using conference ID No. 3310990.
Akamai® is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Thousands of organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatform, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com.
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Akamai defines "Adjusted EBITDA" as net income, before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of tangible and intangible assets, stock-related compensation, depreciation of capitalized stock-related compensation, restructuring charges and benefits, certain gains and losses on equity investments, foreign exchange gains and losses, loss on early extinguishment of debt, utilization of tax NOLs/credits and release of the deferred tax asset valuation allowance. Akamai considers Adjusted EBITDA to be an important indicator of the Company's operational strength and performance of its business and a good measure of the Company's historical operating trend.
Adjusted EBITDA eliminates items that are either not part of the Company's core operations, such as investment gains and losses, foreign exchange gains and losses, early debt extinguishment and net interest expense, or do not require a cash outlay, such as stock-related compensation and impairment of intangible assets. Adjusted EBITDA also excludes depreciation and amortization expense, which is based on the Company's estimate of the useful life of tangible and intangible assets. These estimates could vary from actual performance of the asset, are based on historic cost incurred to build out the Company's deployed network, and may not be indicative of current or future capital expenditures.
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Akamai defines "normalized net income" as net income before amortization of intangible assets, stock-related compensation, restructuring charges and benefits, certain gains and losses on equity investments, loss on early extinguishment of debt, utilization of tax NOLs/credits and release of the deferred tax asset valuation allowance. Akamai considers normalized net income to be another important indicator of the overall performance of the Company because it eliminates the effects of events that are either not part of the Company's core operations or are non-cash.
Akamai defines "normalized diluted shares" as diluted common shares outstanding used in GAAP net income per share calculation, excluding the effect of FAS 123R under the treasury stock method. Akamai considers normalized diluted shares to be another important indicator of overall performance of the Company because it eliminates the effect of a non-cash item.
Adjusted EBITDA and normalized net income should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, the Company's operating income and net income, as well as other measures of financial performance reported in accordance with GAAP.
In accordance with the requirements of Regulation G issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company is presenting the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and reconciling the non-GAAP financial metrics to the comparable GAAP measures.
This release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements concerning the expected growth and development of our business and expectations with respect to revenue. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, unexpected increases in Akamai's use of funds, loss of significant customers, failure to increase our revenue and keep our expenses consistent with revenues, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by unauthorized users or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's services or network infrastructure, failure to maintain the prices we charge for our services, inability to realize the benefits of our net operating loss carryforward, delay in developing or failure to develop new service offerings or functionalities, and if developed, lack of market acceptance of such service offerings and functionalities, unexpected expenses associated with the acquisitions and integrations of Nine Systems, Netli and Red Swoosh, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
In addition, the statements in this press release represent Akamai's expectations and beliefs as of the date of this press release. Akamai anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause these expectations and beliefs to change. However, while Akamai may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Akamai's expectations or beliefs as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.


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Raw and tender, full of longing and depth: That's just what jazz should feel like. This month, the brilliant baritone with the balloon cap tours Germany with Take Me To The Alley, his new album. Lufthansa Magazin peeked into his bag at Berlin's Tegel Airport.


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Title: China-U.S. Summit, October 1.997
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Author(s): Kerry Dumbaugh, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
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I know from meeting celebrities that they're often different from what I expect — so that even if I know their work well, they themselves are surprising, and I come away with extra insight into who they are. This insight I later see in their public manner, as something previously hiding in plain sight. Though famous and accomplished people are experts at getting you to like them, and at presenting who they'd like to be, I believe it's still possible, if you are attentive and willing to face the truth, to get something from actually meeting a person that's not possible to get from the distance of a screen.
That said, if we were to go back and meet dead people, why meet John Lennon, when you have a pretty good idea of what he looked and sounded like, when you could meet Mozart, or Abraham Lincoln?
With that in mind, who are five dead people — NOT COUNTING YOUR OWN RELATIVES — that you would most like to meet? The circumstances are up to you. Maybe you want to meet Jesus and miraculously speak Aramaic. Maybe you can't speak Aramaic and have to study before you take the trip. In any case, I think we should agree that the circumstances of each meeting is ideal, in the sense that you'd get to hang out, and outside time — at least in the sense that your visit won't affect the course of history. Otherwise, you may be going back in time to tell Kennedy to leave on the bubble top.
On my own list, I'd pick Thomas Jefferson and Lincoln. Probably Samuel Johnson. Then I'd like to hold a couple in reserve. I probably wouldn't want to meet Jesus, because that could just screw me up. I think I'd like to go to Rome and walk around the forum before it was in ruins . . . I'd have to give this some thought.
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DescriptionA few days after the events described in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Lara Croft is presumed dead. Her close friends begin to recollect her previous adventures, which occurred during different periods of her life. These include searching for the Philosopher's Stone in Rome; preventing the Spear of Destiny from falling into the hands of a ruthless gang leader; facing monsters on the Black Isle of Ireland as a child; and, finally, infiltrating a high-tech complex in pursuit of the Iris artefact.
Like its predecessors, Tomb Raider: Chronicles is an action game with puzzle-solving and platforming elements. The gameplay is very similar to that of the previous games, with the addition of a few new skills. Lara can now walk on tightropes, swing on horizontal bars, and somersault forwards from a ledge while crouching. A grappling hook has been added to her inventory. The game also includes a level editor, allowing the player to create new stages for Lara to explore.
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- "古墓奇兵5:回憶錄" -- Traditional Chinese spelling
- "古墓丽影:历代记" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
- "TRC" -- Informal short title
- "TR 5" -- Informal short title
- "Tomb Raider: Хроники" -- Russian spelling
- "Tomb Raider: מסע בזמן" -- Hebrew spelling
- "Tomb Raider V" -- Alias
- "Tomb Raider: Sur les traces de Lara Croft" -- French title
- "Tomb Raider: Die Chronik" -- German title
- "Tomb Raider Chronicles: La leggenda di Lara Croft" -- Italian title
- "Tomb Raider 5: Chronicles" -- Japanese title
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- Protagonist: Female
- Protagonist: Treasure hunter
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|Grant McLellan (622)
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|Power Unlimited
|Dec, 2000
|8.6 out of 10
|PC Joker
|Dec, 2000
|83 out of 100
|Gameplay (Benelux)
|Dec, 2000
|81 out of 100
|PC Games (Germany)
|Dec, 2000
|81 out of 100
|Gamezone (Germany)
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|Game Over Online
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|Svenska PC Games
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|Game Informer Magazine
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|Computer Gaming World (CGW)
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ContestSome releases came with a competition entry form (exactly, a product registration card) for a trip for two people to Rome to visit some locations explored in the game. Winners stayed for three nights at 4-star Hotel Quirinale, adjoined to the Opera House. One evening, you're invited to a Lara Croft photo shoot including a chance to have a photo taken with her. The trip was scheduled for early European summer of 2001. Alternatively a special offer with very limited places was made to general public at their own expense by contacting the provided telephone number.
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- The Adventure Continues (An Apple Games article about the Macintosh version of Chronicles, with commentary being provided by Aspyr President Michael Rogers (August, 2001).)
- Tomb Raider: Chronicles (Official Site - Eidos Interactive)
- Wikipedia: Tomb Raider Chronicles (Information about Tomb Raider Chronicles at Wikipedia)
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BRI-HB - Lemon-Yellow is a bright fluorescent pigment in liquid form. It reflects absorbed light into a bright fluorescence, has a solid content of 42~48%, and is formaldehyde free. This product is well suited for use in water-based applications.
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ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes to live with Sophie, her parents, and Sophie's Aunt Dika, a refugee of the war in Bosnia. Sophie loves Pedro - her Principito, or Little Prince. But after a year, Pedro's surviving family in Mexico makes contact, and Sophie, Dika, Dika's new boyfriend, and his son must travel with Pedro to his hometown so that he can make a heartwrenching decision.
About the Author
Laura Resau lived in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years as an English teacher and anthropologist. She now lives with her husband and her dog in Colorado.
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TMonitor, a new tool developed by the CPUID team, offers the possibility to understand what's going on with each hardware thread (logical core) on some modern multicore microprocessors.
Very old hardware running a single sequential code application was easier to understand than modern hardware running many applications executing dozens of software threads distributed into the available hardware threads (logical cores).
Parallelized code creates many tasks (the packages), stealing work from many threads (the cars), running on hardware threads (logical cores, the lanes). It sounds simpler using packages, cars and lanes to explain the main software and hardware layers involved in the execution of parallelized code. In fact, there is indeed much more than this. However, I'll keep the focus on the packages, the cars and the lanes.
How long is it going to take to travel 800 miles with 4 packages, using 4 cars (1 package in each car)? It depends on three variables, the number of available lanes, the cars' maximum speed and the maximum speed limit for each lane. I'll assume the cars' drivers are going to respect the maximum speed limits. It also depends on other variables. However, I'll keep the focus on these three variables.
There are many problems:
- Some lanes aren't completely independent lanes. They share some regions with other lanes (Hyper-Threading technology).
- The maximum speed limit for each lane could be reduced or increased (Energy saving schemes, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology and Intel Turbo Boost Technology among others).
- The cars' speed isn't constant. It changes because the cars' drivers find some traffic jams on the roads (operating system's scheduler decisions, sharing hardware resources, concurrency problems, inefficient code and I/O bottlenecks among others).
As you may guess, these problems happen in nanoseconds. Therefore, it is very important to understand modern parallel hardware in order to create efficient parallelized code.
There is a new tool, developed by the CPUID team, TMonitor, still in beta version, that allows you to display the active clock of each individual hardware thread (logical core) of a multicore microprocessor. It displays a graph showing the maximum speed limit for each lane, as shown in the following picture for a quad-code microprocessor (four physical cores without Hyper-Threading technology, four logical cores, four hardware threads):
TMonitor displaying 4 idle hardware threads (all frequencies = 2,400 MHz = 2.4 GHz).
TMonitor uses a very high refresh rate (20 times per second), therefore, it allows you to small clock variations for each hardware thread in real-time.
TMonitor displaying 1 hardware thread with its increased clock (one of the frequencies = 2800 MHz = 2.8 GHz).
TMonitor displaying 4 hardware threads with their increased clocks (all frequencies = 2,800 MHz = 2.8 GHz).
It can show you what's going on with the hardware threads. You can see the different maximum speed limits while parallelized applications are running. One of its interesting features is the possibility to detect Intel's Turbo Boost activation for each hardware threads.
The application is very simple to download and run. It comes in both 32-bits and 64-bits versions for Windows. This beta version has some limitations. It works only on Intel Core 2 and Core i3; i5 and i7 microprocessors. However, taking into account the other excellent free tools developed by the CPUID team, you can expect support for many other microprocessors soon.
The next time you want to understand what's going on with your parallelized code, you can use TMonitor to have more information about the underlying hardware. This way, you'll be able to understand why some small changes in the code could produce very different performance results.
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Commissioner Ward McDaniel began Tuesday�s regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners by speaking about a new atmosphere for discourse among commissioners, staff and the public.
Commissioner Ward McDaniel began Tuesday�s regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners by speaking about a new atmosphere for discourse among commissioners, staff and the public.
A resident later seconded that emotion to thunderous and sustained applause from a standing-room-only crowd spilling out of the meeting room.
The first meeting of 2014 brought a discussion about what had transpired in 2013, particularly the last few months when the temperature for discussion among commissioners and staff had reached boiling levels, including the calling of deputies at the end of the final emergency meeting of the year.
McDaniel, who began his yearlong tenure as BOCC chair, sought to navigate a different path from the outset.
Before the BOCC got down to business, McDaniel left the podium for the public lectern to say that a state law passed in 2013 had set parameters for conducting public meetings and the BOCC had in turn adopted rules for public input into meetings.
Saying that what he proposed was no reflection on past chairmen, only a reflection of that state law, McDaniel said, �This year will be different. I will conduct the meetings differently than they have in the past.�
He said he wanted discussion among commissioners, staff and the public to be �professional, kind and courteous� and said the meeting room was no place to air �dirty laundry.�
He said it was time to stop the contentiousness that has marked the recent months to �get some things accomplished.�
For Port St. Joe resident Elaine Lerch, who said she was spokesperson for many in the audience who in turn reflected a �wide cross section� of county residents, McDaniel�s words were welcome.
Lerch said she was there to speak about impressions and perceptions in the community and said the BOCC was viewed by many county citizens as �an embarrassment.�
She continued that �unprofessional� activities were evident to anyone attending, viewing or reading about the meetings. Comments and actions during meetings on Nov. 11 and Dec. 19 were particularly egregious, she noted.
Obvious bias had been demonstrated since the election of Commissioner Joanna Bryan in 2012, with county employees allowed to �speak disrespectfully to her without being reprimanded or stopped� and demeaning comments allowed to be directed at Bryan.
�Many citizens feel that the residents of Ms. Bryan�s district are being disenfranchised� as her efforts were thwarted, including changing county policy to �prevent her from doing her job,� Lerch added.
Lerch said part of the concern was a perception that the treatment of Bryan was due to her being female.
�If true, that is totally unacceptable,� Lerch said.
The board�s actions, Lerch said, reflected poorly on all commissioners and fed a negative perception of the BOCC.
�The image portrayed during these meetings casts demeaning and negative qualities on the entire county,� Lerch said, adding she did not believe commissioners �intend that nor want to portray� those qualities.
She also questioned the potential impact on economic development, suggesting that new businesses seeking to relocate to the county might have second thoughts when provided a taste of county government.
�We do not find this behavior acceptable nor do we, as citizens of the county, want this behavior to represent us to the wide audience �,� Lerch said. �We want this behavior to stop.�
She added that respect for the BOCC must be restored just as respect among individual commissioners and respect for all citizens must be restored and only the BOCC �can do this.�
�As county commissioners you have it in your power to perfect a code of conduct that we all can be proud of,� Lerch said. �We have just entered the new year � please view this as an opportunity for a fresh start and an opportunity to change the negative perceptions held regarding the Gulf County Commission.�
As Lerch returned to her seat, after urging commissioners to move meeting times back to evening, she was met by loud and long round applause from the audience.
Bryan and McDaniel each later thanked the public for the large turnout.
�I appreciate everyone being here and I also appreciate the support for open, accountable and representative government and I hope we will have that this year,� Bryan said.
Americus Ditch
The lone bone of contention during the meeting arose over the issue of the Americus Ditch and a letter from Ralph Rish of Preble Rish Engineers outlining a suggested path of action to address the project and its chronic problems.
Rish wrote that his company would fix, at its cost, five locations along the ditch to assess the best method of fixing drainage issues along the entire length. Preble Rish would also pay for materials the county would need to fix additional areas.
Bryan said she was pleased to see the response from Preble Rish, who engineered and inspected the original project, and thanked Rish for the information.
Rather than approve the letter, she said, staff and county attorney Jeremy Novak should use the letter as foundation for a scope of work so all were on the same page moving forward.
Commissioner Warren Yeager, an employee of Preble Rish, abstained and McDaniel and Commissioner Tan Smiley supported the motion.
Commissioner Carmen McLemore, who has been at odds with Bryan since her arrival on the BOCC, said he opposed waiting and that he believed Preble Rish might pull the letter if the BOCC could not make a final decision on Rish�s proposal.
Bryan said it was only prudent for the parties to craft a scope of services everybody could agree on before moving ahead. The scope will be brought to the BOCC during the Jan. 28 regular meeting.
Smiley spent his speaking time on a familiar topic � urging consolidation between the county and city of Port St. Joe on law enforcement and a building department.
Noting that he is �handcuffed� because much of his district is within the city limits, denying Smiley as many opportunities as other county commissioners, Smiley said his suggestions had fallen on deaf ears with city commissioners.
He said there was no reason to continue with a two separate law enforcement agencies and did not understand why building in the city required seeking permits in Bay County � the office location for the city�s contracted building inspector � when the county had a building department.
Repeatedly, he said he wished he was a city commissioner in order to force a �serious� meeting on consolidation.


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A collection of resources to help equip and train us in our mission to students.
From personal evangelism to ideas for CU events, practical pointers in leading Bible studies for non-believers and videos to encourage us to be bold. It's all here. Have a browse and get equipped to reach students with the good news of Jesus Christ.


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Gary Vaynerchuk will contribute to The Daily for a video feature called "The Next Wave." It's not about wine; it's about Twitter!
"Beginning this week, best-selling author and radio host, Gary Vaynerchuk, will be an on-camera contributor for The Daily. In this role, he will offer analysis on the latest developments in business, technology and social media trends," the iPad app announced today.
Mr. Vaynerchuk is a talented Twitter-er who issues dozens of @ replies a day to keep his audience engaged.
The Daily's 15 minutes of fame ended a few weeks ago so here's a reminder from the press release:
About The Daily
The Daily is a first-of-its-kind daily national news publication built exclusively as an application for tablet computing. It provides readers the engaging experience of a magazine combined with the immediacy of the web and the need-to-know content of a newspaper, all while elevating user experience beyond the printed word. The Daily is a subscription-based news product, published 365 days a year, at the cost of $0.99 cents a week or $39.99 a year.


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Hardened by centuries of torture, former blood slave, Gabriel Erhard, is driven by an insatiable need to destroy his enemies. Violence darkens his battered soul, leaving no place for mercy in his world. Gabriel's only desire is vengeance—until he finds her.
Seized by vampires, bound as a slave, and placed on the auction block, Jordan Culver is instantly entranced by the dangerous male who claims her. Jordan's new captor vows to set her free, but his haunted gaze burns with savage desire and his wicked kiss makes her crave his touch and...complete surrender.
While Gabriel battles his enemies, he will break every sacred law to achieve his ultimate goal—uniting the Outcast Society and creating a new vampire Clan. But the distracting human with mesmerizing violet eyes jeopardizes his plans. With very soft whisper she evokes his tormented memories, testing his sanity and challenging his every boundary. Can Jordan help him overcome the miseries of his past and find a future with her?
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Reef Recovery After Mass Extinction
Reefs recovered faster after mass extinction than first thought
|These are reef-forming sponges from the early Triassic era. Credit: UZH
Harsh living conditions caused by major fluctuations in the carbon content and sea levels, overacidification and oxygen deficiency in the seas triggered the largest mass extinction of all time at the end of the Permian era 252 million years ago.
Life on Earth was also anything but easy after the obliteration of over 90 percent of all species: Throughout the entire Early Triassic era, metazoan-dominated reefs were replaced by microbial deposits.
Researchers had always assumed it took the Earth as long as five million years to recover from this species collapse. Now, however, an international team, including the paleontologist Hugo Bucher from the University of Zurich and his team of researchers, has proven that reefs already existed again in the southwest of what is now the USA 1.5 million years after the mass extinction. These were dominated by metazoan organisms such as sponges, serpulids and other living creatures, the researchers report in Nature Geoscience.
Growth thanks to new reef-forming metazoan organisms
Metazoan-dominated reefs already developed during the Early Triassic, much earlier than was previously assumed. As soon as the environmental conditions more or less returned to normal, the reef began to grow again due to metazoan organisms that had played a secondary role in reefs up to then. "This shows that, after the extinction of dominant reef creators, metazoan were able to form reef ecosystems much sooner than was previously thought," says Hugo Bucher, summing up the new discovery.
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Robert Lee Vannatter, Jr., died peacefully in his sleep at home in Scotts Valley, CA on Monday, August 27, 2012. He was 91. Born in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia on March 8, 1921, Vannatter met his wife, Avis May Whitlock (1935-1975) in San Diego, CA, and they married in 1953. They had three children, who survive him: Michael Vannatter, Susan Vannatter-Prang, and Daniel Vannatter. An engineer by profession, Robert worked in the aerospace field in Burbank and Sunnyvale, CA for more than 35 years. During WWII, Robert saw service in the 82nd Airborne, 507th Paratrooper Division of the US Army. The country of France recently awarded him a Chevalier (Knight) medal of the Legion of Honor for his heroic efforts during the earliest hours of the Normandy invasion on June 6th, 1944. He will be missed.
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Is your dealership's 'contact made' rate for Internet leads in the 65-75% range? If not, here are three things to focus on that will help. Josh Vajda, Direc...
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Great video Josh, and I love the three points. Here's my issue though: I believe we have Process, Effort, and Great Message coming out of our ears. I am respected and even sought after, but never can I imagine 65-75% contact rate. So who/what do I blame this on? Myself? The Leads? My people?
I know how hard I work, my message is straight, true and transparent, with dignity and respect. My process is honed from years of paying attention...I'm having a tough time even believing those numbers. There's no way I'm that far out in left field...No way!
I take this all pretty seriously, and I gotta' tell ya' this is pretty upsetting. Indeed...
Thanks for the replies, gents...William, one of the challenges I've had with the "most sales come in the first 2 weeks" is that it doesn't jive with registration data showing purchases after lead submission (I've seen multiple distributions, all showing heavy purchase volume from 30-90 days after lead submission). It would make sense that a dealer would see most of their sales in the first few days after the lead's receipt if they're only following up for a short period of time, but with a 10-15% aggregate closing % for all leads, 85%+ didn't buy from them at all. Those customer (largely) still buy cars within the 90-day timeframe...
agree with most of this and I wish I had Josh's speaking voice!!! My 10 years of researching these issues (and contact ratios first) has yielded the following. With a solid out bound contact pattern that is very agressive, almost all of my dealers achieve a 75 to 95% contact ratio. My stats also say that if you dont touch them in the first 5 days you will most likely wont sell them. You may sell them as far out as 90 days, but what you get there isn't worth ruining what can be gotten now. Most of the sales made got touched in 5 days, sold in 10 to 15. Wasting resources (a sales persons time) chasing the minority of the business because its techno-friendly to chase is dumb if it costs you the stuff thats buying now. For the record most dealers do this because well meaning consultants only study poor processes to pull stats from. Mystery shop more and watch. Its completely eye opening.
Definitely three things I've been preaching to my Internet Manager's for years. Works great for the ones with the two things I can't teach. Drive and desire.
Great information. Thanks for sharing Josh.
After setting up many dealership BDC's and Internet Sales Teams, and managing several for quite a few years, I can attest to the validity of Josh's guidance. Driving higher customer contact rates is more a function of process and communication aptitude than it is a reflection of "Lead Quality". I cannot even guess how many times a sales professional has marked a lead as being "Invalid" or "Does Not Answer" and when I pulled it up in a CRM tool, dialed the customer from my cell phone, the customer picked it up and we began a conversation... They being still in the market for a vehicle. Custom Contact Ratios are amongst the most important measurements in evaluating process execution and employee performance, regardless of how your dealership is organized, or who is responsible for following up on leads.
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House budget-writers are looking to pay for damage from Hurricane Ike and other disasters with state general-revenue money instead of the savings account known as the rainy day fund.
It takes a super-majority of the Legislature to spend money from the rainy day fund, and Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts said there aren't the necessary 100 votes in the 150-member House.
Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, might have 100 or 101 "soft votes" for his House Bill 6 to pay for disaster damage. But that's not the same as a committed vote.
If 100 House votes can't be mustered to spend rainy-day money to address disaster damage, Pitts said he doesn't think the votes are there to spend that money for anything else, either.
Lawmakers are worried they'll need the money more years down the road, he said.
That's largely because of a built-in budget shortfall caused when the state took over a larger share of public education funding by lowering local school property tax rates and didn't raise state taxes enough to cover that cost.
The faltering economy isn't a confidence-builder, either.
The rainy day fund, if untapped, is expected to stand at $9.1 billion in a couple of years.
The cost for the measure addressing disaster damage is around $700 million, Pitts said.
UPDATE: Eiland said while lawmakers definitely support paying to address hurricane damage, there may a debate "all the way 'til June" about how to fund the repairs.
"Probably some members would like to see the final budget picture before making a final determination and decision on rainy day funds," Eiland said.
"My preference coming into session was to pay for hurricane damages through rainy-day funds because it seems to me that's what it's for, and I didn't want to have to compete with other obligations and priorities … I am grateful for the support that we are getting from the members, and I can't really complain about which pocket" the money comes from," he said.
The House Appropriations Committee will approve the bill with state general-revenue funding, but that could change down the road as lawmakers flesh out the overall budget through the next two years, he said.


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Jake Peavy looked strong on the mound today, throwing 40 pitches and earning at least one, "wow, very good" from pitching coach Don Cooper. Peavy threw about 12 breaking balls, facing Omar Vizquel, Lastings Milledge and Eduardo Escobar, and reported no abnormal discomfort afterward. The hurler is due to scale the mound again on Saturday for a workout to be determined. Cooper as much as said he saw more than expected from Peavy today. Ramon Castro, who caught Peavy's session, thought that the fireballer's breaking stuff was season-ready, but he estimated his fastball at around 70-80%.
Gonzo reports "Peavy threw with more velocity."
UPDATE: Merkin @ CWS:
Those reins became a little looser on Wednesday during Peavy's second 40-pitch live bullpen session in the past three days. Once again, the outing was split up into two "innings," with Peavy throwing 20 pitches, sitting down and giving way to Gavin Floyd, and then coming back to throw 20 more.
Of those 40 pitches, Peavy estimated 10 or 12 of those were of the breaking ball variety. It marked a significant climb from just the handful of off-speed pitches Peavy threw on Monday.
Having these breaking balls look crisp and sharp becomes another bonus in this climb to a regular-season return.
"It looked like the old Peavy, breaking ball stuff," said White Sox catcher Ramon Castro, who was behind the plate Wednesday when Peavy threw to hitters Lastings Milledge, Omar Vizquel and Eduardo Escobar. "With the fastball he's not there yet, but he's going to get there."
"Now he is throwing the ball better," said White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper of Peavy. "He probably went up a notch in intensity. He certainly is doing what everybody else is doing. It's a credit to the surgeons, Jake and Herm [Schneider, White Sox head athletic trainer], following up on all the things he is supposed to be doing."


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The Web-Porn Patrol
Anonymous Patron sends " this brief article in Time magazine about how to keep x-rated (and more) content away from kids. Not a lot of depth or new info for those of us in the trenches. I do have to wonder if this person has kids, because of this statement:
This $40 program (available at cybersitter.com) can run in a stealth mode so your kids don't notice it's there. When they try to log on to a blocked site, they are presented with either a blank page or a standard error message that reads, "This page cannot be displayed."
My kids are smart enough to know that if they keep getting error messages on their favorite websites, something's up."
Keeping kids safe...
Well, your kids may be "net savvy"--some are, some aren't. But I venture that even if they do figure out something is going on, they'll appreciate it in the end because their parent cares enough to protect them.
Many kids 6-10 can use the net, and without filtering, who knows what they might run into...
And its a documented fact that many sex offenders were addicted to pornography at early ages, due to parental negligence or even purposeful exposure.
See this site for just one example.
I hope not
"My kids are smart enough to know that if they keep getting error messages on their favorite websites, something's up."
Your kids favorite websites are pron portals? heh
Re:Keeping kids safe...
I'm sure many sex offenders also grew up in households where they were neglected or abused. What's your point?
Re:Keeping kids safe...
I have to disagree with your statement that it is a documented fact that many sex offenders were addicted to pornography.
Truthfully one cannot be addicted to an action, and looking at pornography is an action. This is of course a literal, medical interpretation. I have heard that people are addicted to ice cream or tennis or some such thing but those are not true addictions.
That said I find it very hard to believe that any study found a causal relationship between obsession with pornography and the commission of sex crimes. I have made a cursory search and I can find no authoratative study that demonstrates that. I did look at the site to which you linked, and I did see that studies it mentioned show that there is pornography use by sex offenders, but it does not establish a causal relationship.
However the points made on the linked site regarding the false messages sent by our sexualized culture (bullet points 1/3 of the way down) are on point. Avoiding promiscuity would serve each of us individually and collectively quite well.
Please note that I am vehemently opposed to allowing minors access to indecent, pornographic or obscene material. I also encourage parents to restrict their computer through the use of constant supervision, filters, or whatever they find works best for their family.
Looking at dirty books is not going to make a six year old a sex offender. Otherwise National Geographic would have been kept out of the Catholic schools' libraries.
Good Lord
Butt plug. I would have to assume it is a medical device perhaps used during x-ray or endoscopic examinations.
Being an RN I know way too much stuff about how people use household objects. Sometimes I wish I still had my naïveté.
I am going to wash my brain with hot soapy water, again. I feel so dirty.
Re:Keeping kids safe...
OK... I guess drinking doesn't lead to becoming an alcoholic, right? Somehow I fail to see that one can become an alcoholic without drinking!!
That said, it's not universal, and in some cases, sexual offenders have more a a violent motive than sexual, but here's a quote that I think says it well...
"Sexual addiction has progressive features. Whereas some sex addicts may not progress beyond self-destructive behavior, i.e. compulsive masturbation, hustling, cruising, or the extensive use of pornography or phone and computer sex services, others may escalate to victimizing activities such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, obscene phone calls, child molestation, or rape. For some, sexual dependency may lead to more risky, intense, and exploitative acts. The lack of appropriate assessment and treatment of sexual addiction in its early stages may lead to failure to prevent more assaultive sexual acts."
from: http://www.sexualrecovery.com/resources/articles/
MORE LINKS... you'll have to judge whether any of them are "authoritative"!!
From this site: http://www.ktk.ru/~cm/stat2.htm -->
Does Pornography Promote Abuse?
Dr. William Marshall (1983)
87% of girl child molesters and 77% of boy child molesters studied admitted to regular use of hard core adult pornography. The obscene material was used by these sex offenders for three reasons:
(1) to stimulate themselves;
(2) to destroy the consciences and lower the inhibitions and resistance to sexual activity in their intended child victims; and
(3) as teaching tools for the child to imitate or model in their real life sexual encounter with the adult.
John Rabun, Exploited and Missing Children Unit of Louisville, KY
"The Police/Social work team of the Exploited and Missing Child Unit (EMCU) of Louisville, KY investigated 1,400 cases of children suspected of being victims of sexual exploitation. Over 40 major cases involved the successful prosecution of adults involved with over 12 children each. One case involved 320 children. At the time of the arrest of and/or service of search warrants, all 40 of these adult predators were found with various forms of adult pornography, and in most cases child nudes and/or child pornography were also found.
"Over four years, the EMCU team learned to expect to always find adult pornography since it was used for:
(1) the offender's own arousal;
(2) self-validation of their own sex deviations;
(3) extortion of child victims or other adults; and
(4) deliberate and planned lowering of inhibitions of child victims.
The Badgley Report (1984)
The report found that almost 60% of both male and female juvenile prostitutes had been asked to be the subject of sexually explicit films or photographs; 12% of the girls and 20% of the boys had actually been used in making pornography; juvenile prostitutes are a high-risk group in regard to being exploited by pornographers.
Two smaller American studies (Burgess: 755 of youth hustlers had participated in pornography;
John Rabun: 37% had participated) emphatically confirm this finding.
Silbert and Pines (1984)
A detailed content analysis of 193 cases of rape and of 178 cases of juvenile sexual abuse revealed a clear relationship between violent pornography and sexual abuse.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder 111-R
Pedophiles who act on their urges with children commonly develop excuses or rationalizations about their illegal sexual activities toward the children:
1) that they have "educational value" for the child
2) that the child derives "sexual pleasure" from them
3) that the child was "sexually provocative" toward them -- led them on.
These three rationalizations are "themes that are also common in pedophillic pornography." p.284. In other words, pornography teaches three myths that pedophiles believe, and act on, when they molest children.
Southern California Child Exploitation Task Force (1988)
"One of the men we prosecuted had 50,000 photographs of noncommercial child pornography in a storage locker. He admitted molesting several hundred children following his release from a state hospital for a child molestation conviction. He even maintained a ledger listing those molestations. He taught swimming and tennis to youngsters, some of whom became his victims."
Re:Keeping kids safe...
Truthfully one cannot be addicted to an action, and looking at pornography is an action.
I hate to say it, but this is wrong, mdoneil. There are two kinds of addiction; physical, such as alcoholism, and psychological. The most common form of physical addiction is a chemical dependency such as to nicotine, alcohol, street drugs, and etc. I can't think of any samples of psychological addiction off hand, but a psychological addiction is no less real than a physical one.
That doesn't make kctipton's reply correct, however. One can drink without becoming an alcoholic. I do. But with pornography, there is, among censorship advocates, an a priori assumption that use leads to addiction by way of a slippery slope argument. The argument is that if you use porn, you come to want increasingly more graphic porn. This is similar to the fallacious gateway drug argument that if you use marijuana, you're going to go on to use heroin and cocaine. This argument falls flat when you consider that caffeine is a drug (and alcohol is actually a narcotic by definition; check a Blackinston-Gould medical dicionary) and a lot of people who drink coffee, booze it up socially, and smoke like chimneys do not go on to be crackheads.
The "Harmful To Minors" argument is just another a priori assumption. If the human specie were all that frail we wouldn't have survived as long as we have. Censorship advocates use it as a handy excuse to try to control what the rest of humanity does; which is what all censorship boils down to.
If you're interested and haven't seen them already I have a couple of commentaries about this situation. The first one is about how to determine "Harmful To Minors"angelfire.com>, and the second is about the inherent disrespect in censorship for the human dignity of minorsangelfire.com>.
Re:I hope not
For instance, the oldest came across the word "butt plug" on a humor site.
Along I-610 West Loop here in Houston, near the Galleria, used to be a great greasy-hamburger-joint called Luke's. After a fire it went out of business and is now "Zone d'Erotica", with a big purplish-pink sign just at eye-level for freeway traffic, right in your face, basically. Of course my daughter noticed it (she was riding with my wife) and asked about it. My wife gave an age-appropriate explanation along the lines of Rochelle's explanation, which satisfied her, but apparently she comments on it each time they pass it. I wish it were still Luke's. I enjoyed their burgers.
Re:Keeping kids safe...
I guess drinking doesn't lead to becoming an alcoholic, right?
Not by itself, no. Drinking is only one factor in a series of complex social and personal interactions. But censorship advocates don't like complexities. They generally can't think beyond black and white, so they like to keep things simplistic. Alcohol causes alcoholism, therefore if we enact a law banning alcohol we can cure alcoholism. Study up on how effective the 18th amendment was. The war on drugs is just as collosal a failure -- it is, after all, just another Prohibition -- because shortsighted fools can't see beyond the ends of their petty prejudices. The authors of the study or whatever it is you cited are the same. Ask any rape councillor and they should tell you that rape is not about sex.
And something you and they haven't taken into account is which condition is causal and which is effectal. The a priori assumption in the use of pornography is that porn causes criminal behaviour, but censorship advocates never look into whether or not porn use actually derives from a predisposition to engage in criminal behaviour. To do would violate the black/white paradigm.
Re:Keeping kids safe...
Does that mean that if they had never been exposed to porn, they never would have become sex offenders? As Fang-fang noted, you are making a HUGE leap.
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Thank you commonsense and Fang-Face for the readings.
I was going to post a long and involved response, but I am too old and too weary to type all that. If you want to meet me at the bar next to the dirty bookstore near my house we can discuss it there.
Alcohol is not a narcotic, that is just silly. Taber's dictionary is an authoratative source, I just can't find mine now. However Steadman's Medical Dictonary (also remarkably good at supporting shelves) notes that narcotics are " Origninally any drug derived from Opium" So when one discusses narcotics with nurses or physicians one thinks of opiate or synthetic opiate derived medications. ETOH is not an opiate. Those Blackinston-Gould fellas are out of their tree.
Re:Keeping kids safe...
As near as I can recall to quote:
NARCOTIC: A substance which cause stupor, sleep, or euphoria, and which falls into one of three classes; opiates, bella donna alkaloids, and alcohol.
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This high-spirited drama by Pirandello defies expectations. It is not the intellectual whirlwind of his Six Characters in Search of an Author but takes us instead to the heart of a rural community where property and kinship provoke fierce passions. Liolà, a young man untroubled by tradi-tion, takes the part of nature all the way.
Of course it's wrong to force a well-guarded gate, but a boy who follows an open path, well.
Written in Sicilian dialect, Liolà is rarely played in the English language. Tanya Ronder's new version is performed by an Irish cast and gypsy mu-sicians. It's unexpected, funny and touching.
You can't have a full barrel and a drunk wife, you just can't cut it both ways.
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Wednesday, 6th November 2013
1 hour 35 minutes
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Leek, mushroom & gruyère quiche
A favourite of Good Food's associate food ed, this quiche just had to be on the site. Perfect comfort food
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- saturates26g
- carbs30g
- sugars3g
- fibre3g
- protein12g
- salt0.7g
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- 250g pack chestnut mushroom, sliced
- 2 eggs
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- 140g gruyère, coarsely grated
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For the pastry
To make the pastry, tip the flour and butter into a bowl, then rub together with your fingertips until completely mixed and crumbly. Add 8 tbsp cold water, then bring everything together with your hands until just combined. Roll into a ball and use straight away or chill for up to 2 days. The pastry can also be frozen for up to a month.
Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface to a round about 5cm larger than a 25cm tin. Use your rolling pin to lift it up, then drape over the tart case so there is an overhang of pastry on the sides. Using a small ball of pastry scraps, push the pastry into the corners of the tin (see picture, above left). Chill in the fridge or freezer for 20 mins. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.
While the pastry is chilling, heat the butter in a pan and cook the leeks for 10 mins, stirring occasionally, until they soften. Then turn up the heat and add the mushrooms. Cook for 5 mins more, then turn off the heat.
Lightly prick the base of the tart with a fork, line the tart case with a large circle of greaseproof paper or foil, then fill with baking beans. Blind-bake the tart for 20 mins, remove the paper and beans, then continue to cook for 5-10 mins until biscuit brown
While the tart case cooks, beat the eggs in a bowl, then gradually add the cream. Stir in the leeks, mushrooms and half the cheese. Season, then tip the filling into the tart case. Sprinkle with the rest of the cheese, then bake for 20-25 mins until set and golden brown. Leave to cool in the case, trim the edges of the pastry, then remove and serve in slices.


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In Ban Phan Luang, across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, Buddhist monks walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. In neighborhoods, after receiving food, they line up and chant a blessing towards the benefactor's house. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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