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Last updated 2/13/2013 at 8:16am
Grand Coulee
2/4 - A man on Wenatchee Ave. NE, reported a suspicious vehicle by his residence and told police that when he went outside to see what they wanted, they drove away. Police checked the area for the vehicle but couldn't find it.
2/5 - A man leaving Safeway with his bags of groceries was allegedly punched in the nose by his previous girlfriend's new boyfriend. The altercation reportedly occurred just outside the store. Later police arrested the alleged assailant and are going to ask the prosecutor's office to file an obstruction charge against the woman, who they said lied when asked who had started the fight. The man who was struck was treated at Coulee Medical Center.
2/6 - A man living on Partello Park told police that someone had thrown articles through his vehicle windows. Police later found a man walking in the area who said he was on his way to where the damage had occurred. Later this man confessed that he had used part of a transmission to break the windows. Total damage was estimated at over $2,400. The Electric City man said he broke the windows because he thought a roommate at the house had contacted his girlfriend and he was mad. Police are asking the prosecutor's office to charge him with second-degree malicious mischief.
2/7 - Authorities in Billings, Mont., advised dispatch that there was a domestic violence incident on King Street. Police arrived and the occupants of the residence told police that they were being harassed over the phone by a person who had stayed at that location. They were advised to box up the man's belongings and keep track of any threats being made.
- A driver was stopped on Midway Avenue after an officer saw him talking on his cell phone. He didn't have insurance and he was cited.
- A woman living on Hill Avenue told officers that her husband had put his W-2 in his uncle's mailbox and the uncle wouldn't return it to him. The officer knocked on the uncle's door but no one would answer.
- After an officer observed his vehicle speeding, a Burdin Boulevard man was cited for not transferring title to a vehicle within 45 days and for not stopping at an intersection.
- A driver from Snoqualmie was stopped for going 64 mph in a 35 mph zone in Electric City. She was cited for going 45 mph.
2/8 - A Harrington, Wash., driver was stopped on SR-155 for talking on his cellphone while driving. He was cited.
- Police were advised by dispatch that there were two wanted juveniles at an apartment on Spokane Way. Police checked the apartment but no one was present.
- A woman walking her dog in Electric City advised police that a dog at Park Avenue and Sunset Avenue had charged her dog. When police arrived the dog was in the middle of the road and a vehicle had to swerve to avoid it. The officer advised the owner of the dog to keep it penned up.
- An officer from Laurel, Mont., advised local authorities of a man on King Street who allegedly was going to kill himself. Police checked and found it was a man who had made several such statements.
2/9 - Police checked on a report of loud music coming from a residence on Jackson Avenue in Electric City but were unable to locate the source.
- A man was pulled over for crossing the fog line several times near the overlook area just above Grand Coulee Dam and was cited for his tabs being expired.
- A woman who had a rental on Division Street told police that her tenant was behind in his rent and she planned to remove his belongings. The officer advised the landlord that she needed to go through the courts.
- A woman living on Young Street was arrested and taken to Grant County Jail on a domestic violence charge after allegedly hitting her husband in the stomach after he changed her password on the computer. The man said he didn't want a no-contact order against his wife, he just wanted to sleep. The report stated that the woman, who had been drinking, gave the officer problems all the way to the jail and also to the jail staff.
2/10 - Officers checked on a report of loud music, a party, and people yelling at a location on Hill Avenue. The music was off when officers arrived and no one answered the door.
- At the request of someone from Nebraska who saw a posting on Facebook and was worried about a possible suicide, police checked on an Electric City woman, who said the posting had to do with Child Protective Services, not suicide.
- A man who asked another for money owed him ended up with what was considered a broken nose. The man asked for his money and the other opened his vehicle door and punched him in the nose. The officer is asking the prosecutor to file charges of assault and malicious mischief.
- Officers responded to a call about a fight at the corner of Sunny Drive and Fifth Street. An officer was advised that someone had damaged two vehicles and a woman was found underneath one vehicle. The woman was cuffed and put in the patrol car while officers reviewed damage to the car. Oil had been poured inside the vehicle, and while this was being photographed, the woman started kicking the windows of the patrol car. She was hobbled by police and later taken to Grant County Jail. She kept hitting her head on the window between the front and back seats while enroute to jail. Damage to two vehicles was estimated at over $2,000.
2/11 - A caller stated that someone was burglarizing the water treatment plant in Electric City. A description of the person was given to police who later stopped a suspect answering the description. At first the man denied it, but later said he had been at the plant. Police are asking the prosecutor's office to charge him with criminal trespass and giving false information to an officer.
Coulee Dam
2/4 - A driver was stopped on Mead Way for speeding and the officer found he didn't have current license tabs or insurance. He was warned about driving the vehicle before he took care of the problems.
- Police checked on a vehicle on the bridge that the driver couldn't get started. The officer requested help from an officer with a push bar on his vehicle and one came from Grand Coulee and pushed the vehicle off the bridge and into a parking area. The driver was advised to lock his car until he could get it fixed and moved.
2/5 - A woman at the USBR Visitor Center called police to state that she had found two dogs, a golden retriever and a cocker spaniel, running loose. Police checked the collars of the dogs and found that the owner lived in Coulee Dam. The owner was called and came to get them and was warned by the officer that there was a $300 fine for allowing dogs to run loose. He gave the owner a warning notice.
2/7 - A drug dog "hit" on a student's backpack at Lake Roosevelt High School. The pack contained a smoking device and some marijuana. The boy's parents were called and the prosecutor's office was notified for possible charges.
2/8 - A man on Grant Street told police that he thought someone had cut his battery cable and that he had a tire that kept going flat. The officer noted the cable was corroded and appeared to have just fallen apart. The man said he had had the tire checked and no one could find anything wrong with it.
- A student at Lake Roosevelt High School was arrested on a warrant and taken to the Okanogan County juvenile facility.
2/9 - Police were advised of a person possibly needing assistance on Tulip Street. They found a man in a wheelchair who said he needed assistance getting to his home. The officer parked his patrol car and pushed the man to his home.
2/10 - A woman drove up to the police station and told an officer that she had a warrant out for her and she wanted to turn herself in. The officer learned the woman had a felony warrant and a misdemeanor warrant out for her. She was taken to Okanogan County Jail.
- A clerk at Harvest Foods told police that two young males had exited the store with alcohol. He gave police a description of the vehicle they left in and said that they often frequent the store.


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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- Chicago Fire players met for the first time with new head coach and Director of Soccer Frank Yallop Wednesday morning. The meeting was their first real interaction with their new boss, save for forward Quincy Amarikwa who is familiar with the Canadian manager.
It was Yallop that drafted the athletic forward in the third round of the 2009 MLS SuperDraft and served as head coach for the first year-and-a-half of his professional career.
"I enjoyed playing for Frank," Amarikwa said Wednesday. "I like his training style, his demeanor, how he carries himself. He's a good person, I enjoyed my time in San Jose a lot and I think it was a good place for me to start out my rookie year. Where I'm at now is a result of my year and a half there."
Though Yallop was the coach that drafted him, he was also the one that traded Amarikwa to Colorado in early 2010. With the Rapids going on a Cinderella MLS Cup run that season, it was a move that Amarikwa joked, "Worked out alright for me."
Amarikwa has had somewhat of a career sojourn through MLS, playing with four different teams in five seasons, often seeing limited minutes throughout.
Still, his move to the Fire in 2013 provided somewhat of a breakthrough.
Though he had the second lowest minutes total of his career, Amarikwa became an oft-used super-sub off the bench, tallying a career high three goals in just 299 minutes, while providing danger to opposing and tired defenders at the end of games. He also led the Fire reserves with six goals.
Set to enter his sixth MLS season, the forward hopes his performance in limited minutes combined with a new coach that's familiar with him might translate into something more going in to 2014.
"It's not my decision to make," he said. "All I can do is continue what I'm doing -- score goals in reserve matches and exhibitions and score in the few minutes I get in first team games. It's just down to showing myself on a more consistent basis.
"Most coaches when they come in are bringing in their own guys or guys they know personally or through colleagues. In this instance, this happens to be the guy that drafted me – hopefully it plays in my favor but you never know."
Amarikwa should get a decent idea of where he stands rather soon.
A new agreement between MLS and the Players Union means non-playoff teams aren't allowed to train together formally past Wednesday. As a result, Fire players took their exit physicals Wednesday and began one-on-one meetings with Yallop that will extend through Friday before being free to leave for the offseason.


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Jessica Pennington and Blake Easter have announced their engagement.
Jessica is the daughter of Keith and Sheri Pennington of Morenci. She is a 2000 graduate of Lenawee Christian High School, a 2004 graduate of Olivet Nazarene University, and a 2009 graduate of English Nanny and Governess School. She is currently employed as the governess of twin two-year-olds in Nashville, Tenn.
Blake is the son of Gary and Claudia Easter of Floresville, Texas, formerly of Tecumseh, Mich. He is a 1998 graduate of Tecumseh High School and a graduate of Full Sail University. He is currently employed as a free-lance music producer in Nashville.
The couple is planning a New Year's Eve wedding ceremony in Morenci.


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Abstract: This article intends to contribute to the conceptualising of organisational sensegiving. Based upon a qualitative analysis of how Swedish wind farm developers manage the permit application process for their projects, we describe in a first order analysis how they contextualise and ontologise their projects and defend them against criticisms. To emphasise the precarious conditions of agency that govern the activity of sensegivers, we introduce in a second order analysis the notion of mise-en-sens, a neologism that borrows both from the performing sens art notion of mise-en-scene and the fact that 'sens' can in French mean both meaning and direction. Mise-en-sens underscores that stage-setting and direction providing are key activities of wind farm developers. In our concluding remarks we even suggest that mise-en-sens could serve to describe the activity of others involved in sensegiving, for example project managers or entrepreneurs. Keywords: Mise-en-sens, sensegiving, wind power, infrastructure development URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7030
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A five-member team of Merrill Lynch advisors based in New York, led by Harvey Kadden and boasting more than $1 billion in assets and $14 million in yearly fees and commissions, recently left the firm to join Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Several days afterward, Merrill Lynch hired a team in North Texas from Morgan Stanley with about $478 million in assets and $4.4 million in yearly fees and commissions. It also announced more recruits from Wells Fargo and Credit Suisse and the addition of 27 Merrill Edge advisors.
Recruiters say the departure of Kadden and his colleagues, should send a strong warning to Bank of America-Merrill Lynch — either improve the relationship between the bank management and FAs or watch more wealth managers depart. "This is sending a big message to Merrill Lynch," explained Rick Peterson, head of Rick Peterson & Associates in Houston. "Brokers get it. It's amazing. My phone is ringing and ringing. This is huge."
Merrill had 16,722 advisors as of Sept. 30, while Morgan Stanley (MS) had 17,290. As the concentration of assets in the wealth-management industry continues to increase, competition for the top advisors is intensifying, experts say. There is also growing pressure from smaller boutique firms, as well as hefty regulatory and financial issues that broker-dealers — and particularly bank-owned firms — must tackle. Barclays Wealth, for instance, said recently that it recruited six advisors, including one from Merrill Lynch and one from BofA-U.S. Trust; the combined assets under management for these six FAs is $3.3 billion, while their total yearly sales and commissions is $15 million.
BofA-Merrill's (BAC) head of wealth management, Sallie Krawcheck, was forced out of Bank of America-Merrill Lynch in early September as part of the bank's reorganization, and this sudden move created some bad feelings, observers say. Historically, advisors "have always been wary about banks," Peterson said, "because banks pay less and use a salary-and-bonus structure vs. straight [fees and] commissions. This is terrifying to advisors."
But beyond these compensation concerns, there has also been a long-term cultural divide in broker-banker relations. "Advisors see them as bankers and feel that there is a big disconnect," Peterson said. In the case of the team led by Kadden, this frustration culminated in the group's departure.
Other recruiters agree. "This should be looked at as a definitive statement" about BofA-Merrill, said Howard Diamond, managing director of Diamond Consultants, who works for Morgan Stanley and other clients. "It's created a tremendous ripple in our world as we talk to Merrill Lynch advisors, and they see a big high-power team has made the move."
Kadden joined MSSB's midtown Manhattan branch with Mihir Patel, Randy Knopp, Tim Baker and Chris Barber. A member of Merrill's elite Circle of Champions for the past decade, Kadden was with Merrill Lynch for 30 years. Patel was at Merrill for 10 years, working as advisor for six of those years and being selected as a member of the Circle of Champions for three years. Knopp spent 33 years at Merrill and was a member of the Circle of Champions for eight years.
"We are talking about lifers," said Peterson, "some of Merrill's most senior and largest producers … who feel that everything they work for is being undermined." When advisors get irritated by such issues, they "can leave, walk across the street and say goodbye a few weeks later."
Advisors, of course, do not take such decisions lightly, especially when they leave some of their retention packages on the table, Diamond adds. "And FAs are savvy. They wouldn't do this if it didn't make sense for themselves and their clients," he said.
Recently, BofA-Merrill said it hired the former-Morgan Stanley team of Jeffrey Dinkins, William McGrath, Peter Ianace, Rohit Mehrotra and Jason Jaynes in Plano, Texas. It also recruited five financial advisors from Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo with a total of about $1.5 billion in assets and $9.3 million in yearly fees and commissions. The reps coming from Wells include Chris Sotus, Mike McCullough and Alex Jarman in Savannah, Ga., who have managed about $257 million in assets and yearly fees and commissions of $1.3 million.
While these announcements show that each of the wirehouses can grab teams from rivals on a regular basis, the latest Merrill recruiting developments do not have the impact of Morgan Stanley's most recent hiring news, according to Diamond. "Getting a $14-million-production team is a statement," said Diamond. "To use a baseball analogy, it's like Morgan Stanley getting Alex Rodriguez. The Morgan Stanley deal is obviously a head turner. It speaks for itself."
Other recruiters see it a bit differently. "The recruiting of the Plano team is nothing to sneeze at," said Peterson. "It's a coup and speaks to the incredible talent of the recruiting manager that hired them." Nonetheless, says the Houston-based Peterson, Merrill should expect more of its advisors to defect going forward, especially as the terms of their retention packages expire and some conclude that BofA is hurting the Merrill Lynch brand. "This doesn't change what I said earlier. I am expecting a ton of movement from Bank of America," he said.


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Columbus Public Health calls them the big four: infant mortality, obesity, infectious diseases and access to public healthcare.
Columbus Public Health calls them the big four: infant mortality, obesity, infectious diseases and access to public healthcare.
All are considered strategic priorities for the upcoming year.
Among the top concerns is the infant mortality rate in central Ohio, said Dr. Mysheika Williams Roberts, assistant health commissioner.
"It's an urgent matter for us," she said.
In Franklin County, the number of infant deaths, or babies who do not reach 1 year old, increased from 150 in 2010 to 180 in 2011. Statistics for 2012 won't be available for several months, Roberts said.
"Infant mortality in Franklin County is higher than the infant mortality rate in New York City," Roberts said.
Greater Columbus is far from meeting the federal 2020 Healthy People goal of 5.6 deaths per thousand in all health jurisdictions, Roberts said.
"It's very concerning," Roberts said.
"We're really sounding the alarm that we have to do more in our community to keep these innocent babies from dying."
The trend lines for blacks and whites overall had declined between 1990 and 2010. However, those numbers spiked in 2011, when blacks experienced more than twice the number of deaths -- 16.9 per 1,000 -- than whites, who had 7.1.
Roberts said there are several factors that contribute to the overall problem, including unplanned pregnancies, lack of prenatal care and smoking during pregnancy.
Columbus Public Health, with the help of local health providers, works to offer sufficient prenatal care, promote healthful lifestyles during and after pregnancy, and provide home visits and home assessments to maintain appropriate sleep settings, proper nutrition and a safe environment, such as smoke-free households, Roberts said.
Statistics also aren't very good for children and adults who are overweight and obese.
According to recent data in Columbus City Schools, 30 percent of kindergartners, 40 percent for third-graders and 47 percent of fifth-graders are obese or overweight.
Agency officials have worked with the school district in getting healthful options to students -- for example, installing water-only vending machines in schools.
Pudgy adults are a problem, too, as six of 10 are overweight or obese countywide. The percentage of Franklin County adults who are overweight and obese increased 13 percent between 1995 and 2010.
The health agency also promotes healthful eating through farmers markets, three of which are held on the grounds of the Columbus Public Health, and it provides walking maps in various neighborhoods and on the city's website, publichealth.columbus.gov.
As for infectious diseases, the agency continually stresses vaccinations for illnesses that can be prevented, such as influenza, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus.
"Vaccines are a lifetime commitment," Roberts said.
Preventative measures -- such as covering your mouth when you cough and sneeze, staying home when you're sick and frequently washing your hands -- are encouraged, she said. Health outreach includes information about sexually transmitted diseases.
"We need to educate our population about the risks and how to prevent it," Roberts said.
That includes abstinence, use of condoms and having frank and honest discussions with your partner, she said.
Columbus Public Health is one of many local health centers that provide some low-cost care to individuals in need, with the cost of services based on a sliding scale. But patients' inability to pay will remain a barrier, Roberts said.
She said she believes the Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, will help, "but it's not going to solve it."


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Merrill Lynch
1. Don't overcommit to the hot sector
Was it only November 4 that The New York Times listed Merrill's write-down of $8 billion on its subprime derivatives portfolio as the biggest in Wall Street history? That record only lasted until Nov. 5, with Citigroup's
Apparently, after seeing others make big money off the subprime mortgage market, top management at Merrill and everywhere else went into it in a very big way. However, by last year, everyone was getting in right at the end of the money train.
Jumping into what has already performed well -- with the hopes that the immediate future is going to mimic the immediate past -- is a very common investing mistake. It's what had mutual fund investors flocking into tech funds loaded with pricey shares of Amazon.com
Some developing-market funds, still up dramatically over the past three years despite a slow start in 2008, containing names such as PetroChina
2. Don't pay management too much
Merrill rewarded Stanley O'Neal, its CEO until late October, with an exit package worth about $160 million. This appears to be compensation O'Neal was contractually owed no matter how poorly he performed.
Outrageous compensation packages are par for the course on Wall Street, and they point to other commonplace outrages -- namely, the amounts that mutual fund managers get paid. Management fees come directly out of shareholders' potential profits and average more than 1.5% per year. High annual fund expenses bear an extremely high correlation with fund underperformance. When investing in funds, don't be like Merrill; find managers that are taking a reasonable cut for reasonable pay -- less than 1.0% annually.
3. Be very careful when you buy advice
Somewhat lost in the headlines is that Merrill has advised 100 of its pension fund clients that the SEC is investigating its pension reference business. To make a long story short, Merrill consultants are being investigated for steering clients toward pensions without properly advising them about potential conflicts of interest from taking a big cut from the pensions for the "services." Surprise! That's the exact practice that has led to broker-sold mutual funds drastically underperforming funds chosen by individuals without the "help" of brokers.
The Foolish bottom line
When you're choosing mutual funds, always make it a practice to choose your own. The difference in results, over time, is staggering.
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This article was first published Nov. 12, 2007. It has been updated.
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"Tomorrow Never Dies"
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Classic, Cheese, or Crap?: CRAP
"Tomorrow Never Dies" is easily my least favorite Brosnan Bond. I will quickly cede that "Die Another Day" is a worse film (I mean, a MUCH worse film), but that movie has such a cheese factor going for it that I enjoy watching it more.
"Tomorrow Never Dies" is a Bond movie that actively irritates me. One of the few in the series that make me mad. There are a handful of quality elements that are wasted here, and then some things that outright poor. And at the end of the day, it takes itself very seriously, so it's hard to have fun with it.


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Mayim Bialik
Mayim Bialik is a former child star who played the title character on the TV show Blossom. Blossom was a sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1991-1995. Blossom was the only girl in the Russo family on the show. The show centered on Blossom's whiny exploits throughout high school as she discovered boys and came of age.
I was not a fan of Blossom. I personally thought that the show sucked, although I will admit that it was fairly popular and I did watch it a few times when there was nothing else on. I personally never thought that Bialik was attractive. She had nice hair, but she was certainly not a heartthrob. However, she was presentable enough for Blossom to last on NBC for four full seasons.
Some girls are unattractive in their youths and later mature into good-looking babes. Other girls have exactly the opposite experience - morphing from good-looking youths into ugly adults. Bialik does not fall into either of these categories - she was certainly not a hot babe as a youth and her barely presentable looks have completely faded over the 12 years since Blossom went off the air. I saw Bialik on an E! True Hollywood Story last year and was shocked when I saw her. She is really bloated and appears to have gained about 50-75 pounds, making her look almost like a mirror image of a tubby Dennis Haskins. These are the best recent pictures that I could find of the obese Bialik:
Bialik's career is pretty washed-up at this point. Nobody wants to hire an obese and unattractive actress to star in a TV show or movie. The only roles being offered to Bialik are for playing fat people, such as her recent role on the TV show Fat Actress that was watched by about three people nationwide before it was cancelled. All of this makes Mayim Bialik one washed-up celebrity!
*** Update - February 27, 2008 ***
The paparazzi over at TMZ.com posted this recent picture of Bialik on their website. The ironic thing is that, as pointed out in a comment on the TMZ page, Bialik appears to be wearing dog tags!
***Update - May 30, 2012 ***
Bialik also recently published a book on parenting entitled "Beyond the Sling." In the book Bialik mentions that her sons will sleep in her bed until they are seven years old and that she no longer has sex with her husband in bed.


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August 4, 2010-Houston-
Critically acclaimed author Alex Heard will discuss his new book, "The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South," on Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. at the University of Houston's Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library.
"The case of Willie McGee is an enduring mystery, but there's no doubt he was the victim of a primitive and unfair judicial system. Alex Heard's excellent account of his life and death is tragic, sad, and very compelling," writes John Grisham, author of "The Innocent Man."
Willie McGee, a young black man from Laurel, Miss., was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife, and publicly executed in Mississippi's infamous "traveling" electric chair in 1951. Bella Abzug, a New York labor lawyer, was hired by the Civil Rights Congress - an aggressive arm of the Communist Party in the U.S. - to oversee McGee's defense. Together with William L. Patterson, the son of a slave and a devout believer in revolutionary action against racial oppression, Abzug and a group of white Mississippi lawyers risked their lives to plead McGee's case.
"At the time, Mississippi's death penalty for rape was applied only to black men, never to whites. McGee's conviction in 1945 raised a firestorm of protest (supporters included William Faulkner, Albert Einstein, Norman Mailer, and Josephine Baker), making McGee's case a cause célèbre," writes Connie Fletcher, an investigative journalism professor at Loyola University in Chicago, in a review of the book. "His research, consisting of interviews with family members and exhaustive probes into court transcripts, newspapers reports, and FBI records (to name a few sources), brings to light not just the shocking details surrounding this case but also the deep, lived inequities of the Jim Crow South."
Heard is the editorial director of Outside magazine. He has worked as an editor and writer at The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Washington Post Magazine, The New Republic, Slate, and other publications.
The story of Willie McGee draws interest across multiple disciplines in relation to the powerful themes addressed, including social justice, the legal system, and the influence of this case on history and the lives of blacks and whites in the South during the mid-20th century. The UH Graduate College of Social Work, Law Center, department of history and the African American Studies Program are co-sponsoring the lecture, with thoughtful discussion to follow.
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Assessing Your Team's Inner Dwarves
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There's a fairy tale going on in your office right now. Disagree? Try to remember that last meeting. Was there someone half asleep or nearly bored to tears? You were working with Sleepy. Was there a grouchy, my-way-or-the-highway person? Say hello to Grumpy. Got a few know-it-alls in your midst? You're working with a group of Docs. This is the premise behind the Snow White Test, a diagnostic tool designed to help meeting leaders identify and deal with the "Dwarf types" that populate meetings. The rationale is, when you identify which of the Seven Dwarves are in your meeting, you'll be able to run a more productive meeting by playing on each person's strengths and weaknesses.
Written by Sharon Livingston, founder of Executive Solutions Inc. in Syosset, New York, the Snow White test asks questions about where a person sits in meetings as well as what kind of comments he or she is likely to make during a meeting. Entrepreneurs can take the test to find out which Dwarf types are hanging out around the board room. You can even apply the techniques to meetings with clients or investors.
Livingston first happened upon the idea when she was facilitating focus groups. She noticed she was seeing the character traits-Sneezy, Doc, Dopey, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy and Bashful-come out over and over again in the course of her meetings. "And I would notice that they tended to sit in the same seats-for example, Happy always sat to the leader's right, and Grumpy sat opposite the leader," she says. "It was just so fascinating how that happened."
After singling out the Dwarf type, the next step was to figure out how to make those traits work toward the purpose of the meeting. Livingston remembers a conference where one woman kept sitting opposite her and being confrontational. "She [thought] I didn't like her, but I didn't even know her!" recalls Livingston. Determined to try out her theory, Livingston decided to switch seats so the Grumpy-type person would be on her right-hand side (traditionally a spot of support). "Behold, I was her best friend. I didn't do anything different but sit next to her."
Livingston outlines different tools to help meeting leaders deal with each personality type. Ask Grumpy, who is outwardly confrontational but inwardly wants to be part of the family yet still maintain his or her own identity, to help in the meeting with some leadership responsibilities. They can man the flip-sheet, for example, or in some other way be visible in a leadership role. Happy, on the other hand, wants to please everyone, but is often afraid of giving a true opinion. Say something like, "There are only right answers here-I want everyone to speak freely," to allay Happy's fear. Looking Happy directly in the eye to encourage a straightforward opinion is another option. And because Bashful is afraid of being put on the spot, you might try having everybody write their ideas down and read them off-if Bashful is reading from a paper and not speaking off the cuff, it might be easier.
No matter who makes up your meetings, the Snow White Test can be a fun way to get everyone to a productive place. Plus, it has an added bonus: "It gives you a lot of freedom and takes the pressure off," says Livingston. "Instead of thinking, 'Oh my God, am I OK?,' you're thinking, 'Let's see how I can take care of these people and make them more comfortable."


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Leeluu giving the little man some love. ( I guess it wasn't completely a girls night:P)
I made a classic Chinese dish "TVP and broccoli" with rice. It was tasty....
Keri made the most delicious vegan chocolate pudding cake..from the cookbook " How It All Vegan ".
I must get my hands on that book now!
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Since coming to campus at 240 pounds last summer, Michigan running back Derrick Green has shed weight and feels poised to live up to the hype.
Green, rated by Rivals as the nation's top running back and eighth-best player in the recruiting class of 2013, is back down to 220 pounds — his high school playing weight. At 22o, he feels faster and more explosive and doesn't think he sacrificed any of the bruising power on which he made his name.
"I feel faster, stronger," Green said, via MLive.com. "My body just feels a lot better than it did last season."
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Big 12 Morning Five: 11.11.11 EditionPosted by dnspewak on November 11th, 2011
- The biggest news in the Big 12 yesterday happened in the ACC. Miami's DeQuan Jones will sit out the 2011-12 campaign while the NCAA investigates claims that he received $10,000 in cash from the Hurricanes' coaching staff. Missouri coach Frank Haith, of course, was the head coach of that team, and his assistant, Jake Morton (now at WKU), was accused in a Yahoo! Sports investigation of delivering the actual cash. Jones sitting out doesn't prove anything, but it means the NCAA's investigation is serious enough to sideline him for an entire season of basketball. News like this can only continue to build pressure on Haith, who already faces an uphill battle against the fans in Columbia.
- We've said it a million times before: Tyshawn Taylor and Thomas Robinson are the two most important players on Kansas. Taylor missed the first two exhibition games due to a suspension and Robinson was dealing with an injury, but they're both ready to go now, according to a recent report. Normally, Kansas is so loaded with talent and experience that a player here and there doesn't make an enormous difference. In this case, though, Bill Self has a team still trying to find its way with considerable unproven talent. Robinson and Taylor cannot miss much game action if this team expects to compete for an eighth straight Big 12 title.
- Though most pundits don't expect much out of Oklahoma this season, the Sooners could surprise the Big 12 if wing Cameron Clark lives up to his status as a sleeper. According to a recent article, Clark has matured into a leadership role and appears to better understand the demands of Division I basketball. He has all the physical skills, and now he'll just need to grow into a star. It should only be a matter of time.
- If you've ever watched Kansas State play in person, the first player you'll notice during pre-game warm-ups is Jordan Henriquez. He's a seven-footer, but he looks even taller than that. Henriquez could be a dominant force inside this season if the reports are true about his improved tenacity and aggressiveness. Often, it's hard for players with physical gifts to truly appreciate them until they're challenged with adversity. It's scary to think of how good Henriquez could be if he really learns how to play at this level.
- Travis Ford is lucky that his Oklahoma State squad has a number of candidates for starting jobs this year. And although it's every player's nightmare to hear this, Ford says there are no starting spots locked up quite yet. The Cowboys are especially deep in the backcourt, where any number of players could emerge as options. Up front, OSU will need immediate contributions from newcomers after losing leading Marshall Moses to graduation.


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This ballot initiative season is full of headaches. And we've left a potential cure in the box.
First, the headaches.
Majorities of Californians want to raise revenues to protect schools and other programs, but it's unclear if they will be able to do so.
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Three competing tax-hike initiatives have created a mess, and are likely to cancel each other out.
The sponsors of each, who should be political allies, were competing against each other and spending millions of dollars. And even when two of the initiative sponsors reached a compromise recently, it was unclear whether they had enough time to get a measure on the ballot.
If only there was some kind of government body that could have independently studied all three measures, and explained which of the three made the most sense. And instead of a costly scramble to get things on the ballot, what if there were some kind of body that could put measures on the ballot, without all the turmoil and cash?
There isn't, but just such a body was recently proposed.
An entity with the power to review initiatives -- and put them on the ballot directly -- was proposed late last fall by the Think Long Committee for California, the group of big California names convened by billionaire Nicolas Berggruen. The proposal -- and much of the Think Long Committee recommendations -- got little serious scrutiny and attention, in part because the committee declined to turn its tax recommendations into its own tax initiative for the 2012 ballot. (And if you don't have a tax initiative on the 2012 ballot, the media who cover California politics have no interest in you right now).
Think Long's idea was to have a Citizens Council for Government Accountability-- your blogger dubbed it the Jedi Council -- that would be able to do long-term planning and would have considerable powers, including the power to put measures on the ballot.
Such a council would have advantages and disadvantages -- but think how useful this might have been in the current multiiple-tax-initiative mess.
Sponsors of all three initiatives would have sought the approval of the committee, in hopes of having the committee put its measure on the ballot -- an endorsement that would save millions in qualification costs. This would have been an occasion for a real public debate and deeper scrutiny of the details of each measure. The committee also would have been in position to forge its own compromise from pieces of the measure. That's a committee with real value.
However, there is one worry. Think Long proposed that the governor pick 9 of the 13 members of the council. So in this situation, the council would have suffered from suspicions that it would be more inclined to favor the governor's initiative over the other two. This suggests that if someone would ever to act on Think Long's idea, the governor probably shouldn't have such a heavy hand in appointing such a committee.
In any case, the situation -- and the Think Long proposal -- are a reminder that California shouldn't have to be at the mercy of signature gathering timelines and costs. There ought to be other paths to the ballot.
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Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the first Men's Soccer report for the 2010 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Senior midfielder Alex Mendolia (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown East) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. Mendolia had two goals and an assist in the Rams' first three games, including 1-1 against Green Mountain.
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Babies born in Summit County, Sept. & Oct. 2012
Editor's note: Babies born in Summit, November, will run in the Dec. 15 edition of the Summit Daily.Sept. 4Zaelen Daniel Lockwood-Robles was born to Jessica and Jairo Robles of LeadvilleJose David Alvarez-Velasquez was born to Jose Alvarez & Fadis Velasquez of DillonWinter Scout Gallets was born to Douglas and Natalie Gallets of FriscoSept. 5Gael Hernandez Barrios was born to Cesar & Martha Hernandez of DillonSept. 6Max Falcon Swenson was born to Jamie Falcon & Pete Swenson of BreckenridgeSept. 7Tenley Elizabeth Rozinski was born to Scott & Joanie Rozinski of DillonGavin Anthony Ackels was born to Hannah Schlechter & Derek Ackels of KremmlingSept. 12Oskar Clark Owens was born to Reed & Kelly Owens of BreckenridgeKannyn Jager Schulze was born to Cade Schulze & Kayla Ortega of Buena VistaSept. 15Ryan Tidus Richard Herzet was born to Alina & Richard Herzet of LeadvilleSept. 17Ian Esqu Gutierrez Cortez was born to Milton Gutierrez & Susana Cortez of Dillon Colbie Evelyn Herold was born to Scott & Jennifer Herold of BreckenridgeSept. 19Aspen Jaylynne Baker Haight was born to Jill & Dominic Haight of BreckenridgeSept. 21Colvin Bern Battersby was born to Yvette Metoyer & Simon Battersby of LakewoodSept. 25Ava Marie Glassman was born to Nathan & Heather Glassman of KeystoneSept. 27June Elizabeth George was born to Jason & Tiffany George of DillonSept. 30Zoey Layla Warren was born to Cassandra Meltzer & Timothy Warren of BreckenridgeOct. 1Ellie Victoria Angstman was born to Sommer & Keith Angstman of DillonOct. 2Mason Andrew Walsh was born to Seth & Lindsey Walsh of SilverthorneEliza Mae Shackelford was born to Greta & Jaymes Shackelford of BreckenridgeOct. 8August Constantine Lasaitis was born to Dave & Amy Lasaitis of DillonJohn Calvin Champoux was born to John & Katie Champoux of BreckenridgeOct. 9Arley Uziel Mateo-Ramirez was born to Minerva Rameirz Rueda & David Mateo Allvarez of BreckenridgeOct. 10Charly Luella Clift was born to Paul & Heather Clift of BreckenridgeOct. 12Rowan Olivia Lutke was born to Tom and Emily Lutke of BreckenridgeSophia Lizeth Taberna Cordoba was born to Marlene Codoba and Jonathan Macario of BreckenridgeOct. 13Libelle Sue Bumpus was born to Josh and Jessica Bumpus of DillonOct. 14Ava Joanne Brown was born to Katie Owen & Zach Brown of BreckenridgeOct. 16Caius John Hersh was born to Elisia and Tony Hersh of FairplayCooper James Hirsch was born to Sarah Mckay and David Hirsch of FriscoOct. 17Sapphira Hope Andersen was born to Darius & Mike Andersen of FriscoOct. 18Elliot George Kubick was born to Jeffery and Andrea Kubick of DillonOct. 19Mia Isabel Rascon Lozano was born to Miriam Lozano & Omar Rascon of LeadvilleOct. 21Jarle James Lierfallom was born to Elizabeth Miller & Ian Lierfallom of BreckenridgeOct. 23Sindy Ivonne Garcia Rodriguez was born to Daicy Rodriguez & Adan Garcia of SilverthorneOct. 24Lily Lynne Pollak-Bruce was born to Andrew and Amber Pollack-Bruce of FriscoOct. 25Charlie Jan Skultety was born to Monika & Jan Skultety of BreckenridgeOct. 27Frida Sofia Cervantes-Beltran was born to Rosa Beltran & Eduardo Cervantes of Dillon
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The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.Milton Glaser
Many feel that 2011 was a rough year and for a lot of artists (and regular folks too) it was. For me it had its challenges but for the most part I am grateful that things went as well as they did. Despite some bumps along the way, I ended the year in the black with some work on the table as well as a teaching contract that will carry through August. I have a lot to be grateful for and one of those things is that 2011 was a little better than 2010. I see signs of the economy and the markets coming back and I am hopeful for an even more productive and lucrative 2012. The above illustration by one of my favorite Golden Age illustrators J.C. Leyendecker says a little about how I feel going into the New Year. It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked off the horse, anyone who is successful has learned to get back on and continue riding into battle.Whatever your goals for this year are, hard work and persistence will be the beasts of burden that carry you there. Good luck and stay on that horse!


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Producers Rick Finkelstein and Steven Chase (How Sweet It Is, Paulie, Death House…) recently confirmed that Entertainment Factory is in pre-production of two new films with a star-studded cast. "Death House" (recently featured on Dread Central) and "Buddies".
"Buddies" tells the story of two mob wanabees witnessing the murder of one of their own and having to go on the run. Tony and Joey are two low-level mob guys, who always think big but never move up or get any recognition. This leads to everyone in the neighborhood gunning for them…well maybe not everyone, and they thought they only had each other. This action/mob-comedy is being directed by and will also star Louis Lombardi (24 & Sopranos) and Steven Chase (Shut Up & Kiss Me & How Sweet It Is). The film will have an "A-List" cast and host of well-known character actors like Scott L. Schwartz (Ocean's 11, 12,1 3, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Castle), Mike Starr (Goodfellas, Dumb & Dumber) and Michael Madsen (Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Reservoir Dogs, Donnie Brasco).
"Death House" is about four horsemen that are the most notorious serial killers of all time. Robert Englund's weapon of choice is fire; Gunnar Hansen has an unquenchable thirst for human flesh; Bill Moseley is a surgeon, and tends to focus on mutilation and torture; and Doug Bradley shares a bond with spiders, particularly the Brown Recluse Spider, whose poison Bradley is happy to dispense among those unfortunate enough to meet him. All four killers are safely housed in a maximum-security wing in the basement of the infamous Dodhoff Prison, aka THE DEATH HOUSE. This thrilling/terrifying story was written by Jay Black, Brian Herzlinger and Gunnar Hansen, and is being billed as the next "Saw".
According to Finkelstein and Chase, "The key to making multiple films and making them great, is to team up with the right people." That is just what they have done with Tony Opedisano and Michael Guarnera of Winbrook Entertainment as well as with Jim Cardwell and Jimmy Cummings of E-T Pictures". Filming for "Death House" and "Buddies" will start late summer 2013.
Entertainment Factory brings a wealth of Knowledge, experience and relationships to the production phase in order to properly execute a Feature Films full production schedule. All the while, mindfully nurturing the creative necessity without neglecting the overall commercial nature of the Films back end. Entertainment Factory approaches both pre-sales, in place distribution and market strategy to optimize back end profitability. Targeting the major markets – Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto – the same sales agent who packages the Film, oversees the final sale. Entertainment Factory's Official Website: www.thefeg.com.


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-While we certainly are not restricting the use of an icon in your design, we would prefer that the logo not be dominated by an icon. Actually, we would be perfectly happy if the logo did not even include an icon, we definitely want the name to be what stands out. It may even be possible for the word "Journey" to serve as the icon.
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The in-fighting between En Vogue continues! After years of revolving members trying to replace Dawn Robinson and the group bringing Robinson back into the fold in 2010 for a 20th anniversary tour and album, the ladies are on the outs again.
Dawn Robinson took to Twitter to announce that fellow member Maxine Jones is no longer with the group, and is instead preparing to tour with her "new" version of En Vogue.
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Colorado communities battered by the September floods will be able to spend up to $500,000 in HUD funds to advertise, promote and support tourism.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted a waiver allowing some of a $62.8 million Community Development Block Grant made in December to help flood-ravaged counties with housing, infrastructure and economic rehab projects to be used to promote tourism.
The announcement was made simultaneously Tuesday by Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, who requested the waiver.
Towns have until June 24 to apply for a slice of the $500,000 through the state Department of Local Affairs.
"An opportunity like this is just a huge boost to our flood recovery," Estes Park spokeswoman Kate Rusch said of the release of marketing money. "Being able to bring more people to Estes at a time where we definitely need that economic driver is critical."
Estes Park took a double-whammy when floods knocked out highways going to and from Estes Park, then by a 16-day shutdown of the federal government that shuttered Rocky Mountain National Park during the prime fall tourism season.
Tourism is the No. 1 industry in the Estes Valley, which includes Estes Park, Glen Haven and Drake. More than half the jobs in Estes Park — and half the town's revenues — come from tourism, said Brooke Burnham, spokeswoman for Visit Estes Park, which markets Estes Park, Glen Haven and Drake.
Most of the businesses are locally owned, so there is no huge corporate coffer to help sustain the businesses, she said.
"It is really pulling up by the boot straps as a community and helping each other," Burnham said. "So having additional dollars to attract more tourism to the area really helps to sustain our economy."
The state's chief recovery officer, Molly Urbina,
said the money will let people around the country "know we've made incredible progress and if they come here we are definitely open for business. We look forward to people visiting our state."
The Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Action Plan submitted and approved by HUD in April outlines how Colorado will distribute the $62.8 million.
But after getting feedback from local business communities, the public and the Colorado Tourism Office, a request was made to HUD for a waiver to allow some of the money to be used to market tourism in heavily impacted areas of the state.
"We are happy that HUD approved the tourism and marketing waiver that was included in our action plan," Hickenlooper said in a statement. "These dollars will be used by the communities that were hit so hard during the flooding."
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Your morning roundup for May 22, the day some people in North Carolina started taking Pirates of the Caribbean too literally, but not in a cool swashbuckling way or anything.
What we watched:
Not gonna lie: I got sidetracked by the sights of Cliff Lee shutting his old team down and Hulk Hogan luckily not talk smack about The Macho Man and/or Elizabeth in this pre-death interview to catch a second of the Thunder/Mavericks or Canucks/Sharks.
Both were done before Bernard Hopkins entered the ring to fight Jean Pascal on Jean Pascal's home turf in front of Jean Pascal's own fans, though. In terms of an event where a 46-year-old becomes the oldest boxer to win a notable belt in human history, there were more active rounds than expected, particularly with B Hop never being known for flashy ringsmanship.
Recurring thought during the early rounds: Pascal is just too powerful and quick not to catch Hopkins with a shot that'll drop Hopkins into the day's De La Hoya/Roy Jones Jr. bargain bin. Recurring thought from right about the time the old man started doing pushups in the ring between rounds (I repeat: PUSHUPS IN THE RING BETWEEN ROUNDS): Hopkins has gophered himself so deep in this kid's psyche that I never should've questioned him in the early rounds. Despite chatter of another draw in the immediate Twitanalysis of the fight, Hopkins won a unanimous decision and rolled out of the ring a champion. Again. Just like he said he would.
Here's my worry: Got much respect for Bernard, and not just because he lives down the street and reps his hometown loudly and proudly. But when he got to talking about fighting for a few more years, well, that's Phase Two of getting turned into a mental shell of what he once was. Sometimes, it doesn't really pay to persevere, even when it literally pays to persevere.
What we're watching:
That thing where a bunch of people hit yellow balls with racquets on Parisian red clay started this morning, not that fans of American players would probably notice.
No, they're not playing one another today. And no, there's not some fancy new manifestation of the game where three people can play simultaneously, but the whole Novak Djokovic/Rafael Nadal/Roger Federer subplot is a fascinating lesson in real-time sporting evolution. Predictions: Nadal takes the trophy; on the women's side, whoever Lil Wayne's picking to win will win.
If you're looking for Tennis Channel clips of the action, check out SnappyTV.com.
(Burke video H/T Cosby Sweaters)
It's never a surprise when a Bruins lead melts: With 13:05 remaining in the second period, the Boston Bruins still held a three-goal lead on the Lightning in Tampa. Well, the home team would score a collective hat trick within four minutes and tack on two more in the third period. Winner: Tampa 5-3 on the game to draw even in the series. Game Five is Monday night. [Tampa Tribune]
Run Horsey Run After winning the Preakness, Shackleford is cold chillin' in a Churchill Downs barn awaiting his trainer's decision about whether horsey'll run in the Belmont on June 11 [Louisville Courier-Journal]. As for the another-year, another-no-Triple Crown angle:
Saturday didn't bring the end of the world. Just the end of Animal Kingdom's Triple Crown dream.
The Kentucky Derby winner came up a half-length short in his bid to become racing's first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.
"He ran huge," said trainer Graham Motion, who turns 47 Sunday. "It's tough to come that close, but he ran a huge race. I kind of thought for an instant that he might get there, but I wasn't sure." [New York Daily News]
It Ain't Over Till It Starts: Sure, the final score had Dallas winning by six, but it seems as if they beat Oklahoma City before the game even started. And that's probably what led Skip Bayless to type something about detonations in a town that was victimized by one of the biggest domestic non-wartime detonations. [The Oklahoman]
Great Moments In Hyperbole: In appealing to a U.S. Court of Appeals to lift the lockout that has gaggles of players trying to get into game shape with makeshift, camera-friendly workout sessions, the NFLPA has called the NFL "a cartel." [ESPN]
Marlon Byrd hit in face with pitch in Boston: Cubs center fielder Marlon Byrd was hospitalized overnight after taking a pitch to the face right under his left eye at Fenway Park last night. Little matter: The Cubbies scored eight runs in the eighth to beat the Red Sox 9-3. Rubber match is at 8 p.m. before a national-cable audience.
After being hit, Byrd fell to the ground, writhing in pain and holding his hand over his left eye. Cubs trainers wrapped his head in a towel and escorted him off the field and into the training room. The Cubs could not say whether there was a fracture or any vision problems until Byrd undergoes more testing. [Chicago Tribune]
Gary Carter fights brain tumors: Doctors found several small tumors on Expos/Mets Hall-of-Fame Catcher Gary Carter's brain. In a statement, Carter wrote, "I am scheduled to be examined further Thursday at Duke Medical Center, and we will learn more at that time about my diagnosis." Here's hoping surgery and treatment go well enough to stave off any potential recurrence. [New York Daily News]
Today's Soccer Viewing Recommendations: With Birmingham City on the cusp of relegation going into today's match with Tottenham Hotspur (11 a.m. eastern), midfielder Craig Gardner has tried to make a deal with the type of devil who trades medals from earlier accomplishments for future success. This is an attempt to end the nosedive into which Birmingham City went after winning the Carling Cup in February. [Telegraph]
Also, here's video of someone scoring a goal in the South China/Sun Hei Hong Kong FA Cup match and proceeding to get kicked in the face by a teammate. [Sport Post]


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To be very mindful or cautious about what one says; to control what one says in order to avoid offensive language. Watch your mouth! I don't care how you speak at home, that's not how we talk here. After being threatened with detention for my snide remarks in class, I knew I had to watch my mouth for the rest of the semester.


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We're excited to have Bill Gates as our guest editor in February. Throughout the month, Bill will be sharing his vision of how technology will revolutionize life for the world's poor by 2030 by narrating episodes of the Big Future, our animated explainer series. read more
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Whoa! Slow down there killer! What's up with all this black on black crime ? But it's great to see we'll have people representing all over, we've got texas, hotlanta and NYC covered. And if hbcu goes to Howard, there's D.C. All we need now is someone to represent in Cali.


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With the lockout likely to linger well into November and perhaps well into 2012, trying to preview the season of 30 teams that might not actually have one seems about as worthwhile as raking leaves on a windy day. But I love raking and the wind only makes it last longer. Razzball has you covered, even if you didn't want to be covered. That's love. You'll appreciate it when you're older. Look at it like this, the only way any of this stuff can be disproven is if the season starts. So go ahead, NBA, make me a fibber! I dare you. Until then, consider this fantasy basketball gospel. From now until the start of the season, we're bringing you the 2011 Fantasy Team Previews, which will focus on each team in order to paint a clearer fantasy picture. Who's starting? Who might surprise you? And who might make you want to hurl yourself off a bridge in a few months … or years? Next up – The New Orleans Hornets (This will be a fun preview to re-read in January when none of these players are still in New Orleans).
Gained – … an increased sense of doom.
Lost – Joe Alexander, David Andersen
Probable position depth –
PG – Chris Paul, Jarrett Jack
SG – Marco Belinelli*, Willie Green*
SF – Trevor Ariza, Quincy Pondexter
PF – David West*, Carl Landry*, Jason Smith*, Patrick Ewing Jr.
C – Emeka Okafor, Aaron Gray*, D.J. Mbenga*
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Surprising Team Fact From Last Season – The New Orleans Hornets had the toughest road to the playoffs last season according to two factors in particular: 1) They had the fifth-lowest home attendance in basketball (third lowest among playoff teams) and 2) they had the highest Strength of Schedule rating among any team to make the playoffs. Of course, the playoffs weren't made any easier by the Hornets franchise having to go with the golden "I'm In" home shirts needed to hide all the Lakers fans in attendance.
Number of Top 20 Fantasy Players (par 0-1) – 1, Paul
Number of Top 50 Fantasy Players (par 1-2) – 2, West
Number of Top 75 Fantasy Players (par 2-3) – 0
Number of Top 100 Fantasy Players (par 3-4) – 4, Okafor, Ariza
Number of Top 200 Fantasy Players (par 6-7) – 7, Landry, Belinelli, Jack
3 Concerns Heading Into the Season
1. Is David West going anywhere and if he isn't, is his knee back to normal?
Look, everyone on the Hornets is going somewhere. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if NOLA pools every last cent together to keep Chris Paul, while picking a dozen different season ticket holders every night to play alongside him. Who Dat!?! No idea. Well, who dat den? Yeah, that's just some other regular dude too. Don't tell me it can't be done – season ticket sales are up this year! … Until those tickets must all be refunded, of course. Anywhoodle, yeah. There's a lot of interest in West from other teams and I tend to think he'll gladly leave. He quietly had an efficient season (his second-best per-minute affair) despite playing fewer mpgs since 2005. Whatever team grabs West will almost certainly make him a major part of its offense, so we're only looking at his ACL, which was a clean rip by all accounts. Like what Elvis did to Little Richard? Cleaner. Like when Richard Hamilton exits the shower? Cleaner still. Assuming West's health reports are accurate, I'd draft him as you normally would.
2. Belinelli projects to be the starter, but will he play like one?
I'll admit, I don't have high hopes for Belinelli to move that rubber tree plant. Last year, he faced a platoon with Marcus Thornton. Thornton didn't pose much of a threat, but he posed more of a threat than Slick Willie Green will. Which is the only way I see Belinellillilli improving on his 25 mpg, 11/2/1, 1.7 3ptm season last year. Even if he does improve, it won't be much more than this. If you're desperate for threes, I'd consider this guy, but not really for any other reason.
3. When should Carl Landry be drafted? If he stays with N'Awlins or moves to the Blazers, he's a reserve, but if he gets picked up by Indiana or Milwaukee, ugh, he'll have to play for one of them!
Easy. If he starts, he's a top 75 player (16/6/1 in 55 games as a starter), if he's a reserve he shouldn't be drafted before the 110th guy is taken (11/5/1 in 212 games). On the Hornets or Blazers, I wouldn't reach. If he lands a starting job on the Pacers or Bucks, I'd bump him up three or four rounds.
Fantasy Disappointment in '11 – Trevor Ariza. There are a few players in the league whose per game averages don't, in any way, reflect the irregularities in their play from game-to-game. Ray Allen, Josh Smith and Danny Granger are all like this. Trevor Ariza is too. For example, on January 1, Ariza ended with a 22/5/0, with 5 stl and 2 3ptm and .625 from the line. Two days later, he shoots .182 from the floor and ends with 4/3/4 with 2 stls. He'll attract a lot of fantasy owners with his rebounds and assists and the fact that he's a starter on a team without many big names (especially if West and Landry leave) makes him more attractive than he should be, but Ariza plays his best when others are taking heat away from him. His shooting is horrendous, both on paper and sitting there watching him throw up hopeless shot after hopeless shot. I'd avoid him unless you have a team stacked with efficient shooters and can afford to take a chance on him somewhere between picks 90-105.
Biggest Fantasy Contributor in '11 – Chris Paul. … Unless he misses half a season again (assuming every player isn't forced to miss half the season!). To be honest here, I'm not sure it would take Paul more than half a season to outproduce the rest of this team. I mean, seriously, look at this bench.
Deep Sleeper – Jarrett Jack. He'll miss the first game of the season due to a driving violation suspension, but with Chris Paul's injury history, you can usually count on the reserve PG for the Hornets getting at least a couple weeks of solo burn. In his lifetime as a starter, he's averaged 13/3/5 in 210 starts. Last year, primarily as a reserve, Jack averaged 9/2/3 in 20 mpg. I'll also add that Jack is a decent play at SG. And now I'll ask you to review what Belinellillilli averaged in 25 mpgs last season at that position.


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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
SYDNEY -- Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
Camels "mad with thirst" recently rampaged through the Western Desert Aboriginal community of Warakurna, damaging toilets, taps and air conditioners to find water.
"There were a couple of hundred -- they get big mobs up here," the operator of the Warakurna Roadhouse said on Wednesday.
"They did a lot of damage searching for water, trampling air conditioning hoses, taps and pipes," she told Reuters by telephone from the remote roadhouse, about 800km (500 miles) west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Australia has the world's largest wild camel population. Camels were first brought to the country in the 18th century to help explorers venture into the dry interior.
"An estimated one million feral camels, whose numbers double every eight years, compete with native animals and livestock, threaten native plants, wreck fences, bores and tanks, and invade Aboriginal sites," said Glenn Edwards, from the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre.
The centre, established to pursue economic projects for outback Aborigines, said a national feral camel management plan was urgently needed.
The environmental impact of feral camels was most prominent in Australia's biggest state of Western Australia, where half the nation's feral camels are thought to roam.
Australia's worst drought in 100 years was to blame for the recent rampage by camels, but increasing numbers of wild camels has caused serious environmental, economic and cultural damage right across the outback for years, said Edwards, who works for Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife service. A national camel management plan should see a combination of methods to reduce camel numbers, from culling to live exports, said the centre.
"Some culling will be unavoidable," Edwards said in a statement ahead of a camel management meeting in Perth in Western Australia on Thursday. "In unpopulated areas, for example in the Simpson Desert, culling will be the only option."
Most camels are currently exported live to Southeast Asia where they are slaughtered. The lack of a camel meat export licensed abattoir prevents direct camel meat exports.
The Centralian Advocate newspaper in Alice Springs this month reported thousands of camels were dying of thirst at Docker River some 600 km (370 miles) west of Alice Springs, but local Aborigines refuse to cull the thirsty animals.
"The camels do a lot of damage to the land, and when there's no water, they come into the community and cause damage," Docker River community adviser Chris Moon told the newspaper.
The camel problem was so bad at the even more remote Warakurna, a community of 140 people, that shooters had been hired to kill 100 camels a week, said the newspaper.
Warakurna will freeze the meat and transport it to Perth in Western Australia as pet meat, said the newspaper.
Source: Reuters
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CodeWorld and the Future
I've been thinking a lot the last few weeks about the future of CodeWorld. I'm writing this to share my vision of where things are going, and why. I'd appreciate feedback from anyone with thoughts on the future, different ideas, and so on.
And Overview of the Past
For anyone new to the ideas, I should review a little about what CodeWorld is. CodeWorld is the name for the curriculum I built and taught last school year. It has the goal of teaching abstract and mathematical reasoning skills through computer programming. Throughout the course of the year, students use a web site to write descriptions of pictures, then animations, and finally video games, and run them in the web browser to immediately see the results.
I taught a pilot program last school year in a neighborhood school, and it was a huge success. I have high hopes of getting something going again in the future.
What Happened…
Many people have noticed that CodeWorld stopped in its tracks some time during the summer. What ended up happening was a fairly big life change for me: I've changed jobs (now working for Google on YouTube!), moved (to San Francisco from Colorado), and have been focused on personal changes for a while. Unfortunately, that meant I had to cancel the plans to teach CodeWorld at three schools in Colorado this school year. I hope, though, this is only a temporary setback! I still have high hopes for the future.
Part 1: The Technology
In terms of technology, CodeWorld is built on several things:
- The Haskell programming language. This is a language that's very well suited for CodeWorld because it expresses things in a way that's very declarative and consistent with the mental models students should bring into algebra and other abstract mathematics classes.
- The Gloss library. This library, originally developed for introductory college programming classes, is a great fit for many of the same reasons. It's based on Haskell, and again does everything declaratively. It's also very concise, not needing a lot of wordy boilerplate to get something quickly on the screen.
- The SafeHaskell feature of GHC. This allows the server to safely compile and run code written by students without worrying that it might delete critical files and such.
In some ways, the set of technology chosen for CodeWorld is perfect. Specifically, it let me get a web site up and running in about a week of work, right before the start of the class last school year. That saved a lot of hassle, and made the class a lot more successful. In other ways, though, each of these choices is lacking in a few ways.
- Haskell is a great choice of language, but it's very difficult to target Haskell to run in web browsers. For this reason, CodeWorld actually runs students' programs way over in a data center, far from their computers. This worked and was easy to do (great!), but it also means programs run very slowly, and the server gets bogged down if it's used by too many people at once (not so good).
- Gloss is the closest thing we have to a perfect choice. Even that, though, has its limitations. Because Gloss has a number of users who want to do more advanced things (like use it to show off parallel processing APIs in Haskell), there are some technical pieces in the back end that are difficult to fit in with a web browser as well. Also, mainly due to backward compatibility, there are inconsistencies in the API (circle to draw the outline of a circle versus rectangleWire to do the same with a rectangle, for example), inconsistencies with what students will see in math classes (angles are clockwise, for example, in the official implementation), and lost opportunities to make small tweaks that will more clearly emphasize declarative thinking. We definitely want something like Gloss, but there are a few details that it would help to tweak in some incompatible ways.
- SafeHaskell turns out to be problematic for a variety of reasons. Aside from the performance problems from running on the server in the first place, it's really only a small part of a solution to the problems of running untrusted code. For example, it has no protections against using excessive resources and slowing down the server until it's unusable.
This technology migration isn't done yet, and there's still a lot of little syntax stuff that's frustratingly unsupported by Fay… but I'm working on it, helping out the Fay project a little but, too, and it'll get there!
Part 2: The Presentation
In addition to changing technologies, I've been putting a lot of thought into what I want the future of the system to look like. I am looking at how to make the platform more appealing when I am not personally living right by the school and able to pop over and help with any students who are having problems.
One side of this is definitely a redesign of the web site. The site needs examples, it needs to look more finished, and it needs documentation! I'm working on a mock-up of the future web site, and while my web design skills are definitely lacking, I think I'm happy with the concept so far. You can take a look, if you want, and let me know what you think.
Another side actually was started over the summer, and that's putting together a comprehensive teacher's guide, including worksheets, exercises, and organization of the content. This needs to be more than just a web site; it needs to be an organized approach to presenting the ideas and guiding students through the learning process. I'm strongly considering making a somewhat involved video series to present the concepts, as well.
Part 3: Community
The third and final part of this is putting the pieces in place for a sustainable community of people working together. I don't have any specific plans here, yet… but I'll just say that I see positive things ahead. I'm now working with tens of thousands of brilliant people, many of whom care very much about education, in a company that encourages its employees to experiment with technology in ways that aren't focused on just one product. I'm also within a short drive of the Khan Academy, and plenty of other groups that care a lot about math education.
Some things I'd like to try here:
- Getting together students who build things with CodeWorld to meet and share their creations.
- Helping students make the transition from developing things for "a school project" to sharing them with friends and others, and possibly even offering their creations in various app stores or markets. (Student creations in CodeWorld actually tend to be fairly similar to the casual game market for smartphones and such…)
- Creating more resources for teachers who want to incorporate this into their schools. I'd love to hold seminars and such for teachers! Please ask me to do this, once the pieces are in place!
So that's where CodeWorld is, and where it's hopefully going. I'm still very excited about the future of this effort, and looking forward to making some more progress here soon.
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Ellis Whitehead / Nov 19 2012 3:22 am
Looks great! I will be very interested to watch how the project progresses. A few weeks ago, I started using DrRacket to introduce my children (6 and 7) to programming, and it's an amazing language for this purpose: the kids get along with it just fine, due to the syntactic simplicity. I doubt that they'd be able to manage with Haskell very well until they're much older, since there are a lot more mistakes one can make and no simple IDEs exist. What ages are you targeting?
Brit Cruise / Nov 19 2012 4:35 pm
Very cool! Keep it up!


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Announcing a Collaborative Partnership between the Institute for Sustainable Design and the Buckminster Fuller Institute
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The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design is extremely pleased to announce that it has begun a collaborative programming partnership with the Buckminster Fuller Institute. The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions for the most pressing problems facing humanity and the planet, and it pursues this goal through a variety of programs that encourage the collaboration and cross-pollination of different disciplines.
Collaboration between the two institutes is a very natural fit. Both are engaged in the work of advancing human well-being, fostering the health of our planet's ecosystems, designing practical strategies to ensure that our social systems and ecosystems strengthen one another, and showcasing work that details the connection between environmental sustainability and collective intelligence. This partnership will allow both institutes to pursue their missions with greater intensity, consideration, and connections to on-the-ground developments in the field of sustainable design.
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I know I posted many of these photos in a post last year, but they were crappy scans from my then-crappy scanner (this one is better, but I still need to invest in something really fantastic at some point). All photos were taken by Michael Cooper in the Joshua Tree desert. This is one of my all-time favorite Stones/Marianne/Anita photo sessions (not that they were posed, but you know what I'm saying). They're just gorgeous. I especially love the last one, of Gram dancing (it's no secret that Gram Parsons is one of my favorite men that's ever lived). Doing drugs, playing music, and gazing off into the sunrise. Love it.
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Italian photographer Alessandro Penso has spent the last few years documenting immigration issues in Europe. He's photographed migrant workers in the south of Italy, detention centers in Malta and young men who risk everything trying to board trucks bound for Western Europe. For the next month, Penso is crisscrossing Europe on one of these trucks -- bringing his award-winning images to an audience that has largely turned a blind eye to the continent's intractable immigration crisis.
In Europe, migrants must apply for asylum in the country where they are first identified. These regulations have transformed Greece and Italy -- two countries with some of the toughest immigration rules in Europe -- into administrative limbos and have led "to an unfair distribution of asylum seekers and requests in European countries," Penso tells TIME. "This situation has received much criticism in recent years, including in a report from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, which found that the regulations obstruct the legal rights and personal wellbeing of asylum seekers, including their right to a fair examination of their request for asylum."
Despite the criticism, little has been done to help these migrants, especially at a time when much of Europe is still grappling with an economic calamity that has raised unemployment rates and, to no one's surprise, has fueled the rise of nationalistic rhetoric and sentiments virtually everywhere.
"I wanted to find a way to re-establish contact with the broader community," says Penso. "I felt the need to speak with the people who usually see only a small part of the situation, with the aim of raising awareness and encouraging discussion. What better place to do this than in piazzas and city squares, and what more symbolic a way than on a truck?"
Organised in collaboration with the Cortona On The Move photography festival, Penso's truck has already visited Bari, Ancona, Rome, Florence and Milan in Italy, and will continue its way north to Strasbourg, France, and Brussels, Belgium – two cities where European regulations are crafted. "Most institutions and organizations talk only about numbers," Penso tells TIME. "This project gives a face, a voice and a story to these people. We want to reach Brussels, where the laws are actually discussed, in order to show their consequences. We want to bring the discussion back into human terms."
The entire project is relayed on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on the Cortona On The Move website. "This social element is at the base of this project," the photographer explains. "We speak to people, we discuss the problems and issues, and the conversations are always stimulating and intense. [We're trying to] light a fuse -- a flame of curiosity so we can continue to ask ourselves questions and to critically evaluate what we hear and read about immigration."
The European Dream project will culminate in a three-day exhibition at the Cortona On The Move photography festival in Italy on July 17, 2014.
Alessandro Penso is a freelance photographer and a World Press Photo winner.
Olivier Laurent is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @olivierclaurent.