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HAMDEN, Conn. - The Yale women's hockey team has not lost many ECAC Hockey games in the second half of the season, and the ones that they have lost have mainly been of the one-goal variety. The Bulldogs' fourth one-goal loss in conference play in the last four weeks came Friday night at Quinnipiac, 1-0. Coupled with Dartmouth's 4-1 win at Clarkson, it eliminated Yale from ECAC Hockey playoff contention.
The game started slowly for both teams, as there were just three shots on goal in the first six minutes -- all by Quinnipiac. Yale did not get its first shot on goal until 9:31 was left in the period, when Bobcat goalie Victoria Vigilanti gloved a shot by junior forward Bray Ketchum after junior defenseman Samantha MacLean found Ketchum at the QU blue line with a pass from deep in Yale's zone.
Senior defenseman Alyssa Clarke sent a slap shot wide after another Yale shot was blocked with 7:30 left in the period, and other than that Yale's only other threat came when the puck was loose in the Quinnipiac crease for several seconds with a number of players from each team battling for it and Vigilanti watching for it. The Bobcats were eventually able to clear the puck out of danger.
The Bobcats were able to turn up the offensive intensity thanks to a series of penalties on Yale late in the period. After one 40-second 5-on-3 for Quinnipiac ended thanks to some saves by Snikeris and a block by freshman defenseman Tara Tomimoto, the Bobcats got another one with 12.2 seconds left in the period. Clarke blocked a last-second shot, but the two infractions carried over into the start of the second period.
Snikeris made a glove save just nine seconds into the second, and 30 seconds in the Bobcats had a premature celebration when a shot hit the pipe but the red light behind the goal momentarily went on. The Bulldogs kept playing and were able to clear the puck, and at the first stoppage of play after that the officials conferred to make sure that the puck had not crossed the goal line. Sophomore forward Becky Mantell brought Yale's penalty killing to an end with a long pass that gave Ketchum a chance to get off a good shot that Vigilanti denied.
The Bobcats entered the game with the best defense in the country statistically, and they continued to make all the necessary plays to help Vigilanti as the scoreless tie wore on. Quinnipiac's defense tied up senior forward Berit Johnson with the puck loose in the crease nine minutes into the period. Shortly after that Vigilanti stopped a backhander by Johnson after MacLean had a shot blocked.
Snikeris was not as busy in the second period as she was in the first (15 saves in the first, 11 in the second), but she still had to make some tough saves. Midway through the period, after denying forward Janine Duffy on a 2-on-1, she also had to make a save when forward Kallie Flor blocked a Yale shot and skated up to the neutral zone for a long shot.
Mantell generated one of the Bulldogs' best threats of the night when she carried the puck in on the left wing and got off two shots that Vigilanti saved. With the puck still in the QU zone, freshman defenseman Jamie Gray was able to get off a shot that was deflected away as well.
The only penalty of the second came on Yale with 4:59 to play. Sophomore defenseman Heather Grant cleared the puck right after the faceoff, and sophomore forward Aleca Hughes had an interception in the neutral zone that enabled her to dump the puck low. Clarke added a blocked shot followed by a clear, and a backhanded clear by freshman forward Alyssa Zupon helped finish off the kill. Right as it ended the Bulldogs caught the Bobcats on a line change, but Hughes' shot was stopped.
Snikeris made a nice kick save on a shot by forward Kristen Eklund a minute into the third, and shortly after that the Bulldogs had what wound up being their only power play of the game. Ketchum was checked, giving Yale the man advantage with 14:03 to play, but the only threats for Yale were a Ketchum shot that was blocked and a nice play by Grant, skating through the defense, that ended with the puck being poked away from her.
Shortly after that the Bobcats got the only goal they needed, as forward Kallie Flor knocked one past a prone Snikeris at the 8:46 mark.
Quinnipiac (17-8-8, 10-4-7 ECAC Hockey) very nearly extended the lead immediately, but Snikeris made a spectacular save with her right leg to deny forward Heather Hughes after a feed from forward Kelley Davies during a 2-on-1. Snikeris also had to deny Hughes with less than eight minutes to play when she was able to fight off a Yale defender to chase down a puck and get off a shot.
Vigilanti made a pair of saves on Tomimoto with five minutes left, then stopped and covered a shot by Hughes from the right wing with a Bulldog perfectly positioned looking for the rebound.
Ketchum sent a pair of wristers wide with 90 seconds to play, and the Bulldogs pulled Snikeris with 49 seconds left as they were in transition. That led to a Hughes shot that Vigilanti saved just as Ketchum and a Quinnipiac player collided with her. Ketchum, a nominee for the Patty Kazmaier Award, and Hughes finished with eight of Yale's 17 shots on goal.
An icing on the Bobcats with the Yale net empty gave the Bulldogs a faceoff in the Quinnipiac zone with 42 seconds left, but Quinnipiac was able to clear. Yale got the puck in one last time, but Ketchum's shot was blocked and the Bobcats were able to run out the final seconds. Snikeris finished with 32 saves, the 10th straight game the Patty Kazmaier Award nominee has reached the 30-save plateau.
At the same time the Bulldogs lost, Dartmouth finished off a win at Clarkson that puts the Big Green in control of the eighth and final ECAC Hockey playoff spot. Since Dartmouth has the tiebreaker edge on Yale (2-0-0 in head-to-head competition), Yale cannot pass the Big Green on the last day of the regular season tomorrow. Colgate's 2-1 win over Union leaves the Raiders one point ahead of Yale and one point behind Dartmouth, so the Raiders are the only team that can catch the Big Green.
Yale (10-15-3, 8-12-1 ECAC Hockey) finishes its season Saturday at Princeton at 4 p.m.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (firstname.lastname@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


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I'd rather have Revis over the draft picks for sure. I mean getting guys like Elam and Escobar in exchange for the one of the best defensive players in football? That is not appealing at all. You say yourself that in 2014 we have plenty of cap room. I'd rather pay revis the 15 Million it will take and trade Cro and his 10 Million dollar salary. We still can get a 2nd rounder for Cro.
Another thing I want to point out is that Pace's dead money is there regardless of what he is resigned for. So in signing him for the "dead money", that doesn't mean that you used the dead money to get the player. The issue is completely separate. I'd bring him back for sure and 2.5 mill may be a reasonable price but it will still add 2.5million to the cap. The dead money is there and hits the cap regardless.
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Those words never go together. I am shocked.
Each failure is an opportunity to learn and improve.
The real failure would be to not identify failures and not improve - then we'd have to be blasted about it by the sensationalist media, trumpeting how inept government is.
^ This
Testing for something and finding that the test didn't pass is NOT a failure of a system. It's exactly what it said - a test. Now they know where the faults are they can work on fixing them.
Testing for something and finding that the test didn't pass is NOT a failure of a system. It's exactly what it said - a test.
And when the test fails, it is, indeed, a failure of the system as a whole. What was the intended outcome? (A nationwide alert.) Was the outcome achieved? (No.) This is almost a "by definition" kind of concept, you know. You test something and it doesn't work, that means IT FAILED.
The only way this test didn't fail "because it was a test" is if you think the important operational criterion is the ability to test, not the ability to notify people in an emergency. Or maybe you are confused by the use of the
Hey, you do know the difference between DEVELOPMENT testing and ACCEPTANCE testing, right?
The national alert system is a product in development. This was a test to determine what is working and what is not working. You can simulate and test individual pieces all you want, but until you get the opportunity to test the entire system, you have no idea what links in the chain are broken.
This country is full of fucking idiots that have no clue how engineering is performed. Just keep your misinformation to yourself and stop trying to make those around you dumber.
We should leave emergency notifications to the free markets! You want to know about disasters and what to do? Well, just subscribe to a disaster notification service. I'm AT&T or your cable companies will provide that service as part of a package of some sort. And we all know what superior service cable companies have over pathetic government!
We should leave emergency notifications to the free markets! You want to know about disasters and what to do? Well, just subscribe to a disaster notification service. I'm AT&T or your cable companies will provide that service as part of a package of some sort. And we all know what superior service cable companies have over pathetic government!
We already do! There is no law preventing any organization from creating such a service. Our options are "free market and government" or "free market only"...Sorry for posting a serious reply to satirical comment, but one of my pet peeves is when the government steps in to solve a problem and conservatives reply "the free market would have done it faster/better/cheaper".
No, they wouldn't have, and they didn't. That's why the problem existed.
Where's the mod for "Brilliantly sarcastic"?
Those words never go together. I am shocked.
Yeah... except it was the private broadcast companies that failed to properly show the alert not the goverment.
>private broadcast companies
Been waiting for people would say that.
The engineer at the local PEP (Primary Entry Point) in our state was standing at the transmitter site, watching the equipment, when the test began. He was on the phone with FEMA, as a matter of fact.
The test never came through. The (FEMA-supplied) equipment never responded. As a result, most of central Alabama never even got the test.
The failure was on THEIR end, not ours. We had done TWO statewide tests just prior to the national one and they worked fine. Don't blame us, dood.
I was at the PEP in our area. The CAP message that FEMA sent out was coded wrong. They sent out the CAP message using the format they dictated last year, not the newer format dictated this summer. Most of the equipment I know threw out any message it did get, and it simply didn't forward it to any downstreams.
Those who supported the backup method of the older EAN system, which they were supposed to foward regardless of the CAP messaging did so.
'Wed Nov 9 14:03:00 2011 EST' to 'Wed Nov 9 14:18:00 2011 EST'
Forwarded : 'Wed Nov 9 14:00:34 2011 EST'
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All in all, in our area, we had 1 TV station, 2 radio stations, and 1 cable system (out of 5) that did any type of notification -- wether it came from IPAWS or EAN. That's a failure in my mind, as we were supposed to have our older EAN system as a backup.
Err, Human failure....
I'm never sure why people like to pile on the government. Like any social organization, and Soylent Green, it's made of people. Just like Citibank screwed itself, Enron self destructed, Goldman Sachs enabled Greece to self-destruct, all governments and companies are made of people.
One additional thing to add, government employees rarely get high pay (remember that those $600 toilet seats were paid to private contractors). So, you're blaming fallible humans, a group made more likely to be fallible by the fact you don't want to pay (taxes) to hire the best.
Tests are supposed to fine failures
Maybe we could run more "tests" to help balance the budget? =)
I think the geeks would be better off relying on their own form of warning system
Yeahhhhhhh..... maybe not.
I remember the Internet on 9/11. It went basically this way:
1) IT people talking/screaming with other IT people relating information as it was happening. Information got *slightly* altered from one "hop" to the other.
2) Mailing Lists and IRC channels on fire with reports about everything from aliens, aliens raping people, mad cow disease attack, the Russians invading on the East Coast, ICBM launch confirmed by a friend at an undisclosed military location, etc.
3) Screams of, "But I have not gotten laid yet! It's NOT fair!"
4) Fuck it. Meet me in Everquest. We're taking those bastards down before we die.
The "Enemy" could not have created a better disinformation system if they tried.
Facebook? Twitter?
I was in the car listening to NPR for this. The NPR (WGBH) station did a nice little lead in story and switched smoothly to the test. As soon as it did I started jamming presets and none of the other station I had programmed got the test. Local Alt Rock station, local R&B station, and the other NPR station all failed to broadcast the test as far as I can tell.
No, the government is just being selective about who they save in the event of a catastrophe. Apparently, they believe that we will need NPR listeners in the post-apocalyptic world. Alt Rock and R&B listeners, they think they can do without.
The alert is sent to a primary station in each area and daisy chained to others. WHQR is, I think, third in a chain. The alert hit there at 2:00:39. It got the start and stop "duck farts", but not the message itself. The scuttlebutt is that FEMA messed up the head end audio.
Came across here at 12:02 MST and the audio stream was screwed up. The audio alerts came thru fine, but the message was extremely faint and unintelligible. About half way thru the 60sec test someone at the radio station cranked the input volume all the way up, horrible high-pitched whine of background noise, but you could at least understand what was being said then. Still, it sounded like trying to tune into a radio station a thousand miles away... The normal monthly tests have never seemed to have that problem.
There are different message priorities. I don't remember what the priority levels are called (it's been about eight years since I've been involved in broadcasting), but the options essentially allow some messages to be stored and rebroadcast later (with a limit on how much later). Higher priority messages go out in real-time; lower priority may be discarded.
The radio station's EAS ENDEC is supposed to manage this for them. In the event of a top-priority message, it just takes over the airwaves in real-time. Middle and lower priority alert the engineer to the situation and let him/her decide when to send the message. If the message is not sent before the time is up, middle-priority messages will seize the transmitter and lower-priority messages will get dropped.
I would expect this message to have been encoded with the middle option -- store it for up to xx minutes, then take action automatically if the station didn't do so voluntarily. This would result in it going out over different stations at different times, and that would be desired outcome.
What they need to provide is a CAP feed of their EAS alerts. Leave it up to hardware developers how to implement it. Or implement it DIY as well. Can't seem to find any public URL, but apparently this is how they provide the information to broadcasters..
IPAWS has a (just barely out of development AFAIK) private RSS feed that you need a special pin code or something for. It is just for broadcasters. They also have a private SOAP server that you need some X509 certs for to pull public CAPs from (this is a superset of EAS alerts).
IPAWS eventually will have a public RSS feed for EAS messages, but they don't seem as concerned about making sure that it will be properly provisioned to serve millions of clients hitting it up constantly.
I'm developing an OSS application to feed IPAWS messages from their SOAP server to a public xmpp server: https://github.com/talisein/Stormee [github.com]
Its not really ready for prime time yet, but I should have something that works in a couple weeks.
Seemed to work fine then. The government obviously doesn't want to help people who are out to lunch.
Probably because 9/11 in all actuality was only a threat to a ludicrously, miniscule number of people compared to say... the rest of the country. I wouldn't be surprised if 98% of the country wasn't even slightly, remotely affected by it (ignoring the after side-effects of the shredding of the constitution and soforth).
Probably because 9/11 in all actuality was only a threat to a ludicrously, miniscule number of people compared to say... the rest of the country. I wouldn't be surprised if 98% of the country wasn't even slightly, remotely affected by it (ignoring the after side-effects of the shredding of the constitution and soforth).
Is that why pretty much every major city in the US with a bridge or tall building peed themselves and put their respective cities in some sort of watch/lockdown combination?
The purpose of EAS is to alert people to take action that can save their lives, not to act as a source of breaking news.
"Incoming missiles! Get to a bomb shelter!" is a valid alert.
"Planes Hijacked!" is worthless. What action that could have been broadcast on EAS would have saved a single life?
There was no point in issuing an alert over the alert system. If you were endangered by 9/11, that was because you were (A) in one of the planes, (B) in the Pentagon or (C) in lower Manhattan. Otherwise, you were in basically no more danger than you are on any other day.
For the people on the plane, they were dead already, there was absolutely nothing that could be done to save them. Emergency alerts wouldn't have helped.
For the Pentagon and lower Manhattan, everyone was already doing what they needed to do:
National Journal's Marc Ambinder tweets: FEMA official concedes "glitch"; says that it appears (maybe) to be related to how satellite and cable providers prepped their equipment.
If your emergency broadcast system requires all cable and satellite providers to "prep" their equipment beforehand, you are doing something fundamentally wrong.
You should have replaced cat 2 with a cat 6, if you have one.
The local cable broadcaster here lost approx 10 channels after the test, including CNN, FOX, and DISCOVERY. They all switched to the NAT GEO channel without audio for upwards of an hour after the test ran.
In addition, the test video was jumpy, kept blacking out, audio kept dropping out, etc.
All in all, if it had been a real emergency, losing the 2 major news channels would have been real motivation to start loading ammo and supplies and gassing up the bug out mobile.
So Time Warner NY failed to implement the national emergency system that we use in the event of an *inbound ICBM attack*? When it had been announced for weeks in advance?
Curse their sudden but inevitable betrayal.
ICBM attack
Seriously: If that happens, you're better off not knowing anyway. At least you won't spend your last few minutes of life scared out of your mind because you know you're going to die in a nuclear firestorm.
Fool! Without that alert, how on earth are you going to talk the closest girl to you into impending disaster sex?
Babies conceived in October, 1938 would have been born in the middle of 1939.
According to this, it doesn't appear to have made much difference.
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/datasets/us-births-1936-to-2000/versions/1 [ibm.com]
Nonsense. Thousands or tens of thousands could be spared secondary effects from the heat and blast wave. Just the simple act of not standing in front of a window can be the difference between a horrible death and surviving relatively unscathed. Surely you've seen this famous picture from Hiroshima: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_patient's_skin_is_burned_in_a_pattern_corresponding_to_the_dark_portions_of_a_kimono_-_NARA_-_519686.jpg [wikipedia.org]
Yes, if you're sitting at or near the hypocenter, your opinion holds true.
So I would never see/hear an alert anyway. Likely would hear about it on
I guess I should plan to get one of those weather-alert radios sometime just to make sure I am not completely out of the loop.
That's kind of what I was thinking when I heard about this test.
I consume less and less broadcast media - be it television or radio - every day.
Unless I just happened to be driving somewhere in a car at the time of the emergency, I simply wouldn't hear the warning.
I do have a cell phone on me all the time, and received no alerts on it.
I can tell you from experience however, that if it were an Amber Alert, I would have been aware of it immediately.
CONCLUSION: EAS is another complete misguided federal program.
1. Millions heard it.
2. Using all communication methods to broadcast a message of national urgency is hardly misguided. It's a common sense idea.
3. They'll add other methods soon enough.
Because any system with a test intentionally scheduled at a time of low disruption is necessarily misguided. I'll let the IT guys know the restore test they were planning for 2am is pointless because I won't be around to notice it.
In the Mountain time zone it was noon, and I was in my car and on the way to lunch.
My wife was watching her soap, and it didn't happen. I heard almost none of the Western States got the alert.
What kind of conceivable emergency would effect the entire country? Nuclear war?
Some DirectTV customers reported hearing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" play during the test.
Are you sure it wasn't "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin? (Proof [youtube.com])
I've never heard Paparazzi and thought it was Take My Breath Away. Some people are hateful about Lady Gaga, and I don't get why. Yeah, she's not a good singer, she's a lousy dancer, and her songs aren't all great. She's a pop star; that's the schtick. She brings the circus to it in a way nobody else has, though, which dare I say it actually makes it art.
Why not just use whatever variety of pipes they used to shout about the upcoming test?
I heard about the upcoming test from at least a dozen different sources, but was completely unaware of it when it actually happened.
I spent all day in the library where there are no TVs or radios.
Also, I'm not in the US at the moment.
I was aware of the upcoming test but haven't followed it much being at work which means not watching TV and not listening to radio. Our 2-ways at our facility are not Part 73 broadcast, and I don't think Part 90 business or public safety radio services were part of this (wasn't scanning at the time except media 2-ways that were chasing story of a downed airplane in SF bay but it turns out it was a unmanned large balloon). I don't know of any amateur radio groups were involved (I don't think so, wasn't liste
I was at the Dentists and one of my fillings started broardcasting the alert.
Some DirectTV customers reported hearing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" play during the test.
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If any of us had lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century we would probably have heard about Russell H. Conwell's famous lecture titled "Acres of Diamonds." It is hard for us today to imagine the huge influence of this man and this lecture which he delivered 6,152 times around the world.
Raised on a farm in Massachusetts, Conwell graduated from Yale University in 1862 and joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war he studied law and worked as an attorney, journalist and lecturer. He published about 10 books including biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield.
In 1880 Conwell became an ordained Baptist minister and two years later was asked to serve as the pastor of a new Baptist church in Philadelphia. This church eventually became the Baptist Temple (aka The Temple), one of the largest Protestant churches in America. Under his leadership the first classes of Temple College, later Temple University, were held on the site which today is the Temple Performing Arts Center.
But this story is not about the founding of Temple University but rather about Conwell's lecture "Acres of Diamonds." Conwell's capacity to establish Temple University and many of his other civic projects, however, came primarily from the income he earned from that speech.
Conwell memorized 28 lectures which he gave without notes, but it was his "Acres of Diamonds" speech that earned for him more than $11 million. He gave all of this income away before he died, earning him the name "the penniless millionaire."
Although the lecture was originally published in 1915, the most recent and complete form of the lecture begins with a story an old Arab guide gave Conwell as he and a "party of English travelers" traveled down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Apparently a very wise man told a very wealthy, ancient Persian farmer about a place which was filled with diamonds.
That wealthy farmer "…heard all about diamonds, how much they were worth, and went to his bed that night a poor man. He had not lost anything, but he was poor because he was discontented, and discontented because he feared he was poor." He said, "I want a mine of diamonds," and he stayed up all night thinking about it.
The story continues, "So he sold his farm, collected his money, left his family in charge of a neighbor…" and went off on his quest to find diamonds. He searched the world over and ended up as a "poor, afflicted suffering, dying man" who cast himself into the ocean and he died.
A few days later, the wise old man went to visit the farmer's successor and there he saw a brilliant diamond glistening on a windowsill. In the farmer's backyard there was discovered the most brilliant diamond-mine in all history. The old Arab guide who told the story said this, "Had (the farmer) remained at home and dug in his own cellar, or underneath his own wheat-fields, or in his own garden, instead of wretchedness, starvation, and death by suicide in a strange land, he would have had 'acres of diamonds.' For every acre of that old farm, yes, every shovelful, afterward revealed gems which since have decorated the crowns of monarchs."
Conwell's lecture continues with story after story of such examples where people have found (or just missed) acres of diamonds in their own back yards. He ended this lecture which was shared in Philadelphia with these words, "Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and what you are, in Philadelphia now."
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The McIntyre system has been scrapped!
The AFL system will be adopted
It's about time!
This is good news as:
- Team 8 should never get a free shot at 1 in the first week of the finals, nor should 7 get a free shot at 2
- You can now watch every finals game knowing the consequences of a win or loss (under McIntyre, in the first week of the finals, you never knew what each game meant until the whole weekend was finished). ANd sometimes the 4 v 5 and 3 v 6 games meant essentially nil as on some occassions the winner and loser both had to play sudden death the next weekend.
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I've been a supporter of McIntyre for a long time. Might as well have another go at explaining why.
You don't have to wait till the end of the week to know what's happening. The Dragons were safe when Manly beat Cowboys for example. Warriors fans still had to sweat, but if they wanted more security their team should have finished higher.
The question of whether it's a fair system or not depends on whether you define fair as all 8 teams having a better chance of making the final, or if you define it as your chance at making the final (and at surviving week 1) being directly proportional to your position on the ladder. The former is the AFL/ARL/New NRL system, the latter is McIntyre.
To illustrate you only need to look at the possible outcomes and weigh them against the risks in both scenarios. The big winners out of the change are positions 7-8, while the big losers are positions 1-2. There are pros and cons for teams 3-6 but for the most part the benefits for these positions are mixed. That's why it bothers me so much when I read the argument that this benefits the teams that performed better over the season. It is actually the exact opposite.
The only problems with McIntyre is that it theoretically set up less competetive matches in week 1 (offset by the fact that the NRL is structured to be more even) and that people didn't understand it. I truly believe that the second problem is the reason the system has been canned. People cbf actually thinking about something.
Sorry but any system that allows for the possibility of 4 v 5 and 3 v 6 being inconsequential games, is ridiculous.
It's the pointy/exciting end of the season. To have inconsequential games is ridiculous.
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3 beats 6, and yet they are both thrust into exactly the same position the folllowing week - sudden death
any system that even allows for the possibility of that happening is just jarring
I think eight teams is at least two too many in a final series for a sixteen team comp, so I've always favoured the McIntyre system for that reason (well actually I favour a top five system - but if we must have a top eight..). If you're going to allow the farce that is seventh and eighth making the finals then you should at least make it exceptionally hard for them to progress; letting them build momentum slowly against lower ranked sides is terrible idea IMO.
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Middle name for Aria
Posted 10 April 2012 - 05:08 PM
Are there any suggestions? I was also thinking:
Aria Naomi
Aria Jade
But I don't love any of them.
Posted 10 April 2012 - 05:34 PM
I'll see if I can find the link for you.
However, here's a few ideas off the top of my head.
Aria Caitlin
Aria Lillith
Aria Jane
Aria Katherine
Aria Poppy
Aria Noelle
Aria Eve
Aria Madeleine
Aria Camille
Aria Eloise
Aria Gwendolen
Aria Sadie
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Aria Kate
Aria Lucille
Aria Destiny
Aria Fleur
Aria May
Aria Nicoline
Aria Celine
Aria Paige
Aria Megan
Aria Lynn
Aria Imogen
Aria Colette
Aria Faith
I think Aria needs a middle name that's soft sounding... like Phoebe, Gwendolen or Helen.
Posted 10 April 2012 - 05:39 PM
Aria Katherine
Aria Genevieve
Aria Gwendolyn
Aria Josephine
Aria Cosette
Aria Morgan
Aria Tiffany
Aria Louise
Aria Lily
Aria Summer
Aria Kaitlyn
Aria Heidi
Aria Bethany
Aria Willow
Aria Celeste
Aria Lorelei
Good luck!
Posted 10 April 2012 - 09:27 PM
Posted 11 April 2012 - 01:23 AM
Aria Lillith
Aria Poppy
Aria Camille
Aria Eloise
Aria Sadie
Aria Molly
Aria Daisy
Aria Quinn
Aria Lucy
Aria Sophie
Aria Clarisse
Aria Josephine
Aria Lucille
Aria May
Aria Imogen
Aria Faith
I love those ones^ Bolded I adore Thanks so much
Aria Genevieve
Aria Josephine
Aria Morgan
Aria Lily
Thanks so much These are the ones I like, bolded are my absolute faves.
I made previous suggestions to Jenn about middle names for Aria, and Aria Molly is currently on my list! I also love Aria Faye, Aria June, and Aria Cadence as well WDYT? Sorry about any repeats!!
Oh, I really, really love Aria June Thanks
Posted 11 April 2012 - 06:54 AM
I found one that Haddie started like two years ago......... might help.............
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The effects of sequestration are starting to be felt at Fort Stewart with the cancellation of an event planned by the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation. According to special events coordinator Chris Dent, the U.S. Army Soldier Show's stop at Fort Stewart has been canceled.
"This is the only event that has been canceled to date," Dent said. "I can only say it has to do with our new fiscal reality."
Dent said the soldier show, which used to be staged at Stewart then Hunter Army Airfield, stopped playing at Hunter last year. He said the overseas tour of the soldier show has been canceled entirely but noted that Fort Stewart is the first stateside show to be canceled this year.
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PRINCETON — Irene Clayton of Princeton went to Springfield two weeks ago, just wanting to represent Bureau County well at the Illinois Senior Spelling Bee.
Not only did she represent her county well, Clayton won second place in the state competition held Aug. 12 as part of the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
Clayton's road to Springfield began in May when she won the Bureau County Spelling Bee hosted at the Bureau County Senior Center in Princeton. She then won the regional competition in June, also hosted at the Bureau County Senior Center.
At the state spelling bee, Clayton faced off with 18 of the best of the best senior citizen spellers. The spelling bee went 29 rounds before Clayton misspelled the word "hirsute". Her competitor correctly spelled the word and then spelled one more word, "picayune" to take first place. She should have known how to spell hirsute, Clayton said.
In addition to winning second place, Clayton said this year's spelling bee was extra special because she was surprised to have several family members and friends in the audience, including her son, daughter, two sisters, a brother-in-law and friends from the Bureau County Senior Center. She thought only her daughter was coming and the rest of the group surprised her, especially her son who came from out of state.
Looking back on the state competition, Clayton said she didn't think she'd make it to state this year since she had quite a bit of stiff competition along the way. At this point, she's not planning on competing in next year's Bureau County Spelling Bee because the county winner has to go to regionals and then possibly on to the state spelling bee. Going to state is too nerve-wracking, she said.
Though going to state may be a bit nerve-wracking, Clayton has done it before.
Five years ago, Clayton won the county and regional spelling bees and then competed in the state spelling bee, in which she was one of two spellers who lasted 49 rounds before the announcer said he had run out of words and called it a tie.
Clayton credited her spelling skills to loving to read, doing crossword puzzles, and watching televised spelling bees. For the past several years, she's kept spelling lists of words she's read and heard on the televised spelling bees. If she doesn't know the meaning or correct spelling of a word, she'll find it in her dictionary, she said.
Though she may or may not enter another spelling bee, Clayton said she's going to keep reading and keep spelling and keep doing crossword puzzles. After all, it's fun, she said.
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Before finding out more about The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc ("Scottish Oriental"), it is important that you first read and understand the information set out below and also the Investor Disclosure Document which can be downloaded here. Scottish Oriental is an investment trust, incorporated in Scotland with registered number SC156108, whose shares have been admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and admitted to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange plc. Scottish Oriental's Alternative Investment Fund Manager is First State Investments (UK) Limited and portfolio management has been delegated to First State Investment Management (UK) Limited (together "First State Investments"). Important information for Investors
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D2L Learning Environment Workshops
1. Workshop 1: Introduction to D2L
2. Workshop 2: D2L Basics
3. Workshop 3: Building a Course in D2L
4. Workshop 4: What's New in D2L LE version 10.2?
Workshop 1: Introduction to D2L
A. Background
1. Overview and background
2. Training model and learning D2L resources
3. Access and credentials
B. Home pages
1. My Home
2. Course Home
3. Navigation
4. Widgets
5. My Courses Widget
6. News Widget
7. Migrated courses
8. Tips for reviewing migrated courses
Workshop 2: D2L Basics
A. Building your Course (Part A)
1. HTML Editor
2. Edit course
3. Content
4. Course Builder Tool
5. Manage Files Tool
6. Course Copy
B. Managing Your Course (Part B)
1. Classlist
2. Calendar Tool
3. Manage Dates
4. Dropbox Tool
5. Turnitin
Workshop 3: Building a Course
A. Assessment
1. Grade Book Tool
2. Quizzes Tool
3. Rubrics
4. Discussion Tool
5. Question Library
B. Communication
1. EMail Tool
2. Notifications
3. Intelligent Agents
C. Building from Scratch and adopting courses
1. GaSouthern Course Template
2. Course Building Wizards
3. Publisher's adoptable EPacks
What's New in D2L Learning Environment Version 10.2?
For Instructors
Content Tool
- Easier Navigation: The content map is now always available as an expandable left panel while viewing topics. You can quickly navigate to any topic in the module or to any topic in the entire course.
- Tablet-friendly: The content panel supports swipe gestures on tablets so you can swipe left to expand and right to collapse the panel on your iPad or Android device.
- Drag and Drop: Instructors can also drag and drop files directly from their desktop into the map to upload and update topics without leaving the viewer.
- Track Student Progress: The new Completion Summary list (available from within the Content viewer) allows instructors to quickly access completion summaries for all learning activities.
- Access Student Information Quickly: Instructors can also hover over any students profile picture to contact the student, access their full profile, and view their overall progress in the course.
- Time-saving Templates: Instructors can now select from pre-defined HTML templates when creating new documents in Content. The document templates will save you time by automatically formatting documents that you create in D2L. (More about templates...)
Discussion Tool
- Deleted Topics and Forums can be Restored: Weve replaced the Delete area in Discussions with the new Restore area. You can now restore deleted discussion forums and topics quickly from the Discussions List.
New Reading View:
- displays counts of unread posts, providing a better indicator of which threads have more activity. Threads with recent activity appear at the top of the page by default, providing quick access to new information.
- provides an easy-to-scan area with the most recent authors information and includes the ability to hover over the authors picture to see profile information.
Dropbox Tool
- Easier to Restore Deleted Folders: Deleted Dropbox folders can be restored from the Event Log.
- Download All Submissions, Provide Feedback, Upload: In addition to the existing bulk download of student Dropbox submissions, you can now evaluate and annotate submitted work using the desktop software of your choice, and finish the process by bulk uploading these files. Downloaded Dropbox submissions are assigned a unique identifier, enabling D2L to recognize the files upon upload.
Grades Tool
- New Calculation Method: Milestone Grade Calculation ensures that the total score is the sum of the denominators of the chosen grade items, rather than scaling the excluded items to total 100%.
Quiz Tool
- Automatic Recalculation: Previously, to recalculate a quiz score, an instructor would have to scroll to the top of the page to click Recalculate, then scroll back down to the bottom of the page to click Save. In 10.2, the Recalculate button has been removed and recalculation occurs automatically whenever an individual question is graded. If you manually alter the final score on a quiz and then decide to clear that score, the system reverts back to automatically recalculating the final score.
Group Tool
- More Grouping Options: A new group enrollment type has been created where the group category contains n groups, and each group has a capacity of m users (# of Groups of # - Self Enrollment).This enrollment type is useful in situations where students are iself-enrolling in groups with a fixed capacity. Use this enrollment type to determine the structure of groups (number of groups and size of each group) in advance. Users can choose which group they would like to join, subject to the constraints of the group structure.
The User Profile Card
- Hover to See User Information: Most pages in D2L will display user information in a user profile card when you hover over a users profile image. The information can include the users name, online status, role, social networking information, and tagline - a new field in the User Profile tool. The profile card also includes a Send Email button and a link to view the users progress.
For Students
Content Tool
- Enhanced Document Viewer: The document viewer has been updated to provide a better viewing experience. Documents automatically resize to fit the viewport and you can view them in full screen without losing your current scroll point in the document. This means that you can move seamlessly between full-screen and normal view with no disruption to the viewing experience.
Improvements for All
Email Tool
Improved Compose Email Screen:
- Includes CC and BCC fields that are hidden by default until you want to use them.
- The file attachments area now supports drag and drop.
- The Send Results page only displays when there are errors in the email addresses.
- Auto-Complete Addresses: The To, CC, and BCC fields will auto-complete for any personal contacts in an instructors Address Book. If an instructor accesses Email when viewing a course offering, the To, CC, and BCC fields will auto-complete for course contacts in that offering.
Equation Editor
- Updated Equation Editor: The Equation Editor available within the HTML Editor now provides a more user-friendly experience, and browsers are no longer dependent on Java.
Discussion Tool
New Reading View Options: The reading view in the Discussion Tool has been split into two new views: topic view and thread view.
- The new topic view provides consolidated information about a topic and summarizes all of the threads within the topic.
- The new thread view focuses on a single thread of conversation, allowing users to participate in the discussion without distraction.
Quiz, Survey, and Self-Assessment Tools
- Drop-Down Lists for Answers: The Matching question type in the Quiz, Survey, and Self-Assessment tools now feature drop-down lists instead of input boxes.


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Fox, Branine and Morgan bring additional experience to Cattle Veterinary Operations Team
MADISON, N.J. — May 24, 2011 — Pfizer Animal Health is increasing the expertise and services available to its customers by adding three professionals to its Cattle Veterinary Operations Team — Lance Fox, DVM; Mark Branine, Ph.D.; and Brad Morgan, Ph.D.
"We are excited to bring these experienced cattle professionals into our organization," says Roger Saltman, DVM, MBA, group director, Cattle Veterinary Operations, Pfizer Animal Health. "Our team prides itself on having firsthand experience to help other veterinarians, nutritionists and producers across the country make sound animal health decisions."
Dr. Fox lives in New London, Wisc., and will bring his expertise in calf and heifer management to his work with dairies across the country as a senior veterinarian on the Cattle Veterinary Operations Team. A Wisconsin native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Fox spent years in private practice in the state before consulting in the veal industry. His most recent position was as a dairy technical service manager with Alpharma Animal Health.
With a focus on Pfizer Animal Health's beef clients as a senior nutritionist, Dr. Branine is based in Canon City, Colo. He has worked for SmithKline Beecham Animal Health, Roche Animal Nutrition and Health, and Alpharma Animal Health in clinical development, applied research and technical services. Dr. Branine also spent six years with Cactus Feeders as the operations manager for Cactus Research LLC.
Food Safety and Production Enhancement Specialist Dr. Morgan is based in Stillwater, Okla. He previously served on the faculties of Texas A&M University, Colorado State University and Oklahoma State University. Dr. Morgan currently serves on the board of directors of the American Meat Science Association.
"The additional knowledge these individuals contribute, along with a great passion for the industry, will help increase the range of our service to our customers," Dr. Saltman says.
About Pfizer Animal Health
Pfizer Animal Health, a business of Pfizer Inc., is a world leader in discovering and developing innovative animal vaccines and prescription medicines, investing an estimated $300 million annually in animal health product research and development. For more information about how Pfizer Animal Health works to ensure a safe, sustainable global food supply from healthy livestock, fish and poultry; or helps companion animals and horses to live longer, healthier lives, visit www.PfizerAH.com.


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Univention Corporate Client (UCC) is a flexible and efficiently manageable operating system for PCs, notebooks, and thin clients in companies and institutions. The software contains a Linux-based desktop environment optimized for business use. It allows desktops to be adapted to hardware and intended applications. In addition, it can be managed conveniently and efficiently via a Web-based console. In comparison to other systems, it guarantees integrated administration procedures for users, clients, desktops, and permissions and effectively does away with the use of different, uncoordinated tools. It serves as a platform for access to remote desktop solutions and virtualized desktops as well as browser or terminal server-based applications.
KeyBox is a Web-based SSH console for executing commands and managing multiple systems simultaneously. It allows you to share terminal commands and upload files to all your systems. Once the sessions have been opened you can select a single system or any combination on which to run your commands. Also, additional system administrators can be added and their terminal sessions and history can be audited.
Selador is a browser-based fantasy game. The game was commercial at first, but has since been released as open source by its developers. The game focuses on teamplay and communication between players. Although it is played in real-time, strategy and planning are paramount. It comes with a nice set of graphics and a pre-populated database. It can be installed on any *AMP stack.
A flexible cellular automaton editor.
An application to edit the INFO list chunk in a RIFF file.


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If the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation gets its way, the historic theater in Brookline will soon get an addition, in the form of a new, 180-seat film auditorium. Instead of being able to show two movies in auditoriums at once, the Coolidge could show three.
The theatre opened in 1933 and has two large auditoriums that seat 440 and 220, respectively, and two small ones, used mostly for private or small screenings, that seat 45 and 13, respectively.
"Very simply, as an art house theater, a nonprofit, we're looking to take advantage of some additional space that we have access to, for expansion," says Michael Maynard, chairman of the Theatre Foundation board. "We'd like to be able to show three movies in our main theaters at any one time going forward. We think that provides a nice service in Brookline."
In addition to giving the theater another auditorium for major movie releases, it would allow the Coolidge to grow all of its programming, Maynard says.
"Having another large, good-sized theater inside the place gives us a chance to be a multicultural venue without cannibalizing our primary benefit to the community, of showing films," Maynard says. "We do a lot of special programming here, from the 'Sound of Silence,' with silent films shown to live orchestral music, to programs for elders and Alzheimer's patients, and even for fans of science fiction. It's important to us to keep those up and add more. This frees up space."
The board plans to ask Brookline Town Meeting members in May to help clear the way for the expansion, giving the theater a 2,530-square-foot portion of an easement behind the building that was given to the town in the 1960s by a previous owner. Vehicles would still be able to reach the parking lot behind the theater through the narrow alley off Harvard Street.
According to Maynard, the idea for the expansion was first raised by real estate developer Harold Brown, who purchased the building that houses the Coolidge in 1990 to prevent it from being demolished or turned into a shopping center.
Brown, who established the Hamilton Charitable Trust to act as landlord to the nonprofit theater, got the ball rolling by pointing out the obvious, Maynard says.
"He's been very helpful to us over the years," Maynard says. "And in this case, he casually mentioned that there was this space that wasn't being utilized, really, and wasn't particularly attractive, on Harvard Street. And he suggested we look to expand."
Maynard says he and fellow board members spent the better part of two years researching and preparing the expansion proposal, before he submitted it last Thursday.James H. Burnett III can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @JamesBurnett.


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How to convert VRO to MP4 with VRO to MP4 Converter Mac?
Many Mac users don't know how to convert VRO to MP4 when get or create some VRO files, because they just want to play VRO files on some portable devices or media players which supported MP4 format. As I know, if you want to convert VRO to MP4, you should have the Mac VRO to MP4 Converter.
Mac VRO to MP4 Converter is the best and professional software application which allows Mac users to convert VRO to MP4 format on Mac. It supports high conversion quality and many output formats such as MOV, WMV, AVI, FLV, MKV, 3GP, MPG, etc on Mac.
If you want to make your VRO files more personalized, you can edit VRO files with this VRO to MP4 Converter Mac. The editing functions including crop videos, add watermark, merge videos, trim videos, set video size, and so on. After converting VRO to MP4 on Mac, you just enjoy the videos anytime anywhere.
Here is the step-by-step guide to quickly convert VRO to MP4 on Mac with the program.
Step 1. Add VRO videos into VRO to MP4 Converter for Mac.
Down and run Mac VRO to MP4 Converter, then click "Add" button to upload VRO videos to this program.
Step 2. Choose the output format and set the file destination.
In this step, you can click "Format" to choose the format which you want to convert from the drop list, here we choose .MP4 as output format, then hit the "Browse" to set the destination.
Step 3. Start converting VRO to MP4 on Mac.
Click "Convert" button to convert VRO to MP4 on Mac. You can edit your VRO files, like cropping videos, trimming videos, adding watermark, merging videos, etc to make your videos more personalized and more funny.


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EDMONTON - The website concept began in a dark office in Michigan, on a Friday night over a case of beer, and it has since become James Hinchcliffe's signature. In fact, the IZOD IndyCar driver from Oakville, Ont., said he is introduced as the "Mayor of Hinchtown" more often than as "James Hinchcliffe."
Most drivers have their own websites, but since launching Hinchtown.com in 2006, when he was still racing in Champ Car's Atlantic series, the support series that has since been supplanted by Firestone Indy Lights, Hinchcliffe has definitely established a unique identity.
"It was time to make a new website and we looked at all the driver's websites: Indy drivers, F1 drivers, NASCAR drivers, and we came to two conclusions: they're all exactly the same and they all sucked," he said.
But there's more to Hinchcliffe than marketing and self-promotion. In his second season in the IndyCar Series, he got off to the kind of start that has impressed even his seasoned peers.
Will Power, a two-time winner in Edmonton and the driver currently chasing Ryan Hunter-Reay for the championship lead, said he'd readily put Hinchcliffe in with the group of racers who has a shot at the title.
Hinchcliffe, who took over for Danica Patrick in Andretti Autosport's No. 27 car this season, was the fifth fastest racer in Friday's two practice runs. He'll head out with Group 2 Saturday for the qualifying sessions at Edmonton's City Centre Airport.
"Whenever a driver moves up from the junior categories there's a proving ground and I never won a championship in the junior formula," he said. "I came second, I came third, but I never won that title and people thought, 'Yeah, he's good, but we're not quite sure what he's going to be like in the big cars.'
"I was the exact opposite of those guys who won every championship below, but for whatever reason, it didn't click in IndyCar. Last year was a great learning experience and a chance to prove that we deserve to be here.
"It is cool to have guys who have been around for a decade saying, 'Yeah, this Hinchcliffe kid is not bad."
Hinchcliffe has won in Edmonton in an Indy Lights car, and he was on the podium in the Atlantic Series. However, the 25-year-old arrived in Edmonton in fifth place in the driver standings having dropped a couple of posts, finishing 17th in Iowa and 22nd in Toronto.
And he's on his fifth approved engine, which means he'll end up taking a 10-spot penalty on the starting grid if he has to make another change before Sunday's race.
"We have been in the top five since Race 1 and I think that exceeds a lot of expectations because it's only my second season, my first full season with a new team," Hinchcliffe said.
"(But) it's a very competitive championship. A lot of things can happen. Five races ago, Ryan Hunter Reay was eighth in points. It's still anybody's game."
As for Hinchcliffe's ingenuity, when he took over for Patrick, he launched his own "Hinch for Homepage" campaign that eventually got the attention of GoDaddy. By the Memorial Day weekend, a nationally televised commercial aired starring both drivers.
Hinchcliffe is now on the home page; GoDaddy.com is still Patrick's sponsor.
"There's a tremendous amount of pressure following an act like Danica Patrick. She was the biggest thing in our sport. What her and GoDaddy did was tremendous not just for her, but for IndyCar," he said. "So we knew right off the bat we'd have to make it my own a little bit.
"It's cool to log on and finally see my face on there. I have to thank everybody who did vote because that obviously helped a lot. Now I think the next goal is to have Danica and I up there at the same time."
There is even a fan-driven push to get Hinchcliffe on Saturday Night Live as a co-host. There's an audition video circulating and there's a "James Hinchcliffe for SNL" Facebook page — all of which the driver said he wasn't the founder of. However, he'd happily take a spot on the show.
"Man, that would be a dream come true. I love that show and there's been a lot of great Canadian comedians on it too. Maybe that's an off-season thing to push for."


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This practice/simulation course will provide students with hands-on skill building in the area of employment litigation. Students will be supervised in handling aspects of actual, ongoing state and federal litigation involving clients from the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas, including interviewing and assessing potential clients, reviewing and troubleshooting employment agreements, preparing discovery, discussing with actual litigants the experience of bringing suit, and responding to and drafting legal motions. The purpose of the course is to expose students to employment litigation, as it is actually practiced, and to build competency with practical litigation skills young lawyers use daily. Employment litigation generally involves a catastrophic loss of financial support and self-actualization on the part of the affected individual, and this course will allow students to grapple with that human side of litigation as they develop their professional skills.
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Fox, who died in January 2011, headed the railroad's coal group for seven years, during which he has been credited with improving revenues, customer service and cost controls. Fox came from a railroad family. He began his career as an assistant trainmaster for Norfolk and Western Railway in 1969. By 1993, he was general manager of NS' eastern region, when he joined the coal marketing department as assistant vice president sales and service.
"Bill was a railroader, respected not only by his fellow employees but by customers as well," said Danny Smith, senior vice president coal marketing. "He particularly had an affection for the Pocahontas Division and the coal business, so it is very fitting to name a building for him at Williamson."
The J. W. Fox, Jr. Building is three stories and 9,500 sq. ft. It includes a parking garage, locker rooms, a break room, a conference and training room and offices for management personnel. A 26-foot high atrium on the third floor allows natural light into the building.
The Williamson Yard has been a critical linchpin in NS' coal business for more than 100 years. It handles about 45 trains a day, most of which are coal trains. The yard also has repair yards, engine service buildings and machine shops that keep engines and cars functioning safely and efficiently. The roundhouse and turntable is one of the few operating roundhouses left in the U.S. and is still used to service freight cars. NS employs about 270 people at the yard.


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After receiving my MBA from Columbia Business School , and early in my career as a venture capitalist, leaving my profession behind was unimaginable. I was too busy traveling the world to find the next best deal and, therefore, establishing a family was not a priority or even a thought. I could never understand how some women go through the trouble of higher education and then leave it behind to become stay-at-home moms. I didn't get it until it happened to me…
Yes, I got pregnant with my son. So, I thought "3 months of maternity leave and then I am back to work full force." Little did I know that when the time came to go back to work, I could not do it. I could not imagine leaving him behind day in and day out from 8am to 7pm (not to mention my 3-4 days per week travel schedule). He was too little and my time with him was too precious to be transferred to a nanny. My profession does not easily lend itself to part-time employment, therefore, at the time that approach seemed to be pointless. What a tough choice it was! I needed to give up that sought after, high-salaried corporate job and put the Columbia MBA on the shelf for changing diapers and attending to his day-to-day needs. So, what happened to all those years of studying, working, and training? Was I going to throw it all out?
Fortunately, I became creative and decided to use my best professional asset: my personal contacts. I began to reach out to my network of friends, family, and colleagues. During my son's nap times, I would schedule calls and talk to people about what I can offer with my finance background and my work experience. I also attended a number of different venture capital conferences where I networked with small companies potentially looking to hire a finance person. I tried to target small companies because they usually do not have the resources to hire full-time employees and as such would look at part-time talent. And finally, it happened! My first client found me through a friend who thought I would be a good fit for their needs. My second client was an old colleague who was looking for a part-time CFO. I had another client who was referred to me by an old business school classmate. Finally, I was up and running in my home office with a number of part-time clients.
So, if you ever find yourself in my predicament, here are some steps that you may want to take as you consider your search. With some ingenuity and effort you can pursue a fulfilling career while undertaking your family responsibilities.


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Citrus Grilled Shrimp Salad
This shrimp salad features a orange vinagrette dressing made with Dijon mustard, orange juice, garlic and shallots.
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 cup chili-infused extra-virgin olive oil
1 lime, juiced
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
20 extra-large shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails left on
4 oz. mixed spring lettuce
2 oranges, skin, pith, membranes removed
2 grapefruits, skin, pith, membranes removed
1 small red onion, sliced
Orange Vinaigrette (recipe follows)
Orange Vinaigrette
Yield: about 1 cup
1 clove garlic
2 shallots, finely minced
1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. freshly ground pepper
1. For shrimp marinade, combine crushed garlic, chili olive oil, lime juice, salt and pepper. Add shrimp, place in refrigerator for ½ hour.
2. Grill shrimp on hot grill just until opaque, about 2 mins. per side.
3. Mix lettuce, citrus segments and onion in large bowl. Toss with just enough Orange Vinaigrette (recipe follows) to lightly coat.
4. Divide among 4 salad plates. Top each with 5 shrimp.
For Orange Vinaigrette:
1. Mash garlic in small bowl. Add shallots and mustard.
2. Whisk in orange juice. Then slowly whisk in olive oil.
3. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Adjust for acidity.
Recipe by Jaime Palenque, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, Glendale, Ariz.