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Jordan and I have become somewhat distracted by the new SimCity that recently came out. Hopefully we will manage to keep up with things, but if you can't find us you know where we are....
Anyone playing the new SimCity?
I have to say something: I laughed A LOT on you playing Sin City and forgetting other things. It´s so like me and my hubby... Although, no, we aren´t paying Sin City yet, but we are both gamers! I recently lost, I mean, spent some evenings on Heroes of Might and Magic V campaign mode... Yeah, I know it´s not a new game, but I could only buy it when it got discounted on steam last December...
I'm also a gamer, and I would love to have the new Sim City, but it's not in the budget. I play DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) a LOT, and I would love to play Heroes of Might & Magic but I refuse to get into another game! I spend at least a couple hours a day wasting time on DDO, so there's no time for another one.
I'm not much of a gamer and I tend to like to play like just random app games because I get too into games but a funny story about SimCity. So my dad just died and my three siblings and I got a little bit of inheritance, nothing to write home about but my sister decided to use her money to buy a new computer so that she could play the new SimCity. I don't have a problem with it but I giggle at her a little.
I met my husband playing a video game HAHA ok now you know something crazy about me. We met playing FFXI (final fantasy 11 online) - the story is on my blog http://kaleenamariagonzales.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-i-met-bill.html - Now we play WOW or Aion while he works (since he works from home and isn't always crazy busy - though sometimes he is)
I have heard the new Sim City is pretty cool. I wished they made an Ubuntu version I would definitely get it for my hubby. (Not sure if it would work with Wine)...I was hooked on the Sims for awhile too but didn't like Sims 3 as much as Sims 2 and both were kinda buggy on my computer...plus with three kids I rarely have time for games, lol. (Unless it's one of theirs of course!) But it is fun!
Jordan found a cheap, and still legal, copy of SimCity from India, although I believe they are "sold out" now. I'm not going to admit how long we played last night, except that when we finally looked at the clock we were a bit shocked...
Kaleena, that's a great story! I met my first husband playing a MUD in the mid-90s... those were text-based RPGs, and are mostly dead now since they're boring compared to real ones. lol That didn't last, but we live and learn.
And my sister met her husband on WoW.
Kaleena, its so so so cute I had a boyfriend I met on a RPG forum a looooong time ago, but the distance and the fact that I was so young tore us apart. I first met my hubby at a Lord of the Rings fan club, however :p
My hubby and I met online too. We met over a bbs nearly 20 years ago now. @Brandi, it's funny you should mention MUDs, my husband plays on them all the time still. He prefers old school I guess. I never really like RPGs, much to my husband chagrin.
A BBS Heather? That is AWESOME!
MUDs were fun too though most people now wouldn't think that way as they have only ever known the more modern version of rpgs.
Kaleena, I'm surprised you know what a BBS is.. no one ever does. I could never grasp what a MUD really was. I tried to make an account on time, just not my thing, I guess. My husband doesn't get into any of the newer RPGs at all. It is kind of funny that he tends to be the opposite of everyone else.
The last time I checked, the Mac version of SimCity still wasn't available, but I will probably get it when it is! I too met my husband in a "game" - we met in Second Life. Neither of us plays anymore. We moved on to WoW, and he's since moved on to Guild Wars 2 and I've become so immersed in the digi scrap world I rarely play games, but if I do, its Sims 3.
It's kind of funny, when I met my first husband online and we got married in 1997, people thought it was weird to meet people online like that. Now, it's almost common! Though my second (and current, permanent) husband was met at work. lol
I met my husband at a chicken judging contest, just tell people that and they'll think online is totally normal in comparison!
I would play the new SimCity ... but I'm still pretty busy with the Sims 3. And scrapbooking. And browsing PixelScrapper. And searching out new GIMP tutorials. And cooking. Anyway, if I could sleep less, I would be playing SimCity, yes!
I'm not good at eye/hand coordination when it comes to games that require controllers. Ruby, the little 7 year old down the street used to come over to the house to play a game with me, because she could beat me every time. My grandson was about the same age when I remember him taking the controller from me during a game of Donkey Kong, telling me "Here Grandma, let me help you get to the next level.".........I admire those that can play the many types of fascinating games out there. There are times that I wish I was a young person in the graphics industry, creating the amazing graphics for those games.
It's fun to hear all these stories about people meeting online. I know it's a common phenomenon, but I don't think I really knew anyone who had actually done it before.
SimCity Update: Last night my city had a nuclear melt down....
Uh oh, Marisa, that CAN'T be good. Time for your citizens to go green!


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United suffered a 2-1 loss at Old Trafford against second-placed Manchester City on Monday, but still boast a 12-point lead at the summit.
Sir Alex Ferguson's side paid the price for a downturn in form last season as they were pipped to the title by their rivals on the final day.
Reflecting on the pain of last season's failure and looking ahead to this term's run-in, Valencia has stressed the need for focus as they seek to wrap up a 20th league title.
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That wasn't the story. The story continues to be Bruce Rondon.
Rondon, 22, burst onto the scene after last year when the Tigers chose not to retain veteran closer Jose Valverde. They pretty much put the ball in Rondon's hands despite the fact he had pitched less than 56 innings in the high minors, almost all of that in Double-A.
While this left at least some baseball people scratching their heads, the Tigers seemed confident that Rondon's 100 mph fastball would play as well in Detroit as it did in Erie and Toledo. The team felt making him the closer was a calculated risk worth taking.
That pretty much made Rondon the most watched player in camp, and when he struggled early, those who hang on every pitch and every at bat in the imitation baseball that is spring training began wondering 'Is he done?'
Friday, Rondon was on the mound against the Mets, and while he allowed two hits, he also struck out two while flashing his 100 mph fastball in his one inning of work. So then the question became 'Is he back?'
But perhaps the real question should have been 'Was he ever away?'
The decision makers in the Detroit organization never seemed concerned; they were in the eye of the hurricane that others had swirling around Rondon.
"I didn't get excited when he gave up some hits and I'm not getting excited over one scoreless inning," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said after Rondon's latest outing.
"He did what he was doing at the end of last year," Jeff Jones, Detroit's pitching coach said. "He wasn't using his legs. He wasn't turning. He was too upright and that changed his arm angle more to the side. I thought he looked very comfortable today (Friday)."
Truth is, the Tigers are pretty much committed to Rondon based on what he did in real games last year and there's not much he can do in the spring that will change that.
Start judging players based on spring performance and you're asking for trouble.
Last year, arguably the two best hitters on the team in the spring were Ryan Raburn and Brennan Boesch and because of that, many were predicting great things in the regular season. That didn't happen.
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by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:09 pmClick on images to enlarge in most cases.
Trek stuff. original ship designs and such:
USS Republic/Archer-Class:
Republic in ice rings:
USS Dauntless (I wanted to make something that looked almost like a race-car...):
Master Systems display (an Okudagram) for the Republic:
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Non Trek ships, original designs:
by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:10 pmimages for a Knights of the Old Republic fanfic I was writing before Leland Chee and Sue Rostoni went and made Revan officially male...
The Ebon Hawk (the way i wanted to design it):
From a superhero RPG campaign I ran, which mixed elements from Marvel and DC settings:
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Cover to halloween issue of "American Icon", featuring Medusa:
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by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:12 pmCommission: "MarDun"
by S.F. Jude Terror » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:13 pmWow, I didn't even know you were an artist Strict - how did you make these? Digital?
by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:14 pm
"Venture into the Abyss" (click on the thumbnail to see the larger pic)
Some background info:
The Venture Society is a group of explorers composed of Earth heroes, scientists and privatized soldiers. Some years ago, they discovered a massive artifact called the "Spindle", believed to be created by some long lost alien civilization. It is a vast cylinder, several hundred miles in diameter which stretches the entire length of the galaxy. The structure itself is a shell built around a cosmic string. The intense gravitational field of the string allows an orbiting vessel to reach speeds far in excess of light.
The Spindle is the largest object in the galaxy. Possibly the universe, and it is now where Venture bases their operations.
The primary members are:
-Jehanne Pucelle: once known as Joan of Arc. An immortal warrior and heroine who can heal any injury. Not even immolation can keep her down for long. She is a founding member.
-Doctor Infinity: an atlantean who fought alongside the Allies during WWII, and one of the greatest minds on Earth. He came out of a secluded retirement in his secret mountain fortress to join the Venture Society at jehanne's behest.
-Steel: a sentient android created by the now-dead hero once known as the Rifleman. This powerful living machine carries the famed weapon of his creator in memory of a fallen hero.
Solaris: One of the founding members of the Hypermen, she was thought long dead. But the nuclear-powered Hybrid had evolved into a higher form of life and became a living sun, roaming free among the stars.
--Dr. Renee Scott: granddaughter of Franklin Scott, the Rifleman. She bears her grandfather's stellar genius and knack with machines, and grew up alongside his android creation, Steel. She knows his systems better than anyone and he convinced her to join him in the venture Society.
The Villains:
-The Lamashtu: a demoness of tremendous power and ancient evil. She claims to be the heir to the power of the fallen mother of evil, Tiamat, and is a long-standing foe of Jehanne.
--Qingu: The monstrous son of Tiamat and consort to the Lamashtu. He is the general of the dark armies that comprise the Children of Tiamat.
In this picture, Lamashtu and Qingu have lured Jehanne and her teammates to the fould and berren planetoid which once served as a prison for Tiamat's sleeping form, and which is now the resting place of Great Wyrm's fossilized bones. The two demonic creatures are obviously spoiling for a fight, but even though the Venture Expedition Team outnumbers the monsters, Jehanne is wary. For with the cunning Lamashtu, nothing is ever as it appears..
by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:17 pm
I draw them with pencil and paper and then scan them in to photoshop.
Before i was able to...acquire...photoshop, I worked completely on the page, coloring, inking and shit by hand. Learning digital inking and digital coloring I thought, would have been easier. But it's really not. It's just cheaper in terms of materials...
by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:19 pmSame Kotor character from above:
The finished version:
"Prodigal: Final Revalation" Read the story too!
by S.F. Jude Terror » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:22 pm
Damn. Nice work. Pedi is the world's biggest advocate of digital inking and coloring - he does everything in Flash, the bastard. I hate him for his girly Flash obsession.
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by Strict31 » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:37 pm
The only thing that's kkeping them from being totally digital is that I have no talent at drawing things directly into photoshop with my Wacom. So, like I said, i do the line art with pencil and paper, scan that in. Then, I do the digital inking. Then the digital coloring. After the flat colors are laid out, I use the shading i did on paper as a guideline for the shading and high lights of the digital colors.
After that, the scanned pencils are removed from the stack of layers, and I flatten the whole thing down into a more portable file.
I used to have such scorn for digital coloring, thinking it was like cheating. Until I tried it myself. It's still an ongoing, learning process...about seven...eight years since I first started digital coloring, maybe?
by AntiLogic » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:19 pm
Uh...................... I only do inking and flash animations in flash......... all my digital "painting" is done in Photoshop.... but a long while ago, I started the digital paintings in Painter 5.
You're an angry little terror.
by superfictious » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:31 amNice. Very nice indeed.
by Jonathan » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:30 pmDamn, Strict - you're awesome!
by prozacman » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:10 pmGood work! Like the coloring on the characters. Keep them coming!
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Its not just that Thom the whole Metro UI is completely inconsistent with the rest of the OS, things will be in one area of the desktop and a different area in metro for no good reason, you have a completely new UI but little to nothing telling you what this or that actually DOES and trying to use search to get the answer is pointless since you have to know what the MSFT terminology is for what you are doing which if you know that you'll know where to find it.
Check out the little animated video i linked to earlier, he lays out all the problems better than I ever could, I would merely add I had no trouble picking up Android, iOS, Linux, etc but Win 8 with its lack of context or explanation made me give up in frustration, yes its THAT bad.


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infojustice.org reports that Bill 510 has been approved by the Congress and is now awaiting approval from the executive branch. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ricardo Quijano, seemed pleased with its passage through Congress:
[Wi]th the implementation of this new Act, our country [Panama] is being upgraded within the international and global context.Marcela Palacia Puerta (writing for infojustice.org) queries whether the Minister's statement is correct:
Is the Minister of Commerce right? Are the international standards implemented by this Act? This Act gives extraordinary power to the administrative organism in charge of the registration, storage, monitoring and inspection of copyright, allowing it to impose fines on infringers, violating the general principles of law as "non bis in idem" and "presumption of innocence". Can impartiality and justice lead a process of imposing fines, when the beneficiaries of the fines are the functionaries of the organism itself?Puerta is right. No other country has given the copyright office this sort of unchecked power before. Granting itself the leeway to directly pursue infringers and add the fees collected to the bonus pool is unprecedented. To be sure, "international standards" are being implemented, many of them at the behest of the US government (itself acting at the behest of the MPAA and the US Chamber of Commerce). The worst parts of US copyright law were signed into effect late last year and Panama seems to have taken the "free trade agreement" as a jumping off point, rather than the illogical extreme it actually is.
Rather belatedly, Congressman Jose Blandon asked to make the Act public to "avoid distrust within the population about this law." Well, it's the afterthought that counts, I suppose, but transparency means allowing the public to participate well before the final step of the legislation process. At this point, the bill is two-thirds passed and any input will likely be too little, far too late.


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The next few months are booked out with regatta racing for the highly competitive Australian Melges 32 fleet.
Kicking off the racing was last weekends inaugural Gosford Regatta, hosted by Gosford Sailing Club. The Melges 32s competed in eight races over the two days in light and variable breeze on beautiful Brisbane Waters. Another close series for the fleet, and on completion of day one, Kim Williams' Rock and Roll was two points ahead leading the regatta.
Gosford Sailing Club is home to two Melges 32s, the most recent members of the fleet, Michael Turner's Stitch and brothers John McDougall and Andrew McDougall (Club President) owners of Mac, all have been watching the success and growth of the national Australian Melges 32 fleet and have now joined the fun.
The crew on board the McDougall's Mac are still finding their feet and this was their first regatta after taking delivery of their boat late last year.
Gosford Sailing Club has been very supportive in providing the event and promoting the class. Next month the Melges 32s will be holding their second Australian Championship off Pittwater. Throughout the season the Gosford crews have the option to race with the Pittwater fleet on Broken Bay, they will be fighting to take the Championship Title back to GSC.
One hot contender for the championship title who has been putting in plenty of Melges 32 racing, kicking off their season at Hamilton Island is Canberra sailor Angus Reid and his crew on Maxstar. Maxstar had a successful day two of racing at Gosford and upset Rock and Roll winning the extremely close regatta by one point.
Kim Willliams Rock and Roll will be eager to avenge Maxstar at the next event to test the Melges 32s; the Sydney Harbour Regatta 10-11 March at Middle Harbour Yacht Club, followed by the Championships RPAYC and Sail Port Stephens in April.


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Repeatedly imagining the consumption of a food reduces one's appetite for it at that moment, said lead researcher Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The full article:For the study, published in the Dec. 10 issue of Science, Morewedge's team conducted five experiments. In one, 51 individuals were asked to imagine doing 33 repetitive actions, one at a time. A control group imagined putting 33 coins into a washing machine. Another group imagined putting 30 quarters into the washer and eating three M&Ms. A third group imagined feeding three quarters into the washer and eating 30 M&Ms.
The individuals were then invited to eat freely from a bowl of M&Ms. Those who had imagined eating 30 candies actually ate fewer candies than the others, the researchers found.
To be sure the results were related to imagination, the researchers then mixed up the experiment by changing the number of coins and M&Ms. Again, those who imagined eating the most candies ate the fewest.
In three additional experiments, Morewedge's group confirmed that imagining the eating reduced actual consumption through a process known as habituation. Simply thinking about the food repeatedly or imagining eating a different food did not significantly influence consumption, the researchers also found.
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Sound familiar? To me sounds a lot like the reflection Buddha tells us to do before we act in order to develop right action, and in regards to the 4 noble truths.
This is like when I get an urge to play video games, I think about playing the game and finishing the game, by the time I'm done thinking finishing the game, I think "what's the point?" and don't start playing the video game.


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The Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) applicable to educational institutions are defined in OMB Circular A21, Cost Principles for Educational Institutions. It is a set of 19 standards issues by the United States Government to achieve uniformity and consistency in the cost accounting practices governing the measurement, assignment and allocation of costs to contracts with the United States. One of the 19 is 9905.502, consistency in allocating costs incurred for the same purposes. The purpose of this standard is to require that each type of cost is allocated only once and on only one basis (direct and F&A costs) to any sponsored agreement. Exceptions to 9905.502 are commonly referred to as CAS exceptions.
What are the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)?
The Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) applicable to educational institutions are defined in OMB Circular A-21 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_a021_2004 ). This Circular establishes principles for determining costs applicable to grants, contracts, and other agreements with educational institutions. The principles are designed to provide that the Federal Government bear its fair share of total costs, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, except where restricted or prohibited by law. A primary purpose is to require that each type of cost is allocated consistently, only once and on only one basis (direct or F&A) to any sponsored agreement. Exceptions to this regulation are commonly called CAS exceptions.
What is the difference between direct and F&A costs?
Facilities and Administration (F&A) – sometimes referred to as indirect costs, or overhead are real costs incurred in support of sponsored programs. They represent the costs of doing business that are not easily identifiable with any single project. Examples of F&A costs include buildings, electricity, utilities, and administrative research support.
Direct costs can be assigned fully to a specific project with a high degree of accuracy. Direct costs include: salaries for faculty, technicians and students; fringe benefits; human subject incentives; animal costs; consultant pay and scientific supplies.
Who decided which costs will be charged to direct and which are F&A?
The decision is based on Emory's approved F&A rate proposal as well as the Disclosure Statement (DS-2) that outlines and explains which costs will be consistently charged to direct and F&A categories.
My former university allowed this cost to be charged as a direct cost, why won¿t Emory?
Each university must abide by its own approved DS-2 and F&A rate agreements. Therefore, what may be allowed at one university is not necessarily allowable at another.
Is it possible for a cost normally charged as F&A to be charged as a direct cost to a project?
Yes, in certain circumstances expenditures normally charged to F&A may be charged as a direct cost to a project. For the cost to be directly charged there must be circumstances that are different that those which normally classify the charge as F&A. When an unlike circumstance meets this criteria it is called a CAS exception.
Examples of activities that might have unlike circumstances are:
What are examples of acceptable/unacceptable CAS exceptions?
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"It's pretty much a brick," says Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison as he rejects a Samsung Chromebook brought in by an actor playing a customer. Microsoft really doesn't want you buying this thing.
But why? Just how big of a threat are Chromebooks, Google's oft-ridiculed web-only laptops, to Microsoft's core business?
I'm puzzled too. It doesn't seem like Chromebooks are that big of a threat - why create terrible advertisements that only provide Google with free publicity?
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Insurance and Pricing as Gateways to Changing the Health Experience
Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source, software engineering, and health IT, but his editorial output has ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. His articles have appeared often on EMR & EHR and other blogs in the health IT space. Andy also writes often for O'Reilly's Radar site (http://oreilly.com/) and other publications on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM, and DebConf.
"So why are you partnering with insurers and employers?" I asked the staff at Maxwell Health, who had just been regaling me with an expansive vision of consumer-centered health and transparency. Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Vinay Gidwaney laid out a view that's in line with everything reformers ask for: a long-range view of health care that guides people to proper health at home and not just in the clinic, giving the consumers choices along with the information to let them make good ones, etc. The kind of health system Maxwell Health aims at will be totally different from what we have now–and the current actors will have to change or vanish as it comes into being.
But of course I knew why Maxwell Health is dealing with insurers and employers. In our health care system, you must join the guild to hang your street sign. Before you can get access to the consumer, you need access to the professional organizations with whom the health consumer interacts. Individuals may download one or two of the many thousands of available health and fitness apps, but few people stick with them–or with the fitness devices that carve their behavior into eternal records in the cloud.
Although doctors complain that they can't change people's behavior, people are more likely to adopt technology if it is recommended by their doctor, their insurer, or even the government. Furthermore, payment models have to reward the right things, or people will continue to engage in risky behaviors and costs will continue to expand.
So Maxwell Health has found a business model on the insurance side of health care's multi-faceted polygon. Through this they hope to reach the consumer and create change.
Another company I met at the Health 2.0 Boston hackathon, a week after talking to Maxwell Health, is making a related play in order to prosper in the health care market. PokitDok offers health care appointments on both a pay-per-visit basis and using health insurance. To this end, they have relationships with both health care providers and insurers. They can be used by any individual consumer, whereas Maxwell Health deals with people through their employers. A PokitDok API allows developers to create apps that have access to prices, providers, insurers, referrals, etc.
Let's start with Maxwell Health. Their salient feature is "bundles" of health care options offered as benefits packages by employers, organized around a core of the insurance plans their staff can choose from. Maxwell Health can direct an employee to an appealing insurance package–for instance, one for people near retirement, another for a young couple about to have a baby. Benefits administrators create personas (hypothetical types of employee) around demographics such as age, income, and family status, then create bundles to offer to employees around these differences. Anyone who has tried to seriously compare his insurance options knows what a headache it is to figure them out. Medicare Advantage is a daunting market, and while no employer has such a large number of choices, they have enough to make the decision a nail-biter. I had trouble just choosing my tax-free flexible spending amounts each year, until the law changed this year and let employees roll unspent money forward. Maxwell Health hopes to turn benefit choices into an experience as appealing, well-integrated, easy as a good online retail shop.
While choosing an insurance plan, employees are prompted also to sign up for services that may help them with their health needs: fitness devices, coaching services, emergency day care, meal delivery services, etc. Bundles also contain services that benefits coordinators think would interest employees with a given persona.
The customer can also load apps from Maxwell Health that help them find services. For instance, they have a contract with Doctor on Demand, a popular telemedicine site. (This one-time telemedicine service is a convenience, not a replacement for developing a relationship with a provider who has a broad knowledge of the consumer and family.) Another service lets employees can take a picture of a confusing medical bill and contact an expert to explain and even change the bill.
On the back end, Maxwell Health provides typical web-based services to benefits administrators, making it easier for them to carry out their routine tasks such as determining participation in plans by employees and tracking the use of services. As PR and marketing associate Meg Murphy says, benefits administrators "can throw away their fax machine."
The company's solution requires a lot of work at each employer, but the insurance broker is well positioned to work with each employer to represent the benefits correctly, suggest new benefits, and serve up the benefits through the Web and mobile devices. In addition to its close work with insurers, Maxwell Health also lets fitness devices stream data to a Maxwell Health mobile app. This app has three overall parts: a virtual insurance ID card for every insurance plan in which the employee is enrolled, a wellness program with connections to fitness devices and rewards, and a healthcare concierge who handle requests like the confusing bill already mentioned.
Now for PokitDok. The simplest part of their offering is an app helping consumers find doctors for individual fee-for-service procedures. A consumer can search for the medical procedure he needs and book an appointment through the service. PokitDok determines fees through a rather labor-intensive process (calling the doctors) as well as by checking actual prices paid in the past. The web site guides the user by showing a range of possible insurance costs (low, median, and high).
Once the user chooses a provider and books a procedure, PokitDok charges the posted fee and collects the money online. Hence, the welter of health care costs is managed by simply making each provider advertise his fee (already quite a break from the standard health market in the US.) PokitDok therefore includes a degree of transparency for its providers that Clear Health Costs provides through crowdsourcing for a wide range of popular tests and procedures.
But PokitDok also allows patients to pay through insurance. This is a much steeper challenge. Insurance reimbursements vary from doctor to doctor, plan to plan, and employer to employer. Nor do most of the actors in this masquerade want to reveal their prices and the yawning ranges they span. So PokitDok, once again, checks prices paid in the past to estimate the low, median, and high cost for insurance coverage. The user can also specify one or more insurers when searching for a procedure.
It's interesting that John Riney, coder and technical evangelist at PokitDok, described their essential goal in terms very similar to those used by Maxwell Health representatives: let's turn the search for health care into a consumer experience as simple and satisfying as good retail shopping.
Right now, the main actors in the health care space maintain silos. The new players like Maxwell Health and PokitDok feel the way most of us in the health movement feel: they would prefer an open ecosystem where the parts work together and anybody can sign up to play. Piggybacking on a complex payment system set up decades ago may be the necessary focal point on which new companies can press the lever of change.


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After 22 years in the making, Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure will officially open Friday at Disney California Adventure.
"The attraction has been worked on quite a bit since the film came out," said Lisa Girolami, Imagineering's senior show producer for the new ride. "We just needed to wait until the technology was able to catch up and really deliver the ride we wanted."
Photos: Concept art for the Little Mermaid dark ride
Over the years, the ride went through several iterations, including a version shown in the 2006 DVD release of the movie that featured an overhead ride system similar to Peter Pan's Flight atDisneyland. (Ultimately, Imagineering went with a Haunted Mansion "Doom Buggy"-style ride vehicle.)
At each stage of development, Imagineers cut songs ("Les Poissons"), characters (Ariel's mermaid sisters) and story lines (the father-daughter relationship of Triton and Ariel) to focus the 5 1/2-minute ride on Ariel's journey.
"In the end, seven of the 11 scenes were restaged, including the last two scenes, which were changed the most," said Larry Nikolai, Imagineering's show designer and creative director for the ride. "The last scene we added was Ursula's defeat."
Related: Scene-by-scene preview of the Little Mermaid dark ride
From the very beginning, Imagineers knew the movie's Oscar-winning soundtrack would play a central role in the ride.
"What we did was stay true to the songs in the film because we knew those would immediately resonate with the guests," said John Dennis, who served as music director for the ride. "The orchestral score is inspired by the film using the same musical vernacular. Those themes still bring goose bumps when I hear them played."
The challenge was relying on the music to tell the familiar story, with Scuttle the seagull providing only a brief prologue and epilogue.
"We had to distill each song down to the moment that delivered best on storytelling," said Dennis, who often had to snip musical loops down to 20 seconds. "A lot of times we had just enough time to deliver a verse and the chorus."
Where the music forced Imagineers to compress time, the ride's audio-animatronics presented a similar challenge in the form of limited space. To make Ariel's fingers and hands move, technicians had to run animatronic wiring through her waif-like wrist.
"She's probably the most complicated audio-animatronic character we've ever done," said Girolami, who started with Imagineering in the mid-1980s. "She's this tiny little thing. You don't have a lot of room with her."
At 9 inches tall with a head the size of a golf ball, Sebastian the singing crab proved even more daunting. Imagineers installed tiny rear-projection systems in his eyes to make the animatronic character seem more lifelike.
"The eyes are the most important thing on a character. That's what people are always drawn to," said Nikolai, who worked on Splash Mountain atDisneyland and the Monsters Inc. dark ride at California Adventure. "His eyes can do anything we want him to do. They can blink, change expression and look all around."
But the restrictions of time and space are what drive Imagineers, Disney's creative arm. Even if it takes 22 years.
"We never say never," said Girolami, who has worked in the movie industry and as a novelist. "That's what's exciting about working at Imagineering. We're always saying, 'That's never been done before, but we're going to do it.'"
An identical version of the ride, called Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid, is expected to open in 2013 at the Magic Kingdom in


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How new Red Hat solutions will change your business - News from the Red Hat Summit 2012
In the Red Hat kick off webinar, you will view highlights from the exciting Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 in Boston.
At this year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, your peers in attendance enjoyed 150+ information packed sessions around a range of topics like cloud strategy, development tools, cost savings, performance analysis, product overviews and more.
Watch this webcast for a high-level overview of similar key topics, each of which has its own in-depth webinar offering a deep dive into the specific technologies.
SpeakersSteve Gaines Head of Middleware, Red Hat, UK
Steve Gaines is tasked with managing the company's JBoss business in the UK. This includes driving adoption in new verticals, with a particular focus on financial services. Steve has over 25 years experience working in the IT software industry. Prior to joining Red Hat, he held the positions of Technical Director at both Silverstream Software and Novell. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool. He enjoys playing the saxophone, astronomy and Android development.Frederik Bijlsma EMEA Cloud Business Unit Manager, Red Hat
Prior to his current role, Frederik has worked in Red Hat's Presales Organisation for Linux and Systems Management Areas and in Sales for JBoss Middleware. After having worked with Open Source & Linux since 1994, in late 1999 Frederik joined Delix, the company producing the German Linux Distribution DLD, later acquired by Red Hat to found its German business. He has earned a Master Degree in Business Administration specialising in Finance and information systems from Goethe University Frankfurt.Thomas Trainer Product marketing manager, Red Hat Storage
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X-Arcade Solo Review
When gaming the right peripheral can make all the difference. Whether you play a console or a PC there are many options to consider for a controller. Price is one point to make but so is functionality. Functionality is always needed in any situation but the type of functionality you need is always different depending on what your game is. Maybe for instance you like Arcade Fighters such as Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat or maybe several fighters. What if I told you that you could have the genuine arcade experience in the comfort of your home? Xgaming offers just such a device with their X-Arcade Solo. This product provides the genuine look and feel of a true arcade setup making it the peripheral of choice if you love arcade fighters but do not like to play them on a keyboard or game controller. The X-Arcade is quite special though in how well it works with emulators on the PC such as Mame, and it's also capable of working with consoles such as the PS3, PS2, Xbox (360), and GameCube/Wii though an adapter which can be ordered with the device or separately should you need it. So how well does the X-Arcade Solo do its job? Let's find out.
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Upon first examining the X-Arcade Solo we are met with a rather stylized box featuring a window and also sporting a compatibility list for several consoles and the PC. Additionally, we can see the device carries a Lifetime warranty. Moving on to the side of the box we are met with several points the product makes including that you can relive the arcade experience at home and that this product features an authentic arcade feel with authentic arcade parts. The buttons on it are also programmable and the unit features 4 switchable programmable modes. It also mentions supporting any console. Moving on to the back of the box, we have several points also made here about the product and additionally awards the product has received over its existence which must be pretty long considering it mentions Tech TV. The biggest claim that seems to be made here is that this is the highest rated arcade controller available. Finally moving onto the front of the box we have some more of the same that was on the back of the box which also makes some mentions of the different organizations that gave the thumbs up to the product and some more quotes from them.
There isn't a whole lot to see on the bottom other than some filler. However upon opening the box there is much to see. Here we have our wonderful X-Arcade solo sandwiched between to pieces of styrofoam as well as two pieces of a cardboard packing material.
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The Florida House and Senate have rejected Gov. Rick Scott's plan to cut $7.5 million in state funding for epilepsy programs around the state.
The budget cut could have impacted some 5,700 Floridians, including 630 clients served by the Epilepsy Services of Southwest Florida in Sarasota, which covers an eight-county region including Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties.
In his $74.2 billion budget proposal, Scott had recommended eliminating the $7.5 million, saying the state funding was "duplicative" and that the services could be provided by others, including 52 federally qualified health services, health-care taxing districts and social service providers like the United Way or "various health care foundations and other public and private sources."
But the epilepsy advocates _ who are part of a statewide network of nonprofit groups — Florida Epilepsy Service Providers — disputed that. They said the cuts would have a devastating impact on Floridians who are dealing with epilepsy but who have little or no insurance or who can't get treatment through Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor.
Without state funding, the advocates predicted many of those now being served by the network would end up without regular treatment and anti-epilepsy medication and need more costly emergency rooms or hospital beds.
A patient who had to visit an emergency room more than twice a year could end up costing some $13,750 as opposed to the $891 annual cost for clients in the network, according to the advocates.
In budget plans advanced Wednesday, House and Senate leaders agreed to keep the funding.
"It's much more cost effective to continue it," said Sen. Denise Grimsley, R-Sebring, who oversees the health care budget in the Senate. "That's a tough population to manage. If they lose their services, it winds up costing the state more money in the long run."
A similar decision was made by the House health care appropriations subcommittee headed by Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples.
House Appropriations Chairman Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, said Hudson had questioned the wisdom of the cut when the governor's aides presented the proposal to the House budget committee earlier this year. Hudson had asked for further justification for the reduction, although it was never forthcoming.
"I can't understand why that makes sense," McKeel said about the proposed reduction.
"We think that in addition to being the right thing to do, it's also the cost-effective thing to do," McKeel said about continuing the $7.5 million program.
Art Jackman, president of Epilepsy Services of Southwest Florida, said he was delighted by the decision of the legislative leaders to support the funding.
"We are thrilled and grateful for the overwhelming support of both the House and Senate," Jackman said. " We strongly encourage the governor to approve the funding for the people in dire need of the effective and much needed treatment provided by the epilepsy program."


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MONTREAL -- CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty tells this joke about two Irishmen:
Flanagan, drunk, is walking through the village with his front door when Murphy sees him and asks: "Flanagan, what are you doing with a front door?"
"I lost the key and I'm taking this one down to the locksmith to get another one cut," Flanagan says.
"You'd better not lose the door," says Murphy, "or you won't be able to get back in."
"I thought about that," Flanagan says, "so I left a window open."
Feherty's wit and self-deprecating humour, each relentless, left a packed house at Montreal's Rialto Theatre in stitches for almost two hours Monday night.
The 53-year-old native of Bangor, Northern Ireland, brought his show, The World According to David Feherty, here to support fundraising efforts for the Cedars Cancer Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.
Feherty arrived less than 24 hours after having followed Tiger Woods to victory in the AT&T National at Congressional outside Washington, D.C., on Sunday, and one of his first stops was the mammoth MUHC construction site of the new mega-hospital facility.
Impressed by what he saw and heard from officials about the project, he later remarked that Americans, given the state of health care in the U.S., would no doubt start streaming into Montreal for medical attention.
Feherty truly is a funnyman, but what's even more evident is that he is a survivor of a past life with far more valleys than peaks, a fact that came through time and again amid his lightning-quick wit and intriguing storytelling.
Feherty is a Dallas resident and the host of Feherty, which is in its second season as the most popular television show on the Golf Channel. He battled alcohol and addiction to an array of drugs for years, topping out with two-and-a-half bottles of whiskey and 40 doses of the painkiller Vicodin a day.
His track record of substance abuse began some years after he turned pro with a 5-handicap at age 17, the day he walked out of a high school geography class because "learning about the average rainfall in Western Soma wasn't going to be (expletive) useful."
Even after turning pro, Feherty worked many jobs to make ends meet. He delivered newspapers, tended bar and worked in the pro shop at the Hollywood Golf Club in Belfast. His carelessness led to him accidentally burning down the pro shop soon after, although he wasn't under the influence at the time.
Despite the vices he developed, Feherty proceeded to have a successful career, winning 10 tournaments, including the 1986 Scottish Open after which in a drunken stupor he managed to lose the oldest trophy in professional sport.
"It's about 45 years older than the British Open (Claret Jug), they give you the trophy for three months and I had it less than three hours before I lost it," Feherty said. "It's not one of those dramatic stories where a wee dog finds it in a hedge because it's still friggin' lost. Gone.
"All I know is that there were two members of Led Zeppelin involved and a train to London," he said.
Feherty was hired by CBS Sports as an on-course reporter in 1995 and while he was always sober on camera, he finally hit rock bottom in June 2006 while in Prince Edward Island to tape a TV special with golf legends Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.
"I was interviewing Tom and, off camera, Watson said: 'You're not well are you?' I was at the depth of my depression and sickness from alcoholism and said: 'How do you know?'
"Watson said: 'I can see it in your eyes,'" Feherty said. "When I asked what he saw, he said: 'My reflection.'
"I didn't know that Tom had a problem and Jack flew me back to West Palm Beach (on his private jet) and then on to Kansas City where I spent a couple of days with Tom (going to AA meetings)," Feherty said. "I've been sober ever since."
Feherty, whose new-found addiction -- lengthy pre-dawn cycling jaunts -- has led to several brushes with death, says he wouldn't be where he is today if people close to him had not cared and now it's his turn to return the favour.
He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in February 2010 and developed a deep admiration for American troops seriously wounded in combat missions abroad and holds several outings for them every year.
"There were a lot of people who would rather throw themselves under a bus than see me do it," he said. "Being open about (my experiences) is incredibly therapeutic for me. I feel like I might be helping somebody else because I really screwed up my life."
He said it: "Everyone playing golf should swear sometimes. If you don't swear, there's something wrong with you. The name of the Lord is invoked many more times on a Sunday on a golf course than it is in church. It's His fault really, and I firmly believe the game was invented by the Irish and given to the Scots as a joke and they took it seriously." -- David Feherty.
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Coast Guard Readiness: Examining Cutter, Aircraft, and Communications Needs
Transcript of Hearing
Opening Statements
Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
Hearing on Coast Guard Readiness: Examining Cutter, Aircraft, and Communications Needs
June 26, 2013
Opening Statement
(Remarks as Prepared)
The Coast Guard's effort to recapitalize its aircraft, vessels and communications systems has suffered through some dark days. Fortunately, under the leadership of Admiral Papp and his predecessor, Admiral Allen, the program has turned the corner and the Service is finally taking delivery of new and improved assets in a cost-effective manner.
Unfortunately, just as the men and women of the Coast Guard are finally getting the new and improved assets promised them nearly 20 years ago, the President is proposing a budget that will set the program back another 15 to 20 years.
The President guts the Coast Guard's acquisition budget, cutting it by 42 percent below the current level. The President's request proposes to terminate or delay the acquisition of critically needed replacement assets. This will increase acquisition costs for taxpayers, place further strain on the Service's aging and failing legacy assets, exacerbate growing capability gaps, and seriously degrade mission effectiveness.
As this Subcommittee has continually highlighted, the Coast Guard currently operates tens, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of hours short of its operational targets. This means assets are not there for the Service to conduct drug and migrant interdiction, protect our environment, secure our ports, and ensure the safety of our waterways. For instance, the Coast Guard reported that due largely to its failing legacy assets, it was forced to reduce hours spent conducting drug interdiction activities by 65 percent in recent fiscal years.
The only way to reverse the decline in the Coast Guard's mission performance is to make the necessary investments to acquire new and improved assets. Unfortunately, based on the last couple of budget requests, it appears this Administration refuses to make those investments. If that is the case, then it is time for the President to tell Congress what missions the Coast Guard will no longer conduct. It is simply irresponsible to continue to send our servicemen and women out on failing legacy assets commissioned over 50 years ago and expect them to succeed in their missions.
I thank the witnesses for appearing today and look forward to their testimony.
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Vice Admiral John Currier, Vice Commandant, United States Coast Guard | Written Testimony
Mr. Ronald O'Rourke, Specialist in Naval Affairs , Congressional Research Service | Written Testimony
Dr. Steven Bucci, Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation | Written Testimony
Dr. Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress | Written Testimony


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SummerStage Presents: The New York Neo-Futurists Present Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
Saturday, August 16, 2014
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
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The New York Neo-Futurists are an ensemble of dynamic writer/director/performers who are best known for their critically acclaimed, energetic signature show of original short plays, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Once called "The Snapchat of Theater", with its ever-changing "menu" of plays, TML is a race against the clock to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes in an order determined by the audience! All our plays are presented from a perspective of absolute honesty, do not ask the audience to "suspend their disbelief", and often include audience interactions. A non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental, Too Much Light endeavors to tell dynamic stories while embracing chance, change, and chaos. Developed out of a format that has been a success in Chicago since 1988, the Neo-Futurists put down roots in NYC in the mid 90's and have been growing strong ever since. After a grand re-birth in the city in 2004, NYNF has created over 3300 new plays for Too Much Light, as well as many longer form works, and continues to present award-winning, topical and vital work every weekend at the Kraine Theater and around the New York independent theater community. Sometimes true life really is stranger than fiction...
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2012 Tour Stop #19 - The American RoyalOctober 5, 2012
Since The American Royal is so close to home for Christine and me, we usually schedule a retail stop on the Wednesday afternoon prior to the event to kill two birds with one stone. This year, we loaded into one of the local Sam's Clubs® to dish out samples of Weber® Sauces and Seasonings and Castle Wood Reserve® meats and cheeses. This Sam's Club® was also responsible for the American Royal onsite store and staffed the Sam's Club® tent next to our trailer. Lucky for us, it was the same fantastic group of folks as last year!
Saturday's chill didn't keep the crowds from lining up to sample the Weber® seasoned Smithfield® "rolled" ribs straight off the Big Green Egg®! Saturday was also a big day for the BBQ Hall of Fame with the induction of Johnny Trigg, "the Grandfather of BBQ," Henry Ford for his invention of charcoal and Guy Fieri.
Christine and I had the chance to see the last part of the Invitational awards and were so happy to hear the names of friends along with some new fresh new teams getting calls at one of the biggest and toughest fields on the BBQ circuit!
QUAU took first in Chicken, Bayou Boogie got the call for Ribs, B & B BBQ and Catering won Pork and our buddies at Hog Tide Bar-B-Que won Brisket. That first place brisket call helped Hog Tide Bar-B-Que win third place overall and Iowa's Smokey D's BBQ celebrated their wedding anniversary with a Reserve Grand call. The last call of the day - the American Royal crown and cape, a huge, heavy butcher block trophy and a big old check - went to Big Poppa Smokers!
With Sunday closed to the general public, Christine and I were able to walk around and see The American Royal in its glory before we headed to the Open awards ceremony. "The Dark Side" still maintained carnage of the parties from Friday night. Surprisingly, in the daylight, I still did not know how someone could find their way to their intended party in the dark.
The Smoking Triggers site had quite the commotion going on when we passed by. Johnny Trigg had Guy Fieri and the Motley Que teammates (along with 20 others) snapping pictures and having a grand time. On their way back to their cook site, Guy was gracious enough to sign a picture Christine and I had taken along with him at the "Jack" a couple of years before.
Leading up to awards, it was awesome to watch the Boy Scout color guard bringing in the flags and watch people stand in honor of the national anthem being sung. It was great that BBQ teams with scouts in their family made up the color guard! How cool was that?!
It is always exciting to watch the crowd and see peoples' reactions when they get calls to collect their hard gotten gains. Out of 525 entries, Smoking Joe Barber Q won Chicken, Shake 'n Bake BBQ won Ribs, Spicewine Ironworks won Pork and Big T'z Q Cru continued their brisket domination with a first place brisket win! Texas Pepper Jelly placed 5th overall while Big T'z Q Cru brisket win helped him place 4th overall. Smokey D's Wannabees did fantastic with a 3rd place win. QUAU won Reserve Grand and team Shiggin and Grinnin won Grand Champion.


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Haydn Gwynne, Robert Hardy and Paul Ritter Join Helen Mirren in THE AUDIENCE at Gielgud Theatre, Spring 2013
According to the Daily Mail, Haydn Gwynne has been cast as Margaret Thatcher opposite Helen Mirren as the Queen in Peter Morgan's play The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre. Preview performances begin Feb. 15, with the show's opening slated for March 5, and the run ending June 15, 2013.
"It's both a tempestuous and a surprising relationship," producer Matthew Byam Shaw told the Mail's Baz Bamigboye about the women's characters. "There was surprising empathy between them.
Read the original report here.
Joining Mirren and Gwynne will be Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill and Paul Ritter as John Major. This means Ritter will no longer join The National Theatre's The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time at the Apollo in March. Casting for the roles of Anthony Eden, David Cameron and Gordon Brown have yet to be finalized.
Mirren won an Academy Award for her portrayal in the 2006 film The Queen, written by Peter Morgan. The Audience is also written by Morgan and will be directed by Stephen Daldry, with designer Bob Crowley. Byam Shaw, Robert Fox and Andy Harries produce.
Gwynne appeared alongside Mirren in the West End's Billy Elliot, as well as in the same show on Broadway. Her portrayal earned her a Tony nomination in 2009. She has also taken the stage in the 1993 West End production of City of Angels, as well as Ziegfeld and many productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company.


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Robert Pattinson: Leather Studs for 'L'Uomo Vogue'!
Robert Pattinson wears a leather studded trenchcoat for his spread in L'Uomo Vogue's November 2012 issue, on newsstands November 5.
The 26-year-old actor was photographed by Caitlin Cronenberg, the daughter of his Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg!
In case you missed it, check out Rob's interview for MTV First with his Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. It was his first joint interview with Kristen since their cheating scandal over the summer!
FYI: Rob is wearing a Lanvin trench, Lazaro rings, and Gasoline Glamour accessories.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn.-When the 2013 softball season starts Lipscomb Lady Bisons coach Kristin Ryman doesn't want her players to have "failures to communicate".
It didn't work for Paul Newman in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" and it certainly won't work for the Lady Bisons team that features eight new faces.
After two intrasquad scrimmages Ryman likes what she is seeing, and hearing, on the field.
"We are getting better and better at communications," Ryman said. "And with multiple new players on the field that is always something to work through. I think everyone is starting to figure out their roles a little more.
"Communication is a huge part of the game for anyone on the field. We are just trying to work through that."
Freshman Mickey Bell and junior Haley Elliott are both getting long looks at catcher. How well each one can control a game on the field will be a key.
"For either one of them this will be the first year getting the majority of the time catching," Ryman said. "There is a lot more to catching than just sitting back there and framing and blocking, receiving the ball and throwing people out.
"While they are both good at a lot of those things there is still a lot of work to be done in getting their feet quicker and understanding the game at this level. They have to know how to communicate with the pitchers and know what needs to be said in certain situations. We have been working a lot with them one-on-one. We want them to take it to the next level."
The infield is expected to be the same as last season with junior Kristen Sturdivant at first, senior Kelsey Cartwright at second, junior Bridgette Begle at shortstop and either junior Rena' Cothron or sophomore Gracey Aguirre at third.
"Rena' has been so solid defensively the last two years and her hitting has really improved," Ryman said. "She is making really solid contact right now. She has a great eye at the plate. She is going to work the count. She is a great hitter with two strikes on her which is something that is hard to teach.
"Gracey is a natural. She gets the job done. She has a good arm. She is a good defender. We can't go wrong with either one of them at third."
The outfield situation is less settled. Senior center fielder Bree Thurman, sophomore left fielder Brianne Welch and junior Shelby Cunningham return. But freshmen Brittany Elmore and Heather Montgomery and sophomore transfer Paige Neely are also in the mix. Also getting a look is freshman Dee Baddley.
"We have worked with Paige Neely in both the infield and outfield, but at this point we think she is a better fit in the outfield," Ryman said. "Brittany, Heather and Paige are all very talented and they are all very quick. They just lack some experience.
Four of the seven practicing in the outfield regularly are new. Ryman admits the situation is complicated.
"We are working on the mechanical things like angles and learning how to get the most out of their footwork," Ryman said. "We have to get both of our center fielders, Bree and Paige, to continue to be more vocal and that is something they have been better at the past few days."
The scrimmages have allowed junior transfer Heather Parker, sophomore Ashley Anderson and freshman Tanner Sanders to get in extensive work on the mound.
"Our hitters have been able to see true movement on pitches," Ryman said. "They all three have different looks and that is good for our hitters. We are taking advantage of our live pitching as much as we can."
The Lady Bisons open their season Feb. 8-10 on the road at the Houston Hilton Plaza Classic hosted by the University of Houston.
"We want them to make everything they do be productive in practice," Ryman said. "There are little things that can be done to make practice run smoother like hustling to pick up balls so we can spend more time on the defensive side of things.
"We don't want them to overthink everything they do. We have a really competitive group. Over the next week-and-a-half we want to get into as much of a game mode as we can and try to prepare as best we can for the really good competition we are going to see in Houston."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.