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Siebel Events Management Guide > Defining an Event > Administrator Setup Procedures for Defining an Event >
Updating Lookup Tables
You can enter and maintain some values through LOVs, but you must create other values through tables. The advantage of using tables to enter values is that each company can establish a unique hierarchy and define appropriate values for its business processes.
Populating tables in your Siebel application is a consistent process when setting up Regions, Product Lines, and Session templates, which are described in this section. You can update event-related tables from the Administration - Application screen.
Region Administration
Because Siebel Events Management is only one of many parts of your Siebel application that uses the concept of region, you need to define a regional hierarchy appropriate for your overall business.
There are two region-related fields in Siebel Events Management:
Other parts of the Siebel application use region to indicate the investment focus of your salesmen and their coverage regarding your client companies. Therefore, it is important that you select a region hierarchy that is generic enough to describe event regions, coverage regions, and investment product regions in a single table.
For global or multinational companies, you need to define regional hierarchies that relate to the geographical areas your business serves and in which you conduct events. Application Administrators can manage region hierarchies by performing the following procedure.
To define regional hierarchies
The following list illustrates how multiple regions and areas within regions can be set up in the Region table. For example, your financial institution may define geographies in the following major regions and then areas within a region:
For more information on working with regions, see Siebel Finance Guide.
Period Administration
While some organizations use standard calendar reporting periods, other organizations use fiscal reporting periods. Siebel Business Applications provide flexibility in this area, so organizations can set up periods that make sense for them. For information about period administration, see Siebel Forecasting Guide.
Product Lines for Financial Services Customers
If you are a financial services customer, Siebel Events Management uses the Product Line table to store Asset Classes. You will want to add a row to the table for each relevant asset class associated with a product line from the Product Line Fee view of the Administration - Application screen.
For example, your financial institution may define the following four types of Asset Classes within a Product Line:
For information on Product Administration, see Product Administration Guide.
Adding Session Templates
Siebel Events Management uses Session Templates to store templates for groups of sessions that are similar. For example, all events that take place in London may follow the same sequence of sessions, including the same start times and end times. In this case, you may want to save a London template that contains the same sequence of sessions, which you can reuse each time you host a London event.
Session templates may be used in more than one region, area, or location. You can manage session templates by navigating to the Marketing Templates screen and choosing Session Templates. For more information, see Event Management Process Phases.
The following steps describe a recommended workflow for setting up session templates and the events and sessions that define them.
Table 5 displays sample line items in a session template. For example, your company may define the following one-day event in London as part of a session template.
After you have created an outline for a London session template, you can add typical sessions that occur during your London-based events. Table 6 displays sample sessions within the London session template.
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Mere Angne Mein 21st August 2015 Written Episode Update
Mere Angne Mein 21st August 2015 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
The Episode starts with Amit and Pari being angry and talking against Shivam and Nimmi. Nimmi and Preeti bring Riya and Rani to Raghav's room. He blesses them and asks them to smile and forget that happened. He asks them to rest, have food, and leaves. Sonal says she will get food for them. Sarla cries. Shanti sees her and scolds Bindu a lot. Sarla thinks she won't melt if Shanti takes her side now, she won't forget Shanti did not support her. Renu and Kaushalya look on. Kaushalya takes food for Amit. He says I m not hungry. She asks did she have food. He says yes. She asks him to have juice. He says I had it. Pari says she wants tea, she has headache. Kaushalya says I will get it.
Pari says they are afraid to have anything, as it can have poison. Kaushalya hears this and apologizes
Amit tells Pari that he will not forgive them. Shivam recalls Amit's anger. Kaushalya comes and asks him to have food. He says he is not hungry, and apologizes to her for all the issues. She hugs him and says its fine, you did not do this intentionally. She says Sarla and Amit had bear a lot, wrong happened with them, don't do anything that hurts them, I did not see them so sad till now. He says I just … did this for Riya… She says you could have told to me before, this knot in relations will never open, your dad and I regret a lot. He says I did not wish this. She says yes, don't do anything that hurts them. Raghav comes there and looks on.
Kaushalya asks him and Riya to behave as they are loved by them. Raghav says he will try his best to not let Sarla's hopes break, this time I felt I did injustice with Sarla, what to do, its not anyone's mistake. Kaushalya says what can we do now. They all feel sorry for Sarla.
Raghav says we got old now, as our son got married. He asks him to make his relation with Riya strong, and asks him to take family along always, and not hurt anyone, we will not be there after some time, you have to take family ahead. He says he will get rest now, the bahus are in his room, he will rest on terrace. He leaves. She asks Shivam not to get sad now, as his dad said a big thing, he has to see everything now. She teases him and he says I love you maa, and hugs her. Shanti calls Kaushalya. She leaves. He smiles. Riya asks Nimmi did Shivam had food. The girls tease her. Riya apologizes to Rani. Rani thanks her, as she loves Amit a lot, and did not wish Riya to marry Amit and fought a lot. Rani says it will be easy for Riya and Shivam to keep marriage as they love each other, but Amit does not love me, so its tough. Riya asks her not to worry. Rani says I don't need anyone's help, I m Rani and can help myself.
Kaushalya talks to Bindu. Sarla asks Bindu to leave now. Ashok comes and asks whats this way to talk. Shanti asks him to ask Bindu, she di everything. He asks what did Bindu do. Bindu cries and says she did not say anything. Ashok says calm down, I will drop you home. Sarla says take her, I don't want to see her face. Ashok asks Sarla to stop it now and leaves with Bindu.
Shanti asks Sarla to sit and talk, she has done all this. Sarla says she won't talk, she will go home. Kaushalya asks her to calm down, rest for a while. Shanti taunts Renu and asks why did she not spend much. Renu says she will send nek for everyone. Shanti says you felt I m asking for nek and scolds Kaushalya. Renu says Sarla has not give nek for Shivam's marriage. Sarla says my bahu got a small necklace, will I give nek, its fine, we are poor. Sarla cries and does drama. Shanti gives her some money. She sends Kaushalya to cook. She hugs Sarla and Sarla acts saying she is heartbroken. Sarla taunts her that she did not support her, she is mistaken to think you can be with me. Shanti is shocked and gets angry.
Renu talks to Kaushalya about Sarla's drama. Kaushalya says we did not know Shivam will marry Riya, we could not celebrate for his marriage. She cries and Renu cheers her up. Kaushalya says she will make Shivam and Riya's relation strong. She worries seeing the family situation. Renu pacifies her and asks her to stay strong in this house. Sarla cries and says I did not get anything, it all landed in Kaushalya's fate, you did this joke with me, you chose Shivam over Amit, you are biased, you preferred your son's son.
Shanti holds her hand and drags her to the room. Renu says it looks very silent at home. Kaushalya says leave it. Shanti asks is this my mistake. Sarla says yes, you did this. Shanti asks who was tensed in tilak mistake, you did function cancelled. Sarla lies to her. Shanti says you did all this drama, I m your mum, I have seen everything, you were scared of tilak rasam. I know you have created this misunderstanding. Sarla asks what are you saying. Shanti says I know the truth. Sarla asks what did she do. Shanti says you won't say truth, I will show you who did this. She says you have done all this. Sarla is shocked.
Shanti scares Sarla and asks her to say truth, what about Priya and Riya.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Required for State Funded Contracts
- Any department that utilizes state appropriated funds ("14" Accounts) to pay for contracted services must prepare and maintain on file the following documentation:
- Verification that the department conducted a cost benefit analysis confirming that it is more cost-effective to contract for outside services versus hiring full-time employee(s).
- If the department does not have a written cost benefit analysis, a justification memo must exist that verifies the contract is being entered into because either:
- The work involves a special expertise that is not available in your department and that is not likely to be used again or will only be used on a random basis; or
- The deadline for completing the project is such that the work cannot be completed by full-time employees due to their current workload or the training required.
- The department must also maintain documentation on file describing how the contracted workers relate to the staffing plan of the department's division, area, or college (or the University Strategic Staffing Plan).
- For further information, see the Contract Workforce Requirements available on the Texas State Auditor's Office website:
Departmental Guide for Contract Administration
- Critical Importance of Contract Administration: Upon completion of the procurement process and contract negotiations, the subsequent phase of contracting is administration. Regardless of how well a contract is drafted, the contract will be ineffective if proper contract administration is not performed.
- Ensuring Compliance: As the user department, the department is clearly in the best position to ensure compliance with the contractual requirements. Each departmental administrator's contract responsibilities include:
- verifying that the contractor complies with all of the terms and conditions of the agreement;
- ensuring that all services have been received to your specification prior to authorizing payment; or that all revenue generated pursuant to the terms of the business contract are paid to the University; and
- ensuring the collection of renewal documentation related to any required certificates of insurance, worker's compensation insurance, or performance bonds
- Departmental Guide for Contract Administration: To ensure compliance with proper contract administration, departmental administrators are strongly encouraged to review the guidelines for Department Contract Administration found at Department Guide for Administration of Major Service Contracts.


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Thread: JCameo 0.10
- 05-10-2007, 06:44 PM #1levent Guest
JCameo 0.10
JCameo is a model-driven Swing framework with support for all aspects of GUI development. Key features are a large number of widgets, MVC architecture, data binding, and validation support, as well as message-based communication. It requires Java 1.5.
The second JCameo release in 2007 has seen the light. Compared to earlier versions we have further increased the number of integrated widgets and improved the functionality of already existing widgets. So we have now a new busy label from SwingX, for indicating ongoing work, have integrated the filter features from SwingX for lists and tables, and support auto completion for text fields.
Although the framework is at the moment quite stable, the current version introduces one incompatibility wrt earlier versions. While in earlier versions there was merely a single event for indicating a double-click on list resp. table rows (called row selected), we now distinguish between row selected (single mouse click) and row chosen (double mouse click).
* NEW widget 'BusyLabel' from SwingX
* NEW widget 'Panel' for incorporating non-standard, third-party widgets
* ActionControl can now receive messages which will be resent with the senderId
of the ActionControl itself. Useful when e.g. widget events should trigger an
* Filters
- lists and tables can now be filtered
A filter is defined by means of a FilterController.
* Table
- new methods removeRows(int fromIndex, int toIndex), removeRows(int fromIndex)
- setSortable is now fully working
* TextField
- new method 'setAutoComplete' for enabling autocompletion.
* TitledPanel
- new property 'shadowBorder'
* Table and list events distinguish now between selecting and choosing.
TableEvent.ROW_SELECTED is now TableEvent.ROW_CHOSEN and
ListEvent.ITEM_SELECTED is now ListEvent.ITEM_CHOSEN
Third party upgrades
* upgrade to SwingX 20070415
* upgrade to L2FProd Common Components 7.3
* upgrade to JGoodies binding 1.4.0
* upgrade to JGoodies forms 1.1.0
* upgrade to JGoodies looks 2.1.4
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Back in June reports claimed that Gwyneth Paltrow told friends not to talk to Vanity Fair or give quotes for an article the magazine will publish about the actress. Now, sources are claiming that the reason Paltrow is so afraid of said article is because it may dig deep into the type of friendship she had with billionaire Jeff Soffer.
Sources in the know are telling the New York Post's Page Six that Vanity Fair may have been looking into Gwyneth's relationship with the uber-developer from Miami.
"Vanity Fair is asking if Gwyneth had an affair with Jeff back in 2008 when he reopened the Fontainebleau," the Page Six source said. "He flew her in for the party, and she stayed at his house."
The source claims that researchers on the coveted story — which is being written by Vanity Fair top writer, Vanessa Grigoriadis — have been asking Miami society sources about Paltrow and Soffer to find out how deep their relationship goes.
Soffer is akin to royalty in South Florida and recently married Elle Macpherson. His friendship with Paltrow is no secret, but cheating rumors were fueled by the pair at the reopening of the lavish hotel. During a Victoria's Secret party there, Paltrow "remained closed off in a private section with Soffer," the Post had reported at the time.
During the same time, the Post also reported that Paltrow and her husband, rocker Chris Martin, were having problems. The Coldplay front man and the A-lister got married back in 2003 and remain together to this day; they also have two children, Moses and Apple.
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There has been preparations for months to execute this coup on bitcoin
To take over the bitcoin protocol and branding by BitcoinUnlimited.
Some suspect possibly with backing by the Chinese state.
This mining facility by Bitmain in China (main supporter of BU) will single handedly have 80% hashing power overnight.
And not only in China but now John Mcafee has closed a deal with BitMain and will be running the biggest pool together in Washington backed by JohnMcafee MGT company with an upgraded 40 petahash mining rig they purchased from Bitmain.
In this conference John Mcafee states it himself: video here (watch first 5 min)
Eventually you'll realize that he's willing to run the network into the ground; this is the nation state attack we've always talked about. https://t.co/oJuptWu5ax
— DeSantis 僧兵 (@desantis) March 20, 2017
@bitcoinmom in previous discussions we didn't account for a hijacking of the brand.
— DeSantis 僧兵 (@desantis) March 20, 2017
Bitcoin developer Peter Todd suggested preparing for a Proof of work upgrade and George of BitFury immediately aggressively threatened with lawyers and prosecutors.
While Peter Todd's intent was to clearly defend the bitcoin network from a hostile PoW take-over.
Top mining companies are showing their true colors (our authors were blocked for asking questions)
Highly Recommend: very good article by @VinnyLingham we suggest to read it
Must watch interview by Vinny on a bitcoin podcast:
Great interview with @VinnyLingham talking about the state of the market during this HF confusion (min 45):https://t.co/mHDkCx9c2W
— Paul (@paul_btc) March 18, 2017
This means the chain that "wins" over time gets the $BTC ticker, stated by CEO of kraken exchange & CEO of ShapeShift.io
During the chain split, exchanges should taint their UTXO to split the coins. The documentation should have thorough analysis on this.
— Jihan Wu (@JihanWu) March 4, 2017
One of the most sophisticated exchanges has already been prepared for chain splitting. Most of them not. UASF make splitting likely.
— Jihan Wu (@JihanWu) March 4, 2017
Meanwhile Bitfinex (one of bitcoin's biggest $USD exchanges) has introduced futures market BitoinUnlimited coins and BitcoinCore coins.
Bitfinex has Introduced Chain Split Tokens (CSTs) trading Pairs BCC/USD, BCC/BTC, BCU/USD, and BCU/BTC: https://t.co/Jc86ls3Ph8
— Bitfinex.com (@bitfinex) March 18, 2017
We've published an update for @GDAX customers regarding a potential #Bitcoin Core/Unlimited #hardfork:https://t.co/ovDWHL68Rf
— GDAX (@GDAX) March 19, 2017
What are your thoughts on the current event unfolding? contact us @Cointimes_tech or @moneytrigz on twitter.
I would like to thank @desantis @VinnyLingham @paul_btc @btc_joe @naval @petertoddbtc for their information and help.
Disclaimer: I have sold 85% of my bitcoin holdings with pain in my heart but i have to protect my personal wealth for the sake of my family, i will buy back when the fork has been executed and the dust settles or this problem has been fully resolved.
Seems like the bitcoin community is in civil war and you dont invest in a country's currency that is about to go in civil war imo.


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These paths do not have to be grand. I mentioned how I walked the A47 in England at the beginning of my work in this way. I was inspired by a story I had heard about yogis and the Ganges. Apparently if one walks up the Ganges to the source and then back along the other side to the sea one will be a Yogi by the time they have completed the journey. I understood this to mean that the journey will have worked on the character of the individual, that the people and events they encounter will change them thoroughly. The A47 changed my way of thinking.
During the 5 yr SY study I walked the Fosse Way quite considerably, an old Roman road (appropriate in some ways as this road was probably built around the same time the SY was written) between two old Roman cities, Bath and Leicester. The QBListic symbolism in Bath is quite considerable, from the aerial view of the city where the Masonic influence is clear (in the Circus and the Crescent) and the Abbey which hosts Jacob's Ladder along its towers, and I found it thoroughly inspiring for my work. I walked many paths within the city, from hikes to the University every morning, to wanderings through the forest, Cheddar Gorge, etc - and all the time I was evoking the letters and their kingships and developing my ideas about how they manifest. It was during this time that I realised both the dangers and the euphoria inherent in such letter work. Certain letters seemed to be positively dangerous for me either exciting or exacerbating my negative qualities (or positive ones to dangerous levels) though I now understand that this was probably to do with astrological timing that I was not aware of at the time or defects within my own horoscope.
After completing the SY study a path opened for me to travel to Prague, the City of the Autumn Twilight and the capital of the Hermetic Splendour of the Renaissance. I travelled here by bus, as I don't fly, so my path of travel through Europe was on the ground and has been ever since. Even the bus journeys, nauseatingly slow at times, I ''walk'' using them to develop certain ideas about the letters and walking the ''moonbeams''.
When I arrived here the first task I needed to complete was my account of the SY study, so after visiting the grave of the Maharal, I walked a path to the highest mountain in the Czech lands and sat down to work. This is when my ideas about the Saadia Tree (and the ''Tree of Gates'') were cemented.
Recently I have undertaken my most ambitious pathwalking to date. My theatre company has been producing a play based on certain events in the lives of Dee and Kelley. I directed the work and occassionally played Rabbi Loew as a stand in if the other actor was unavailable. The writer decided to take the show to London and because of a change about in my life I used the opportunity to pathwalk the same paths as Dee and Kelley in their own journeys through Europe (to the maximum extent that time and money would allow for). First we performed Elixir at the base of Edward Kelley's tower in Prague. Then I travelled to Amsterdam and visited the Biblioteka Hermetica there, studying from a selection of texts but focusing my study on ''Chesed'', then to London (where we performed the play in Camden) and finally to Krakow each time passing back through Prague. I hit as many key sites on my journey as possible. I wasn't sure what the result would be but I was encouraged in this work by the Archangel Raziel. Upon my final return to Prague we performed the play Elixir again. Then, through a combination of pathwalking, theatrical ritual and Angelic involvement (an alliance of Raziel, Tzadkiel and Uriel) I recieved the tenancy on Edward Kelley's Tower itself and am now proud to call this home, temporarily at least - in fact I will probably be the last person to live there.
Pathwalking does not have to be as grand as this, I started these experiments along humble roads and byways - letting my mind obsess over the letter**, studying its associations, permuting it before opening the gate - in this way I think any path will suffice as long as you really look and really listen. The letter is a powerful sigil but if one is confused by all of these problems regarding correct association then the astrological symbols themselves will suffice as sigils for this kind of work and my advice is work the planets in Chaldean Order as the Traditions agree.
*Note see Modern Magick for a classic example of how the Kircher Tree messes with a vision. Kraig's description of the vision is entirely Luna (which Tav is correctly attributed to) and then he inserts Saturnian symbolism (I saw the planet Saturn in the sky, etc...) to make it agree with the Kircher Tree arrangement.
**Astrological force.
***Using the Saadia Tree for Qabalistic symbolism and my own Metabolism of Time system to interpret the physiognomical characters and thereafter derive their 'message' for my cell.


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King County residents oppose a proposed $20 car tab fee to help maintain Metro bus service, according to a new poll.
This year, the state Legislature granted King County authority to set a temporary $20 vehicle licensing surcharge that would bring in $25 million annually for two years to shore up Metro Transit's budget, which hurt by the slow economy. The agency faces having to cut 600,000 bus service hours over the next two years due to the recession's hit on sales tax revenue, which is transit's main funding source. With the car tab fee, Metro could hold off on cuts until state lawmakers come up with a more stable, longer-term solution for transit, officials say.
But a SurveyUSA/KING5 poll found that 50 percent of county residents are against the fee. Forty-three percent supported it, while 7 percent were unsure. The same sampling found that 64 percent wanted the County Council to put the car tab fee idea on a ballot for voters to decide, rather than impose it directly.
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MIDAS: Surge in building poised to bolster Galliford Try dividend
In fine shape: Greg Figtzgerald's firm recently restored the London landmark St Pancras Chambers
Some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world started out in property.
The sector boasts numerous multi-millionaires who have made money from buying low, developing well and selling high.
The strategy sounds almost simplistic on paper. In practice, it relies on a shrewd understanding of the market, strong financial support, a good sprinkling of gut instinct and, of course, an element of luck.
Without this combination property businesses can go badly awry, as indeed many do whenever the economic cycle turns against them.
Over the past three years individual operators, private firms and even large, listed companies have come close to ruin in the sector as banks have cut lending and property prices have fallen.
Clever businesses have done rather better, including housebuilder and construction group Galliford Try.
The company was not immune to the savage downturn that followed the financial crisis, slumping from a £60million profit in 2008 to a £27million loss the following year.
But since then, it has bounced back, making profits of £19million in 2010 and £35million last year.
In the year to June 2012 brokers expect profits of £60million, a return to pre-crisis levels. Even more encouragingly, they forecast that results will improve substantially next year and the one after that.
Importantly, too, Galliford never stopped paying dividends, even when times were particularly tough.
Now it is one of the most generous providers in the sector, paying 16p last year, and is expected to dole out 22p in 2012.
Chief executive Greg Fitzgerald has been involved in property for 20 years and joined the Galliford board in 2003.
Having experienced the sector's full cycle, he has learnt some valuable lessons from history. Many operators in this industry believe the key to success is constant expansion.
They buy enough land for 100 homes, build and sell them, buy land to build 120 homes, sell them, buy enough for 140 homes and so on, until the market dives and they are forced to run for cover.
Building success: The company's annual house sales are expected to reach 3,000 by the end of its financial year this June. Even the construction division is holding up well, and it recently restored London¿s St Pancras Chambers
Galliford appears to be different. Back in 2009, when many other housebuilders were reining back, Fitzgerald took a calculated risk. Land prices were low and the market was full of highly qualified people – from builders to surveyors – who had been made redundant and were looking for work.
Fitzgerald took full advantage. Shifting Galliford's focus from construction to housebuilding, he raised £125million through a rights issue and went on a buying spree, a move that is paying off handsomely today.
The company has doubled the size of its housebuilding division and earlier this month unveiled a 59 per cent surge in the number of new homes sold to 1,352 for the six months to December 31.
This may seem surprising, given the subdued nature of the housing market nationwide, but Galliford's homes are principally in the South- East, where demand has been consistently more robust than elsewhere in the country.
The company's annual house sales are expected to reach 3,000 by the end of its financial year this June. Even the construction division is holding up well, and it recently restored London's St Pancras Chambers.
The value of future contracts has slipped from £1.75billion to £1.6billion, but that is at least in part because Fitzgerald refuses to take on business at any price, focusing instead on projects that will deliver genuine profits. Looking ahead, this seems to be the philosophy in the housebuilding division, too.
While Fitzgerald amassed plenty of land when prices were low, he is less interested in growing bigger just for the sake of it. Over the next two to three years, attention is more likely to focus on selective expansion, profitability and cash generation.
This could well mean increased dividends or large special payments for shareholders.
Midas verdict: Galliford Try has done remarkably well during an exceptionally tough period for the housing industry.
The shares are 4761⁄2p and should move higher, especially if there is good news on trading and dividends when the half-year figures are released next month.
Fitzgerald and his team are worth following.
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According to a scientific study of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile in February 2010, increased stress on the fault may in turn have increased the probability of another major to great earthquake there in the near future.
The study by geologist Stefano Lorito of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome and his colleagues is available online in Nature Geoscience.
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The UK's biggest cycling festival, Tweedlove, launched a new ride aimed at families at Traquair House yesterday (Thursday, February 20).
Organisers say the Tweed Ride is a celebration of both the Tweed river and valley and Tweed the fabric.
The gentle 10-mile pedal on June 2 is aimed at families and participants are being encouraged to bike decked out in tweeds and other period clothing on, where possible, on old-style bicycles.
Starting off in Peebles town centre, the ride will follow traffic-free cycle paths and quiet roads, finishing up at Traquair House, where Scotland's oldest inhabited country house will host to a
mini-festival of music and family entertainment, local food, drink and craft beer.
Tweedlove director Neil Dalgleish said: "The Tweed Ride is designed as a celebration of everything that is great about the Tweed Valley, from our fantastic cycling routes and superb food and drink, to the area's tradition of milling and weaving Tweed. This new event brings together the best of the Borders in a day that can be enjoyed by the whole family."


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On PBS Tuesday night is the premiere of a three-part "Frontline" series: "News War" ("Frontline" is one of the most acclaimed news shows on U.S. TV). Two parts of the series have been co-produced by SAJAer Arun Rath. In 2005, Rath left public radio after some high-profile positions, including that of producer of NPR's On the Media and Studio 360. He worked out of WNYC's studios, and to this day I often mistakenly receive affection and compliments that were intended for him (but now he's gone, so I'm the Only Arun and he's the Other Arun, but that's neither here nor there).
From the clips I've seen, News War looks like a landmark series in the way it examines the relationship between the press and the state. The subjects include NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller, Pat Buchanan, William Safire, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, and fallen NYT reporter Judith Miller. It also delves into the commercial pressures facing the industry.
We asked Arun Rath a few questions about the series... See below. See previews of the show here and see the local listings for PBS stations across the U.S. here.
SAJAforum: How did you land up in this particular project?
Rath: I have to admit that nepotism was a factor, in a way — my wife [Raney Aronson-Rath] has been a producer for Frontline for years; we met about four years ago, when I was hired as a correspondent for a Frontine-World segment, and she was hired as the producer (she had done some documentary work in India, which is how we got thrown together for that project). Frontline asked her to produce half of this media series for her next project. I swear it was [Exec Producer] David Fanning's idea, not my wife's, to bring me on board for this project, because I'd produced On the Media, NPR's media analysis show for several years.
Frontline devotes itself to issues of the utmost urgency. What brings journalism itself up to that level?
I don't like to overstate things, but I think it's safe to say journalism is in a crisis these days for a number of reasons. There are the economic factors— so many examples of layoffs, restructurings, etc. over the past several months, the most awful recent example to my mind being the closing of the Boston Globe's foreign bureaus. But the economic issues are the subject of part 3, which our team didn't produce. What you'll see in the first two parts are the ways that journalists are at war with the government in a way we haven't seen since the Nixon administration. Indeed, a number of reporters we spoke with talked about the end of what had been a 30-year truce between the press and law enforcement. There was a period from about 1973 to 2003 when reporters managed to stake out a privilege to protect their confidential sources and for the most part successfully resisted testifying — refusing, in essence to be an arm of law enforcement.
Today, all you need to do is turn on your TV and you can see in the Libby trial a parade of prominent journalists testifying in court. There are a number of other examples: Josh Wolf, an internet journalist recently set the record for jail time served for a journalist refusing a subpoena; Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada of the SF Chronicle are facing jail time for refusing to give up the source of the grand jury testimony that was behind their award-winning reporting on steroid abuse in pro baseball; and politicians are dusting off the Espionage Act and making noises about using it against journalists, which, even if it's just for rhetorical purposes is a sign of how hostile the environment has become.... And that long ramble is really just a sample of what's in our series, and believe it or not, there's a lot of really compelling material we had to leave on the cutting room floor, even with 3 hours.
What does a Frontline producer do? And in what ways was this a complete leap from your work in radio?
My title on this project was Editorial Producer, which meant that I
tended to focus on content issues: figuring out how we were going to
structure these hours, who we'd interview and how the interview would
be structured, scriptwriting, etc. Even though we had a correspondent,
I also did a number of the interviews (Earl Caldwell, Ken Auletta, Tom Rosenstiel
feature most prominently in the final cut). By the end of the project
I was getting my hands dirty with television production, helping direct
the shots, backgrounds, etc. In a way, production is production, so
while there was definitely a learning curve, the transition wasn't too
painful. It's fun getting the extra media dimension television
provides. I'm still getting used to writing for TV; it's still writing
for the ear, but keeping in mind the extra channel of information for
the viewer is an adjustment, and I'm still learning about how the
images work in telling the story. Probably stranger for me though was
going from working on a weekly, hour-long program to taking a year to
produce two intense documentary hours — but it also felt like a treat
getting to spend the time to really get deeply immersed in these
You've landed some very big names. How did you manage that? And who did you not get?
Much of the credit for that has to go to our correspondent, Lowell Bergman (the former 60 minutes producer immortalized by Al Pacino in 'The Insider'). His relationships with sources, former colleagues, and friends got us access to a number of people that were essential to this project-- to name just a couple of examples, I can't imagine we would have landed Judith Miller or Dave Szady (the former top counterspy for the FBI who ran leak investigations) were it not for Lowell. We tried without success for nearly a year to get someone from the administration to talk to us, but at the last minute we scored an interview with Dan Bartlett. That, and a number of other key interviews came about from simple persistence and effort over a long time by a number of producers.
We were originally going to feature a lot more about the rise of conservative media in this series, but it just wouldn't fit in the end; plus we'd tried without success to get interviews with the big names at Fox News, and to talk about conservative media without such key players (Rush Limbaugh et al also turned us down) felt a little weak.
Of course we would've loved to talk to the President and Vice
President, and made the requests, but weren't surprised that didn't
Given the sensitive subject matter — national security and whatnot — did any of the interviews require special protocols, or need to be vetted afterward?
The interview with Judith Miller was seriously limited in scope due
to the fact that she was going to be testifying in the Libby trial.
One of the groundrules for our interview was that her attorney be
present to stop things if we got into any sensitive areas. Len Downie
of the Washington Post couldn't talk about the meetings he had with
administration officials around Dana Priest's stories about secret CIA
detention centers. Initially we had the same issue with Bill Keller,
who had a similar meeting at the White House about the New York Times'
NSA stories; but after his first interview, the administration
disclosed details of the meeting, freeing him to talk about it with us
(we had to set up a second interview).
Journalists hear a lot about the pressures on the industry these days - fragmentation of the audience, migration online, annoying shareholders. What do you hope they'll take away from this?
There's some important history and context that it's good for all journalists to know about— having spent a lot of time on the media beat, I was surprised about how much I had to learn about the history of reporting using confidential sources and the arguments around 'reporter's privilege.' There's also an interesting discussion about balancing national security concerns with the public's right to know, featuring national security reporters like Dana Priest, Eric Lichtblau, and James Risen, and intelligence officials like former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin and an Assistant Director of the FBI (and former ABC reporter!) John Miller.
But I'm actually more concerned about what non-journalists will take away from this— the news media are less popular than ever with the public, but real reporting— boots on the ground across the globe and real, uncowed investigative reporting at home — is more important than ever. I'm hoping that average people will watch this and understand how important the press is, even when it doesn't do a stellar job.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion announced for Spring; pre-orders bring early access
Rise of the Hutt Cartel is a full-blown digital expansion for SWTOR. It will increase the level cap up to 55 and introduce five levels-worth of story-driven missions on a new planet, courtesy of the titular slimy gangsters.
It'll cost $19.99 for free players and $9.99 for subscribers. Both will get five days of early access for pre-ordering before January 7th. It's worth noting, too, that pre-ordering will automatically bring free player Preferred status, with all the convenience benefits that brings.
You can pre-order here. If you'd like to find out what you're buying first, though, read on.
The Cartel are a new force in the galaxy, dead-set on knocking both the Republic and Empire off their respective perches. They'll be waiting on new planet Makeb with "massive new creatures" and "never-before-seen Droids", which I'm choosing to conflate as 'massive new Droids'.
As players uncover the "diabolical" plot of the Hutt they'll need to pick a side for the new story missions, which will be fully-voice as per SWTOR's usual high standards.
The whole shebang will be sprinkled with new weapons, armour and abilities.
What will an expansion mean for SWTOR? It'll mean it's no longer strictly free-to-play, for starters, introducing a significant financial hurdle between free players and the game. Either they'll cough up, or be left behind. Most importantly from its developers' perspective, Rise of the Hutt Cartel is a reason for subscribers to stick around - and subscribers are still the apples of BioWare's eye.
What about you? Are you returning subscriber, intrigued free-to-player or walk-on-byer?
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A year-long legal dispute between the seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and his former personal assistant Mike Anderson has been settled out of court following mediation and on terms which remain undisclosed.
A brief press statement said: "Lance and Mike have wished each other the best of luck in the future." A court last week threw out one of Anderson's claims, that Armstrong owed him $300,000 (£172,400) to set up a bike shop, which left one charge, of defamation.
Armstrong has also recently won a case against an internet sales company which registered three domains in the name of the Texan's Livestrong charity bracelets.


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Really Simple E-mail Segmentation: A Framework
How to build the framework for segmenting your list and targeting content to improve an e-mail marketing program's performance.
How to build the framework for segmenting your list and targeting content to improve an e-mail marketing program's performance.
Segmenting your list and targeting your content are good ways to improve your e-mail marketing program's performance. But many companies are operating under the false belief that they don't have the information they need to segment and target. Even if all you collect at opt-in is an e-mail address, you should have the information you need to segment and target your missives.
In this column, I'll lay out the framework for a very simple segmentation of your list. In future columns in the series, I'll talk about how to target content to these segments to improve your e-mail marketing results — and your bottom line.
Exercise 1: Basic Segmentation
Let's begin with the simplest segmentation possible: brand-new and older members of your list:
You should be able to identify new members of your list, no matter what e-mail service provider (ESP) or in-house e-mail solution you use. These people are special; they have just agreed to enter into a relationship with you. You have a honeymoon period in which you can build on this new relationship. This is an opportunity many organizations don't take full advantage of; in the next column I'll look at easy ways to make the most of it.
So our first segment is new contacts; people who've joined the list in the past 30 days.
That's a good start, but we can go further.
Providing e-mail metrics is standard operating procedure for every legitimate ESP and in-house e-mail send solution out there today. Even the lowest cost providers offer e-mail metrics. If you're not getting them, you need to look at other vendors and make a change. If you are getting them, you have a valuable segmentation opportunity.
The standard e-mail metrics we'll focus on here are open rate and CTR (define). I'll also toss in conversion rate — that is, people who have purchased, completed a lead generation form, or otherwise taken the action you are looking for — which you should also be tracking. Many ESPs make this easy, offering code you can put on your Web pages to report on post-e-mail conversions. There are also ESPs and Web analytics programs that work together to provide a start-to-finish view of e-mail performance.
This model will still work without the conversion piece (you'll just have three segments instead of four), but I strongly recommend you add conversion tracking into your e-mail metrics. It's the only way you can truly measure success or failure if the action you want an e-mail recipient to take resides on your Web site.
Here's an overview of the segments we'll be using. The percentages will vary from list to list, but the categories remain consistent:
Depending on your send frequency, you'll want to use a timeframe of from one to six months. In general, the more frequently you send e-mail, the shorter the period you can use. Caveat: you may have seasonal or other issues that require an adjustment to these periods. Don't stress about it; just change them to reflect realistic periods for your audience.
For a company sending a daily e-mail to the entire list, a month's worth of data should more than suffice. If you send weekly, I'd recommend looking at three months' worth of data. For those sending monthly, I'd go with six months of data.
Exercise 2: Further Segmentations
We've already isolated people brand-new to the list in our first segmentation group. For the next exercise, exclude people who don't meet your term requirement. So if you're looking at six months' worth of data, you'll want to exclude anyone who hasn't been on your list for a full six months.
This leads us to our second segmentation group: those who have not opened, clicked, or converted. Common names for this group are "inactives" and "deadwood," since subscribers aren't actively engaged with your e-mail program. You'll want to isolate metrics for the period you're reviewing and identify people who haven't recorded an open, a click, or a conversion during this period. We'll talk about how to target content to these people in a future column (if the term "reactivation campaign" means anything to you, you probably know where I'm going with this).
Our third group is a step above the second: people who have opened e-mail, but not clicked or converted. You might call these folks "voyeurs," since they look but don't click; "lookie-lous" also comes to mind, from that old real estate commercial about people who attend open houses with no intention of buying. This group poses a different challenge from the second. They are at least catching a glance of the e-mail (in the preview pane, if nothing else), but they aren't motivated to click. More on how to better engage these folks in a future column (hint: it's all about the e-mail body).
Our fourth group is those who open and click but don't convert. This is your "close but no cigar" group. They get so close, but they never complete the conversion. We'll talk in detail about how to move them forward in a future column, but one thought to sleep on: it's all about the landing page.
The fifth group is your rock stars: people who have opened, clicked, and converted, taking the action you wanted them to. But that doesn't mean you work is done. We'll talk about some basic goals and options for helping this group meet them. We'll also discuss a variety of ways to further segment this group, assuming you have the data, for maximum impact.
So that's the setup. Start working to segment your list based on these parameters — and feel free to e-mail me with questions. I'll cover ways to provide relevant, targeted content that moves members of each group forward in the relationship in upcoming columns.
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For whatever reason, men have an endless fascination with body hair, both their own and others. For some, it takes the form of putting glitter in their beards. Others go the manscaping route. Mike Wolfe did something altogether different.
True to his name, Mike Wolfe is a hairy dude. When he first met the woman who would eventually become his wife, he had to work up the courage to tell her about the forest of back hair residing on his body. But eventually Wolfe, who lives in Idaho, flipped the script. Instead of his back hair controlling him, he was going to control his back hair. Wolfe enlisted the help of a friend who is a former graphic designer to shave designs into his back hair. This is far more intricate than having your "hair cut correct like Anthony Mason" as the Beastie Boys once rhymed. Wolfe started with an American flag. That has since grown into a full-fledged Calendhair with year's worth of date-appropriate follicle artworks featured each month. There's a backpack for back-to-school time in August and a basketball and bracket for March Madness.
It takes Wolfe about four months to grow his back hair into a proper canvas, and each design takes around an hour to sculpt. Wolfe admits, "It's disgusting. But it's funny." And we have a tough time arguing with him.
See some of Wolfe's other creations below.
Justin Tejada is a writer and editor based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @just_tejada.


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(Jan. 15, 2014) A spokesperson for Pilot Flying J said Wednesday that the company has paid back most of its customers who were owed money in a fuel rebate program.
In a news release, Pilot says it's paid out any potential discrepancy plus six percent interest to 95% of its customers.
Federal investigators raided Pilot Flying J last April as part of an investigation into claims that it withheld money owed to trucking companies in a fuel rebate program.
Pilot says its internal auditors continue to evaluate customer accounts and customers can choose to have a third-party independent auditor review their records for free.


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Drama over Avani's 'missing jewelry' in Zee TV's Tumhi Ho Bandhu...
Zee TV's family drama, Tumhi Ho Bandhu Sakha Tum Hi (Shashi-Sumeet Productions) will gear up for the wedding of the daughter in the Pethawala family.
Yes, all eyes are now on the alliance that has come in for Avani (Dimple Jhangiani) from Nagpur. And as always, Avani being the very family-oriented girl, has left the decision to be made by the elders in the family.
With the alliance getting fixed, the track will now proceed towards the engagement of Avani. As happiness will engulf one and all in the family, there will be some tense moments when the jewelry of Avani will suddenly go missing.
As per a reliable source, "Shreya (Sreejita De) will again be the master mind behind this, and she would have hid the jewels of Avani. And with the family searching for the jewels, Vinti (Aalika Sheikh) will come under the scanner, as the jewels would have been with her before they got lost."
Will the family trace the jewelry? Will Avani's engagement happen as per plan?
We tried contacting Dimple, but did not get through to her.
As reported by us, Raj Singh will be entering the show as Avani's suitor.
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Best and the rest of the past week
Published 4:50 pm, Monday, July 29, 2013
Thumbs up to the Gathering of the Vibes festival for shifting its focus to entertain a wider audience. The 18-year-old music and arts festival, which was created in 1996 to honor Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia, was once thought of as a hippie fest. This year, the festival held more of a family-friendly atmosphere, and a newly expanded Kid's Corner and Teen Scene were able to accommodate the growing number of parents bringing their children to the Vibes. In addition to having more interactive attractions for kids, the festival's "Vibe Tribe" gave back to the community by donating non-perishable food items and clothing to be donated to those in need in Bridgeport and Fairfield County. The Gathering of the Vibes was not only a successful tourist attraction for the state, but it was also a great event for Connecticut residents to attend.
That said, thumbs down to what has become an annual dose of tragedy at the festival. This year a 40-year-old state resident died at the Gathering of the Vibes of an apparent drug overdose. It marked the third such death since 2009. This is an event that puts Bridgeport on the map, even if it does result in some local inconvenience for a few days. But it is simply not acceptable to expect someone to die a preventable death every year. This is a trend that must stop.
Thumbs up to Milford law firm Berchem & Moses for recently awarding some $7,500 in college scholarships to area students. Ophelia Barnett, a 2013 graduate of Bridgeport's Central Magnet High School, was named winner of the inaugural $5,000 Berchem, Moses & Devlin New Opportunities Scholarship. Felicia Salgado, also of Central Magnet High School, will receive the $1,000 scholarship. She plans to pursue a career in criminal justice and will attend the University of New Haven. Attorney Robert L. Berchem, principal and president of Berchem, Moses & Devlin, P.C., said the firm has decided this year to increase the amount it will give in scholarship awards to more than $7,500. In addition to the $5,000 scholarship initially planned, the firm will award a second-place winner $1,000 and will give smaller amounts to 10 runners-up.
Thumbs up to The United Illuminating Co. for spending $11 million to fortify substations against storms. The Congress Street electrical substation, in Bridgeport, along with six other stations in Bridgeport and New Haven, will get new features to help protect them from flooding and storm damage. The buildings are being sealed up to a certain height, and secured with new flood barriers, pumps and water barriers. In addition, new emergency generators are being installed to power the station and its pumps.


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After weeks of pain, frustration, and uncertainty, there's finally a small break for Buddy Wicker, the owner of a home that was demolished after a sinkhole formed underneath and killed a family friend.
Wicker got a phone call Monday night. It was his mortgage company. He said the man on the other end told him, "I have good news for you, Mr. Wicker."
"He said the mortgage has been paid in full. He said you no longer owe us anything," Wicker recalled. "I said, well thank you; praise the Lord."
Last week, we told you how Ocwen Financial sent Wicker a letter. In it, they told him, he still owed $4,455.84. That was in addition to the $130,189.00 they received from the insurance settlement after the home was condemned by the county.
The letter told Wicker they would not close out his account until they received the money. The letter also said Wicker had to restore the property back to the condition it was in prior to the sinkhole.
FOX 13 called and emailed Ocwen Financial. By Monday night, Wicker told us, he got a phone call.
On Tuesday, the company told FOX 13: "Ocwen Financial sincerely apologizes for the misunderstanding related to this account. The company has reached out to the borrower directly and the remaining balance on the loan has been written off. Our sympathy is with the family during this difficult time."
"I'm excited that it's paid off," continued Wicker.
The only question that now remains for him is what will happen to the land. The property was cleared and the sinkhole filled — with the body of Jeff Bush still inside — by order of Hillsborough County.
"Does it belong to me? When is it going to belong to me, or does it belong to the county? When are they taking responsibility for it?"
Now that the mortgage has been settled, Wicker plans to head back to North Carolina where he retired back in 2001.
"I'm still going to think about the home. Think about the good times I had here. The family I raised here. But it's gone now so we got to move on."
His family members who lived in the house at the time of the sinkhole will stay here. They are in the process of finding new places to live.
Wicker says, ever since the sinkhole opened up, he has come to the home on Faithway Drive just to look at what used to be. But he feels there's nothing more he can do here
"It's a hard thing to walk away from something like this," he added.
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In Monday night's wild and woolly Yankees–Red Sox game, the Sox clawed their way back from a five-run deficit thanks in small part to David Ortiz's fourth inning solo home run off Phil Hughes. The homer was Ortiz's seventh home run of the year and sixth of the month. Big Papi is back, right?
Not so fast. For starters, Ortiz is still hitting just .235/.301/.500, numbers that come out to a very humdrum .262 True Average, just two points above the league average, and well below what one would expect from a DH. Ortiz's May numbers (.348/.380/.761) certainly reflect better production, but his ugly 17/3 strikeout-to-walk ratio in those 50 plate appearances is particularly telling. Even amid this month's spree, he's not drawing walks, a reflection of the fact that pitchers are no longer afraid to challenge him.
Ortiz's strikeout-to-walk ratio for the entire year is an abysmal 38/10, and he doesn't have a single intentional walk to his name — numbers way out of line with his time in Boston. Expressing his strikeout, unintentional and intentional walk numbers as percentages of his total plate appearances, and including his True Averages for reference:
Year K% UIBB% IBB% K/UIBB TAv 2003 16.3% 9.8% 1.6% 1.43 .304 2004 19.9% 10.0% 1.2% 1.77 .308 2005 17.4% 13.0% 1.3% 1.22 .324 2006 17.1% 14.0% 3.4% 0.98 .325 2007 15.4% 14.8% 1.8% 0.93 .341 2008 15.1% 11.8% 2.4% 1.06 .292 2009 21.4% 11.0% 0.8% 1.81 .266 2010 34.9% 9.2% 0.0% 3.80 .262 03-09 18.0% 12.1% 1.7% 1.49 .311
One of those lines is not like the others… Still, it's fair to point out that Ortiz has just 113 plate appearances thus far this year, and that he did rebound substantially last year after failing to homer through his first 164 PA. But it's also worth noting that through his first 113 PA in 2009, he was only striking out at a 20.4 percent clip and drawing walks at a 10.6 percent clip, for a 1.92 K/UIBB ratio — numbers very close to his year-end rates. Furthermore, it's also worth noting that according to the work of Russell A. Carleton (a.k.a. Pizza Cutter), it only takes 150 plate appearances for strikeout rate to stabilize, and 200 PA for walk rates to do so, whereas OBP and SLG don't stabilize until the 350 PA mark. By Carleton's definition, which refers to the intraclass correlations of equivalent sequences of PA, batting average and BABIP don't stabilize over small enough samples to fit into a typical 650 PA single season.
Back to the point about pitchers unafraid to challenge Ortiz, it's worth noting that just one of his seven homers has come with runners on base, and that most of the damage he's done this year has been in low-leverage situations, i.e., those where the outcome of a given at-bat has relatively little impact on the likelihood of winning based upon the combination of inning, baserunner, out and score margin (here I'm using Tom Tango's measures of leverage and the splits available at Baseball-Reference.com). Monday night's homer, for example, came when the Sox were down 6-1 with two outs and the bases empty in the fourth inning, a point when the Yankees had an estimated 94 percent chance of winning the game. Here's a comparison of Big Papi's Boston-era numbers in high, medium, and low leverage situations:
————————————-———HIGH————————————— Years PA HR AVG/OBP/SLG '03-'08 723 42 .337/.429/.648 '09 119 5 .253/.345/.505 '10 33 0 .194/.212/.258 —————————————-—MEDIUM-——————————— Years PA HR AVG/OBP/SLG '03-'08 1392 81 .289/.387/.580 '09 241 13 .255/.344/.500 '10 41 1 .231/.268/.385 ———————————————-LOW—————————————— Years PA HR AVG/OBP/SLG '03-'08 1616 108 .286/.394/.593 '09 267 10 .218/.315/.410 '10 39 6 .281/.410/.875
Lumping the 2009 and 2010 numbers together to provide more substantial sample sizes:
Lev PA HR AVG/OBP/SLG High 152 5 .238/.316/.446 Medium 282 14 .251/.333/.482 Low 306 16 .226/.327/.466
Once upon a time, Ortiz was something of a clutch god, able to produce at Albert Pujols-type levels in high-leverage situations. His numbers in those key situations last year were still slightly better than his overall line (.238/.332/.462), but in the limited sample of this year, they're downright awful, and taken together with last year's showing, they suggest he's become, uh, wicked unclutch. The vast majority of his knocks are coming at times when pitchers need not have The Fear, as they can challenge him with impunity. All of which suggests he'll be hard-pressed even to reach last year's level of production, which is more bad news for the Red Sox and their fans.


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Tekken was king of the ring once, and rightfully so. Looking for some fellow fighters who understand the merits of lengthy combos and the joys of air-juggling your opponent out of the ring? Then you've come to the right place.
i saw the movie on youtube.it was alright i guess. definitely got most of the characters wrong and didnt even include a lot of the main series staple characters. i was really looking forward to seeing dave batista as king and nate jones as marduk (i heard a rumor about both of them being in there). why even include steve fox if we dont get to watch him punch anyone's face in? but watever. it was entertaining at least. but i have to say, i had way better ideas for a tekken movie when i was 7.


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Here is a scanned copy of a letter received at Huq towers and all other households in our street (click below to enlarge):
Sloppy is not the word. I'm not saying they need to enrol at charm school but our first year students at Kingston University could do better in freshers week. Hell even the kids in my recently-turned eight year old's class would put the writer of this drivel/ person who checked it was ok to print/ to shame if they had a stab. In the days when collective responsibility meant something, somebody somewhere would have resigned and heads would have rolled (preferably that of Boris Johnson).


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Morocco's King Mohammed VI received in Agadir on Tuesday James Baker, Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for the Sahara.
The meeting took place in the presence of William Swing, Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara, and on the Moroccan side by Morocco's Foreign Affairs and Cooperation minister, Mohamed Benaissa, Mustapha Sahel, Interior Minister, Mustapha Sahel, Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Delegate minister, Taied Fassi Fihri, Delegate Interior minister, Fouad Ali Himma, and Mohamed Benouna, Morocco's permanent representative to the UN.
Baker was to propose a political solution to the Sahara issue, according to a United Nations spokesman, MAP reported.
In the context of his North African tour, which is set to last till January 17, Baker will visit Algiers, Tindouf and Nouakchott.
He will hold meetings with government officials in Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, as well as with the leadership of the Polisario front, the news agency said. (Albawaba.com)
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Authors: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
Date: January 28, 1861
Cyrus K. Holliday wrote from La Porte, Indiana to his wife, Mary Holliday, in Topeka, Kansas Territory. On his way to Washington, D. C. he planned to collect a debt. A friend had given him railway passes to Pittsburgh. The contrast between the quality of life in the northern states and Kansas Territory saddened Cyrus, who quoted a verse. He gave instructions to Mary concerning the livestock and farmland. In a postscript, he emphasized that she save the eyes of potatoes.
Keywords: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900; Holliday, Mary; Livestock; Poetry; Topeka, Kansas Territory; Travel
Photograph, John Greenleaf Whittier
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Date: c. 1860
Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and Free-State supporter. In September, 1858, he published a poem in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Le marais Du Cygne", telling the story of the Marais des Cygnes massacre.
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If you want to send mail of yours to someone else's address (and not have it returned by the postman who knows you don't live there), then use your name, c/o their name, their address. (the c/o stands for in care of - like if you were spending the summer with your brother's family and your mail at home was on hold - not forwarded- but your mother wants to send you a birthday card at your brother's house.)


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Archives for: November 2004
Nov 30
A one-seater golf cart? According to Tim McDonald's recent piece, the wheels are in motion. Now, pardon me for being a little conservative again (see: cell phone blog), but as much as I'm for squeezing in a round of golf in the time it takes to play norm… more »
Nov 20
Friday night left me searching for answers. Not because all-night happy hour left me clueless as to what I did with my belt and debit card, but how my Detroit Pistons, the "class act" of the league, let this debacle happen in their Palace. . .and how I c… more »
Nov 18
The BCS is at it again, with a computer producing inconclusive results and a lot of angry sports media. And you know what? Maybe the World Golf Rankings could learn a thing or two. When Vijay Singh took over Tiger's post as the golf world's #1, where w… more »
Nov 11
Believe it or not, some residents of a golf community actually think it's YOUR fault when your drive strikes their humble abode lying just 20 yards right of the fairway. A few weekends ago I was visiting some friends in town for business in Jacksonvill… more »
Nov 09
just don't get it. Golf is one of the few getaways of the modern, tech world, where we can lose ourselves for four hours. We can forget the troubles of paychecks, girlfriends, and bosses and replace them with more acceptable troubles of sand, trees, an… more »
Nov 06
Terrell Owens has made headlines of his own despite helping the Eagles to an undefeated record and yet another year of hope for the city of gridiron heartache. So how on earth could one man's end zone dance and whiny comments send the only undefeated tea… more »


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Sweet Potato Hotdish - Finding Joy in My Kitchen
4 C sweet potatoes, pureed
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/3 C milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 T butter, melted
salt and pepper, as desired
1 C oatmeal
1/2 C whole wheat flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 C brown sugar
2 T softened butter
In a large bowl, combine sweet potatoes with butter, vanilla and salt and pepper.
Then, mix together the eggs and milk.
Add this mixture to the sweet potatoes and stir until combined.
Spread filling in a lightly greased 8x8 inch glass baking dish.
Then, mix together all the topping ingredients (minus the butter) in a large bowl.
Add in the butter, and mix with a fork until clumps form.
Sprinkle the topping over the potatoes. Yes, there is a lot of topping... but it's delicious.
Bake at 350 for 30ish minutes, until the topping is lightly brown, and the filling is hot.
Serve warm, as a side dish, or a dessert... or even have leftovers for breakfast.


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Team Canada nipped by Czechsby Tyson Giuriato / Vancouver Canucks
Jonathan Drouin and Sam Reinhart both had a goal and an assist, while Aaron Ekblad and Charles Hudon also found the back of the net for Canada, who erased four one-goal deficits in the game, including three in the third period alone.
Canada found themselves trailing 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3 before Hudon sent the game to overtime with 6:59 left in a wild third period.
After the five-minute overtime solved nothing, the teams went to a shootout where Drouin was the lone Canadian goal scorer, while the Czech's were able to beat goaltender Jake Paterson twice.
Canada, who returns to action on Monday morning (8:30am PST) when they take on Slovakia (1-0-0-1), picked up one point in the loss, but now trails the United States by two points for top spot in Group A.
Canucks prospect Bo Horvat found the score sheet for the second straight game as the London Knights star took a feed from Connor McDavid at the side of the net and one-timed it to a wide open Reinhart in the slot to put Canada on the board with 4:10 remaining in the first period.Bo Notes
-Horvat once again centred a line with Connor McDavid and Sam Reinhart. The trio also served as the second power play unit with defenseman Mathew Dumba and Josh Morrissey on the point.
-Horvat and Reinhart played as a pair on the penalty-kill.
-The 6-foot, 205-pounder went 7-for-14 (50%) in the faceoff circle, which drops him to 60% (18-for-30) overall in the tournament.
-The Rodney, Ontario product failed to pick up a shot on goal and finished minus-1, which puts him at plus-1 through two games.
-With 8:00 remaining in the first period, Horvat set up Reinhart in the slot but the Kootenay Ice captain rang the puck off the crossbar.
-Late in the second period, Horvat blocked a shot off his foot and appeared to be in pain, but managed to stay out and finish his shift.


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Oh what a lovely few days it's been. Here's what I wrote on my Facebook page.
"I'm living 2 different lives. By day I'm an affluent person who owns a business in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. By night I'm a pauper who lives in a hovel in the East Village with no power, cell, internet, hot water or heat!"
I'm now staying with a friend uptown, which has been great but a bit of an ordeal.
Last night it took me 1.5 hours to drive 40 blocks in Manhattan, total gridlock.
The buses were running but you couldn't get on them they were so packed. I had
to transport my dog so I couldn't even take one if I wanted to. I picked up a young
woman who was frantically trying to flag a taxi (a futile experience), she looked
at me like I was insane when I rolled my window down and asked if she wanted
a ride. Being a New Yorker (even a new one, she's only been here a couple of months)
she was justifiably skeptical, but I convinced her I was going uptown with a big
empty SUV, I might as well give her a ride. Of course she probably could have
walked faster (if she didn't have 2 bags) but we finally broke free and got to
our destination.
Today at work, where thankfully we have full power and were pretty much
spared all problems, we are seeing numerous drowned cars, broken windows,
and tree crushed vehicles. The latter 2 are fixable, the drowned cars are
another story. Many of them are wet from a combination of sea water and
fresh. When things get that wet they're pretty much doomed but more so when
there is salt water. Many people don't have full insurance coverage on their cars either
so repairs will be out of pocket. If you've read my previous blogs you know that
I will do my best to help them source out used and after market parts to keep
the price down as best I can.
Even the cars that are undamaged are debilitated by the lack of gas in the
area. Long lines of people for the few stations that have power and gas and
many fights breaking out.
We will get through this but we will be exhausted by the time it's all over.
Good thing I had a short vacation into the sunshine planned for next week,
the airports better be up and running!
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CCTV will now be used by ambulances – in a bid to reduce abuse and physical violence.
The move aims to improve staff safety who find these problems hinder their ability to help people in need.
"I'm pleased we're now able to proceed with our plans to use CCTV on our ambulances. It is an important move to ensure our staff are appropriately protected," said Justin Wand, SECAmb head of fleet.
"We have been working with our unions to ensure we have a policy that protects staff and patients. CCTV fitted on vehicles ready to be switched on will come into operation in the coming weeks as our vehicles come through their scheduled maintenance.
"All our staff have the right to work in a safe and secure environment and verbal abuse or physical violence must never be seen as part of the job."
Many of SECAmb's ambulances and single response vehicles are already CCTV enabled as standard and discussions have been taking place with staff to finalise the policy on its use.
The systems, which only record images and not sound, are expected to come into operation in the coming weeks.
The CCTV will be used for the purpose of crime prevention, investigation of road traffic collisions and the prosecution of offenders. It is hoped that as well as protecting staff from abuse it will also act as a deterrent for the rare occasions vehicles are targeted by thieves.
The footage will be encrypted and password protected so it can only be viewed by those with appropriate authority.


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Baby Boomers are Staying Sober During the Holidays
Holidays are one of the most prevalent times for people (especially people in recovery) to hurt themselves and loved ones by relapsing.How typical is it to abuse substances during the holiday season.Well it seems it's one of the most prevalent times for people (especially people in recovery) to hurt themselves and loved ones by relapsing. Holidays afford us time to meet with and spend time with family, or at least that is the idea. Somehow this does not always work out, in fact many report horrid memories of time spent with family around the holiday seasons. If not that it causes us to come together with people we have perhaps had lifelong issues that yet remain unresolved. So it is a time people in recovery must plan for and think about what they need to successfully negotiate these times of high stress. I would like to offer some tips on ways you might go about taking care of you or supporting a loved one who is in recovery to care for them.
First think about what you are going to integrate into the season that keeps you involved in your program of recovery. Will you see your sponsor, go to a few meetings, write in your journal, or all of the above. No matter what you do if you have a plan you most assuredly fair better in getting through the season clean and sober. For those of you who tend to make a New Year's resolution I recommend that you make instead a 'Before Holiday Resolution'. In other words make a resolution to become or remain sober and find someone to be accountable to for the success of your resolution. The following are some simple tips to follow. I would encourage you to remember this, that not the tips but the act of planning to stay sober will have the greatest impact on your being successful.
• People who plan to stay sober do just that, stay sober, because they planned their day around that outcome. Try it, you will find it very helpful in staying on course.
• Thoughts that are relapse leaning should be shared with as many people as possible who have a vested interest in your staying sober. The more people you tell who care and understand recovery the less likely you are to use. Transparency is the great killer of cravings!
• One of the most helpful things you can do for yourself is to stop focusing on you and try to help someone else. Nothing will empower you to remain clean and sober than the act of getting into some form of service to others and letting go of you. I think you will also find it refreshing.
• Make a list of what you have to be grateful for as opposed to focusing on what you don't have. This perspective also will underscore your seeing a reason to fight one more day for sobriety.
• Let go of yesterday and stay out of tomorrow, both of which are no longer where the bulk of your focus should be. You truly can only live one day at a time. Stay in the moment and you will be present for what is actually happening in your life as opposed to what happened, or what you think may happen, which are out of your realm of impact. It is today where you can have some true impact on your life and the life of others by what you do today and how you live your life today. Set an example for living in the moment and you will have done one good deed for today.
These thoughts are not meant to be all inclusive, but rather to act as a beginning template for thoughts that may be of use to you as you negotiate the holidays. Take a stab at making your own list and be willing to share it with someone else who may benefit from your thoughts. From all of us at Weyland Consultation Services we wish you good cheer and safe tidings as you safely go through the ins and outs of the holidays ahead. Remember you're a winner if you choose to win, so choose!
Fred Wade holds both National and State certifications as an addictions counselor. He has worked in the field of addiction since the mid 80's, having worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Weyland Consultation Services which specializes in outpatient treatment of addictive disorders for adults and adolescent males and females. Weyland Consultation Services is located in Walnut Creek California, and serves the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
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Third Annual American Kidney Fund NetWalk
To encourage New Yorkers to be an organ donor
On August 12th, the family of David Rodebaugh made a decision that would forever transform the life of Patrick Hardison. They chose donation.
Patrick Hardison is a firefighter who was burned so severely while responding to a house fire that his face was no longer recognizable or functioning operatively. He longed for a better life, and courageously embarked on a journey for a face
transplant, fully understanding there was a 50-50 chance of survival. After waiting months, Patrick received the call.
The donor, David Rodebaugh, by all accounts, was a charismatic, creative and caring individual. Ironically, David had
a dream to someday be a firefighter. So, when tragedy struck and the opportunity to help a firefighter was presented,
the Rodebaughs said yes and donated David's face.
That day, David, who was a registered organ donor, not only changed Patrick's life forever, he also gave the gift of life to two kidney recipients, a heart recipient and a liver recipient. His donation of bone, saphenous veins and eyes saved and improved the lives of several tissue recipients. David also donated organs and tissue to medical research. Donation and transplantation starts with a selfless donor like David, and a supportive family like the Rodebaughs. Donation cannot happen, however, without the hard work and collaboration of many. In the case of Patrick's remarkable face transplant, professionals from Kings County Hospital Center (the donor hospital), the New York City Medical Examiner's office, LiveOnNY and NYU Langone Medical Center all contributed in important ways. In particular, NYU, led by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez and his team, planned for years to make the first-ever face transplant in New York possible.
The 26-hour procedure by Dr. Rodriquez and his team represent the culmination of years of preparation at NYU Langone Medical Center, with support from LiveOnNY. At its core, every organ donation case is about collaboration, training and execution on the part of several teams, to realize the selfless wishes of the donor and donor family. When this trailblazing transplant was performed in New York that summer day, every one of these principles was on display at the highest level.
Today, Patrick is doing very well, and overflowing with gratitude to David Rodebaugh and his family. At the same time, the Rodebaughs proudly stand by their decision knowing that helping a firefighter in need is something David would have most certainly wanted.
To encourage New Yorkers to be an organ donor


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Quantum Basterdizations
The Quantum Pontiff
Category archives for Quantum Basterdizations
Sometimes you find one that is just so over the top that it brings a smile to your face. It starts out okay, The doughnut shaped universe spinning about a central axis of quantum singularity India Daily Technology Team May 26, 2008 An unexpected patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the relic radiation…
New leader at the Perimeter Institute this Friday, Perimeter researcher wins prestigious award, a summer school on quantum cryptography, the answer is not quantum physics, and quarter charge quasiparticles for quantum computing.
Eat anything you want and lose weight? How? By using quantum physics of course!: Freedom From Food looks at food and weight from a unique vantage point. It examines the mind/body connection – how your thoughts and emotions affect your body. The book points out that there is abundant scientific evidence in quantum physics to…
Postdoc in Italy, AQIS 2008 Call for Papers, the Register reports on QUEST, and the New Scientist morphs into the No Scientist.
Holy mother of quack science, Neuroquantology. But that withstanding, some of you real scientists should really satisfy their call for reviewers. I mean think how much fun you could have tearing holes in their papers : We need additional reviewers: Since in our interdisciplinary Journal we seek for holistic approach to science and particularly in…
Superexchange in optical lattices, factoring 15 in a linear optics quantum computer, quantum plagarism peaceful resolution, silicon and gallium arsinide quantum computers, and quantum mumbo jumbo in support of the ideas popularly known as God.
Murray Gell-Mann always makes me laugh. Via Asymptotia here is what Murray said while giving a Ted talk: I won't go into a lot of stuff about quantum mechanics and what it's like and so on…you've heard a lot of wrong things about it anyway!
His Squidiness points to a real whopper of a silly article titled "Was Einstein Wrong About Special Relativity?" by Darrell Williams who is listed as a "Mathematician" and a "graduate of Arizona State University."
Well it is certainly true that Mystics and quantum physicists speak the same language, that language most probably being Mandarin, English, or Hindi, but I'm guessing that's probably not what they meant by that title. I should have stopped reading at the title, but instead I actually scanned down the page.