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GLOSS Moderne
GLOSS Moderne After-Treatment Masque
- Overview
- Features
- Conditions hair for instant softness
- Adds protective layer to hair to absorb moisture
- Protects hair from damage and dehydration
- Great as a weekly deep treatment
- Pre-Treatment Shampoo - cleanse hair with GLOSS Moderne Pre-Treatment Shampoo formulated to remove all residue and prepare hair for treatment. Repeat as needed until hair is thoroughly clean (shampoo a minimum of 2 to 3 times for best results).
- Towel Dry the Hair - Towel blot hair very well. Hair should be damp.
- Section the Hair - Divide the hair into four sections.
- Apply Gloss Lisse - For 32 oz. bottles, use approximately 6 pumps for shoulder length hair and adjust quantity accordingly depending on hair length an texture (VERY important to use enough product). Apply GLOSS Lisse with a tint brush as you would apply color taking 1 inch sections starting at the nape of the neck. Apply 1 inch off the scalp. Distribute product evenly, saturating and combing each section.
- Activate GLOSS Lisse for 20 minutes - Comb through hair very thoroughly using a fine tooth comb, pulling solution from root to end until product is thoroughly distributed and hair is saturated. Allow GLOSS Lisse to activate (process) for 20 minutes. No further combing is necessary, and no heat should be applied.
- Shampoo with GLOSS Moderne High-Gloss Shampoo - Thoroughly shampoo hair with the retail GLOSS Moderne High-Gloss Shampoo (specifically formulated sulfate-free, sodium chloride-free and paraben-free) and rinse completely.
- Apply After Treatment Masque - Apply GLOSS Moderne After-Treatment Masque. Massage. Leave in for 5 minutes. Rinse.
- Towel Dry the Hair and Apply GLOSS Moderne High-Gloss Serum - Apply a good quantity (dime to quarter sized amount) of GLOSS Moderne High Gloss Serum. Comb and distribute through hair very evenly.
- Dry the Hair - Blow-dry the hair with good tension using a round or paddle brush until 100% dry. Must perform a proper blow-dry for best results (do NOT simply rough dry as you must use proper tension for maximum results).
- Flat Iron the Hair - Flat iron the hair taking 1 inch sections using a professional flat iron set between 380 - 400 degrees. Pass the flat iron over each section 5 - 9 times depending on the desired result. (5 times to remove frizz and maintain curl, 7 times for most clients, or 9 times for maximum smoothing results). Trim hair by "dusting" ends (optimal but recommended).
- About the brand
GLOSS Moderne After-Treatment Masque is the final step in the GLOSS Moderne Professional Glossing Treatment.
By utilizing the most lavish and beneficial ingredients, the after-treatment masque serves as an essential guardian for the hair, protecting it from damage and dehydration.
The unique combination of ingredients and natural healing vitamins and minerals, makes this masque the most lavish indulgence for the hair. Whether it is used as a daily hydrating conditioner or as a weekly splurge, it extends and enhances the gloss treatment for effortlessly chic style.
The GLOSS Moderne haircare retail line must be used with the application and maintenance of the professional GLOSS Moderne Glossing Treatment. GLOSS Moderne does not guarantee their results and longevity of the treatment if not used in conjunction with the GLOSS Moderne Retail line.
The GLOSS Moderne Glossing Treatment is a professional treatment and should ONLY be administered by a licensed salon professional.
GLOSS Moderne, a complete luxury hair care brand with a mission to bring smooth, healthy, shiny hair to those seeking a refuge from brittle, frizzy strands. Known for their formaldehyde free professional treatments, this line is also designed as the after care for Keratin treatments.
I Don't Get It...So i have been on paraben free, organic shampoos for years now since having hair loss issues... About 4 years ago, my hair started falling out by handfuls. I literally had 20 some quarter shaped bald patches all over. My hair has never been the same, but it has gotten better to the point where only I know what my hair once was.
Long story short, for my birthday i was given a HUGE 32 oz bottle of this Pre Treatment shampoo and also a 32 oz bottle of the After Treatment Masque.
Here's the thing though, this shampoo contains friggn SLES! Now I know that isn't SLS, but it's a cousin and equally if not worse for the body as it stays in the system longer and the liver can't break it down as fast as SLS. So my question is, why are people spending this much money on it when it potentially is hazardous to ones health, scalp/hair loss and well- I just don't get it!
Now, I understand this is a VERY deep cleaning shampoo, so I wouldn't use it on a regular basis, but after reading the ingredients, I will probably never use it.
I did use the mask and liked it. Super soft and my hair dried perfectly layered and strait... However, not super shiny which is expected since I didn't use the treatment. I will probably use that again, but honestly, NOTHING has been better than organic cold pressed coconut oil...
So if anybody could get at me about how or why this is good, that would be great!
Jun 17, 2012Kali
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I Love This Hair MasqueI tried the Gloss extreme kit, and fell in love with this masque that is used as part of the treatment. I had to buy this big bottle right away. It's expensive but it's because it works amazing. Nothing has ever made my hair feel so soft as this masque does! I leave it in my hair for as long as I can when I shower.Sep 8, 2011ValarieHAIR TYPEDry Hair / Color Treated Hair
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Amazing Conditioning TreatmentThis is the best deep conditioner I have ever used in my life. And it smells amazing! It's so rich, and creamy, I use it every time I wash my hair.Sep 6, 2011JessHAIR TYPEColor Treated Hair
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A Necessary Last Step To Perfect HairI absolutely love this product. This is one of the last steps to completing the glossing treatment to add some shine and softness to the hair and it does the trick. I highly recommend this product for anyone looking for perfect hair!Aug 30, 2011RebeccaHAIR TYPELight Brown / Curly Hair / Color Treated Hair / Thick or Coarse Hair
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The BestSo over the years, my mom and I have tried almost everything on the planet to try and get my hair to behave. Nothing worked. Seriously. Finally, one day she was online shopping on folica.com and came across this after-treatment masque and immediately put in an order. The rest is history. SO. GOOD!Aug 29, 2011April J. / Connecticut
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Same Masque As High-gloss Masque??!Oh my gosh, if this is the same type of masque that is in the hair care collection - the High Gloss Masque, then this is amazing! It's a giant size, and it's just what I need! I absolutely love the HIgh Gloss Masque, it works so good on my thick hair! It's a little pricey but so worth it.Aug 26, 2011Gladys / FloridaHAIR TYPEThick or Coarse Hair
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Michael G. Turnbull
Mr. Turnbull received his Bachelor of Architecture, a five-year professional degree, at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
After university, Mr. Turnbull worked for several Chicago architectural firms, including Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and O'Donnell, Wicklund, Pigozzi, and Peterson on numerous institutional and commercial projects. In 1984, Mr. Turnbull was retained by the Art Institute of Chicago to provide oversight on the museum's capital building campaign.
After managing several successful renovations, he was created Director of the newly formed Department of Design and Construction. During his tenure with the museum, Mr. Turnbull oversaw significant and award-winning projects including the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building Addition, the Ryerson Library Renovation, the Allerton Building Renovation as well as several major monument restorations for the museum's Ferguson Fund, including the Clarence F. Buckingham Memorial Fountain and Lorado Taft's Fountain of Time.
In 1998, Mr. Turnbull was selected by the 10th Architect of the Capitol, Alan M. Hantman to be the Assistant Architect of the Capitol and instituted major reorganization initiatives to improve project delivery and programming. Mr. Turnbull established a new Project Management Division, a Design Services Department, a Facilities Planning and Programming Department and restructured the operations at the Power Plant into a cohesive Utilities and Infrastructure unit.
In 2002, Mr. Turnbull took on the Architect of the Capitol's statutory responsibilities on the District of Columbia's Zoning Commission (including the Board of Zoning Adjustment) and the National Capital Memorial Commission. Mr. Turnbull also serves as the agency's senior executive on the modernization of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Turnbull is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, certified with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is a licensed architect in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Illinois.

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Roundtable topics chosen, networking event planned for Pipe & Tube Nashville technology conference
The Pipe & Tube Nashville organizing committee has scheduled a networking event and decided the specific topics for the roundtable events. Scheduled for June 26-28, 2012, the conference is intended for tube and pipe industry professionals involved in tube and pipe production and fabrication.
Four roundtable discussions, which will run concurrently, will cover fabricating, welded tube and pipe production, seamless tube and pipe production, and disaster preparedness. The roundtable discussions will be moderated by members of the sponsoring associations' technology councils.
The networking event consists of a tour and dinner at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. Established in 1967 and housed in its current 140,000-sq.-ft. downtown location since 2001, the museum tells country music's story through two centuries. The crown jewels of its collection include artifacts from country legends such as Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and Johnny Cash, as well as contemporary stars such as Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, and Carrie Underwood.
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Rocky Mountain National Park > Mount Lady Washington > Climber's Log
Mount Lady Washington Climber's Log
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|Perfect Day
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2014
|Perfect day, great views of the Diamond.
|Posted Jun 30, 2014 5:00 pm
|Up east slope down north
Date Climbed: Jan 25, 2014
|packed trail to Chasm Junction. Then either crusty snow or no snow up to summit and back to trail at Granite Pass.
|Posted Jan 25, 2014 8:44 pm
|Outstanding scenery!
|Posted Oct 28, 2013 11:34 am
|That was a workout!
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2013
|Started too late since we were with a larger group and the Diamond was clouded over, but the climb was great. Lots of big boulders, though. More work than I expected. Got to the top about 2:00. Back to trailhead by 5:00.
|Posted Aug 30, 2013 1:52 pm
|East slopes
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2011
|better than I thought it'd be!
|Posted May 14, 2013 1:55 pm
|East side ski
Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2013
|managed to ski from just below the summit to the car with only taking the skis off once to cross about 100 feet of talus
|Posted Apr 25, 2013 5:41 pm
|Via Martha
Date Climbed: Apr 6, 2013
|Climbed via Martha.
|Posted Apr 8, 2013 8:07 am
|Empyrean Precipice
|Fun First Climb
Date Climbed: Apr 4, 2012
|Great first climb, however we didn't achieve the actual summit. High on the mountain there was a saddle, and we made the mistake of climbing up to the south rather than the north lol. Great views regardless!
|Posted Jan 27, 2013 7:46 pm
Date Climbed: May 20, 2010
|via martha with Jeff Lark, turned into an epic.
|Posted Jan 15, 2013 3:14 am
|Lady, battle, storm
|Posted Dec 25, 2012 1:41 pm
|Great View on Top
Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2012
|Fun scrambling and beautful views at the summit.
|Posted Jun 5, 2012 11:59 pm
|east slope
Date Climbed: Mar 27, 2012
|I didn't believe the stories about the wind...had to find out for myself. It truly is windy up on that ridge. Great views and NO other folks up there today :)
|Posted Mar 27, 2012 7:42 pm
|via Martha
Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2012
|Climbed Martha to the summit. Fun day, almost 10 hours ctc, pretty mellow pace.
|Posted Feb 18, 2012 7:01 pm
|Ted Eliason
Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2011
|Finally topped out after dodging this one via the Boulderfield so many times.
|Posted Oct 13, 2011 10:56 pm
|From the Boulderfield
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2011
|An easy scramble from camp at the Boulderfield. Wicked awesome views of the Diamond!
|Posted Sep 6, 2011 1:03 pm
|eastern slope
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2011
|started from the boulder field after setting up camp took the east ridge up to the summit.
|Posted Jul 18, 2011 6:08 pm
|East Slope
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2011
|After just hiked Twin Sisters and Mtn. earlier, I made the walk up to Battle Mountain which, was my goal. I taked on Lady Washington since I was up there and still felt good.
Took Jim's Grove down. Long but satisfying day.
|Posted Jul 18, 2011 2:52 pm
|Lady Washington
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2009
|With Emily and Tanya.
First time above treeline! Also hiked up Storm Peak and to the Keyhole.
|Posted Apr 19, 2011 12:16 pm
|Nice day in RMNP!
Date Climbed: Nov 7, 2010
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03 - 08 -2015
|Posted Nov 7, 2010 8:00 pm
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|After Meeker and Longs
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2010
|Meeker via the loft, Longs via Clark's arrow, down the keyhole, across the boulderfield and up Lady Wash. About 7300 ft. vertical. Sweet loop in under 11 hours.
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Last night I was looking through a packet of old family photographs and ran across these flood pictures, which had been copied from somebody's photo album. I became curious about where the flood was and started doing some photo detective work this morning. Because my family lived in Canon City when most of the photos were taken, I first thought it might be Canon City. But I didn't think Canon City had street cars and I didn't find any mention of a flood in the Arcadia Canon City book. Then I wondered if it might be Pueblo, so I googled Pueblo flood and discovered the 1921 great flood in Pueblo. I visited the Denver Public Library digitized photo collection to look at photos of the flood and thought I was on the right track. I knew there was one way I would know for certain it was the right flood. I could read the name "Kress' Store" on a sign in the first photograph, so I looked up Pueblo in the 1921 Colorado Business Directory on HeritageQuest, available to library cardholders at home through my local Elbert County Library District. Many other library districts also offer HeritageQuest. And I found the Kress store on 211 Main Street.
The Great Flood of Pueblo killed 1500 people. Someone in the Christison or Frankenbery families must have gone to Pueblo and taken the pictures.


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By GARY ARRINGTONSports writer
The Huntington City Council met in their October regularly scheduled council meeting with the hottest topic being the proposed new fire station. A citizen questioned if people really understood the survey as posed and questioned the need for a new fire station. The mayor and council responded that they had received no complaints on the survey nor had the city workers been asked any questions by anyone.
The survey laid out three options of doing nothing, remodeling the current facility at total city expense or building a new facility in a different location with money obtained from the Community Impact Board.
The city hired an animal control officer for the weekends so the city will be covered seven days a week. It was also mentioned by Fire Chief Garth Childs that a new fire truck for the city should be arriving sometime in November. The CIB has funded all the new stations in the county. The survey was sent to every P.O. box in town or was available at city hall. The city had close to a 100 surveys returned with 98 percent in favor of a new facility.
While the city council took no action at this meeting, the council will have firm dollar amounts on both remodeling the old and building the new before any decision is made to proceed.
The council also reviewed the current shares of water owned or controlled by the city. The thought had been there that maybe the city possessed too many shares for their needs. After reviewing the amount of water used by both culinary and secondary systems in town, it was decided that the city only had about 20 percent more than they actually used last year. This is a comfortable amount for the city based on projections of future growth and the ongoing concerns of another drought year.
City ordinance 7-2010 was approved that will now allow residential apartments in the commercial district of the city. This does not allow the construction of apartment buildings. Any apartment or apartments must be the minor use of a building, as the commercial integrity must be maintained.
The city rodeo grounds announcer stand is in need of being replaced. The current building is old, full of insects, too small and has no way to be shut off from the elements. It was decided to draw up plans for a new booth and to put the construction up for bid by local contractors.


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Flames Comparables: Reserve Forwards
Robert Vollman
November 12 2011 07:19AM
This year we're using the Snepsts system to project how many points each of the Flames may score this year. The Snepsts system, explained over at Hockey Prospectus, searches history for players with similar statistics (adjusted for era scoring levels) and uses their future performance as yardsticks for today's.
We've already looked at most of the Flames key forwards and defensemen, and this week we'll look at some of their reserve forwards: Lance Bouma, Stefan Meyer, Paul Byron and Greg Nemisz.
Lance Bouma
Sitting next to a season Flames veteran in pre-season, Lance heard someone welcome him to camp with "You may be Bou-MA, but I am the Bouw-MEESTER."
Ok that didn't really happen. But it would be pretty cool if it did. Lance Bouma, Calgary's 3rd round pick in 2008, played 16 games for the Flames, but under 6 minutes a game, and therefore scored just a single point.
He was more successful for the Abbotsford Heat, where he scored 20 points in 61 games. If you translate his AHL data and add his NHL scoring, that would work out to 7 goals and 6 assists for 13 points in 77 games, which actually isn't bad for a 20-year-old.
If you search history there are 12 players with similar scoring at that age, but it's mostly secondary guys like Aaron Gavey and Maxime Talbot. On the other hand, Adam Graves started off slowly with 12, 22 and 25 points before finally breaking out with 26 goals and 59 points at age 23.
We might have to wait a while before we know if he's going to have a Gavey-type career, or bust out. The VUKOTA projection is 4 goals and 6 assists for 10 points in 33 games.
Stefan Meyer
Stefan Meyer, Florida's 2nd round pick in 2003, played 16 games for Calgary last season after just 4 in his entire previous NHL career, scoring only 2 points thanks to a lousy 7 minutes and 45 seconds a game.
If you translate his AHL scoring to an NHL equivalent and add his limited NHL experience, here's the sort of NHL career the 26-year-old would have had thus far.
Season GP G A PTS 2005-06 68 6 8 14 2006-07 63 6 5 11 2007-08 74 10 10 20 2008-09 65 9 11 20 2009-10 67 6 4 10 2010-11 58 6 5 11
Comparable players who made the AHL to NHL jump include Troy Bodie, Chris Porter and Cody McCormick. VUKOTA's projection calls for 4 goals and 5 assists for 9 points in 31 games.
Paul Byron
The tiny Lord Byron was acquired as part of the recent Regehr/Kotalik salary dump, and scored 2 points in 8 games as a 21-year-old in Buffalo last season. Here's his AHL-to-NHL translation with those 8 games added in.
Season GP G A PTS 2009-10 57 7 10 17 2010-11 75 11 11 22
VUKOTA projects 6 goals and 7 assists for 13 points in 30 games, which works out to over 30 points over a full season. Small players tend to stay in the AHL, but if his scoring is high enough he might get a look on the Flames.
Greg Nemisz
Greg Nemisz, Calgary's 1st round pick in 2008, played 6 games for them last season, scoring a point despite just 5 minutes per game. If you convert his AHL season to NHL equivalent and add those 6 games, he'd have 7 goals and 11 assists for 18 points in 74 games – okay for a 20-year-old.
Searching history there are 25 players that age with that scoring level, including coach Brent Sutter, who managed 63 points in 77 games the next season. While that's not likely for Nemisz, players like Steve Tambellini, Jan Ludvig and Wayne Simmonds offer hope of a 30+ point season if given the opportunity.
All together his historical matches average 9 goals and 16 assists for 25 points over a complete 82 game schedule. VUKOTA calls for 5 goals, 7 assists and 12 points in 28 games.
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Raitis Ivanans, Guillaume Desbiens and Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond.
November 12 2011, 07:34AM
The world is full of what ifs. This useless article is just another one. P.S. Byron is getting a look right now, but this article certainly won't get another by me.
November 12 2011, 08:18AM
Not every article is written for your express entertainment. Believe it or not, this type of stuff is of interest to some people. If it's not to you, then move along. If you don't agree with the analysis, then offer an argument.
Snide attacks won't be tolerated, however.
November 12 2011, 11:33AM
Unfortunately those point totals would only be put up on a team that can actually score goals....
Interesting projections. I would assume Bouma will be projected into more of a non scoring shut down role whereas Byron given his size would need to be top 6. Given his projection that doesn't bode well for him.
I was suprised by Byron's call up as he had 1 goal 4 points in 9 games and a -1 at the time. Niemisz who is a year younger had 13 points in 14 games and a +2. He could also play any role fromm PP to PK as he currently is in Abottsford.
Is that the "meritocracy" we are looking for?
November 12 2011, 12:09PM
@John F
Sometimes you have to look beyond superficial stats. Plus Nemisz is a right winger. No where to slot him in ATM.
November 12 2011, 01:30PM
Thanks Robert. I would love to see Nemisz get a crack at trying to test the projection.
I had a question for you that is related to team stats: is there a stat out there that serves to measure the recovery rate of dump ins by a team?
November 12 2011, 01:32PM
It just dawned on me that Lance Bouma has an amazing hockey name.
For those anxious to see Nemisz in NHL action: he's probably the next winger injury callup, and if he doesn't get called up this year he's very likely to play next year, given his current level of success.
November 12 2011, 03:02PM
Hate to say it, but if the organization is rewarding for flat-out results, Kolanos, regardless of age or past, deserved the call-up.
Of course, the organization is looking at it's youth. I think people are way too optimistic on Byron. He is tiny. He'll never clear the other side of 180 lbs.
Meyer, to me, is the most ready 4th liner. Bouma secondary. Byron is not a 3rd line centre in the NHL. Nor a 4th line-type.
I'd love to see what Kolanos could do up here on a line with Kosto & Jackman. Purely from a fan's perspective. But I know the organization needs to give these kids a chance.
Nemisz only hope is if Moss moves to 4th line centre. That'd move Stempniak up to 2nd line RW, and eitehr Nemisz or Jackman gets a look on 3rd line RW. The 4th line would be Kosto-Moss-Jackman/Nemisz.
Could happen. Seems like Moss's stock is dropping.
November 12 2011, 03:05PM
I know Byron is getting a look on the left-side. Which proves how thin we are, in some respects.
Kolanos is not under an NHL contract, just an AHL deal. The Flames would have to sign him to a deal to call him up.
November 12 2011, 03:49PM
I figured that, Shevvy.
Might be worth league minimum.
November 14 2011, 01:00PM
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|Free Republic 1st Quarter Fundraising Target: $88,000
|Receipts & Pledges to-date: $77,230
|Woo hoo!! And now less than $10.8k to go!! Let's git 'er done. Thank you all very much!! God bless.
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I need some help promoting today's Money Bomb for Freerepublic
Posted on 04/18/2012 7:58:22 AM PDT by big bad easter bunny
Unfortunately today I have some work issues and some serious family issues to attend to. Last money bomb I promoted, I posted all day long. Could a few of my fellow Freepers step-in today and help out?
5PM Pacific time, TODAY!!!!!!
b.b.e.b's last MONEY BOMB for Free Republic was a huge success, taking in over $6K in a matter of hours!!!
Let's all pitch in to help b.b.e.b make this one an even larger success!!!!
Every donation, no matter the amount, is truly and greatly appreciated!
Thank you very much, b.b.e.b!!!
Thank you very much, patriot FReeper, donors!!!!
We are the Resistance!
May God Bless and Keep You All!
I offer my humble prayers for you, big bad easter bunny, that your family matters will soon be solved.
Your kindness and support for Free Republic is very difficult to match.
Thank you again for your MONEY BOMB WEDNESDAY!!!
Uncle Obama took my rainy day fund, the umbrella fund, and the galoshes fund, but still found another $10 to stick into the kitty for the money bomb. It's not a lot, but it's an extra atop my monthly.
Thanks Big Bad Easter Bunny for having the money bomb, and Onyx for lending a big hand.
I made a comment on an old fundraiser thread that must have bombed.
Going to make a donation now.
LOL! Uncle Obama is bad that way. Thank you SO much for your additional support. FReepers rock!
When I found out my taxes went up yet again, I called the White House, and told the operator that there must be some mistake - I've not yet gotten my check to raise my income to $250,000. Polite people at least, she noted the message, which of course means 'click box for message - taxes, immigration, etc' But it felt a little bit good to vent towards one of the drones which 25% of my paycheck goes to.
The sun never sets on Free Republic!!
Thank you very much, big bad easter bunny and onyx!!
Woo hoo!!
And this just in:
$10.00 from California
$50.00 from Vermont
$100.00 from Indiana
Plus a $20.00 mail-in pledge from Georgia!!
Thank you all very much!!
We are the resistance!!
Go, FReepers!!
But we hear tell that long ago, when LAZ signed-up,
a Cow Jumped Over the Moon!!!
Thank you very much, kingu!! God bless.
Thank you very much, Aquamarine!!
We are on a Roll! Click on your State to donate! WooHoo!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CALIFORNIA, GEORGIA, INDIANA & VERMONT FReepers!!!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CALIFORNIA, GEORGIA, INDIANA & VERMONT FReepers!!!!
Its been a blast participating in the Bomb marathon.
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Thank you very much, RedMDer!!
Woo hoo!!
And this just in:
$100.00 from Maryland
$20.00 from Washington
$10.00 monthly from Never Never Land
Plus a $100.00 mail-in pledge from New Jersey
Thank you all very much!!
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CASTLE DALE-Our loving son, brother and grandson, Landon Chad Prentice, passed away June 29, 2004 in Castle Dale. He was born May 13, 2004, in Price to Matthew and Martee Nielsen Prentice.
Landon was our shining star and his great big smile said it all. We love you Landon, and you will always be in our thoughts and prayers.
Survived by his loving parents, Matthew and Martee Prentice, brother and sister, Ashton and Gretchen, all of Castle Dale; grandparents, Bill (Viola) Logan, American Fork; Colyn Merts, Ferron; Wade (Tracy) Nielsen, Lawrence; great-grandparents, Connie (Bill) Jones, Ferron; Beverly Logan, Provo; and many loving aunts, uncles and wonderful friends.
Funeral service was held Monday July 5, 2004, 10:30 a.m., Desert Edge Christian Chapel in Huntington. Interment, Ferron City Cemetery, under the direction of Mitchell Funeral Home of Price. In lieu of flowers, friends may contribute to Zion's Bank in Castle Dale in memory of Landon.


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Sarah Palin Biopic Headed to On-Demand
The feature-length movie about Sarah Palin by Sarah Palin released just 10 days ago, The Undefeated, is headed to the small screen soon. According to ARC Entertainment, "beginning on September 1st the film will be available to 75 million homes" for a fee, of course. The producer adds via press release:
"This title is absolutely perfect for Video-on-Demand and Pay-Per-View backed by a traditional and significant marketing campaign. We are incredibly excited about having this film made available to the entire country earlier than expected," said Glenn Bracken Evans, the film's producer. "A traditional windowed release would not have allowed us to maximize viewership of this highly sought after film," continued Evans.
In other words, no one gave a shit about this in theaters so we're quickly moving on to plan b and we're just so excited! Nothing says "undefeated" like a rush to pay-per-view.


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mine would be A Christmas Story
with the getogethers and gifts like the pink bunny suit! Yep thats my family there!
mine would be A Christmas Story
with the getogethers and gifts like the pink bunny suit! Yep thats my family there!
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. To a tee!!! We do the christmas lighting outside, the tree(sans the squirrell), a cousin eddie type person, its all here at christms, trust me!
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
I don't know which best describes Christmas, but I love the Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen in!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!!
I have to say Elf even though I am not an elf. lol
Don't know why, maybe just because it's set in New York... I just felt connected to the movie. My sister said I'm like a mix of Buddy the Elf and his Father (Walter Hobbes) because my Christmas spirit is like Buddy's and my attitude towards work is like his Father's. I'm professional but I'm also full of spirit and life, I guess. Eh...
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I used to post a list of Christmas shows on TV for each week,on the old Christmas forums I used to post on. I currently post it weekly on my website, but would it be something that would interest everyone here? If not that's ok - but it'son my website and updated every Sat/Sun - there is at least 1 Christmas-related show on TV *EVERY* day of the year!
http://XmasDVD.com - Watch Christmas clips, movies, commercials, cartoons and more, online all year long!
I received a great suggestion from one of our members for a section to discuss Christmas movies, TV shows and other media. Since our Everything Else forum already had a few media posts, I thought this would be an appropriate place to create this thread under. So, enjoy your multimedia Christmas discussions here all the year through!
~PumpkinJack81, Moderator
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Anido, M L, Allerton, D J and Zaluska, E J (1989) MIGS-A Multiprocessor Image Generation System using RISC-like Microprocessors. Computer Graphics International (Leeds) , 321-331.
Anido, M L, Allerton, D J and Zaluska, E J (1989) A Three-Port/Three Access Register File for Concurrent Processing and I/O Communication in a RISC-like Graphics Engine. 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (Jerusalem) , 354-361.
Chown, Tim J. and Lewis, Paul H. (1989) Image Analysis by Enhanced Facet Modelling. IEEE Proceedings of ICASSP 89 , 1655--1658.
Cox, S. M., Glaser, H. and Reeve, M. J. (1989) Compiling Functional Languages for Arrays of Transputers. International Symposium for Young Computer Professionals
Evemy, J D, Allerton, D J and Zaluska, E J (1989) A Stream Processing Architecture for Real-Time Implementation of Perspective Spatial Transformations. IEE International Conference on Image Processing (Warwick) , 482-486.
Glaser, H., Cox, S. M. and Reeve, M. J. (1989) Compiling Functional Languages for the Transputer. Proc. Workshop on Parallel Distributed Computing Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 171-181.
Hall, W, Thorogood, P, Hutchings, G and Carr, L (1989) Using Hypercard and Interactive Video in Education: An Application in Cell Biology. Educational Technology and Training International, 26, (3), 207-214.
Martinez, K. and Hamber, A. (1989) Towards a colorimetric digital image archive for the visual arts. UNSPECIFIED SPIE, 114-121.
Marty, J., Shadbolt, N. R. and Wielinga, B. (1989) The ACKnowledge Project: Improving the Knowledge Acquistion Process. Results and Progress of ESPRIT Projects in 1989 , 243-250.
McBrien, A. M., Madden, J. and Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Artificial Intelligence Methods in Process Plant Layout. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of AI and Expert Systems ACM Press, 364-373.
Rahts, S, Carr, L and Hall, W (1989) Creating Multimedia Documents: Hypertext-Processing. Proceedings of the Hypertext 2 Conference, York
Rahtz, S, Carr, L and Hall, W (1989) New Designs for Archaeological Reports. UNSPECIFIED , 20-34.
Reichgelt, H. and Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Planning as Theory Extension. Proceedings of AISB 89 Pitman, 191-199.
Santana, M J and Zaluska, E J (1989) A High Level Co-Ordinator in a Distributed Filestore Architecture. Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 27, 423-30.
Santana, M J and Zaluska, E J (1989) Modelling and Simulation of a Multi-Server File Store Architecture. Third European Simulation Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland) , 723-9.
Santana, M J and Zaluska, E J (1989) Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Server File-store Architecture with Dynamic User Allocation and Load Balancing. Summer Computer Simulation Conference (Austin, USA) , 139-44.
Santana, R H C and Zaluska, E J (1989) File Server Performanced using Simulation Models. Third European Simulation Conference (Edinburgh) , 723-729.
Santana, R H C and Zaluska, E J (1989) A Tool Set for Performance Evaluation of a LAN-based Fileserver. Summer Computer Simulatiuon Conference - Austin, USA , 171-6.
Shadbolt, N. R and Burton, A. M. (1989) Empirical Studies in Knowledge Elicitation. ACM-SIGART Special Issue on Knowledge Acquisition, 108
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Expert Systems - A Natural History. In, Research & Development in Expert Systems VI Cambridge University Press.
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Expert Systems in the Financial Industries.
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) INSTRUCTA-Phase II.
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Knowledge Representation in Man and Machine: 2nd. Expert Systems: Principles and Case Studies Chapman and Hall.
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Planning and Discourse. The Structure of Multimodel Dialogues North-Holland.
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Research and Development in Expert Systems VI, Cambridge University Press
Shadbolt, N. R. (1989) Speaking About Plans. Proceedings of AICS '89 Springer-Verlag.
Shadbolt, N. R., Robinson, B. D. and Stobart, R. K. (1989) A Framework for Knowledge Based Process Control. Proceedings of 2nd IFAC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control
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SUU had a similar schedule over the past two week, facing Boise State in Boise and then on its home floor in Cedar City last wekend. The T-Birds split the two meets, falling in Boise 196.025-195.050, but handing the Broncos a loss in Cedar, 195.450-195.250.
The two meets marked the first time this season that Southern Utah did not count a fall. The victories also included individual titles for the T-Birds, something that has occurred in each meet this season for SUU.
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T-shirts were being sold outside Aurora Sports Park and some had the score of the Class 5A state championship softball game inserted in a bold font.
There were probably not many individuals in the Legend entourage to purchase any of these shirts since Legacy captured the championship with a 6-4 victory over the Titans on a chilly Oct. 20 afternoon.
However, there were 60 other teams that play Class 5A girls softball that didn't have the name of their schools printed on the shirt.
"Nobody thought we would be here," said Legend coach Shelly Boyd. "We were the underdogs. Only two teams make it to the state championship. I'm very proud of the girls and proud of the season. We had to go through Grandview, Rock Canyon and Fossil Ridge just to get to the championship game."
Legend faced a tournament-tested team in Legacy, which won its sixth state title in the past seven seasons. But the Titans took a 1-0 lead on a single by Kaley Garcia that drove home Steph Cardona, who had doubled.
However, the Lightning roared back with four runs in the fourth inning and held a 6-1 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Karlee Arnold belted a 3-run homer to pull the Titans within 6-4 but the Legend rally fell short.
"One inning killed us," Boyd said. "The girls battled until the end."
Arnold had four runs batted in during Legend's 13-8 opening round win over Grandview. Liz Hersey's 2-run homer was a big hit in the Titans' 6-1 triumph over Rock Canyon.
Fossil Ridge had 27 hits, eight home runs and scored 29 runs in its first two games but it was Legend coming up with the big plays, hits and aggressive base running in a semifinal victory.
Freshman Jesse Smith had three hits, Cardona two hits and two RBI and junior Kylie Hager two singles and three RBI in the win over Fossil Ridge.
Legend's trip to the finals might be a preview of coming attractions for the Titans, who wound up 20-6 record for the season.
"We have three freshman (Smith, Arnold and Zoe Mihalicz) and one junior (Brooke Doumer) in the starting lineup," explained Boyd. "Our JV program went undefeated. We have a lot great girls coming in.
"I have my pitcher back (Janelle Gardner) but lose a leader behind the plate (Robyn Leighton) and a couple other seniors. But we're going to be just a strong next year. We're young and we're going to be a contender."
Ponderosa, which dropped a 3-2, eight-inning game to Erie in the Class 4A semifinals, will have pitcher Ally Power back next year for her senior season.
The Mustangs (19-5) beat Palmer Ridge 6-5 and shut out Berthoud 6-0 before being eliminated.
Power struck out 32 batters in the three games, including a big strikeout with the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position to end the Palmer Ridge game.
Ponderosa has nine underclass players on its state tournament roster.
"It's disappointing," said Mustangs coach Toby Tabola. "When you get that close, knocking on the door, you want to get to the championship game. I don't walk away with a sour taste because of the way the girls competed.
"The girls played their best ball in the regionals and state. We rode our pitcher all year and then it became a team victory at the end. We got better at the end of the season."
Legend and Ponderosa fared the best from seven Douglas County area teams in the tournament.
Douglas County, the top-seeded team in the Class 5A state playoffs, scored 11 runs in the fifth inning to defeat ThunderRidge, 12-2, in a first-round game.
Biggest hits in the uprising were a 2-run single by Sam Hardy and a 3-run homer by Clara Larson.
The Huskies, 20-3, ran into a hard-throwing pitcher in Brighton's Melissa Rahrich and lost 8-4 to the Bulldogs in the quarterfinals.
"We are one of four teams in the school's 20-year history to go to the Final Eight," said Huskies coach Brian Stebbins. "We are the second team to ever win 20 games. I'm very proud of the girls for the way they handled themselves this season. We ran into a hot pitcher and came up short at the end."
ThunderRidge's late-season magic that saw them collect two regional tournament wins to advance into the state tournament disappeared against Douglas County.
"These girls have battled all year," said Grizzlies coach James Dollaghan. "That's kind of the year that they have had. They've been up and down, up and down and we really kind of caught fire in the regionals."
ThunderRidge ended the season with a 10-13 record.
Rock Canyon was the tournament's No. 2 seed and blanked Standley Lake 7-0 in the first round behind Lauren Paige's shutout pitching. Paige had a solo homer and Zayne Blumberg belted a grand slam to pace the Jaguars' offense.
However, Rock Canyon couldn't come up with the big hits and had two runners thrown out at home plate in the loss to Legend in a matchup between Continental League co-champions.
Rock Canyon went home with a 17-5 record.
"Legend played awesome," said Jaguars coach Debra Kortbawi. "They made some great plays. I didn't want to see them. I'm very pleased with our season. This was a good, hard-fighting group with a lot of leadership."
Castle View (13-9) took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning after a grand slam homer by Morgan Duncan but the Sabercats gave up three runs to Eaglecrest in the bottom of the inning and suffered a 5-4 first round loss.
"There was a lot of up and down in our season and I was happy to make it here," said Castle View coach Caley Mitchell. "It was frustrating. We came back. But we didn't field a bunt, multiple times. We had a lot of young kids out there and their inexperience showed through."
In a Class 4A first round game, Valor Christian was ousted by Mountain View. The Eagles had only two hits in a 17-2 loss that ended their season with a 17-6 record.


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CLEVELAND-Our beloved mother and grandmother, Tessie Curtis Piantes Elfring, age 81, passed away Dec. 5, 2011. She was born Jan. 10, 1930 in Huntington, Utah to Guy and Ellaweas Bradley Curtis.
"Grandma Tess" was a wonderful and full of life little lady. She loved cooking, canning, sewing, crocheting and quilting. Most of her life she lived and worked on ranches where she loved her farm animals, horses, taking in stray cats, raising Schnauzers and participating in her riding clubs. She enjoyed fishing, hunting, the outdoors, dancing, the Utah JAZZ, board games and especially a good game of Gin-Rummy.
Tessie took many pictures, mostly of her family. These pictures usually ended up on her walls so she could brag about her family when everyone came to visit. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the jewels in her crown. We will greatly miss "Grandma Tess" and she'll always be loved and never forgotten.
Survived by her three children, Heleen (Randy) Jorgenson, Johnny (Carol) Piantes, Cathy Christiansen; 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, John Piantes and Carl Elfring; and baby daughter, Effie Joy.
The family would like to thank Centerfield Care Center, Mt. Pleasant Hospital and Hospice for the many years of special care she received.
Funeral service, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, 11 a.m., Mitchell Funeral Home (233 East Main Street) Price. Family was at Mitchell's Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m. and Friday one hour prior to service. Interment, Cleveland City Cemetery.
Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome daily and may share memories of Tessie at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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For Immediate
August 28, 2003
Program funded by grant draws on negative lessons from Holocaust to train police
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced a $100 thousand grant to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to support a joint ADL/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum program, Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust.
The training program draws on lessons learned from the Holocaust to challenge law enforcement officers to examine their relationship with the public, and explores issues related to the personal responsibility of officers to administer their authority in an ethical manner. Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust also encourages officers to see themselves as defenders of the Constitution and guardians against a repeat of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The training program was conceived when Washington, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey visited the Holocaust Museum in 1998. Deeply impacted by what he saw, he asked the ADL and the Museum to develop a training program for his officers. Since that time, the program has become a required training component for nine Washington area law enforcement agencies, a mandatory part of training for all new FBI agents, and has trained more than 14,000 officers.
"Community policing is based, in part, on law enforcement officers understanding the cultural norms and needs of the specific communities they protect, and serving the citizens of those communities in an unbiased manner," said Carl R. Peed, COPS Director. "This program reinforces these professional values, and can be of great benefit to law enforcement agencies."
The COPS Office is a federal agency responsible for advancing community policing nationwide and supporting state and local law enforcement agencies. Since 1995, COPS has invested $9.6 billion to advance community policing, including nearly 32,000 grants awarded to almost 13,000 state and local law enforcement agencies to hire more than 116,000 officers.
For detailed information about COPS, visit http://www.cops.usdoj.gov.


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Canadians del Bianco and May reach final four at world youth championships
PORTO, Portugal – Nick del Bianco of Surrey, B.C., and Garrett May of Toronto (photo) advanced to the semifinals with two more victories on Saturday at the beach volleyball world youth championships.
In the round of 16 Saturday morning, del Bianco and May, seeded 18th, defeated eighth-seeds Tiziano Andreatta and Michele Barratto of Italy 18-21, 21-12, 15-11 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the final eight later Saturday, del Bianco and May upset fourth-seeds Andrey Bolgov and Ruslan Bykanov of Russia 21-14, 22-20.
The Canadians, now 5-0 in tournament play, face number-24 Artem Kuchurenko and Maxim Anufriev of Russia in Sunday's semifinal. The final is also on Sunday.
Kuchurenko and Anufriev eliminated 23rd seeds Aaron Nusbaum of Aurora, Ont., and Grant O'Gorman of Toronto 21-17, 23-21 in the round of 16. Nusbaum and O'Gorman were 6-0 through qualifying and main draw play before Saturday's match.
In women's competition, 19th seeds Jennifer Cross and Melissa Humana-Paredes, both of Toronto, were eliminated in the round 16 as well falling to 11th seeds Rebecca Silva and Juliana Simoes of Brazil 21-12, 22-20. Cross and Humana-Paredes were 2-2 this week.


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(March 20) Today we're celebrating . . . Spring
Spring has sprung, the grass has riss'
I wonder where the birdies iss'
The little birds is on the wing!!
but that's absurd,
the wing is on the bird.*
Spring arrives today at 1:48 AM EDT. Fall arrives in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Best Tech Auto is now open in Orangeville. Jason Mills of Orangeville is the owner and operator of the new business. Mills has been a mechanic for about seven years, but all who know him, know that Mills has been basically doing it his whole life.
Best Tech Auto is a full line auto repair, detailing and maintenance shop. They also can order parts on all makes and models, including tires. Mills stands by his business and guarantees he can beat anyone's price by 10 percent.
Best Tech Auto is located at 90 South Main in Orangeville. They are open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.- 6:30 p.m. You can reach them by calling 748-AUTO.
Sgt. Mitch Vetere adds totals for his shopper. Wal-Mart donates shopping money each year for Emery County youth. The youth are nominated by teachers for the experience of shopping with a cop. Wal-Mart is happy to participate in this community event each year.
The American Legion unit #73 recently celebrated Christmas with a party for all members and their families.
They held a dinner and a gift exchange and also a prize drawing.
The American Legion participates in activities that keeps the appreciation of Veterans alive and well in the county.
Throughout the coming year they have many activities planned including Memorial Day observances at the local cemeteries.
Washington D.C.-Congressman Jim Matheson today voted for the Fair Minimum Wage Act (HR 2) that would raise the current federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour, over two years.
Matheson said that according to a recent study by the University of Utah's Center for Public Policy and Administration, that would mean a raise for about 170,000 Utahns, or 17 percent of the state's work force. A minimum wage worker in Utah earns, on average, $893 per month, according to that report. If the federal legislation becomes law, the same person would earn $1,213 per month.
"It's been nearly 10 years since the minimum wage increased. Many states have already established a minimum wage at or more than $7 an hour. I do have concerns about difficulties this may pose for some small businesses, but it appears the Senate version will include provisions needed by some employers," said Matheson.


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John Clifford Curtis, 52, of Harrisburg, passed away at his home 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
He was born on Feb. 11, 1960, in Harrisburg, the son of the late Clifford and Dorothy (Lawrence) Curtis. John married Sherry Stricklin on June 18, 1982. John was a heavy equipment operator for Morris Excavating of Galatia and a member of Dorrisville Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Sherry Curtis of Harrisburg; four sons, John Clifford Curtis Jr. and fiancé Melissa Thompson, Jason Curtis, James Curtis, and Joshua Curtis, all of Harrisburg; two brothers, Gary and Jamie Curtis, both of Harrisburg; three grandchildren, Jordan, Ashdin and Landon.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Vickery Funeral Chapel of Shawneetown will be in charge of arrangements. Memorials in John's memory may be made to the American Heart Association.
Internet condolences may be sent at the website www.vickeryfuneralchapel.com.
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The National Football League in the United States replenishes its talent through the draft, each year choosing a few hundred players from 12,000 college athletes. A franchise's workflow for the event involves gathering every statistic imaginable for each player, collecting qualitative assessments from scouts, and ranking players overall and by position so the general manager is ready to choose when he is "on the clock" in each draft round.
During each round, a team typically selects the best overall player still remaining, or the best player available for a position it needs. On the surface, the drill does not appear more complicated than that, but it is—starting with the fact that the workflow just described hardly represents the many variables and nonsequential nature of the process.
To better manage the multivariate complexities, the San Francisco 49ers professional football team partnered with SAP to create an application that not only provides speedy access to all player stats, but also supports the processes that occur in the minds of the humans making or influencing draft picks, including the general manager, the player personnel executives, the scouts, and the trainers.
The SAP solution supports cognitive processes, such as comparing players and analyzing performance, while respecting intuition, experience, and debate among deciders and influencers. "We're getting in the mind of the customer and being empathetic," suggests Jonathan Becher, chief marketing and communications officer of SAP. "We are getting to their mindset."
The software helps the team understand the players available at any moment, analyze how they would help relative to the current roster and other possible picks, and how they fit in the context of the team's offensive and defensive philosophies. Through a guided dialogue, it helps the scouts, player personnel executives, and general manager answer questions as they arise while they watch a player, debate a selection, or make the choice. The software pulls up player details in response to queries, and by analyzing queries over time, it anticipates what the user is after, making correlations on its own—similar to the way some mobile consumer apps operate.
Encouraged by the trend toward contextually aware mobile apps, enterprises are starting to request—and software developers are beginning to create—business applications that include the essential workflow automation but go well beyond it to incorporate support for the human cognitive processes as part of the overall business process.
PwC calls this new type of application a mindful app because it incorporates the mindflows of cognitive processes, in contrast to the workflows of the business processes at the core of standard enterprise applications, and it focuses on the "now" by delivering intelligence in the moment. Mindflows are the patterns of thinking that knowledge workers use while doing their work. By now, enterprise software has so effectively automated business process workflows that it actually raises the level of importance of knowledge work, because that is where the human being can add value.
This first article in this issue of the Technology Forecast examines why and how enterprise applications are on the verge of becoming more mindful. The two companion articles explain the underlying technologies and how CIOs and other business leaders can begin to develop and deploy them across an organization. (See the article, "Technologies that enable mindful apps," and the article, "The mindful CIO,".)
Long before the digital age, the idea of automating workflow dominated the thinking about business processes because it was—and still is—the key to efficiency, consistency, and other virtues required for large-scale production, distribution, and support. As much as possible, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and other enterprise applications minimize any wasteful variability humans can introduce to a process and let the application control it. No wonder most companies have widely adopted these applications to automate their workflows.
Automation has done wonders for business, taking the power of the assembly line of Henry Ford's day to the global scale of today, where the notion of making, selling, and distributing millions or billions of something is normal. But not everything can be standardized and turned into a software-dominated process workflow. Not everything should be. Businesses understand this concept implicitly, which is why they have knowledge workers to solve problems, integrate new information with old and make decisions, and rapidly respond to unanticipated events.
For example, repair technicians need to assess a machine and figure out what to do on the basis of their experience, education, and intuition. Salespeople need to do the same when determining prospects and managing the sales pipeline. The same is true for architects, engineers, policymakers, designers, construction workers and other builders, physicians, programmers, spies, teachers, marketers, and scores of other professionals.
Everyone knows the difference between a customer service representative who diligently follows a workflow-based script versus one who is trying to solve the customer's problem. The one who uses his or her thinking skills is the one who customers prefer and who wins their loyalty.
Such knowledge workers have long used software to help them do their work, but that software has little connection to how business really gets done, other than conforming inputs and outputs (import and export) to other tools. For example, a salesperson will use sales force automation software to record the details of a potential contract for use in deal pipeline monitoring, but not to analyze a customer and design an offer that has the best chance of closing a deal.
In fact, knowledge activity happens in the person's mind, in ways that are often idiosyncratic and personal but that tend to follow patterns within each persona or group. To contrast these cognitive activities with workflows, PwC calls them mindflows.
Mindflows are goal-driven thinking patterns—such as comparing, evaluating, and summarizing—used by anyone engaged in complex analysis and decision making. The journey to the goal potentially has many paths and unfolds in an iterative divergence-convergence patterns. (See Figure 1.) Scientists have studied patterns of thinking for decades and have offered frameworks that can inform the formalization and codification of mindflows. (See Figure 2.)
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Example of a hiring mindflow. Mindflows are the patterns of thinking skills and processes that a knowledge worker uses while doing his or her work
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An example of a framework for thinking processes and skills
Oracle's marketing automation solution, for example, is "modeled around how the marketer thinks," says Steven Woods, group vice president of software development at Oracle. "I think that's how today's software should be designed. How does a human think given a certain task, and how will software mold that thought process?"
The good news is that patterns of thinking are common across many situations in business, whether in sales, hiring, developing strategy, evaluation, onboarding an employee or partner, and so on. Progress results from the dissemination of increasingly complex bodies of knowledge to advance along the mindflow.
The opportunity is ripe for applications to go beyond automation. Unlike the tools that knowledge workers have and will continue to use to create, manipulate, and retrieve the data they need, the new class of mindful apps is about the thinking itself. Mindful apps model human thinking as part of the business process of interest, use context to augment the capacity of employees to conduct knowledge work, and deliver intelligence in the moment.
To go beyond automation, applications need to bring the human cognitive processes into the overall business process and share control of overall progress. While automation limited or took humans entirely out of the business process, mindful apps bring humans back into the process by blending human and software intelligence. (See Figure 3.) "They're talking to the system and the system is talking back, and that leads to the next question. It's more of a dialogue that helps them go to and fro, but the dialogue happens to be based on the context and the circumstance," says Sami Muneer, vice president of product management for sports at SAP.
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Future apps should be designed with the understanding that part of a process is best done by a person, but also with the understanding that software can make people perform better, and vice versa, allowing dialogue between the two in the process
Mindful apps differ from traditional enterprise applications in many areas. Table 1 contrasts traditional applications, mobile apps, and mindful apps. A mindful app is not a knowledge management system or a predictive analytics system, even though some may use knowledge management or predictive analytics in service of their purpose. Instead:
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Comparing traditional applications and mindful apps
These characteristics bring the human cognitive processes into the overall business process, creating a symbiotic interaction where the mindflows and workflows provide the structure and the human provides the thinking skills for carrying out the activity. Take for example an online news magazine such as Zite, available as an app on all major devices. The app is much better at aggregating and presenting information to humans. Humans decide what is relevant and indicate what topics they prefer. The app learns from the user and over time gets smart and narrows the information it presents to the user. If the app were to do it alone, it would be less efficient and effective in telling the user what to read. If users worked alone, they would spend a lot of time searching. But the combination has made the reading experience better, richer, and symbiotic.
At an abstracted level, mindful apps allow users to do the following:
"Think about Wayne Gretzky. He was the best hockey player ever, because he didn't skate to where the puck was; he skated to where the puck was going to be," says Bill Murphy, CTO of Blackstone, an alternative asset management company. Mindful apps help people skate to where the puck is likely to be. "We aim to take away as much stress as possible from the easy stuff, by automating the routine and mundane actions, and give users more time to focus on the higher-end pieces of what they need to do."
The goal of mindful apps is to to reduce the cognitive load associated with low-value knowledge processes. Mindful apps could free human cognitive capacity to analyze and make decisions associated with high-value knowledge processes. Low-value knowledge processes include recalling specific details, recalling past events that are similar but not identical, filtering information so only facts pertinent to the context and that help define differences in choices are highlighted, and capturing details automatically for later recall.
Computer algorithms are exceedingly good at these low-value knowledge processes. Humans are adept at problem solving, pattern recognition, identifying outliers, and incorporating new sources of information to a complex decision context. Computers are not so good at these high-value processes.
Without mindful apps, complex decisions are often made with unexplored tacit knowledge, such as subjective probabilities well known for deviating from objective probabilities1. Mindful apps expose these biases and make more explicit the basis for making decisions, even as they don't predetermine the "best" decisions.
This article uses the words applications and apps somewhat interchangeably. Applications usually refer to software deployed on servers and desktops, whereas apps refer to software functionality accessed on a tablet or smartphone. Mindful apps borrow many characteristics from the mobile apps of today; hence PwC calls them apps and not applications. (See Table 1.)
You might think of mindful apps as something new and separate from traditional applications. That needn't be the case. Many workflows have breakpoints for human involvement. Applications for such workflows are prime candidates for bringing mindful capabilities to the human part of the workflow. Likewise, in workflow applications that constrain human actions for the sake of efficiency, mindful apps could enhance some processes to allow more human flexibility where the best outcome is the intended goal rather than a predetermined result. Therefore, mindful apps are complementary to traditional applications and offer a way to extend the value of the core systems to new use cases that include knowledge work.
Today, mindful apps are most common on mobile devices, because they typically are used in the moment. "Mobile apps allow me to integrate data and context with the workflow," explains Isaac Sacolick, CIO of McGraw Hill Construction, which has developed mobile apps to bring real-time insights and interfaces to the work of its sales force. In fact, many mobile apps and other consumerization-era apps have introduced the mindful trait, even if their designers didn't know they were doing so. The contextual nature of mobile and user-centered apps requires less rigid workflows in many cases, leading to basic mindful features.
Navigation software is an example: If you drive a route different from the one suggested because you know a side street is faster than the main street, navigation software adjusts its route based on your actions. It also adjusts its own suggested route based on traffic reports, historic variances such as commute backups, and weather. It's mindful of the overall context and of the user.
Mindful apps should also exist when you're in front of a computer, especially as the notion of "being in front of a computer" disappears in an increasingly always-connected, multi-device world. As apps work across computing platforms, mindful apps should become even more capable. That's because the shift to a mix of computing platforms favors deployment via the cloud, which means apps can move with the user and read local information. If you're using a smartphone, the app might take advantage of the device's array of sensors and overcome any internal processing limitations by running some or all of the app in the cloud. If you're using a PC, the app should have the same context available and also be able to take advantage of the PC's more capable user interface and likely connections to other resources.
The Google Now platform, Apple's Siri service, and many emerging assistant services such as Donna and reQall are examples of mindful apps that transcend individual device capabilities while taking advantage of devices' unique capabilities. Such apps are likely to form a person's first impressions of what is possible. "Google Now is a good proxy for the trend in apps that we are all going to be benefiting from in the next 10 years," says Blackstone's Murphy. "It's almost like augmenting users with the best possible personal assistant who is with them all the time. If we can use technology to do that in the enterprise, we will have achieved a lot of productivity gains."
Google Now is an app for Android or iOS mobile devices, but it's actually a suite of federated services that Google provides and cross-connects to help people in their daily activities. It tracks where you go, and it monitors your calendar, e-mail, web searches, and browsing history. Using this context, it provides what it considers to be the right information at the time, such as suggesting where to get the best currency exchange rates when you are abroad, alerting you to expected package deliveries, and predicting drive times to your next appointment based on your location, weather, and traffic. Over time, it builds a profile of your preferences—what kinds of restaurants you visit, when you commute or jog, what stores you frequent—and uses these digital footprints to develop a model of your mindflow, reduce the cognitive load needed for mundane details, and free human cognitive capacity for high-value tasks and decisions.
Mindfulness can be applied in a variety of business cases, both as new apps and as enhancements to existing software. For example, think of a time-sheet application in which a sales employee logs arrival and departure times, and travel time to client sites. Today, the employee likely enters this information from a mobile device before starting the car to depart for the next appointment. A modestly mindful time-sheet app would notice that an appointment has run long for the fourth time in five visits and suggest a change to the schedule. A more mindful app would also ask the employee, and perhaps his or her manager, if the sales account is proving more difficult or has a larger scope than expected. That question might prompt an assessment of whether the client's needs differ from what's expected. Or, it could trigger a discussion that might lead to the assignment of additional resources, or a change to the sales strategy, or other action not obvious from the traditional use of time sheets.
As another example, consider an app that lets HR know how successful a potential employee could be. "We use data we collect in the HR system around a person, and we try to predict answers to questions such as: What is the likelihood that this individual will be an overachiever?" says Chris Leone, senior vice president of development at Oracle.
Mindful apps can also be much larger in scope, designed specifically to address complex problems that rely on human judgment, expertise, and intuition but that benefit from having detailed information available for context and analysis in the moment.
The SAP sports application is one example. "Traditionally, every team has approached this problem the same way," says SAP's Jonathan Becher. "They do linear optimization, in which they say, 'We'll see who runs the 40-yard dash in such and such time, who jumps the highest, who catches the most, and so on.' Imagine if you said instead, 'We don't want to find the player with the best stats overall. We want to find the best player for our system in our current environment.' That may not be the single fastest wide receiver."
The college football draft is a cognitively intense process. "Teams typically spend half their time collecting the information, 30 percent making sense of it, and 20 percent analyzing it," observes SAP's Sami Muneer. The scouts and then the team executives need help in understanding the players available, how they would help the team relative to existing players and other possible picks, and who to choose based on who is available when the team's next pick comes. There is an art and a science to this process.
SAP used design thinking methodology to engage with the 49ers. Although design thinking has a rich history as a method to understand cognitive activities and apply them in designs,2 its expanded use also includes studying the underlying cognitive processes in how work is done. SAP used it to design how the software itself acts and adapts when in use. "For us, design thinking is observing users in context and focusing on the overall experience," says Rishi Diwan, vice president and head of product management for sports at SAP.
SAP quickly realized that the equivalent of an HR recruiting system would not help sports teams make the best decisions. "Coaches, scouts, and executives have a certain way of expressing; they have a certain way of understanding. They all take pride in their analysis and experience. You can't throw charts at them or have the computer drive their behavior. They'll check out right away. You need to understand their mindset," Muneer says.
SAP concluded that any solution needed to do the following:
The 49ers' early experience is that they can deeply assess many more players than was previously possible, and they believe they're asking better questions and getting better answers. Thanks to interfaces that are mindful of cognitive complexity and the pertinent and necessary information to the task at hand, they can comprehensively understand players in minutes rather than hours. (See Figure 4.) It's difficult to calculate a traditional ROI because ultimately any team is matching their collective judgment against that of other teams, and a smarter process's results may not be obvious immediately or even be better in every circumstance. The goal is to increase the odds of success by helping people do what they do better.
Figure 4
Screen shots of a player profile and player details from SAP's sports application for understanding new players
If you can't show a 10 percent labor reduction or some other measurable ROI, how can you justify mindful apps? That's partly a trick question. Mindfulness should not replace efficiency or standardization. If a company can show ROI for achieving further efficiency or standardization, it should do so.
But most large businesses are approaching the limits of operational efficiencies that IT systems can deliver, because they have largely succeeded in their automation and standardization goals. That leaves the nonautomated work—the work done by people—as the opportunity for greater effectiveness. Effectiveness—getting the best results possible—is a crucial goal for human processes.
The metrics are fuzzier—customer satisfaction, quality level, brand reputation, and so on—but over time an effective company should make more money than a merely efficient one. Apple, for example, makes nearly half the world's PC profits, despite a market share of less than 7 percent.3 Its manufacturing operations are very efficient, but that's not why it makes so much more profit. The reason is that the company can charge much more because of all the attributes people associate with its devices and services. It's more effective than its competitors. And that's better for its bottom line.
In other words, you want to be both efficient and effective.
Marketing automation is one area where mindful apps are appearing in business. It is a discipline that relies on analytics, workflow, and human judgment. Many tools can efficiently distribute marketing messages to customers and would-be customers over e-mail, telephone, websites, and postal mail. They can even segment audiences for some form of targeting. But the decision to buy something is ultimately a human one, based on the idiosyncratic requirements of each person, individuals at a company, the internal procurement process, the vagaries of budgets and time frames, and the judgments buyers make on the path from product identification to purchase decision.
Several vendors, including Oracle's Eloqua subsidiary, Marketo, and Teradata's Aprimo subsidiary, provide mindful marketing automation apps. They're mindful because they use the digital footprints—browsing, downloading, social networking commentary, e-mailing, and tweeting—of potential buyers to understand their mindflows and predict where they are in the buying cycle.
"The paradigm for the interaction architecture in Campaign Canvas [Oracle-Eloqua's product] was really designed to model, as best as we could, how a marketer worked on the whiteboard to the point that it's not just the flow but the sequence of thoughts of the marketer," Oracle's Woods says. The tool can also be used to model the mindflows in other use cases. An example of its use in an employee onboarding process is shown in Figure 5.
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An example of Eloqua's Campaign Canvas showing the model of the mindflow of a new employee in an onboarding context
These mindful apps seek to understand customer attitudes and interest levels relative to a company or its products. Often, gaining this understanding includes correlating digital footprint data with internal salesperson reports and logs. That information lets marketers target their communications with content at the moment it is impactful. What makes such impact possible is what Woods calls the digital body language.4
Much of what now happens inside and outside an enterprise happens interactively in digital environments. The total of the digital footprints of any customer or employee is their digital body language. Just like a buyer's physical body language provides cues to a seller about the buyer's interests and inclinations, digital body language does so in the digital domain where the buyer and seller do not interact in person.
"If you start looking into the psychology of interests, it's highly dependent on the context of that user's world at that moment in time," Woods says. "If you put the same piece of information in front of me at a different moment in time, at a different stage in the projects I'm working on, I'm going to tune it out very, very quickly." As any marketer knows, you have to figure out a way to get a message in front of someone who is interested in your topic at the moment they're interested in it. This is being effective.
Throughout the long history of enterprise applications, software has influenced different flows of activity in a business process. As Figure 6 shows, enterprise IT started by supporting commercial transaction flows. Over time, the transactions were stitched together into end-to-end processes, and application support evolved to workflows that optimized group work. ERP systems are the best example.
Figure 6
Enterprise applications have evolved to move the focus from transactional flows to mindflows, and in doing so have reduced the lag between knowing and doing
Information about the transactions was important, so management could monitor the business and make decisions. Thus, information was freed from the transaction systems and flowed in to and out of rationalized, organized data warehouses through data marts to end users, evolving the support to information flows.
As social and collaboration platforms have become popular, and executives recognized the importance of efficiently transferring knowledge through human interaction (even if digital), the support has evolved to knowledge flows within and outside the enterprise.
Each evolutionary step created the potential for IT to participate in a new level of business activities. Also, as technology has extended its reach from transactions to workflows to information to knowledge, it has gradually reduced the time it takes for a significant business event to become broadly known—and responded to.
The next new level of engagement between applications and the enterprise is the flow of thinking at the individual user level—what PwC calls mindflows. And the next frontier in business value creation is targeting effectiveness by guiding employees to do the right thing. Mindful apps, designed to aid human cognitive processes and deliver intelligence in the moment, are beginning to appear in the consumer and business worlds alike.
Mindful apps are in their early days, with plenty of value to be gained and opportunities to be exploited. Smart companies will make sure that making people smarter, better informed, better able to judge, and more effective is a key priority.
1. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases," Science, New Series, 185, no. 4157 (September 27, 1974): 1124–1131, http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/teaching/Tversky_Kahneman_1974.pdf.
2. "Design thinking," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking.
3. Horace Dediu, "Escaping PCs," Asymco, April 16, 2013, http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/16/escaping-pcs/.
4. Steven Woods has also written a book on the subject: Digital Body Language (Danville, California: New Year Publishing, 2009).


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Unlike suburban schools, the public schools constructed in the years following World War II in Manhattan were designed to accommodate the specific challenges and needs of the urban environment. These schools, now of preservation age, continue to be underappreciated resources.
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The post-war wave of public school construction in Manhattan largely parallels school construction programs throughout the United States, but the reasons for this new construction were different in New York. Across the United States school building programs sought to provide adequate classroom space for the seemingly ever-increasing student body of the post-war baby boom. In Manhattan, the population of school-aged children only marginally increased and the construction boom was more indicative of a shifting population and issues of providing quality education to underserved communities. Ensuring an investment in both ethnically diverse communities and poorer neighborhoods was evident by the strategic number of schools built and the architects chosen for projects in particular areas of the city.