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By Rick Barton
NOVEMBER 10, 1997: One seduction is executed in the opening moments of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, while another has only begun. It is 1977, and the disco scene is raging in the Me Decade. In the roaring dimness of a dance club, a pornographic-film director sits with one of his stars and takes notice of a handsome busboy. It's the adult film industry version of discovery at Schwab's Drugstore. The filmmaker is Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), and his companion is Amber Waves (Julianne Moore). They signal over a gorgeous blonde on roller skates (Heather Graham) and direct her to gather information about the busboy. Her method is disarmingly direct: Hi, would you like some oral sex? (I'm paraphrasing.) Who could resist? Mission accomplished, Rollergirl reports back to Jack: The boy is endowed. Jack makes the next contact himself. The lad is 17. His name is Eddie Adams. Would he like a role in Jack's next film? Why, golly gee, sure. Eddie is seduced by dreams of fame, and Anderson begins his seduction of his viewers. We are watching people who earn their livings in the flesh trade, and by generations of training in propriety, we are prepared to look down on them. But by the end of this film, we will come to care about them a great deal.
Boogie Nights takes us on a voyage through the back streets of the late 1970s and early '80s. Eddie changes his name to Dirk Diggler. And together with co-stars Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Amber and Rollergirl, Eddie becomes the toast of the adult film industry. Action clips from a series of his films look like bad Starsky and Hutch. (Yes, I know that's redundant.) In them, Eddie stars as a secret agent named Brock Landers who beats up bad guys and saves the world as he beds all the beauties along the way. Interesting, isn't it, how close that description comes to capturing the long James Bond series. Is it just a matter of where you put the camera when you shoot the sex scenes?
Eddie and his pals get rich. Eddie buys himself a red Corvette, a fancy pad and furnishings that make us hold our sides laughing. Before we get too smug, though, we need to remember what Graceland looks like. And Elvis is a god, isn't he? As with Elvis, things go bad after a while. Too little discipline, too much dope. Elvis turned his head, and his audience was stolen by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Eddie gets sloppy, and pretty soon the naked guy in front of the camera goes by the name of John Doe (Jonathon Quint). In fleshpot Hollywood, as in the mainstream, what goes up must come down.
There's so darn much to like about this movie. It is notable, first of all, for its firm determination to avoid being judgmental. Boogie Nights is neither a champion of the pornographic film industry nor its self-righteous accuser. The characters the film situates in the industry are mostly damaged. Eddie comes from a horrible lower-middle-class home with a vicious mother and an impotent father. Rollergirl is a high-school dropout. Amber is a divorced mother who has lost a custody battle with her cold ex-husband. A black performer named Buck Swope (Don Cheadle) has turned to porn because of the dearth of decent roles for black actors. In one fashion or another, all these folks are looking for a family. Some troubled souls in our society turn to religious cults; these people find an oddly nurturing community in the adult film industry.
But just as Anderson probes the scandalous to find the human dimension at its core, he refuses to romanticize and, in that manner, to patronize his characters. Eddie is an innocent (his last name isn't Adams by accident). And he's actually quite nice, as illustrated by his relationship with Scotty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the homosexual sound man. But Eddie's not exactly the brightest bulb in the lamp. In the film's sober denouement, we can see the extent to which life has reduced him to his own sexual member. Amber really does care for Eddie, and there's no question that her maternal instincts are both strong and genuine. But she's a contemptible jerk for turning Eddie on to cocaine. Jack readily plays father to Eddie and Rollergirl both, but his dreams of genuine artistic achievement are laughable. He means what he says, but his coarse exegesis on art porn is a howler. When Jack studies footage of his latest skinflick and waxes ecstatic about what he has wrought, we can't help but think of his nursery-rhyme namesake's penchant for self-congratulation. And, in addition, Anderson recognizes that the adult film business is a magnet for legitimate creeps. The man who bankrolls Jack's films is busted for kiddie porn, something Anderson obviously does condemn.
Anderson's script is endlessly inventive and far more interested in complexity of characterization than in forthrightness of theme. But he has points to make. One can't help but reflect that the various debauches of the '70s gave way to the cultural backlash of Reaganism in the '80s. The character of Little Bill (William Macy) may be seen as an emblem of this transformation. He works in the pornographic film industry, but he's incensed at the sexual licentiousness of his wife (real life porn star Nina Hartley). His wife's thoughtless behavior is wrong, but Little Bill's responding violence on New Year's Eve 1979 is not an appropriate response.
Elsewhere, issues such as race bubble up with great subtlety. Both Buck and the black female star, Becky Barnett (Nicole Ari Parker), seem to have arrived on the porn scene for slightly different reasons than their white counterparts, and both try to escape to notably unglamorous places. Becky moves off to Bakersfield with a man who manages an auto parts store. Buck strives to realize a dream of owning his own audio equipment outlet. Moreover, it is fascinating to note that the problems the picture's characters encounter are not the direct by-products of having sex on film. AIDS is never introduced, for instance, nor are any other sexually transmitted diseases. Neither is sexual jealousy among the performers ever a problem. Rather, trouble stems from that traditional host of vices, including greed, vanity, faithlessness and various forms of excess. It is clear that Anderson is not out to automatically censure people who appear in and make sexually explicit films, but he is ready to condemn drug abuse, infidelity and violence.
Boogie Nights' dialogue recalls Kevin Smith's Clerks and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. It is casually explicit and riotously funny. In one segment, Eddie drives us into the aisle with laughter as he holds forth on pornography and the lessons of history. And Reed splits our sides with his ridiculous self-assurance as he contemplates what life would be like if he weren't a porn star: "I'd just have sex on my own time."
Funny and imaginative as this movie is, it finally triumphs over a work like Pulp Fiction because of its heart. Tarantino is a terribly clever writer, but he has yet to make us care about the people in his movies. We absolutely do care about the characters we meet in Boogie Nights. They make a living in a manner that makes most of us at least a little squirmy. But they need what all of us need: acceptance, respect, tenderness, friendship and, after they've gone astray, forgiveness.
Adapted from a Jim Thompson short story, director Michael Oblowitz and writer Larry Gross's This World, Then the Fireworks proves fatally indecisive. Is it true noir, like such other Thompson adaptations as After Dark, My Sweet and The Grifters, or is it a campy parody of such works? Perhaps it's trying somehow to be both. It certainly succeeds at being neither.
This World stars Billy Zane and Gina Gershon as Marty and Carol, fraternal twins trying in their young adulthood to overcome the trauma they suffered as children, when they were spattered with blood and brain tissue as their naked father shot to death the husband of the woman he was caught in bed with. Marty has responded by marrying a 400-pound woman and becoming a violent anti-authoritarian. Carol has become a prostitute. Actually, they'd like to just marry each other, an idea that makes their mother (Rue McClanahan) want to puke.
I can't say that This World ever develops much in the way of a coherent narrative. There's something about getting a blond policewoman to sell her house. (No, I'm not kidding.) That seems largely a pretext for having Sheryl Lee play the cop. And that, of course, means breasts and bottoms hey, so who's complaining? At its best, the film lets Marty deliver wild, philosophical rants against injustice, organized religion and taxation. At its worst, Marty speaks just about every tough-guy cliche ever imagined by pulp-fiction hacks. The skin is smooth and lovely, but the acting all around is very close to awful.
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Nokia E75 review
|Review: April 2009
Last updated November 2009
In a nutshell: The Nokia E75 is usable as a normal phone with a keypad, or with its slide-out QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode.
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The Nokia E75 is a business phone with a lot to offer. The E75 is described by Nokia as a slide slide phone, meaning that it has a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out to the side. Surprisingly compact when the slide is closed, it's a very usable design, working as a normal phone when you want it to, and as a mini-laptop when required.
When the keyboard is closed, the Nokia E75 seems to be a perfectly normal phone, although certainly heavier than average at 139g. The numeric keypad is small but well laid out with dedicated one-touch keys for home, calendar and email. The display is reasonable at 2.4 inches, and is very clear with 16 million colours and QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels). Two customisable home screens are available - one for business, one for personal use. When you need to use the full keyboard - for texting or emails - you just slide it out, turn the phone on its side, and you have a very comfortable QWERTY keyboard available for text entry. The display automatically rotates to landscape mode too.
Naturally, the E75 excels at mobile email. Most protocols are supported, including Mail for Exchange, and of course attachments can be viewed on the phone.
The E75 runs the latest version of Symbian (9.3) and the S60 3rd Edition user interface. There are quite a few apps installed - Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet), PDF Viewer, ZIP Manager, RealPlayer and Nokia Maps to name a few - and plenty more available to download. The contacts database is extensive and supports multiple number and e-mail details per contact and contacts with images. The phone is multi-tasking, so PIM data is available to view during calls. A-GPS is included, with Nokia maps and automatic geo-tagging of photos.
Recognising that users will want to store a lot of personal or business data on this kind of phone, Nokia have helpfully installed a high level of security on the E75. As well as locking the phone, the user can protect data on both the phone's internal memory and any microSD card by encryption. This means that if the phone falls into the wrong hands, it will be impossible to read any of the data on the device without knowing the encryption key. This is the kind of security that we normally see only on laptops. The WLAN connection is fully secure too.
The internal phone memory is quite limited at just 50 MB, but the phone does have the capability to accept microSD cards up to a massive 16GB. A 4GB card is included in the sales package.
Outside work, the E75 caters for all modern needs. The camera is surprisingly good, with a 3.2 megapixel resolution, flash and autofocus. The video camera is also high quality, and a secondary front camera enables video calling. The music player supports all common formats, and the phone has an FM radio too. A standard Nokia stereo headset is included in the sales package, and you can plug your own headphones into the 3.5mm AV jack. Bluetooth and USB connectivity are supported, in addition to WLAN.
The E75 is the kind of phone that cannot fail to impress. The road warrior is really not missing anything with this device, and the design makes it very easy to use - although obviously it's not the kind of phone to give to your Grandma! The combination of user-friendly design, slide-out keyboard, excellent email, security and general all-round capability make this an outstanding business device. Of course, there's always more that we'd like - more juice in the battery and a slightly larger screen perhaps, but that would make the phone bigger and heavier, and we think that Nokia have got the balance just right in this respect. Nokia are making very determined inroads into BlackBerry's home territory and with the E75 we think that they have created a real masterpiece.
Nokia E75 features include:
- Series 60 3.1, Symbian 9.3 SmartPhone
- 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and 8x digital zoom
- Video camera with digital video zoom and video light (640 x 480 pixels / up to 30 fps)
- Secondary front camera for video calls (176 x 144 pixels / up to 15 fps)
- Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.4 inches)
- Music Player (MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ formats)
- FM radio
- MP3 ringtones / video ringtones
- Speakerphone
- Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3 and SMTP protocols), Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts
- Attachment viewer for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Symbian and Java™ MIDP 2.0 applications
- Integrated A-GPS with Nokia Maps application
- Internet: XHTML web browser, WAP, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
- Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm headphone jack
- Memory: 50 Mbytes plus support for microSD cards (up to 16 Gbytes)
- Vibration alert
- Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/1900/2100
- Size: 112 x 50 x 14 mm
- Weight: 139g
- Talktime: 4.3 hours (3G) - 5.3 hours (2G)
- Battery standby: 270 hours (130 hours using WLAN)
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Reviewed by Kamil kemal guller
from U.k.
on 2nd Mar 2014
This is the best nokia ,if you are using text msj and it's is not touch screen so keyboard is better for new users
I don't think you can get new models maybe second hand ,but I will not advise second hand to buy,
Reviewed by peprah from ghana on 14th Jun 2013
i have been experiencing intemitent power off, whats the problem?
Reviewed by kamil kemal guller from u.k. on 27th Nov 2011
this is the best mobile.l had qwert mobiles before .this is compact and for business traveller easy to carry and use it all around the world.l travel to east africa and no problems with other sim cards prices are very good too.
Reviewed by Joanne from Kuwait on 22nd Sep 2011
I've had a few Nokias and had always been happy with them. This phone changed that. The pros: size and weight are great. I like a Qwerty keyboard; this one works fine but the phone still fits in a pocket. The camera takes nice pictures and is pretty easy to use. I liked the look of it and liked Nokia so I bought it after a fair bit of researching. Oh dear. The Cons: failure of almost any 'smartphone' feature. The Bluetooth is incompatible with Windows 7; the browsing experience is horrible; Ovi PC suite is not available in my location; continuous problems syncing Outlook and a host of other problems my non-Nokia colleagues don't have. In addition to that are the dropped calls and the flimsiness of the casing (the bottom of the frame WILL break within a few months even if you never drop the phone). As will be pretty obvious, I can't recommend this phone. It's fine for the most basic functions but awful for almost everything else.
Reviewed by Rotibi olaoluwa from Nigeria on 17th Sep 2011
My NOKIA E75 is d best eva but i culd have love it more if it was bigger,never theless it a beatfull device.
Reviewed by Timo from Finland on 22nd Aug 2011
It's a great phone otherwise, but the Bluetooth sucks. Continuous connection problems with the hands-free... Any other sw problems that are mentioned in other comments below dissappered with new sw versions.
Reviewed by Agaba Nelson from Uganda on 19th Jul 2011
I have owned an E75 Nokia since November 2010 but just 2 days back it began behaving in a funny yet serious way and I am just confused. Every after 5 mins, it switches its to Camera mode and heats up. I dont know what could have caused this. Now am hating it. But putting that aside.. its a real masterpiece fo people who love browsing on the go. Good music output too.
Reviewed by Sadeepa silva from on 26th Jun 2011
It 's a good smart phone desingned by nokia and this phone let me a superb web browsing and multimedia iove this phone
Reviewed by Bob from Ireland on 4th Mar 2011
I received this phone in August 2010. Four months later the problems began. Drops calls when incoming message is received. Regularly loses bluetooth connection in the car. Contcat list freezes. Battery life reduced from three days down to seven hours. The list goes on. I do not recommend this phone to anybody. It is a peice of infuriating junk!
Reviewed by aeb from uk on 30th Nov 2010
Reviewed by henok from ethiopia on 15th Nov 2010
awsome phone.i like d keys easy to work .i got difficuly in using wlan
Reviewed by Paul from Luxembourg on 7th Nov 2010
I have had the E75 for a bit less than 2 years and now it will have to go. The build quality has been poor and the screen is now pixillated. A bit of a disappointment really, but not actually bad.
Reviewed by D.Speirs from Scotland on 31st Oct 2010
At first i thought it was an alrite phone, untill i had it for a few weeks. the screen started to freeze, the keypad stopped working, its a contract phone so i sent it back and again and again all the same problem never again when the contract is up i am going back to my old phone Nokia E71 i had this phone 2 years i bounced it off everything and it never gave me any problems, i dont even think its worth one star.
Reviewed by ed el sayed from lebanon on 12th Sep 2010
so good
Reviewed by lyndsey from england on 4th Jul 2010
this phone is the worse one ive ever had... had the same problem over six times were the phonebok freezes NEVER AGAIN!!!!
Reviewed by Rose Muraya from Kenya on 28th Jun 2010
I have used Nokia E75 for about eight months now and I agree it is a smart phone. I noted that a piece of the side molding - the one at the bottom was coming off and that is something that need to be checked - it looks ugly without the molding. Features are good though it is not easy to master them all. It is however poor with network and drops calls where others are working fine. Last Saturday, it just went off. I have no idea what the problem could be since I had adequately charged it. It is not taking charge it just remains dead. I have been told that the warranty is only valid in the country of purchase and I had sent a friend who bought it in Germany at such a high price and taxed close to 400 Euros. I need to be rescued!! Rose Muraya email email@example.com
Reviewed by emmanuel from india on 15th Feb 2010
the nokia e75 is a impressive device, it has lot of function and its video clarity is better than n73, i like my e75
Reviewed by Sajid Khan from Pakistan on 2nd Feb 2010
(firstname.lastname@example.com) Very Very Nice Phone Nokia E75
Reviewed by kate from uk on 28th Jan 2010
I bought this phone to replace a very old HTC with slide out keyboard which ran windows mobile and was easy to use. The e75 keyboard is fine but I hate the phone. The most irritating factor day to day is the inability of the phone to stay in predictive search mode when looking up telephone nos - and if you use the keyboard to search it is worse. The web browser is so irritating that I have hardly used it. Since then I was given an ipod touch which is fantastic and I am now about to pay a lot of money to scrap the nokia and move to an iphone!
Reviewed by aloke saha from uk on 27th Jan 2010
i always used to use nokia i moved aways to blackberry because of its q t key pad and e maling services now nokia has come back with a bang with e 75 i am glad to join the nokia club again
Reviewed by stephen Straun from united Kingdom on 20th
Jan 2010
I've had this phone for about 5 months, and it gone back for service quite a few times, such as software issues, blue tooth not working, and it drop your calls in the middle of your conversations. i would not recommend this phone to anybody, i am considering getting the Iphone.
Reviewed by arjun from england on 15th Jan 2010
wow.... great phone.... charges up in like 3 hours, camera is good, apps open quickly and the phone isnt as sophiscitated as most other smartphones on the market.
Reviewed by GKD from UK on 14th Jan 2010
I was very impressed with the phone when i first got it apart from it being a bit slow it did the job and i receieved instant emails to my personal address. After about 4-5 months my phone began to crash and the screen became pixlated and jammed.It could not keep up with commands. Often the screen begins to flicker. Now i find it just freezes and its hard for me to use and get started up again.I spend alot of my time trying to get it started up most of the time being off during the day. Do not reccommend this phone in the long run.
Reviewed by James from UK on 30th Dec 2009
This phone is an excellent messaging unit. Nokia Messaging built in to allow easy access to Gmail or Hotmail etc. 3.2MP camera which gives reasonable results with built in flash (Also built in front facing camera for video conferencing).Biggest asset is the slide out qwerty keyboard which allows text messages or emails to be written with ease. It's not a touchscreen device, but that is sometimes not such a bad idea.
Reviewed by Jeff Dabbs from uk on 20th Dec 2009
This phone is rubbish dont buy one unbarably slow has lost all emails & accounts for the third time Stay well clear of this phone
Reviewed by Arron from UK on 17th Sep 2009
@Mobile Phones UK: I believe the version of S60 on this phones is 3.2, i.e Feature Pack 2. This might make a difference for a few people as there is some application incompatibility between the two versions.
Reviewed by Andy from England on 24th Aug 2009
This phone is jam-packed with features and oozing with technology but I'm afraid I can't give it any more than one star due to the fact that my handset has not proved to be very robust at all in the three months I've owned it. The software has had plenty of gltches and I've had to switch the phone off and on again to reboot on many an occasion. However, by far and away the worst and final failing was the inner screen cracking just after the phone had been charged. I haven't dropped the phone or treated it it harshly - quite the opposite in fact, and now I look as though I'm stuck with a totally unuseable handset as the high street chain (CPW) I bought the thing from refuse to believe my account of events. Owning this phone has been a nightmare, and a costly one at that. I certainly don't think I'll be getting a Nokia ever again - it's back to Samsung for me.
Reviewed by richard from england on 18th Jul 2009
not a bad phone battery is rubbish phone gets very hot, all i wanted was to recive e mail and that was it but it seems to struggle with that. this phone keeps on droping calls all day on the orange tarrif so fustrating. The key pad is ok and easy to type with but theres is to much rubbish on the menu which you wont use and its very hard to work out ....my opinion give it a miss....
Reviewed by Chris from UK on 7th Jul 2009
The worst phone for email I have ever used. Fairly easy to setup but keeps deleting settings for the mailbox at least once a day. Which does not help when one is relying on this phone for work. I have spent about 4 hours on the phone for support but the issue still keeps happening. I will be swopping the phone later today for an E71.
Reviewed by Roddy from Scotland on 1st Jul 2009
Just got my E75 yesterday as an upgrade from a Nokia 6500 Classic and I am very impressed. It is a great looking phone and has got the balance between size and technology spot on. The QWERTY keyboard is really easy to use, instant email is great and there are NO problems with using WLANs....surf, surf, surf! A very classy and cool alternative to the touchscreen mania from other manufacturers. Great job Nokia, just a shame there are no graphical smileys :-(.
Reviewed by tom from uk on 22nd Jun 2009
this has got to be one of the worst phones i have ever bought the signal quality is very poor once you do get a signal to make calls the call is dropped whilst your in conversation, even on the orange network this phone fails to perform
Reply by Mobile Phones UK from UK on 22nd
Jun 2009
Even on the Orange network? LOL
Reviewed by Andre from indonesia on 13th Jun 2009
I bought my E75 a week ago, and this phone is amazing. Who said the WLAN is troubled? It works fine for me, and I can browse anything with no problems at all. The screen is small, but as the reviewer said, it's used to maintain the compact size of the phone. And it's as wide as my old Nokia 95, so actually there's no problem again. The new email system is amazing, now I can receive and send email anywhere without browsing to the mail server first. I haven't install any third applications, since i use my phone for business only, and i'm not intend to, because sometimes it'll harm your phone. Overall, i love this phone!
Reviewed by Kerry from India on 6th Jun 2009
I bought this phone the day it was launched and replaced my old Nokia N95. I was excited for a day or two. GPRS connectivity, email, WIFI etc is excellent whereas the camera is useless, music on loudspeaker is not audible,it is too heavy for it's size,the keypad is too tiny and impossible to text, the slide-out keyboard is difficult to use with two thumbs unlike we see in the Advertisements,sliding out the keyboard is not at all easy as it seems the display clarity is great but again too small, perhaps i'm used to my Nokia N 95 which i'm going to use again.Nevertheless, it has the latest applications loaded with the latest technology, no wonder the price is not as high as expected.
Reviewed by Vinson John from Philippines on 29th May 2009
i am tall and has big hands...the key pads are small for me...but overall the phone is nice...i made the right choice of replacing my iphone 3g.....
Reviewed by Nathan from uk on 26th May 2009
quality phone - fantstic for syncing with outlook calendar and email!
Reviewed by Siddharth from India on 11th May 2009
hi, the e75 has a very typical problem with its wlan, it has a lot of problem, i have read online and surfed a lot, many people are facing the same problem, the wlan will just keep on troubling you in one way or the other
Reviewed by Thaniga S J from India on 29th Apr 2009
The phone is really amazing. It has replaced My e90. Good job keep it up.
Reviewed by my from uk on 29th Apr 2009
best phone
Reviewed by Ruca from UK on 19th Apr 2009
Excelent phone... one of the best Nokia's ever.
Reviewed by jamie from uk on 16th Apr 2009
its an amazing mobile phone however there are always a few problem mysef i work for nokiea and they do try and do evertying on the cheep
Reviewed by Reza from Iran on 9th Apr 2009
I bought this phone today and its awsome,only they weight is a little much but its not a big deal.texting is easy,camera and flah is good,the e-mail system is the best one in this phone
Reviewed by Sarah20 from UK on 25th Mar 2009
Awesome phone looks great in red, so many features role on the summer!!
Reviewed by tttttttttttt from uk on 20th Mar 2009
not the best pone naf keypad and not the best shape or size


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- Experienced in office management and business management in Europe as well as in US.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office 2003/2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Groove, and OneNote) Microsoft Project, Microsoft Outlook.
- Experienced in Data Analysis, Asset Management and Reporting using Remedy 6.3, IBM Maximo 5, Excel 2003/2007 and building custom made applications in VBA for Excel. Some experience in Crystal Reports and Xcelsius.
- Successful manager in Reporting and Data Analysis in ticket management aimed to build efficiency in Desk Side Support and Help Desk teams. At Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA) the Profit Margin for Pomeroy jumped from 33% to 80%.
- Experienced in Pivot Tables and graphic charts.
- Proficient in automatic data importing into Excel, from Remedy and other Excel files. My proprietary applications are still in use at B. Braun (Allentown, PA) and Sanofi Pasteur (Pocono, PA). Both customers became aware of how much our technicians were achieving every day. This helped to build a better understanding with the customers, and set realistic future expectations.
- Accurate in data entering and data reconciliation.
- Strong in arithmetic, algebra, calculus, and statistics.
- Communicating in English, Italian, and Albanian with strong sales ethics and excellent customer service. Able to notice the customer needs and to match it to products offered by the company.
Work experience
Mar 2008 - Present
Project Manager
IT Pro Management Inc.
- Managed multiple IT projects to successful conclusion for clients like Pomeroy IT Solutions, Sanofi Pasteur, and B. Braun.
- Trained local managers in using my program "BB Formula" for Data Analysis and Reporting. "BB Formula" is an Excel 2003 file with custom made VBA for Excel scripts.
- Performed help desk and desk side support assistance for small business in central Massachusetts.
- Prepared Disaster Recovery plans for small businesses, and built self explanatory flow charts and diagrams in Visio.
- Prepared Asset Management folders with self explanatory flow charts and diagrams in Visio for small and medium businesses.
- Offered IT consulting for purchases and improvements for small amd medium businesses and private customers in Central Massachusetts.
Sep 2009 - Present
Information Systems Manager
Community Teamwork Inc.
POSITION SUMMARY: The Housing Information Systems Manager (ISM) is responsible for the implementation, development, maintenance, and operation of information and reporting systems in Tracker Inc. software and any associated software. Provides oversight of all Tracker modifications, providing training and support for Tracker users.
·Ensure the successful implementation and use of the Tracker Inc. (TSI) software system.
·Supervises the Information System Specialist.
·Analysis of data, record keeping and reporting requirements and the development of processes that ensure the most efficient and effective data management systems that meet the agency needs.
·Ensures that day to day database activities are in compliance with all State and Federal reporting guidelines.
·Manage vendor relationship in compliance with the software vendor maintenance contract
·Facilitate Tracker support to ensure that all database related communication with Tracker is centralized and monitor open support e-mails and phones calls until they are resolved.
·Develop training materials and documentation.
·Assess staff training needs and provide appropriate training to end-users. Coordinate staff trainings on the Section 8 software as necessary.
·Develop design requirements and specifications for modifications to software systems.
·Liaison with CTI's MIS Department for the MIPS and Trackers accounting package. Fulfill information reports as requested by Housing and Community Development managerial staff.
·Troubleshoot, along with IT staff, printing, scanners, security, network connection, hardware and software/server issues.
·Supervise Housing Information Systems staff:
·Other duties as assigned.
Specific Trackers-related setup/support/maintenance
·Responsible for the installation of all TSI modifications and upgrades and their integration into the CTI IT environment.
·Responsible for security maintenance and Tracker password management. Assigns access and manages the user IDs and password resets for Tracker.
·Works as second and third tier of support for troubleshooting IT and Tracker related issues, coordinating with TSI support, MIS and S8 staff.
·Responsible for the direct deposit implementation and data maintenance including data entry, changes on data and account verification.
·Attend all TSI Trainings and actively participate in the Tracker User Group, Tracker IT Group, etc.
·Facilitate the distribution of information and training materials to appropriate s8 staff.
·Oversees webservices and data uploading to external storages like DHCD's Central Database.
·Monitors network performance and other intranet issues related to Tracker.
·Maintains a ticketing system and periodically reports about all IT problems.
·Maintain all WL, S8 and Inspection Action tables and related documents.
·Perform caseload reports and Reallocations.
·Ensure maintenance of Utility Allowance, APS, Income Level and other tables as required ensuring that Trackers tables are up to date with HUD and DCHD published information.
·Provide related set-up, support, and maintenance of all TSI support tables.
·Ad hoc reporting using Crystal Reports and MS Excel.
·Help with adding new vendors, changing vendors addresses, and scanning of w9 forms on file.
·Generate list of property owners in alphabetical order, vendor order, social security/tax ID order, and vendor address change report.
·Generate and distribute year end 1099 forms.
Oct 2006 - Jan 2008
Project Manager and reporting
- Managed multiple IT projects to successful conclusion for clients like Port Authority of NY & NJ, TJX, Houghton Mifflin, Sanofi Pasteur, B. Braun, and Motorola.
- Experienced in Data Analysis and Reporting using Excel 2003/2007 and building custom made applications in VBA for Excel.
- Successful manager in Reporting and Data Analysis in ticket management aimed to build efficiency in Desk Side Support and Help Desk teams. Increased the Profit Margin for the company from 33% to 80% (Houghton Mifflin account, Boston, MA).
- Proficient in automatic data importing into Excel, from Remedy and other Excel files. Built proprietary applications that are still in use at B. Braun (Allentown, PA) and Sanofi Pasteur (Pocono, PA). Both customers became aware of how much value our technicians were achieving every day. This helped build a better understanding with the customers, improve the micro and macro management, and set realistic future expectations for all stakeholders.
- Assisted the sales department in analyzing opportunities, building transition project plans, calculating returns on investment, preparing proposals and preparing service level agreements.
- Coordinated staff members at multiple client sites for both project and staffing engagements.
- Prepared Disaster Recovery plans for data centers and built self explanatory flow charts and diagrams in MS Visio.
- Prepared Asset Management self explanatory flow charts and diagrams in MS Visio
- Prepared Project Efficiency Evaluation, Structured Analysis and Risk Management.
Oct 2004 - Dec 2006
Sales Representative
Pro Marketing Inc.
Worked in Home Depot Stores in the Central Massachusetts area: Worcester, Marlborough, Natick, Shrewsbury, and Auburn. Responsible for product training and marketing and customer support.
Earned the "Harvey Award" in 07/2006 for "Providing Outstanding Above & Beyond Service", especially for developing a spreadsheet application to speed up service time.
Aug 1999 - Jul 2003
General Director
Department of Housing System for State Universities
- Managed an independent department of the Ministry of Education and 5 state companies (> 2,000 employees) responsible for procuring and providing housing, food, health services, safety, and entertainment to more than 20,000 college students in three campuses.
- Designed and audited policies and procedures related to procurement, budgeting, Procurement Requests for Quotation (RFQ) and Requests for Tender (RFT).
- Analyzing and reporting on procurement of goods and services: cost-benefit analysis and cost-utility analysis. Analyzing and making decisions improve operations, based on the difference in cost and in risk between Direct Procurement and Indirect Procurement.
- Coordinated financial and budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, and increase efficiency.
- Audited the procurement processes of the subordinate companies to make sure they were conform the state rules on bidding procedures.
- Directed weekly meetings with the CEO-s of the 5 companies and other executive officials, and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities and resolve problems.
- Maintained Public Relations with the media, student organizations and NGO-s.
1990 - 1991
Masters' Degree
Universiteti i Tiranes
One year, full time, post university course. 12 classes that ranged from programming in COBOL, and GWBASIC to Database programming, data analysis, optimization methods, algorithms, and Statistics.
Sep 1984 - Jun 1988
Universiteti i Tiranes
Major in teaching foreign languages (Italian) and culture.
Minor in Psychology and Higher Education.


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The European Union recently said that Motorola Mobility, now a part of Google, was abusive toward Apple as an owner of GPRS patents in an effort to win an injunction against Apple products in Germany. The ruling in favor of the injunction eventually forced Apple to stop selling its products from its website in the country during the lawsuit, BBC said. That no doubt had an impact of iPad and iPhone sales.
Here's where the European Union thinks Motorola Mobility went wrong: it owned a patent that it argued Apple infringed upon. As a result, and because the patent is considered standard-essential, Motorola Mobility should have tried harder to reach licensing terms with Apple and was supposed to to reach a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory agreement. It turns out that Apple actually wanted to license the patented technology from Motorola Mobility, but the two companies couldn't agree on pricing terms at the time. Here's a snippet from the official letter:
The Motorola Mobility SEPs in question relate to the European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute's (ETSI) GPRS standard, part of the GSM standard, which is a key industry standard for mobile and wireless communications. When this standard was adopted in Europe, Motorola Mobility gave a commitment that it would license the patents which it had declared essential to the standard on FRAND terms. Nevertheless, Motorola Mobility sought an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of a GPRS SEP and, after the injunction was granted, went on to enforce it, even when Apple had declared that it would be willing to be bound by a determination of the FRAND royalties by the German court.
"While recourse to injunctions is a possible remedy for patent infringements, such conduct may be abusive where standard-essential patents are concerned and the potential licensee is willing to enter into a licence on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," the European Union said in a statement obtained by BBC. EU's competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he wants companies to work on innovation and not fighting over intellectual property, which ultimately hurts consumers.
Motorola said that it "followed the procedure established" and that the court didn't even view Apple as a company willing to license Motorola Mobility's technology until it made its sixth offer.


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Oaisys, a provider of business call recording and contact center management solutions, has released to a select group of early adopters its Mobile Recall application, which enables Web-based access to key functionality offered by the Oaisys Talkument and Tracer call recording software solutions.
Built on an HTML5 framework, Mobile Recall is specifically engineered to support mobile Web access to call recordings, delivering a rich user experience that requires no software download or installation on the access device. It provides search and playback functions, empowering the user to view desired interaction metadata, such as notes or transaction references.
With Mobile Recall, from any browser-enabled device, users can do the following:
"We purposefully designed Mobile Recall using HTML5 as a means to ensure users have easy access to their call recording data regardless of the device platform they choose," Spencer said. "What I'm especially excited about, though, are the holistic benefits to be realized when combining Mobile Recall with the advantages offered by cloud computing, which include anytime, anywhere data access, dynamic scalability, high availability, and increased cost savings. This is an area of strategic importance to Oaisys, and it will continue to be a primary focus for our technology group."
Oaisys is currently accepting a limited number of customers to participate in early adopter field trials of its Mobile Recall application.


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Beau has been serving First Presbyterian Durango since 2012 and the Presbyterian Church (USA) for over a decade. He loves seeking innovative ways to press on into the church's exciting future while celebrating it's rich past. He received a B.A. in Religion & Theology from Whitworth University and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Beau loves the outdoors, playing guitar, writing and oil painting. But his favorite activity is scattering children's instruments throughout his living room and playing "family band" with his wife Kristin, son Asher and daughter Eden.
Beau's Office Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:00-12:00, 1:30-3:00
We are currently seeking a full time (housing included) Director of Children and Youth Ministry.
Bill's Office Hours: T, W, Th (9:00 - 12:30 and 1:30 -4:00)
Other times by appointment
Bill has been employed at FPC since September, 2009. He started as Office Administrator, added Financial Administrator in 2010, and in- house accounting in January, 2012. Bill has been married to his wife, Joyce, since 1983. They moved to Durango from Southern California in 1995. Joyce works at Escalante Middle School in the special ed dept. Their daughter Melissa (30) lives and works in Durango, helping to manage the United Campground with her husband, Keenan Holt. Their daughter Katy (27) lives in Greeley, with her husband Nate Herder, and works as a marriage and family therapist / counselor.
Tom has been the choir director at First Presbyterian Church for 25 plus years.
He is also currently the choir director at Durango High School and Miller Middle School, and has been a music teacher in the Durango schools since 1986. Tom and his wife Jan have been married for 30 years and have three wonderful children: Shauna, Ryan, and Aaron, as well as 4 grandchildren: Lane, Myah, Gavin, and Everly. Tom and Jan enjoy spending their Summers travelling and love living in Durango. Tom also loves the community of First Presbyterian Church, especially the choir members who volunteer their time to enhance our worship experience!
Robin has been the organist and choir accompanist at FPC since July 2004. She and her husband, Dan, landed in Colorado after meeting in Kansas and spending a couple of years in Northern California. A graduate in print journalism from Kansas State University, Robin's main focus is raising their two wonderful children, Gracie and Ozzie, but she also works from home as a transcriptionist and teaches piano lessons. She enjoys being with her family and playing in the outdoors with their two dogs.
Janey considers herself a Durango Native, living here since she was about three years old. Janey graduated from Durango High School, with her best memories about the wonderful and award winning band they were blessed with--she was a percussionist. She attended Fort Lewis College on a music scholarship, and graduated with a teacher certification and a BA degree in Humanities, with concentration in Music. Upon completion of her degree, Janey was hired by the Mancos School district for the "dream career of my life," spending 34 years teaching band in the high school, Jr. High and beginning levels, teaching elementary music, and establishing the girls' athletics program at the high school. She also coached all the major sports for girls. The last five years of her career she was blessed with being the only woman in Colorado at that time to have a high school band win the state championship marching band competition three years in a row! This was definitely a greatly blessed career!
Janey continued her education pursuit by spending seven years after Mancos in the Ignacio High School Counselor's office part time. She also enjoyed, helping the youth in career and further education choices.
Janey joined the First Presbyterian Church when Pastor Jo was here, but attended member classes with Pastor Bill and Pastor Alan TeBrink, and joined the bell choir shortly after that. She became the director when Essie Williams retired. Janey says, "this has also been a blessing in my life, because it has kept me close to being able to direct music, and that has been most fulfilling to me, after my career!"
Rachel Moranty started working at FPC in July 2016. She has enjoyed working with this welcoming group of people, and is very grateful for this amazing opportunity. She is 16 years old and moved to Durango about two years ago with her mom and little brother. She is a junior at Durango High School. She is involved in the high school's Troupe 1096 theater program, and has been part of Merely Player's production of Shrek the Musical as an A/V technician. She has also worked at various concerts this year, including Michael Franti and iAM Music Festival at Buckley Park with her stepdad.
1159 East 3rd Avenue
Durango, CO 81301
Office Phone: 970-247-3175
Fax: 970-403-1019
Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday
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Alan was drawn to Swing music early in life through Sunday afternoon classic movies & watching live big bands at Disneyland.
In 1994, Alan was "bribed" into taking his first Ballroom dance class by "the girl next door." He visited Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association (PBDA), and he quickly fell in love with dancing. Swing Camp Catalina exposed him to inspiring dancers & amazing dance legends including, Frankie Manning.
You'd never guess it but back then the term "two left feet" was easily applied to Alan. With passion, persistence and help from great instructors, he finally transformed from a gawky kid into a gawky kid who could dance.
Alan started teaching his family and friends how to dance and they would dance ANY TIME and ANYWHERE. By 1996, Saturday night dancing at Disneyland Carnation Plaza became a weekly event for Alan, his sisters & his cousins. He soon struck up friendships with some very young and talented "Disneyland Dancers" including; Shesha Marvin, Jofflyn Valencia, Adrienne Weidert & Peter Flahiff.
Alan rode the "Neo-Swing" wave of the 90's dancing in various music videos & TV sitcoms (including Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Everybody Loves Raymond), as well as dancing and teaching at swing dance clubs like The Derby, The Hollywood Athletic Club and The El Rey Theatre. He even created his own dancing & singing performance troupe named Eddie Planter's M.A.D. Dancers, which was composed of his family, his cousins & that "girl next door.
The gift of dance allowed a very shy kid to travel the world to various national and international Dance Camps, Lindy Exchanges and Dance Cruises.
Alan prides himself on being able to share his love for dance with even the most uncoordinated dancers. If he can learn to dance, anyone can.
Left-footed dancers UNITE!


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August 5th 2012
Horse show today so up at 4am. It was at City Bel, which is one of the longer drives so we had to be out early in order to get both loads of horses there. We brought the series 1 and 2 horses as well as Skyline (who from what I understand is about equal with the series 1). I warmed up a few for Martin and got to watch several rounds as well. It was fun but a long day. We got home and wrapped up the horses for the night before crashing early.


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Energy-efficiency-related regulations and standards are gradually being intensified around the world. The Ecodesign Directive is the legislative framework that currently sets requirements on all energy-related products in the domestic, commercial and industrial sectors throughout the European Union. Its aim is to ensure manufacturers reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of their products by establishing minimum energy-efficiency standards. These requirements have been gradually intensified.
Motors, AC drives and power drive systems are classified according to their energy efficiency. And, since January 2015, it has been a legal requirement that new IE2 motors require an AC drive for operation in Europe. The EN 50598-2 standard defines the IE classes for AC drives and also the IES classes for power drive systems.
Danfoss drives already comply with the strictest requirements of the EN 50598 standard for energy efficiency and are classified as IE2.
Use Danfoss ecoSmart to:
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The West Tower at ZL1ZLD is a tilt-over model, installed on the base of one of the original ZLD receiving towers. It supports a tri-band 4-element yagi, as well as one end of the multi-band wire Vee Beam and one end of the Marconi Tee aerial.
On 6 May 2012, MPRG members replaced the defective rotator on the West Tower.
Stripped gears in the rotator had allowed the tri-band yagi to swing in the wind – meaning we only used that antenna when the wind was light and the antenna was pointed in the right direction. 🙂
The new rotator is a Yaesu GX-1000D.
Photos above by Mark ZL1BNO


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Watch the xx Perform "Chained" and "Sunset" on "Later... With Jools Holland"
Following their performance of "Angels" earlier this week, the xx appeared again tonight on the British television program "Later... With Jools Holland". They played their Coexist cuts "Sunset" and "Chained". Watch them below, as well as a performance of "Night Time" off their debut for Pitchfork.tv's "Surveillance".
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"Frames for Undergraduates is an undergraduate-level introduction to the theory of frames in a Hilbert space. This book can serve as a text for a special-topics course in frame theory, but it could also be used to teach a second semester of liner algebra, using frames as an application of the theoretical concepts. It can also provide a complete and helpful resource for students doing undergraduate research projects using frames." "The early chapters contain the topics from linear algebra that students need to know in order to read the rest of the book. The later chapters are devoted to advanced topics, which allow students with more experience to study more intricate types of frames. Toward that end, a Student Presentation section gives detailed proofs of fairly technical results with the intention that a student could work out these proofs independently and prepare a presentation to a class or research group. The authors have also presented some stories in the Anecdotes section about how this material has motivated and influenced their students."--BOOK JACKET.Han, Deguang is the author of 'Frames for Undergraduates', published 2008 under ISBN 9780821842126 and ISBN 0821842129.[read more]
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Singapore Tax payers playing suckers
|90.6% of 2010 Bachelor Degree graduating class of NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory are foreigners [link]
In Singapore, many institutions are created just to serve the foreigners fully funded by our tax payer. Lee Kuan Yew seems to be the patron behind all these nonsense. He has made remarks as below.
Some of these migrant students, he acknowledged, use Singapore as a stepping stone to other countries. So "why are we so stupid" in allowing this?
"Because more than half (of these students) do not make the grade to go to America, and the second tier is not bad for us."
A parable
Would you spend monies on your neighbor's son instead of your own son? Would you give free education to your neighbor's son when he is going seek greener pastoral after graduation. Your son is to be crowded out of resources. Your own son is going to stay here, facing a broken treasury due to the subsidy given to neighbor's son.
20% quota to protect foreigners, NO quota for "daft" Singaporeans
In Singapore, foreigners are given privileged access to our university on a 20% quota. The actual proportion of foreigners are much higher from observations. Beneath the surface, the system is even more secretly rigged to discriminate locals.
In many post graduate research institute or certain schools in our local university, there are ZERO or very little Singaporeans. Among them, the NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory stands out to be the most outrageous. While many of those discriminatory practices long existed in post-graduate institution, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory is an under-graduate institution. Its 2010 class sees less than 10% of Singaporean.
Building a conservatory for foreigners, "stupid" Singaporeans denied admission
NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory is probably the only public university's constituent school of in the whole world that give more than 90% of its placement to foreigners.
I would even bet the most if not all foreign students of the conservatory are offered 100% scholarships and most will leave Singapore after graduation. On top of the insult, Singaporeans pay huge salary for the professors, foot the bill of the expensive teaching concert hall as well as those exorbitant Steinways.
Dumping ground for Singaporeans, prestigious degrees for foreigners
Singapore universities use the follow strategies to give foreigners an advantage over locals at the same time maintaining a good PR publicity, giving a wrong impression that foreigners are kept around 20%. Singaporeans are admitted in large numbers to university dumping grounds, foreigners are given far more placement in many of the prestigious degrees, giving them more advantage to compete against locals. (Probably medicine and law faculties are the two exceptions at the time being)
Hence, Singaporean may seem to be representing a larger student cohort, in reality, the foreigners receive an even larger individual support from our government. Their better degrees often in the form of post-graduate degree give them massive advantages in job market.
Then PAP will loudly announced there are more Singaporeans than foreigners in local universities and PAP take care of "Singaporean first"!
Insults after insults
To justify its discriminatory practices, the usual abuses and derision would be expected from PAP or bosses of universities if they are queried. The old folk stories are as below. Singaporeans are
- Lazy
- Stupid (daft)
- Soft
- not enough talent
- spoiled
- Singaporean are "not interested" in music
- Goldman Sachs gotten all local talents so we must import FT
Singaporeans are the most xenophobic in the world?
To Be Continued


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Based on your experiences, which festival is the Bestest!!! Any other great festivals?!
Based on your experiences, which festival is the Bestest!!! Any other great festivals?!
I need more information. Are we counting only the pure music experience, or also all the other stuff like camping, the traveling it takes for us to get there, and the price and stuff?
The second Virgin Fest. might amount to something this year
The Glitter Freeze
Coachella 99-10 Vet, the run has ended in 2011
ENTIRE EXPERIENCE!! Music, Trip, Venue, People, Fun, everything!!! Which one makes your soul sing the loudest!
Well then it's easy to answer
I can't wait for my first Coachella! It'll be great.
I think polling might be a little skewed on a Coachella message board!
A teenage dream, so hard to beat...
No Doubt. Expected. Really wanna see if there are people out there with great experiences of other festivals! I spent a week in Austin for SXSW and went to so many great shows all over the city. They do record label showcase shows! Those are great! You can fine tune your experience to EXACTLY what you want to see. It was awesome!
I'm going to Bonnaroo too this year!
If you have your own favorite, TELL US!!!
a best fest poll on the coachella boards. i wonder what festival will be number 1? hmmmmmm..
Oh well.
Heheh... I'd like to vote but I've only been to one (ACL). I'll be trying SxSW and Coachella this year. I'll let you know how those compare afterward.
There's an "Is Bush an Idiot?" poll. LOL
The only US festival I've been to on that list is Coachella. I've been to the old travelling Lollapalooza, a couple Lilith Fairs, and a couple British festivals too. I can't really afford to travel too far to a festival now.
I miss talking to TomAz.
We all do. I live in the same city as him (unless he relocated) and rumor has it that at 3:15am if you listen closely and its really really quiet you can hear him telling you to go fuck yourself.
I though maybe I could root out the people who have made it to several festivals. I could've swore there would be some multi-festers. I guess at Coachella, those people don't exist. I've been to several. There are no "ProFesters" in here? I know Coachella is going to rock! "In CA, Smug levels are through the roof!" I'm now going to Bonnaroo 07 and ACL 07. Should be a blast. I wanna go to Lollapalooza! MULTI FESTERS UNITE!!!
Sasquatch would be awesome too!! It looks so beautiful there!
why wasnt lolla a choice?
Ive only done Sasquatch, so i voted for that, but im sure my 1st Coachella this year is gonna be better.
Warped tour 90's edition!!! I went in 96 to the one in austin tx. NOFX, Rancid, Swingin Utters', pennywise, fishbone, deftones. I was really into all that punk like lookout records and epitaph, nofx and guttermouth, screeching weasel, the queers, prettymuch skate punk and underground hip hop!!! Digables, Wu!!! They had this huge mural wall to be painted at each city and put together in a series after the tour was over. I painted a huge peice on that thing and now i wonder where it is! I received a sampler cd called "no brakes", and it was the first time I ever heard ozomatli. And that primus song "scissor man", trippy!!!


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Zenith was a fanzine created by Arthur Williams in the 1940s in England.
Arthur Williams was the frequent illustrator for Futurian War Digest and other science fiction zines. Zenith featured his art work, as well as contributions from other science fiction fans.
Zenith was frequently distributed as a split zine with Futurian War Digest due to the lack of resources during the period of World War II.


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I know I've been away for a bit. It doesn't mean I'm not coming back. Or that I've nothing to post. There's just been a lot going on. But in more ways than one, blogging and blog surfing is distracting and has been a source of procrastination. So for a bit more, I'm taking a break from blogging, and go live life.
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Our Dental Office
At Kessler Dental Associates, we treat all of our patients with the same level of care we offer our loved ones. Our Phoenixville dental office strives to provide an environment that is both inviting and professional. For your convenience, we offer flat screen TVs in our waiting area and keep our office clean and orderly at all times. Below you will find our dental office times and location as well as more information about us. Thank you for looking into Kessler Dental Associates and we look forward to being the dentist you can count on.
Kessler Dental Associates
1150 Valley Forge Rd., Suite 101
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Phone: 610.933.3342
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The dentists have gone out of their way to make dental treatment affordable. We appreciate payment for services on the day they are completed. If you have financial conditions that prevent you from keeping your account current, we will be happy to discuss a flexible payment plan with you.
For basic procedures, full payment is required at the time of treatment. Patients undergoing more extensive service must pay half of the balance at the start of treatment and the remaining at the end. Visa, MasterCard and Discover are acceptable forms of payment. Please ask a member of our dental staff about our prepaid and senior citizen discounts.
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We offer No Interest* financing or low minimum monthly payment options so you can get what you want, when you want it. You can even use CareCredit for your family and favorite pet.
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CareCredit is a GE Money Company. For over 20 years, they've been helping over five million cardholders get the healthcare treatments they want and need. You can apply on-line at carecredit.com or in our office.
Now you don't have to worry about saving up for the procedures you want and need. With CareCredit, the decision's in your hands to get what you want, when you want it.
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When you arrive for your first visit, please be prepared to complete all insurance and health information forms that will allow us to begin your dental treatment. We will ask you to fill out several forms that will get you acquainted with our office.
Your initial exam will last approximately one hour. Oral hygiene instructions will be provided along with suggestions to help you care for your teeth. In most cases, we will also clean your teeth on this visit and provide an evaluation that will outline your existing dental problems and proposed treatment.


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We don't know if you are watching OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network, but you should be, if only to support Elizabeth Espinosa a contestant on Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star (Fridays at 9/8c). We caught up with the part-Mexican, part-Salvadorian KTLA news reporter to find out what it's like being the only Latina on Oprah's new network, the bilingual television show she'd like to host if she wins the show, and why growing up with a disabled brother made her want to enlighten others.
What is Your Own Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star about?
It's basically a reality competition with celebrity mentor judges. We compete in order to be able to host our own show on the OWN network.
Tell us about your experience on the show.
Regardless of being the grand prize winner or not, I am so grateful for the learning experience. I remember episode 1, when I went down to eliminations and I said thank you to Dr. Phil, who was the celebrity judge. He's about tough love, but when he shook my hand, he gave me a hug and whispered in my ear, "Kid, you're really talented, and you're going to go really far," I felt like a kid in the candy store! It was like, 'Dr. Phil just said he believed in me!' It validates you and it's encouraging and I really believe we have to encourage each other.
What made you decide to audition for the show?
I have a severely disabled brother and I've always been inspired by him since he was born. He has always taught me to be a voice for people who don't have one and I really believe that it's a gift to be able to tell stories and empower communities.
What I bring to the table that is unique is that I helped raise a severely disabled child and I'm also the daughter of immigrant parents, so I understand that journey as well. I think in a country built by immigrants from all over the world, it's important to have that understanding.
Do you know that you're the only Latina on the OWN network?
When I was selected to the top 10, I looked at the other finalists and I realized that. I felt proud to at least be the one person on there, to kind of represent. Not that I'm out there talking about our culture or anything, but I'm really proud of my Latin roots and I speak the language and my parents were born in Latin America, so I'm first generation here.
If you were to win the show, would Latino issues like Immigration and Education be topics that you would discuss on your OWN show?
I think that would absolutely be a component of my show. I'm a storyteller and I happen to be Latin and I'm very proud of being Latina. I speak five languages and one of them is Spanish. I started my career in Spanish language television.
Immigration is a very big issue in this country and that would absolutely be an issue that I would cover extensively. And the other part that's unique is that if I'm granted the opportunity, I would love to translate my show too. I would do it in English and Spanish. I would love to do it in both languages for the OWN network to reach more people.
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North Carolina is expected to get a boost on Wednesday night with the debut of guard Cam Johnson.
Johnson, who missed the first 11 games, will likely come off the bench for the Tar Heels in their home game with Wofford.
Johnson, a graduate transfer from Pittsburgh, had surgery on his left knee on Nov. 15 to repair meniscus damage. He had missed the first game of the season with a minor neck injury.
The initial timeline was for Johnson to miss between four and six weeks. Wednesday marked five weeks from the surgery.
Johnson gives the Tar Heels, ranked No. 5 in the country and off to a 10-1 start, an extra outside shooter and some lineup flexibility. The 6-8, 210-pound wing averaged 11.9 points and 4.5 rebounds per game for Pitt last season. He made 78 of 188 (41.5 percent) of his 3-point shots.
Johnson graduated from Pittsburgh in in the spring. Initially, the Panthers had tried to block Johnson from transferring to another team in the conference but eventually relented in June.
Johnson has two years of eligibility with the Heels.
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The Myth of Information Technology as a Cost Center
Do you or your business's decision makers view your IT system expenditures as a bottomless pit tied directly to the bottom line? When the budget's tight, is IT one of the first to the chopping block? Are your users frequently ailing from sluggish PCs or inefficient workflows?
IT is commonly thought of as a "cost center," or in the words of Investopedia: "a department… that does not directly add to profit, but which still costs …money to operate." For many, spending money on IT is about as fun as paying for taxes, insurance, and copier paper.
It's easy to lose sight of the need for an up-to-date IT system if its effect on the organization's success can't be easily seen or measured. Additionally, the benefits of adding another "feature" or "layer" to the current IT system, even if aligned with your organization's goals, can be difficult to foresee and therefore cost-justify. Furthermore, it can be easy to brush user complaints about IT system inefficiency under the rug because of the upfront costs of alleviating such issues. However, I would pose these three questions as food for thought:
1. Before we had our [ ] system, were our employees more or less productive?
2. How much time are our employees spending on IT-related issues per week, rather than focusing on growing the business?
3. Is our current system preventing us from expanding our business volume?
Take document sharing as an example. File servers (or other file sharing platforms) are fairly commonplace in business environments today. If you have such a system, what was your workflow like before you implemented it? Have you been able to conduct business more efficiently, and have you been able to expand business volume as a result?
Perhaps the system was great at first, but the system's age, combined with increasing business demands, have led to workflow inefficiencies and your employees are now spending a portion of their day resolving IT-related issues. Consider this example: Your business compensates an employee $20/hour, but this person spends 1 hour per week on IT-related problems rather than on normal business tasks. This could be costing your business over $1,000 per year in lost productivity from just a single employee. If you are putting off upgrading your system, there's a high probability that many more than just one user is dealing with IT problems on a frequent basis. Not only is your organization foregoing employee productivity, but it's also foregoing the business volume that these employees could be drumming up. What are the real costs of putting off your business's IT infrastructure upgrade for another year?
Lastly, every business has dreams on how it can better serve its current customers while attracting new patrons. Perhaps you've heard of new IT-enabled features that are adding value for other organizations in your industry. Are budget conversations preventing your business from competing in a comparable fashion and enjoying similar added value? Could you gain an edge by leveraging IT in ways that your competitors are not (yet)?
I hope this post has prompted some thought about whether or not your organization views its IT system as a cost center, and whether this view is real or perceived. We'll be proactively advising our customers if we think their systems could use an upgrade. However, give us a call any time if you'd like us to perform a review of your systems or talk future strategy!
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Next on my list is to tackle my Christmas cards and some hand made gifts to give away this year. And that's just what I have for you today! We all need easy gift ideas for this time of year, don't we? Well I have one to share with you that you can literally finish making in less than 30 minutes!! Woohoo!!!
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Do you ever wish your medical equipment supplier was as mindful of infection control as you are? At Tollos, infection control is so integral to equipment design that we developed our own line of infection control products.
MRSA, E. coli, H1N1 — infection is a constant risk to your patients and caregivers, can expose facilities to litigation, and drives up a host of related costs. Understanding the challenges our customers face in this area, and recognizing that certain materials and practices undermine their best efforts, Tollos is committed to building infection control into our solutions and offering infection-resistant products aligned with best practices.
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Nicole Kidman shows a hint of leg on the cover of Harper's Bazaar's November 2012 issue, on newsstands October 23.
Here's what the 45-year-old Paperboy actress had to share with the mag:
On early fame when she was married to Tom Cruise: "In those early years, it was like, 'I'm here and I'm clutching onto your arm, and it all feels a little overwhelming and really strange. And I was shy. Deeply shy. I didn't feel comfortable at all. But I felt very comfortable at home."
On her husband of six years, Keith Urban: "He just gave me confidence through just being very kind to me and understanding me, opening me up to trying things, my sexuality, those sorts of things."
On not having a perfect body: "All of that other stuff becomes less important. Like, I've always had a little belly. I mean, now that I'm 45, they don't say, 'Oh, she's pregnant!' as much. But I've got skinny arms and legs, and then I've got a little belly."
FYI: Nicole is wearing an Emilio Pucci gown and a Cartier cuff on the cover.
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Manatee-Sarasota Metropolitan Planning Organization executive director Mike Howe offered a new funding solution for island mayors troubled by infrastructure costs at the monthly Island Transportation and Planning Organization Sept. 16 in Bradenton Beach.
"Does the island need to apply for federal designation of Gulf Drive?" Howe asked Anna Maria Mayor SueLynn, Holmes Beach Mayor Carmel Monti and Bradenton Beach Mayor John Shaughnessy. "It's something to think about."
If Gulf Drive became a federal highway, federal funding for improvements could become available, he said, and the Federal Highway Administration has expertise in easing traffic congestion and improving traffic flow.
And, of course, the federal government has more funding sources than local governments and the Florida Department of Transportation, said Howe.
Making Gulf Drive a federal highway does not mean the cities have to give up control over the road, he added. It would not mean four lanes in the future. "That would be something the cities would have to bring to the MPO first before consideration," he said.
David Hutchinson of the MPO said, "It won't take 10 years to get the designation," Hutchinson said. He estimated Gulf Drive could become a federal highway a few years after application.
SueLynn said she's "ready to call the federal government and talk," and both Monti and Shaughnessy expressed interest.
"It would certainly help us," she said. "It's a blessing and a curse to be in our situation." The mayor said the city must maintain public parking on beach access streets and Gulf Drive for traffic — not just city traffic — from its city treasury.
Gulf Drive is designated State Road 789 from the Longboat Pass Bridge to the Manatee Avenue-East Bay Drive intersection in Holmes Beach. Continuing north, Gulf Drive is city-owned in both Holmes Beach, and Anna Maria.
"If you apply, we'll help as much as we can to get that designation as fast as possible," Howe said.
In other transportation-related matters, Monti said Holmes Beach has a committee studying traffic congestion and parking problems.
He noted the Manatee County Area Transit bus that brings people from the mainland to the island is "not fitted for beachgoers." He said people who carry coolers, chairs and other beach gear in their vehicles add to weekend and holiday traffic congestion. He suggested MCAT should allow beach gear on the buses coming to the island from the mainland to encourage ridership.
Howe said the Florida Department of Transportation is progressing on the planning, development and environmental study for Cortez Bridge. He expects that study to be completed by December, when DOT will conduct a public meeting to announce its findings.
ITPO is a chartered board under the MPO, organized to develop consensus on MPO matters prior to the monthly MPO meeting and voting by the single member appointed from Anna Maria Island's three cities. Presently SueLynn is the seated member.
The next ITPO meeting will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, at Bradenton Beach City Hall, 107 Gulf Drive N.


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Saturnia thermal Tour
Duration service: 8 hours
Saturnia Spa is an authentic and in-depth regeneration programme for health and beauty. It is designed for guests who wish to spend the day in the relaxing atmosphere of the baths of Saturnia, in the hearth of the beautiful Maremma region, in Tuscany.
Here the sulphurous waters spring at a constant temperature of 37 °C and their famous therapeutic properties are well-known. In fact, these spring waters can be beneficial for :
The Legend has it that one day Saturn flew into a temper because men were always fighting against each other. He took a flash of lightning and threw it down onto the Earth, causing sulfurous and warm water to gush out from the crater of a volcano. This water wrapped and calmed everything and the comforting womb eventually gave birth to wiser and happier men.
The history of Terme di Saturnia dates back to the Etruscan era. One of the symbol of the city is a figure of a woman which adorns the fountain in the central square of the village, representing the Etruscan goddess Aurinia. Aurinia was renamed Saturnia by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C. The Romans left their marks nowadays still visible in some parts of the citywalls (IV/III century B.C.) and the Roman Gate. Nearby the church there is also an ancient thermal square bath built by the Romans.
During the Middle Age, the Maremman region was repeatedly assaulted by the cities of Orvieto and Siena. Even if the local feudists had built defensive fortresses, the Maremma was conquered. In the following centuries nobody continued the massive drainage works initially started by Etruscans and Romans, till 1828 with the Duke Leopoldo II.
The drainage works allowed the Maremman region to be repopulated and the health properties of the sulphurous waters became gradually famous. Today, turists love spend their holidays in the tuscan Maremma where they can find evocative Etruscan necropolies, elegant Roman villas, mysterious medieval fortresses.
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I don't want to waste my time and yours introducing Google to you. Everybody who knows of computers and the internet knows of Google. The search engine, rather a search super bot is one page opened on every computer on the face of God's green earth.
Google is on the height of evolution. With so many things already we are thankful for, Google knock them out of the park again with Glass Google. This must have gadget is a gigantic success prior to its launch. Glass Google has opened new doorways to technological excellence. Imagine wearing a trendy set of shades. Now imagine walking up a road and those shades turn into navigators! That is but one feature of Glass Google. All in all, it is a computer that has been stylized into eye wear. Information is displayed as if on a smart phone, bringing to life some of the best sci-fi movies ever made. You don't have to click to get connected to the internet. Just say the command and thy will shall be done.
International sunglasses retailers like Ray Ban are lining up to partner with Google on this amazing venture. The good news is that Glass Google will also be available for people wearing spectacles. Developed by Google X Lab, Glass Google will certainly change the landscapes of technology. Slick, smart and sophisticated to the maximum, this gadget might create the biggest supply shock the world has seen in ages. Who wouldn't love to see through anything they behold, right to the basic anatomy?
There was a time when people believed the Earth was flat. Since those ignorant times, science has created wonders and the fairy tales of technology never cease to amaze us. One thing I am sure of; Glass Google is a breakthrough in technology, but it just won't stop there. Many generations to come will witness many more technological marvelsthat in current times, seem impossible.
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