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This 5-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure and manage an Exchange Server 2010 messaging environment, as well as provide guidelines, best practices, & considerations that will help participants optimize the Exchange Server deployment.
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- Experience managing backup and restore on Windows Servers
- Experience using Windows management and monitoring tools such as Microsoft Management Console, Active Directory Users and Computers, Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and Internet Information Systems (IIS) Administrator
- Experience using Windows networking and troubleshooting tools such as Network Monitor, Telnet, and NSLookup
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10135 Configuring, Managing and Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
- Overview of Exchange Server 2010 Requirements
- Installing Exchange Server 2010 Server Roles
- Completing an Exchange Server 2010 Installation
- Lab: Installing Exchange Server 2010
- Lab: Verifying an Exchange Server 2010 Installation
- Overview of Exchange Server 2010 Administrative Tools
- Configuring Mailbox Server Roles
- Configuring Public Folders
- Lab: Configuring Mailbox Servers
- Managing Mailboxes
- Managing Other Recipients
- Configuring E-Mail Address Policies
- Configuring Address Lists
- Performing Bulk Recipient
- Management Tasks
- Lab: Managing Recipient Objects
- Configuring the Client Access Server Role
- Configuring Client Access Services for Outlook Clients
- Configuring Outlook Web App
- Configuring Mobile Messaging
- Lab: Configuring Client Access Servers for Outlook Anywhere Access
- Lab: Configuring Client Access Servers for Outlook Web App and Exchange ActiveSync
- Overview of Message Transport
- Configuring Message Transport
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- Deploying Edge Transport Servers
- Deploying an Antivirus Solution
- Configuring an Anti-Spam Solution
- Configuring Secure SMTP Messaging
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- Lab: Implementing Anti-Spam Solutions
- Overview of High Availability Options
- Configuring Highly Available Mailbox Databases
- Deploying Highly Available NonMailbox Servers
- Lab: Implementing High Availability
- Planning Backup and Recovery Backing Up Exchange Server 2010
- Restoring Exchange Server 2010
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- Introducing Messaging Policy and Compliance
- Configuring Transport Rules
- Configuring Journaling and MultiMailbox Search
- Configuring Messaging Records Management
- Configuring Personal Archives
- Lab: Configuring Transport Rules, Journal Rules, and Multi-Mailbox Search
- Lab: Configuring Messaging Records Management and Personal Archives
- Configuring Role Based Access Control
- Configuring Security for Server
- Roles in Exchange Server 2010 Configuring Secure Internet Access
- Lab: Securing Exchange Server 2010
- Monitoring Exchange Server 2010
- Maintaining Exchange Server 2010
- Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2010
- Lab: Maintaining Exchange Server 2010
- Overview of Upgrading to Exchange Server 2010
- Upgrading from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010
- Upgrading from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010
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The origin of the Jacob's Pillow Costume Collection falls into two categories; those costumes kept by Ted Shawn and those kept by Ruth St. Denis. In 1932 after the Denishawn Company had finally disbanded the costumes, props and sets were divided between Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. Each dancer kept items which were particularly… Continue reading Trunks, costumes and lots of (acid-free) tissue paper…
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Prof. Dr. jur. Ulrich Battis is a member of the expert commission appointed by the Federal Minister for Research and Education, Edelgard Bulmahn. In this essay he discusses how to improve the legal status of young academics and introduce performance-related salaries for university professors.
"The most important thing is missing," was the response of American professors and university presidents to inquiries from Germany. The most important thing, that is, the competition of universities for students, was missing as a criterion in a questionnaire which a group of German experts developed in the 1980s to measure the quality of universities in international comparison.
Little has changed since that time. Admittedly, beginning this year the universities are allowed to choose, at most, 20% of their students themselves, but all the others are assigned to them by a government agency, as in the past. Only at the very few private universities and the art institutes is this different.
Another issue is the battle over the imposition of tuition fees. This is hardly comprehensible from an American point of view, but it has ended in a political stalemate after years of discussion. The majority of university presidents and the majority of the Länder (German states), governed by Social Democrats and the Green Party, rejected tuition fees as antisocial. Thus, the statutory federation-wide introduction of tuition fees has been stopped for now.
All the same, the scene is not characterized by total immobility. Even under Kohl's old conservative government, the federal law's requirement that university legislation be regulated with fundamental uniformity was done away with. This was especially true for the law on university management and the relationship of the universities to the state. Many universities have used the new scope for budgetary and diverse organizational reforms that are in debted to the new public management. They strengthened the university management, in particular the presidents, as well as the position of the deans or the faculties; introduced a university council staffed with representatives of the economy and society; and introduced global budgets. The goal of the reforms is to push back the influence of the state in every respect; the stronger influence of the economy and society is in part striven towards, in part taken into the bargain. The Länder, which are largely responsible for university legislation, are at present experiencing a wave of new university laws which imitate rather than shape the reforms developed by the universities. The majority of university professors tend to take a skeptical view of all this.
This is especially true of the reform of the personnel regulations at the universities, initiated by the new federal government. On the basis of the recommendations of the university rector's conference (the panel of university presidents), the professors fear massive cuts in pay and a worsening of their status. In preparation for the service regulations reform, the federal government has now charged an expert commission with the task of presenting proposals by April 2000, which must then be jointly realized by the federation and the Länder. This joint character, provided for by the distribution of legislative competence between the federation and the Länder, is the first drastic restriction for an effective reform. No less drastic is the stipulation of the finance minister of the federation and the Länder that the reform must be cost-neutral, even in any transitional phase.
The reform package consists chiefly of three complexes. The first complex is the improvement of the legal status of young academics. The goal is to allow young academics freedom in research and teaching earlier than has been the case. As a standard, at least for the disciplines with large research institutes, assistant professorships or self-equipped qualification professorships with a fixed term of 6 years are being discussed. The details remain to be clarified, including selection procedures, intermediate evaluations, membership status, and continued employment. The equipment must be provided from the existing stock. These are assistant positions, but had previously been entirely or partly assigned to professors. It is controversial whether postdoctoral lecturing qualification should be abolished in all disciplines, or be retained as an option.
The second complex regards the performance-determined pay of the university teachers. Even previously, professors have been able to raise their salary vis-a-vis the regular pay by contract with the state or the university, each time they are appointed by special appointment agreements. In addition, the salaries of all professors, even those who are not offered a chair again, are increased up to a certain upper limit, generally every 2 years, as with all officials and employees of the public service. These age-determined increases are to be abolished. The resources thus made available are to be used for performance-related bonuses. The question of who should evaluate the professors' performance is controversial. In my opinion, the "peer review" should be decisive. They should then be put into action by the university management and the deans. The relationship to the special appointment agreements also remains to be clarified. The lowering of the starting salary and the recalculation of the retirement pension is also controversial.
The third complex regards regulations which are meant to expedite the exchange between academia and the economy, including the personnel employed in state-financed research institutions outside the universities.
Finally, it must be clarified whether the stipulated reforms should be realized with the help of civil service law or general employment law. Many reformers wish to abolish civil service law, which is seen as rigid and inappropriate. However, the vast majority of professors do not wish to lose the essentially lifetime security of civil servant status. They fear that the state and above all the university management will interfere with their freedom of research. Anyone who is familiar with the behavior of the unions, which are fixated on guaranteed stability, will wonder why Germany is making the attempt to achieve more flexibility by introducing collective wage agreements between unions and university management. If the civil servant status is to be retained, its university-related regulations must be made more flexible than they have been in the past.
If, as is to be hoped, the expert commission presents its proposals on time, and if these proposals are put into action by the federation and the Länder, the central questions mentioned at the outset--the selection of students and the imposition of tuition fees--will remain unsolved. Whatever the case, given the increasing international competition for the "best minds," a significant need for reform will remain.


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The mission of the Four Harbors Audubon Society is to advocate education and conservation efforts for the enjoyment, preservation, and restoration of birds, wildlife, and habitat in our Long Island communities.
Please join us on our monthly Second Saturday bird walks held at Avalon Park and Preserve in Stony Brook and Frank Melville Park in Setauket. These walks are free for all; no registration is required. Binoculars are recommended.
Avalon Walk: Meet in front of the Stony Brook Grist Mill next to Stony Brook Pond at 8am. (November through March walks are held at 9am)
Frank Melville Park Walk: Meet at the Setauket Post Office located at 101 Main Street at 11am.
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The inner voice in your head that says you can't….tell it to zip it.
Start a new "track" in your head. You can do this. You can be stronger. You can succeed.
I cannot express how important it is that you shut up the negative self-talk and be your best encourager. In a British study, they found that exercisers who used positive self-talk improved 20% in two weeks, compared to those who didn't use mantras. That is why we decided Monday should be Mantra Monday. It is the start of a new week. You should be rested up, ready to go, working towards your goal.
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|Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck during the 4th quarter of Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals.
As we reported back in January, Forbes has valued the Celtics at $1.7 billion, the fourth highest of any NBA team behind the Lakers ($2.6 billion), Knicks ($2.5 billion) and Bulls ($2 billion).
Forbes has now compiled a list of the top 50 most valuable franchise across all sports worldwide:
The world's 50 most valuable sports teams are now worth $1.75 billion on average, up 31% from 2014: http://t.co/QMXYOUZnv6— Forbes (@Forbes) July 15, 2015
According to the report, recent lucrative TV deals are the driving force behind the escalating net worth of professional sports teams. No. 1 is Spanish soccer club Real Madrid ($3.26 billion), with the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees a close second and third.
The Celtics check in at No. 20 overall. Also in the top 20 are the New England Patriots (No. 6, $2.6 billion) and Boston Red Sox (No. 12, $2.1 billion).
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Developers have launched a flagship £2.4m scheme in North Leeds to create a bespoke collection of three, eco-friendly family homes.
The five and six-bedroom detached properties are located in the heart of sought-after Shadwell, and are being unveiled to the market this week through the Roundhay office of estate agents Linley & Simpson.
Drawing upon the latest building technology, all properties at Hyrst View will all benefit from the ultimate energy efficient and air-tight insulation - and lower bills.
They are being created using Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), a high-performance, modern building system favoured by the popular Channel 4 TV series, Grand Designs.
The development is a home-grown Yorkshire success story, with the housebuilders, DAB Residential Development, based out of Harrogate; and the SIPs provided by Normanton-headquartered SIP Build UK and manufactured in Sherburn-in-Elmet.
Hyrst View is a bespoke collection of substantial and contemporary family homes, being brought to life in a central location just off Main Street, said Harriet Smith, Senior Sales Negotiator of Linley & Simpson
Carefully designed and boasting a raft of eco-friendly features, they blend the best in modern luxury living with traditional village life
Internally, each home will be finished to a very high specification hallmarked by bespoke Kesseler kitchens, Siemens integrated appliances, and Duravit bathrooms with Hansgrohe fittings.
The flagship five-bedroom home, built over 3,700 sq ft and spanning three floors, is for sale at £995,000.
Designed around the needs of a family, it features a 32-feet kitchen/breakfast room; an impressive reception hall and front room; en-suite facilities to all bedrooms; an office; double garage; good-sized gardens; and a view over open countryside to the front.
Both the six-bedroom properties are on the market at £695,000.
They boast a 26-feet living kitchen; a principal reception room with deep fireplace; an office and en-suite facilities to two of the bedrooms. The rear gardens are predominantly West-facing, receiving the sun throughout the day.
More information about each of the new homes and Shadwells schools, amenities and transport links is available through www.linleyandsimpson.co.uk or calling its Roundhay residential sales team on 0113 237 0281.


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While it is uncertain when the Department of Labor's (DOL) FLSA overtime rule ruling will be implemented, what is clear is that a significant number of workers will be reclassified from an exempt status to a non-exempt status. (The original estimate was that 4.2 million workers status would be affected.)
Besides the time and a half pay for hours worked in excess of forty hours, there are other situational remuneration rules regarding non-exempt pay, one of which regards incentive (or bonus) pay.
FLSA requires that incentive or bonus payments that are non-discretionary (i.e., formulaic or pre-defined by performance) be considered an adjustment to the base salary rate in the fiscal quarter in which the payment was received. The resulting adjusted base salary rate is then to be applied at time and one-half to any overtime worked in the quarter. The incremental difference between the actual overtime paid and the newly adjusted overtime amount is to be paid to the affected employee.
This process is time-consuming and administratively burdensome such that most companies pay discretionary bonuses to non-exempt employees (i.e., not subject to performance.)
In anticipation of this FLSA ruling (whenever it occurs), companies that have performance-based annual incentive plans for all exempt employees should be planning a strategy and communication plan to their employees who stand to be reclassified to a non-exempt status.
The two choices are: 1) keeping them in the former program with a target award that they're used to (i.e., doing nothing), which initiates the overtime re-calculation process (if overtime is applicable to those employees); or 2) moving the newly classified non-exempt employees to the discretionary award category (like other non-exempts.) However, without proper communications, the latter action might introduce a level of doubt and mistrust to those employees accustomed to getting a performance driven payment and now looking at an unknown non-incentive award process.


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text: I received a phone call yesterday from a buyer's agent who was calling on one of our bank-owned (REO) listings. The bank had just reduced the list price on this particular property by $15,000. We've had tons of traffic and gotten a handful of offers in the last few days. In the conversation, this agent asks, "What's the home really worth?" Want more articles like this? Create an account today to get BiggerPocket's best blog articles delivered to your inbox Sign up for free "Well, the bank thinks it's worth the list price." I said. After further conversation, I learned that she was representing an investor who was looking for properties to flip. Her buyer was hoping to pay about $50,000 below the list price so that a profit could be made at resale. "This may not be the home for your buyer unless the buyer is willing to pay the list price," I commented (knowing full well that we had a few full price offers on the table). She grumbled and hung up. I feel sorry for her; she's got a tough job. A market full of short sales and REOs doesn't always mean a steal or a deal for the buyer. With respect the REOs (especially those for which traditional and FHA financing can be obtained), banks are expecting to receive offers close to market value. With respect to short sales, it's pretty much the same. Yes, the property owner is in 'distress'. Yes, the bank wants money fast. That being said, banks are generally unwilling to sell a short sale for a song. Government programs such as HAFA (Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives) designate a pre-approved purchase price for short sales and that price lasts for 120 days. So, getting a steal (or a deal) on a HAFA short sale is going to be next to impossible. In Southern California, we've been seeing lots more aggressive foreclosures than before. But, the pool of available homes for sale has not been increasing proportionately. So, there must be one heck of a shadow inventory. When that shadow inventory is unleashed on mankind, perhaps the tables will turn and the banks will be more open to lower offers. What say you? Photo: debaird


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A bus had an accident on the road. On the crash there died a teacher, a nun and a prostitute.
They got the purgatory and meet Saint Peter.
First, St. Peter asked to the nun:
"What has been your mission on earth?"
"Just pray and pray," told him the nun.
"For you the key to eternity," said Saint Peter.
Then the teacher came and Saint Peter asked her:
"What did you do on earth?"
"Teaching children to read and write, etc..."
"For you the key of eternity," said Saint Peter to the teacher.
And then comes the prostitute and Saint Peter asked her:
"What did you do pretty, what on earth have you done?"
"Got involved with all men I could!"
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The sales projections proved accurate for Miguel and DJ Drama this week.
The numbers are in for both Miguel and DJ Drama's new album, which dropped last week.
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Vintage School MapSeptember 14th, 2019 in blog, member junk
Jim Healy, editor
My old elementary school closed a few years ago and I had the opportunity to buy a map that hung in my first grade classroom. After acquiring such a sentimental piece, I decided to build a new top and bottom frame, with a few of my own vintage touches.
Pattern or design used: My Own Design - Jim Healy - Junk Architect (copyright 2018)
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Comments (8)
Dominique writes: I love what you did to turn an already fabulous find into a beautiful piece of art! Posted: 4:37 am on December 17th
Dinantiques writes: I LOOOOOVE this old map! And, especially the frame you constructed for it. Lucky you for getting your hands on such a magnificent piece. Talented hands too. Posted: 4:46 pm on November 18th
just_old_stuff writes: Jim, I LOVE what you created at the top and bottom. The black is perfect and really highlights the colors in the map. I collect vintage school maps, science charts, etc. Would you be willing to build a few for me? I will send you several photos of what I have.
Great work, Jim!!! Posted: 3:57 pm on November 7th
Great work, Jim!!! Posted: 3:57 pm on November 7th
gadgetsponge writes: Museum-worthy Jim! And the font that the lettering kit provides is a classic, retro font. Black was a great choice for the fixtures. Posted: 4:47 pm on October 26th
birdcolor writes: I love this so much! I have several old maps and one that I didn't know what to do to hang it! Now I do! Thanks for sharing! Posted: 4:00 pm on October 11th
MakinItHappen writes: Cool recycle of this map! And what attention to detail. I would not have thought of rusting the screws. Posted: 7:59 am on October 8th
georgiamoon writes: WOW!!!What a fantastic addition to your home. It is beautiful and I love old maps. You did such an awesome job with the lettering and frame. It looks as old as that map...which is ancient since it was there when YOU went to school!!! hahaha! Great piece Jimmy!!!
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suewhitney writes: Love, love, love, love!
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Topic Page: Hofstede, Geert H.
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Hofstede's work on national culture remains some of the most influential evidence of the existence of national culture. This entry discusses Hofstede's work, specifically his analysis of data from IBM multinational subsidiaries worldwide and his evidence that countries can be distinguished along five national cultural dimensions. Each of the cultural dimensions is discussed. The entry also discusses the many criticisms of Hofstede's work. The entry concludes that, despite serious criticisms and new national culture frameworks, Hofstede's pioneering work will likely for a long time remain one of the most significant contributions to understanding how countries differ based on national cultures.
Geert Hofstede, a Dutch social psychologist, became famous for his pioneering research that provided strong evidence that countries differ on national cultural values. Working as a management trainer at IBM, Hofstede initiated the collection of data from 116,000 employees located in IBM subsidiaries in seventy-two countries (Kirkman, Lowe, and Gibson 2006). Hofstede reduced the original number of countries to forty by only considering those countries that had fifty or more responses. Defining culture as "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another," Hofstede (1980: 25) found that these forty countries could be classified along four dimensions of national culture. A later expansion to the database added ten more countries and three more regions (Arab countries, and East and West Africa). In his analysis of the employee responses, Hofstede found that four factors emerged from the data, namely individualism–collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity–femininity. Individualism–collectivism refers to the degree to which societal members place an emphasis on the relationship between themselves and the collective (Hofstede 1980). In more individualist societies, societal members are expected to be more free from the social norms of the collective. In contrast, more collectivist societies expect society members to be more interconnected and to have stronger expectations to abide by collective norms.
Power distance refers to the degree to which "a society accepts the fact that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally" (Hofstede 1980: 45). High-power-distance societies typically respect authoritarian constraints, status differences, and hierarchy. In contrast, low-power-distance societies are more likely to challenge social constraints and authoritative patterns. Uncertainty avoidance examines the extent to which "a society feels threatened by uncertain or ambiguous situations and tries to avoid these situations by providing greater career stability, establishing more formal rules, not tolerating deviant ideas, and believing in absolute truths" (Hofstede 1980: 45). High-uncertainty societies are thus more likely to establish rules and social norms to reduce the level of uncertainty. Finally, masculinity–femininity refers to the degree to which the dominant values in societies are considered masculine or feminine (Hofstede 1980). Masculine values include assertiveness and aggressiveness, and focus on material achievement. In contrast, Hofstede (2001) argued that societies at the other end of the masculinity continuum display feminine characteristics such as caring for others and emphasis on quality of life.
Although Hofstede (1980) originally identified four dimensions, he later developed a fifth dimension based on his work with Bond on student responses from a large Chinese sample. The long-term-orientation dimension is based on long-term versus short-term aspects of Confucian thinking (Hofstede 2001). Societies with long-term orientation tend to value persistence and thrift while short-term-orientation societies value respect for tradition and personal stability.
Despite its popularity and pervasiveness, Hofstede's work has received significant criticisms (McSweeney 2002; Sivakumar and Nakata 2001). First, McSweeney notes that Hofstede's dimensions were determined on the basis of responses from IBM marketing employees. This is considered problematic for several reasons. For some of the countries under consideration, Hofstede had samples of employees as low as thirty-seven. McSweeney (2002) contests whether such a small sample size can be representative of a population. Furthermore, McSweeney also questions whether surveys are really the most appropriate ways to measure culture. Additionally, some have questioned whether it is appropriate to determine culture based on marketing employees from a single multinational. A second criticism of Hofstede's work is centered on his assumptions that cultures can be separated into distinct and noninteracting forms (organizational, occupational, and national). McSweeney notes that these different aspects of culture are likely to interact and are therefore not necessarily distinct. Research has indeed shown that accountants may actually be more impacted by their occupational cultures than by their national cultures (Parboteeah et al. 2005). A third criticism of Hofstede's work is based on his assumption that a national culture is common to all national individuals. Analysis of Hofstede's data has revealed that there were significant within-country differences on some cultural dimensions, thereby suggesting that the data may not always be as homogeneous as assumed. Finally, McSweeney and others (Sivakumar and Nakata 2001) have also suggested that the data collected from IBM are old and therefore outdated. Furthermore, another criticism is that Hofstede's data assume that culture is static and does not "capture the malleability of culture over time" (Kirkman, Lowe, and Gibson 2006: 286).
In response, Hofstede wrote an article to debunk these criticisms (Hofstede 2002). He noted that, although there is some validity to some of the criticisms, the field has not seen any better alternative to measuring national cultures. For instance, he counters that, although measuring national cultures using data from only one multinational company may not be the best way to measure national cultures, it still does effectively control for other potential effects on national cultural values and thus provides "the only kind of units available for comparison and [is] better than nothing" (Hofstede 2002: 1355).
Hofstede's work remains one of the most popular ways to conceptualize national cultures. Although he was not the first scholar to understand the importance of national cultural values (Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck 1961) and despite more recent frameworks (the GLOBE project has proposed an alternative national culture framework heavily based on Hofstede's work; House et al. 2004), Hofstede's framework has stood the test of time and "in spite of criticism, researchers have favored this five dimension framework because of its clarity, parsimony and resonance with managers" (Kirkman, Lowe, and Gibson 2006: 286). Furthermore, although recent scholarship has expanded the cross-national understanding of phenomena (e.g., Parboteeah, Hoegl, and Cullen 2008), Hofstede's work remains the fundamental basis through which these new perspectives are considered. It will therefore likely remain influential in the field in the future.
SEE ALSO: Cultural Relativism; Organizational Performance and Diversity; Power
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Cardboard Box Oven...FINALLY!
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This is so cute! I came over from Mod Podge Rocks...and I have to say, you making me want a little girl so I can try this:)ReplyDelete
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That oven is rippin' cool! You should get it published in a crafts magazine and get paid for it. Love it, love it! When my niece Jen was little, my father made her a "Jenny's Jiffy Mart" from an appliance carton. She could stand up in it and everything. She would drag a cooler of Cokes out to the patio and charge us full price for a cool one. Good times for not a lot of money...ReplyDelete
I saw your oven on Mod Podge Rocks. The oven is so cute and so creative of you. I wish my daughters were little again so I would have someone to make it for. You must have loved making it for your daughter.ReplyDelete
Wow! I truly love mod podge you can do so many things with it! great Job with the oven!! my little girl also love it!!! Great blog too!ReplyDelete
That is seriously BEAUTIFUL! I love it! I came over from Mod Podge Rocks and can't wait to snoop around and see what else you've got going on!ReplyDelete
Great job Ashley. I am glad you are my granddaughters mother. You are the best!ReplyDelete
That is so dang cute I love that it only cost you $1 those are the best projects! I would love if you linked to my crafty link up party! http://memakingdo.blogspot.com/2010/09/your-so-very-creative_12.htmlReplyDelete
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For the past year, despite all the other progress I have made with recovery, I have struggled to go to sleep on my own. My boyfriend goes to sleep later than me (we live together), and that means one of two things- I either do something (anything) until I am so exhausted than I have to fall asleep, or I watch.
I tell myself it's because I got myself into this horrible habit of watching too much, and I'm not sure how to stop.
That, while it is the truth, is not the full truth.
I started this blog few years back, working through my issues of being raped. When I began writing, I couldn't even say the word rape out loud. The first time I said it, I cried for hours.
Since then, I have written in forums, I have read books on recovery, I have written on here, I have gone to counselling, and for the most part, I have shared with the people I wanted to share it with. I have taken big leaps; put myself together, started a new life. Other than the first few months when I wrote on here very often, I have been writing on here only on occasion, when I had something to share.
And here is the BUT. While sharing, in so many way, has been so helpful at first, it's now also restricting my recovery.
It feels as if sharing it, talking about what happened, would always be a release, a way to get rid of any leftover feelings I have. While that's true sometimes…sometimes it's deflection.
I'm not taking feelings out each time (though there was one time lately when I did share and that was a whole LOT of feelings). I'm rather…telling a story. It has me as the main heroine, and it's deep and sad and profound. Except, I have said it so many times at this point, in so many ways, that telling it again is like a rehearsed speech. It's nice feeling support, and sharing, but all that talking, it's just deflection for my real feelings. See, I am telling what happened; in the past. It's an old story, one I've moved on from, and as such my feelings about it aren't quite as new. And because it's a long story, I never get to my current feelings about it.
I write on here, but by sharing my previous experiences I avoid talking about the fact that there are feelings that linger even now. I avoid it so well I don't even know what I'm doing, until I reach the evening. And I'm alone. In bed.
If I allow myself to be alone with my thoughts, I'll know the truth.
I will know that I'm not anymore sad about what happened in general. I've chewed over it again, and again, because it's easier. Because I am sharing old feelings. I don't allow myself to accept that while I can be happy with my new life now, I can still sometimes be sad, or triggered, or have flashbacks. I know it's natural, I just don't allow myself.
I will know that sometimes I am so deeply sad, in a way that can't be shared. In a way that doesn't require long talks with resolution, because there isn't anything to resolve. I'm just sad; I have to let it be. I can use a hug at those times, with no words attached to it, just warmness. I can use not talking, because then I can just feel however I'm feeling, and still know I'm not alone in it.
I will know that I'm sad that so many times when I feel certain way about a part of what happened, I have no way to share that. That I'm not sad for the things I do tell others, but for those things that I can't; the things that I can't digest, or which I can't share because I need to share with the person the background story first. Or because the person I'm sharing with is my friend, and I don't want them to worry. Or because… Continue reading


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Could you have bed bugs in your home? When I think of bed bugs, I certainly don't think that they could be in my house, or in my bed. Instead, I think of cheap hotels with dirty sheets. But the reality is that they are also in high-end hotels that are kept clean and have moved into many homes in America. Could they be in your home? Absolutely.They are now found in abundance worldwide and if you travel, then there's a good chance you've had a few hitchhike their way home with you. If you don't travel, just one guest who does can bring them into your home. They can get into your clothes and suitcases in hotel rooms, and you could pick up a few merely by being in the same room with them. Your kids or grandchildren can bring them in from friends' homes.
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With the recent release of AIR 2.7, I thought it would be a good idea to return to the basics of efficient code. While the performance is greatly improved on mobile and desktop, it's still the coders responsibility to stick to best practices and avoid performance killers. The same is true for Flash inside a browser (Flash Player 10.3).
Slow and heavy code is more apparent on a mobile platform – often the desktop hardware will compensate with a powerful CPU and plenty of memory so you might not even notice that your application or game is lagging.
Intro: The Runtime
Every game or application makes use of two major resources: CPU and memory. How you use them will determine how it will run: hogging the CPU or memory will result in a slow or choppy run, and in some cases may crash the app. The following are a couple of things every decent Flash developer should understand about the Flash player and AIR runtime. By the way, every time you read 'Flash Player' here it refers to the AIR runtime as well.
Flash is a JIT environment (JIT= Just In Time) and uses a VM (Virtual Machine) dubbed AVM2. The Flash player uses a familiar model of frame cycles – a loop were each frame is processed and then rendered to the screen in sequence. Running on a single thread, the frame execution model divides the frame time slice into two distinct sections, one for user code execution and one for rendering content to screen (we ignore the green part for simplicity). The player tries to balance the two, in a model that is often referred to as the elastic racetrack.
Objects in memory are garbage collected, and there is very little control on when and how fast an object would be collected and released. Memory allocation and release are costly operations and best be batched together in few blocks rather than small objects. Also keep in mind that large single object fragment less than multiple small objects.
Now without further ado, on to list.
10. Bad code, in general
Bad code is typically the root cause of performance problems. Simply put, if its not architected and designed to be efficient it will not be efficient. A few scenarios come to mind:
- Coding a large system piece by piece without ever considering the big picture.
- Leaving old legacy code intact long after the business requirements have changed. Again, lack of design before coding.
- Coders are pressured to meet deadlines under a tight schedule and abandon any practices, in hope of getting the job done faster – this usually has the opposite effect.
9. Using Flex when its not needed
If you choose to use Flex over pure AS3, there better be a very good reason for it. Simply because you need a few labels and a couple of buttons in your app is not reason enough. There is a huge overhead involved with the Flex component framework, both in memory and CPU usage. Treat Flex as a necessary evil and avoid it if possible – there are plenty of alternate UI component frameworks that are lighter, like MinimalComps or Reflex, to name a few. In many cases its easier to implement few UI control yourself, based on supplied graphic assets.
8. Abusing MXML in Flex Apps
If despite the above you are using Flex, try to minimize the use of MXML, and use it n high level components only. MXML markup generates code on build time, and often coders are not aware that they can actually write it themselves better.
A typical way coders abuse MXML is by nesting boxes and groups only to create a layout, each with conditional properties (left/right/top/bottom). This will code unnecessary bloated code and hog CPU cycles on every redraw, since the layout need to be recalculated across all those nested groups.
The same goes for data binding – using binding when you can simply assign a value is a sure way to overload the app, particularly when its used on dozens of fields.
7. Misusing the MVC pattern
While a good programmer knows how to use patterns, a great programmer knows when to avoid them. Bending a component so that is uses MVC is wrong if the pattern is not needed.
Take a simple widget as an example: one could separate the code into a view class with 4-10 lines of code, a mediator class with all the functionality and throw in a few command classes, each to activate a specific function on the mediator. Almost all classes will require injection and you'll end up with 4-6 different classes. Now, just to wire them up is more effort than the entire widget – this is over engineering: producing pieces of code that are overly complicated where simplicity is needed.
So for small widgets and controls, opt for the simple one class combo with a few public functions, and write it with as few lines as humanly possible. Simplicity is the key, and MVC should be left for top-level components in more complex cases.
6. Not using a Tweener
Tweeners are the secret weapon of flash coders. When you need animation sequencing or delayed calls, its best to use a tweener. I use TweenMax and its delayedCall() method to make delayed calls with ease and zero overhead, but any other tweener will do just as good.
Speaking of performance, a tweener is almost guaranteed to work faster than any half-baked solution you cooked up when you didn't have the time to design properly. It has its own internal timer so you never have to use one yourself.
5. Using Timers
When people ask me what is the best way to use timers, my answer is simple: don't use them – ever.
Besides the fact that timers are inaccurate and not very easy to use, they have a certain overhead that can add up and cripple the performance of your game. Timers hook into the Flash Player environment and calculates time on each frame, using CPU cycles on every frame per each timer that is created. These will quickly add up to slow down the app – the more timer instances linger in the system, the more you can expect slow and choppy gameplay or unresponsive UI.
As an aternative, use a tweener or simply use the ENTER_FRAME event on the stage so it would be triggered on every frame.
Just one word of warning: enter frame is a system event – to minimize impact, use it sparsely. If you are writing a game, it's best to use it just for one object (your main game class) and have a single centralized enter frame handler make all the subsequent calls to game objects.
4. Memory Allocation and Release
As already mentioned, allocating memory is a costly operation.Whenever you use 'new' to create an object, it triggers a bunch of low-level functions inside the AIR runtime/Flash player, such as heap allocation, garbage collection and buffer locking. Its important to avoid creating and destroying objects frequently or inside the game loop. Either create them ahead of time or use Object Pooling to avoid the performance hit.
Regarding garbage collection, stick to the basics: don't leave any references behind (especially class members) and clean up your classes so they get picked up. Frequently calling System.gc() (in AIR only) is not a good idea since it will be invoked anyway by the player, and may cause an overhead.
Pay special attention to anyscronous objects like loaders: you need to call loader.unloadAndStop() to release the loaded content.
3. Overloaded display list
The Flash Player use a deferred rendering model based on a scene graph, or a display list. This means that instead of issuing draw calls, we place display objects on the stage and the rest is done internally in the player runtime environment.On every render cycle, it traverses through the display list hierarchy top to bottom and draws every object in its place. While the implementation is internal to the player, the time it takes to draw one frame depends on the size and complexity of the display list.
One way to reduce render time is to minimize the amount of display objects – by removing any hidden or unnecessary objects. In a game you might want to keep references to the game objects and remove them from the display list when they are off-screen. Also make sure that removed object are actually disposed, by removing any references and event listeners and stopping movie clips and sounds, otherwise they will keep using CPU cycles on every frame.
2. Drawing API and Vector Rendering
Rendering in the Flash player consists mainly of rasterization and compositing, and both could form a potential bottleneck.
In compositing, alpha blending and filters are applied. Keep these under tight lid, specially filters can be extremely CPU intensive. One way to optimize filters is to compose them off screen on by drawing the filtered object into a bitmap, and then use the bitmap in place of the original object.
Rasterization is the process of drawing all vector shapes and fonts into pixels (in a bitmap). This is where the old 'Bitmap vs Vector' debate take place – a trade-off between memory and CPU usage exists. While vector shapes take little space they are slow to rasterize and put a toll on the CPU on every redraw. Bitmaps, on the other hand, take more space up-front but they skip the rasterization on redraw so drawing is much faster.
Bitmaps also allow for baking in post processing effects and skip the run-time filters. Since a large portion of the frame rendering is spent on rasterizing vector shapes, we can try to rasterize some elements ahead of time using off screen blitting.
Some game engines like Flixel and PushButton offer bitmap only rendering, where all display objects are rasterized in advance and then blitted to a central bitmap buffer which is the only object on the display list. With this technique rendering is faster in magnitudes, but it has its own limitations.
Also for some platforms (Mobile devices and TV), AIR has built in GPU acceleration for bitmap rendering – Many developers prefer bitmaps for this reason alone.
1. Using Events
There is no easy way to say this – the Flash event/listener model is one of the weak points in the runtime environment. It's slow, messy, and requires extra boilerplate code to achieve the trivial. Most Flash coders tolerate it, but you don't have to – I'll show a few good alternatives.
So what exactly is wrong with native flash events?
Every time dispatchEvent() is called it makes a copy (or a clone) of the event object. When this happens inside the game loop you get lots of small memory allocations every frame – a sure way to cause a performance hit. From my days writing console games in C++ I was taught to avoid this scenario, and this applies in magnitudes in a JITed environment like AIR or Flash player.
Here's a partial list of problems in flash event model:
- Custom events require new classes
- You must allocate new objects for each dispatch – a costly operation
- Registering for an event via addEventListener leaves a reference to the listener object that keeps it from being released automatically.
- It does not compare well to modern event models, such as C# events.
In short, this model is slow, heavy and inefficient. Since we are after high performance and efficient memory usage, I would strongly suggest considering an alternative. This is only true for custom events – on display objects you may still need to use Flash events for mouse, keyboard or enter frame – but you can keep these to a minimum.
A solid alternative to events are AS3 Signals, an open source library by Robert Penner. I use them in all my projects and games. For more about signals check out this post from Flash guru Peter Elst.
Writing fast and efficient code in Flash and AIR requires some attention and planning, to avoid common pitfalls. Keeping the display list light and avoid costly operations inside the update loop is key to a smooth and solid performance.


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This is about turning adversity into advantage
2014. I was a jobless international student. Sent 526 resumes over 561 days. Struggled to pay rent. Used milk crates in apartment as furniture.
A bit about my story
Dreams of piloting shot down
Bummer! So I thought I take some private lessons then. After a few private introductory classes, I had to pass my aviation medical before proceeding further. During medical, the aviation doctor found something "funny" in my blood. I had a higher-than-usual count of platelets and white blood cells.
I was referred to the specialist (a hematologist or a blood doctor) who found that I have essential thrombocythemia – a genetic disorder – which explained my high platelet count.
The good news was that if I get a cut, my blood clots more easily. The not so good news was that I had a higher risk and chance of getting a stroke. "So no flying." she said. "It's not worth the risk."
Back to the job search process then.
The gruelling job search
After several months, the brutal reality of the job search sank in. I was either ignored by companies or received the stock-standard rejection emails. I remember a typical Melbournian winter morning when the sky was grey, my wall was grey and I was feeling grey. Not so sure on how and when this would end.
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Sergei Fedorov Will Return For The Alumni Showdown At Comerica Park
by Paul on 10/30/13 at 10:05 AM ET
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Update: If you missed it, Slava Kozlov told Sports.ru that he's hoping that his current employer, Spartak Moscow, will let him play in the Alumni Showdown, so it's possible that the Russian 5 will be reunited on December 31st.
Update #2: Via Sports.ru's Igor Eronko:
#Spartak confirms Slava Kozlov, still active player in #KHL, will take part in #WinterClassic alumni game #RedWings #TMLeafs
From the Wings' PR department:
DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings today announced that three-time Stanley Cup Champion and 1994 Hart Memorial Trophy winner Sergei Fedorov has been added to the team's alumni roster for the 2013 Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings Alumni Showdown™ on Tuesday, Dec. 31 at Comerica Park, as part of the 2013 SiriusXM Hockeytown Winter Festival™. Fedorov rejoins his fellow countrymen that comprised the Red Wings' famed "Russian Five" line, which he centered between right wing Igor Larionov and left wing Vyacheslav Kozlov, with Viacheslav Fetisov and Vladimir Konstantinov, who is slated to appear as a special guest, manning the blueline.
Fedorov was selected by Detroit with the 74th pick of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft and made an immediate impact upon joining the Red Wings in 1990-91, producing 79 points (31-48-79) in 77 games as a rookie. His most productive season came in 1993-94, when he racked up 120 points (56-64-120) in 82 games and won both the Hart Trophy (most valuable player) and Ted Lindsay Award (most outstanding player as selected by NHL players). While his offensive output represented the fourth-highest single-season point total in franchise history, he was also recognized for his two-way play, taking home the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the top defensive forward. He also captured that honor in 1995-96, a second season in which he broke the 100-point barrier (39-68-107 in 78 games played).
A six-time NHL All-Star, Fedorov helped Detroit raise Stanley Cup banners to the rafters in 1997, 1998 and 2002 and sits third in franchise history with 163 points (50-113-163) in 162 playoff games. He also still ranks among Red Wings' all-time leaders with 400 goals (fourth), 554 assists (fifth) and 954 points (fifth) in 908 career games (seventh) with the club from 1990-03.
The Pskov, Russia, native went on to play 1,248 games with Detroit, Anaheim, Columbus and Washington, wrapping up his NHL career in 2009 with 1,179 points (483-686-1,179). He was the first European-trained player to win the Hart Trophy and the first Russian to ever reach 1,000 points in the NHL. Fedorov is also a three-time Olympian, winning a silver medal with his country in 2002 and a bronze in 1998. He also owns three gold medals (1989, 1990 and 2008) and one silver medal (2010) from the IIHF World Championships as well as a gold (1989) and silver (1988) from the IIHF World Junior Championships.
Fans can see secure their chance to see Fedorov in action when tickets for the 2013 Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings Alumni Showdown™ go on sale on Monday, Nov. 4, at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased at www.DetroitRedWings.com/2014WinterClassic or by calling 313-471-7575. Each ticket is good for both games of the New Year's Eve doubleheader (1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.). The contests are the final events of the 2013 SiriusXM Hockeytown Winter Festival™ before the 2014 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic® at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 1, 2014.
Update: the Wings' website has the followings roster listed for the Alumni teams:
Detroit Red Wings Alumni Scheduled to Participate
Red Berenson, Doug Brown, Jimmy Carson, Dino Ciccarelli, Mathieu Dandenault, Alex Delvecchio*, Dallas Drake, Kris Draper, Brent Fedyk, Tomas Holmstrom, Gordie Howe*, Petr Klima, Joe Kocur, Slava Kozlov, Martin Lapointe, Igor Larionov, Ted Lindsay*, Kirk Maltby, Darren McCarty, Kevin Miller, John Ogrodnick, Dennis Polonich, Mickey Redmond, Brendan Shanahan, Garry Unger, Paul Ysebaert
Chris Chelios, Steve Duchesne, Slava Fetisov, Jiri Fischer, Mark Howe, Vladimir Konstantinov*, Nicklas Lidstrom, Larry Murphy, Brian Rafalski, Mathieu Schneider, Aaron Ward, Jason Woolley
Ken Holland, Manny Legace, Eddie Mio, Chris Osgood, Mike Vernon
Scotty Bowman, Jacques Demers, Barry Smith
Toronto Maple Leafs Alumni Scheduled to Participate
Wendel Clark, Russ Courtnall, Tie Domi, Gary Leeman, Kevin Maguire, Frank Mahovlich, Lanny McDonald, Gary Roberts, Darryl Sittler, Mats Sundin, Darcy Tucker, Rick Vaive, Mike Walton
Dave Ellett, Al Iafrate, Bryan McCabe, Bob McGill
Johnny Bower*, Mike Palmateer
Red Kelly, Pat Quinn
*Attending but not participating in alumni games
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Big step towards rebuilding the ashes of that bridge that was torched.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 from I really like our team on 10/30/13 at 10:09 AM ET
Awwwww, yeaaaaaaahhhh!!!!
Posted by Zqto on 10/30/13 at 10:13 AM ET
All-world talent bottled inside an arsehole.
Posted by mrfluffy from A wide spot on I-90 in Montana on 10/30/13 at 10:30 AM ET
Great News!!
No matter how things ended between him and the team, there is no doubt that Sergi was a large part of this teams success and those 3 Cups the Wings won during his time here.
Was he perfect?...no…did he somtimes not play to his full abilities? ...yes.
But please remember this kid defected while in the states during the GoodWill Games leaving his entire family back in what was then still the Soviet Union.
If I happen to get tickets to the Alumni game, I for one, will certainly give #91 a big cheer.
Posted by Down River Dan on 10/30/13 at 10:56 AM ET
But please remember this kid defected while in the states during the GoodWill Games leaving his entire family back in what was then still the Soviet Union.
Exactly. How quickly people forget, do not even know, or, comprehend just how serious defection was. He was a " Man Without a Country".
Me likey Fedorov and always will.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from PA now in SC-made in Detroit on 10/30/13 at 11:14 AM ET
Now I am going to watch the alumni games! Can't wait to see Federov in a Wings jersey again!!
Posted by All American in MN on 10/30/13 at 11:18 AM ET
Bygones are bygones. A Guinness to #91.
Posted by SYF from impossible and oddly communally possessive sluts on 10/30/13 at 11:20 AM ET
Twitter was all a-, errr…. a-twitter… over this news.
Personally for me… "meh".
I don't understand the notion that Illitch and the Wings should go out of their way to mend burned bridges, because they're not the ones that burned them. Fedorov did. And IMHO he needs to be the one busting his a** to make that happen. And maybe he actually will. I have my doubts though.
We're never going to hear "To the fans, I'm genuinely sorry" from him though because I still think he feels he did what was right, even though it banished him to ANA and then CBS and basically wasted the final few years of his career until he ended it in WAS. In the end he GOT what he wanted, and it was not so good.
That does nothing to diminish what he accomplished in DET of course. The issue is not what he did while here, the issue is the amount of time he spent trying to get OUT of here while he was still here. At times I think that DID affect his on-ice productivity, but even that is neither he nor there.
An apology, or him even saying "I really shouldn't have spent so much time thinking the grass was greener and worrying so much about money" would probably do it or be enough.
A photo op and a handshake or something doesn't do it for me though and probably won't for many others.
By the way, I'm happy to hear Kozzie is wanting to play too. He was a player I really liked and enjoyed watching in that era. He took a lot of crap for not being big or physical at a time the game was changing, but he was very talented (his NHL career is MUCH longer than you remember) and it's nice that he's not just forgotten. He shouldn't be. He scored some really big goals and made some really big plays for the Wings. And he ultimately in a way is responsible for the Wings getting Hasek (the good AND bad of that).
Look up his numbers as a Wing and where he ranks. You'll be surprised.
Posted by Primis on 10/30/13 at 11:47 AM ET
Officially speaking, Kozlov has to get permission from Spartak Moscow to play. He's still going strong at 41.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/30/13 at 12:03 PM ET
Anyone who thinks Sergei owes "the fans" an apology are out of their minds. The fans and the Wings should be thanking him.
He would have been a buyout casualty just like Hatcher, McCarty and Whitney. Why is it so hard to understand? $10 million deal rolled back to $7.6 million on a $39 million ceiling that the Wings were up against even without Fedorov.
Would you be po'd at the Wings 10 years later for that buyout? Somehow, I think not.
Posted by jkm2011 on 10/30/13 at 12:04 PM ET
Any word on what the Wings are going to do to include Vladdie?
Posted by mrfluffy from A wide spot on I-90 in Montana on 10/30/13 at 12:17 PM ET
My understanding regarding Fedorov's situation is that he still insists that the Wings took a contract he was going to sign off the table, and the Wings still insist that Fedorov said he was going to sign the Wings' deal and then reneged on his promise and signed with the Ducks. There is indeed still acrimony 10 years later;
And I'm guessing that Vladdie will sit on the bench. That would make the most sense.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/30/13 at 12:24 PM ET
My understanding regarding Fedorov's situation is that he still insists that the Wings took a contract he was going to sign off the table
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/30/13 at 01:24 PM ET
That is my understanding as well. If I remember correctly, the offer was tabled at some point during his last season and was pulled. But, that was long ago, in a galaxy far away. Cosmic Dusty
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from PA now in SC-made in Detroit on 10/30/13 at 01:31 PM ET
It went further than that. In the Russian press, Fedorov and his father, Viktor, claimed that Fedorov was ready to sign a deal in July, and that the Wings reneged at the last minute; the Wings claimed that Fedorov told them he was going to sign the deal that was on the table, and he up and left for about $3 more million and an "optional" year from the Ducks. It's the final-moments-of-the-negotiations stuff that has the sides still at odds with each other.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/30/13 at 01:47 PM ET
Truthfully though it's not that Fedorov signed elsewhere.
It's the years spent prior to that TRYING to sign or land elsewhere before it actually happened.
There really is a difference. And that's why I don't see how Wings fans owe him squat.
Imagine, if you will, Valteri Filppula spending the last 3 years or so trying to engineer his own exit to another franchise because he wanted more $$ and didn't like being forever behind Datsyuk on the depth chart. You think fans disliked Filppula *now* as it was, imagine if that had gone down publicly?
That's kinda' what Fedorov did. Didn't like being in Yzerman's shadow, and always wanted more $$.
Posted by Primis on 10/30/13 at 01:58 PM ET
Why would Fedorov even bother coming unless he could get an advantage out of it? That seems to be his M.O. over the years.
Posted by Norskirama from Lincoln, Nebraska on 10/30/13 at 02:00 PM ET
Why would Fedorov even bother coming unless he could get an advantage out of it?
Publicity = paid appearances/young tennis star girlfriends?
Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 10/30/13 at 04:10 PM ET
#Spartak confirms Slava Kozlov, still active player in #KHL, will take part in #WinterClassic alumni game #RedWings #TMLeafs
Posted by SYF from impossible and oddly communally possessive sluts on 10/30/13 at 04:24 PM ET
It'll be nice to see Sergei and Slava back in the Winged Wheel.
Posted by Figaro from Los Alamos, NM on 10/30/13 at 04:55 PM ET
Sergei was the greatest player of his era behind only forsberg. he was never in yzerman shadow. he was far better than Steve and deserved to be paid like it. only the media and some fans had an anti Russian bias so they could never admit it and apparently still can't
Posted by jkm2011 on 10/30/13 at 05:44 PM ET
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