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On the night the Blackhawks scored two goals in 17 seconds to win the 2013 Stanley Cup, I experienced my first mugging about 30 feet away from my apartment.
All things considered, that wasn't the worst part of my night.
After all, as armed robberies go, this one was as non-confrontational as they get. Not to mention that I am a terrible candidate for a robbery target: this gentleman's entire score was a 3G Droid with a faulty camera, $5 in cash, and one debit card that accesses the checking account of a journalist. You're better off robbing a pizza delivery driver.
No, the night's low point came a few hours before the robbery, when I failed to see the game-tying and series-winning goals.
Earlier in the day, I'd headed to O'Hare with my friend Rob to see him off on his return flight to San Francisco. But the flight was delayed two and a half hours, so we kicked it in the Hilton hotel bar until his departure. I watched the first period at the bar and then took the Blue Line back to Wicker Park.
When I got back to the neighborhood, the game was in the second intermission. Rather than going to a bar, I went home to finish some work that was derailed by the delayed flight. Since I don't have cable, I figured I would just watch the game on a bootleg web feed and then head right back to the neighborhood if the Hawks won.
But the web feed was choppy, so I kept an eye on the score on espn.com as I did my work.
After Game 1, I figured this series would go the distance. And when Milan Lucic scored to give the Bruins a 2-1 lead, my seven-game series intuition seemed accurate. I kept refreshing the browser: 2-1 Bruins, seven minutes left … 2-1 Bruins, six minutes left … 2-1 Bruins, four minutes left … 2-1 Bruins, two minutes left … "Well," I thought to myself, "that's gonna do it." I hit refresh again: 3-2 Blackhawks, 40 seconds left …
"Holy shit!"
Now, if there is an upside to missing one of the greatest moments in Chicago sports history, it's that it proves just how NON-bandwagon I truly am. I would never miss an analogous moment for the Bulls or Bears. While I have always rooted for the Blackhawks, they have never been my team because hockey has never been my sport. I took a certain amount of pride in that distinction.
In retrospect, that was probably just the shock talking: I was downright dumbfounded in having missed one of the seminal moments in Chicago sports history. I snapped myself free of my philosophical daze, grabbed my wallet, my phone and my keys and darted out the door. Already the sounds of chaos were building: cheers booming out of homes, fireworks exploding, cars honking. "I missed it!" I kept thinking. "How the hell did I miss it? And what even happened??"
People were pouring out of the bars. I staggered over to the 6 Corners Sports Bar on North Avenue and stood outside the windows with a pack of police officers and civilians, all of us watching the Hawks celebrate on the Boston ice. 6 Corners was blasting "We Are the Champions," and fans were chanting "M-V-P!" for Patrick Kane, who was accepting the Conn Smythe trophy.
I was flabbergasted. I stepped into the parking lot across the street from Santullo's and called my girl. "I missed it!" I shouted to her in disbelief. I got a text from my dad: "No Game 7 like you thought, but it was all worth it. How about that game?" I called my folks and told them the bad news.
As we talked, I saw a friend-- the rapper Que Billah--walking up North Avenue. "I missed it!" I said to him as we shook hands.
"I did too!" he said, equally shocked. "I was in the car on some whole other shit, heading to the studio. All of a sudden I heard people cheering. I figured, 'Oh, I guess the Hawks won.' Then I drove a bit more and--bam--more cheering! I was like, 'Damn, why are they cheering again?' "
He was heading into 6 Corners, and I joined him for a drink. On TV were helicopter shots of the madness in Wrigleyville, Clark Street choked with people in red shirts like the CPS protests times 50. Suddenly I realized that 6 Corners had thinned out, and I went outside and saw that the North-Damen-Milwaukee intersection was now overrun with revelers, just as it had been in 2010. Traffic was frozen in all directions. A 72 bus was stopped in front of SubT, and a Papa John's truck was stuck trying to go south on Damen.
Meanwhile, people were hoisting friends onto each other's shoulders, spraying champagne and beer, kissing inflatable Stanley Cups, and of course chanting "Let's Go Hawks!" and "Boston Sucks!" and, for some reason, "U-S-A!" There was even a man dressed as a Stanley Cup via tinfoil and masking tape, and he was marching around the intersection saying, "I am the Stanley Cup! The Blackhawks won me tonight. Take a picture with me!" Plenty of people did indeed pose for pictures with "the Stanley Cup." Others posed for pictures in the crowd, with delayed motorists, with the people stranded on the 72, and with police. Camera phones were everywhere, filming the ruckus. I tried to take a picture, but my crappy old Droid would not allow it. Fortunately I ran into several friends, including one who took a picture of the two of us with his phone.
I went back into 6 Corners and had another drink with my friend and some of his friends. Then, with the police cordially clearing the intersection, I walked home. I was barely buzzed and felt a greater intoxication of spirit than of body. I checked the time on my phone as I walked up Pierce, and as I turned onto Hoyne, I saw a man crossing the street toward me. I looked in his eyes. They were trouble.
"Hey," he said as he got onto Hoyne, about 15 feet behind me.
I kept walking, my phone in my hand at my side and my building now in sight. "Hey," he said again, rather casually, and I turned around.
"Put it down," he said as he cocked his pistol--click-click. I set my phone on the sidewalk. He neither approached me nor pointed the gun my way. We were staring at each other, still about 15 feet apart, his face in the darkness. "Wallet," he said, and I put my wallet on the ground next to my phone. "Take off," he said, and I turned and started walking. Then he asked, "Is there money in there?"
"There's a five," I said.
"Keep going," he said. And then, changing his mind again, "No, go down the alley." So I turned left, walked down the alley that loops around my building, came out the other side back on Hoyne, looked around, and dashed home. Woke up my roommate to borrow his phone, called the police, and filed a report.
"What did he take?" the police asked me, and I described the unimpressive haul. I can only imagine this man's disappointment as he realized, yes, I did only have five dollars in cash, plus a debit card good for only a single fill-up at a gas station in Forest Park. All told, it was a rather unlucky night for my new acquaintance. One can only hope that he at least saw the goals.
Jack M Silverstein is a RedEye special contributor. He'll have a new phone by tomorrow, latest.
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I came back here after reading the Kotaku article about Asheron's Call being shut down.
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Looking at my account, I created this in 2003 and last logged had a logon event in 2011. I'm guessing that was a check in of some sort.
I'm on Steam and Twitter as @pierogipowered.
I do some random gaming, but no MMO's. My last MMO would have been WoW years ago before any expansions I believe.
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Michelle Kratts and Teresa Sharp Donaldson, the Lewiston authors of "From The Mouth of the Lower Niagara River: Stories of Four Historic Communities," discussed the inspiration for their portion of the book at a recent Historical Association of Lewiston gathering. Four teams of authors in two counties came together over the course of three years to share history, oral stories, anecdotes, maps and photos.
Kratts asked the pictured children to read a letter about a character or topic from the book.
Shown in the top row, from left, are Gregory Avila-Shah, Griffon Gansworth, Michelle Kratts, Brendan Kratts and Alex Gentile. In the bottom row, from left, are Jillian Stephenson, Jillian Kratts, Lilu Wilson and Marisa Pileggi.


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Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center latest local facility to pre-screen ER patients as cost-saving measure.
DAYTONA BEACH — As medical providers look to save money in a changing health care landscape, another local hospital is changing its emergency room rules to direct patients with minor issues into less-expensive forms of treatment.
Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center is the latest hospital to charge people upfront who come to the emergency room with the sniffles, a toothache and other conditions deemed to be minor.
"Emergency rooms are designed for those patients who have significant issues," said Dr. Ronald Jimenez, chief medical officer at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center. "One of the problems with the system is many people are accessing it for routine care. That can clog the system up."
Under federal law, patients coming to the emergency room must be screened and treated if they have an urgent health need — regardless of their ability to pay. Patients between the ages of 18 and 64 judged to have non-urgent issues, such as a sore throat or a need for a medication refill, will be directed to less expensive forms of treatment, such as a primary care doctor or a free clinic. Patients can elect to proceed with treatment in the emergency room by paying a $150 hospital fee or their insurance co-pay if they have coverage.
The change follows similar policies that were enacted in 2011 at Halifax Health Medical Center, the busiest emergency room in the area, and Florida Hospital DeLand, the second busiest. Hospital officials say the policies not only save them money but also help patients by directing them toward cheaper forms of treatment that better address their health needs.
Florida Hospital Memorial's new policy comes amid a report from the American College of Emergency Physicians that gave Florida an "F" for access to emergency services. Only two states — New Mexico and Nevada — rate worse for access to care, according to the organization's recently released Report Card.
A shortage of physicians, inadequate hospital space and insufficient insurance coverage are straining the emergency care system in the Sunshine State, said Dr. Mike Lozano, president of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians.
"The majority of our emergency departments are stressed," Lozano said. "We need to pay attention, so we can head off a crisis coming down the road. With any safety net, you can stretch it out to where it breaks. It may be fraying."
Florida has one of the lowest ratios of primary care doctors to residents in the nation, high levels of uninsured and a low Medicaid reimbursement rate, which discourages physicians from accepting low income patients, according to the report. When patients can't find a doctor or can't afford to see one, they typically end up in emergency rooms for routine care, Lozano said.
Estimates on how many visits are non-urgent vary. In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tagged the number at 8 percent. Other estimates have been as high as 27 percent. Some patients have visited the emergency room at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center as many as 46 times in a year, said Lindsay Rew, a spokeswoman for Florida Hospital.
Compounding the problem, the state doesn't have enough psychiatric beds, contributing to long wait times in the emergency room, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians report.
The organization has been vocal in combating the notion that emergency rooms contribute significantly to the nation's huge health care spending bill, citing a study that shows emergency care represents less than 2 percent of the nation's $2.4 trillion in health care expenditures.
Hospital officials at Florida Hospital and Halifax Health say the area has a good physician infrastructure when compared to many other parts of the state, and they are working on providing more treatment options to the community. On average, patients wait 16 minutes to see a health care professional at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center's emergency room and 40 minutes at Halifax Health Medical Center, according to government data.
Halifax Health is planning to open primary care clinics in Deltona and Ormond Beach in March. The 678-bed public hospital system recently opened a women's health walk-in clinic in Ormond Beach.
At Halifax Health, patients between the ages of 18 and 64 coming to the emergency room with non-urgent issues who don't wish to pay for care upfront are directed to an on-site clinic, which hospital officials say is a less expensive form of treatment. Residents of the Halifax hospital district, which covers much of the eastern part of the county from Ormond-by-the-Sea to Ponce Inlet, pay a subsidized rate of $48 at the clinic, and residents outside the taxing district who have non-urgent issues are encouraged to visit community clinics in their part of the county.
"People are coming to the ER for primary care," said John Guthrie, a Halifax Health spokesman. "That puts a strain on the system. The challenge for the health system is to figure out how we can help people get the right care at the right time. As we refine that process, we'll see lower wait times." In 2013, about 5,000 of 121,000 patients coming to Halifax Health's emergency rooms were diverted to other treatment options — about 4 percent of visits, said Arvin Lewis, chief revenue officer.
At Florida Hospital DeLand, patients with non-urgent issues are asked to pay a flat fee of $115 if they don't have insurance or their co-pay if they are insured. The hospital is in the process of renovating its emergency room and expanding its capacity from 23 beds to 28 beds.
Florida Hospital is also looking to open urgent care clinics in Port Orange, Daytona Beach and on the westside of the county, along with an outpatient facility in New Smyrna Beach.


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The new expansion promises a lot of new content, but besides the changes to the world itself (and being able to finally fly around everywhere!) the most exciting feature is the changes that encourage people in a guild to work together for shared rewards.
Initially there was going to be a talent tree associated with the whole thing, but the developers made a very wise and removed it. Why would you want to limit your decisions to just a small group of people (do we take things PvE or PvP… do we get this rewards that benefits this 10 people or this 50). Now the rewards are more across the board and I think this was a great axe to something that could have created guild hoping until people found the right set of rewards in a guild.
Professions is something that I did not get into until recently and I between the wife and I we are getting close to having every single profession in the game maxed out. The guild has strong crafters in every spot. From Moon now having every single epic gem pattern in the game, to a couple of our inscriptionist having every singly glyph not to mention enchanters with even the hard to find ones. We will enter the new expansion with people not just eager to conquer new content but also max out their profession and this time the guild will benefit equally from both.
It seems that besides killing Arthras a lot of people are preparing alts to take even possibly a center stage in the next expansion. It provides a great opportunity for you to make an alt your main and enjoy that new content from a different perspective. I am personally very excited about the disc priest being rewarded for DPSing! I cannot wait to start stacking smite and getting benefits from it!


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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he's not visiting Jakarta to lecture the Indonesian government on taking a tougher stand against asylum seekers who use their territory as a springboard to Australia.
But he says Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and others have stated repeatedly that Australia needed to "take the sugar off the table" and remove attractions which give people smugglers a product to sell.
Mr Abbott says the Indonesians are well aware of opposition policy of turning back asylum seeker boats to Indonesian territory and also restoring temporary protection visas.
"They understand that turning boats around is but one element of that policy and the last thing I'm coming to Indonesia to do is to lecture," he told reporters in Jakarta.
"I'm coming here to listen, to learn and to indicate to the Indonesian government that as far as I'm concerned, Indonesia and its government should always be treated with respect and should always be dealt with as a candid friend."
Mr Abbott said he believed a coalition government under him could achieve the levels of co-operation with the Indonesian government necessary to ensure to stop the boats.
"Let's face it, under Prime Minister (John) Howard, those levels of co-operation were there. I'm confident that under the next coalition government we can have the same levels of co-operation," he said.
Mr Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited Bali for the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Bali terrorist bombings.
Mr Abbott is spending three days in Indonesia conducting talks on a range of issues, including imports of Australian beef.
Indonesia reduced imports of Australian cattle after Labor suspended the trade in the wake of revelations of animal cruelty at some Indonesian abattoirs.
Mr Abbott said that was a very difficult period in the relationship between Australia and Indonesia.
"What I want to do is to try to explore a way forward that will be mutually beneficial for both countries," he said, adding that Indonesia's expanding middle class would inevitably eat more beef.
"Now, I think that it's possible for them to be more self-sufficient and at the same time for Australia to have growing export markets in beef here as well. So, that's what I hope to explore and discuss over the next couple of days," he said.


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Does anyone out there have experience running Hulabee games (In particular their adventures Ollo in the Sunny Valley Fair or Moop & Dreadly) on Wine? When I try they just crash with some generic error, I forget which but I could check if anyone wants. If anyone is interested, demos are available to *legally* download:
Ollo: http://web.archive.org/web/20040611045441/http://www.transposia.nl/content/demo/ollo.exe
Moop: http://web.archive.org/web/20060303095607/http://www.transposia.nl/content/demo/moop.exe
(These are archived copies from Transposia's website, who were and still are the games' publisher in the Netherlands and Belgium.)Last edited by GeorgeQGreg on Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:12 am; edited 1 time in total
I download the demos from
I have Ollo and Moop install and played complete the demos without crash.
Same with new wine profile
Only error is
code: err:pulse:pulse_contextcallback Context failed: Connection refused Wine 1.8.6
Siduction (Debian/sid) 64bit
code: err:pulse:pulse_contextcallback Context failed: Connection refused
Well, the Wine in Ubuntu is a much older version, so I thought to try a newer version... okay, looks like it's only available as a source package, well, I'll compile it then! Ok, looks like I have to install... I dunno, feels like every dev package ever written... hours pass compiling... ok, finally compiled! ...guess I have to give it its own prefix, ok... now for the moment of truth! Aaaand...
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x4750bb (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Exactly the same as the damn vanilla build. There's just one word that says it all... ARGH!!!
Curiosity got the better of me, and I tried the Wine on Puppy. Runs fine! (There was no sound, seems broken on the computer I used, eh, I'd have probably heard sound if it was working.)
So something stupid about my distro's config must be making the game crash. Just great!
Updated: So, I have now isolated it to just something with my config, as it runs on the recently-installed copy of Ubuntu 16.04 on my mom's laptop. So, there must be something stupid about my installation. I admit, there's a lot stupid about my config. I can't even find the cause! I wonder what else I broke.
This whole thread might as well be replaced with the text "GEORGEQGREG IS AN IDIOT."


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Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Complete Season Seven was a DVD release containing all of the episodes which were broadcast during the series' seventh season.
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Special features Edit
- Mission Overview Year Seven – Cast and crew discuss the final season and their transition to the feature film Star Trek Generations. Also, LeVar Burton reminisces about working with Ben Vereen in "Interface" and Wil Wheaton and Ronald D. Moore recall "Journey's End".
- A Captain's Tribute – Patrick Stewart pays tribute to each principal cast member.
- Departmental Briefing Year Seven: Production – Gates McFadden discusses her directorial debut in "Genesis", Jonathan Frakes recalls directing "Attached", McFadden and Jeri Taylor delve into the roles of strong women and Patrick Stewart remembers becoming more physical in episodes like "Bloodlines".
- The Making of "All Good Things..." – Cast and crew recollect the making of the final episode, including footage from the location filming.
- Starfleet Moments and Memories – Cast and crew look back on seven years of creating The Next Generation.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVD preview – A trailer for the DS9 DVDs which would be released in 2003.
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The following featurettes were available for a limited time to Region 1 only at Best Buy and Media Play locations, but were standard included in the Region 2 edition.
- Special Profiles – John de Lancie discusses his character Q and Majel Barrett-Roddenberry comments on her role as Lwaxana Troi.
- Dressing the Future – Costume designer Robert Blackman discusses Star Trek costumes and Marina Sirtis provides an exclusive tour of the wardrobe department.
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Following the special feature "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" the following credits were listed.
Directed by – Donald R. Beck
Written by – Stephen R. Wolcott
Supervising Producer – Rose Duignan
Segment Producer – Stephen R. Wolcott
Post Production Supervisor & Senior Editor -– Robert M. Malachowski, Jr.
Segment Editors – Narumi Inatsugu, Lennie Nelson, Ollie Penchansky, Kevin Connolly, Joe Guglielmo
Tape Operators – Damon Brewster, Jose Sanchez, Craig Johnson
Audio Mixer – Rob Pehrson
Production Crew – Mark Ritchie, Ian Jones, Todd Lotto, Rene Vera
With Special thanks to – Ira Steven Behr, Rick Berman, Robert Blackman, Brannon Braga, Avery Brooks, LeVar Burton, David Carson, Jay Chattaway, James Cromwell, Dan Curry, Jonathan Del Arco, John de Lancie, Michael Dorn, John Dwyer, J.P. Farrell, Terry Farrell, Jonathan Frakes, Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Hetrick, Dennis Hoerter, Gary Hutzel, Greg Jein, Penny Juday, Robert Justman, Peter Lauritson, Robert Legato, David Livingston, Dennis Madalone, Dennis McCarthy, Gates McFadden, James Mees, Ron B. Moore, Ron D. Moore, Larry Nemecek, Robert O'Reilly, Marc Okrand, Mike Okuda, Michael Piller, Michael Raffeld, Andrew Robinson, Gerry Sackman, Alan Sims, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Rich Sternbach , Patrick Stewart, Eric Stillwell, Patrick Sweeney, Guy Vardaman, Nana Visitor, Michael Westmore, Wil Wheaton, Bill Wistrom, Durinda Woods, Herman Zimmerman
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SAN DIEGO – The chatter and speculation hasn't stopped since the players arrived at Torrey Pines earlier in the week for the Farmers Insurance Open. The focus of such a busy week is sure to shift to another topic on Thursday.
Yes, there's a golf tournament to be played.
Tiger Woods is back on the course that has brought him seven titles as a pro, hoping to get a good idea where his game is headed this year.
Brandt Snedeker returns as the defending champion. So does Kyle Stanley, who served up the win to Snedeker last year when he made triple bogey on the final hole and then lost in a playoff.
Phil Mickelson is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the first of his three PGA Tour wins at Torrey Pines, his home course on tour.


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Here is a brief round-up of information and news that crossed NCWIT's radar recently and which we think will be of interest to you. The practices or content of the news gathered (while not endorsed or vetted by NCWIT) is meant to spark new conversations and ideas surrounding the current diversity statistics and trends in the tech workforce. We encourage you to add your two cents on this month's topics in the comments below.
In recent months, our country has seen a surge in violent tragedies related to long-standing systems of racial and other social biases. While our focus at NCWIT is typically on bias in the tech world, we believe that similar systemic biases related to race, sexual orientation, gender expression, class, ability, and other societal differences underlie the horrific events that have taken place nationwide over the past several months.
Dr. Carla Brodley, currently the Dean of the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University (NEU), is the recipient of the 2016 Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award.
This morning, the entire NCWIT community has reason to celebrate. President Obama just made a historic call to action that provides all students access to computer science education through policy and financial support. We encourage everyone to amplify and support this announcement within their networks using the hashtag #CSforAll. You can also follow NCWIT social media channels and @whitehouse on Twitter for updates.
The following guest post was given at the White House Office of Science and Technology for the Cybersecurity event on December 3, 2015 by the Honorable Paula Stern, Chairwoman of The Stern Group, Inc. and an NCWIT Policy and Media Consultant.


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Barry University's
D. Inez Andreas School of Business
Invites you to meet:
George W. Foyo
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer
Baptist Health South Florida
For a conversation on:
"Flexibility and The Changing Paths to Success"
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Barry University
Andreas Hall
Meeting Room 111
11300 NE 2nd Ave
Miami Shores, FL 33161
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Mr. Foyo is our eighth guest to the
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About the Executive Leadership Forum and George Foyo
The Executive Leadership Forum was created to serve as a venue for sharing practical business knowledge. Select leaders from the business community are invited to engage in a dialogue regarding their perspectives on leadership and the everyday challenges they face.
Our eighth guest to the Executive Leadership Forum is Mr. George W. Foyo, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Baptist Health South Florida. In this role, he directs and manages major system-wide, corporate functions, including Human Resources, International Services, Construction, Government & Community Relations, the Baptist Health Foundation, and more.
Before joining Baptist Health, Mr. Foyo served as Market President for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF), now known as Florida Blue. Mr. Foyo was responsible for BCBSF business operations in eight South Florida counties, including Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Mr. Foyo was able to grow BCBSF's business in the region by creating new opportunities in the marketing, sales and community relations divisions.
Prior to joining the Healthcare industry, he served as the President and CEO of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce where his team delivered significant business and membership growth and implemented strategies that re-positioned the chamber to be a strong advocate for business in Florida and in Washington.
A veteran of international business, his distinguished international career includes serving in numerous executive-level positions such as the President of DIRECTV Latin America, President and Managing Director for AT&T's Caribbean and Latin America Division, Executive Vice President of AT&T International, Managing Director and CEO of AT&T Microelectrónica de España and Europe, and Vice President of Sales for AT&T, among others.
Locally, Mr. Foyo serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coconut Grove Bank and was also recently named Co-chair of Miami-Dade County's "One Community One Goal" initiative. He continues to participate in several Boards focused on education, social services and economic development initiatives, including the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Cuban American National Council (past Chair), The Beacon Council (past Chair), the FIU School of Business, the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent's Advisory Council and others. He is also past Chair of Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Dade Community Foundation (now The Miami Foundation).
Mr. Foyo has received many honors and accolades during his career, including: Outstanding Alumni, University of Illinois; Hispanic Engineer Hall of Fame, HENAAC; Executive of the Year, Madrid Chamber of Commerce; and Executive of the Year, Latin Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Born in Havana, Cuba. He earned a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago and an M.S. in Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana. He is married to Luisa and together they have four children.
Baptist Health South Florida is the largest, most preferred, not-for-profit healthcare organization in the region. Baptist Health is composed of seven hospitals and 30 outpatient locations spanning throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties. With a workforce of more than 15,000 employees, it is South Florida's largest private employer. Learn more about how Baptist Health South Florida delivers top healthcare services to the community by visiting: www.baptisthealth.net.


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by Kathleen Duff
Monday evening, the Grand Island Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution to begin the process for building a new transportation center (bus garage) on Baseline Road behind Charlotte Sidway School.
"This is the end of a long process," stated Superintendent of Schools Robert Christmann, speaking about the months of investigation by the board, administrators and Cannon Design, who had presented trustees with "red," "white," and "blue" plans, all of which continued to raise concerns for Baseline Road residents.
Residents attending Monday's session again said they do not want a new facility because they are concerned about disruption of athletic fields adjacent the school and also wonder about the impact on traffic patterns, air quality and tax dollars.
District Director of Business and Finance Joe Giarrizzo told the board that the "White is the best option," agreeing with Christmann that it would raise the level of student safety, and be more efficient as the plan would re-use the existing bus garage as a buildings and grounds facility. Currently, maintenance crews work out of Eco Island on Staley Road where seasonal equipment has to be stored outdoors. The board-approved option would revamp the maintenance building at Eco Island for use as the district's nature preserve classroom. Necessities include a better telephone system and fire alarms, and upgrades to meet requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The State Environmental Quality Review Act process will now begin: 75 days from the approval of the resolution to ballot, with the public vote being advertised in local publications 45 days before the polls. Details on the transportation center options and their costs may be viewed on the district website: www.k12.ginet.org.
In other business, trustees approved a resolution for use of school property on Staley Road by the Niagara Sunday Fliers. The club flies radio-controlled model airplanes and will be interacting with the high school's technology students as they study aeronautics. Kristin Yiengst, who owns the house next door to the field, asked the board who may be liable for trespassers on her property and for possible injury to the horses she stables. She also said that club members have been using the field prior to board approval. Another Grand Island resident said public parks should be used for flying, utilizing areas which are already open and have public restrooms. She saw "no benefit to the district."
Christmann said that the field is open for use to anyone who asks permission of the district to use it, and that the district is responsible for maintenance. Board President David Goris said, "Having been there and seen it, and given a copy of the rules ... I would recommend passing the resolution."
In the "Roundtable" portion of the agenda, Trustee Tak Nobumoto said that the board should look into "spots of inappropriate behavior" in Grand Island High School. In addition, Paul Krull said he been getting calls about the "lax" dress code. High School Principal Sandra Anzalone promised the board a presentation on the district dress code at the next board meeting.
Finally, Grand Island "hallwalkers" will be able to use halls in the high school/middle school complex free of charge this school year. Previously, hallwalkers paid a $15 community education fee for their four nights a week of sheltered exercise. The district is now waiving that, but will require users sign-in and out each evening and will use high schoolers who need community service hours to monitor sign-ins and to hand out passes.
The next meeting of the Grand Island Board of Education is Monday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Eco Island on Staley Road. Trustees and administrators will tour the facility at 6:30 p.m.
Board of Education Trustees
Send comments to the board at [email protected].


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Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #11: Sponsored by Citrix Online
Find out how Girl Geeks, mobile apps, and collaborative technology are changing how, when and where we work!
Join Citrix Online for a Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner on Thursday, September 22, at Jillian's (@ Metreon) in San Francisco. Learn from our engineers, product line managers, Cloud, IT and Marketing gurus, as we talk about the past, present and future of mobile collaboration.
Event is FREE for all girl geeks. Girl geeks can register a guy geek as her "plus one" above when she RSVPs.
Network with other women in the technology industry, enjoy refreshments, product demos and fun activities.
First 250 at the door get a Citrix Online Girl Geek Dinner coffee mugs. Giveaways throughout the evening. Raffle winner will receive an Amazon Kindle!
Hear a panel of Citrix Online women on their experiences in the tech industry.
Learn the latest about cutting-edge Citrix Online products like GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, GoToWebinar, GoToAssist, GoToManage, GoToTraining and how we are creating apps for the top mobile platforms!
About the girl geek panel discussion:
Ever wished you could work remote using only your mobile phone, fix your clients' computers using only your iPad, connect to your work computer from anywhere in the world, or host a meeting online using HiDef video-conferencing? At Citrix Online we are innovating technology that allows our users to connect and collaborate anytime, anywhere, like never before.
In a panel discussion, we will discuss our past, present and future of mobile collaboration technology and the perspectives and advice from women in diverse roles and functions at Citrix Online. Our panelists include: Erin Hintz (VP, Global Marketing & GM, eCommerce), Lisa Reeves (VP and GM, Access and Cloud Services), Cat Allday (Product Line Director), Elizabeth Cholawsky (VP and GM, IT Services Line of Business), Sukrutha Raman (QA Engineer), Beth Gilbert (Product Line Manager, GoToTraining).
Schedule of events:
5:30pm – 6:30pm: Registration, heavy appetizers & drinks, fun activities, demos and networking.
6:30pm – 6:40pm: Welcome
6:40pm – 7:40pm: Short Presentations
7:40pm – 8:30pm: Networking, more demos and fun activities
8:30pm : Raffle drawing, closing remarks
About our featured girl geek panelists:
Erin Hintz (VP, Global Marketing & GM, eCommerce)
Erin Hintz heads the Citrix Online global marketing team, which includes responsibility for the division's marketing, eCommerce and public relations around the world. Prior to joining Citrix Online in 2011, she was vice president of worldwide consumer marketing at Symantec Corp. During her tenure, Symantec's consumer division grew from $350 million/year to $2 billion/year and Norton became the world's most trusted brand for consumer security solutions, valued at $3.3B on a recent top ten tech brands report. Erin joined the Symantec team in 1994 through the company's acquisition of Delrina Corp., after which she held many executive roles in product management and marketing, with a focus on SMB, enterprise and consumer customers. She holds an honors bachelor's degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and a post-graduate diploma in Business Management from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Erin is currently an Advisory Board member for Zuberance, a venture-funded advocacy marketing platform, and a Board of Directors member for the non-profit Resource Area for Teaching.
Lisa Reeves (VP and GM, Access and Cloud Services)
Lisa Reeves joined Citrix Online in 2010 to oversee the access and cloud line of business. She is currently responsible for product development and marketing strategy for the company's GoToMyPC remote access brand and for all initiatives related to cloud computing. Before coming to Citrix Online, Lisa was a general partner at Vista Ventures, a venture capital firm targeting early-stage investments in companies in the software, digital media, and network sectors. She previously led SAP Ventures, the corporate venture investing arm of SAP AG, and spent 9 years in senior operating roles at SAP America, including sales, marketing, business development and consulting. She began her career in the automotive industry. Lisa holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.B.A. from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Cat Allday (Product Line Director)
Elizabeth Cholawsky (VP and GM, IT Services)
Elizabeth Cholawsky is vice president and general manager of Citrix Online's IT Services line of business. In this position Cholawsky leads the strategy, vision and focus of the GoToAssist and GoToManage product lines, cornerstones of Citrix Online's number one position in the remote support market and its innovative SaaS-based IT services for small and medium-sized businesses. Previously, as vice president for products and services, She elevated the Citrix Online customer experience to the highest level of excellence and satisfaction and oversaw unparalleled product growth, establishing Citrix Online as the world's third largest SaaS company. Prior to joining Citrix Online, Elizabeth held executive-level positions spanning product management, marketing, customer service and business analysis at companies such as Commission Junction, ValueClick and Move, Inc. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and statistics from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in government and statistics from Franklin and Marshall College.
Sukrutha Raman (QA Engineer)
Sukrutha Raman completed her MSEE degree from USC in December 2007. During her time at USC she was an active board member of the USC chapter of Society of Women Engineers. She joined Citrix Online in January 2008 working in the company headquarters in Santa Barbara, California. In May of 2010 she moved to San Francisco and joined the fast growing Citrix Online office in SOMA. As a QA Engineer, she currently works on a team that operates in an Agile manner to release the highest priority improvements and fixes for Citrix Online's award winning and enormously popular collaboration tools, GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar. She is responsible for maintaining the high quality of the products with each release. Sukrutha enjoys travelling, swimming, and trying new restaurants in San Francisco.
Beth Gilbert (Product Line Manager, GoToTraining)
Beth Gilbert joined Citrix Online in 2007 as a Product Marketing Manager responsible for directing and executing the go-to-market strategy for GoToWebinar and GoToTraining. Over the past four years, Beth has immersed herself in Web events and corporate training space resulting in a deep understanding of the current challenges and evolving needs of this market. As Product Line Manager for GoToTraining, Beth has utilized her experience and expertise in this area to manage the product strategy for the GoToTraining product line. Prior to joining Citrix Online, she was a Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager at InfoGenesis, where she developed and implemented the global product strategy for one of their hospitality product lines. In this role, she proactively supported sales and marketing efforts through ongoing training, coaching, customer presentations and Webinars. Beth holds a M.A. in Organizational Design and Effectiveness at Fielding Graduate University and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California Santa Barbara. She enjoys singing, dancing, cycling and roller derby.
About Citrix Online
Citrix Online is a fast-growing division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), based in Santa Barbara, California, with satellite offices and data centers around the world. Every month, more than 17,000 new customers start using Citrix Online's services to work from anywhere with anyone – using our remote-connectivity tools to save time, get more done and connect to others around the world.
• A small business owner is able to work from home thanks to GoToMyPC.
• A project manager collaborates with remote co-workers using GoToMeeting.
• A trainer cancels her flights and conducts live online training with GoToTraining.
• A marketer generates a list of eager buyers by inviting prospects to an online Webinar.
• A support agent fixes a customer's PC remotely on the first call using GoToAssist.
At Citrix Online, we believe in creating products that we ourselves want to use. Our goal is to offer services that are:
• So easy to use you could learn them without a manual or training.
• So reliable you can count on them every day without a second thought.
• So secure you can trust that your data is safe – fully encrypted end to end.
• So fast the experience is like being there in person.
Read more about our latest news, our management team and our community outreach programs at www.citrixonline.com.


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My Fedora Events since 2005
Can be found at http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/events/
I work on Fedora - since 2005 - to bring in or bring back OSS Security Test Applications like dsniff, unicornscan or others along with the Fedora Security Lab as the current maintainer of the Fedora Security Spin. I served as Member of the Fedora Board in 2010-2011 and as the FAmSCo Chair till December 2010 for the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. To increase the Quality of the Ambassador Membership Process, i developed and established a new mentoring process. Till recently i dedicated a large part of my time to the Ambassador Membership Service (FAMA) to guide new Contributors as a sponsor and mentor into the Fedora Project. And my other "everyday" Job in Fedora is to take care of the EMEA Budget and Payments to reimburse our Contributors and sponsoring_event_attendees - i also worked out the Community Credit Card Process and i also maintain some fedora mailing lists as Administrator.
Besides all this i always try new MarketingMaterials producing SWAG for us - or work as PressOfficer for the Fedora EMEA e.V. and help as one of the few Fedora in Library Activists. I initiated a few things which today are essential parts within Fedora Ambassadors, like the AmbassadorPolo or the well known generic Posterdesigns from MairinDuffy. Promoting Fedora on Events is also a major part of a Ambassador and so i work as organizer, driver, helper, slogger, promoter on a lot Events every year, supported by my Company, HIC AG. I contribute also to other OpenSource Projects like the LDAP Workgroup BW or the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies
- EMEA Finances
- Fedora Board Member
- Chairman Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee till Dec 2010
- Mentor for new Ambassadors
- Sponsor for Fedora Ambassador Membership Service
- Administrator of Fedora Ambassador Mailing List
- Founding Member of "Fedora EMEA" NPO
- Baden-Wuerttemberg:Open Source Layer LDAP Workgroup
- FedoraLibraries
- The Driving Eventbox 2007
- Fedora Logistic Group 2008
- Event SWAG & Equipment Production
- Creator of the Fedora-Poloshirt
- Linuxtag 2006
- Linuxtag 2007
- CLT 2008 Preparation Day1 Day2
- Open Expo Bern 2008 Day1 , Day2
- Open Expo Zuerich/Winterthur 2008 Day1
- Linuxtag 2008, Day0, Day1, Day3, Day4
- FAD EMEA 2008, Administration&Mentoring Presentation
- FOSDEM 2009, Day0, Day1, Day2
- CLT 2009 Preparation, [1], [2]
- LinuxTag 2009 Preparation
- FUDCon Berlin 09
- Open Expo Winterthur 2009
- Open Source Expo Karlsruhe 2009
- foss.in 2009 Bangalore, [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]
- Open Expo 2010
- Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010
- Fedora Activity Day Rheinfelden 2010,[13]
- FUDCon Tempe 2011, [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]
- Chemnitzer_Linuxtage_2011, [21], [22], [23]
- FUDCon:EMEA_2011_Bid_Budapest
- Fedora_Round_Table:Budapest_2011-8-27 [24]
- FUDCon Pune/India 2011, [25], [26], [27], [28], [29]
- nullcon Delhi 2012
Future plans
- enhance Fedora´s presence in underrepresented Regions - concrete: a translation marathon in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 and more focus on Africa! On a longterm, turn more and more of the white spaces on the worldmap into blue.
- improve the Membership and regional Mentoring Process
- establish better regional Leadership
- establish measurability not only for Membership also for Success of Events
- Establish liasons to other subprojects - especally to marketing, artwork and docs!
- Invent new ways to encourage people to contribute to the Fedora Project
Joerg Simon was born in 1971 in Gera, Thüringen (East-Germany). He lives in Baden-Württemberg with his wife Sabine. His first contact with IT related stuff was in the middle 80's (KC85 ) at School. In the early 90's he joined the German Army for 12 years where he was NCO (Rank E-8) in a data processing unit in the first 4 years and trained and worked in programming on UNIX Mainframe Computers. He changed the unit and attended a UNIX based GIS System (HEROS ) for display location and situation in battle scenarios. During the last 4 years he led the Information Management Department in the same Unit and improved his knowledge in IT Security. At the same time in 1996 he worked with several Linux Distributions to join smaller units on one regional Information System , supported by a colleague and friend (crenz ). After his time in the Army he worked 2 years as an instructor and promoted Linux in several presentations and scripts. During this period he evolved to dedicate a part of his life to the foss world. In 2004 he changed to HIC AG as a Security Consultant. From 2004 to 2006 he joined the ldap workgroup of bwcon:boss to work on new schemes, new concepts and to encourage and enable the ldap interoperapility between different foss projects. Also during that time he joined the Fedora project. Starting with his first FUDCon in 2005, he is contributing to multiple groups in the Fedora Project - doing administrative work as a former FAmSCo Chair and a Fedora Board Member. He is one of the founding members of the Fedora EMEA e.V. NPO. His main focus in Fedora today is: the work on Community Development, the Fedora Security Spin, Fedora mailing list and membership administration and working on strong support for Fedora in the former eastern bloc. With his involvement in the OSSTMM, he recently initiated a german localization project and work's on a special customized OSSTMM Security-Live-System based on Fedora.
- ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor British Standard Institute/IRCA
- OSSTMM Professional Security Tester Accredited Certification (OPST)
- RHCA Exams EX436&EX423
(Verify my Redhat Exams )
- ITIL V3 Foundation
- PRINCE2 Foundation
- Fedora Ambassadors Recognition Awards March2007


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FEI/Baruch Survey: Economic and Business Optimism Shows Strong Improvement from 2012 Levels
Revenue Growth and Expense Control Remain CFOs' Top 2013 Business Challenges
NEW YORK, NY - February 28, 2013 � According to the most recent quarterly survey conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, Chief Financial Officers entered 2013 with improved optimism toward the global and U.S. economies and their businesses, though most still believe a recovery is over a year out. While they still carry the burden of concerns around increasing revenue and controlling expenses, their capital spending is at a normal rate and they are not making drastic cuts to their workforce.
The "CFO Outlook Survey," which polls CFOs of public and private businesses in the U.S. and Europe (Italy and France) on their economic and business confidence and expectations, found that CFOs were more confident than where they stood last quarter. The quarterly optimism index for U.S. CFOs toward their own businesses increased to 69.50 (from 62.7 in the third quarter). Their confidence in the global economy jumped eight points to 52.2, from its near survey low in November 2012 (44.2). U.S. CFOs also reported increased optimism in the U.S. economy this quarter, moving five points to 56.7 (from 51.6 in Q3).This quarter, CFOs in the EU demonstrated improved optimism in these areas from last quarter as well -- their confidence in the global economy rose six points to 51.30 (from 45.2 in Q3), and confidence in their own businesses saw a slight increase (57.50 from 55.70 in Q3). U.S. CFOs continued to forecast higher projections for their business than did their European counterparts, with the highest increases in the areas of capital spending (17%) and technology spending (11%) over the next 12 months. In the U.S., CFOs are also anticipating a nearly 10 percent rise in net earnings and revenue. European CFOs on average expect more subtle increases in these areas, with the highest increases in revenue (4%) and net earnings (3%).
Similar to previous years, revenue growth remains the top business challenge that U.S. CFOs are facing for the first half of 2013 (23% of CFOs in the U.S.; 21% of CFOs in Europe). European CFOs see expense control as their biggest challenge, and it was also high on the list for U.S. CFOs (28% in Europe; 14% in the U.S.). While competition was the third most common choice for EU CFOs (18%); regulatory issues was the third top choice for U.S. CFOs (14%). In terms of economic worries, U.S. CFOs were most concerned about government regulation and consumer spending/demand. In the EU, CFOs' concerns over falling economic production or recession were slightly higher than their concern over consumer spending.
CFOs addressed their expectations about the fate of the Eurozone, which has been a moderate concern over the past few quarters. When asked to rate their concern on a scale of one (not concerned) to five (very concerned), more than half of all European CFOs (72%) selected a "three or higher," and the large majority of U.S. CFOs selected a "three or higher" (86%). CFOs also believe that a recovery in the European economy is more than a year out, with 71 percent of U.S. CFOs and 65 percent of EU CFOs predicting that a recovery would not begin to take place until 2014 or beyond. When asked about the timeframe that a U.S. economic recovery would take place, this quarter, nearly half (43%) of U.S. CFOs believed a recovery would be delayed until at least 2014. About a fifth (22%) think the U.S. would recover at some point in 2013, and over a third (35%) believe the U.S. is already in the midst of a recovery.
"CFO optimism has understandably fluctuated over the past several years, but the fact that optimism levels are near or surpassed where they stood a year ago is an encouraging indicator for the start of 2013," said Linda Allen, Professor of Economics and Finance for the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. "While CFOs appear to be more confident this quarter, they remain realistic -- most have some serious concerns about keeping their companies profitable. On a macro -- level, most believe that the instability of the U.S. and European economies is a longer-term issue that will take more than a year to resolve."
CFOs Believe Congress Will Reach U.S. Debt Crisis Outcome
CFOs in both the U.S. and abroad are closely watching Congress' actions surrounding the U.S. debt crisis and critical deadlines for sequestration by the start of March. By and large, they are hoping that Congress will avoid a default on the Government debt, followed by a deficit reduction agreement and U.S. debt downgrade, as more than half of respondents (59% in the U.S., 51% in the EU) indicated that this outcome would have the most negative impact on their business. When asked to predict the most likely outcome by Congress, at the time of polling, the majority of U.S. CFOs (67%) believe that Congress will implement short term increases in the debt ceiling, followed by incremental deficit reduction agreements. CFOs in Europe also offered their predictions on the outcome, and comparably, the majority (59%) believes the most likely outcome will be a long-term agreement to reduce the deficit. About 13 percent of CFOs in the U.S. three percent in Europe anticipate that sequestration will be triggered, with no government shutdowns.
"Congress' ability to control the U.S. debt and deficits will continue to be front and center in the minds of CFOs in the next few months," said Marie Hollein, President and CEO of Financial Executives International. "CFOs in both regions trust that Congress will ultimately come to an agreement, but U.S. CFOs believe that these actions will take place incrementally as we reach key deadlines. With the potential threat of sequestration now looming, the way in which Congress ultimately responds will likely have a significant impact on their optimism this year."
U.S. CFO respondents were also asked about the impact of proposed recommendations by the Financial Stability Oversight Council regarding money market mutual fund reform. Fifty-eight percent of U.S. CFOs felt that that proposed recommendations would not make them less inclined to use money market funds as a liquidity instrument, but the remaining 42 percent stated this would impact their use of these funds.
CFOs Continue to Maintain Workforce; U.S. Still Planning to Hire
CFOs in the U.S expect little change in the unemployment rate in the next six to 12 months. On average, they anticipate it may increase slightly, but will remain below eight percent. European CFOs also expect the unemployment rate to remain around 10 percent within the year. This quarter, most CFOs (83% in the U.S. and 70% in Europe) stated that they have not been forced to reduce headcount over the past 12 months. Forward looking hiring among European respondents was split: 42 percent of European CFOs plan to hire additional employees within the next six months, but a similar number (46%) indicated they will not be hiring. In comparison, the majority of U.S. CFOs (63%) are planning to hire in the next six months, while only 29 percent do not have hiring plans.
Other findings from the CFO Outlook Survey include a CFOs' level of activity in capital spending, their cash positions and access to credit:
- Capital Spending: CFOs in Europe (57%) continue to spend cautiously in the current climate, along with just over one third (34%) of U.S. CFOs. This quarter however, more than half (57%) of CFOs in the U.S. stated that they are now spending at a normal rate or making ambitious investments in capital expenditures. Only 7 to 8 percent of CFOs in the U.S. and Europe are holding on all investments. Of those CFOs in the U.S. that are making a capital expenditure, they are primarily directing investments toward technology (62%), followed by machinery (30%) and property/land (20%). In Europe, more than half (52%) of those making a capital expenditure are investing in technology, followed by expansion into new and emerging markets (31%) and machinery (30%).
- Capital and Equity: CFO respondents this quarter were not cash-constrained and were currently holding an average 13 percent of their company's assets in cash (14% for U.S. CFOs and 12% for European CFOs). U.S. CFOs on average held 61 percent of their company's balance sheets in equity, compared with 29 percent in long-term debt obligations. In contrast, CFOs in Europe had approximately 29 percent in long term debt, but about 48 percent in equity. CFOs were most commonly using banks to access capital, followed by equity. The majority of CFOs did not feel that their company is capital constrained in terms of access to funds either from banks or capital markets (81% in the U.S. and 68% in Europe). Nearly a third of CFOs in Europe (32%) feel capital constrained, compared with a small fraction (19%) of those in the U.S.
- Access to Credit: Eighty-one percent of U.S. CFOs and 66 percent of European CFOs are anticipating no change in their credit situation in the next six months. Fourteen percent of U.S. CFOs believe that it will be easier to access credit six months from now. In Europe, nearly a third of respondents (29%) believe access to credit will be more difficult. This is an improvement from one year ago, when 54 percent of respondents in Europe felt credit would worsen.
Additional Findings: More U.S. CFOs Considering Increasing Budgets and Taking Steps Toward Cyber security
While the large majority of CFOs in both regions have not experienced a cyber-attack on their IT systems within the past 12 months (84% of U.S. CFOs and 96% of EU CFOs), respondents varied by region in their actions toward improving their cyber security. Sixty-nine percent of U.S. CFOs have considered increasing their security budgets in light of the increasing number of major companies that have faced cyber-attacks in the past few years, compared with close to a third (32%) of EU CFOs planning to do so. Similarly, over three-quarters (76%) of U.S. CFOs stated that they are taking specific steps to protect against cyber-attacks -- the most common actions include establishing off-site backup systems/plans (62%) and implementing a cyber-security/IT plan (51%). Among European CFO respondents, only 40 percent stated that they were taking steps to combat cyber-attacks.
Additional findings include detail cyber-attacks CFOs have faced, as well as CFOs plans to retain talent.
Full survey results and historical data comparisons are available at www.financialexecutives.org or from Nicole Madison at firstname.lastname@example.com. The study is also available online at the Financial Executives Research Foundation bookstore and on the Baruch College home page at www.baruch.cuny.edu.
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This quarter, the CFO Outlook Survey, conducted by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, interviewed 143 corporate CFOs from the United States and 89 corporate CFOs from Italy and France electronically from January 25th -- February 12th. CFOs from both public and private companies and from a broad range of industries, revenues and geographic areas, including some off-shore companies, are represented. The U.S. survey respondents are members of Financial Executives International; France survey respondents are members of Association Nationale Des Directeurs Financiers Et Du Controle De Gestion (DFCG) and Italy survey respondents are members of Associazione Nazionale Direttori Amministrativi E Finanziari (ANDAF). Financial Executives International has been conducting surveys gauging the country's economic outlook from the perspective of CFOs for more than 12 years.
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Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 5 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world.� For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.
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What Older Adults with Atrial Fibrillation Should Know About Taking Oral Blood Thinners
Latest Research
Summary of This Report
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart rhythm problem that affects more than 1.5 million Americans over the age of 65. If you have AF, your heart beats irregularly and does not pump blood through your body the way it should. Because of this, blood can pool in certain parts of your heart and form a blood clot. If a blood clot breaks away from your heart and gets stuck in a blood vessel in your brain, it can cause a stroke.
To prevent clots and strokes in people with AF, doctors often prescribe medications known as "blood thinners" or "anticoagulants." These drugs include aspirin, warfarin (the brand name is Coumadin), and other anticoagulation drugs. These drugs help prevent blood clots from forming and may help prevent existing clots from growing larger.
Because these drugs thin your blood, they can increase your risk of harmful bleeding, including bleeding inside your body (internal bleeding). So physicians need to carefully watch patients who are taking blood thinners and make sure they're getting the right drugs at the right doses. This can be complicated.
Heart rhythm specialists at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oregon recently reviewed research studies, from 1990 to the present, examining the use of blood thinners in older people with AF. Their report, "Oral Anticoagulation in Elderly Adults with Atrial Fibrillation: Integrating New Options With Old Concepts," was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS).
Nine Things to Know About the Evaluation and Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults
The researchers' article describes the following nine things that clinicians should consider when deciding how to treat older patients with AF:
- The "CHA2DS2-VASc" formula. This formula is one of the things doctors use to figure out how likely it is that a patient with AF will develop blood clots, whether he or she needs blood-thinning drugs, and if so, which drug.
The name of the formula stands for key risk factors for clots. These risk factors are: having Congestive heart failure, having Hypertension (or high blood pressure), being Age 75 or older (CHA2), having Diabetes, having had a Stroke or "mini-stroke" (transient ischemic attack) (DS2), having Vascular (or blood vessel) disease, being Age 65 to 74, and belonging to the "female Sex Category" (VASc) (Age of 75 and older and stroke or "mini-stroke" raise the risk of blood clots and stroke more than the other risk factors do.)
- Warfarin lowers patients' risk of AF-related blood clots and strokes more than either aspirin or a combination of aspirin and another blood thinner called clopidogrel. However, warfarin may not be best for certain patients who are at very low risk for stroke and/or at very high risk of bleeding.
- Doctors also use formulas to predict how likely a patient is to have bleeding problems if he or she takes anticoagulation medications. Many factors that boost patients' risk of stroke also boost their risk of bleeding caused by anticoagulant drugs. This can make treatment decisions based on benefits versus risks difficult.
- Older adults who take warfarin often run a higher risk of bleeding than younger adults taking the medication. In part this is because older people tend to have additional health problems that can increase this risk, and because they often take more medications, some of which can increase this risk. Healthcare providers need to keep this in mind and should be especially careful when combining drugs like aspirin with warfarin since both drugs are blood thinners.
- While older adults run increased risks of falling, and falls can cause bleeding, this doesn't mean older people shouldn't use warfarin. Why? Because it's unusual for older patients taking the drug to have dangerous bleeding, such as bleeding inside the skull, after a fall. It can be more dangerous not to give warfarin to older adults with AF because that would increase their chances of having a stroke.
- Anticoagulant therapy isn't used as often as it should be. There are several reasons for this, including the need for regularly monitoring the effect of warfarin and dosing the medication, as well as an unwillingness to face small risks of bleeding.
- Three oral anticoagulants have become available as alternatives to warfarin: dabigatran (brand name Pradaxa), rivaroxaban (brand name Xarelto), and apixaban (brand name Eliquis). They don't require the regular blood monitoring that warfarin does, and have been found to be as good as or better than warfarin in preventing both strokes and bleeding complications in people with AF. But they're not for everyone.
- Sometimes oral anticoagulants, such as warfarin, need to be reversed quickly because of major bleeding or the need for emergency surgery. This can be difficult, especially with the new oral anticoagulants. This is because, to date, there is nothing that can be given to the patient that quickly reverses the drugs' blood- thinning effects. Fortunately, their blood-thinning effects aren't as long-lasting as warfarin's.
- When a patient taking a blood thinner for AF needs a scheduled surgery or invasive procedure, his or her healthcare providers need to take the proper steps to minimize both bleeding and the formation of blood clots. Sometimes this involves stopping the drug at the right time before the procedure, and then re-starting it at the right time after the procedure.
This summary is from the full report titled, "Oral Anticoagulation in Elderly Adults with Atrial Fibrillation: Integrating New Options with Old Concepts." It appears in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The report is authored by Ignatius Gerardo E. Zarraga, MD, and Jack Kron, MD.


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This section provides the following guidelines for planning the mirroring of your cluster configuration:
To mirror all multihost disks in a Sun Cluster configuration enables the configuration to tolerate single-device failures. Sun Cluster software requires that you mirror all multihost disks across expansion units. You do not need to use software mirroring if the storage device provides hardware RAID as well as redundant paths to devices.
Consider the following points when you mirror multihost disks:
Separate disk expansion units – Each submirror of a given mirror or plex should reside in a different multihost expansion unit.
Disk space – Mirroring doubles the amount of necessary disk space.
Three-way mirroring – Solaris Volume Manager software and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) software support three-way mirroring. However, Sun Cluster software requires only two-way mirroring.
Differing device sizes – If you mirror to a device of a different size, your mirror capacity is limited to the size of the smallest submirror or plex.
For more information about multihost disks, see Multihost Disk Storage in Sun Cluster Overview for Solaris OS and Sun Cluster Concepts Guide for Solaris OS.
Add this planning information to the Local File System Layout Worksheet.
For maximum availability, mirror root (/), /usr, /var, /opt, and swap on the local disks. Under VxVM, you encapsulate the root disk and mirror the generated subdisks. However, Sun Cluster software does not require that you mirror the root disk.
Before you decide whether to mirror the root disk, consider the risks, complexity, cost, and service time for the various alternatives that concern the root disk. No single mirroring strategy works for all configurations. You might want to consider your local Sun service representative's preferred solution when you decide whether to mirror root.
See your volume-manager documentation and Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software or Installing and Configuring VxVM Software for instructions about how to mirror the root disk.
Consider the following points when you decide whether to mirror the root disk.
Boot disk – You can set up the mirror to be a bootable root disk. You can then boot from the mirror if the primary boot disk fails.
Complexity – To mirror the root disk adds complexity to system administration. To mirror the root disk also complicates booting in single-user mode.
Backups – Regardless of whether you mirror the root disk, you also should perform regular backups of root. Mirroring alone does not protect against administrative errors. Only a backup plan enables you to restore files that have been accidentally altered or deleted.
Quorum devices – Do not use a disk that was configured as a quorum device to mirror a root disk.
Quorum – Under Solaris Volume Manager software, in failure scenarios in which state database quorum is lost, you cannot reboot the system until maintenance is performed. See your Solaris Volume Manager documentation for information about the state database and state database replicas.
Separate controllers – Highest availability includes mirroring the root disk on a separate controller.
Secondary root disk – With a mirrored root disk, the primary root disk can fail but work can continue on the secondary (mirror) root disk. Later, the primary root disk might return to service, for example, after a power cycle or transient I/O errors. Subsequent boots are then performed by using the primary root disk that is specified for the eeprom(1M) boot-device parameter. In this situation, no manual repair task occurs, but the drive starts working well enough to boot. With Solaris Volume Manager software, a resync does occur. A resync requires a manual step when the drive is returned to service.
If changes were made to any files on the secondary (mirror) root disk, they would not be reflected on the primary root disk during boot time. This condition would cause a stale submirror. For example, changes to the /etc/system file would be lost. With Solaris Volume Manager software, some administrative commands might have changed the /etc/system file while the primary root disk was out of service.
The boot program does not check whether the system is booting from a mirror or from an underlying physical device. The mirroring becomes active partway through the boot process, after the volumes are loaded. Before this point, the system is therefore vulnerable to stale submirror problems.


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Scream 4 (UK - BD RB)
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After years of rumours and hearsay, Wes Craven finally returns with another Scream sequel. With series regulars Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox back for a fourth run in with Ghostface, the gang are all back together in Woodsboro for the fifteenth anniversary of the original "massacre" and surprise, surprise some new wannabe Ghostface shows up again to slash through victims for some convoluted, barely believable reason that keeps you guessing "who dunnit?" for just under two hours only for it to be the person you least suspect or may have suspected but some twist or other threw you a curveball to make you think it wasn't them just before you find out it actually was. You know, like the other Scream sequels.
To cover the background, I really liked the first Scream, Scream 2 is more goodness (except I hated the reveal of who dunnit) and lastly Scream 3 was so dull it didn't even make my wife scared (to put that it into context, she still can't really make it through the opening of the first without suggesting we turn it off at least three times). So Scream 4 or to be down with the kids Scre4m, (which immediately indicates the movie has more chance of sucking than working and it doesn't help that every time I read it my brain tells me it says Scram) came with high hopes that a bit of time away might just be what was needed to bring the franchise back to its entertaining heights. Guess what. It wasn't.
The problem with this sequel (and it's apparent from the very first scene) is the audience is too used to the set up with the self-aware discussions on the history and the current climate of horror and rather than play this lazy ass sequel with its skill at making you jump but in the fun way, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson continuously opt to have the characters discuss what makes modern horror so stagnant without realising they've actually made a horrifically stagnant horror that fits right in to the crowd that the original Scream opened the doors for.
None of the characters are anything but Scream clichés. Everyone talks the same, everyone has the same points of reference movie wise, everyone has the same sense of humour and sensibilities on the slasher in their midst and even the seasoned characters, who should be hot shit on all this stuff by now feel like they are going through the motions which just makes them all look dumb. And speaking of dumb, some of the victims here take the cake for the dumbest victims in the entire franchise. In fact the cast here are so clichéd and annoying that when Hayden Panettiere winds up being the best thing about the entire movie you realise just how weak this sequel is.
When this anti-climax wraps up with its just about good twist and reveal of who dunnit, Scream 4 is just another 'meh' sequel. It's a horror that is far from scary, it's a mystery that is far from satisfying and it's a revisit to yet another dying franchise that doesn't know when to stay dead even with another twist of the knife carried out from its own creators.
The transfer here is a textured and sharp marvel, with the aged returnees to the series showing every wrinkle and line. However, the colours here undermine all that goodness at every turn. Daytime scenes feel blown out with hazy colour. Oranges and yellows feel a little blurry and make the edges feel really soft in places. Then to make it worse the night scenes feel way too dark. Emma Roberts' brown hair is black with no detail at all, same goes for Neve's same nineties hairdo. It just looks like a black clump on her head. Shadows are too deep and characters literally disappear in the sets for no real reason most of the time and well lit actors glow off the screen so much that night time backgrounds are all but pitch black with hints of houses, cars and streets behind them. It's all a bit murky and underwhelming and makes the movie feel strangely dated.
Good strong dialogue is a consistent factor here and then the DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio explodes to frighten you with the big scary music forcing you to get into the action and the atmospheric knife slices and stabs feeling so strong it's almost laughable. That said that's every Scream mix, so it's just more of the same but with the HD oomph to make it all that more kick your teeth in loud when Ghostface comes to play.
The score is well spread across the entire speaker set up and music numbers fill the room with plenty of bassy punch but there's nothing all that special going on here and its totally typical sound design is only really interested in showing off in the bloody parts.
The disc opens with trailers of the Lord of the Rings extended trilogy, London Boulevard, The New Daughter and the odd looking Blood Creek and then offers up absolutely no features at all beside a trailer (02:20). I think that's known as a "dick move" to all of the fans of the franchise out there.
I want to like Scream 4 but watching it again here only highlights its disappointing results. It's not fun to see what Ghostface does anymore. There's nothing enjoyable about seeing the same old run-a-round and the franchise's spin on its own genre just doesn't work for me anymore. It doesn't help that the creators don't give us characters we care anything about or even 'like' and the fact they don't even have the balls to shock us with the story at all just makes for dullness, which carries over to the about average video, nothing special audio and total lack of features. This release is just about as weak as this sequel ended up being and that's really very weak. See you in 2016 when they try to make something of the twentieth anniversary, in which Ghostface is Skeet Ulrich who's back from the dead or something equally stretching.
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Review by Marcus Doidge
Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd August 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Trailer
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere
Genre: Horror
Length: 110 minutes
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With the support of a Rolex Award for Enterprise, a young man – Arun Krishnamurthy – is following his true passion to conserve the environment by spearheading a campaign to clean up the urban lakes of India.
In India, where the spread of urbanization is threatening natural water sources, Arun Krishnamurthy, with the help of hundreds of young volunteers, is reclaiming neglected lakes for the benefit of wildlife such as the Indian Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii), Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), the Peepal tree (Ficus religiosa) and pond turtles.
At just 26 years old, Arun has already established an NGO, the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI), which is based in Chennai and active in three Indian cities. With the assistance of the volunteers recruited through schools and street theatre performances, EFI has already restored 12 lakes across India. Now, with support from his Rolex Award for Enterprise, Arun and EFI are working hard to restore severely polluted Lake Kilkattalai in Chennai.
The clean-up of Lake Kilkattalai began last year and the first phase, comprising the removal of rubbish and silt, was completed in August. The second stage will include dredging, fencing and further strengthening of the lake's embankments. With the Award backing and the number of volunteers increasing, Arun is confident that the project will achieve its targets on time.
Once the clean-up is complete, there will be no public access to the lake, allowing it to become a safe haven for birds and aquatic species and plants. EFI will continue to care for the lake and Arun hopes it will become an example of how other lakes in the county can be restored.
The confidence boost provided by the Rolex Award has encouraged Arun and EFI to do even more for the environment. In addition to the clean-up at Lake Kilkattalai, EFI has earmarked 17 more lakes to restore, and is establishing an animal home and mobile ambulance in Chennai that will be operational inthe near future. EFI is also developing a fellowship called "Science Badge", which will be offered to students across India who are interested in scientific research and environment conservation.
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Appeals Court Wants More Copyright Defendants To Stand Up For Their Fair Use Rights
from the remembering-fair-use dept
[Copyright grants] authors a a "special reward" in the form of a limited monopoly over their works. However, an overzealous monopolist can use his copyright to stamp out the very creativity that the Act seeks to ignite.It's nice, of course, to see the court acknowledge both that copyright is, in fact, a monopoly, and that overzealous use of it can "stamp out the very creativity that the Act seeks to ignite." Too many refuse to even admit this rather important point.
It then goes through the typical four factor analysis for fair use, and comes to the easy conclusion that this is fair use, as all four factors come out in favor. At one point, it even notes that the clip itself could even have copyright protection separate from the rest of the program.
Sullivan simply identifies the group that is about to perform and the section of his audience to whom the Four Seasons would appeal. It is doubtful that the clip on its own qualifies for copyright protection, much less as a qualitatively significant segment of the overall episode.The court correctly finds it ridiculous that SOFA argued that Sullivan's "trademark gesticulation and style" are covered by copyright:
SOFA contorts the Supreme Court's use of the phrase "distinctive expression" in Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, to give the false impression that Mr. Sullivan's "trademark gesticulation and style" is copyrightable. Copyright only attaches to an original work fixed in a tangible medium of expression, never in the underlying ideas or facts. The Court used the words "distinctive expression" to explain that defendant had copied sections of President Ford's memoirs that contained Mr. Ford's writing, as opposed to the events he was discussing.The court also mocks the idea that the play somehow is a substitution for the clip:
Certainly movement and intonation are elements in an original performance, but SOFA's argument is not limited to Sullivan's performance in the clip. It is Sullivan's charismatic personality that SOFA seeks to protect. Charisma, however, is not copyrightable.
Jersey Boys is not a substitute for The Ed Sullivan Show. The clip is seven seconds long and only appears once in the play. Dodger does not reproduce Jersey Boys on videotape or DVD, which would allow for repeated viewing of the clip. Dodger's use of the clip advances its own original creation without any reasonable threat to SOFA's business model.In the end, a total, complete, clear cut fair use case.
Dodger's use of the clip did not harm SOFA's copyright in The Ed Sullivan Show, and society's enjoyment of Dodger's creative endeavor is enhanced with its inclusion. This case is a good example of why the "fair use" doctrine exists.In fact, it's such a good example, that the court supports making SOFA pay attorneys fees, in part because the lawyers should have immediately recognized that this was fair use (due to their involvement in previous copyright lawsuits) -- and thus, the case seemed only designed to cause trouble for the production:
> Moreover, we agree with the district court that "lawsuits of this nature . . . have a chilling effect on creativity insofar as they discourage the fair use of existing works in the creation of new ones." The fair use doctrine is an integral part of copyright law precisely because it gives authors "breathing space within the confines of copyright" to build upon their predecessors' works.Furthermore, the court argues that by awarding attorneys fees, this will hopefully help others with fair use claims to stand up for them in court:
When a fee award encourages a defendant to litigate a meritorious fair use claim against an unreasonable claim of infringement, the policies of the Copyright Act are served. Therefore, we conclude that the district court's award of attorney fees to Dodger was justified.This is interesting, as we normally see talk about how fees should act as a deterrent against some behavior, but in this case, the court points out that such an award can actually have proactive benefits in encouraging more people to litigate fair use claims.