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What are the top 3 traits or skills every executive assistant must have to excel?
Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your executive assistant expertise?
Belinda in Norcross, GA in Norcross, Georgia
139 months ago
A great book to help you with this is "Managing Up" by Rosanne Badowski. She was the EA to Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. I found it very informative and helpful with my two bosses.
maria in Bucharest, Romania
123 months ago
Host said: What are the top 3 traits or skills every executive assistant must have to excel?
communication skills
At least the above ...and more to follow...i've been doing this job for almost 7 years and there's always more things to learn ...
nina in New Delhi, India
122 months ago
co managing daily work and projects with your boss
majorshadow in Chula Vista, California
88 months ago
Song Title: Sweetest Lemonade (Bad Boss,Block Negativity,Reach Your Peak)
George in North Sydney, Australia
76 months ago
Video URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI8Ho1R8Wm0
Bhargavsharma in Hyderabad, India
76 months ago
Hey Hi
I recently got an opportunity as an executive assistance role in one of the MNC company . Now my question to all of you is will EA role really help full for career as i would settled my self as GM in 3 - 5 years of my time . Please give us your valuable suggestion which be helps in taking my decision.
nimmi in Fairfax, Virginia
76 months ago
EA in Falls Church, Virginia said: You know, I truly love being an EA. I have a college degree, my boss is amazing, and I enjoy managing his day-to-day, his personal life, and knowing everything about what makes him tick. I enjoy being the gatekeeper. I like that people have to get through me to get to him.
i totally agree with you. I have a question. I have been working as EA for more than 10 years but in India. I live in VA and looking for EA positions but no success so far. I have no idea what is going wrong here. any suggestions?
EA in D.C. in Baltimore, Maryland
75 months ago
Hello, I start work as an EA in downtown DC next week. It is a temp to oosition...but i'vr got one foot in the door. Try applying with The Ford Agency (also in DC).
Good luck
E.Tracy Christian in Elkridge, Maryland
75 months ago
I wish you the best; do not look at it as a temp position, it is your position. Work smart and stay on top of your game. You never know where the job may take you in the future.
nimmi in Fairfax, Virginia
75 months ago
EA in D.C. in Baltimore, Maryland said: Hello, I start work as an EA in downtown DC next week. It is a temp to oosition...but i'vr got one foot in the door. Try applying with The Ford Agency (also in DC).
Oh Wow!!!It doesnt matter..temp or permanent..love your job and show them what you are capable of and you will be good to go..Congratulations..
nimmi in Fairfax, Virginia
75 months ago
E.Tracy Christian in Elkridge, Maryland said: I wish you the best; do not look at it as a temp position, it is your position. Work smart and stay on top of your game. You never know where the job may take you in the future.
Yes..you are right..
nikki9door in Airdrie, Alberta
73 months ago
How about excellent spelling? Looks like a few who responded to this thread would benefit from a few language lessons!
Phyllis in Mount Laurel, New Jersey
70 months ago
I in Toms River, New Jersey said: These are all good tips, but why not aim for something higher? Do you want to be an assistant for the rest of your life? Do you always want to be the one arranging meetings, instead of the one making company decisions? An exec. assistant position is fine for a few years, but then why not go to college , take courses, make your way up, and continue moving up in your career. Don't just be satisfied with the position of assistant.
That's insulting. I do have a degree -- a Bachelor's in Business Communications. I like the work involved in being an Executive Assistant. It's a career like any other.
knickols in Newport News, Virginia
67 months ago
It pays to not live your life by someone else's definition of talent. I love what I do as an administrative assistant. I love the fact that my role within the company is in a lot of ways why it works the way it does. My co-workers often refer to me as being the captain of the tug boat. I am the first line of defense when it comes to a lot of issues and I wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you!
Noel in San Francisco, California
67 months ago
I'm seeing valuable advice here! I've been an AA for eight years. I'm ready to be an EA because, directly and indirectly, I've been supporting C-level staff. My title [and salary] just doesn't show this. I have been hard at work in the evenings earning my BS in Applied Economics w/ emphasis in Business. I'll graduate in May. I'd like to be an EA now in the hope that it will lead to lateral and slightly upward opportunities in my field. It also pays well. However, I'm reading mixed things here. Would it be a mistake to be an EA at this time? One person said that firms have a tendency to KEEP you in your role; I've found this to be true in some cases. They love you where you're at and don't see you as capable of much else. Please, what are your thoughts on this matter? Thank you in advance!
EA at Fashion Company in New York, New York
66 months ago
Melissa in Bridgetown, Barbados said: Hey guys, I am interviewing for a position as an EA next Tuesday, i have a Bsc in Management and i've worked as an administrative assitant for a couple months, i don't have any interview experience though, but I am a pretty intelligent young lady, who is very adaptable and acute. Any advice?
My advice would be, DON'T DO IT. I hate being an E.A mainly because of my boss. He is an evil, heart-less, despicable person. I am looking for another job but definitely not going to be an E.A again. Funny thing is, when I was offered the job, I took it because it said "coordinator" in the title. I thought it could have been a stepping stone to another position within the company. Instead, it turned out to be a dead end job. Unless you like being treated like the help, I say, don't bother to take a job like this. Plus, in the end, all you are seen as is the "secretary"
W. Donn in Washington, District of Columbia
57 months ago
jagmoney in Jacksonville, Florida said: Hi I am lookin at becoming an executive assistant and I dont really know where to start. Almost all of my work has been blue collar and I would like to try working in an office. I have a high school diploma. I am willing to learn and work as hard as needed just not sure where to start or if someone would be willing to give me a chance. my email is email@example.com If someone can give me advice please feel free to email.
I have been an executive assistant for over 20 years and if you want to get into this type of work I would recommend that you start by working as a receptionist. It's a simple place to start, while giving you an idea of what working in an office environment feels like. Normally, you would need a good phone voice, be able to be super polite to EVERYONE that calls, speak clearly and "GIVE GOOD PHONE".....(You would be the "Gate Keeper", so knowing how to talk to people well makes you a good person to handle calls as well as visitors. It's not a menial position as you are the first impression of a company. Your voice and your appearance are symbols of what the company is all about. It's where I started and I worked my way up. It normally pays anywhere from $8.00/hour up to $14.00/hour depending on where you live. Be willing to start at the lower end if you want to grow. (But ALWAYS take the best salary you can). Oh, most receptionist positions are salary positions, which is nice.......Not a hard job to get if you can talk nice and look professional. Look in th want ads for "ENTRY LEVEL" receptionist....that means, no experience is needed and the pay is "Starter Pay"..... GOOD LUCK!!!!
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Erik Compton, UGA class of 2001, finished tied for second in the U.S. Open on Sunday, which most years would have been the big moment for ex-Bulldogs. This year, however, it's closer to being a footnote.
Five different Georgia golfers have won PGA Tour tournaments this year, including one major, and a sixth (Compton) has finished second in a major. Compton is an amazing story in his own right: He is a heart transplant patient, having had his first one in 1992 because of viral cardiomyopathy. He had another in 2008.
Brendan Todd, who finished tied for 17th on Sunday, was actually second after 36 holes. Here's the rundown of what the ex-Bulldogs have done this year:
- Bubba Watson won The Masters for the second time in three years.
- Todd won the Byron Nelson Championship on May 18. It was the first PGA Tour title for the 29-year-old Todd.
- Harris English, 24, won the OHL Classic last November, his second tour victory.
- Russell Henley won the Honda Classic on March 2. It was the second tour victory for Henley, 25.
- Chris Kirk won the McGladrey Classic last November. It was also the second tour victory for Kirk, 29.
Prior to the U.S. Open, three of the top nine in the FedEx Cup Standings were former Georgia golfers: Watson in second, English in eighth and Todd in ninth.
And four former Georgia golfers in the top 60 of the world golf rankings. None of them were Compton, who could make a move.

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USFWS National Digital Library
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
In the United
States, Asian
elephants (Elephas
maximus) are best
known as familiar
circus attractions.
An estimated
16,000 Asian elephants are presently
tamed and in captivity in the range
countries. Historically, captive
elephants were used for timber
harvest, clearing forests and
agricultural development. Today, very
few countries use captive elephants as
beasts of burden, and captive elephants
in many instances face problems
including husbandry and care issues,
disease and exploitation. The
destruction of forests, the advancement
of agriculture and the encroachment of
human development pose the greatest
threats to the survival of Asia's wild
In years past, large herds of elephants
roamed freely throughout the forests
and savannahs of Asia. Today, fewer
than 40,000 Asian elephants exist in
the wild – more than half of which
are found in India. With mature bulls
weighing as much as 11,000 pounds,
elephants require ample natural
resources to survive. Each elephant
consumes more than 440 pounds of
vegetation and 52 gallons of water
every day and each needs a "living
space" of 80 square miles.
When sizable ranges of natural habitat
are not available, elephants are
attracted to commercial plantations
and private fields of rice, cassavas,
bananas, oil palm, rubber, tea, and
coffee. Nightly raids by hungry
elephants, coupled with frenzied
attempts by farmers to chase the
animals away, often result in tragedy.
In Sri Lanka, approximately 120
elephants are killed each year by
villagers, and approximately 60 people
are killed each year by elephants in
connection with crop raids.
Poaching - the illegal killing of
elephants for ivory, meat, skin, teeth,
feet and bones - poses a serious threat
as well. Only male Asian elephants
have tusks. Asian elephant ivory is
highly favored, and centuries of
targeting male elephants have left
some elephant populations severely
unbalanced with 50 females to every
male "tusker." In parts of India,
the poaching of tuskers is shifting
the male Asian elephant population
towards the survival of tusk-less
males known as "mukhnas." To
combat these threats, the United
States Congress enacted the Asian
Elephant Conservation Act in 1997,
which established a fund for the
protection of the Asian elephant and
the conservation of its habitat.
Above: Community fence maintenance
team in Bhutan. Credit: Mini Nagendran/
Radio tracking Asian elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Credit: Frankfurt Zoological Society
Asian Elephant Conservation
Above: Female Asian elephant
(Elephas maximus) with calves.
Credit: Wildlife Conservation Society
The 2013 Congressional appropriation of more than $1.6 million to the Asian Elephant
Conservation Fund was leveraged by more than $2.4 million in matching and in-kind
funds to support 31 crucial elephant conservation projects in Asia including the
following vital efforts:
• In partnership with Asian
Elephant Support, establish a
multi-disciplinary team to build
an innovative model to address
human-elephant conflict (HEC)
in Aceh, Sumatra. The team
will compile and disseminate
communication materials from
a baseline assessment of HEC
threats in target districts,
lessons learned, and guidance
for successful and sustainable
human-elephant co-existence in an
agricultural landscape. To increase
the effectiveness of biodiversity
laws, the project will establish a
legislator network called Aceh
Conservation Caucus and a web
portal with information about
laws, environmental issues, and
conservation priorities.
• In partnership with the Wildlife
Alliance, provide support for
the Southern Cardamom Forest
Protection Program rangers so they
can continue their daily year-round
patrols. Teams rotate to ensure
coverage during public holidays
because it is the peak time for
wildlife and timber transports and
traders expect ranger stations to be
unattended during holidays.
• With support to Aaranyak,
strengthen women's groups to be
self-sustainable by scaling up and
replicating successful livelihood
models in adjacent areas around
Manas National Park in India. It
will restore community support for
conservation of Asian elephants and
other wildlife. This project builds on
a previous successful grant.
• In partnership with the Center for
Conservation and Research, create
a change in stakeholder perceptions
and attitudes on human-elephant
conflict (HEC) mitigation and
elephant conservation in Sri Lanka.
The specific objectives include
creating an understanding among
stakeholders about the failure of
traditional HEC mitigation and
elephant conservation strategies
and tools; the current scale and
extent of HEC in Sri Lanka; future
direction HEC mitigation and
elephant conservation needs; and
the roles and responsibilities of
different stakeholders in mitigating
• In collaboration with FREELAND
Foundation, sustain protection for
elephants in Thailand's Thap Lan
and Pang Sida National Parks. The
project will provide sustainable
professional skills development for
rangers to safely carry out their
jobs in Thap Lan National Park,
Pang Sida National Park and Dong
Yai Wildlife Sanctuary; expand
park management's understanding
of elephant (and other wildlife)
population and distribution in the
parks and sanctuary; and reduce
human elephant conflict around
Thap Lan National Park.
Asian Elephant Conservation Funding from 2006 through 2013
Total Number of Grant Proposals Received 423
Total Number of Grants Awarded 260
Total Funds Distributed through Grants* $13,174,305
Total Matching/In-kind Funds Leveraged by Grants $17,390,483
*Amount includes funds from the Save Vanishing Species Stamp
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
International Affairs
Division of International Conservation
4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS 100
Arlington, VA 22203
December 2013
Above: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in Kaziranga National park in India.
Credit: Mini Nagendran/USFWS
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A UK based newspaper published in Norfolk has blamed the torturing and murder of a man on the popular survival horror franchise, Resident Evil.
"The attack included horrible acts of mutilation such as pouring boiling water on the victim and inflicting cuts and burns all over his body", i am guessing Resident Evil taught him this as well /s
So, he didn't learn any of it from the Inquisition? nor current Sharia Law? nor from the Bible or Torah?
No, from a video game about killing Zombies. That's believable!/s
Doesn't really sound like it was blamed, just likened to? Might be wrong.
There is a reason the British press has been credited as being nothing more than a giant tabloid fest full of nonsense, it's even worse than the US and that's unbelievably hard to accomplish.
Unlike thorstein ^ and others looking for a scapegoat, there is no one to blame but the killer himself, period.
The paper that reported this didn't make any mistakes, MMOGameCentral however dropped the ball with the misleading headline-no one *blamed* resident evil for the killings (according to the article "The *comparison* to the Resident Evil games came from one of the killers as he *compared* the alcohol driven attack to the graphic video-games"). So yeah no blame just a comparison.
I Definitely agree only the killers can be blamed.
the whole reason RE got mentioned in this is because one of the killers comapared the act with Resident Evil.
This is based on info from "one of the killers", who most likely was trying to get off a murder charge by "blaming it on video games", which obviously didn't work. What they did to this guy was plain sick.
A game doesn't give you the will and darkness needed to kill someone. If someone has premeditated murder on their minds its down to traumatic events in their lives, a very bad up bringing or they're just natural born killers as some would say.
There is no torture like that in any of the RE games I've played and I've played 9 or 10 different RE games. I don't even remember any type of torture in the games what so ever but it has been years since I've played some of the titles.
Minor charges were placed against Mr. Roys, Mr. Brown and Ms. Cooke. But the video game series itself will face the death penalty.
Update: The prisoner Resident Evil was taken over to Capcom headquarters to await it's execution.
Update: After being brutally tortured with 3 devastating tools (torture tools only known as RE5, RE:ORC and RE6) the game was officially announced dead on October 2, 2012 at the young age of only 6.
R.I.P Resident Evil 1998-2012
I think they should all get shot for doing that. Or at least life in prison or the death(what we do to best friend dogs peaceful death)penalty.
This has nothing to do with resident evil but if you commit sadistic acts mentioning a videogame at your trial gets you at least -10 years from your sentence usually.
No the should tie them all down and do to them what they did to this poor guy and see how they like it! STREET JUSTICE STYLE!!
And I bet the Saw collection of movies next to his two games were ignored.
Lmao, probably not far off with that comment :D
Playing Res 6 may make me want to do that to myself, but not someone else
Who takes newspapers seriously anyway?
They aim for a totally different demographic to video-games. I don't know anyone under 40 that reads a newspaper and most of them think video-games are the work of Satan. So makes sense to pin the blame on a computer game :D
They said this was blamed on the survival horror franchise Resident Evil, this isnt a survival horror franchise last time I checked infact it hasnt been for over 11 years
What?....how bizarre. Feel sorry for the guy.
Too bad an eye for an eye cannot apply to this case, some people really deserve the punishment they brought upon others.
I live in Norfolk and trust me when I say this. These 'people' did not become this disturbed from playing Resi. They were disturbed and twisted as they were all from Yarmouth.
The only place worse than Yarmouth is Jaywick in Essex.
Or Wisbech
A couple of Norfolkians above me I see. The mentioning of Wisbech surely puts you in King's Lynn right?
If I mention Birmingham does that put me in an adjacent town? Of course not.
You know there is this amazing thing called 'going to other places'.
Or New Jersey.
Haha, I never thought i'd hear someone compare Great Yarmouth to New Jersey.
Norwich FTW!!! XD
Swaffham FTW!
And yes Jaywick is worse than Yarmouth.
I blame real life murders for being the inspiration for violent video games.
it was all a plan by Crapcom... making the next RE so bad, that people would go on a rampage.
As the murderer was taken into custody, he was apparently heard shouting that Dead Space is NOT as good as Resi, and that Jesus had agreed with him during bingo the day before....
I would have believed this story if it was a suicide
The newspaper didn't blame the murder on Resident Evil, one of the murderers made the comparison in a sad effort for more publicity and a possible defence for their actions by implying the game made them do it.
And no, Resident Evil isn't about horrific torture on this level. This headline is more sensationalist than the comment by the killer...the paper didn't blame the game, they reported that one of the killers mentioned it. Now it's suddenly the Resident Evil murder...sad that the real story gets hidden behind the sensationalist crap, just what the killer wanted.
You know the media, they needed something to blame (not the newspaper but another source) and they found it
Surprise surprise, it was originally the Daily Mail who ran with this story.
The same publication that thinks everything gives you cancer.
is that sarcasm? I'm just wondering if you're really surprised or not, since it seems to me the article hasn't actually made any accusations.
Must have been them darn video games and their violence. They sound like bloody technophobic grandparents.
Is he sure the local butcher wasn't responsible? They are very violent in how they cut up meat!
My local butcher is funny.
He told me a great story once. His then 12 year old son had been doing poorly in school and had got into a few fights. Telling me he'd tried regular discipline and it hadn't sunk in he decided to get imaginative. Waiting for his son to be asleep for at least an/a (a hour doesn't sound right) hour, he donned a white apron which he had smeared in blood, and a surgical mask and burst into his sons room brandishing a carving knife and jumped onto the foot of his sons bed breathing heavily.
The moral of the story. Don't mess with butchers, they're mental.
Holy shit I would probably piss myself if that happened.
There was a butcher named Pete (at least I think it was Pete). From what I remember, he loved choppin' up all the women's meat.
But, yeah...
And they gave this game a super low scores on the reviews.. ?!
Meanwhile, thousands die every year in the name of various fictitious magic men named Jesus and Moh...oops....just saying that gets you and RPG to the face...
I didn't expect you to be so intolerant of others beliefs. I'm disappointed in this comment.
Cant please everyone.
And the fact that I'm not a true believer does not mean I'm intolerant.
I thought my comment was historically accurate but if I'm wrong, I don't mind being corrected...
Ah yes because Jesus and Mohammad weren't real people at all, totally fictitious. /sarcasm
wow all you people telling stories about absolute crap what is wrong with you people the story is a man was tortured no need to talk about crap.
It's easier than doing real journalism I suppose!!
This is what happens when the child is born into a screwed up family, or is raised the wrong way.
Typical, gotta place the blame on anything else except for where it belongs. Same way every time someone commits a "satanic" killing it's the fault of Slayer or some other similar band. No one can take responsibility for their own actions anymore.
To those of you more knowledgeable about Resident Evil 6. Does this actually relate to anything in the game at all?
Nope,nothing.I don't know how RE can be blamed for this.
It's not about Resident Evil 6 specifically....the murder occurred in May, they just mentioned "Resident Evil".
And again, no-one was really blaming the game, just the killers used that name to describe the aftermath of what they'd done.
Grand theft auto taught me how to drive
Weird Mario Kart taught me but now I swerve every time I see a banana peel on the road.
I feel horrible for the victim. I can't imagine that kind of torture. My heart goes out to the family of the victim.
yes I agree this is no joke. The injury done to the victim was horrible. I cannot believe how can some one do something like that even to an enemy.
Killing is really bad. BUt a tourture killing like this is insane, inhuman and a sin to the greatest degree.
Or you could blame the 42 year old dude that most likely got into the two younger peoples heads.
Amazing how that went completely ignored, figuring the perp was only a couple years younger than the vic, this was more a premeditated act than a random one.
This is hugely misleading, the game has never been blamed for the killing. All that was said was the murder looked like something from Resident Evil. Shame on you for exploiting and misleading, much like most of the news papers we all criticize.
This has come from one of the killers saying the scene was like Resident Evil, considering what he did I don't think we should be taking his comments literally.
Wait i cant be the only one who caught the fact that the murder says according the article in may but yet re6 came out last week? The murdered was from the future?
They didn't say Resident Evil 6, just Resident Evil.
Although it still makes no sense how it has zero relations to that franchise.
This is just a sadistic act by insane people.
Of f off, people that do this sort of things aren't in the real world if they can't define a video games/movies actions to what you can do in real life with no consequences, they're just not right in the head, don't blame movies and game for crime, blame real peoples mental state, I'm not even reading this article.


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A May 2013 report commissioned by the Pebble Limited Partnership indicates that the proposed Pebble Mine would have a substantial effect on Alaska's economy. The partnership considers the Pebble deposit to be one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Alaskan economist Scott Goldsmith noted the study in his most recent newsletter, which is funded by First National Bank of Alaska.
"A recent study indicates that the Pebble mining prospect in southwest Alaska could, if developed, make a significant contribution to the Alaska economy, given its measured and indicated resources of 55 billion pounds of copper, 3.3 billion pounds of molybdenum, and 67 million ounces of gold," Goldsmith wrote.
Goldsmith is a professor of economics at the University of Alaska's Institute of Social and Economic Research. The economic analysis firm IHS Global Insight completed the study; Alaska-based economic research firm McDowell group contributed to it.
The report says the value of the proposed mine's annual output would be between $1.5 and $3 billion. During the construction phase of the mine, $27 million in taxes would be paid to state and local governments, the report says. That would increase to $165 million to $213 during the initial production phase. The mine could create 4,725 jobs during the construction phase, 2,890 during initial production, and 2,750 during subsequent development.
Goldsmith points out that the state budget, excluding Permanent Fund appropriations, is $11.3 billion. State revenues for fiscal year 2014 are estimated to be $10.66 billion, "suggesting the need to draw on reserves to fund the budget for the first time in several years."
Goldsmith also cited a survey by the Fraser Institute that ranks Alaska as 19th out of 96 regions for mining attractiveness.
Goldsmith wrote, "Alaska attractiveness improved this year based on availability of labor and skills, the quality of the geological database, and infrastructure."
A state court judge was asked earlier this month to overturn a 2011 initiative that bans large-scale resource extraction that would destroy or degrade salmon habitat in the Lake and Peninsula borough, where the Pebble deposit is located. The State of Alaska is arguing that because the deposit is located on state land, the borough has no control over its development.
London-based Anglo American PLC dropped its support of the Pebble project last week. Anglo had spent about $540 million on the project through June. The company would have had to spend nearly a billion dollars more to retain its 50 percent interest in the project.
A report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the impact of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region is expected to be released later this year. The report could affect permitting for the mine.


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MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) _ Two men arrested earlier this year on cheating allegations at the Mohegan Sun casino have been charged with carrying out the same scam at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.
Thirty-two-year-old Chaoyu Wu of Brooklyn, N.Y., and 39-year-old Tan Guo Yu of Boston were first arrested in June. At the time, police said one man distracted a dealer while the other swapped tiles to improve his hand in a game known as pai gow.
Connecticut state police say their investigation found they cheated at both casinos, which are a few miles apart in southeastern Connecticut. The men were charged Tuesday with new crimes including fourth-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit cheating.
Both men were released on bond. Neither could be reached for comment. Arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 7.
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Luis Suarez has reignited the controversy over his racism row with Patrice Evra by claiming his suspension was "strange" and "unbelievable".
The Liverpool striker maintained his innocence despite an eight-match ban and £40,000 fine for repeatedly calling the Manchester United left-back a "negro" during the clubs' clash in October last year.
Suarez, 26, then refused to shake the Frenchman's hand when the duo came face-to-face for the first time during the Premier League reverse fixture at Old Trafford.
"The suspension, I suppose, you could call strange and unbelievable. Without a single shred of proof, they suspended me," he told Russia Today.
"I accepted it without saying anything obviously because they could have made [the suspension] longer and it would have just made the whole thing continue, but my conscience is completely calm, and so is that of the club and my family.
"There was not a single convincing proof that I had done any of the things they accused me of doing. I am very calm about all of it. I have played all my childhood and everyone knows that in Uruguay there is a huge black population. I had team-mates and friends of both colours all the time in the national team, in Liverpool, in Holland, where the majority [of players] are from Surinam, and I never had any problem with them.
Suarez snubs Evra at Old Trafford
"It seems to me that they had to get rid of a Liverpool player and, well, they definitely were gratified by all of this."
Liverpool's director of communications Ian Cotton was sacked by Reds owners Fenway Sports Group, as the club supported the Uruguayan by having the first-team squad don T-shirts prior to their December fixture with Wigan Athletic.
Former manager Kenny Dalglish was also dismissed last week and drew much criticism for his defence of Suarez, even going so far as to suggest Suarez had not ignored Evra prior to the February match at United. The Scot was forced to apologise the following day.
Suarez said his wife suffered most from the ordeal, but was nonplussed when questioned as to how he would be treated by crowds in England in the future.
"What the English press has said about me does not interest me. What interests me is what they say about me in Uruguay and in Liverpool, and they have always been very supportive.
"After the suspension was confirmed, I was told that the fans would taunt me, they would whistle me, insult me and shout at me, but to be honest it is not something I was worried about or paid attention to. Everyone whistled me in all of the stadiums I played in all the time anyway, even before the allegation of racism. It was just the same. I tried to pay it as little attention as possible to focus on what I like to do, which is to play."
Last week Evra told BBC Radio Manchester the league match in Manchester was "the most pressure I've ever felt in my life" as he decided to shake his racial abuser's hand.


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Lynbrook outscored Long Beach at even strength in their Nassau Class B boys' lacrosse playoff quarterfinal matchup at Hofstra's Shuart Stadium on May 16, but the Marines were a perfect 4-for-4 in man-up situations and also scored shorthanded on the way to an 8-4 victory.
Senior goaltender Sam Weiss made 17 saves, and senior James Forkin had three goals and one assist to lead the way for Long Beach (15-2), which never trailed and took the lead for good on junior Josh Ayzenberg's man-up goal 2:32 into the second half. The Owls (12-5) got two goals and one assist from senior Matt Murphy and 14 saves from senior goalie Greg Karaczynski.
"We've had good fortune against them the past four or five times," said Marines coach Jim Kaspar, whose squad eliminated Lynbrook in the first round of last year's playoffs. "They're a good team. I scouted them earlier in the week and went through all their boxscores. Their offense is deep."
The Owls came in riding a nine-game winning streak that saw them score at least seven goals in every outing, including a season-high 14 in a five-goal win over first-round playoff opponent Kennedy. "We made a couple of poor decisions [with the ball] and had too many turnovers," Lynbrook coach Bill Leighley said. "Last year we didn't get here [Hofstra], and I think experience was a factor.
"We train our kids to make plays and to take risks," he added. "When it doesn't work out, it doesn't look that good. When it does, it looks great."
The Marines advanced to face top-seeded Garden City in the semifinals. The defending county champion Trojans won last year's semifinal meeting, 15-7, and took this year's regular-season battle, 8-5, last month. "Our guys got what they wanted —another shot at Garden City," Kaspar said. "They know they've got to play great to win."


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ASHEBORO | Lessie Eugenia Gaddy, 79, died peacefully at her home in Asheboro on Jan. 29, 2013, after a long, brave struggle with Parkinson's disease.
ASHEBORO | Lessie Eugenia Gaddy, 79, died peacefully at her home in Asheboro on Jan. 29, 2013, after a long, brave struggle with Parkinson's disease.
A celebration of Lessie's life will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Becks Lutheran Church by the Revs. Angela F. Jackson and David K. Huddle.
A private graveside service will be in the church cemetery prior to the service.
The family will receive friends in the fellowship hall after the service.
Lessie was born Nov. 12, 1933, in Clinton, the only child of Milton and Thelma Robinson Gaddy. She graduated from East Carolina College in 1956 and enjoyed a long career in public service as a social worker for the State of North Carolina.
Lessie was playful, wry, saucy, adventurous, outspoken, open-minded and big-hearted. She loved sports and games of all kinds and was a skilled athlete, excelling at basketball and tennis in her younger years and competing in the North Carolina Senior Games well into her retirement. She was also a formidable Scrabble player. It was over a Scrabble board during the snowy winter of 1960 that she kindled her early friendship with Helen Sink, her life partner of 51 years.
Lessie and Helen shared a love of travel and saw much of the world together. They shared a deep, sustaining religious faith. And they shared a love of family, especially children. They were devoted aunts to 19 nieces and nephews, 26 great-nieces and great-nephews and 14 great-great-nieces and nephews.
Lessie was preceded in death by her parents; her life partner, Helen V. Sink; and Margaret Nell Biggane, the cousin she looked upon as a sister.
For their unwavering dedication to Lessie, the family is deeply grateful to the Stowe family of Asheboro: Missy, Stephen, Garth, Ben, Jo Ann, Erikka Emmons, her husband Jonathan, and their infant son, Jadon, who became Lessie's bright light after she lost Helen. Thanks also to Sherry Gilchrist for her help and kindness. Thanks, finally, to Lessie's Hospice nurses, whose compassionate care helped her leave this life with dignity and grace.
In lieu of flowers,memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Randolph County, 446 Vision Dr., Asheboro, NC 27203, or to Beck's Lutheran Church, 441 Beck's Church Rd., Lexington, NC 27292.
Piedmont Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, and online condolences may be made at www.piedmontfuneralhome.com.


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Happ shows that he belongs in the starting rotation as he four hit the Rockies' offense, as the Phils defeat the Rockies, 7-0.
J.A. Happ becomes one of the few pitchers in the National League to pitch more than one shutout this season as he pitched his second career complete game shutout as he four hit the Rockies on the way to a 7-0 win. The Phils increased their lead to six games as the Marlins were defeated once again by the Nationals.
The Phils took the lead in the first as, with a man on base and two outs, Ryan Howard hits an RBI single, knocking in Chase Utley, who had earlier doubled, giving the Phils a 1-0 lead. The Phils would increased their lead in the second as, with one man out, Pedro Feliz hits a solo home run, his seventh home run of the season, to give the Phils a 2-0 lead. Three batters later, with a runner on third, and with two men out, Jimmy Rollins hits a two-run home run, his thirteenth home run of the year, knocking in Carlos Ruiz, who had earlier doubled, and then moved up to third on Phils' starter J.A. Happ's ground out, 6-3, giving the Phils a 4-0 lead. The Phils then broke it open in the fifth as, with two men on, and two men out, Jayson Werth hits a three-run home run, his twenty-third home run of the year, as he knocked in Utley, who had earlier been hit by the pitch, and then went to third on Raul Ibanez's double, and Ibanez, who had just doubled, giving the Phils a 7-0 lead. That would be more than enough for Happ, as he proceeded to pitch a gem against the Rockies, getting into only one real jam, as the Rockies puts runner on second and third in the top of the third, via a single to the Rockies' starter, Jorge De La Rosa and a double by Dexter Fowler, which sent De La Rosa to third, with two men out. Unfortunately, for the Rockies, the next batter, Clint Barmes, struck out swinging, ending the threat. Happ went on to pitch a complete game shut out, giving up only four hits and two walks, while he struck out a career high ten batters.
J.A. Happ got the win as he pitched a complete game shut out, giving up only four hits and two walks, as he struck out a career high ten batters. His record is now 8-2 with a ERA of 2.74. Jorge De La Rosa took the lost, as he pitched five innings, giving up seven runs on ten hits, while he struck out three. His record is now 9-8 with a 5.00 ERA. Josh Fogg pitched three scoreless innings in relief, giving up just a hit and a walk, while he struck out two.
The Phils collected eleven hits in the game, with Pedro Feliz and Carlos Ruiz leading the team with two hits apiece, with one of Feliz's hit being a solo home run, while one of Ruiz's hits was a double. Jimmy Rollins, Shane Victorino, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, Jayson Werth, and J.A. Happ had the other seven Phils' hits, with Rollins' hit being a two-run home run, and Werth's being a three-run home run, while Victorino, Utley, Ibanez and Happ all hit doubles, with Happ's double being his first major league extra-base hit. Besides Rollins's two rbis, Werth's three ribbies and Feliz's one run batted in, thanks to home run, Howard knocked in the other Phils' run with a single, as the Phils brought in several runs yesterday, thanks to the long ball.
The Phils (60-45, 1st National League East) conclude their three game series with the Rockies (59-48, 3rd National League West) with an afternoon game in Citizens Bank Park, already in progress. The Phils starter is Cliff Lee (8-9 (1-0), 3.02), who is coming off a complete game win over the Giants on July 31, as he gave up only one run on four hits and two walks, as he struck out six, in the Phils' 5-1 win. He is going after his second win as a Phil, while trying to pitch well before his new home crowd. The Rockies will counter with Aaron Cook (10-3, 3.88), who is coming off a no-decision against the Reds on July 31, where he pitched six and two-thirds innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and two walks, while striking out four, in the Rockies' 5-3 win. He will be trying to match Lee, as he goes for his eleventh win of the season. The Phils will be going for the series win, as they prepare for the Marlins to come to the Bank this weekend.


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The search is on for the could-be-candidate who says she is not campaigning, but nobody knows for sure where Sarah Palin might turn up next. NBC's Mike Taibbi reports.
UPDATE: Just in case you thought that Sarah Palin's press-goosechase bus tour of the I-95 corridor couldn't get any more surreal...
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Donald Trump, confirmed to NBC News that the real estate mogul and his wife will meet and dine with Palin and her husband Tuesday night in New York City.
Cohen tells NBC News that Palin and Trump had previously discussed meeting up the next time Palin visited the city.
Trump and his wife, Melania, ate pizza with Palin and her daughter Piper at La Famiglia on 50th Street and Broadway.


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President Barack Obama says the U.S. stands ready to provide whatever assistance officials need in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Algeria.
Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end the four-day standoff with extremists. Officials say at least 23 hostages have died.
Obama said Saturday that the blame rests with the terrorists who carried out the attacks and that the U.S. condemns their actions.
The president says the thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the families of all those who were killed and injured in the terrorist attack.
He says that the U.S. will continue to work closely with all its partners to combat what he called "the scourge of terrorism in the region."


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Cheerwine named Kendall Grubb, a long-time resident of Lexington, as Miss Cheerwine 2013 on Wednesday.
SALISBURY | Cheerwine named Kendall Grubb, a long-time resident of Lexington, as Miss Cheerwine 2013 on Wednesday.
Grubb was voted by Cheerwine's Facebook fans as the candidate who best embodied the iconic values and Southern roots of the drink, according to a press release from the company. Now in its third year, the search for Miss Cheerwine 2013 saw its largest number of entries to date due to the expansion of the age parameters for eligible applicants and the inclusion of Alabama, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., to the state pool.
Grubb, who lives in Nashville, grew up 20 miles from Cheerwine's headquarters in Salisbury, and the soft drink was a staple of her childhood.
"Cheerwine has always been a part of my family gatherings, community events and special memories," Grubb recalls. "So for me, Cheerwine is more than a soft drink; it's an experience that connects me to a very special time in my life. As Miss Cheerwine, I'm most excited to share my experiences with fellow enthusiasts, as well as introduce new fans to the 'Nectar of the South.'"
A self-proclaimed "Cheerwine Fanatic," Grubb attended college at Belmont University in Tennessee, where she became known for sharing her affinity for the uniquely flavored beverage with her classmates. In her new role, Grubb will travel throughout the South sharing good cheer with fans of the soft drink and giving others the chance to try it for the first time.
For more information on Miss Cheerwine, to vote, apply or view program guidelines and requirements, visit the Miss Cheerwine Search tab on Cheerwine's Facebook page at Facebook.com/Cheerwine.
The Miss Cheerwine contest was first introduced in 2010 with a mission to find someone who most exemplifies the distinct characteristics of the sparkling drink.
"Cheerwine is an independent, Southern company that has real passion, real stories and real cheer — and Kendall shares all of these qualities," says Joy Ritchie, assistant brand manager for Cheerwine. "We admire the fact that she is community-minded, family oriented and spirited. She could not be a more perfect fit as our newest brand ambassador."
To learn more about Miss Cheerwine's schedule, visit Facebook.com/Cheerwine or Twitter.com/DrinkCheerwine.


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Funeral service for Gerald "Jerry" Hofstad of Emmetsburg was held Friday, Sept. 27, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Emmetsburg. The Rev. Kim Peterson officiated.
Inurnment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Emmetsburg, on Saturday, Sept. 28. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg was in charge of arrangements.
Gerald Berg Hofstad, son of Carl and Gladys (Johnson) Hofstad, was born May 16, 1933 in Spencer. As a young boy, Jerry, as he became known to his family and friends, worked at his parents' grocery store. He received his education in Emmetsburg and graduated from Emmetsburg High School. Following high school, Jerry attended Emmetsburg Junior College.
Jerry was united in marriage to Dawn Freeman and this union was blessed with two daughters, Kay and Tami. Jerry enjoyed racing snowmobiles and ice boats in the area and jet boats on the Mississippi River. He was a very talented woodworker and inventor, developing countless pieces of machinery for both work and fun. He enjoyed golfing, fishing and hunting. He will certainly be remembered for his many appearances as Emmet Kelly in the St. Pat's parades and for his talent playing the bagpipes.
On Jan. 1, 1960 Jerry purchased the Palo Alto Reminder and operated its publication until December 1968 when it was announced that Jerry, along with S.J. Brownlee, had purchased the Democrat and Reporter and would publish the newspapers in conjunction with the Reminder. Jerry served as publisher of the Emmetsburg Democrat and Reporter as well as the Palo Alto Reminder until Jan. 1, 1980 when he sold the operation to Ogden Newspapers, Inc.
Jerry was a huge supporter and promoter of not only Emmetsburg but Palo Alto County. He served on countless committees and organizations, some of which included the Palo Alto Conservation Board, Industrial Development Board, Chamber of Commerce, and The United Way. He served on the Emmetsburg Airport Commission for several years, having a strong interest in the preservation of local airports. Jerry held a private pilot's license and owned and flew two planes. He was very instrumental in bringing SNC and PamLine to Emmetsburg. He was also very supportive of the lake dredging project.
Jerry was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church, the Emmetsburg Country Club, Masonic Lodge and Abu Bekr Shrine and he sang with the Harmony group. He was a talented actor and shared his skills in many Main Street Community Theater productions. Jerry was a strong supporter of theater and not only performed in various productions but was a member of MSCT as well.
After Jerry sold the newspaper he and Barbara began an adventure in their lives of traveling all of the navigable rivers in the United States on a houseboat. Another dream of theirs was to travel the "Big Circle" so they sold their boat and while in Naples purchased an Ocean Liner, which they named "The Boat of Us" and set out for the next nine years to fulfill this dream. Jerry and Barbara (Hall) Papadakes were united in marriage on July 24, 2001.
They returned to Emmetsburg where Jerry began Hofstad Lawn Systems which he was still currently operating. He worked at the Emmetsburg Golf course as a volunteer greens keeper for several years.
In 2006 Jerry was elected Palo Alto County Supervisor where he served on many committees. He took great pride in his position and spent countless hours serving his constituents. He was re-elected in 2010 and was just completing his third year of this term.
Jerry passed away Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 at his home in Emmetsburg at the age of 80. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Dean and Donald.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara of Emmetsburg; his children, Kay Hofstad Swalve (Larry) of Cylinder, Tami Walden (John) of Cheyenne, WY, Charles Papadakes (Toni) of Breaux Bridge, LA, Tina Pippert (John) of Dysart and Nick Papadakes (Jennifer) of Wadsworth, IL; grandchildren, Jerri Sadler, Colyn and Jayden Johnson, Sarah and Ethan Papadakes, Calvin and Emily Hast, Nicko and Morgan Papadakes; as well as many other relatives and friends.
Jerry touched countless people's lives in a variety of ways. His ability to tell a joke, share an impersonation or break out in song, brought smiles and laughs from not only those that knew him but total strangers as well.
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Liverpool In the days after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, Norm Andrzejewski knew what he was going to have to do.
"As soon as it happened, a number of comments came in to our group, saying, 'Let's do this,'" said Andrzejewski, who formed Operation Southern Comfort in 2006 to help the Gulf Coast rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. "People were asking me, 'What are you going to do?' I said, 'I'm busy. I've got two jobs.' But I couldn't ignore it. So it wasn't long before we decided we needed to do something."
Donations needed
Operations Northern and Southern Comfort are collecting the following items to fill a rental truck for their Dec. 22 trip to areas affected by Hurricane Sandy:
Bottled water
Non-perishable food items
Contractor garbage bags
Cleaning supplies
Tyvek work suits
Rubber gloves
Toilet paper
P100 particle respirator masks
Backpacks with school supplies
Children's books
Children's toys
Cash donations for gas and tolls
Donations can be dropped off at 800 Second St., Liverpool. For more information, call Norm Andrzejewski at 559-9413 or Kristin Andrzejewski at 935-7792.
Operation Southern Comfort, as well as Operation Northern Comfort, its locally-active counterpart, has sent volunteers to areas affected by Sandy twice since the beginning of November. Andrzejewski, a Liverpool resident who has been to the hardest-hit areas of the Gulf Coast more than 40 times since Katrina struck, said it's an all-too-familiar scene.
"It's a lot like New Orleans, a lot like Mississippi, especially in some of the harder-hit areas like Rockaway," he said. "There's a lot of sand, a lot of homes that need to be mucked out. There are a lot of families hurting."
That's why ONC and OSC are teaming up in a new effort, one Andrzejewski is calling Operation Sandyland, to help those affected by the latest disaster. A team, led by Andrzejewski's granddaughter Kristin, will be heading down with a rental truck on Dec. 22 to help out wherever they can.
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Let this be a lesson. After posts by John Gruber and Shawn King, this happened to Violet Blue. "The misinformation gave a significant number of people fuel to stalk me, attack me for hours at a time, malign, insult me in disgusting ways, threaten me with weapon-specific violent death (an axe), and lead social media attempts to force me to lose my job over the matter. Many referenced John Gruber, and/or his post as they did this. Plans were openly made to make media to attack me - another Angry Mac Bastards podcast." Disgusting story, and sadly enough, this isn't the first time this has happened, as Blue notes in her article. I don't like talking about these matters (you don't want to know the kind of crap that gets thrown my way at times), but I can assure you my inbox has seen its share of pure vitriol after Gruber links to an OSNews piece. It ain't pretty.
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Sorry, I forgot that a tech news site like ZDnet, owned by one of the largest American media conglomerates, shouldn't be held to any sort of standard nor be held responsible for anything they publish in cases where the author just doesn't feel like writing something 'serious'. You're sure right and I should reread that article with your interpretation now!
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Sony XBA-1 FULL review after 5 day of use
I did a mini review before of the sony XBA-1 now after 5 days after use let me write down my toughts
The package comes with the basic accessories: the hybrid silicone tips, foam filled noise-isolating tips, a cable winder, a carrying pouch made of cloth and oddly but well, an instruction booklet [ plug headphones and use them].
The tips isolate well and are comfortable, ideal for long periods of use. Normal tips come in 4 sizes SS, S, M and L. Noise isolating come in the 3 standard bundle-sizes S,M and L. The best fitting (my ears) are the M and L, they produce a good seal, and as the audiophiles say, good seal = good sound.
The S and SS are the hardest to put on the headphones nozzles as well all of the noise-isolating, like the insertion receptacle is made of hard silicone or the nozzle is a little bit big.
Now the XBA-1:
the build quality is good, WalkGood told me that his headphones use Ferrofluid for shock resistance (Edited, see post #10 here), sony claims those have liquid crystal polymer casings for vibration reduction, however I don't know if this also is for shock resistance.
They are slim, of course sony decided to coat these too with their shiny silver paint, I hope it doesn't degrade over time like some sony players. Plug is a 90 degree one with a rounded tip, the cable is flat style and yes it doesn't memory-tangle I love it altought it is a J-cord
Now here goes the icing on the cake, the sound quality:
The sound is pretty natural, I feel the sound to be like "I am at the concert live", it has a balanced frequency spectrum, instruments sound so natural, for example the Harpsichord doesn't sound so metallic like on most dynamic drivers. I can feel playing it. Overall warm sound.
Sorry for the bassheads out there…. The bass is present, it makes presence but it is not the kind of bass you get from a dynamic driver or a monster beats by dr dre, it's pretty balanced punchy at times.
They reproduce the most subtle detail sounds, for example the mellow French horns or the wood flue pipes of an organ supporting the chorus, including room reverberation [more on this later]. Some harpsichord sound too weak when paired in an orchestra like in bach's harpsichord concerti, those headphones can reproduce this weak sounds and pianissimos at even low volumes. I can hear the harpsichord mechanism being released after a thunderous chord or passage. The 4 antiphonal organs played by E power Biggs sound astonishing good you can hear them in melody each subtle sound.
The instrument separation is good as mentioned above I can hear instruments I never heard before unless I turned up the volume on a dynamic driver, it gives the impression of a immersive experience without any fancy surround or 3D thingies, for example in most of the Bach Canatas conducted by Helmut Rillig you can I could hear a virtuoso violin passage along with a soprano singing or horns, oboes, trumpets.
The reverb of a room [echo] decays at proper time, you can feel being at the hall [church/cathedral] specially organ works or harpsichord works you feel the sound decaying slowly after the relase of the keyboard, some instruments have internal reverb, namely violins, cellos, harpsichord, specially the lute-harpsichord [ a harpsichord with gut strings] the sound of this lute-harpsichord wow amazed me the decay of the internal resonance is pretty accurate you can feel those bass strings punch and resonate as well those 2' strings decaying more rapidly yet sound charming and pretty warm.
Overall sound quality is a top notch, something I never heard from $20 [usd] headphones, and for being a single BA damn every single detail reproduced with such an accuracy is worth the price of 80 USD, warm sounding headphones. I recommend them for an entry level audiophile
Some remarks on this review:
Music collection is MP3, Frauhoffer encoded @ 192kbps using DB powramp
All collection is classical music [from renaissance to romanticism]
Listened to a variety of instruments from Pianos and fortepianos, diverse harpsichords [French, german and Flemish], German harpsichord being a warmer cembalo sound, different orchestras from modern with HV Karajan to Historical performance like English concert w/Trevor pinnock… [classical is not only orchestra or piano]
Rig used ipod classic [late 2009] 160GB, no EQ no sound enhancing stuff, just plain as-is
Some of the recordings used were Bach complete edition, Haenssler Klassik, Helmut rilling 170 CD conducting the cantatas and Robert hill using a Lute-harpsichord on the keyboard works section
, Haendel chamber music English academic ensemble. Pierre Hantai Golberg variations [1993 recording] using a copy of a Michale Mietke German harpsichord
HV Karajan Beethoven symphonie No. 9 and Mozart symphonies 35-41,
Philipps Mozart edition 180 CDs
Deutsche harmonia mundi Louis Couperin : L'integrale d'l'Oeuvre de clavecin, davitt moroney Flemish harpsichord
Archiv blue series , Kenneth gilbert, Bach Well tempered clavier Books 1 and 2, French Tasking/ruckers harpsichord
Trevor pinnock conducts the engish concert on original instruments, bach complete harpsichord concertos
Yo-yo ma, Bach the cello suites complete Sony BMG 1988 the pink version, there's a white booklet version
Naxos Mozart clarinet quintet K 581,
sony BMG E. Power Biggs JS BACH The great Four Toccatas and Fugues
BMG BACH/vivaldi concertos for 2 violins Isaac stern and Pinchas zukermann
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Why Speakers Earn $30,000 an Hour - Confessions of a Public Speakerby Scott Berkun
This excerpt is from Confessions of a Public Speaker. In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For anyone else who talks and expects someone to listen, Confessions of a Public Speaker provides an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. You'll get new insights into the art of persuasion, based on Scott's 15 years of experience speaking to crowds of all sizes.
It's 7:47 a.m. at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, so early the sun is just starting to rise. It's an ungodly time and place for any writer to be outside. Writers aren't the most well-adjusted people, and it's telling that our preferred means of interaction with civilization is throwing paragraph-shaped grenades at people from behind the safety of a laptop. I know few writers who love mornings, and the doorman at my hotel - who wears a bright blue sailor's uniform as part of the nautical-themed thrill ride that is the Argonaut Hotel - is clearly on my side. He waves down a cab for me and gives a half smile from underneath his tired eyes, a smile that says, "Doesn't it suck to work this early?" Anyone who finishes the night shift with a sense of humor is a good man indeed. Or perhaps I just look like trash this morning and he finds my appearance entertaining. Maybe it's both.
People talk about sunrises as if they were magical things. Yet here at Fisherman's Wharf, the morning fog forming a glorious orange blanket around a late-winter sunrise, no one except the doorman, the cab driver, and me is awake and outside. You know why? People are lazy. Even if there was a sunrise at 7:47 a.m. as brilliant and soul-stirring as a wall-sized J. M. W. Turner masterpiece, a sunrise giving out hundred-dollar bills and tomorrow's lottery numbers, few of us would be out to see it. Most of the things we say are so wonderful and amazing lose without a fight to an extra hour of sleep. We'd wake up, think it over for a few moments, and fall back into the comfort of our dreams. Sleep deprivation is a curse of the modern age, a problem born from our technological things. Before Edison's light bulb, we averaged 10 hours a night; in 2009, we average nearly half that. And this means, when it comes to sunrises, judge people by what they do, not what they say.
On this morning the sun is putting on quite a show, but where are all the sunrise lovers? They're not with me out on the street. They're sleeping, just as I would be if I could. The truth is public speakers everywhere would have an easier time keeping their audience awake if more people actually slept well the night before. If the ascension of our nearest star, the source of all energy and life on earth, the universal symbol for all that is good, happy, and hopeful can't get people out of bed, what chance does a speaker have?
In all honesty I love the sunrise…it's the getting up to see it I hate. Sunrises are transcendent when viewed through a hotel window, from a comfy bed, when I'm not expected to do anything for anyone for hours. My professional problem is that public speaking is often scheduled hundreds of minutes on the wrong side of noon. And on the days I'm lucky enough to get top billing for an event, I earn an additional chronological treat: the keynote means I'm to set the tone for the day, a challenge that - given our limited understanding of space and time - requires me to speak before anyone else. All this explains why, at 7:48 a.m. on a Tuesday, I am showered, cleaned, shaved, pruned, fed, and deodorized, wearing a pressed shirt and shiny shoes, in a cab on my way to the San Francisco waterfront. Like the gorgeous light from the sun still conquering the clouds over the San Francisco Bay outside my cab window, this morning is both great and horrible, a thrill and a bore. It's an amazing way to live, as I get paid to think and learn and exchange ideas - all things I love. But I'm far from home, going to a strange place, and performing for strangers, three stressful facts than mean anything can happen, especially since it's the worst of all times for my particular brain - early morning.
Making it to the venue is the first challenge a speaker-for-hire faces, and let me tell you, it's often a bigger challenge than the lecture itself. The lecture I know well since I created it. I have no one to blame if it stinks. And when I do finally arrive at the room I'm to speak in - even if it's the worst room in the world - I can try to adapt to whatever problems it has. But until I get to the room, until I make my way through the airports, cities, highways, conference centers, office complexes, and parking lots, I can't begin to get ready. Being in transit means, psychologically speaking, you are in the purgatory of being almost there. Unlike lecturing, where I feel in control, it's the things I can't control that create stress - like the taxi driver getting lost, the traffic jam a handful of miles from where I'm supposed to be, and the confusing corporate and college campuses impossible for visitors like me to navigate. How could anyone know Building 11 is next to Building 24 on Microsoft's main campus, or that the Kresge Auditorium is hiding behind Bexley Hall at MIT? From experience, I know there is nothing worse than being in the strange territory of very close and surprisingly far at the same time.
When I arrive at the Fort Mason complex, the venue for this particular Tuesday, I discover, as my taxi roars off, I'm far from where I need to be. Fort Mason is a sprawling Civil War-era military base, recently converted into a community center (see Figure 3-1). The word complex is apt. My instructions say to find Building A, but there are no signs, and, more importantly, no normal looking buildings, only endless rows of identical barracks, towers, and narrow parking lots. The Fort Mason Center has one major flaw: it skipped the conversion. It still looks like a place designed to kill you, not welcome you to fun community activities. There are fences, gates, barricades, barbed wire, and tall stone walls with sharp corners.
For comparison, there's a military museum in Kiev with two decommissioned World War II tanks at the main entrance, painted top to bottom with fun, peaceful swirls in bright rainbow colors (see Figure 3-2). Now that's a conversion - one day a death machine, the next a happy, silly plaything. Fort Mason, on the other hand, looks like a place the Spartans would say is too spartan. They'd demand a row of shrubs and fresh paint before they'd even consider moving in.
Trying to find my way, I stop at the front gate - which is what I do instinctively at gates near things looking like military bases - and only after long moments standing like an idiot do I realize I'm free to enter. No ID or white flag required. The gate is for cars, which explains the strange look from the guard: I'd been standing in the car lane the entire time. I wander aimlessly through the complex, surviving several dead-ends, wrong turns, and unlabeled parking lots, trying not to imagine snipers in the towers above, until I find Building A and happily step inside.
The event at Fort Mason is run by Adaptive Path, a Bay Area-design consulting company, and I know these folks well. They've hired me before, and I say hello to friendly faces. I soon meet Julia, one of the event organizers, and after a brief chat she hands me an envelope. I know that inside is a check for $5,000, the fee for my services. I want to open it and look. My brain still thinks in 15-year-old terms of money, where $100 is tons and $500 is amazing. Anything over that simply does not exist in the surprisingly large 15-yearold part of my mind. I want to look inside, not because I don't trust Julia, but because I don't trust myself. I'm baffled at how adults pay other adults so much for doing boring, safe adult things. My childhood friend Doug drove his mom's Cadillac over the big hill on the wrong side of the entrance to the Whitestone Shopping Center in Queens at 60 miles per hour - with all of us screaming in the back seat - for free. He risked all of our lives without payment, other than his own insane but infectious pleasure. Meanwhile, bankers and hedge fund managers make millions playing with Excel spreadsheets, an activity with zero chance of bodily harm, save carpal tunnel syndrome. They earn more in a year than the guys who put the roof on my house, paved the road that leads to it, or work as firemen and policemen to protect it will see in a lifetime. It's curious facts like these we'll have to explain twice when the aliens land.
In the movies, gangsters are always opening briefcases and counting money, but in real life, no one does this. It's awkward, strange, and slimy. Money for Americans, a culture cursed by our unshakable Puritanical roots, is loaded with lust and shame. Yet, our modern corporate culture values the accumulation of financial wealth above all else. The resulting contradiction causes much of what's wonderful and horrible about America. I suspect many of you jumped right to this chapter because of its title, or noticed it first when you skimmed through the table of contents. Not because you're evil, but because we're fascinated and revolted by money at the same time, especially regarding work that seems superficial, like public speaking. I know I'm paid for something that, in the grand scheme, is not Work. It's work, with a little w, but it's not shoveling coal, building houses, or fighting in wars, which earn the capital W. I will never hurt my back, ruin my lungs, or lose a limb as a public speaker (unless I lecture at a convention of drunk lion tamers). And despite the many questions that come to mind when Julia hands me that check, I cram it into my bag and head for the lectern where I can get to work.
I'm worth $5,000 a lecture, and other speakers are worth $30,000 or more for two reasons: the lecture circuit and free market economics.1 People come up after I give a lecture and ask, "So when did you get on the lecture circuit?" And I respond by asking, "Do you know what the circuit is?" And they never have any idea. It's a term they've heard before, despite the fact it's never explained, and it somehow seems to be the only reasonable thing to ask a public speaker when you're trying to seem interested in what he does for a living. Well, here's the primer. Public speaking, as a professional activity, became popular in the U.S. before the Civil War. In the 1800s - decades before electricity, radio, movies, television, the Internet, or automobiles - entertainment was hard to find. It explains why so many people sang in church choirs, read books, or actually talked to each other for hours on end: there was no competition.
In the 1820s, a man named Josiah Holbrook developed the idea of a lecture series called Lyceum, named after the Greek theater where Aristotle lectured his students (for free). It was amazingly popular, the American Idol of its day. People everywhere wanted it to come to their town. By 1835, there were 3,000 of these events spread across the United States, primarily in New England. In 1867, some groups joined up to form the Associated Literary Society, which booked speakers on a singular, prescribed route from city to city across the country. This is the ubiquitous lecture circuit we hear people refer to all the time. Back then it was a singular thing you could get on. "Bye, honey, I'm going on the circuit, be back in six months," was something a famous lecturer might have said. It took that long to run the circuit across the country on horses and return home. Before the days of the Rolling Stones or U2, there were performers who survived the grueling months-long tours without double-decker tour buses, throngs of groupies, and all-hour parties.
At first there was little money for speakers. The Lyceum was created as a public service, like an extension of your local library. It was a feel-good, grassroots, community-service movement aimed at educating people and popularizing ideas. These events were often free or low priced, such as 25 cents a ticket or $1.50 for an entire season.2 But by the 1850s, when high-end speakers like Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Mark Twain dominated the circuit, prices for lectures went as high as $20 a ticket - equivalent to about $200 a seat in 2009. Of course, free lectures continued, and they always will, but the high end reached unprecedented levels for people giving speeches. In the late 1800s, it was something a famous person could do and earn more than enough money to make a comfortable living, which is exactly what many famous writers did.
Soon the free market took over. Air travel, radio, telephones, and everything else we take for granted today made the idea of a single circuit absurd. Lecture series, training conferences, and corporate meetings created thousands of events that needed new speakers every year. Some events don't pay, even charging speakers to attend (as it's seen as an honor to be invited to give a presentation), but many hire a few speakers to ensure things go well. For decades, there's been enough demand for speakers that speaker bureaus - talent agencies for public speakers - work as middlemen, matching people who want to have a lecture at their event and speakers, like me, who wish to be paid for giving lectures. If you want Bill Clinton, Madonna, or Stephen King to speak at your birthday party, and you have the cash (see Table 3-1), there is a speaker bureau representing each one of them that would like to make a deal with you. Which brings us pack to whether I'm worth $5,000.
|Table 3-1. High-end speakers and their fees.3
|One-hour lecture fee
|Bill Clinton
|Malcolm Gladwell
|Garry Kasparov
|David Allen
|$50,000 - $75,000
|Patrick Lencioni
|$50,000 - $75,000
|Ben Stein
|$50,000 - $75,000
|Wayne Gretsky
|Magic Johnson
|Bob Kostas
|Ray Kurzweil
|$35,000 - $50,000
|Roger Staubach
|$25,000 - $30,000
|Dave Barry
|$25,000 - $30,000
My $5,000 fee has nothing to do with me personally. I'm not paid for being Scott Berkun. I know I'm paid only for the value I provide to whoever hires me. If, for example, Adaptive Path can charge $500 per person for an event, and they get 500 people to attend, that's $250,000 in gross revenue for Adaptive Path. Part of what will allow them to charge that much, and draw that many people, are the speakers they will have. The bigger the names, the more prestigious their backgrounds, and the more interesting their presentations, the more people will come and the more they will be willing to pay. Even for private functions, say when Google or Ferrari throws an annual event for their employees, how much would it be worth to have a speaker who can make their staff a little smarter, better, or more motivated when returning to work? Maybe it's not worth $30,000 or even $5,000, but there is some economic value to what good speakers, on the right topics, do for people. It depends on how valuable the people in the room are to whoever is footing the bill. Even if it's just for entertainment, or for reminding the audience of important things they've forgotten, a good speaker is worth something. Think of the last boring lecture you were at: would you have paid a few bucks to make the speaker suck less? I bet you would.
The disappointing thing is, for these fees, speakers often don't do very well. After all, they're not being paid directly for their public-speaking skills. The raw economic value proposition is in drawing people to the event, and it's more likely people will come to an event featuring a famous person - even one they suspect is boring to listen to - than to hear the best public speaker in the world if that's his only claim to fame.4 Two of the worst lectures I've attended were given by famous people: David Mamet (playwright, screenwriter, and director) and Nicholas Pileggi (author of Wiseguy, the novel Scorsese's Goodfellas was based on). Both occasions were author readings, which are notoriously boring and bad bets for good public speaking. Yet, in both cases, they filled their respective rooms impressively well. However, I bet no one in attendance got much from the experience of listening to them, except the right to say they saw a famous person speak, which perhaps is also worth something.
The challenge for event organizers, who have limited budgets and tough timelines, is to manage the three unavoidable criteria for picking people to talk at their events. They must find speakers who are:
- Famous or credible for a relevant topic
- Good at speaking
- Available
Two out of three is often the best they can do. It's common to see good speakers who don't have much to say, as well as experts who are brilliant but boring. To secure someone with all three often requires some cash, and as a result, I am one of thousands of people at the low end of a very high pay scale activity.
To put the numbers so far in this chapter in perspective, the average adult on planet Earth earns $8,200 a year (U.S. dollars). The average American makes about $45,000. Since you see your paycheck, you know exactly where you stand. I think it would be smart for corporations to put information like this on their checks - it would prevent many people from complaining about what they don't have.5 Almost half of the world's population doesn't have clean running water or reliable electricity, no matter how well they are paid. From a planetary view, if you're reading this book indoors, under an electric light, within walking distance to a stocked refrigerator or a take-out delivery menu you can afford to order from, and rarely find yourself worrying about malaria or dysentery, you are doing quite well. And if you're still not happy, compared to most of the galaxy, a place comprised of 99.9% dead, empty space, the fact you're even alive, and in the form of a species evolved enough to know you're alive, and educated enough to read books reminding you of how rare life is, makes you astronomically fortunate. We should be happy about this, but mostly it seems we're not.
Unfortunately, we know, care, and obsess more about the 10% of the world who earn more than we do, rather than the 90% who earn less. And although you might disapprove of my speaking fees, I'm no different from you. I'm well aware of speakers who earn more than me but who have less to say, and say it worse than I would. It's safe to say no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's. I know all too well that rock stars, movie actors, Fortune 100 executives, and professional athletes make millions annually just for endorsing things they had nothing to do with. If I'm overpaid, at least it was to perform a service where I risk getting booed off the stage. An endorsement is paid for liking, or merely pretending to like, something. It's not work in any familiar sense of the word, since it's a vague approval of work done by people the endorser has likely never met. Tiger Woods and LeBron James make $50+ million a year from endorsements alone, an annual income so large it's more than the average American could earn in 10 lifetimes. This cannot seem fair, and in a philosophical sense it isn't. They are not doing anything for the greater good. They are not educating children, helping the poor, stopping wars, or curing diseases. In fact, depending on what they're endorsing, they're likely increasing our desire for what we don't have, can't afford, and probably don't need.
However, from another perspective, we all know people earn as much as they can argue for. If you're a fan of the free market, you must accept that if you feel underpaid, it's up to you to do something about it - the most free part of any market is you. You are free to quit and live in the woods like Thoreau. Or, start your own business where you decide how much you're paid. For me, this means if I ever want to earn as much for a lecture as Bill Clinton or Bob Kostas, I need to become way more famous by, in increasing order of desperation, writing better books, getting a better agent, or marrying Jessica Simpson. Of course, we are all free to complain about how unfair things are, as I am here. But let's be fair to people who earn more money than you think they should, including LeBron James, Tiger Woods, or even me. I bet if you picked an average American and his average job, and asked him using average language whether he'd rather be paid $100,000 instead of $45,000 for doing the same work, it's a safe bet that, on average, he'd say yes.
The only remaining defense for the speaker fees I'm paid is that I'm compensated for all the things everyone forgets I have to do in order to be capable of speaking. A keynote lecture to a large crowd takes about 60 minutes to deliver. Arguably this is more intense and stressful than the average office worker's entire week, but let's put that aside. To make and practice a new lecture takes two days of full-time work, which is 16 hours. Then consider my trip to get to the venue, including the security lines I have to wait in, the airplane flight I have to take, the cabs I have to ride in, the hotels I have to sleep in, and on it goes. Now many people can give lectures, and I'm not being paid simply for talking into a microphone. I'm paid for the decades of experience listed on my resume that, in theory, should make what I have to say interesting, provocative, entertaining, educational, inspiring, and whatever other adjectives the people who hire me mention in their marketing material. I'm good at teaching, which is uncommon and worth a few bucks, but lastly there is the ultimate factor: I'm paid to speak at one venue instead of speaking at another. When demand outweighs supply, there are fees to be paid. The more demand, the higher the fees.
The unspoken risk I run is having no salary. I have no pension. I have no extended contract guaranteeing me lecture gigs forever. This book could bomb or be destroyed in reviews, and my speaking career could come to an unfortunate and immediate end, which in the grand scheme of things would be OK. I didn't quit my job with the goal of earning $30,000 an hour - I quit to see if I could pull this off at all. And now that I have for the past five years, my goal is to see how long I can make an independent living purely on the merits of what I write and what I say.
1 In the interest of transparency and satisfying your curiosity, I average 25 - 30 lectures a year. Sometimes I'm paid as much as $8,000 depending on the situation. Maybe a third of those lectures are paid only in travel expenses or small fees, since they're self-promotional or for causes I'd like to help. Roughly 40% of my income is from book royalties and the rest from speaking fees. So far, I average around $100,000 a year, less than I made at Microsoft. However, I now have complete independence, which is worth infinitely more. I limit travel to once or twice a month, which means I turn away many gigs; I'd much rather have more time than money, since you can never earn more time.
2 History of Public Speaking in America, Robert T. Oliver (Allyn &Bacon), p. 461.
3 These fees were compiled from public listings on various speaker bureau websites. Most sites note that these fees are variable and may change at any time. See http://www.keyspeakers.com/ or http:// www.prosportspeaker.com/.
4 There is an annual competition for the world's best public speaker, but I bet you've never heard of the winners: http://www.toastmasters.org/Members/MemberExperience/Contests/WorldChampions_1.aspx.
5 I also think it would be good if salaries were made public, which is why I offered my fees and income. The overpaid and underpaid would be visible and more likely to be corrected. Or, total anarchy would ensue and civilization would end. Either way, it would be fun to watch.
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Experiment of The Month
Bowling Ball Demonstration Pendulum
The Physics Club has begun a program of demonstrations for schools with the construction of a portable bowling ball pendulum. Physics major C. Harmon, and Rob Schwartz designed the black frame for the pendulum so that it will fold and fit into the back of a car. The do-not-try-this-at-home sequence is shown below. (The pictures were taken in the physics club headquarters / study room.)
This is the physics major equivalent of walking on hot coals. Theory says that energy is conserved for the pendulum: i.e. that the energy is the sum of kinetic (1/2 m v 2) energy and gravitational potential (mgh) energy is constant. When the pendulum swings back to Mr. Harmon's face, it has also risen to the same height at which it was released.
If energy is conserved all the energy is now potential energy and the kinetic energy is zero. The velocity therefore is zero and the ball is not about to travel the extra centimeter and break anyone's glasses.
This analysis fails catestrophically if you give the ball a push when you release it.
To arrange for a demonstration, call the physics club advisor, Dr. Hendrick, at 717-872-3412


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Professor Emeritus T. Alan Broughton Dies at Age 76
- 05-21-2013
- By University Communications
English Professor Emeritus T. Alan Broughton, 76, died May 17 at Vermont Respite House in the company of his family.
A novelist, poet and short story writer, Broughton taught writing and literature for 35 years at the University of Vermont, from 1966 to 2001, chairing the English Department and developing and directing the Writers' Workshop Program, still in existence today. That program brings working writers to campus for readings and master classes; its most recent guest in April 2013: Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz.
As a writer, Broughton was recognized nationally, with awards and fellowships including the prestigious Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and his work was selected for inclusion in the O'Henry Awards and Best American Poetry anthologies. He traveled as a cultural representative under the auspices of the State Department's United States Information Agency to southeast Asia, Egypt and to Italy, a country he'd visited many times over the course of his life and that figured prominently in his writing.
The New York Times wrote of his 1980 novel Winter Journey, which takes place in Rome: "Not the least of Mr. Broughton's accomplishments is to seize material we had thought to be worn out, used up, discarded, replaced -- by a newer model of artistry, the ironic grimace -- and make it somehow lyrical all over again. Craft counts."
In his early years in the English Department, Broughton noticed an uptick in the interest in writing poetry among students. "Dylan Thomas and the beat poets brought poetry down into the street, out of the clouds," he told a campus publication in 1972. That was an accessibility he believed in.
Born in 1936 in Bryn Mawr, Pa., he was educated at Exeter, Harvard and at Julliard as a classical pianist, ultimately receiving his bachelor's degree at Swarthmore. He told the Burlington Free Press in a 2001 article that the discipline he acquired at Julliard he took with him to the writing process. He received his master's in English literature from the University of Washington.
He was the author of four novels, A Family Gathering (1977), Winter Journey (1980), The Horsemaster (1981) and Hob's Daughter (1984); two collections of short stories, The Jesse Tree (1975) and Suicidal Tendencies (2003); and nine collections of poetry, Adam's Dream (1975), In the Face of Descent (1975), The Others We Are (1979), Far From Home (1979), Dreams Before Sleep (1982), Preparing to Be Happy (1988), In The Country of Elegies (1995), The Origin of Green (2001) and A World Remembered (2010).
He is survived by his wife, Laurel Broughton, who also taught in the English Department, and by three children and five grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held at Trinity Church, Shelburne, Saturday, May 25, at 11 a.m. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to Vermont Respite House or Kids on the Ball, c/o the King Street Youth Center.
Read a poem from A World Remembered, "The Old Orchard," reprinted in Vermont Quarterly in 2010.