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I just realized that I some how missed 2 posts . Either that or I labeled them differently. So I am going to write post #15 now. It will be out of order but who cares just deal! :-)
Appearance - The Torpedo pours a nice dark golden with a hint of amber with a nice head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing.
Aroma - The hop aroma is music to my nose. I get a lot of pine, citrus, and herbal notes.
Taste - The taste is just what an IPA should be nicely balanced but with nice hop bitterness and flavor. The citrus is the predominate hop flavor in the Torpedo.
Mouthfeel - The Torpedo's has a medium body with good carbonation that helps carry the flavor throughout the pallate.
Drinkability - This is a very good beer if you like hops but also like balance. This is another great beer in Sierra Nevada's line of great beer.
See you next time!!
Matt C.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Beer Review #15 - Sierra Nevada Torpedo
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Review for A:TLA Episode Jet Edit
This is a very climactic chapter, mainly due to the sudden interest Katara took into Jet.
When I had first seen this episode, I was irked. Based on what I had seen I thought Aang's character was not captured properly and he was simply "wrote off" in the script simply so they could move the story forward. I knew Katara was not thinking of Aang as a possible interest, but I expected to see some jealousy from Aang during this episode. And for that, I was not pleased. However, having delved more greatly into it now, I've actually completely 180'd and find the chapter to be one hundred percent in character.
Plot Recap Edit
Let's look at the plot here: the gaang has just escaped a near capture at the hands of pirates and Zuko. After this encounter, Sokka emphasizes the need for stealth; walking is less obvious than flying. It's because of this that they stumble right into another squad of Fire Nation soldiers. This would have been their demise if not for the daring surprise attack by the Freedom Fighters.
Jet's handsome looks, prowess in battle, calm witty attitude toward Sokka and mysterious air of leadership and respect completely entrances Katara, sending her in an immediate crush for the tall, dark, handsome young man. Sokka is still bitter about Jet being much more the warrior than he is and desires to leave at their first chance.
Jet immediately decides to put Katara and Aang to use in ridding the lands of Fire Nation, and discovers immediately that the young Waterbender has a crush on him. When he informs her and Aang that he has plans for them, Sokka attempts to leave. Jet's smooth tongue and quick wit lures Sokka into remaining a second day for a mission of his own, in which he discovers Jet's ire toward the Fire Nation is more ruthless than it first seemed. He attempts to convince Aang and Katara to leave due to Jet's behavior, but this fails.
Jet moves forward with his plans, abusing Aang and Katara's trust in him by convincing them to aid him in his next scheme with a lie. With their support, he successfully floods the Fire Nation controlled colony, infuriating Katara at the personal betrayal she felt for having been misled to have aided in the death of innocents. Sokka returns in time to explain he had saved the people of the village, convincing them to leave just in time.
Thoughts Edit
Simply amazing. The only part that was kind of a drag for this episode was the very start, freeing a captured Momo and two hog monkeys. Even so, they tied this into the plot by having Sokka realize the traps were Fire Nation metallurgy, which furthered his decision to walk rather than fly.
This episode portrayed further acts of war to give a life to both the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom; both sides facing their own troubles. It even took the efforts to shed a sympathetic light to the Fire Nation of this episode, with both Katara and Sokka shown desiring no harm to come to even those of the Fire Nation that are living in peace.
My Biggest complaint for this episode is Aang's inability at fighting Jet. Now, I do realize it's due to Aang "holding back" and not wanting to hurt him, and that Jet got a lucky shot on Aang by surprising him (he didn't think Jet would jump through mid-air to attack him). It all boils down to a single reason they had that happen (on purpose), they wanted Katara to be the one to deal the blow to her ex. And as such, it is the first time we get to see her use such fiercesome Waterbending, which is awesome. It's still disappointing was made to Aang falter for sheer plot purposes.
Character Depth Edit
Aang was in bliss during this episode. Not just that, but he seemed willfully ignorant and naive to Katara's affection for Jet when he had the opportunity to recognize it. With all the kids he could befriend and goof around with he found no trouble in making friends and exploring the Treetop hideout. Indeed, he had so much pleasure here he didn't even attempt to steal away Katara's attention throughout the episode. He held immense respect for Jet and his ragtag group of Freedom Fighters. This is not so much a surprise, considering he hadn't even been around her as much in these few days - leaving her completely alone the second morning as she crafted a hat for Jet, which Aang ended up wearing. Very subtle foreshadowing, Bryke! I completely missed that allusion the first time I saw the episode.
Sokka's character was great here, it was like an anti-Jet setup from the start. Unlike Aang, he was quick to realize Katara was smitten with Jet, and vehemently resented her trust for the leader. He remained the typical skeptical Sokka, yet obviously led initially by jealousy at Jet's overshadowing him. This skepticism turned into disdain and mistrust once he saw the extent of Jet's hatred for the Fire Nation and only furthered when he discovered what the true ulterior motive was, the destruction of Gaipan.
It was amusing to see Katara fall head over heels in a puppy love crush. This was her first encounter with this type of feeling and she totally ran with it. And how could she not, considering the time constraints of their journey? Speaking of which; I really wonder what she was thinking seeing as they had to leave. She wanted to stay longer; as did Aang, but how far would she have gone if Jet hadn't shown his true colors? That might've been bad and totally changed the story/following books. Anyway; this experience for her was something I think she had to go through to experience first hand, it helped shape who she became to be more slow and assured before leaping into another relationship again.
Jet was expertly created. Paying more attention to his behavior and ulterior motives / words spoken from the start, he has a masterful silver tongue. Barely having met the three; he used just the right words to win over Sokka to stay, please Aang to further his respect, and take advantage of Katara's crush. That part alone makes Jet's character unbelievably firm; he is so vehemently against the Fire Nation that he is willing to manipulate Katara from the very start rather than build a relationship with her. It is only after he was left frozen to a tree to reconsider his actions that he grew to regret his behavior, having betrayed her so greatly. Know what? Irony; the very last episode it was Katara stuck to a tree! This time it's Jet!
Grading Edit
Plot : 10 / 10
- Seamless. It flows without a hitch from one scene to another; a LOT of information is packed in and occurs in a very short time, keeping in the key elements.
Character Depth/Growth : 9 / 10
- Rated down due to seeing it for the first time, certain elements don't quite come across clear. But it's still rated high because once you grasp what's going on here, the motivations of each character meshes with one another very nicely.
Overall : 9 / 10
- Shaving off 0.5 for the plot-oriented failure of Aang's battle. Even regardless of me understanding it was backed by Aang's personality of not wishing to fight.
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Coming up with good strategies can be really hard. In 1997, Daniel A. Levinthal wrote a paper called "Adaptation on Rugged Landscapes" explaining a bit about how life works and why it makes good strategy so difficult. Whether you're creating a strategy for your business, your chess game, or your life, you can improve your success rate by getting a grasp on the concept of Rugged Landscapes.
First, let's get a basic understanding of strategy. Although there are about as many definitions of "strategy" as there are strategy experts, we're going to use the word "strategy" to refer to "the alignment of the component parts of an entity in a way designed to achieve a goal." This is not unlike a common definition for strategy that simply states that it's "a goal and a plan to achieve it," but we're going to go a step further and explicitly include the idea of "alignment."
"Alignment" refers to setting up the operations, objectives, incentives, and all other component parts of an entity in a way that it supports and enhances the other components. If the goal of your strategy is to beat the Nazis, then your combat units (infantry, artillery, navy, air force, etc.), logistics units, commanding officers, and political systems all need to work together in a way that moves the whole entity toward the same objective. If the air force attacks random targets that provide no help to troops on the ground nor gain political advantage, then the air force is out of alignment, and the strategy will have a lower chance of success.
In a business, you might be aligning finance operations with marketing, logistics, product development, sales, accounting, and everything else. If product development is working on products that run against the goals of the company (creating an airplane when the company sells cars for example), then the product development team is out of alignment.
Rugged Landscapes
Visualizing the Concept
Levinthal called his paper "Rugged Landscapes" for a reason. Visualizing strategic success as a landscape helps to understand the various complexities. When we think about strategy, we conceptually want to be on the highest part of the landscape; it's a metaphorical game of "King of the Hill." If we put this mountain on a 3-dimensional plane, you can think of climbing a mountain as increasing your value on the Y-axis. To do this, you need to move yourself along the X and Z axis until you get to the highest peak.
In this concept, the X and Z axes represents different attributes of the entity or strategy. As an example, the attributes of your strategy against the Nazis might include the balance between anti-tank and anti-personnel training that you give to your infantry, and the balance of anti-mechanical and anti-infantry missions that your Air Force executes. This is a highly simplified model because true strategies will need to align far more than 2 attributes, but it does give us an idea of how the concept works.
In the visual example of a " rugged landscape", you can see how your anti-Nazi strategy tends to work well when your infantry and Air Force have a relatively equivalent balance, and works best when they give approximately equal time to both. You can also see a sharp drop-off when one division focuses differently from the other, such as when the Air Force focuses on mechanical targets while the infantry focuses on enemy infantry. The real world will look very different from this chart, but hopefully this example can help solidify the concept in your mind.
With the basics established, let's consider how this concept helps us understand why strategy can be so hard.
The concept of "interdependency" partially explains why strategic alignment can be difficult. In its simplest form, interdependency refers to the idea that a change in one attribute of a strategy may impact the efficacy of another attribute of a strategy. This principle severely complicates the real world because attributes often interact in ways we either don't expect or can't predict. Even when we can predict that two attributes will act interdependently, we often can't predict the degree of impact that one will have on the other with much accuracy.
For example, say our air force had previously been focusing its efforts on disrupting enemy logistics for infantry support, but changed its focus slightly more to disrupting enemy logistics for mechanical and manufacturing support. Although we might be able to predict that this could impact our troops on the ground, we might not be able to predict just how big of an impact it will have. This might put you more or less in alignment with the infantry, which may increase or decrease your success against the Nazis. In our visual example, you can see that the slope of our landscape is very steep, indicating that whatever change we make, it will likely have a significant effect one way or the other.
Every attribute in an organization has a risk of being greatly interdependent with other attributes. Although we might be able to predict the consequences in our air force example above, many times we can't readily identify how a slight change in one aspect is going to impact others.
Local Optimization
If interdependency wasn't troubling enough, life throws another curve-ball to aspiring strategists in the form of localized peaks and valleys. Our anti-Nazi example looks relatively simple with its single peak, but what if the landscape looks more like this:
As you can see, this landscape really is a bit more rugged, and closer to what real life might feel like. Instead of just one peak, there are 4 big ones, with a spattering of smaller peaks, a few valleys, and moderate planes.
Depending on where you start with your various strategic attributes, you will probably continue to change and modify your strategy until you reach a localized peak. However, this does not guarantee that you will reach the highest peak on the field. You will only likely reach the closest peak to wherever you start from.
For example, say you were creating an airline company. You leverage two attributes: price, and the number of locations you serve. If you start your planning with attributes close to one of the group of 3 peaks in our visual above, you'll likely develop and adjust until you reach the top of one of them. If you try to make adjustments from there, you'll see decreased performance, and not go any further, not knowing that far away from our little mountain cluster is a hill even higher (and therefore more desirable) than our own.
Against this example, you might ask why someone wouldn't recognize the higher, distant peak and adjust themselves to get there. The next two strategic challenges explain this: path dependency, and the fog of the landscape.
Path Dependency
If you have taken a finance class or econ class, you'll likely have learned that "sunk costs are irrelevant." Although this is true for financial problems, sunk costs must be considered when creating strategy. The reason for that is because you can't instantly divest and reinvest in a completely new set of attributes.*
In a business, your attributes may include things like the number and type of manufacturing plants you own, supply chain operations, company culture, hiring/firing/recruiting processes, brand recognition and reputation, and many other things. Moving from one set of attributes to another can't be done instantly, but is done over time, often incrementally.
Consider again the rugged landscape above. If you're a business on one of the 3 nearby peaks and you want to bring your business to the highest peak, you can't simply wave your fingers and have the necessary changes already done. You will likely have to slowly make the necessary changes, which in this case, might pull your company through a long, deep valley. As my professor called it, you must go through a "valley of the shadow of death." Not all companies can survive the time and resources it takes to change its attributes enough to reach a new peak.
Where you are now depends on where you've been. Where you can go depends on where you are now. You must trudge through every point along the way if you want to make changes.
Foggy Landscapes
Another challenge to creating good strategy comes from the limited information available in the real world. In most cases, you will never know if you've actually found a peak. You will also never know if you've found the highest peak available, or if some major leaps of strategic change will put you close to an even greater peak.
This wouldn't be strategy if it didn't operate in uncertainty.
Changing Landscapes
The landscape itself provides a final challenge to strategy creation. Put simply, the landscape changes. Today's peak might be tomorrow's valley. Internet search companies are a good example of this: AOL, Yahoo, Lycos, and many other search engines spent a fair amount of time on local peaks in their strategic design. As technology advanced and other forces changed the landscape, their peaks dropped and left other organizations (Google) to plant themselves on higher, safer peaks.
The story behind Blockbuster Video's eventual demise is a good example of this as well. Blockbuster had a great foothold in the movie business, sitting on quite a firm peak for a fair amount of time. However, tech advances enabling new ways to watch movies eventually shifted the landscape in favor of entities with a different set of attributes, sucking the floor away from Blockbuster until it closed.
What This Means for You
Having an understanding of the field can strengthen your intuition for solving strategic problems, but this quick glance at the theory yields some specific insights as well.
First, before you start building a strategy, try to learn everything you can about the "landscape." Due to the "path dependency" issue we talked about earlier, much of where you end up will be determined by where you start. Most strategies can only make incremental changes, which often results in climbing the nearest peak. Anything you can do that helps you understand where the highest peak will be is beneficial.
Second, once you have established yourself on a peak, you need to find ways to continue to experiment. One of the best ways of experimenting on a rugged landscape is to create independent entities with new attributes, essentially creating a strategy from a new starting point. Innosight tapped into this idea relatively quickly, helping Deseret News build a new foothold on a growing peak while their traditional newspaper business saw its established peak melting away.
Third, if you must push an organization to a completely new peak, do so as quickly and completely as possible. A company heading through the valley of the shadow of death shouldn't linger. This requires strong leadership and a dedicated team, as well as a whole lot of luck to accomplish. My post on "Grounding Radical Change" expounds on one [less than ideal] way of accomplishing this.
Fourth, look for ways to impact the selection environment. BCG pointed out that Tesla's move to allow others to use its patents could be an advantageous move for Tesla. Success in the automobile industry is partially dependent on network effects, such as the availability of fueling stations. By making its technological advances available for more businesses to use, Tesla is creating an incentive for others to increase the usable network for electric vehicles, making the fully-electric vehicle a decent hill to fight for.
Finally, stop obsessing over finding the correct answer to strategy. Harvard Business Review published a decent article called "Why Smart People Struggle with Strategy." Smart people often face the hurdle of needing validation that they arrived at the correct answer. In strategy, there isn't necessarily a single right answer, and even if there is some optimal peak, you will never really know whether you found it. The landscape is foggy, changing, and rugged. A good understanding of strategy will enable you to make choices in the face of uncertainty with the best chance of success.
So as you develop strategies in your businesses, games, and life, keep these principles in mind, and you'll find a healthy peak.
Keep seeing truth.
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*I'm aware that this is a bit of an abuse on the idea of "sunk costs." A true consideration of sunk costs will consider the challenges of changing the infrastructure and other attributes as future costs and account for them in an analysis. However, since much of where an entity is today is a the result of these often unconsidered "sunk costs," my professor chose to use the concept to help explain the idea of path dependency.
Lagniappe: The Selection Pressure
I left out one important aspect of the Rugged Landscapes theory: the actual selection mechanism. This is the actual causal mechanism behind whether a set of attributes will be successful or not.
For example, in nature, one critical selection pressure is the ability to get food. If a bunch of birds live in an area where seeds are the primary food source, deep beaks might be an attribute that results in greater success due to its ease in opening seed shells. If the primary food source consists of bugs burrowed in trees, longer beaks will be the preferred attribute. The food source and availability create a selection pressure that causes one attribute or another to be successful.
The landscape itself will change for these birds as food sources change in availability. A season with lots of bugs but few seeds will see peaks rise on the long-beak side of the "beak" attribute, while a season thick with seeds will lift the deep-beak side.
It is not always necessary to understand the actual selection pressure to understand the concept of rugged landscapes, but once a strategist identifies the true selection pressure, he or she can often have an easier time predicting the ideal characteristics of simple attributes.


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Konstantin KontorKonstantin Kontor is Director and Professor of Finance and Strategy at the American Institute of Business and Economics in Moscow.
Managerial Economics
Purpose of this Course
The purpose of managerial economics is to introduce and extend microeconomic concepts in order to develop an understanding of the ways in which firms and consumers interact, with particular emphasis on the firm's perspective. The approach taken in managerial economics to build models which are representations of firms and consumers, and by manipulating these models determine the economic implications of various actions and circumstances, which individuals or firms might encounter. The material may include demand, demand estimation, elasticity, pricing, production, costs, decision tree, risk, supply, markets, rationality, competition, monopoly, imperfect competition, information, game theory, optimal search, competitive bidding, as time allows.
Course Materials
- William F. Samuelson and Stephen G. Marks. Managerial Economics
- Notes, handouts, articles, and cases from the course package.
Grading of this course will be based on examinations and class participation.
Because the course is heavily discussion based attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend 40% of classes leads to immediate failure in the course and loss of credit.
As a general rule, make up exams will not be given. If an exam is missed then a zero will be recorded.
Discussion Groups: Three times per week there will be discussion groups. Each student will be assigned to one of these groups. These groups will be used to discuss the assigned problems or clarify any points on which the student have questions.
The course will be graded in accordance with the following schedule:
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Workshop pilots – good for learners, good for educators
Next Thursday, Aug. 23, I'll be piloting a new workshop called What's Your Story that I designed for a San Francisco-based career services company.
I've invited job seekers and adult educators in my networks to participate, and in two days we've almost filled all 15 workshop seats.
Why pilot a workshop?
Though piloting may be a luxury in terms of money and time, it is incredibly helpful when it's possible to do it!
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- Instructional developers test out a new lesson plan, assessing timing and flow, and evaluating holes in content and practice — and then revise the workshop's design and materials before distributing it!
- Pilot facilitators get to hear feedback from a friendly audience who have volunteered to give feedback.
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- Future facilitators get to deliver tried and true materials, even when they're relatively new.
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Is Gamification on Journalism a Right Thing to Do?
Couple of months ago, New York Times website published an article in which gamification is implemented. Readers will receive badge for every action done that is defined by the rule.
Kummara is a game studio focusing on serious game, gamification, and interactive system design. Supported by passionate team we also known as a pioneer in the serious game industry and gamification implementation in Indonesia. Our concepts, games, and our game design approach have been implemented in many fields: education, research, business, social campaign, marketing, and many more.
We believe game is powerful media and with the right design and development process it can be use effectively to deliver message, collecting data, early mapping, motivating behavior change, and create a positive impact in many fields. Our approach and passionate team can help you to design and implement the best game in your field of work.
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Couple of months ago, New York Times website published an article in which gamification is implemented. Readers will receive badge for every action done that is defined by the rule.
Designing a good game is never about the technology, the effect, or the platform (media). What a game needs to deliver is a simple way to find our own happiness.
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You can request a backup of all of your data in Workfront Proof using the Backup function.
The Backup is delivered to you as a zip file. It includes an XML export of all of your data (including comments and responses for all versions of all proofs), but does NOT include the original files that you uploaded as proofs.
Each backup zip file created for you to download has a unique file name, such as
- 9789 is your Workfront Proof account identifier
- 05_05_2011 is the creation date, 5 May 2011
- 61703 is a random system-assigned number
This naming convention makes it easy for you to store all of your backup zip files in a single location on your computer and to know exactly when each backup was created for you.
NOTE Backups are available on Enterprise and Unlimited plans. Please contact our sales team for a quote.
The Backup function lets you decide how to use your resources:
- If you want to free up some storage space but don't want to lose your active or archived proofs altogether, you can request a backup, delete the proofs, and then empty the Trash.
- If you need any files that you originally uploaded to Workfront Proof, you can download them using the download original file function before deleting the proofs.
Back up your Workfront Proof data
To back up your Workfront Proof data:
- Go to Account settings (1)
- Open the Backup tab (2)
- Click the Request new backup link (3)
- The data encoding type is set to the UTF-8 by default and we do recommend this setting. This is the encoding type most commonly used by Internet applications.
- You can request only one backup at a time. When your backup zip file is being processed, the Request new backup link on the Backups tab will not appear, and the message shown remains unchanged.
If no users in your account have requested any backups yet, the Backup tab indicates that you have no backups. If a user has requested a backup, the tab displays the creation date and download link for the last backup.
When your backup is ready, the following occurs:
- You receive an email from Workfront Proof notifying you of this ("Your Workfront Proof backup is ready"). The email contains a download link for your backup data.
- The Account settings Backup tab displays a download link for your backup data.
- The Request new backup link (3) reappears on the Backups tab
Your data will be ready to download as a zip file. You can download the backup zip file in one of two ways:
- By clicking the download link in the notification email you receive
- By clicking the download link in the Account settings Backups tab (4)
Download your backup zip file from your email notification
When your backup zip file is ready to download, you'll receive an email from Workfront Proof with the subject line 'Your Workfront Proof backup is ready.'
To download the backup zip file from the email, click the download link in the email
If you are not currently logged in to Workfront Proof, your browser will open a window displaying the login page.
Download your backup zip file from the account settings
When your backup zip file is ready to download, the Backup tab indicates this by displaying a download link. In addition, the Request new backup link appears again.
- Go to Account settings (1)
- Open the Backups tab (2)
- Click the Download backup link (3)
- A File Download screen will appear asking if you want to Open or Save the download file. Click Save.
- Select the location on your computer where you want to save the backup zip file
NOTE The message identifying the date of your most recent backup remains displayed at the bottom of the Backup page until the next time you request a backup. The Download backup link applies to that last backup. Whenever the Request new backup link is displayed, you can click it to request another backup.
The files in your backup zip file
Your backup zip file contains seven CSV (comma-separated value or comma delimited) files that include information from your active and archived proofs up to the time your data was backed up:
- comments.csv - includes comments on proofs
- comment_replies.csv - includes responses to comments on proofs organisation.csv - includes numeric identifier and name of your organization (your account)
- contacts.csv - includes numeric identifier, name, and organization for each contact
- files.csv - includes information from the Proof Details page or the File Details page on proofs or files uploaded to Workfront Proof
- recipients.csv - includes numeric identifier, role, and decisions of each person specified as a reviewer, reviewer and approver, etc., when proofs are uploaded for review on Workfront Proof
- users.csv - includes numeric identifiers and names of all users in the account
You can extract these files from the backup zip file with whatever zip utility you use and store them where you want on your computer. Once you have saved the zip file and extracted the individual CSV files, you can manipulate the information as you please for your internal record keeping.
Each backup zip file created at your request has a distinctive name that includes the backup creation date, but the CSV files included in each backup zip file always have the same names. You might want to use one of the following methods to ensure your backup files are distinct from each other:
- Create a new folder for each backup zip file and the CSV files you extract from it,
- Rename each individual CSV file to include the backup date when you extract it from the zip file
NOTE If you have Microsoft Excel on your computer, your extract utility might list the file type for the individual CSV files as Microsoft Office Excel Comma Separated Values File.
You can open an extracted CSV file using Excel and save the file as an Excel workbook (*.xlsx) or some other file type.


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Their home arena has a new name. Four highly touted freshmen are eager to prove they're as good as advertised. And senior leaders Davon Reed and Kamari Murphy want to build on their run to the Sweet 16 last spring.
The 2016-17 University of Miami men's basketball season officially tipped off Wednesday night at the Watsco Center (previously known as the BankUnited Center), and the Hurricanes had to work much harder than fans expected to get past the gritty, sharpshooting Barry Buccaneers 73-62 in a preseason game.
Barry reached the Division II Elite Eight last year, the best season in school history, and showed why. With 8:53 to go, Barry's Sawyer Glick hit a three-pointer and closed Miami's lead to 55-53. Glick made another three with just under six minutes left to close to 59-56 before UM went on a 13-1 run that included back-to-back threes by Reed and freshman Bruce Brown and a dunk by Murphy.
"The shot that really hit us was Reed's three," Barry coach Butch Estes said. "Great call. Great shot."
Reed led all scorers with 21 points on 8-of-11 shooting, including five three-pointers. Ja'Quan Newton, replacing the graduated Angel Rodriguez at point guard, had 18 points, four assists and four turnovers.
Brown led the freshmen with 10 points and six rebounds in 26 minutes.
Glick led Barry with 18 points, including six three-pointers. Elvar Fridriksson of Iceland, the Division II assist leader last season with 8.1 per game, had 17 points and five assists. And Hialeah Gardens graduate Adrian Gonzalez added 11 points.
"Our new guys are taking good steps, but as a team we're still a work in progress," Reed said. "We have to defend the three better. It's going to take some time. It was good for us to have a chance to face adversity."
UM coach Jim Larrañaga was tapped into the school's Iron Arrow Society on Wednesday and wore the brightly colored jacket to the news conference.
"My major thought is our defense in practice, but we don't see the results as much as I'd like to at this point," he said.
Larrañaga was disappointed that Newton, Reed, Murphy and Brown finished with four fouls each. Larrañaga also said he'd like to see Newton improve his assist-to-turnover ratio.
"We can't afford those players to be in foul trouble all game long. We're not that deep. We're young, have a lot of inexperienced guys. We can't have our veterans sitting on the bench in foul trouble."
Miami's starting lineup included five returning players: Reed, Murphy, Newton, Anthony "Amp" Lawrence and Ebuka Izundu.
At the 15:46 mark, Larrañaga put all the fresh faces on the court together — Norland High's 6-11 Dewan Huell, 7-footer Rodney Miller Jr., Australian point guard Dejan "DJ" Vasiljevic, 6-5 guard Brown out of Boston and San Jose State transfer Rashad Muhammad.
Brown seemed comfortable immediately and scored five points in his first 15 minutes. The Canes led 38-31 at halftime.


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If you are someone who is looking for tips and techniques for marketing or advertising within the gun industry then this is for you. Whether you are an established company or just getting started, you will have access to methods and techniques that I have been using for several years that will help propel your business and show you how to measure the success of your efforts. Through this process we will be looking at how to identify your target market and what you can do to create compelling content to garner interest from them.
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We first met Allie earlier this year, when she became a fan of Kendra Scott and frequent visitor at our Memphis store. An 18-year-old girl with a rare form of brain cancer that has no treatment or cure, she was soon known by our whole Memphis team for her bright, beaming smile and positive attitude. And when she casually mentioned her wish to meet our inspiring CEO, Kendra jumped at the chance to make it happen!
When Allie flew into Austin with her mom in April, we welcomed her with the VIP treatment … An overnight stay at the Hotel Van Zandt, an exclusive shopping experience in our store, and a tour of our Home Office with Kendra herself. Little did she know, our entire staff was waiting to greet her with a surprise celebration!
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Managing Director
Even if your business move is just a hop from one Channel Island to the next, Peter Falla, Managing Director of architectural design firm PF+A, believes you really need to immerse yourself in Jersey-life to get the best out of it – for both yourself and the business:
"We had spent 25 years with PF+A in Guernsey, while building our client base all around the Channel Islands, and decided we really needed a presence in Jersey too. Given that all my family are grown up, it was an easy decision for me to move over with my wife, and it was a fantastic decision.
There are some quite significant cultural differences between Guernsey and Jersey, so being here physically is really helpful and offers some real practical benefits. As well as it being a lot easier in terms of visibility to build business, for instance, I find it really refreshing that it is actually very easy to speak to a States Member or the Planning Department in person.
The process of moving to Jersey has been amazing and the people here have been so supportive, right down to the minute detail. Locate Jersey really took us by the hand and made it clear that PF+A has a place here in the Island. We moved in September 2016 and soon realised that working in town is really key for meeting clients, so we actually bought an office in St Helier. That investment is some indication that we are here to stay.
Recruitment-wise we're doing well too and building a strong local team. We primarily come from a Chartered Institute of Building background which means that we are able to support clients through the entire building process, and to enhance our service we have employed two local RIBA Chartered Architects. We are now able to be truly design innovative and foster a vibrant design culture within our firm offering clients a world class service.
There is a very open feeling to the approach to architecture in Jersey, and there's not a lot of uniformity around. We see this as giving us more potential for creative freedom and giving us, and Jersey, a platform for some quite innovative designs. It's a good time for us to be ramping up in Jersey – the market is buoyant and we see some huge opportunities here.
From a lifestyle perspective, I have been really impressed with what Jersey can offer. My wife and I live in a lovely house near the coast, and I am very much enjoying immersing myself in the local food and sports scenes. I can often be found at one of the local eateries, or down at the rugby club watching the Jersey Reds."
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Auburn High School students gave a warm welcome to exchange students visiting from overseas. Auburn and Thurgood Marshall School will host students from China until Feb. 9 for a cultural exchange program. The first group of students arrived Saturday, and more arrived Monday. In all, Rockford will host 40 students and four teachers. It's all part of offering a global experience for RPS 205 students. "Even though they go to such a diverse school here at Auburn, they are still from Rockford. They are still from America. Really, there's a cultural difference they get to see. And then they get to see we're all human beings," says Maggie Kasicki, vice president of Modern Counseling International. Events for the students are scheduled all week, and include a trivia night and Chinese calligraphy lessons.
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Sensitivity training
While the gods granted immortality, they neglected to throw in permanent youth. So rather than enjoying his long years, he comes to yearn for death. After all, what good is a long life if one has to experience it in a decaying vessel of a body?
There are probably millions of older people in this country who can relate to Tithonus' situation. While living may beat the alternative, outliving one's family, friends and resources while aging takes its toll can be a real character builder. And it's not exactly a picnic for children who are suddenly thrust into the role of de facto caregivers.
These points were really driven home as I watched "Caring for Your Parents." The program aired last week nationwide on PBS affiliates. This documentary takes a close look at five families in and around Providence, RI, as they deal with aging parents. Even if you're a tough-as-nails eldercare veteran, it's hard not to be moved by their pain and fortitude.
Watch your PBS local listings for rebroadcasts of this show (they vary). You may also want to get a copy of this video if you're looking for an excellent in-service presentation. It will almost certainly help your team treat residents with more empathy. Just as important, it will remind them of what your residents' families have gone through – and continue to experience.


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Greeting readers,
Happy New Year! I have been on a bit of a writing hiatus and have decided to come back in full force. I celebrated the new year with some very good family and friends but yet of course there was a piece missing.
I have been avoiding truly feeling the complete loss of Z. It's easy for people to simply say, "You need to just move on. You're better off." Etc. Etc.
But, I don't want to. I know what I am about to say sounds crazy but if in order to stay connected to him even in the least bit – if that means I still clutch to this part, this memory… then that is what I want. Regardless of how much it will hurt, regardless of how much I will feel hopeless, regardless of how much it will make me sick, I want it. I don't know what the future holds for me but all I can and want to worry about, is now.
I know this all sounds incredibly unhealthy and perhaps a little insane, far from all rationale, but it's what I am feeling in the now.
This recurring question or theme of question has been coming up quite frequently lately. People are curious to know, As a result of your breakup – what have you learned? What can you take away from this relationship?
When I have been getting this question, my response is a shrug of my shoulders and a look away. Hiding my face of distress.
Do you want to know my honest answer?
I fell in love, followed my heart and seemingly found my forever mate only to be lied to & disappointed. What is there to learn from that?
I was my most mature self and thought I had finally found my counterpart in life. Someone with maturity and the ambition to match… There were no real issues within our relationship, only the demons that haunted him from the past.
One of my closest siblings suffers from extreme depression so becoming romantically involved with someone who suffers from seasonal depression and daily anxiety was not something that would easily scare me away. I myself have suffered from depression and deal with my own anxiety demons as well. Not very many are aware of the part of my mind that constantly derails and sucks me down into the deepest darkest spots, but it's there – alive and well.
So what's done is done. There is no going back and I only must move forward. Recalling back to one of my earlier blogs where I quoted my ex-husband ranting about how I was impossible to love and that no being would want to marry me. I can't help but think he's right. I know that I am not impossible to love, I have close friends and family that truly love me, yes. I have that. But to love someone you want to marry, romantically spend your life with, have a partner for life – perhaps he was right. With Z, I came close. If he had asked me to marry him, I would have said yes without hesitation and married him the next day. I thought the feeling was mutual – but I was wrong.
Here's to the new year, although I am starting it off holding on to my shit from the past – I am still moving forward and I refuse to wither away. This quite conflicting attitude of mine I can only hope becomes clearer as the days move forward.
I wish you all a great start to the new year, happiness and health.
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1-33/7 Stockton Street Morisset NSW 2264
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Welcome to Woodlands Morisset - Selling Now1-33/7 Stockton Street, Morisset
* Cleverly designed living areas and private courtyards
* 1 and 2 level low maintenance homes boast built in robes, internal access from garage, free standing baths and modern colour selections
* Close to shops, schools and public transport
* Split system air-conditioning
* Quality fit - out including stone bench tops and stainless steel appliances
* Potential rental return of $390-$440 per week
* Floor plans available on request
From all of us at Ray White Toronto, we wish you every success in your search for your home. If you would like more detail on this home or to chat about one of the many other properties we have available please call or email us today
Discover the real meaning of effortless living in at Woodlands Morisset, offering a sophisticated development in a central location.
Comprising of 3 bedroom Torrens Title homes and 2 and 3 bedroom Strata title townhouses, this development offers a rare opportunity. Cleverly designed living areas and private courtyards offer functional space and uncompromising style.
These 1 and 2 level low maintenance homes boast built in robes, internal access from garage, free standing baths and modern colour selections. Enjoy the convenience of having local shops, schools and public transport at your doorstep and Morisset train station just a short drive away..
Enjoy year round comfort with a Daikin split system air-conditioning, and all the quality inclusions and finishes you would expect for of a much more expensive home. Including affordable low maintenance living, perfect for young working professionals, retirees, or investors wanting to take advantage of the strong rental return of $390-$440 per week.
Modern, low maintenance living just doesn't get any better than this.
Each individually designed to creative create the best possible living space for all.
All townhouses included include main bathroom and ensuite to master bedroom
Open plan living areas overlooking private alfresco courtyard.
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$10,000 grants available for First Home Buyers and $5,000 incentives for New Home
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In this moving memoir, Katrina Kenison beckons readers into her world and proves to be an insightful guide and companion through the vicissitudes of life.
After the death of a friend, and when her youngest son leaves their rural New Hampshire home to finish high school in another state, Kenison is unmoored from that which had defined her life. Undeterred, she finds that her friendships, marriage and sense of fulfillment shift in surprising ways.


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Brazil: Competition Economists 2017
In this chapter, we highlight 14 eminent economists for their high-quality advice, analysis and testimonies in complex competition law matters including M&A transactions and disputes concerning alleged exclusionary conduct.
|Most Highly Regarded
|1. Paulo Furquim de Azevedo
|Insper Institute and Global Economics Group, São Paulo
|2. Sílvia Fagá de Almeida
|LCA Consultores, São Paulo
|3. Bernardo Gouthier Macedo
|LCA Consultores, São Paulo
National economic consultancy firm LCA CONSULTORES achieves two listings in this chapter.
The "brilliant" Sílvia Fagá de Almeida is "a top economist", and stands out for her strong technical expertise and ingenious approach to complex merger cases.
Bernardo Gouthier Macedo heads the competition economics practice at the firm. Peers "certainly recommend him" for his seamless handling of high-stakes negotiations as well as his broad regulatory knowledge.
At TENDÊNCIAS CONSULTORIA INTEGRADA, Fabiana Tito boasts great international expertise and is described as "a very good economist with strong knowledge on antitrust law and practice".
At GO ASSOCIADOS, former CADE president Gesner Oliveira is a pre-eminent name in the region. He is a seasoned adviser to a wide array of Brazilian and international organisations and enjoys a superb reputation for his work in the area.
At the INSPER INSTITUTE AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS GROUP, Paulo Furquim de Azevedo boasts an outstanding reputation among peers and clients for his depth of knowledge and concise written reports. He is an "excellent" and relentless practitioner.
Juan Pérez Ferres of FERRES & ASSOCIADOS is "great to work with" and is commended for his "outstanding experience in very complex work".
The UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE's Ruy Santacruz is a highly regarded expert and impresses clients with the superb quality of his written reports.
Edgard Pereira of EDGARD PEREIRA & ASSOCIADOS is an esteemed economist with impressive expertise in industrial matters, finance and planning. He boasts a strong competition practice and is highly regarded for his work in the space.
FA CONSULTORIA ECONÔMICA's Jorge Fagundes is an "outstanding" consultant and enjoys an excellent reputation in the region. One client describes him as "the best economist in Brazil".


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Canaletto is a beautifully residential tower
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Canaletto is a beautifully residential tower that splendidly mixes quality with an unusual style, bringing to the area a new vision on modern design.
This 31 storey building succeeds in captivating attention and inspire through its innovative outline and subtle curves.
A stunning development that will offer a choice of one, two or three bedroom apartments and studios, each with its own particular balcony or terrace that offer amazing perspectives over The City of London.
In this delightful 'urban island' residents will have the benefit of a luxurious 15 meter swimming pool, a recreation centre and spa and additionally a stylish restaurant, screening room and a 24th floor private Club Canaletto that incorporates a sky garden. T
The devoted Concierge is opened 24 hours so as to fulfil all your needs and help you with booking, posting or shopping.
Canaletto is settled in the heart of northern City Fringe and has an incredible position to give you superb transport connections with the whole London.
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Legal Ways to Get Out of a Timeshare
Timeshares were one of the most popular real-estate purchases a person could make a few decades ago, however, that is no longer the case. If you have a timeshare, you know it is virtually impossible to get out of it without absorbing massive financial losses. There are firms that provide help when getting out of a timeshare but you have to review them to find the ones who are the most effective.
How to Get Out of a Timeshare
One way is to find someone to take over your timeshare, since it is ownership in a piece of real-estate, you can sell that stake to someone else and they would be responsible for the maintenance and fees associated with ownership. The challenge is finding someone who is willing to take on such a significant obligation.
What some firms do is act as a broker where they source for interested buyers who would like to own a piece of your time share for a lower price than what they would pay if they had to sign up themselves. Since these brokers do all the heavy lifting when it comes to finding a buyer, you can sit back and let them work on it. Along with finding a buyer, the brokers will usually take care of all the paperwork.
In order to get the best results you have to give preference to the firm that has been working in this niche for a considerable amount of time. The longer they have been working in this area, the larger network of potential buyers they should have. This is the best and only viable way to get out of your timeshare so if you are serious about getting out of the timeshare agreement, you need to hire a firm that specializes in this as soon as possible.


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The public release of iOS 6.1 could be imminent, according to new reports that suggest Apple is testing a new beta of iOS 6.1 that is believed to be the golden master build.
German site iFun cites a 'reliable source' in its report published on Friday, which claims that the fifth beta of iOS 6.1 is about to be seeded to developers, with a public release to follow close behind.
iFun claims that the final beta has undergone "extensive internal testing" to prepare for its developer release.
iOS 6.1 brings minor changes to Apple's mobile operating system, including some Siri improvements and new iCloud security features.
For developers, iOS 6.1 brings a new Map Kit framework that will allow third-party apps to search Apple's Maps for points of interest. Apple seeded the first beta build of iOS 6.1 to developers in November. The most recent build arrived on 19 December, alongside a third Mountain Lion 10.8.3 beta.
The iOS 6.1 is expected to be available for iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, as well as the fourth, third, and second iPad, the fifth and fourth generation iPod touch, and the iPad mini.
Looking ahead, Apple is rumoured to be testing iOS 7 ahead of its expected June launch, alongside an iPhone 6. Identifiers for an iPhone 6 running iOS 7 have recently been spotted in app usage logs by developers.
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I'm not talking about pajamas, baths or the brushing of teeth, I'm talking about reading books and having that special time with your kids before you kiss them goodnight and turn off their light.
Superdad has created a special bedtime routine that he does with our girls before he reads them books….they explore maps and talk about far off places.
Before bed they pick a place, point a finger and off they go. He likes to quiz them about continents and capitals and lakes. I often hear them talking and laughing from their bedroom. It really is a special time between a daddy and his daughters and I'm touched that I hear the sweetness of the moment.
WallPops reached out to me about a Back to School review and I jumped at the chance because they have wall decal maps and I knew it would be perfect for my girl's bedroom. I couldn't wait to surprise them.
After Ninja Gurl started to feel better after getting her tonsils and adenoids out I brought out the map so we could find the perfect place for their new Solar System - Wall Decal. Just so happens the space above her bed was empty! Imagine that!
We set out to peeling the back off, which was a BREEZE, then getting it straight. Don't worry if you need to adjust because they are easy to pull off and adjust. {It only took me two times. Okay, may three.}
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Explore the exciting planets that make up our solar system with this National Geographic wall decal! Perfect for kids room decor or teen and tween room decor, this peel and stick solar system will spark imagination and creativity, while bringing the vastness of space to life inside your home. This National Geographic poster is 36" x 24" and is repositionable.
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WallPops are today's most fashionable wall décor, proudly made in the USA! WallPops are safe for walls and are totally removable, reusable, and repositionable. Find sophisticated designs perfect for your home and office, sweet motifs for the nursery and kid's rooms, and enticing options for teens, tweens and dorm décor, including sassy dry-erase calendars and message boards.
Be sure to check them out next time you want to decorate!
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30 ministers dropped from Bangladesh interim cabinet
Dhaka: Three days after forming a multi-party interim government amidst a standoff with the main opposition BNP, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today dropped 30 ministers from the cabinet during a redistribution of portfolios.
According to a gazette notification, 30 of the 51 members of the cabinet were dropped. The interim government was formed on Monday to conduct general elections due to be held by January 25 next year.
High-profile ministers who lost their status included Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Home Minister Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir, Civil Aviation Minister Faruq Khan, Telecommunication Minister Sahara Khatun and Health Minister Ruhal Haque.
Two technocrat ministers who were dropped, Shafique Ahmed and Dilip Barua, were made the Prime Minister's advisors.
The development came three days after the interim government headed by Hasina was installed despite a boycott by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The BNP has demanded that polls should be held under a neutral, non-party government. It described the Awami League's actions as a "farce", heightening tensions in the country.
An 18-party alliance led by the BNP has repeatedly rejected Hasina's call to join the multi-party government, saying elections would not be credible under her leadership.
The formation of the multi-party government has pitted the Awami League against the BNP, raising fears of violence ahead of the polls.
Hasina called on the President last night and explained her stance on the multi-party government. The meeting came hours after the cabinet held an emergency meeting.
Violence triggered by the political deadlock has resulted in 30 deaths in recent weeks. More than 70 people were injured and over 500 vehicles torched when the BNP and its fundamentalist ally Jamaat-e-Islami organised violent street protests and enforced a 10-day shutdown in the past three weeks.


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You know that I really like this "trainers trend". I can't perfectly explain why. I remember I didn't like it. But by the time trainers were everywhere and I started thinking about it in a different way. Fortunately in the same time I decided to start running (and now I don't run) and I got my colorful Nike shoes. I wore them a lot but that I realised that they are a little crazy for everyday wearing. So since that, I have been looking around for perfect daily-wear trainers :D.
I'm looking forward to wearing this outfit. I do not owe these items exactly but I have very similar. And by the way, my Fashionology package haven't arrived yet, hopefully next week :).
Outfit for gourmets. I madly fell in love with this Chanel feather sequined dress. So elegant and provocative. So Chanel. Maybe one day... :D
Here it is. My New Balance trainers! Firstly I wanted to buy Nike Free 5.0 in black. They were elegant, minimalistic - precisely what I wanted. However I went to our local sport store and they had New Balance shoes in sale. I tryed them on - they were the damn comfy! Just like my Nikes but not that bright. It was love at the first step :D.