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Okay; so who's planning on entering the Page Turner Fiction contest this year?
Or would it be better to NOT say, so we don't have so much tendency to dread the competition?
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Okay; so who's planning on entering the Page Turner Fiction contest this year?
Or would it be better to NOT say, so we don't have so much tendency to dread the competition?
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven." ~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
LOL ... no fear! Let the roll call begin.
We actually have our first entry already, but there was a problem with the file they uploaded, so I'm trying to contact them now to get them to send it through to me.
I'll be checking the files as they come in this year, as we had a couple of glitches last year -- including the 2008 Page Turner winner's file. I just don't want to have any last minute panics.
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I'm definitely in (not yet, but I will be). I'll be entering the first chapter from a Women's Fiction manuscript I'm working on. I wouldn't miss this awesome opportunity for anything!
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I picked maybe - but not because I don't have an idea! I have THREE ideas, one of which is the the one I PLAN to work on. Emphasis on PLAN .
The thing is, I have a deadline on my current non-fiction manuscript - need to have it Deb-edit ready before December so I can redeem my half-priced editing. Right now I'm at about 30 k of VERY VERY rough draft. So, if I am able to get it looking right (in my eyes, anyway!), I'll start working on my fiction one with an aim to entering. If not, I'll work on it when I can.
I still have the untapped idea for my NaNo fiasco. Not one word done... how embarrassing. But, with the same desire and MULTIPLIED effort, I am determined to do this one because the idea for the book is worth doing. It's a period story set in the Dark Ages. I'm hoping kids will put down Harry Potter and pick up this series of books.
Now, I need to get to work on the first word of the book.
I had something really memorable to write here but I forgot what it was.
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I'm going to get my entry ready probably over the next month and get it in.
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven." ~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
LOL ... slow down, hon. The deadline for editing is just for Cori. That's so I don't have more than one free contest prize on the books for the year. I think I can sort of claim the real value of the free editing on my tax as being for promotional/advertising purposes (which it most definitely was). So that's why I want to keep it to just the one a year.
BUT for the runners up, the half price editing doesn't have to be rushed (although don't go snoozing on that manuscript, either).
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Well, I'm planning on being in. I'm working through the beginning stages right now, character sketches and the like, but my boys like the ideas (or they're at least showing interest, which any mom loves) and the plotline is floating around and not floating away.
I'm excited and anxious. It's a HUGE goal to attain (as I've never finished anything like this before). I'm just praying, praying, praying and then squeezing every minute of writing I can into my day.
Gulp, I have to compete against the likes of Rick, Joanne, Lynda????????? (fear, trembling, etc.)
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I'm planning on it and hope to not leave it till the very last minute like last year! lol
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I voted 'yes' but after seeing who is entering... well...
I've got my nano novel still cooking and would like to get it done.
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But DDEEEBBBBB!!! I NEED that deadline!!!!! I MAY just pretend you didn't say that. Lalalala la LAAAALLAAA -I can't HEAR you!!
You guys are SOOOOO funny! Don't EVEN be scared of competing against me! EVEN! I have NEVER written anything fictional longer than a couple thousand words (EVER!) and I seriously wonder if I'd be able to carry a story long enough to make a decent novel. But I GOTTA try.
(and I'm still pretending I have that deadline! LOL)
Hey, I didn't even place in the last Fiction Page Turner contest...
(but I am hoping to do better this time...)
With this competition, one of the biggest things that counts is how well your story grabs the judges' attention. With that, there's always a bit of subjectiveness to the judging, so it's not so much about how we think our writing stacks up against someone else's, but rather how much the judges find themselves wanting to read the rest of the story.
Even without seeing any of it, I can't make any bets on whether your story is going to appeal to the judges more than mine will, or more than Joanne's will, or Lynda's, or anyone else's.
I don't think I've ever found more encouraging competitions than we have here at Faithwriters. Everyone here seems far more interested in helping other writers to succeed, rather than backstabbing for a win.
Here, we find our "competition" is just as likely to be our "cheerleaders".
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven." ~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Can I hear a YEAH and an AMEN? I'm so new to all of this "putting my writing out there" stuff, but I figure that submitting my story to Faithwriters is a fabulous starting point, based on exactly what you said Hoomi.
Sometimes I walk through the bookstore and get sooooo intimidated by all of the "competition" out there. I try to remember that it's not about being the best seller, but about being the best writer I can be (does that sound like an after-school special theme or what?? but I am sincere). My time here at Faithwriters, entering the challenge, reading all of you guys and gleaning what I can from that has been AMAZING. Here's hoping the Page Turner experience will be as well...
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I�ve received e-mails about writing stories on student-athletes and their academic achievements.
I�ve received e-mails about writing stories on student-athletes and their academic achievements.
That�s not a bad idea.
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The priorities are way off track.
When I played athletics in high school, and I attended a public school, we had to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA.
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Having received more than 100 recommendations to improve efficiency in the school system, Bedford County Public Schools has already taken steps to work on or complete around 25 percent of those.
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First off – Happy New Year to all of you!
The sentiment in this blog's title might resonate with a few of you after the recent break. But it does reflect a deeper reality. Media consumption does follow availability. When people (or children) have time to consume a particular medium, they are more likely to do so.
A good way to see the availability of children and college students to go to the movies is through Rentrak's movie calendar. It shows the percentage of students in Kindergarten through 12th grade out of school each day, as well as the percentage of college students out of classes. As an example, the Monday through Friday national numbers for this past December are posted below. Rentrak clients can drill all the way down to local markets and even to school districts.
Okay, great, you say – but does it really mean anything? Are the little ones really zipping out to the movies if they aren't busy hitting the books? Yes. But there are some good exceptions as well. And therefore, you don't have to read any more.
If you are continuing to read, this is the detailed setup – good for the research geeks! Skip over the next paragraph if you need to spare brain cells.
In order to answer the question of the relationship between being in school and movie box office results, I took the percentage of children and college students out of school for each day in June 2011 and June 2012. I then compared those percentages with average daily ticket sales revenue per movie. (I did the calculation on a per movie basis to control for the differences in the number of movie releases each week.) I broke each week into three parts, to reflect how movie going and lifestyle patterns change: Monday through Thursday has fewer movie releases and fewer "nights out," Friday is a big movie release day, and on Saturday/Sunday, most people have more free time. In order to make the data easier to see graphically, I used weekly averages. I did the same work for December 2011 and the first week of December 2012.
Let's look at some of the summer results first. Each point in the chart below represents the average tickets sales for a Monday through Thursday in June on the vertical axis. The horizontal axis shows the percentage of school kids out of class. As more kids are out of school, the average daily ticket sales per movie goes up, from a low of less than $150,000 when approximately 45% of kids are out, to a high of $450,000. There is a clear step function as the number of children out crosses the 90% mark.
The pattern continues when you look at Fridays for college students even though the percentage of college students out starts at a much higher level as shown in the next chart.
Interestingly, this pattern is not clearly as strong when looking at just the weekend days of Saturday and Sunday. As the chart below shows, weekend dollars per film don't have as strong a relationship with schools being out. And when you think about it, the answer is pretty simple. Kids aren't usually in classes on weekends!
The relationships between weekday movie sales and school attendance in December are not dissimilar to the summer pattern. In December, for Mondays through Thursdays, as more kids are out of school, ticket sales go up.
Of course, the rise in ticket sales per movie isn't just driven by the number of kids. The types of movies in the market vary by week. The studios are making sure that "tent pole" releases are in the market when there are more people available. This is much like TV programs where the higher product value TV shows air in primetime when more people are available and more ad dollars can be captured.
I think the impact of movie releases can be seen in the winter Saturday and Sunday numbers. There are a lot more powerful movies out over the weekends right next to Christmas and Thanksgiving, where the revenue dichotomy with the other weekends is quite strong.
And of course, there are exceptions to the rule. There are movies released when children are in school which do quite well (as the table below shows).
So I'm going to amend my earlier comment (tough luck on those who didn't read all the way through): Audience availability does increase viewing, but the quality of the inventory has an impact as well. Smart movie marketers know how to sell both when the audience is fully available, and when homework might still be on their minds!
In case you don't know, I am Bruce Goerlich, Chief Research Officer at Rentrak, the global standard in movie measurement and your TV Everywhere measurement and research company. I have been in the research end of the marketing business for more than 30 years primarily on the ad agency side, with my last stint prior to Rentrak in the role of President, Strategic Resources Zenith Optimedia North America. Somewhere along the way I morphed from young Turk to old fogey. Now that I have grey hair and am horizontally-challenged, I can speak with some authority on advertising and research issues – which I will do from time-to-time on this blog.


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I'm so sick of this little nugget of nonsense. (This nugget of nonsense is, by the way, on par with the sort of arrogance and surrender we see from atheists who claim that, while they no longer need religion, the "little people" are simply incapable of behaving without it. But that's a different post…)
I saw it on a Facebook post this morning and it was mentioned by David Eller at the Rapture RAM in Oakland less than 24 hours after my talk which focused on, among other things, changing the minds of atheists who think that reasoned arguments simply aren't going to convince people. Evidently, I failed to achieve my goal…sort of.
David is an anthropologist and he said a number of things that really challenged the way I'll think about these issues in the future (I'm hoping to write a trip report soon). The talk was enlightening and educational in many areas but he also said a number of things that were, as far as I can tell, flatly wrong or dependent upon very different usages of words like "belief" than I'm used to.
To be fair, when Greta Christina challenged him on the fact that he seemed to be strongly advocating an end to reasoned debate, David immediately noted that this wasn't his intended message and that those who are skilled at doing so should absolutely continue. That was encouraging, but there were so many points in his talk that directly implied the opposite that it left us a little divided at the end. (There were other issues, but for today, I'm focusing on this one.)
[Edit: There's been an apology on that issue and I'm encouraged, because David had a lot of great things to say and I hate to only focus on sloppy sexist comments or fine-points where we disagree. He's someone I'd love to spend more time talking to.]
So, what's wrong with this particular saying?
Well, if we're being very literal, every position someone holds is the product of reasoning. Believing a proposition is the result of being convinced. You can be convinced for good reasons or bad reasons, but as long as the brain is involved (and how could it not be?), reason is involved. In that scope, the statement is wrong because the premise is false. They were, in fact, reasoned into their belief.
Also, in a more colloquial sense, it refers to people whose beliefs were spawned by indoctrination, emotional appeals, socialization/inculturation and other things that aren't normally in the realm of 'pure reason' – and in this scope, the statement becomes a claim that you're just not going to be able to convince them of their error by using strict logical reasoning.
This saying is, at best, a deepity, though I'm convinced it's just false.
As noted during my talk, I'm walking, talking proof that it's false. My religious beliefs were not the result of critical thinking and skepticism, but my freedom from those beliefs most definitely is. (If my data set of 1 is unimpressive, I've got about 6 years worth of e-mails from people with nearly identical stories…and I'm betting there will be several "me too"s in the comments to this post.)
The problem, though, isn't just that this statement is wrong, it's that it's a white flag. It implies that efforts to free people from religious thinking, via reason, are futile.
There may be some people who are forever beyond the reach of reason, but this isn't true of everyone and I haven't seen any data to support the idea that it's even true for most people.
In fact, I think we have evidence to the contrary. People, even if they don't realize it, value reason and evidence. We're thinking creatures and critical thinking represents the "best practices" of human thought.
The trick, if that's a fair word, is to get them to realize how much they value the principles of sound thought and get them to apply that to beliefs that have previously been protected from such scrutiny.
I'm not implying that it's always (or ever) easy to accomplish this, but the statement in question implies that it's simply impossible – and nothing could be farther from the truth.
Skepticism, critical thinking, logical reasoning, science – however you prefer to label the most consistently reliable tools we have for discerning reality – are ubiquitously recognized as valuable though not universally applied. We must continue to try to convince people of the value of applying these principles to every claim.
People often become convinced of things for bad reasons and are remarkably good at protecting those beliefs from critical examination – especially if those beliefs have been long-held, publicly professed and are shared by many others in that person's social network. But that doesn't mean that they are forever incapable of recognizing that they've accepted something for bad reasons. People can, and do, understand the value of having good reasons for their beliefs – it's the reason why there are so many attempts to provide apologetic arguments for those beliefs.
Finally, this statement is often accompanied by claims that the failure of reason implies that we need to use other methods. I'm open to many different approaches, but too often the suggested alternatives really equate to saying, "If we can't convince them with good reasons, let's use bad ones!" (Ironically, this call to religious mimicry is often immediately preceded by a call to stop using religious language when addressing religious claims…)
This is, I think, an absolutely stupid idea.
The very reason we're able to change minds is because religious beliefs have such flawed foundations. Why would you want to build someone's atheistic house on that same unstable sand? This is the very reason I've railed against the bad arguments (Pi=3, astro-theology/zeitgeist) I've seen from atheists: it creates non-believers who, when they encounter a believer who can expose these bad reasons, are left confused, defenseless and prone to falling back into religious thinking.
Garbage in, garbage out.
You can, in fact, reason a person out of almost any belief – it just won't work if the person doesn't see the value of holding reasonable beliefs. The good news is that many, if not most, of the people who don't currently see that value can learn to see it and most already think they do, which is why the Socratic method is so darn useful.
It may sound insightful and it may accurately represent the frustrations of dealing with the most skeptically-challenged, fundamentalists – but it's simply not true in any useful sense and it's time for this sentiment to drift off into Bad Idea land…


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LONG BEACH – Eat your veggies!
That's the message the federal government has for students across the country, and this fall the Long Beach Unified School District will change its menu to meet the new nutrition guidelines.
LBUSD students will see larger portions of fruits and vegetables as one of many changes under the country's first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years.
The rules mean meals will have calorie caps for the first time and most trans fats will be banned. Sodium content will drop over a 10-year period, milk will have to be low in fat and flavored milks will have to be nonfat.
"It's a change, but we're feeling good about where we're at in making those changes," said Cecelia Slater, director of Nutritional Services for the LBUSD.
Slater said the biggest change students will see in the 2012-2013 school year is an increase in fruits and vegetables.
Under the new guidelines, the school district is required to serve larger portions of both fruits and vegetables – up to 3/4 of a cup each. Students will have to select either a fruit or vegetable with their lunch.
Previously, students weren't required to take a serving of produce with their lunch. If a child wants pizza for lunch this fall, they'll be required to take an extra serving of fruit or veggies to round out the meal, Slater said.
The district will also be required to serve a certain portion of dark, leafy green vegetables per week.
LBUSD will have to work to educate students about nutrition, so healthful food won't end up in the trash next year, she said.
"We'll need to be in the lunch lines and in the classrooms to help students make the right choices," she said.
The LBUSD churns out about 75,000 meals each day in its nutrition headquarters at 3333 Airport Way. Because it has the benefit of a central kitchen, the district has already made many healthful tweaks to its meals, Slater said.
Baked potato wedges have replaced french fries, and pizza is made with whole wheat crust and low-fat, low- sodium cheese. School chefs use apple sauce instead of sugar to sweeten cookies.
The district has significantly cut back on sodium and has already met state targets for the next year, she added.
Slater said the district has met most of the new federal requirements for calorie ranges, but is still working to cut back on calories for students in sixth to eighth grades.
The guidelines for lunchtime meals for sixth- through eighth-graders require a calorie range of 600 to 700. Currently, lunches in the district hover around 783 calories, but a few small changes, such as cutting back on sugar, can bring the calorie count down, she said.
One of the biggest challenges, she added, will be finding storage space for the larger quantities of produce.
And, of course, with an increase in food comes an increase in cost.
The district will receive a 6-cent increase in meal reimbursements from the United States Department of Agriculture, but the increase in food will still amount to an additional cost to the LBUSD of about $619,000 a year, she said.
Though the district is facing higher costs, the overall benefit for students will be worth it, Slater hopes.
"We think it's going to be a great change for students," she said. "But we're also going to have to work with them and help them understand why they need to eat their fruits and vegetables."
Kathy Sunia, president of the Parent Teacher Association at Hudson K-8, is excited about the nutrition guidelines. Sunia said her three boys, ages 10, 12 and 14, enjoy fruit and broccoli and will likely eat the extra portions.
"We try to focus on good nutrition in the home, but it isn't always easy," she said. "Parents will have to focus on good nutrition in the home, too. But I think it's fantastic that schools will be making these changes."


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Rio de Janerio: Police in Rio de Janeiro were searching on Thursday for the chief executive of a Swiss hospitality company implicated by a World Cup ticket scalping investigation.
After a court ordered the arrest of the executive and the continued detention of 10 other suspects already held in the probe, police were unable to find Ray Whelan, of MATCH Services, a company contracted by tournament organisers to arrange ticketing and hospitality packages.
Whelan, who was briefly arrested earlier in the week and released pending a court order, was not present when police arrived at the Copacabana Palace, the luxurious beachside hotel where he had been staying in Rio along with many tournament organisers.
Prosecutors said in a statement that Whelan was seen leaving through a back door before they arrived.
Earlier on Thursday, a Rio court had approved the detention of Whelan and the other suspects, who are believed to have run a scalping ring for World Cup tickets originally allocated to soccer federations and other VIPs.
The probe comes as pressure mounts on FIFA, soccer`s governing body, over accusations of corruption and a perceived lack of transparency of its business practices.
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Brazilian police said the ring aimed to earn up to 200 million reais ($90 million) by illegally re-selling tickets. FIFA has said it is co-operating with Brazilian authorities in the investigation.
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This Saturday at Keenelands Sunrise Trackside, kids will have the opportunity to see what its like to ride a race horse and to meet the faculty of the North American Racing Academy (NARA), including Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron, NARAs lead riding instructor.
The NARA team will talk about the career and training opportunities available to young men and women interested in the horse racing and breeding industries. Based at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, NARA now also offers classes to Fayette and Woodford County high school juniors and seniors through dual credit courses taught at Locust Trace AgriScience Farm.
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Google Maps Camera-toting teams map Fla. beaches
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — One step at time, camera-toting crews are walking all 825 miles of Florida's coastline to capture the views for Google Maps.
Google has partnered with Florida's tourism agency, Visit Florida, to create Florida's vast beach view.
A two-man team began walking from the Florida-Alabama border in late July. The duo will finish mapping Florida Panhandle beaches this month. Then they skip over to the state's Atlantic coast and move south before meeting up with another two-person team that will finish the walk the rest of the way around Florida's coast in the coming months.
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Michael R. Baumgaertner, M.D., is fracture surgeon who is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation. He serves as Chief of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he has practiced for more than 25 years, treating patients with severe fractures, fracture complications, and worn out joints.
Following a childhood in Minnesota, Dr. Baumgaertner graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Art History. He attended the University of California (San Diego) Medical School as a Regent's Scholar where he earned his M.D. He then did his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of California (San Francisco), following that he completed a one-year fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. He joined the Faculty of the Yale School of Medicine in 1988.
Dr. Baumgaertner's landmark 1995 publication on hip fracture fixation performed at Yale initiated his international recognition. The measurement he described at that time has been validated repeatedly and remains the universal standard. He has authored numerous original articles and chapters in orthopaedic textbooks. He has lectured and taught residents in training and practicing surgeons on five continents optimal surgical fracture care.
He has served as Chairperson of Education for both the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and AONorth America, was elected President of AONA, and currently is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. of AO North America, a non-profit organization of more than 1000 surgeons that is dedicated to the optimal care of patients with fractures and/or deformity. He is a Trustee of the AO Foundation, an international group of more than 15000 surgeons
His academic career notwithstanding, Dr. Baumgaertner is a surgeon dedicated to the recovery of his injured patients: Providing technically expert surgical repair, as well as the education and counseling necessary to heal not only the patient's fracture, but also the lifestyle.
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Religions need books because they don't have gods.
My reason for suggesting this is that we know from both the bible and ancient historians that learning party tricks was essential to all those making a career change from carpenter to rebel and prophet .... Fraud by modern faith healers is a serious issue too.
No rebel prophet would be considered without a few magic tricks. There were a lot of people similar to Jesus around.


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Quinn signs Illinois military support expansion plan
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) – Gov. Pat Quinn has approved an expansion of a program that assists military families in Illinois during conflicts or wars.
The Chicago Democrat on Thursday signed the measure to include future military conflicts _ not just those arising from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The 2003 program was designed because military families were taking a salary cut after National Guard members and reservists were deployed. It provides funds to pay for groceries, rent or utility bills. It has doled out about $15.4 million to support almost 29,000 families. An income tax check-off allows residents to donate to the fund.
Quinn says Illinois' military members shouldn't have to worry their families are struggling financially back home during service.


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ZTE Introduces Its First Dual-Mode Grand Era LTE Smartphone in Hong Kong
18 December 2012, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation ("ZTE") (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, has introduced its first dual-mode LTE smartphone, the Grand Era LTE, in Hong Kong as part of the launch of China Mobile Hong Kong Co. Ltd. (CMHK)'s first commercial converged TD-LTE / LTE FDD network.
The TDD/FDD dual-mode ZTE Grand Era LTE smartphone operates on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform. It features a 1.5GHz dual core CPU, 1GB of memory and a multi-touch 4.5-inch 1280×720 Gorilla Glass display providing a high quality user experience on high-speed LTE networks. The device also has a 1780mAh battery and ZTE's customisable Mifavor User Interface.
In addition, ZTE will showcase its FDD/TDD dual-mode MF93E uFi device and the MF825 data card on the new Hong Kong network. Both devices use Qualcomm's MDM9215 second-generation LTE chip platform. The size and average power consumption of the MF93E and the MF 825 have been reduced by nearly a third compared to the first generation LTE devices making them smaller and faster.
"With the growing popularity of the LTE environment in Hong Kong, LTE smart terminal products will become more prevalent in the future, which will also be the model for LTE development in mainland China, further accelerating the maturity of the global TD-LTE industry, " said Mr. He Shiyou, ZTE EVP and Head of the Terminal Division.
TD-LTE continues to gain momentum across the globe. ZTE recognised the potential of TD-LTE very early on and in the last ten years has invested 900 million on TD-LTE research and development and has over 4,000 engineers working on the programme focused on delivering innovations to improve user experience and value. The focus has been on TD-LTE terminals and converged services solutions from the chip to the product through to the solution. Today, ZTE TD-LTE terminal products include a wide range of smart terminals, family integration equipment and innovative terminals such as handsets, platforms, datacards and MiFi/uFi devices.


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As much as I don't want this to be a MEGA POST WALL OF TEXT, I want this to be one of the last days the BoondockSaints name actually gets used, at least in this blog. Its not because I want to kill it, or bitter about the experience there in anyway. I just think that the important thing was not the name, but the idea I wanted to sell. Time will be the judge of it being a success or a failure for others. I know for me, even though it ended, it was a great success and a good run the 3 years it lasted.
At the beginning of Cata I made a post called Loyalty and Respect, not sure how many people read it back then, but the quotes are still very relevant to this post.
"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals."
– Rensis Likert
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
– Lao Tzu
Before we begin, if you are looking for dirty laundry to be aired here, don't waste your time. Seriously get a life and go live it. I am not going to call anyone out by name, and I doubt you will be able to tie anything posted here to specifics.
If guilds were to come with mission statements, ours would have been simple. "To have a group of friends that play together, get to see end game content but above all treat guildies and the WoW community as a whole with respect."
It is easy to point the finger solely at me being burned out as a GM or RL as the only cause for the closing of the guild. The reality is a lot more complex than that. Me getting burned out with those roles was the product of something that we tried to stamp out from day one. Drama.
If I am in a situation where nobody is taking control, I step up, its in my nature. From life and death situations, like when I had to hide my little sister in a closet from some gunmen, to the ending up running a guild because others did not like the place they were at. I will do what has to be done.
I put my WoW personal wants aside, I wanted to become a more serious raider (that never really happened) and decided to play with friends with the goal of simply seeing content.
Bea was part of the Saints from day one even though she did not play. You all have to thank her, because before I even gave into the idea of leading a guild, I sat down and asked her if it was ok. I knew that doing it will require a lot more time from me. She was never too bad with the wife aggro, but now, leading a guild would change things quite a bit. She was cool with it, and I started to build what we have now with less than 12 people.
(I think, pictured here was not Feylin but Shrev)
We quickly became very successful. Despite the fact that others always wanted to compare us with "raiding" guilds and saw the success in the game in just one of the things we could do a group, we did not set out to have that be the focus. All we wanted to do was help people out, and we did that in many ways.
We had guild meetings, I sang off key to various members, we made fun of each other, we had inside jokes…
"Bring her closer to the door, I think I am still getting exp!"
"Anything more than a mouthful."
"Moonya's Safe Zone."
"You just raid locked 24 people"
"Did we just clear trash on 25 with 10 people?" (Naxx – OS – ICC – BoT)
"_______ needs Might!"
"Sorry, my cat just unplugged my router"
"Don't worry, its _______ there is no way he will win the roll."
We ended Wrath in a big way. Not only were we able to Kill the LK, but we probably had more Kingslayers before the end of Wrath than most guild in the Alliance side in our server. Just a bunch of casuals got it done.
Cata promised to be tailor made for our guild. And in the beginning it was. Being the first alliance guild to 25 and getting guild achievement points, which I believe we were always number 1 on was fun. We could all do our little part to make things happen.
That is where the happy story ends, and the sad one begins.
Why even bother going into it?
It is simple, I blog because it might be useful for someone else in the future. Maybe, just maybe a future guild master can use it to prevent what happened to us from happening to them.
When you take on responsibility in any situation, complaints will come your way. Your skills to lead are constantly questioned, but seldom do you get solutions or alternatives. "You are doing it wrong, but I don't know or would want to do it right" was very, very common.
We had always had the issue of cliques. My big mistake was to not take swift action, but I never wanted to seem power hungry. Our officers did not have a lot of responsibilities, and that was the result of drama from the beginning that was dealt with. We tried to make people address all the officers with issues by opening officer chat for everyone to post, but only officers to see. It was hardly ever used.
I tried to correct issues by taking on the problems myself under the delusion of being able to help people with the root causes. That never helped. The issues would stay dormant until they would once again rear their ugly heads.
Cata has been content low. Until we got the molten front, unless you were a raider or could do heroic dungeons… you were still dealing with the same content over and over. You grinded rep quickly and were done. Tabards made it that you only had to quest in that area until you got the tabbard, then go grind the dungeons some more.
People started to get separated by those that could do the tougher content and those that chose not to (not always because they could not, some simply chose not to.) That started to create separation.
My other big mistake, specially with raiding, was that I tried to make people be something they were not. You can take a slow group with a medium group and find a happy middle. You can do the same with a fast group and medium. I am a mediocre player at best, but I can hang with some of the better players. However, more advanced players will not want to kill the same thing over and over… and slow players are easily discouraged by deaths.
When you spend all you week in game feeling like you are grinding, things start to get stale fast. This expansion felt a lot like grinding for many… so bored people means more drama. Couple that with our server being just horrible when it came to population and the perfect storm started brewing 2-3 months back.
The Z dungeons were released at the end of April and people started to divide. From the "I can't do Z dungeons crowd" to the "I don't want to die 50 times" the guild started to fragment. Those dungeons really hurt the guild. To some (including me), the rehashed content seemed very gimmick driven… as I have experienced all over. Instead of running things together, we all started doing what we could do, and also most started to do whatever they wanted to do.
There is nothing wrong with playing your own game, you do pay for your own account. It did start to kill the essence of the guild. Instead of taking people for the 300th time to Halls of Reflection to get that drop, people would get on grind groups to finish whatever it is that they were doing. If you were not lucky enough for that, you would then wait on que… silent guild chat… gratz addons being the only chatter we all saw.
The raiding woes were only part of the problem and not really the center of the disintegration of our quilt. The seams were our relationships, the help we used to lend, the fun we used to have. I was also guilty of not wanting to get in vent… our daily chats became less often… we would talk to each other when one of us was being ganked. Ask anyone that took a break and came back recently and they will tell you that just our guild chat was night and day from days past.
Then little by little the anger from people started to creep up, it was not just from raiding either. People would ask for a hello and we were all too busy running something, person would take it personal and "rage disconnect." Person would ask to group up, but everyone was already busy or qued. We did not wait for each other anymore. The new goody bag made it so tanks were rewarded to que by themselves. The sense of community being lost all over wow had finally made it into our guild as well.
In the mean time drama started to grow even larger. The trolls in our server were also getting bored and starting more drama than usual. The whole server being a ghost town started to affect the economy of even the Saints. We had been shielded from it by having everything available to us. Even the usual farmers that would keep us supplied just flat out quit farming. It was bad when bots would outnumber players in a zone like uldum (5 bots to 1 or 2 players,) but you know you are in trouble when not even bots are farming in your server anymore.
I decided to pull the plug before the infighting began. Before the finger pointed tainted what we had all built. Before you could end up angry at anyone else and lose a group of friends. This was the better way. You can see the lines that were already forming in the guild as soon as you see where everyone ends up. Think about that for a second and you will see that even though we all had the same tag, in many ways most people had already moved on.
Are there true bystanders in our guild free of fault in all of this?
I could tell you dozens of little stories on how I failed to be a better leader. How with a swift kick I could have avoided X amount of drama. But I was not about that, the guild was not about that. The guild was to be a place where you felt included as long as you wanted to be and did not trow tantrums. All that does not matter now.
Before I could finish this post Theydrin actually posted something that is very true… the server, the toons, the tag under your name matters NOT. What matters is the friends that you made. Quit thinking of what the guild was, enjoy the game for what it is, and cheerish the relationships that you made. Move forward. All I ask of you now as your former guild leader is keep the Saints spirit alive. Treat others with respect, it really matters in the game and also in life.
After about 3 weeks of stomach pains over this decision becoming final and trying to see if there was other options I feel a sense of closure. I know that many mistake my decision to not discuss some details out in the open, or with even the whole guild as not being transparent. Trust me when I tell you that it is tempting to just let everyone know exactly who leaving the guild hurt me the most, or how someone's words affected my decision or didn't but it really accomplishes nothing. I want to leave all of that stuff behind and I ask that you do the same. What is done is done.
All I want to remember now is the good times, and how a group of very diverse and different people were able to play an online game together for 3 years! Here is to all the good times, all the laughs, all the jokes, all the friends we have all made. The tag might be gone, but all the relationships, which is what is really important, should still be there for all you. Thanks to every single one of you! Thanks to all the Saints past and present.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
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Have you used online conferencing software to host meetings or trainings for your organization? Have you held a virtual meeting in Second Life? Do you have a favorite tool -- free or paid -- that fulfills your voice, chat, IM, document sharing, and conferencing needs that everyone else should know about?
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Good topic! One of the boards I serve has a state-wide footprint, and they wanted to explore the possibility of using Skype for this purpose. I will be experimenting with it, but I'm not yet certain that we can do multiple-party VIDEO-conferencing via skype. And I don't want to ask the board to download it and try it if we're not going to keep it.
We've recently started using a tool called dim dim. It has a good deal of functionality from document sharing to whiteboards and even desktop sharing. However, customer service is somewhat slow and everyone sitting in on a webinar needs to have the most recent versions of browsers and flash. Otherwise, it has been great. We have held multiple webinars with 30+ attendees each and have had great feedback.
Dim Dim may be a good solution for web conferencing but from last few years companies using adobe connect pro for online webinar,teleconferencing,video conferencing and audio conferencing which has got all the option we required and using adobe connect pro solution thousand of person can attend one or multiple webinar at same time
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We use on premise RHUB web conferencing and remote support appliances. We think it is a better solution as compared to hosted services as it is only a one-time cost and no hassles of monthly payments.
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About RELEASE! BY AUTHOR JS SCOTT:
My name is Eva Morales, and I was one step away from being homeless when Trace Walker came into my life. I want to hate him because of my past, but I end up making what I consider a "devil's bargain" with the arrogant young billionaire instead. Really, I have no choice. It's either take the work he's offering or starve, and I've been hungry long enough.
I didn't think being his fake fiancee for the holidays would be a difficult job, but it ends up more complicated than I ever imagined, and I see a whole new side of Trace once he lets his guard down. He's haunted by his past–just like me, But there are things I can never tell him, secrets I don't dare reveal.
Eventually, I find myself in a difficult situation because our volatile attraction to each other won't be denied. Should I tell him the truth, or do I finish the job he's paying me for and walk away with my secrets still hidden, my pride still intact? He's paying me enough for this job to take care of myself once it's over. I've always been alone, and I always thought I preferred it…until I met Trace. I'd have to put everything on the line to be honest with him, but he very well might be the first man who is worth the risk. Honestly, I'd be endangering more than just my pride. I could handle feeling like a loser, because I've pretty much felt that way my entire life. What really terrifies me is being vulnerable and the possibility of ending up with a shattered heart….
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Discussion in 'The Howard Stern Show' started by GaryPuppet, Jan 24, 2013.
Ha ha
When the pelicans score a basket the PA makes a sound of lip smacking. count it.
For a split second there I actually felt sorry for Beth.
Imagine how much she fakes enjoying sex with the pelican. I guarantee shes never been satisfied especially with his fuckin germ phobia.
would ya look at the width of those teeth.
knock a tree the fuck out!
It's the cock shaped nose thats the most disturbing thing to me.
Was this a pic of him before the choppers?
those are his old, plastic choppers
thats a good one!!
and the announcer yells "THCORE!!!!"
Back in the day it would have been...
"I don't understand, Robin. Is it the NBA or the NBA/ABA? " (they merged)


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19 Year-Old Missoula Man Sentenced in District Court for Rape of 13 Year-Old Girl [AUDIO]
Leo H. Green, 19, appeared in Missoula District Court on Thursday morning before Judge John Larson and received a 10-year sentence with the Department of Corrections with 5 years suspended for the rape of a 13 year-old girl in 2012.
Green's attorney, Paul Ryan of Missoula, said the now 19 year-old may not actually see any time in prison.
"There's a mandatory minimum of prison time in these particular charges, but there are exceptions that can happen if we can do some sort of community-based treatment, which he was granted, basically," Ryan said. "For somebody like Leo who has very limited resources, he can receive alcohol treatment services that are paid for, and there are sexual offender treatment programs that are available. The Department of Corrections will make the decision as to where he will go,"
Ryan said his client took responsibility before the judge for what happened when Green, a 19 year-old woman and the 13 year old victim became involved in a sexual situation. Ryan said Green's youth may have played a part in the judge's decison, as well.
"Leo acknowledged that he was the adult in the situation, and he should have made a better decision," Ryan said. "When you have a 13 year-old, they're already immature, and when she's consumed alcohol, it puts her at an even greater disadvantage. When you're an adult you have to make better decisions, not just for yourself, but for young kids, as well."
Ryan said the judge was clear with his client that complying with the terms of his placement with the Department of Corrections was vital to keep from going to the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge.
"He (Judge Larson) did comment that Leo had some previous issues with probation, and he made it very clear that he has to do that or he will be sent to prison," Ryan concluded. "I think this is his last opportunity to make things right, or he will be incarcerated."
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Altice's Patrick Drahi Hungry for More Cable, Telecom Deals
Absorbing SFR, Franco-Israeli Investor Aims to Play a Deeper Role in European Consolidation
In November 2012, Franco-Israeli cable investor Patrick Drahi approached Vivendi SA to buy the conglomerate's French mobile operator. He was met with incredulity.
"Are you out of your mind?" asked Vivendi Chairman Jean-René Fourtou, noting that Mr. Drahi didn't have the money, according to people familiar with meeting. "You're punching above your weight."


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