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Design Engineer - West Yorkshire - £40,000
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- Location
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- £34000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
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Mechanical Design Engineer - West Yorkshire - £40,000 - Permanent
A renowned market leader in the mechanical manufacturing sector and within mainly oil and gas, petrochemical and energy. As a result of continued success and an on-going planned programme of strategic growth, an opportunity has arisen within their Engineering Division for a Mechanical CAD/Design Engineer to join the company on a full time basis.
You will be pro-active member of the Mechanical Design team responsible for CAD/Engineering Pressure Vessel & storage Tank fabrications.
Key duties & responsibilities:
- Compliance with customer-specified technical & commercial requirements
- Development, production & approval of manufacturing drawings, BOM, requisitions and manufacturing process instructions.
- Effective communication with customer, third party and internal personnel.
Candidate Profile:
- Knowledge of various technical & material specifications
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes/techniques and best practice
- Knowledge of site surveying and associated contractual obligations
Essential Skills:
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and detailed customer specifications.
- User knowledge & design experience of 2D AutoCad and 3D CAD
- Knowledge of Pressure Vessel steel fabrication, pipework networks, materials & coatings.
- Able to communicate clearly and precisely. Understands the principles of engineering, cost-effectiveness, lean manufacturing, niche markets and product development.
- Understands basic mechanical engineering calculations and principles
Desirable Skills:
- Working knowledge of integrated manufacturing software (BOM, planning & scheduling)
- Working knowledge of Pressure Vessel Design Calculations
For consideration, please send your up to date CV to Mudiwa Mtungi at Huxley Associates.
To find out more about Huxley Associates, please visit www.huxley.com.
To find out more about Huxley Associates, please visit www.huxley.com.


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EDWIN MALDONADO, BIRDLOVER, WINNER: "Doug (O'Neill) told me to go to the lead and if somebody wants to go out there like a rabbit let them have the lead. Nobody fought me. It was a perfect race."
DOUG O'NEILL, BIRDLOVER, WINNER: "Well, we were hoping to get an easy lead in the seventh race . . . it didn't happen, but this is a nice filly, and so is the other filly (Wittgenstein, sixth). Both of them are very earnest, and it was a wide-open race. Edwin was able to kind of walk the dog out there through easy fractions, and he had enough to kick on."
NOTES: The winning owners are Robert Csepio, Steve Keh and Daniel Kramer, et al.

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December Guild Meeting
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Annual Holiday Party and Silent Auction
Join us for our annual end-of-year holiday potluck and silent auction. Members are asked to bring a sweet or savory treat to share; beverages will be provided. Search your stash for unwanted yarn, knitting supplies, books or even abandoned works in progress to donate to the silent auction. All proceeds will benefit our Service Committee projects for 2014. This is a great way to destash for a good cause!
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An exclusive and charming hotel in the north area of Madrid
Hotel Quinta de los Cedros is one of the most exclusive hotels in Madrid, offering personalised and excellent service.
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Stay in this small palace with a Renaissance resemblance, similar to a Tuscan villa in Italy. Surrounded by a magnificent garden of century-old cedar trees that give the hotel its name. The hotel is divided in two areas: the bungalows area (old stables of the estate) surrounded by gardens are 10 rooms with terrace that have direct access from the garden and the small palace, the main building that has 22 rooms among which you can find double rooms, superior double rooms with or without terrace and double rooms with suite lounges. Also, the hotel provides its guests with meeting and private rooms, English-style bar and a terrace-restaurant open to the public in summer.
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10 Coolest Samsung Galaxy Accessories
As of April 11, 2013, Samsung revealed the newest addition to its tablet line -- the Galaxy Note 8, an eight-inch Android tablet. Earlier in March 2013, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4, a smartphone.
The following slides feature accessories that are out of this world for the Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S4. Take a look at CRN's selection of cases, Bluetooth accessories, battery accessories and more.


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When Daisuke Matsuzaka returns to the Red Sox starting rotation next week, it will be Tim Wakefield - and not, as widely speculated, Clay Buchholz - who will be bumped to accommodate him.In three starts, Wakefield has a 6.38 ERA, having allowed 23 hits and seven walks in 18.1 innings.
The Red Sox announced Thursday afternoon that Matsuzaka, who completed his rehab assignment for Pawtucket Wednesday night, would rejoin the rotation sometime next week. ...
Wakefield hasn't pitched in relief for any stretch since 2004 and last worked out of the bullpen full-time in 2002. ...
Francona also dismissed a suggestion that the team might opt for a six-man rotation ...
April 22, 2010
Wakefield Moving To The Bullpen
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- andy said...
Why? He needs the win record. Why would this have to happen outside of it making the most sense possible.
- April 24, 2010 at 11:21 AM
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Two country singers � one a veteran of the business, and one enjoying his first nationwide hit � perform Saturday in central Illinois.
Country singer/songwriter David Allan Coe, best known for the single �You Never Even Called Me By My Name,� performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bunkers Bar, 220 Old Route 36 in Illiopolis.
Advance tickets: $25, available at Showclix.com, at Daddy O�s Music Shack in Springfield, or by calling 486-5100. Tickets at the door: $30.
Coe�s other country hits as a singer include �Longhaired Redneck,� �The Ride� and �Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile,� all from the 1970s and 1980s. As a writer, Coe�s hits include Tanya Tucker�s �Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)� and Johnny Paycheck�s �Take This Job and Shove It.� George Jones, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette have recorded Coe�s songs.
Opening for Coe: The Wolf and Gypsy Band and Ashley Edwards.
Coe last performed in Illiopolis in April 2012. He originally was scheduled to perform in May, but that show was postponed. Bunkers Bar will honor tickets purchased for the May date.
Also on Saturday, former �Survivor� contestant Chase Rice brings his country music tour to Boondocks Pub, 2909 N. Dirksen Parkway. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Fans of the CBS series �Survivor� may remember Rice competed in 2010 (he finished second). Country music fans may also know him for his single �Ready Set Roll,� which was at No. 18 on last week�s Billboard magazine country singles chart.
Rice also co-wrote Florida Georgia Line�s hit song �Cruise.�
Oklahoma singer Justin Adams opens for Rice.
Advance tickets cost $15 and are available at Boondocks or at Showclix.com. Tickets day of show: $18.


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HEBRON TOWNSHIP – A Hebron man was killed Friday night in a single-vehicle crash on Thayer Road near Route 47, a McHenry County Sheriff's Office news release said.
Randall J. Rossman, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Rossman was traveling eastbound on Thayer Road in a 1998 GMC Sierra when the vehicle left the roadway, entered a ditch, went airborne over a creek and came to rest on the passenger side.
Police said Rossman was not wearing a seat belt and that alcohol is suspected to be a factor in the crash.
The McHenry County Sheriff's Office and the Hebron Fire Protection responded to the accident around 9 p.m. Friday. The investigation between the sheriff's office and the McHenry County coroner is ongoing.


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In Case You Were Wondering, LMFAO's Love Affair With The Reem is Still Going Strong
(A few months ago this woman would have gotten face-pushed.)
We're not exactly sure why, but that terrible dance music-making duo made up of Berry Gordy's relatives, LMFAO, sure do seem to love Alistair Overeem. The former Strikeforce, K-1 and DREAM heavyweight champion made his second consecutive cameo in the group's most recent music video for Sorry for Party Rockin'. Maybe Alistair will be the Captain Lou Albano to their Cindy Lauper.Read More DIGG THIS


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Looks interesting, I'll say that much. Will hold off for some impressions (or a review) before taking the plunge though. Here's hoping it's a good'n.
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1. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP 2. Machinarium 3. Limbo 4. World of Goo 5. Ridiculous Fishing: A Tale of Redemption 6. Home 7. Rayman Jungle Run 8. Space Miner: Space Ore Bust 9. Rage HD 10. 1-Bit Ninja


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Discover the World Marketing officially opened the new office in Moscow that it will use to handle sales and marketing representation in Russia for client Air New Zealand.
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Valentino Rossi was surprisingly satisfied with his effort while Nicky Hayden's struggles continued on Saturday.
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Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira to Undergo Surgery Following Armbar Loss to Fabricio Werdum
Former Pride and interim UFC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is once again going under the knife.
Nogueira reportedly suffered ligament damage resulting from an armbar submission loss to Fabricio Werdum at UFC on Fuel TV 10. Tatame.com confirmed and reported the injury and pending surgery.
An MRI revealed extensive ligament damage in his left elbow that will require Nogueira to undergo surgery on Friday.
Nogueira also required surgery following a Kimura submission loss to Frank Mir in late 2011. That surgery required 16 screws in his humerus, but Nogueira still managed to return to the Octagon 10 months later to defeat Dave Herman.
The surgery on Friday is expected to keep Nogueira sidelined for about eight weeks.
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I have always been a huge fan of VLC. It's open source, plays a lot of media files, is relatively light on resources, and runs on just about everything. Especially on Mac OS X, where the QuickTime player is limited and cumbersome, VLC offers an amazing alternative. However, on Windows and Linux it performs its role very well too, and it even runs on BeOS and Syllable (even though those versions are a little outdated). Sadly, I haven't been using VLC as often as I used to now that Windows 7's Media Player received its cleaner interface.
Originally, the project was supposed to have a client and a server, but features from the server side merged into the client side as time went on. The VideoLAN Client name was deprecated, in favour of the VLC Media Player name. Apart from the VLC Media Player, the VideoLAN Project also hosts several other projects, such as libdvdcss and x264.
Verson 1.0.0 of VLC introduces support for HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, etc.), more formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, etc.), instant pausing and frame-by-frame support, and much, much more.


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Kristen In GQOct 19th, 2008 | By Krystal | Category: Featured Articles, Movie News
Kristen Stewart is featured in the November issue of GQ Magazine as one of their Verge Girls. They also had this behind-the-scenes video of the shoot and an article.
"The series has this huge fan base," says Stewart. "And they have very specific expectations. They're supportive. But they're crazy." How so? "It's like we're their pets. If we're bad, they're going to punish us."


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Does any roboform adapter exists for KM 1.5 ....
BTW Yes, but is not published & cave! Roboform corp declined to support K-Meleon.
We can not alter their adapter. Therfore it has bugs that can crash K-Meleon 1.5.
I do not remember whether alain who created the update will release the 1.5 version.
KM 1.5 or any lighter browser.
A K-Meleon Roboform Adapter exists and is published for K-Meleon 1.1.x on the K-Meleon extensions site. K-Meleon 1.1.x can be easily updated for todays security standarts with a new GRE 184.108.40.206 from K-Meleon 1.5.1 or current SeaMonkey.
You can also install the adapter in K-Meleon 1.5.x versions, deactivate the macro and create a bookmark to chrome://roboform/content/roboNavigatorOverlay.xul.
To use the adapter You go to the bookmark & open it. The opened window has the Roboform bar at the top. If You use this window for normal browsing You get a crash that takes two K-Meleon restarts to recover
So You only use this window to open a second tab & then You immidiately close the first tab. You have about 10 seconds to do all - else You get crashed.
The second tab has a usable Roboform bar at the bottom.
It is a complicated but usable workaround.
Yes I know, I use Truecrypt and so on with backups to an external HD which is also encrypted, but try go getting your password from there if you want to log in on a forum or whatever...
JamesD, if you do it, use a good algorithm for it.
Remember to use double quotes (\") for paths with spaces.
exec("C:\\Program Files\\k-meleon\\Profiles\\q6psu8b0.default\\macros\\Secur_Paste\\dlock2.exe /E dlock2.txt dlock2.ecm /Pdeyoung"); exec("C:\\Program Files\\k-meleon\\Profiles\\q6psu8b0.default\\macros\\Secur_Paste\\sounder.exe ding.wav");I have all the required files in the folder. Sounder plays the ding.wav file, but dlock2 does not read the items on the command line. When I browse to the file in the "Run" facility and add "/E dlock2.txt dlock2.ecm /Pdeyoung" then the encrypted file is created. I have not done anything fancy like variables yet. I am just trying to get the basic action to happen.
exec("\"C:\\Program Files\\k-meleon\\Profiles\\q6psu8b0.default\\macros\\Secur_Paste\\dlock2.exe\" /E dlock2.txt dlock2.ecm /Pdeyoung"); exec("\"C:\\Program Files\\k-meleon\\Profiles\\q6psu8b0.default\\macros\\Secur_Paste\\sounder.exe\" ding.wav");
$_2quote="\""; exec($_2quote."C:\\Program Files\\k-meleon\\Profiles\\q6psu8b0.default\\macros\\Secur_Paste\\sounder.exe".$_2quote." ding.wav");
$_Snippet_SwitchM = "-e -n -p deyoung readme.txt readme.ecm" ; $_Snippet_SwitchD = "/E dlock2.txt dlock2.ecm /P deyoung" ; $_Sound_Choice = "ding.wav"; exec("\"".getfolder(UserMacroFolder)."\\Secur_Paste\\MySecret.exe\" ".$_Snippet_SwitchM."") ; exec("\"".getfolder(UserMacroFolder)."\\Secur_Paste\\dlock2.exe\" ".$_Snippet_SwitchD."") ; exec("\"".getfolder(UserMacroFolder)."\\Secur_Paste\\sounder.exe\" ".$_Sound_Choice."");
exec("\"".getfolder(UserMacroFolder)."\\Secur_Paste\\MySecret.exe\" ".$_Snippet_SwitchM) ; exec("\"".getfolder(UserMacroFolder)."\\Secur_Paste\\dlock2.exe\" ".$_Snippet_SwitchD) ; exec("\"".getfolder(UserMacroFolder)."\\Secur_Paste\\sounder.exe\" ".$_Sound_Choice);
Have almost completed the macro for the project. Only need encryption now.


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Statistics 101
A Basic Guide to the Numbers Game Behind Research
November/December 2008
Have you ever stood around a cocktail party discussing statistics? I didn't think so. But we hear about them all the time, especially when we're absorbing clinical trial results -- or election year polls. Understanding the basics of statistics is not that hard to do, despite how it seemed in school!
There are a handful of concepts that serve as the building blocks for learning statistics. I'm jumping ahead of mean, median, mode; those will not be covered here (see sidebar). We will look first at standard deviation, standard error, and confidence interval, and how they all tie in to p-value.
Building Block #1: Standard Deviation
Below is a picture of what the standard deviation (SD) tells us. The mean, μ, which is the average, is the highest point in the center of the bell-shaped curve. The area between plus or minus (±) 1 standard deviation (1σ) of the mean captures 68% of all measurements in your sample; the area between ± 2 standard deviations (2σ) captures 95% of all measurements in your sample. In other words, not very many data points -- approximately 5% -- will lie more than 2 standard deviations from the mean.
Building Block #2: Standard Error
The standard error (SE) is important in describing how well the sample mean represents the true population mean. Remember, because we can't practically measure everyone in the population, we take a random sample. Every random sample will give a slightly different estimation of the whole population. The standard error gives you a measure of how precise your sample mean is compared to the true population mean. It is calculated by the standard deviation divided by the square root of the mean. So it depends on the size of your sample. As the sample size gets larger, then variability gets smaller and we get a more precise measurement of the truth. If we measure every member of the population, then it is no longer a sample. There is only one value that can be computed by measuring every member of the population, thus there is no variability and the truth is known.
Building Block #3: Confidence Interval
Since every random sample will give a slightly different estimation of the whole population, it makes sense to try to describe what the true population looks like with more than a single number. The confidence interval (CI) estimates a range of values within which we are pretty sure the truth lies. The confidence interval depends on the standard error. It is calculated by the sample mean you have measured in your sample plus or minus approximately 2 times the standard error. For example, the 95% CI gives us the range of values within which we are confident that the true population mean falls 95% of the time.
Every point outside of the confidence interval is very unlikely to occur by chance alone. If we have a 95% CI, then it means that there is a 5% chance that the true mean of the population is outside of that interval. In other words, we're pretty confident of the value of our confidence interval! This area outside the confidence area corresponds to a parameter called alpha, α. And usually we split α so that half is in the upper tail (2.5%) and half is in the lower tail (2.5%). This is what we mean by a two-tailed confidence interval.
The CI tells us a lot about our sample. We can draw conclusions about statistical significance based on the location of the CI. For example, suppose we have a CI that estimates the difference between two groups: a value of zero corresponds to no difference (that is, the null value). Therefore a CI that excludes zero denotes a statistically significant finding. Beware, though, that the null value is not always zero! It depends upon your null hypothesis, which will be described below.
Combining Building Blocks 1, 2, & 3: Describing a Sample
Four Steps in Conducting an Experiment or Study
Step 1
The first step of the experiment is to state your hypothesis. The null hypothesis, H0, is pre-defined and represents a statement which is the reverse of what we hope the experiment will show. It is named the null hypothesis because it is the statement that we want the data to reject. The alternative hypothesis, Ha, is also predefined and represents a statement of what we hope the experiment will show. Ha is the hypothesis that there is a real effect.
Suppose we design a study to test if Optimized Background Treatment (OBT) + New Drug are better than just OBT alone. Our null hypothesis is that there is no difference between the groups. Our alternative hypothesis is that the two groups are not the same. (We hope that OBT + New Drug is better!) Depending on the data gathered from the study, we will either reject the null hypothesis or not.
Step 2
The next step is to design your experiment and select the test statistic. The test statistic defines the method that will be used to compare the two groups and help interpret the outcome at the end of the study.
Sometimes the comparison may be based on the differences in means, and use continuous data analysis methods. Sometimes the comparison may be based on proportions, and use categorical data analysis methods. There are many possibilities.
For our example from Step 1, the test statistic will be based on the comparison of the proportion of patients with HIV viral load (VL) less than (<) 50 copies/mL in each treatment group of our study sample.
Many other important decisions go into designing the experiment besides selecting the test statistic. We also calculate the sample size, agree on the power of the study, and establish parameters like α and β (described below).
Step 3
After we generate a random study sample, we conduct the study and collect the data. The third step is to investigate the hypotheses stated in Step 1 and compare the groups. In our hypothetical example, we find that 75% of subjects in the OBT + New Drug group achieve VL <50 copies/mL compared to 35% of patients in the control group. This produces a p-value <0.0001.
The p-value (the "p" stands for "probability") helps us decide whether the data from the random study sample supports the null hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis. P-value is the probability that these results would occur if there was truly no difference between the groups -- that is, how likely the results would have been observed purely by chance. The closer the p-value is to 0, the greater the likelihood that the observed difference in viral load is real and not due to chance, thus the more reason we have to reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis. We look for a p-value of 0.05 or smaller. This represents a 5-in-100 probability -- a very small chance indeed!
Step 4
The last step is to compare the p-value with α and interpret the finding. Alpha is called the significance level. As described above in the section on CI, it is the area outside of the confidence area. It is most commonly defined as α=0.05. If the p-value is less than or equal to α, then the null hypothesis is rejected and we declare a statistically significant finding has been observed. If the p-value is greater than α, then the null hypothesis is not rejected.
Remember, our hypothetical example produced a p-value <0.0001. This is well below α=0.05, so we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that OBT + New Drug and OBT alone are different. We can even take it one step further and conclude that OBT + New Drug are better than OBT.
The results of a study are often described by both the p-value and the 95% CI. The p-value is a single number that guides whether or not to reject the null hypothesis. The 95% CI provides a range of plausible values for describing the underlying population.
Concepts in Designing a Study: Type I Error, Type II Error, and Power
One way to think about them is to consider the relationship between a smoke detector and a house fire. (Reference: Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith; The Cartoon Guide to Statistics; 1993; pp151-152). The purpose of the smoke detector, of course, is to warn us in case of a fire. However, it is possible to have a fire without an alarm, as well as an alarm without a fire. Those are situations or errors that we do not ideally want, but they are possible events nevertheless. So the "true state" can be either no fire (Ho) or house fire (Ha).
Ideally, we want the alarm to alert us if there is a fire and we want the alarm to remain silent when there is no fire.
If we have an alarm without a fire, then a Type I error has been committed. This corresponds to α, which is the probability of claiming a difference/rejecting Ho. Alpha is normally pre-set to 0.05. In other words, we accept a 5% chance of a "false alarm."
If we have a fire but it does not cause an alarm, then a Type II error has been committed. This corresponds to beta, β, which is the probability of missing a difference when one truly exists/not rejecting Ho. Beta is normally pre-set to 10% or 20%. In other words, we accept a 10% or 20% chance of a "failed alarm."
Power is defined by 1-β, which is the probability of a real fire when there is an alarm. It is normally pre-set to 80% or 90%. It controls the probability of observing a true difference, or a "true alarm." In other words, with power=80%, we accept that eight trials out of 10 will correctly declare a true difference and that two trials out of 10 will incorrectly miss a true difference. β is a risk that we would want to minimize; and it is a risk to minimize as much as possible but it comes with a price: a larger study, plus more time to recruit subjects, measure, and report.
A p-value greater than α=0.05 could be non-significant because there is truly no difference between the groups. Or it could be non-significant because the study is not large enough to detect a true underlying difference. Determining the optimal sample size for a study requires a great deal of thought in the beginning at the planning stage. A sample size that is unnecessarily large is a waste of resources. But a sample size that is too small has a higher likelihood of not representing the underlying population and consequently missing a "true alarm." The small study has a wider confidence interval because the standard error is large, or less precise. As we said above in Building Block #2, when the sample size gets larger, the variability gets smaller and we get a more precise measurement of the truth. The optimal sample size depends on all of the various assumptions that go into its calculation.
For instance, to plan a superiority study as in Step 2 above, we need to make decisions/assumptions on the following parameters: α (generally 0.05), whether the hypothesis is one-sided or two-sided (generally two-sided), power (generally 80-90%), the response rate in the test arm, and the response rate in the control arm. These assumptions are directly tied to the study being designed -- so different types of studies require different sets of information for the sample size calculation. Changing any one of the decisions/assumptions will change the sample size calculation.
Basic Requirements of Clinical Research Study
Understanding the basics of statistics is helpful in evaluating the messages that arise out of research. Good research follows clearly articulated steps and serious planning. The goal of research is to answer a question. In order to do so, it comes down to establishing:
In conclusion, study designs are chosen depending on the questions that are being studied. Study endpoints are selected according to the hypothesis under investigation and the study population being enrolled. And study interpretations depend on the hypotheses being tested. Statistics can help weigh the evidence and draw conclusions from the data.
Amy Cutrell resides in Chapel Hill, NC, and has worked at GlaxoSmithKline for twenty years. She received a MS in biostatistics from the UNC School of Public Health.
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Glencoe soars at Aloha Preview
Crimson Tide tune up for the Pacific Conference season with a strong showing at the Aloha Preview
ALOHA Big meet, big-time experience.
In recent years, the Glencoe track and field team has typically spent the first Saturday after spring break competing in the Sandy Invitational. But last Saturday, the Crimson Tide mixed it up a bit and headed just down the road to the Aloha Preview at Aloha High School, where they certainly made their presence felt by picking up a total of 12 top-three finishes.
The Preview served as just the second competition for Glencoe this spring, and given that it offers both varsity and freshman/sophomore divisions, it gave coach Dennis Rice the chance to scope out a considerable portion of his team.
Weve been at Sandy the last several years, and we love it there, but it was nice to be able to stay a little closer to home, Rice said. All in all, we had some great performances top to bottom, and I really feel like we had some underclassmen learn some invaluable experience by being at this type of meet. Moving forward, theyre going to be better for it, too.
With victories in three events, the Tide boys certainly held their own in damp, chilly, breezy conditions. In the varsity division, Mason Rouches led teammate Abe Teklu to an impressive 1-3 finish in the 3,000 meters, and Justin worthy used a sizeable personal best to win the shot put competition.
In the 3,000 Rouches and Teklu posted two of the three best times in the league heading into Wednesdays meets. Rouches crossed the line in 9 minutes, 1.27 seconds, slicing an impressive 17 seconds off his personal best. Jesuits Sahil Doshi was second in 9:09.45, and Teklu was not far behind in 9:11.75, good for a 10-second PR.
Worthy stamped himself as a thrower on the rise and one to watch this season by setting his second personal record in four days. In the Tides season-opening meet at Tigard last Wednesday, the junior opened up with a winning mark of 47 feet, 2½ inches.
On Saturday, he was even better, launching a winning throw of 48-11¾ to best the field by more than six feet. That mark was the 10th-best among Class 6A boys heading into this week.
I felt pretty well, Worthy said. Ive just had some good training. Its all coming together today.
Worthy, a state qualifier last spring as a sophomore, has already added more than three feet to his PR this season, and there could be more to come. On his fourth and final throw on Saturday, he fouled on a 50-foot-plus throw.
The confidence is improving while the marks improve too, and the young man is learning what it takes to be a good thrower the mental toughness, the physical toughness, said Rice, who, as a former javelin thrower at USC, knows all about that. The kids been working his butt off for the past whole entire year, and we love seeing his continued success.
Glencoes other winner was its boys 4x200-meter freshman/sophomore relay team. The quartet of Shad Mont, Kirk Anderson, Joel Biamont and Kyle Brown finished in 1:42.28 to edge Central Catholic by four tenths of a second.
Other top varsity finishes for Glencoe included Chaz Chavez, who was sixth in the high jump (5-7), and the seventh-place distance medley relay of Cadell Chand, Miles Trinidad, Scott Ackerman and Taylor England (12:48.02).
In the freshman/sophomore division, Lucas Fort took third place in the discus (102-4), as did Kaleb Havlik in the javelin (131-11).
On the girls side, Courtney Vacek led Glencoe with a second-place result in the triple jump. A junior out for the team for the first time this spring, Vacek backed her season-opening 36-0 jump a new school record with a 35-0 effort in less-than-ideal conditions at Aloha. Jesuits Hadley Wilhoite won the event in 35-8½, while the Tides Chloe Harris took fourth in 32-1½.
Vacek and Harris make up two-thirds of a promising triple jump trio for the Tide. Alexandria Tessner added a fourth-place result in the freshman/sophomore triple jump in 30-5½ after going 31-9 against Tigard. Tessner also finished fourth in the youngsters 300 hurdles (52.28) on Saturday.
Sabrina McGowen was another young Tide competitor who showed a great deal of promise with a third-place result in the freshman/sophomore 800 (2:31.53). McGowen ran the sprints last year as a freshman and tried the two-lap race for just the second time on Saturday, chopping off nearly two seconds from her first outing.
It feels good for this meet, McGowen said about her finish. I was nervous, and theres a lot of good people out here.
One of the teams returning veterans, Leah McClain, continued her strong start to the season with a third-place finish in the varsity 300 hurdles (49.43) despite not executing technically to her own high standards.
I started out a little bit too fast, I think, said McClain, who finished third in the Pacific Conference in the low hurdles in 2013. And Im not very happy with how I went over the last hurdle. Its OK. Im going to stay positive and just kill it next week.
In the varsity portion of the meet, other top finishers for Glencoe were Cally Kennedy, fourth in the shot put (30-4); Jessica DeBord, fourth in the pole vault (8-4); Grace Diller, fifth in 100 hurdles (17.96); Madeline Buss, sixth in the javelin (99-4); and the fifth-place 4x100 relay of McClain, Dominique Mossman, Rosie Hunker and Caitlin Herring (52.75).
In the freshman/sophomore division, third-place finishers included Herring in the high jump (4-10), Hanna Pecorilla in the pole vault (7-0), Hunker in the 100 hurdles (18.35) and the 4x400 relay of Ruth Teklu, McGowen, Emily Swehosky and LiAna Curtis (4:40.72).
Glencoe is now off until next Wednesday, when the Tide host Newberg in their first home meet of the season.


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Along with the gift card, those that buy from Toys R Us will receive a free Halo ODST Rookie Action Figure. Unfortunately for those without a nearby TRU, the gift card promotion is only in-store, though the free action figure deal is available online.


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PHILADELPHIA – The Phillies have had a long, murderously painful May, most of which was endured on their home diamond.
It seemed fitting that, as the month comes to a disappointing close, they play a long, murderously painful game against the Mets for fourth-place supremacy in the National League East.
At least this one ended well for the Phillies.
After Chris Young graciously opened the bottom of the 14th by dropping a fly ball in right off the bat of Marlon Byrd for a two-base error, Carlos Ruiz singled and an intentional walk set up Reid Brignac to end it. He obliged, driving a walk-off single to deep left field as the Phillies got seven scoreless innings from their beleaguered bullpen and savored a 6-5 victory at Citizens Bank Park after five hours, 23 minutes.
It was a wild outing for A.J. Burnett, who shuttled between befuddling opposing hitters and his manager. He started his night throwing nine straight strikes and working a powerful top of the first. In the second, 11 of his first 14 pitches were balls, and after walking the first two batters and falling behind 3-0 to Lucas Duda, who got a green light and smoked an RBI double. The Mets plated two more runs on an RBI groundout and a single by Ruben Tejada.
The Phils mounted a comeback, getting on the board in the third when Burnett and Rollins singled and Chase Utley scored Burnett with a RBI grounder. However, the inning before, in Dom Brown's first plate appearance, he grounded out to push his average under the Mendoza Line.
It didn't stay below .200 long. The struggling left fielder took advantage of a 2-0 fastball after Marlon Byrd walked and Carlos Ruiz singled and hit a towering, 3-run homer to right that put the Phillies up, 4-3.
Burnett, however, had one more dip left in his up-and-down outing, as former Phillie Bobby Abreu – who was cut late in spring training – roped a two-run double in the top of the fifth to put the Mets back on top. The Phils responded by tying it in the bottom of the inning, with Brown rolling an RBI grounder between the legs of Daisuke Matsuzaka.
And there it stayed for a long, long time.
Burnett allowed five hits and five runs, walking six and striking out 11 in his seven innings of work. That was the first time that pitching line ever had been recorded in a big-league game, which isn't as easy as it might seem when you consider more than 200,000 games have been played in 138 years.
It was just the fourth time since 2000 that a pitcher had at least 11 strikeouts and six walks in an outing, with former Phillie Brett Myers pulling the same stunt June 19, 2006. Only seven other Phillies in history had 11-plus Ks and six-plus walks in a start.
If you delve into the uniqueness of Burnett's start more, there were only 21 instances prior to Burnett where a pitcher had struck out at least 11 batters, walked at least six and allowed five or more earned runs in a game. Interestingly, five of those pitching lines belonged to Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan.


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Emma wrap shorts
Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Bonnie Wright accepted the Family Film Award last night at the National Movie Awards in London. We are just 3 weeks away from the grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. I can't think about this.
Let's focus instead on these – have you seen these? Be careful when you open this link. You will jumpy clap. And your colleagues might hear you. Look at all the photos. Look at Albus Severus! Click here. And there's more here and here.
November, November, November... Part 1.
As for what Emma wore last night – I love the print, I love the shorts, I love the shoes, I can tolerate the fishnet, but what I cannot get past is the wrap across the chest. It's like a baby sling. It makes her look wide. Standing next to Dan doesn't help either.
Emma was at the afterparty at Claridges and I hear she and GOOP were giggling together at one point. What I would give to be the third girl out on that conversation.
Photos from Wenn.com


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MorningStar: Bond tips from Morningstar's 2012 fixed-income manager of the year.
Bloomberg: It looks like Bill Gross is not as hot on munis for 2013 as he was in 2012.
Thomson Financial: A great chart of yearly bond issuance broken down by credit rating.
AllianceBernstein: How to evaluate high-yield bank loans.
Research Puzzle: Understanding the yield curve.
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Pilgrimage to Russia
With the blessings of His Eminence Metropolitan Philip, His Grace Bishop Nicholas and Archpriest Thomas Zain will be leading a pilgrimage to Russia from August 13-27, 2013. They will spend 8 nights in St. Petersburg and 5 nights in Moscow, visiting the various religious and cultural sights in both cities.
Highlights in St. Petersburg will include St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Isaac Cathedral, Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan and the Church of the Spilt Blood. The Hermitage, the Yusupov Palace, the summer palaces of the Czars and the Sts. Peter and Paul Fortress. Also included is a day trip to the ancient capital of Novgorod where we will visit the St. George Monastery and the Kremlin. In Moscow, highlights will include visits to the St. Sergius-Trinity Lavra (Monastery), which is the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church, Christ the Savior Cathedral, the Kremlin museums and Cathedrals, the Butovo Firing Range and several monasteries.
The group will be limited to between 16-22 people to keep the pilgrimage small in size. For a brochure containing more detailed information, please contact Fr. Thomas Zain at email@example.com.


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|2013-05-30, 11:00
|Link #322
Part-Time TTK & Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Iwakawa base and Chaldea
Age: 38
I love messing around with Futo's plates, and Byakuren, who feels like a replacement for Hong Meiling (hint: strong melee but not that good at bullets). Reimu is pretty much the Do-It All character. She gains popularity rather fast, her bullets are good, she have decent melee and most of all she is good at running away. Which is all the more disgusting when you decide to chicken out.
|2013-05-30, 11:18
|Link #323
Join Date: Oct 2009
So apparently the win condition for 13.5 is either get your opponent's health down to 0 or have a higher "Faith" meter than your opponent by the time the round ends due to a timeout. Furthermore, this "Faith" meter carries over rounds, meaning if you won the first round by timeout while having a huge lead on your opponent over the "Faith" meter, you could literally just stall during the second round for the match.
I don't like this system too much.
|2013-06-02, 19:42
|Link #324
Join Date: Apr 2010
Age: 28
I tired out the demo for 14 earlier today. While it is standard that the challenge jumps sharply at stage 4 of pretty much every touhou game, I found the first 3 of the demo to be a lot easier that most games, still. My skill level is only about clearing normal on most games, so it kind of surprised me that I was able to get through the first 3 stages, on normal, without losing a life on my first try.
|2013-06-27, 12:14
|Link #326
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
Well, she's a Suwako of Hopeless Masquerade, so I figure there will be a whole section dedicates toward her sooner or later .
Still, I need to find someone to play again. The AI is just suck and boring.
|2013-06-27, 16:50
|Link #327
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
|2013-07-03, 08:33
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Old Wine
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: In my Body
Oh yeah, how many people here has watched Diamond In The Rough? Made with Walfas, frame by frame, it pokes fun at countless Authors and Deconstructs the usual way people made Touhou fanfics (aka Gappy Sues/Stus). The fact that the incomplete preview reduced people to unintelligible sobbing messes is kind of awesome.
Summary Page: DitR
|2013-08-12, 23:08
|Link #332
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
Maybe I'm just suck at flipping control. Keep on dying at stage 5. I don't have a habit of using bombs, though.
|2013-08-12, 23:45
|Link #333
The Opened Ultimate Gate
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 23
got too curious about what this this "touhou" stuff is about and finally got around to play this game after much procrasting, started with EoSD, the first "modern" touhou game. played at normal mode and ran out of continues on my first run at stage 4.
any tips on playing this game? for now I'm spamming Lunatic mode to "train" myself at dodging bullets.
|2013-08-12, 23:53
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A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
I guess you should start off with "nudging", as in moving as little as possible to avoid bullets and get accustomed to the hitbox.
Although I'd suggest you to start with Touhou 7 - Perfect Cherry Blossom instead, since EoSD has some wacky and random pattern that could results in inevitable dead situation.
Or you could watch the gameplay on youtube to study bullet patterns.
I'm not sure non-bombing run even possible in DDC.
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|2013-08-13, 06:29
|Link #335
The Opened Ultimate Gate
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 23
still can't get pass stage 5 without running out of continues. OTL
Lunatic training helped though, after playing it for 10 run I can clear 3 first stage in normal without continuing, compare to use up 2 continues in the first 3 stage in some of my first run.
is EoSD one of the harder or easier game of touhou series?
|2013-08-13, 08:11
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A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
It's harder in a sense that some spell cards have random pattern that could turn in impossible to avoid situation. Furthermore, there is no gimmick to save your ass, so I'd say PCB is easier since it gives you a little margin for error.
Man, Sukuna's last spell card is way too bright and colorful. My eyes tired out only after 3 playthroughs.
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|2013-08-14, 17:20
|Link #340
The Opened Ultimate Gate
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 23
got to stage 6, fought remilia to the last HP bar with 3 lives and full bomb left, thought I will just spam bomb to victory, only to find out that her last HP bar is immune to bombs, which result in those me watching those last 3 lives go 1 by 1 and game over. OTL
was totally clueless in that last pattern and my reaction was not fast enough to make full use of those bomb to clear out bullets when I nearly get hit.
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Pinball Maniacs Review
While video games are still relatively young as a form of entertainment, pinball goes back centuries, with the earliest concepts dating back to the 1700s. The game persists to this day, though its traditional form has become a bit more scarce with the death of arcades. All the while, video game developers are carrying on the tradition by creating their own versions.
Generally speaking, this results in two types of games: Those which try to recreate the pure arcade pinball experience as closely as possible, such as in Pinball HD Collection, and more 'video game styled' pinball games, wherein the benefits of being completely computer-generated are exploited and used to expand the concept to a degree (such as Kirby's Pinball Land or, taken to its utmost extreme, Sonic Spinball). Of the two types, Pinball Maniacs falls closer to the latter.
The premise behind Pinball Maniacs is that 'Justin and his friends embark on an epic treasure hunt, encountering dangerous enemies along the way,' which is used to explain away the two settings of a pirate island and a dragon's castle (though the latter is locked away for a rather exorbitant price). You'll 'choose' from a group of missions by hitting a corresponding orb on the table with your own ball, and then the table will be filled with treasures and enemies which go with that mission.
Lined up like bowling pins.
Unfortunately, the game can bea pain to play. As far as the controls go, it's pretty simple: You tap the left side of the screen to activate left flippers, and the right side for right flippers. To get the most precision, you'll want to be ready to hit either flipper at any time, which makes one-handed playing a practice not recommended.
The clutching position you're likely to take with both hands can get a little uncomfortable after a while, and you are also unable to flip the iPhone, in case a comfortable position happens to cover the speaker. Trying to hold the phone higher can result in accidental triggering of the items menu (where you can peruse power-ups which have different effects on the board or ball, such as magnetizing the latter to attract coins), while holding it too low can result in accidentally tapping offscreen. The result is something of a balancing act which takes some getting used to.
One bothersome effect of this being a freemium game is that they exploit this at every opportunity, often to the detriment of the game itself. Ad interruptions are frequent, with some even popping up during gameplay (we got one ad during a round which we didn't realize was an ad at first, and tapping it exited to the App Store… and even then, it loaded a blank page).
The points pile up.
Others manage to tease you: lose a ball, and they ask if you want to unlock the next table. Thinking you've met some criteria for unlocking it, you click okay, and then they hit you with the price: ten of the game's difficult-to-acquire rubies, which cannot be bought with the ring-like coin currency (you can exchange rubies for coins, but not vice-versa). Or, you can buy enough rubies for about five dollars– a hefty price for a single table.
Driving the general cheapness home is the fact that during play, you only get one ball. As noted at the top of the article, pinball has been around a long time, and in our lifetime, this is the first time in a pinball game– be it a physical pinball machine or a video game simulation– where you only get one ball per credit. You can continue, but it costs you coins, and with each continue, the cost goes up more and more until you can no longer afford to continue– particularly bothersome when you're having to swat away in-game ads, shake the iPhone to loosen a ball that got wedged somewhere, or just those occasions where it happens to drop right where neither flipper can reach it.
It's not as though Pinball Maniacs isn't fun, but it would probably have been more enjoyable as a full game where you simply pay a flat rate for a complete experience, rather than being pestered and taken for money, virtual or real, at every turn.


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August 21, 2012 > Kaiser Permanente helps community clinics
Thousands of low-income patients across the Bay Area and northern California will get better access to community and public resources such as food banks, job training programs, shelters for the homeless and victims of domestic violence, thanks to new Kaiser Permanente grants to community clinics totaling $666,000.The Kaiser Permanente grants to 11 community clinics - each grant is $60,000 - will enable the clinics to screen, and help enroll patients for public benefit programs such as CalFresh/SNAP food stamps, Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program."Kaiser Permanente is committed to keeping people healthy-and health means much more than just health care," said Dr. David Shearn, director of Physician Education and Development and Community Benefit physician liaison for Kaiser Permanente Northern California.In Fremont, Newark and Union City, the Tri-City Health Center will use the grant to help Tri-City's pregnant population gain better access to community resources."Tri-City Health Center recognizes that health does not exist in a vacuum and as a community clinic we offer much more than health care services," said Pam Kitagawa, manager of Teen and Women's Programs at Tri-City Health Center in Fremont.The full list of recipients of the $60,000, one-year grants:* Curry Senior Center (San Francisco)* North East Medical Services (San Francisco, Daly City, San Jose)* Ravenswood Family Health Center (San Mateo County)* Gardner Family Health Network (San Jose, Santa Clara, Gilroy)* La Clinica de la Raza (Alameda, Contra Costa County, and Solano Counties)* LifeLong Medical Care (Alameda County)* Tri-City Health Center (Fremont, Newark, Union City)* Petaluma Health Center (Petaluma area)* Midtown Medical Center for Children and Families (Sacramento) * Sacramento Native American Health Center (Sacramento area)* United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley (San Joaquin Valley)For more information, go to: kp.org/newscenter.


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Then people can answer calls/check facebook/play minesweeper during meetings without being noticed.
Do 20-somethings even know what minesweeper is?
It's going to be hard not to notice the person staring into space and drooling.
At a business meeting?
Ok, I am a 30 something year old so I don't fit into either demographics...
However most of the time meetings are an out of date idea's. They historically worked because we didn't have a communication infrastructure that we do today. Conference phones where limited in the number of people on the line, issues with the person not being close enough to the phone to be heard and a slew of other communication problems, and before that it was very hard to get a bunch of people work on an idea, in a timely manner.
But really for most meetings, the individual doesn't need to be fully mentally involved unless there is something important to them. It would be much easier to chat via a message system, you can see the stuff go across your screen, while you work on something else, until something important comes up you can can then review what went on and come up with an appropriate answer.
the 20 somethings who grew up with this technology knows this and get very board during these meetings, as there is a lot of stuff that isn't important to them at the time that is going on. Now that said, It is still rude to disrupt the meeting with your activities, and if you are stuck at the meeting you should show some tact, but hopefully experience will clear that up.
More time spent paying attention even when you didn't think it was important may have paid off on spelling and grammar. "ideas", "were" limited, "fully involved mentally" (ok, that one is probably debatable), "The" 20"-"somethings", "bored"
That said, the road we've been going down for decades already, since even the 40-somethings were kids, is one of more and more stimulation, of lower and lower quality. A hundred years ago, kids likely had to invent their own games, or, if they had access, they could read. 40 years ago, it was TV. Today it's Facebook. It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that we've been training ourselves to require constant stimulation, with no regard for how good it is. Or, rather, we've stopped learning how to just be quiet and focused on the here and now, no matter how "boring" it might be. It apparently is also a helpful skill for being respectful of those around you.
Well excuse my Diagnosed Dyslexia, some things are not quite easy for me.
I'm sorry, but that is largely a load of crap.
I have had to attend a great many meetings in my day that were entirely irrelevant to me, my job, etc. There was no reason for me to be there, other than the fact that a manager wanted me to physically be there.
Now, you can argue that I should not have to attend useless meetings, but the older generation is stuck on them and so we have little choice. That is not to say that no meetings have merit, of course.
Being able to sit quietly in an irrelevant meeting isn't actually a particularly useful skill in the rest of life, so I can hardly blame anyone for wanting something to do or some other distraction during them.
You may consider it impolite or disrespectful. I consider it disrespectful to make me waste an hour of my time because you feel the need to show your self-importance by calling unnecessary meetings and forcing people who have no need to go to them to be there.
On the other hand, doing what your boss asks of you, even when it's wasting your time in a useless meeting, is your job!
If the meetings prevent you from doing the useful part of your job, tell your boss. If not, sit there quietly, you're paid to take a break.
Exactly. If it was fun they wouldn't have to pay you to be there. This is where he goes wrong:
"Being able to sit quietly in an irrelevant meeting isn't actually a particularly useful skill in the rest of life, so I can hardly blame anyone for wanting something to do or some other distraction during them."
Yes it is a useful skill in life. It's part of how you stay employed. Your boss wants you in the meeting, so you are in the meeting. End of story. Wanting "some other distraction" is another way
It becomes a problem at review time when all the things you wanted to be doing instead are metrics used to decide your raise and sitting quietly in meetings while the boss talks about golf isn't.
I agree they shouldn't be taking phone calls right there in the meeting, people are trying to sleep.
On the other hand, doing what your boss asks of you, even when it's wasting your time in a useless meeting, is your job!
No it bloody isn't. If you've been hired as a programer, your job is to program. Read your contract.
If the meetings prevent you from doing the useful part of your job, tell your boss.
Good luck if you have a boss who values "meeting weight".
If not, sit there quietly, you're paid to take a break.
If you believe sitting totally bored in a meeting is a break then you a very strange person. Here
Kids today got respect!
Oh and GET OFF MY LAWN!
Hey wait, can you come back and show me how this new phone works?
Most of upper management is on their crackberry when anything remotely technical pops up in a meeting.
I have to agree. Very few meetings would keep me from monitoring my email, being a tech lead you have to keep on top of things, and the excuse "well,I was in a meeting" means nothing if the department has lost connectivity. Monitoring or responding to social communications is not included, and even a call from the CEO would be taken outside the room. The balance is are you being responsive to your positions demands vs. ignoring them and being involved in non-work conversations, while being able to participate in the meeting so as to contribute as appropriate and retain or record information as needed.
There's this ancient business tradition where in an emergency technical staff can be called out of a meeting. Your company should try it some time. It actually works pretty well.
Yes. I attended meetings of the board of directors and it's normal behaviour to text. Detail, the average age of this board is above 40.
If you answer a call, it better be important but people will understand
Most of upper management is on their crackberry when anything remotely technical pops up in a meeting.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Checking their messages should not bother anyone else, so if they are not getting anything from the discussion, at least they are getting something else productive done. Even better is to have a policy that anyone can excuse themselves from a meeting anytime they have nothing to contribute or gain from staying. If you are talking in a meeting, and you notice lots of people checking their phones, maybe you should stop droning on and learn to be more concise.
Most of upper management is on their crackberry when anything remotely technical pops up in a meeting.
I think the primary problem is "meeting" is undefined.
For a 2-person meeting (i.e., you and someone else), I think it's completely rude to text with a third person (that includes crackberries) - a one-on-one is a rare enough event that the person you're with should get your full attention. The rules get relaxed in more informal situations, but a formal business meeting with your boss, or your client, or whatever, no.
For small group meetings, I suppose it's OK as long as it's not distracting. Especially if you're not really needed or not participating much. If you're a critical speaker, then don't waste everyone else's time by answering texts while everyone's waiting on you.
For larger meetings, fine go along with it - half the people there already are. Just be cognizant of people around you and move to the back or something so you disturb less people.
Yes, it's different rules for different situations. In small settings, no, it's completely a bad idea. In larger settings, it doesn't matter so much. If you want to play Angry Birds, go for it, as long as those around you aren't disturbed.
Maybe the young kids have just figured out what the older generations haven't, which is that meetings are often a life-draining waste of time? They could be answering their phones in passive-aggressive protest of being locked up wasting their time in a conference room. </snark>
No meetings are about powerpoint, useless droning on and wasting everyone's time. Meetings are the alternative to work for the people who schedule them.
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
Good meetings and committees have a good chairperson.
A good chairperson makes achievable goals, gives out assignments, and keeps discussions on task. He or she checks that assignments are done and makes reports of progress with measurable results.
A bad chairperson lets participants ramble and never checks to see that anyone accomplishes anything.
So when you say you go to bad meetings, what you're saying is that you have a bad chairperson.
Maybe you have never worked on complex projects where it is important that everyone is on the same page, and where consensus has to be reached.
It is basic maths. 2 people knowing what each are doing takes one meeting, 3 would take 3 meetings, 4 would take 6 meetings and 5 would take 10 meetings. Your way just doesn't scale. Oh and that assumes that the second person you talk to doesn't require you to go back to the first.
If a particular meeting is a waste of your time... don't go!
If you're spending time in meetings that are of no value to you and your work and you haven't pushed back, that's your fault.
Yeah, but then you have "stakeholders" complaining to your manger that you're not reporting to their meetings, where they ask you one yes/no question after 30 minutes of talking about things unrelated to your job. If you got a choice between getting things done and not getting fired, you're going to choose the latter.
I would fall into the leader role, and again "none of us is as dumb as all of us". Good leadership is always better than trying to get everyone to agree on a plan, that plan will suck.
My experience is that someone who makes assumptions like you just did is probably a blowhard who wastes others time with meetings because he needs to appear busy.
There is also this little issue of on-the-job training. If the design decisions are made in meetings, and the juniors are exposed to those decisions, hopefully they'll learn about what goes into those decisions and the decision making process.
But if they're busy crusing crackbook on their cell phone instead of paying attention, they're not going to learn shit. They're insulting everyone else and doing themselves a disservice by not paying attention.
90% of life is boring. Get used to it, and pay atte
If you can not get that out of a meeting, fire the participants.
I think my boss would be angry if I fired him.
I agree that meetings can potentially be as you described but a potential major waste of everyone's time in a meeting would be sitting and waiting for so and so to get off their damn phone.
I'm over 40 - here's my take: the texting? No problem. You may miss something in the middle of paying more attention to the phone than the current speaker but you're not really disrupting anyone else. A phone call? No way, people can not tune you out and the noise you are generating is unacceptable.
I may not be a cell-phone-in-a-business-meeting guy, but I am firmly of the opinion that the more of someone's time you waste while holding a meeting, the more likely people are to find something else to do while attending.
Most people who hold "meetings" in today's business world confuse meeting with lectures and slideshows.
Watch anything where a meeting takes place from your grandparents' generation. Someone is in charge, someone is taking down the minutes, the presentations are quick, efficient, and unem
Texting, (and e-mailing, and web surfing, and just letting your thoughts drift) is ok if the meeting is boring enough
Most 50- and 60-somethings I know think it's OK, too.
"Me, too." I see exactly zero correlation between age and use of phone/laptop during meetings. Part of it is boredom, and part of it is people's belief that they're too important to pay attention to the meeting itself. -- but I do agree that there are way too many meetings in my company.
Ignoring any potential objective effects, wouldn't it make more sense to state, "if you're an older worker, remember that they aren't trying to be rude?" And then, maybe to say something, instead of judging silently?
Basically the assumptions that the "correct" standard of behavior belongs solely to a certain group, and that others should be expected to be a priori aware of others opinions absent communication, are critically flawed.
Texting and msking calls shows you are paying attention to something other than the meeting and/or the contents of the meeting. Most people would consider that rude.
Nope, not when they are raised with cell phones at the table.
At dinner table...
Dad: Put down your damn phone!
Daughter: Umm... (points to my phone).
Just a personal anecdote. I was invited to present to senior leadership at my company, and everybody in the room significantly outranked me. The previous speaker had taken a while after lunch to speak, and after I finished setting up several people were still not back from taking a break. I asked the executive running the meeting if I should go ahead and start. He told me not to, and that we'd go ahead and embarrass anybody who was late, which he basically then did (he didn't say a word, but I'm sure everybody who walked in noted the dead silence in the room). I was given my full allotment of time to present despite them being a few minutes behind on the agenda.
The message I got out of this was that the executive running the meeting valued my time, and wanted those who worked for him to do the same. Everybody was well-engaged in the brief discussion following my presentation. The meeting had none of the usual distractions.
I made a point to pass along feedback afterwards that I appreciated the way the meeting was run. My manager actually told me at our next meeting that she was asked to relay an apology from the executive for the waste of my time. It really had an impact on the importance I placed on doing a good job at work - leadership by example works.
Today, you usually know who's calling before you answer. It may be appropriate to take a call if it's more important than the meeting. If you're in sales, a call from a major customer is probably more important than a meeting. If you're responsible for something operational, a call from someone reporting trouble is probably more important than the meeting.
As for reading texts, if you're in a meeting and the current meeting activity doesn't involve you, it's an effective use of your time. This is more of a large-meeting thing. Large meetings are generally nonproductive anyway.
Today, you usually know who's calling before you answer. It may be appropriate to take a call if it's more important than the meeting. If you're in sales, a call from a major customer is probably more important than a meeting. If you're responsible for something operational, a call from someone reporting trouble is probably more important than the meeting.
Except in both of those cases, you would excuse yourself and step out of the meeting to take the call. You don't sit in the conference room and talk on the phone while the meeting is going on.
Today, you usually know who's calling before you answer. It may be appropriate to take a call if it's more important than the meeting. If you're in sales, a call from a major customer is probably more important than a meeting.
Sure, but not in the meeting. Excuse yourself, and explain it's an extremely important customer call that absolutely cannot wait.
And even if this is the case, you're still being rude... just with an excuse. The call may be more important to you, but the other people in the meetin
I can imagine really young people in a chaotic startup texting and messaging in a meeting because it's how the meeting works.
Think "war room" more than "board room."
Which in many cases will look like your company is out of date. I make a point of throwing out business cards in front of sales drones who hand them to me. Send me your contact details via some more modern method or do not bother, I am not your secretary.
No, because they are wasting my time. If they cared about swapping contact details their are a myriad of ways that are convenient and not showy.
Their job is generally to distort the truth and make purchasing based on feelings and shininess instead of facts and useful features.
I have zero-tolerance the other way...
If the presenter "shoots first" by making a boring or pointless presentation, I retaliate by taking out my phone and getting on with my other work.
As much as I hate being interrupted by someone's cellphone, this does sound dated...more like some inane thing you'd hear from some aging high school teacher. It's just a powergrab. Knock it off. I doubt you get much respect from your employees when lording it over them like that. If they're not hitting the metrics you want, then look at it on a case by case basis, but really, just about everyone expects cellphone use during meetings now. It's almost a necessity, as you've shown here, to the point wher
"a fairly large technical sales environment". I think I have found the WTF: salespeople.
Young folks know that business meetings are usually not actually important. Most of the meeting is spent addressing other people's concerns or bragging about some piece of information that the presenter feels is important, but is only trivia to most of the audience. If there's anything else, like a text message, that is perceived as a better use of one's time, they're likely to pay attention to that, rather than the meeting.
Older folks would previously have just dozed off in meetings, or doodled on notebooks looking like they were paying attention. Now that older folks are likely to be the ones leading the meeting*, of course they feel slighted when their subordinates are devoting attention elsewhere.
Another contributing factor is that young folks are more often the expendable workforce. They're the ones who are getting the longer hours and heavier workloads, being taught through their short careers that handling two problems at once is a minimum. There's a good chance that text message is work-related, and not responding would be the greater offense.
* From TFA:
People with higher incomes are more judgmental about mobile phone use than people with lower incomes
...which indicates to me that the older ones are the managers. On a wider study, this assumption may be invalid, as different industries have more youth at the top, but it appears this study covered 200 employees at a beverage distributor for its initial phase, and it doesn't reveal how many were used for the second phase. Not much hope for demographic diversity.
Since 90% of what goes on in those meetings involves passive aggressive posturing and yammering, it doesn't surprise me at all. Now, if only these in charge of these meetings would graduate highschool already by letting go of idiotic things like strict dress codes.
If you're on call, it's appropriate to receive a notification in any situation. That's what it means to be on call, and a lot of young professionals are.
If the notification requires response, it's then appropriate to excuse yourself from the meeting. Just like you'd excuse yourself to hold a person to person side conversation while someone else was presenting.
As a 20 something I'm eagerly waiting for these baby boomers to just retire so we don't have to deal with thier nonsense. There is nothing wrong with answering a text message in a meeting if your are not involved in the conversation and you don't disturb anyone else.
Here is my list of stuff that is rude that over 40s do that I wish would stop:
Actually, they are apparently not planning to retire.
Studies show most Boomers in their 50s plan to keep working into their 70s.
Actually, one of the interesting medical effects of eye aging is that you get better (near normal) vision if you take off the bifocals when things are within arm's distance. So taking off glasses is a good idea. Losing them
As a 20 something I'm eagerly waiting for these baby boomers to just retire so we don't have to deal with thier nonsense.
When they do, you are the person people in their twenties complain about.
The actual paper, in PDF format, can be found here [sagepub.com].
Oh, wait, we're already there:
Selfies at funerals [tumblr.com]
Seriously, people, learn some respect and manners. It won't kill you.
No, I'm reading e-books on Safari so that this meeting isn't a total waste
Meetings? Check. Texting/modern devices in the workplace? Check. "Get Off My Lawn"-type generalization? Check. This article's author included practically every white-collar-environment cause of rage. And judging by the butthurt-ness of most of the comments so far, the troll was eminently successful. The only thing that could have improved it would have been to specify American 20-somethings, to get cross-ocean flaming as well.
They are self-centered and everything is about them, and them only. Common courtesy and respect are gone in that generation..
Do that around me in the office and you are fired, or at the least off the project. Do it around me personally, don't expect to be a friend.
I suspect (based on a loose study of my family), us older generation believes that the more important people to focus your attention on are the ones in your presence (at the table, in a meeting, etc) and that the person on the other end of the line can wait.
Our kids however, feel that certain people are more important than others regardless of where they are. Their friends are more important than any boss or family that is nearby.
And so, my wife and I will let the phone ring / answer machine take the call, ignore text messages / FB notifications, etc during supper.
And my kids are squirming as if in extreme pain if their phone buzzes and we don't let them immediately see who it's from and if it's a friend let them respond.
I'm not going to say it's a bad priority shift, but it certainly is an interesting one.
We're getting all of these conveniences and our society doesn't have the time to instruct people (kids especially) what is and isn't appropriate behavior. It's not just this. It's people taking snapshots of party goers doing something embarrassing, sexting, phone calls in theaters, etc. I was just at the coffee shop and a woman had one of those bluetooth headsets talking away while at the counter. Now, nothing is more annoying than standing next to someone when you can't tell if they're talking to you, the cashier, herself, or some hidden phone under their hair or on the opposite side of their head.
However, society hasn't had the time to say "hey this pisses other people off so just because it makes irrelevant 5 minutes conversations convenient, wait until you're in private to use this device."
"Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named... but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. [...] This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. Friday, it is too late to save this culture... this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper. But that may not be enough. The reservoir for the next renaissance may have to come from beyond the sky."
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On November 21st, 2008 I printed out Brian's "The Age of Miracles" post and put it up in my office at work. (http://mgoblog.com/content/age-miracles) When I first read it it really struck a chord with me, and from time to time when things get crazy and nothing makes sense I re-read it and it makes me feel better.
I know this is completely off topic, but you guys have always been helpful and I'm kind of in need of objective advice from people who don't know me personally. I haven't told a lot of my friends about this (or any of my family) because I'm not entirely sure what to do and am terrified that things won't work out. (This is obviously a consequence of the off-season--stupid self-introspection!)
I'm 26 and graduated from Michigan in 2006 with a BA in Poli Sci. I always wanted to ultimately pursue policy, but after an health policy internship in DC decided I wanted to become a physician who was knowledgeable enough to truly shape health policy. I completed the pre-med requirements and after I graduated began working at a health disparities research center in Detroit. I started out as an unpaid intern and have worked my way up to a really well-paying, high-level research position (particularly given my relative (lack of) experience/clinical degree.) About a year ago I was accepted into a Masters in Physiology program with the option to get a PhD. I work for a university and thus am getting free tuition as well.
The original plan was to earn the Masters, get a solid science foundation and apply to med school. To make a long story short, my interest in medicine has always been from an urban/advocacy for the underserved perspective. It's kind of been building for a while, but I realized I really don't like what I'm doing. I don't want to be a physician, I want to affect policy head-on. My commitment is still to the underserved and always will be, but I've decided that I want to go to law school. This is terrifying because I'm 26 and feel like I'm really old (even though everyone tells me I'm not); I always thought I'd have much more accomplished in my life by age 26 than I do.
I registered for an LSAT prep course that begins in June and am taking this semester off from Physiology classes to re-compartmentalize and study for the October LSAT. I still haven't told anyone at work, including the amazing mentors (physicians) I've grown really close to who everyday tell me what an amazing physician I'll be.
There's a better than even chance that because I want to pursue advocacy work, I'll never, ever make close to the money I'm making now and will then also be contending with paying student loans from law school. Money has never, ever been important to me, but I'm kind of all heart and don't really think these kinds of things through as much as I probably should.
I guess ultimately my question is this: have you ever had to reconcile what you really think you would be awesome at and what you really love with a much more stable, more concrete option? I'm an overly-optimistic and hopeful person in general so I'm afraid I'm ignoring logic when I keep telling myself things will work out. Sorry this is so long--I appreciate all of your help in advance.
Oh, and Brian's "The Age of Miracles" post is now in my LSAT prep book. In some weird way it helps me keep perspective and gives me hope in this super scary, uncertain time.


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Here's a closeup of the apple with some iPhoto'd sharpening (no lines redrawn or retouching, just contrast, sharpening, and increasing the "highlights" and "shadows):
For comparison, here's the standard image of Karl Marx:
Now, the Anchoress — first link, above — has become "convinced that it's simply a matter of the apples' shading and the lighting." Absurd! It can't be just the lighting and the pattern of the apple peel. A magazine cover is carefully constructed and attention would have to be paid to any accidental imagery. The apple was chosen to be exactly the intended apple and subject to Photoshop tweaking and strategic placement of the lights to attain just the right level of perception and deniability. A good subliminal image must be seen and not seen. It must slide past the average person's conscious defenses and make anyone who insists it is there seem delusional. The Anchoress has retreated.
And so I say: To Newsweek! A toast!
IN THE COMMENTS: Irene says the image that might or might not be there was intentionally put there as "Tea Party bait":
I hear Chris Matthews now. "Marx? They see Marx? Wow, see how crazy they are?? They see socialists EVERYWHERE."


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Eurosatory gets underway in Paris next month (June 11-15) and, following a trend that began in 2010, the biennial exhibition will move from an entirely land and air-land defense show to include homeland security equipment and technologies in response to market evolution and changing needs.
The show's full name has, in fact, been changed to reflect this shift—it is now the Land Defense and Security Exhibition.
Unmanned ground vehicles are expected to attract attention from companies that are not traditionally linked to robotics. Missile maker MBDA, for example, not the first name that comes to mind when considering vehicles, will be showing the Souvim 2 route-clearance system with counter-IED (improvised explosive device) capability.
The initial Souvim (systeme d'ouverture d'itineraire mine, or mine route-clearance system) was based on the South African Meerkat/Chubby "road trains," bought from Armscor by French forces in 1995. Using these as a base, studies determined what system would be best to counter new IED threats. MBDA was contracted by the French procurement agency DGA in 1999 to design the system, subsequently known as Souvim 2.
The Souvim 2 system clears long stretches of mined routes—150 km, or 93 mi. per day—at speeds in excess of 25 kph (15.5 mph.), detecting and destroying a full range of threats. The system consists of the VLB (vehicule de leurrage balisage, or marker and decoy vehicle), which can drive over pressure-sensitive mines without activating them due to ultra-low-pressure tires developed by Michelin to MBDA's specifications. The VLB detects mines by pushing a series of decoys ahead of itself, while the RDM (remorque declencheuse de mines, or mine-exploding trailer) tows various trailers whose function is to trigger the mines.
In response to the IED threat in Afghanistan, MBDA also developed the VDM+ system, which comprises an autonomous non-towed vehicle that carries ahead of itself a heat, weight/pressure and electromagnetic decoy system and metal detector. Of the three VDM+ systems delivered to the French army, two have been deployed in Afghanistan.
Renault Trucks Defense, meanwhile, will be showing the Slate (systeme de localisation acoustique de tireur embusque) acoustic sniper-detection system it has integrated onto 12.7-mm guns atop VAB armored vehicles, 80 of which were delivered to the French army at the end of November 2011. A small Pilar MKII-W acoustic antenna, made by O1dB-Metravib, has been set on the roof of the vehicle at the rear left corner. This connects to a Kongsberg M151 Protector remotely operated gun and a crew interface. As soon as the antenna detects a gunshot aimed at the vehicle, the gun turret automatically turns in the direction of the shot. The threat level can also be determined, as the system indicates whether the enemy weapon is of small or medium caliber.
Slate stores the geographical location of the attack after the VAB has moved, enabling the vehicle to seek cover when engaged. Renault says that ultimately, the Slate system could be connected to information and command systems to improve information-sharing at the tactical level.
Among the themes at Eurosatory this year is simulation. The annual joint simulation seminar, organized by ADIS, an informal group drawing members from the French army, the DGA and industry, will be held for the first time during Eurosatory. National issues are scheduled to be addressed on June 12 and 13, and international issues on June 14.
One topic likely to be broached during the seminar is how companies can use the increasingly sophisticated simulation tools at their disposal in real equipment, which would save the expense of building simulators. At the flick of a switch an armored vehicle could be used for training with onboard systems in simulation mode. The same vehicle would be used in theater with onboard systems in operational mode.


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"I'm going to travel back to Ann Arbor when the team goes back (Sunday morning), and over the next few days will wrap up my work as far as my evaluation that has been a nine-month process. I will meet with my coach, and I will have more to say on this matter the latter part of the week."
In layman's terms, this means he's stalling until after Stanford's Orange Bowl game tonight in order to "check and see" if Jim Harbaugh is interested and a verbal deal can be struck before Brandon announces his final "evaluation." He's not simply going to cut Rodriguez loose - if that's his plan (and not much indicates otherwise) - without having a coach lined up and ready to step in immediately. There will be no "coaching search."
If Harbaugh turns him down (or the administration vetoes the choice based on Harbaugh's past comments about Michigan), Brandon will move on to Plans B, C and so on. Is one of those options the return of Rich Rod for a fourth year? Maybe. But my belief is that happens only if Brandon gets down to the Plan K portion of his list, give or take. And since I assume that folks like Brady Hoke - who'd donate a testicle to coach in A2 - are slotted in pre-K, it means Rich Rodriguez is not coming back*.
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This is going to be a very interesting week for Michigan fans. Rumors will be flying, Twitter will be atwitter with true and false tweets, and the mods on the Michigan message boards will be working overtime as passions flare.
The last time there was so much on the line for Michigan and its fans that didn't involve a football game on Saturday would probably have to be another January some 29 years ago. In 1982, Texas A&M offered Bo Schembecher nearly $3 million for 10 years - then the richest contract in the history of college athletics - to become its football coach and athletic director. After several anxious days, Bo turned it down saying, "Frankly, I've come to the conclusion that there are things more important in this world than money. For that reason, I've decided to stay at Michigan."
Now, like then, Michigan fans must wait.
Whatever Brandon's choice, as Greg at MVictors says, I hope it "unites the clans." The internal bickering between large swaths of the Maize and Blue faithful is unfortunate. I won't say "new" because I'm guessing such discontent by sports fans whose teams don't win every championship every year has always been there. The only difference is that now the Internet has given us all a voice. I bet had the 'Net been around in '79 after Bo dropped his 7th consecutive bowl game, the message boards at LetsGoBellBottoms.com would have been flooded with folks calling for his ouster and some dude would have scooped up FireBo.com, .org and .net long before.
And who can unite the clans - or at least the vast majority of them? Probably only the selection of Harbaugh. The return of Rich Rod certainly won't. And a "surprise" pick like Hoke won't either.
So until Brandon declares his decision, all we can do is...
* Yes, if Rich Rod does return for a 4th season, feel very free to mock me mercilessly in the comments section.


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Friday, May 04, 2007
Worst Sportscast Ever
Well, screwing around online tonight, I stumbled across the clip below of a sportscaster named Matt Lorch and, well, it's right up there. Apparently, it's a couple years old but it's only recently made its way to the Internet. Everything that could go wrong did.
So, which one is worse? Vote below or leave your thoughts in the comments section.
8 comments:
- Ryan said...
the part where 'boom goes the dynomite' mouths "i'm so sorry" to the crew is just priceless
- May 04, 2007 9:39 AM
- Jason said...
See it has to be boom goes the dynamite because it wasn't really Matt Lorch's fault here. He had NOTHING to work with and the crew really jobbed him lol
- May 04, 2007 10:53 AM
- DanteJones said...
Boom Goes the Dynamite!
Can't fault Lorch for being surrounded by a bunch of autistic six year olds in production.
- May 04, 2007 10:54 AM
- IC said...
Good God that stuff is hilarious! No matter how many times I see "Boom", it still manages to get me tearing up in cringe inducing laughter.
I agree with Jason that Boom is worse, because the myriad technical difficulties do not seem to be Matt Lorch's fault. I suspect that the handsome Lorch had some kind of in-studio nemesis who was trying to make him look bad by causing so many on-air screwups. That noted, Lorch does deserve a few brisk kicks in the nuts for announcing scores with the losing team first (ex. "final score was 54 to 61.")
Ryan, the "I'm so sorry" is among the most hilariously sad things I've ever seen. However, my favorite part of this legendary clip is when Boom says, "..and..he's passes it to the man..."
- May 04, 2007 11:31 AM
- Out of Conference said...
What- no "WOO" 'cause the Cocks are up 15-11 on UNLV in the Boom video?
- May 04, 2007 1:41 PM
- cvillebuck said...
it's gotta be dynamite boy. Lorch seemed like he had atleast been in front of a camera once or twice. Watching 'boom goes the dynamite' was so bad even I was getting embarrassed.
- May 04, 2007 2:07 PM
- beast in 'bama said...
You gotta guard Merv! You gotta guard Merv! But you REALLY GOTTA BLOCK OUT MERV!! Hilarious.
Poor old Boom is worse, but the Lorch disaster is much, much funnier.
Thank you, Yost. I needed a good laugh today.
- May 04, 2007 8:04 PM
- Paul Westerdawg said...
Lorch was a team debacle.
For individual performance, you can only go Boom
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