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I recently finished reading Moneyball, the Michael Lewis bestseller and slightly above-average Hollywood movie. It struck me how great baseball minds could be so off in their focus on the right metrics to win baseball games. And by now you know the story — paying too much for high batting averages with insufficient focus where it counts —metrics that correlate with scoring runs, like on-base percentage. Not nearly as dramatic — but business is having its own "Moneyball" experience with way too much focus on traditional metrics like productivity and quality and not enough on customer experience and, most importantly, agility.
Agility is the ability to execute change without sacrificing customer experience, quality, and productivity and is "the" struggle for mature enterprises and what makes them most vulnerable to digital disruption. Enterprises routinely cite the incredible length of time to get almost any change made. I've worked at large companies and it's just assumed that things move slowly, bureaucratically, and inefficiently. But why do so many just accept this? For one thing, poor agility undermines the value of other collected BPM metrics. Strong customer experience metrics are useless if you can't respond to them in a timely manner, and so is enhanced productivity if it only results in producing out-of-date products or services faster.


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Welcome to another edition of 'The Write Tools': a blog series featuring authors, artists and their favourite tools.
Today's guest is American attorney and author David Lebedoff, whose latest book is The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War.
David, your favourite writing tool is a legal pad. For all the non-lawyers, what exactly does this look like?
A legal pad is not a lawyer's apartment. It is a tablet whose pages are gummed together at the top and easily detachable. The very back of the tablet is stiff cardboard. There are faint blue horizontal lines on which one writes, and a vertical line running down the left side of the pad, always one and a half inches from the edge. In the marginal space notes may be written.
The most distinctive feature of the legal pad is that its pages are yellow. And always have been, since the product was developed more than one hundred years ago.
Now, I'm glad you asked "exactly" what the pad looks like. It is 8 and a half inches wide, and traditionally was fourteen inches long. About twenty five years ago no less a figure than the Chief Justice of the United States decreed that legal paper could be no more than eleven inches long. (This was to save money on storage space.) You can still buy the fourteen inch version, but almost everyone, including me, now uses the eleven inch version.
The shorter page has proved a godsend. A blank yellow page of fourteen inches presented the writer with a formidable task. There was such a long page to fill. The sense of accomplishment that comes from writing an eleven inch page is more readily attained. It makes all the difference, especially when starting out.
Also, the shorter legal pad is more portable, i.e., you don't have to use it at a desk. You can carry it about and write on a sofa at home, or even standing up. The cardboard on the longer version would occasionally bend during such usage.
When did you start using the pads? And was it love at first write?
I started using them when I was a law student, about the time Captain Cook reached Australia. At first, love had nothing to do with it, as any law student can tell you. I used the pads to take notes in class, and when I was doing research in the library. But the handiness of the pad, the portability as I've already suggested, and that lovely buttery yellow, were somehow seductive. Even as a law student, I sometimes wrote poems, and an occasional story. I always used my legal pad. You can write on a bus or a bed or a lounge chair. You can take it with you when you go out, and so no longer fear unrecorded inspiration.
From the time I was introduced to them, every book I've written (six so far) and every article, has been scrawled first on a legal pad. Love of a sort did come--not passion, but indispensability. Maybe that is love: I could not live, at least I could not write, without my legal pads.
Do you write with notes , or drafts, or...?
There are basically two kinds of writers: those who go through many drafts, and those who try to get it right the first time. I am in the plucky latter group. It stems from lack of patience for multiple drafts. Of course my approach takes more time...at first. I agonize over each paragraph, often crossing out a word or even a sentence. But when that paragraph is done, basically that's it. (except when later transposed to print.)
This is a horrible confession, but I seldom use outlines, either. When I start a book I pick up the first virgin legal pad, and deface its surface with "Chapter One." Then follows a lot of agony. Finally I write the first sentence. Then the next. Whether fiction or (more often) non-fiction, I try to write as if I'm telling a story. So the point of each sentence is to make you want to go on the next. I don't think about it when I'm doing it, I just write. F. Scott Fitzgerald said that all good writing is like swimming under water, while holding your breath. I know exactly what he meant. In a sense the process is automatic.
Of course, swimmers have to do a lot of practicing before they can "automatically" glide beneath the waters, and it's the same with writers. (Perhaps the legal pad is my Yellow Submarine.) And I do come up for air, often pacing the floor while the next paragraph enters my mind, though mercifully with not much prodding on my part.
I try to write one chapter per pad. When I'm through with chapter one, I then leave blank the remaining pages, and pick up the next pad and write Chapter Two at the top. When I'm all through writing the book there's a pile of pads. And I look at this little yellow tower with wistfulness, which most authors on completing a book know is the real reaction, rather than relief.
And is this just a quaint legal tradition? Why not just write on a computer?
It just happened that I discovered legal pads in law school. They're seductive and addictive. But many Americans other than lawyers use legal pads for writing. I know the writer Elmore Leonard does. I'm sure there are many others. Of course lawyers themselves comprise quite a sizable group of users--I think America has more lawyers than some countries have trees. One sees legal pads everywhere in America.
I am answering your questions directly on a computer, lest you think that I'm a Luddite. I should also note that as soon as I'm through with a chapter/pad I type it into my computer. In doing so I do make some changes....it helps enormously to see what one's words look like, so to speak, in print. And of course when editors suggest additions or whatever, computers are enormously useful in moving material around.
But I don't write my books, or even articles, directly on the computer. I suppose the simplest reason for sticking with those yellow pads is that I've always written on them (with a ball point pen), and I'm used to it. When I start in on a legal pad I am able to write. There's an old and quintessentially American saying: "If something's not broken, don't fix it."
Also, I'm haunted by the notion that I'll hit some mysterious wrong button on my computer and erase everything.
So you've never written on anything else? Are you…fussy, David?
I prefer to think of it as "loyal". Oh, I've had my dalliances...sometimes I find myself without a legal pad, and have the need to add or change something in the book I'm writing. So I scrawl on envelopes, or the margin of newspapers, or on post-it pads, or index cards, or whatever is at hand--even, one really desperate moment, on my hand itself (it took almost an hour to get the ink washed off.)
But a dalliance is not an affair. I always return to my legal pads. As soon as I get home I transfer my temporary jottings to their proper yellow home.
And only then of course do the new words truly join their family.
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- Gondal-girl said...
I used to use those sort of notepads to hand write my uni essays on, the good draft, with a fountain pen, with printed handwriting. Sometimes I would ditch the yellow paper for green. Oh dear, those poor markers of my essays...
Love the answer to the last question - especially the bit about words joining the family.
- October 22, 2009 at 8:14 AM
- LiteraryMinded said...
Love it.
- October 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM
- Damon Young said...
GG: Yes, David's inspired me to go back to A4 format (Clairefontaine ringbound notebooks).
LM: Glad to hear you feel the same way! (And looking forward to your post.)
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It doesn't surprise me Greg Stumbo wants to put a statue of Muhammad Ali in the Capitol Building, like Ali, Stumbo dodged the draft and Vietnam War too. He was born August 14, 1951 and turned 18 in 1969, the war was still raging. Mr. Ali did more than dodge the draft, he gave aid and comfort to the enemy that was killing United States military personnel. At most, Mr. Ali would have been in Special Services and could have been invaluable to promote racial harmony amongst the troops serving in Vietnam. Mr.
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Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 boots twice....
Hi all,
Maybe one of you guys can help me out here are my specs: (its a new build btw)
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 MB (latest bios)
Corsair TX850 PSU
XFX R7 250 Core Edition Passive GPU
Kingston KHX 1600C9D3K4/8GX 1.65V (4 x 2 GB) RAM
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Cpu, vrm and nb are all costum watercooled with a XSPC RX480 rad. Temps Idle cpu = 25c to 28c at full load p95 its 52c my vrm idles at around 24c to 28c at p95 its 53c nb stays pretty much at 33c to 35c. So cooling should be good enough.
When i turn on the pc it boots (dual boot) to grub menu giving me the choice whether to boot into W7 or ubuntu if i boot into w7 i get to the desktop and then 2 or 3 sec later it reboots after that i can use my pc with no further issues. The same happened with booting into Ubuntu when i enter desktop 2 or 3 sec later it reboots...when i restart then there are no issues.
Things i have done so far:
Disconnecting my W7 ssd and ONLY use my ubuntu ssd -->failed
Reinstalled ubuntu 12.04 lts (no dual boot) -->failed
Run Memtest for 7 hours--> no errors
Upon booting there are no error leds nor error sounds from the mb speaker.
Ive done a CMOS reset-->failed
Tried to use D.O.C.P. to use the native timings on my ram ie 1600mhz at 9-9-9-27 @1.65v-->failed. (maybe i should manualy set the timings if yes how?)
Some said i should up the vcore but this cpu already has 1.5v and is factory overclocked thats why i bought it to not fiddle with the bios settings. After the second reboot i have no further issues......
Any help is much appreciated thanks in advance.
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It sounds software related to me. Do you have a spare HDD you could hook up and put a clean OS install on? Sans GRUB, just straight into a single OS on the drive. That would tell you if it's hardware or software for certain because if it's able to boot into a single OS and stay running then the hardware isn't the issue. If, on the other hand, it continues to boot, load the OS and reboot then there's an issue with the MB or possibly with the PSU. The PSU might be losing the power on signal.
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I'm with madmat; it's worth testing on a clean drive to see if the problem persists there. You said that installing Ubuntu fresh to that SSD "failed", but I am not sure if you mean the problem persisted, or if it simply didn't boot (if it didn't boot, it sounds like the installer didn't write the bootloader during install... you might have to force that somehow).
None of this sounds software-related to me, though, given the fact it happens in both OSes.
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Thanks for the replies guys,
I think i solved the problem, btw i did a celan install of both w7 and ubuntu without using grub and both had teh same boot issues. So i then tried another graphics card which i know works 100% but the problem persisted...the last thing i could do is swap PSU from a Corsair TX850 to a Corsair HX650...this did the trick i had no reboot...ive shut down the computer for a cold boot again turned it on and again no reboot. Ive shut the pc down again removed the psu cable from the wall and re attached everything up again turned it on and again no reboot. So the TX850 was either faulty OR incompatibe with my motherboard and/or cpu.
650watt is kind of low for my cpu so i purchased a Corsair AX760 hooked everything up tripple checked everything and so far everything is working no more reboots. I hope it stays this way..
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Now that you've figured out the issue, I feel like kind of an idiot. I should have thought of it being a PSU issue! Either way, glad you finally got to the bottom of it. Hopefully it'll be smooth-sailing from here-on-out.
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How Many State Affiliates Can NEA Bail Out?
posted at 5:18 pm on June 18, 2012 by Mike Antonucci
When the National Education Association Representative Assembly opens in two weeks, there will be much grumbling from the delegates about the program and staff cuts associated with the union's reorganization. But the complaints will be tempered by the knowledge that a greater percentage of the national union's revenues will filter back down to the state affiliates, where they are badly needed.
Even though NEA's budget is being cut, total aid for state and local projects will increase by $5.6 million next year, taking some of the edge off the corresponding budget cuts in the union's affiliates. The larger questions are whether this sum is enough to keep faltering ships afloat, and whether NEA itself can withstand the increased demands for bailouts.
For many years, substantial membership growth in strong union states such as New Jersey and Illinois was able to compensate for perennial losses in Southern and other right-to-work states. The relative stability of the high performers enabled NEA to bail out both Indiana and South Carolina without a major blow to its bottom line. NEA now faces increased demand from weak affiliates without the surplus revenue from strong affiliates. A look at two state affiliates, one with moderate and the other with severe budget problems, will help illustrate.
Missouri NEA saw its active membership drop to 27,837 members in the 2010-11 school year, with more, unspecified losses this year. But a $10 dues increase was able to mitigate the financial effect. MNEA took in almost $7.8 million in state dues in 2010-11, and budgeted for under $7.7 million this year, and about $7.4 million next year.
That isn't too bad, but before the recession hit, NEA had hopes of big things in Missouri, due to a 2007 state supreme court ruling that allowed public school teachers to bargain collectively. The independent Missouri State Teachers Association is still the largest teacher organization in the state.
Things are much worse for the Arizona Education Association, which has seen its active membership drop to just over 18,300 members this year – in a state with more than 50,000 teachers. Its state dues income fell from $7.5 million to $5.4 million in a single year, and the union is budgeting for less than $5.3 million in dues next year. NEA aid peaked at almost $1.3 million in 2010-11, but AEA is planning on less than half that amount for next year.
There are other NEA affiliates with less margin for error – Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and now, Wisconsin, spring to mind. If current trends continue, it makes one wonder whether more mergers will be proposed, either with AFT affiliates or across state lines with other NEA affiliates to form regional unions. Now that would be a reorganization.


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Anna Jane Hays has had first hand experience with seven preschoolers–her own two children and five grandchildren–as well as over 30 years experience in creating educational picture books, storybooks, and print activity books for preschoolers.
She joined Children's Television Workshop in 1970 and used her creativity and expertise to help develop publishing based on SESAME STREET, the then-new, innovative, PBS preschool educational television series. She was first Managing Editor of the Sesame Street Magazine start-up and developed original Sesame Street Book publishing in partnerships with Golden Press and Random House.
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Thanks for the link manleywoman. I remember Deanna from 2000 Nationals and from a tv broadcast. She was talented and had a lot of promise. Such a shame about the hip injury. I'm glad to see that she has found something that she enjoys doing and she certainly looks good.
Here's an older article about her. I barely remember her and had no idea she had such great early results. She earned a 6.0 for presentation at the Keri Lotion Classic. It's sad thinking what could have been.
The hip injury still bothers her. It almost sounds like she has a labral tear, which so many skaters have. I hope that she has gotten adequate medical care and was not misdiagnosed.
I remember seeing her the year when she skated as a one-stop, local guest in the Chicago show of Champions On Ice (she was from one of our suburbs), sometime before her injury but after she was getting a lot of attention. I assume this was in 2000, but I don't really remember very clearly (the shows from that era sort of fade together with the passing of time). I was sure at the time that Stellato was going to be part of a new roster of U.S. stars in women's skating, including Sasha Cohen and Jennifer Kirk. The career-ending injury was thus really sad to me. But I'm glad she's found a career, which is better than some figure skating champions can say!
Wow, I don't remember her. But she was a beautiful skater.
Found her last competitive program, Skate Canada 2000 (where she had her career-ending injury). Very sad, this was still a nice program:
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This is so true.
From the video interview, it's clear that she is a very poised and articulate young lady. It's nice to know that she has found a satisfying career.
Yes, thank goodness she seems to have found something she really enjoys doing post-skating career. She seems very happy!
I loved her skating, great to know she's found success!
Here's her staff listing at the place she's representing in the video (scroll down):
I adored her skating. I wish she had a slightly longer senior career by not attempting that 3 sal/3 lp combo but that was shortly after Tara won gold with her own loop combos
Girl had everything. That program from Keri Lotion said it all. She had very developed, beautiful presentation which is a lot more than you can say for most of the 17-year-old skaters.
It really was a real shame..
Happy to hear that she has found success in what she does. I enjoyed her very much on the ice.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - On Thursday night, sophomore Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) was noticeably not himself. He still finished with 16 points, but coming off an injury only had five points in regulation before Green Bay fell in double overtime.
On Saturday afternoon, Sykes was limited to just 11 minutes and three points due to two fouls in the first half as the Phoenix trailed 33-30. He came out of the locker room looking like his old self, scoring 13 of his team-high 16 points in the second half as Green Bay (13-12, 7-5 HL) held visiting Detroit (16-9, 8-4 HL) to just 26 second-half points and posted a 68-59 win in Horizon League men's basketball action at the Resch Center.
Sykes made 5-of-7 shots in the second half, when he also dished out all of his game-high five assists. The sophomore scored or assisted on 10 of Green Bay's 13 second-half field goals. During a late 24-9 stretch in which a two-point deficit turned into a 10-point lead, Sykes had two three-point plays, a dunk and assisted on four scoring plays.
As impressive as the play of Sykes was the play of Green Bay's defense and its bench. In the second half, the Phoenix held the league's most potent offense to just 34.5 percent shooting 10-29) and 26 points. Other than Preseason Player of the Year Ray McCallum, who had 16 of his game-high 30 points in the second half, the Titans went just 3-of-18 from the field for 10 points.
Green Bay's bench outscored the Detroit reserves 25-2, getting 11 points from junior Kam Cerroni (Sussex, Wis.) and eight points from sophomore Cole Stefan (Minnetonka, Minn.). Cerroni made his first two three-pointers and scored eight of his points in the opening half, and Stefan tallied all eight of his points after halftime.
Detroit led by as many as seven early before Cerroni scored eight-straight Phoenix points to tie the game at 20-20. With McCallum tallying 14 points, Detroit led 33-30 at halftime.
Freshman Jordan Fouse (Racine, Wis.) had 12 points and seven rebounds for the Phoenix while junior Alec Brown (Winona, Minn.) was the fourth player in double figures (10 points) and added three blocked shots. Brown, who played a team-high 82 minutes in the team's two-game homestand, now has 198 career blocks to move into fourth in Horizon League history.
The Phoenix outrebounded its 10th opponent in 12 Horizon League games (35-30) and knocked down 18-of-23 free throws. Including 6-of-13 from long range, Green Bay shot 22-of-51 (43.1 percent) from the field.
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VRA arguments; the end of the affair
I have a piece in Salon about the Voting Rights Act case the supremes heard today.
Also, I'm closing down my other place. I'll still report and comment on the law school mess here from time to time.
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I have a piece in Salon about the Voting Rights Act case the supremes heard today.
Also, I'm closing down my other place. I'll still report and comment on the law school mess here from time to time.
It wasn't that Congress thought that they needed legislation to correct a wrong. The real problem, stated or not, is the VRA treated the states differently.
The states themselves are different. Of course they're treated differently.
Shall I start complaining that it's unfair for New Mexico to get more Bureau of Indian Affairs money than Massachusetts?
Not to mention, what in the 15th Amendment says Congress, in execising its expressly granted power to prevent discrimination in voting rights, can't treat states differently?
I think Nino's view is that the 15th amendment is null and void. As is any other amendment he doesn't care for.
I'm not sure why seceding from the US in order to keep slaves would get a State special treatment.
It's not like they did anything wrong.
That's quite the comment section.
I gotta tell you, Paul, I've never seen one person succeed at putting an issue into the public conversation the way you have with your writing about law schools.
Agreed, but as with NIH grants, medical schools and PhDs, the real problem is that there are too many faculty as well there are too many medical school faculty.
Not to take anything away from Paul, but the situation with law schools was crying out for somebody like him. He grabbed the opportunity, but I think any law professor could have. Any law professor who began to write about the law school scam could expect hundreds of admiring comments for each blog post, and could expect to command an army to bust down the doors at any other blog with a comment section to attack whatever defense of the status quo was being offered. The situation had just become that bad. That's why I think the law professors who envy the publicity Paul made for himself are so pathetic. It could have been theirs.
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This joke is a reiterated version of a fairly old joke: "Dyslexics of the world, untie!" It's meant to make fun of the spelling difficulties some folks with dyslexia have. The joke above implies that folks with dyslexia have SO MUCH trouble getting letters of words in the right order that they cannot even manage to get this joke right!
I'm not sure what the joke is, exactly. Why is this funny? Dyslexic people...don't have spell check? Dyslexic people...can't double-check for spelling errors? Dyslexic people...are incompetent?
Oh, and look, here's some more casual ableism from a comic I usually love, making me type more furiously since I'm already on the topic rather than head to bed:
Sigh. Though disability is not the point of the joke here, it's an unfortunate reinforcement of common joke at the expense of folks with Tourette's: they are unable to control themselves, voiceless; their words are meaningless because of their tics.
In a post from Bitch week before last, I set up a condition for a kyriarchy-reinforcing joke:
IF a character on a television reflects or reinforces the kyriarchy through problematic/loaded language or actions.I believe both of these jokes fall under this category. The first reinforces stereotypes and tired tropes about dyslexic folks without doing anything to counter it or give any kind of social meaning or message. It's a lazy joke making fun of people who are already marginalized because of the thing that it marginalizes them for.
AND the joke is ignored, applauded or otherwise validated by another character
THEN the joke constitutes a reinforcement of kyriarchy in society.
The second instance? It uses Tourette's to make a small joke, to make fun of someone else. It reappropriates without any kind of critique of the comparison.
I'm not an expert in either of these disabilities. But I know enough about ableist jokes to recognize it when I see it: jokes that appropriate experiences and conditions without thought, without care, without any kind of redeeming value beyond a short laugh from a likely mostly able-privileged audience. And that is what both of the above instances look like to me.
I like both of these comics, and I'll continue reading them. But this synchronicity of ableism was pretty disappointing.
What do you think? Where do you see casual ableism in comics?
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Defense attorneys did not call a single witness Wednesday before resting their case.
Lambdin is charged with first-degree felony murder. But if his attorneys succeed, he could instead be convicted of second-degree felony manslaughter. Instead of life in prison, he would face a maximum of 15 years.
Cottonwood Heights Sgt. Dan Bartlett described Lambdin's demeanor during the interview as "manic."
Cackling at his own jokes one minute and weeping over his dead wife the next, Lambdin told Bartlett about his marriage, Choun's struggles and how he killed her that morning.
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Lambdin told Bartlett about his desire to kill himself, about the emptiness he felt, the rope he strung up in the hallway and the wine he gulped down for courage. He said he would have committed suicide that morning had he not been interrupted by the police knocking at his door.
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|After reading about their rather bad customer service here, and knowing that they use the slow FedEx, I've decided to take the small House Boardshop sticker off my board next time I see it. It deserves better than that!
Yes, I agree with you on FedEx They always take forever with their standard ground shipping. I had to wait almost 2 entire weeks on my last order with those assholes. They said it was due to "weather delays" but I knew that was bullshit because they usually take just as long- if not then longer- to deliver my goodies even during the goddamn summer when there are no goddamn excuses.
If that sounds harsh, it's not. UPS's standard ground shipping usually takes a few days, a week at the most, when delivering from the same locations. So now I only order from online stores that use UPS. I can also drop off a UPS return package at one of their stores and actually be given a receipt to prove that it's been shipped in case it goes missing on the way back, so I still get my refund or exchange. I also like the more detailed and up-to-date tracking that UPS has.
My nearest FedEx store is over an hour away, and for a return package I just have to put it into a slip box (like a book return at a library) and don't get a receipt because "it's not their fault if my package goes missing" or some bullshit like that. They can't guarantee me that my package will get to it's location, well, at least at THAT store. Idiots!
Anyway, dogfunk is one of my favorite online stores. They have free UPS shipping on orders over $50, they have an unlimited return policy, and they cover the return shipping for size exchanges. Usually, if you're nice, they'll also do the same for regular refund shipping. Love those guys!
I recently ordered a new pair of boots directly from the brand's website, but the next day I realized that it was through FedEx!
Great, this is going to take forever and if they don't fit, I'll have to wait forever for them to get back and then again to get another pair in the right size! And I'd have to drive all the way to the FedEx store to pick up my new boots!
I left them both a phone and email message asking them to cancel the order, because for some reason they're not available on Saturdays and Sundays. It's FedEx, and I've checked the status... of course, it hasn't even shipped yet. That can work to my advantage this time because it will be easier for them to cancel it.
Yes, I could wait but I need the boots before next weekend when I should be going shredding with my buddies.
I proceeded to order another pair of the same boots from dogfunk, and they've already shipped.
Sorry if I sounded like a bit of a bad guy in this post, I've just had enough of FedEx's slow service.
|Thanks for these reviews! I was looking to buy a shell jacket and pants and now I'm rethinking about shopping on the house now.
|Don't buy shit from them. I ordered one thing from them a couple years ago and the whole thing was a pain in the ass. I'll never purchase anything from them ever again. Support your local shop or at least a reputable online dealer like evo.
|For anyone in B.C. or Canada, or if you feel like shipping internationally, theboardroomshop.com has excellent customer service. Next day shipping for me and they answer their telephone, emails and will help you through any order mistakes. Also you can haggle them down a bit as well.
The House bought out Sierra Snowboard and turned it into TruSnow. I'll stay away from both.
I'll stay away from Solstice Supply too. Selling several seasons old boards without putting the year on there to trick some suckers. NO thanks.
Most everyone else I have bought from seem legit. Wiredsport, Evo, Dogfunk/Backcountry, Martini Skate, Milosport, Emage, and a few others.
I have also ordered from EVO when my local guy can't get or doesn't carry that brand and have had great service. They have even honored expired codes or specials that they ran. My local guy couldn't get last years model of the Arbor Draft so we ordered from EVO and they honored an expired code that was emailed to me.
I have used The House as well with no issues but we have ordered more items from EVO
|House seems to have more variety but their website is so cluttered. Evo is much easier to navigate, has better prices and promos, and friendly customer service.
The House -
The last (and only) order I placed there was incorrect. Picture displayed on their site was a stock photo and the piece I received was nowhere near what I wanted.
1st call = 30 minutes on hold and I hung up. The following day I talked to someone and was told they would call me right back as they went to check stock. 3 hours later I called them back to ask wtf. I was then told someone would call on Monday.
No call on Monday.
Bored at work I went to their FB page on Tuesday and left a shitty note. Less than 5 minutes later I had a response and someone checking on my order. Had the new item I ordered in my hands 2 days later.
I was told that since they screwed up the order and no longer had it in stock that if I chose something else it would be 50% off. So I did...only to find out on my recent CC statement that I never received the discount.
Not worth the hassle to go through more bullshit over 8 bucks, but they lost a customer over the whole ordeal.
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University of Delaware Women Set Two Records on Day 1 of Colonial Athletic Association Swimming & Diving Championships
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The Blue Hens set school records in the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay, Kristina Congdon posted a fifth place finish in the three-meter diving event, and the Delaware men posted a fourth place showing in the 200 medley relay to highlight the first day of the meet.
The second day of action will get underway with preliminaries at 10 a.m. Thursday morning followed by the finals at 6 p.m. The four-day meet continues through Saturday.
The Delaware women are currently in third place in the team standings with 94 points, trailing James Madison (120) and defending champion Towson (111). Drexel was fourth followed by Northeastern, William & Mary, UNCW, and College of Charleston.
On the men's side, Delaware is currently in sixth place with 58 points, trailing first day leader William & Mary (80), 13-time defending champion UNCW, Drexel, Towson, and College of Charleston.
Head coach John Hayman's squads are looking to improve upon a fourth place finish by the Blue Hen men and a sixth place showing by the UD women a year ago.
The Delaware women's 200 medley relay team of Alyssa Sanders, Annie Nunes, Mary Kay Harris, and Morgan Whyte swam to a fourth place finish with a time of 1:41.32 Thursday night, breaking the school record of 1:43.09 set by Courtney Raw, Marianne Flynn, Tori Gillespie, and Erinne Butler in 2010-11.
The Blue Hen women added another record-breaking performance in the 800 freestyle relay as the team of Harris, Laura Askin, Brittany Lazear, and Dominique Montoya placed fifth with a time of 7:27.05, bettering the mark of 7:27.79 set in 2008-09 by Cortney Barry, Meghan Barber, Donna Healy, and Maryann Walker.
Individually, Congdon was the Hens' top finisher as she placed fifth in the three-meter diving event with a score of 325.65 points. Caitlin Stockwell was sixth, Lize Keefer was 10th, and Kimberly Caruso placed 15th for the Hens.
The Delaware men competed in two relays on the first day with the 200 medley relay team of Tim Ware, Peter DeLuce, Cole Clark, and Alexander Hillsley placing fourth in a time of 1:30.26 and the 800 freestyle relay group of Alex Tooley, Sihan Liu, Matthew Marquez, and Everett Albert finishing sixth in 6:39.45.
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Delaware Finishers: 4th Place - 200 Medley Relay (Alyssa Sanders, Annie Nunes, Mary Kay Harris, Morgan Whyte), 1:41.32 (UD Record); 5th Place - Kristina Congdon, 3m diving (325.65 points); 800 Medley Relay (Mary Kay Harris, Laura Askin, Brittany Lazear, Dominique Montoya), 7:27.05 (UD Record); 6th Place - Caitlin Stockwell, 3m diving (315.75); 10th Place - Lize Keefer, 3m diving (273.45); 15th Place - Kimberly Caruso, 3m diving (228.15)


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Fox Disregards Medical Research Budget Cuts To Ridicule Senator Reid
Blog ››› ››› ELLIE SANDMEYER
Fox News selectively edited comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to accuse him of exaggerating the effects of automatic budget cuts that began March 1. Fox's excerpt of Reid's call to end the cuts left out his description of specific impacts and ignored widespread media reporting that supports his statements.
Due to the across-the-board spending cuts, the National Institute of Health (NIH) will be forced reduce its budget by $1.5 billion and expects to award 1,000 fewer grants in 2013. Because approximately three-fifths, or $40.8 billion, of all university research funding in 2011 came from the federal government, this loss will be disruptive. Some disruptions have already begun.
On April 25, Fox & Friends aired a short clip from Sen. Reid's April 24 remarks to the Senate that called for an end to the arbitrary budget cuts. Although Reid prefaced the aired comments with a broader description of the impact that the mandatory budget cuts may have on education and the economy, Fox Business host Stuart Varney and Fox News host Steve Doocy chose to focus on just three sentences, accusing Reid of "desperate" exaggeration. Doocy claimed that Reid "essentially is saying Republicans want to kill people."
Fox's short excerpt of Reid's testimony omitted context in which Reid detailed specific examples of how the budget cuts may curb medical research. Here is a larger excerpt of Reid's statement [what Fox aired is bolded]:
Nationwide these across-the-board cuts will cost 750,000 jobs. They will cost us investments in education that keep America competitive. They will cost millions of seniors, children, veterans and needy families the safety net that keeps them from descending into poverty.
Most of the headlines are focused on the hours the sequester has cost travelers in airports across the nation. The frustration and the economic effects of those delays should not be minimized. But the sequester could also cost this country - and humankind - a cure for AIDS or Parkinson's disease or cancer.
These arbitrary cuts have decimated funding for medical researchers seeking cures for diabetes, epilepsy and hundreds of other dangerous and debilitating diseases. The National Institutes of Health has delayed or halted vital scientific projects and reduced the number of grants it awards to research scientists. Thousands of researchers will lose their jobs in the next few months. And projects that can't go on without adequate staffing will be cancelled altogether.
At Ohio State University, grants for cancer research and infectious disease control have been axed. At the University of Cincinnati - which is at the forefront in research on strokes, a leading cause of death in the United States - scientists are bracing for similar cuts. Vanderbilt University and the University of Kentucky are accepting fewer science graduate students because of funding reductions. At Wright State University, scientists researching pregnancy-related disorders such as preeclampsia will lose their jobs. Boston University has laid off lab scientists, and research laboratories in San Francisco have instituted hiring freezes and delayed the launch of important studies. And grants to some of Harvard University's most successful research scientists were not renewed because of the sequester.
This kind of research saves lives. These scientists are looking for the next successful treatment for Alzheimer's disease or the next drug to treat high cholesterol. But they might never get the chance to complete their groundbreaking work or make their life-saving discoveries because of these short-sighted cuts.
We have seen the devastating impacts of these arbitrary budget cuts. Now it's time to stop them.
News reports confirm the cuts to medical research highlighted in Reid's statement.
The Toledo Blade reported that cuts to cancer and infectious disease research have already begun to take effect at Ohio State University. The school expects to lose $27 million by the end of 2014. The Blade also highlighted the $17 million cut expected to hit the University of Cincinnati's groundbreaking research on strokes and how the cuts have jeopardized Wright State University's potentially life-saving research on pregnancy complications:
In his lab at Wright State University, Thomas Brown is moving closer to understanding why some babies are born premature -- cutting-edge research that has the potential to save the lives of babies and their mothers.
But Brown, who has a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the underlying factors that cause pre-eclampsia and pregnancy-related disorders, faces uncertainty about the funding that makes his lab work possible.
According to U.S. News & World Report, Vanderbilt University already plans to reduce graduate student admissions for next year, and may have to cut research assistants on some of its 3,500 active research grants and contracts. The Stateline news service from the Pew Charitable Trusts reported that the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine reduced admissions to its Ph.D. program in physiology by a third due to federal budget cuts. Similarly, staffing reductions have begun to take effect among researchers at the University of California at San Francisco, which expects to lose more than $28 million. And Harvard Medical School shut down its primate research center, citing growing uncertainty of federal funding.
A professor from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine, who receives NIH funding for his research, warned in a Forbes blog post of the "very real consequences" of congressional failure to stop the automatic budget cuts, and pointed out that the cuts will hit high-priority projects:
Because of the budget shenanigans, NIH has been forced to cut or delay funding to almost all new projects. In other words, biomedical research that has already gone through rigorous peer review and been given top priority is on hold. And just to be clear: these are only the best projects. 80-85% of projects submitted to NIH, many of them excellent, don't make the cut because NIH just doesn't have enough funding for them.
If you are reading this, you either already benefit from medical research, or you will some day. Even if you are in perfect health, someone close to you probably uses a treatment that was supported by NIH. Virtually every major medical center in theUnited Statesdepends on this funding. There are few investments with broader impact, and broader public support, than biomedical research.
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Fresh hockey sticks from the Southern Hemisphere
In the Northern Hemisphere, the late 20th / early 21st century has been the hottest time period in the last 400 years at very high confidence, and likely in the last 1000 – 2000 years (or more). It has been unclear whether this is also true in the Southern Hemisphere. Three studies out this week shed considerable new light on this question. This post provides just brief summaries; we'll have more to say about these studies in the coming weeks.
First, a study by Gergis et al., in the Journal of Climate uses a proxy network from the Australasian region to reconstruct temperature over the last millennium, and finds what can only be described as an Australian hockey stick. They use an ensemble of 3000 different reconstructions, using different methods and different subsets of the proxy network. Worth noting is that while some tree rings are used (which can't be avoided, as there simply aren't any other data for some time periods), the reconstruction relies equally on coral records, which are not subject to the same potential (though often-overstated) issues at low frequencies. The conclusion reached is that summer temperatures in the post-1950 period were warmer than anything else in the last 1000 years at high confidence, and in the last ~400 years at very high confidence.
Gergis et al. Figure 4, showing Australian mean temperatures over the last millennium, with 95% confidence levels.
Second, Orsi et al., writing in Geophysical Research Letters, use borehole temperature measurements from the WAIS Divide site in central West Antarctica, a region where the magnitude of recent temperature trends has been subject of considerable controversy. The results show that the mean warming of the last 50 years has been 0.23°C/decade. This result is in essentially perfect agreement with that of Steig et al. (2009) and reasonable agreement with Monaghan (whose reconstruction for nearby Byrd Station was used in Schneider et al., 2012). The result is totally incompatible (at >
95% confidence) with that of O'Donnell et al. (2010).
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- J. Gergis, R. Neukom, S.J. Phipps, A.J.E. Gallant, D.J. Karoly, and . , "Evidence of unusual late 20th century warming from an Australasian temperature reconstruction spanning the last millennium", Journal of Climate, pp. 120518103842003, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00649.1
- A.J. Orsi, B.D. Cornuelle, and J.P. Severinghaus, "Little Ice Age cold interval in West Antarctica: Evidence from borehole temperature at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide", Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, pp. n/a-n/a, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012GL051260
- E.J. Steig, D.P. Schneider, S.D. Rutherford, M.E. Mann, J.C. Comiso, and D.T. Shindell, "Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year", Nature, vol. 457, pp. 459-462, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07669
- D.P. Schneider, C. Deser, and Y. Okumura, "An assessment and interpretation of the observed warming of West Antarctica in the austral spring", Climate Dynamics, vol. 38, pp. 323-347, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-010-0985-x
- R. O'Donnell, N. Lewis, S. McIntyre, and J. Condon, "Improved Methods for PCA-Based Reconstructions: Case Study Using the Steig et al. (2009) Antarctic Temperature Reconstruction", Journal of Climate, vol. 24, pp. 2099-2115, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3656.1


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Emmet Bodenberg Award for Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Biology
Named to honor the late professor of Biology (1931-1968), a dedicated conservationist, this award is given to junior or senior students who have excelled in and demonstrated commitment to environmental biology.
2009: Natalie Davidson
2008: Christopher Hewitt, Alexander Silvis
2007: Alison Maye
2006: Jennifer Blaine
2005: Elizabeth Claiborne
2004: Jennifer Biehl
2003: Joseph Ullmer
2002: Alyssa Darcy, Matthew Hazelton, Lucas Nave
2001: Janeen Tackett
2000: Elizabeth Hagen, Megan McKenna
Health Professions Award
This award is given to the student who has shown outstanding potential for success in a health professional school.
2009: Emily Convery, Jaclyn Flickinger, Julie Ziegler
2008: Jacob Ark, Rachel Suitor
2007: Emily Mattes, Eric Rellinger
2006: Heather Kelly, John Shields, Linda Young
2005: C. Jordan Benavente, Stacey Josif
2004: Jeff Domingus
2003: Samuel Harris, Natasha Malackney
2002: Melissa Stewart
2001: Lindsay Pabst, Shana Ryan
2000: Scott Maurer
Waldo E. Nelson Award
This award is given to the biology student submitting the best proposal for summer research. Preference is given, though not restricted to, projects relating to biomedical studies. Dr. Nelson was a 1922 Wittenberg graduate and a renowned pediatrician, who was the leading author of the most widely used and translated pediatric text for years.
2009: Marla Anzalone
2008: Tracy Dohn
2007: Jacob Ark
2006: Jessica Schultz
2005: Rachel Schwope
2004: Justin Johnson
2003: Jennifer Lykens
2002: Christina Peters
2001: Megan Hoffmann
2000: Scott Maurer
Teaching Careers Award
This award is given to a senior student who has shown outstanding preparation and abilities in biological education.
2008: Ellen Westerman
2007: Adam Walton
2006: Isaac Ligocki, Mark Yehl
2004: Samuel Lloyd
2003: Angela Shedlock
2002: Ann Gentile, Kelly Reidinger
2001: Greta Guhde
Marga Smith Award
Named for our long-time lab coordinator, this award is given to an upper class biology major in recognition of excellence in scholarship and developed service to the Biology Department.
2009: Jessica Mobley
2008: Rachel Ianni
2007: Courtney Dancer, Sara Ellenberger
2006: Amy Suntum
2005: Jenna Amatulli
2004: Jessica Ebie, Andrew Pretorius
2003: Kara Bixler, Rebecca Lawyer
2002: Elizabeth Miller
2001: Emiley Claytor, Denice Limbert
2000: Tiffany Andrews
Tri Beta Award
This award is given annually to one or two students voted the outstanding Biology majors in the senior class by students in this honor society
2009: Dan Buchan, Justin Tank
2008: Jacob Ark
2007: Alison Maye
2006: Erin Mills
2005: Carrie Happ
2004: Jennifer Biehl
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Graduate Certificate
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies offers a formal Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies for students who are enrolled in a graduate degree (Master's or Ph.D.) program at the University of Rochester and for non-matriculated students who complete four or more courses from at least two University of Rochester graduate programs (see requirements).
This Graduate Certificate provides analyses of contemporary theoretical frameworks and methodologies; an historical perspective on gender, sexuality, and women's studies within and across disciplines; a focus on issues of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and more; and connections between academic and non-academic practices. The Certificate becomes part of the student's record and serves to document training in gender and women's studies.
The Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies is designed to appeal to:
Matriculated graduate students who will apply for teaching positions at the post-secondary level. The Certificate complements students' credentials in their primary discipline by demonstrating scholarly competence in a related, interdisciplinary field. This training prepares students to offer a wider range of courses at employing institutions.
Non-matriculated students who are interested in obtaining an interdisciplinary training in gender and women's studies but who do not wish to commit to a full degree program. This training is appropriate for those expanding upon and updating their undergraduate education, preparing for further graduate study, and/or desiring to link their current occupations with recent developments in women's studies.
The Graduate Certificate is typically obtained in two phases:
- The first step is the planning of a program of study by means of completing and submitting a Certificate Plan application. This step is required for non-matriculated students and strongly recommended for students already enrolled in a UR program. This gives the applicant a chance to get feedback from the SBAI Curriculum Committee and make sure their plan will fulfill the requirements of the certificate before they complete their courses. Download the Certificate Plan Application (PDF) here.
- The second step is the completion and submission of the final Graduate Certificate application. Download the Graduate Certificate Application here (PDF).
Certificate Plan applications and final Certificate applications are accepted on a rolling basis. If you wish to receive the award during our commencement ceremony in May, please submit your completed application no later than March 1st of that year. Please email all completed materials in a single PDF file to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Appropriate programs of study are developed in consultation with an advisor from the Curriculum Committee. That advisor mentors, or arranges mentorship for each graduate student to choose relevant classes and make sure that her/his program of study is cohesive. Students interested in earning the Certificate should begin to plan their curriculum as soon as possible. To being the process, a student must meet with a current Curriculum Committee member. Together, a Certificate Plan, a trajectory of courses, will be planned that will fulfill the terms of the Certificate. Committee members will follow students' progress semester-by-semester assuring that the Certificate Plan goals are reached.
Students are encouraged to participate not only in the courses named in their Certificate Plan, but in related Susan B. Anthony Institute events and research.
Eligible Courses
Students must successfully complete 4 graduate level courses in gender and women's studies. The courses must be drawn from at least 2 departments or programs at the University of Rochester and must include at least two courses from considered "Methodological and Theoretical Approaches" and two considered "Applied Courses." Successful completion of the courses is determined by the departments or programs through which the courses are offered.
Once the course load is complete, students must prepare a portfolio and get a letter of recommendation to be submitted with the Graduate Certificate Application.
Students compile a portfolio that includes work completed in these courses, a curriculum vitae, and a statement about how this interdisciplinary work in gender and women's studies has affected their writing, research, and teaching. The portfolio is submitted to and evaluated by the Curriculum Committee of the Susan B. Anthony Institute.
Letter of Recommendation
A letter of recommendation should be submitted from the student's departmental advisor addressing the student's competence in the area of Gender and Women's Studies. Please have the letter emailed as a PDF file to email@example.com. Once both phases are complete, the Curriculum Committee will make a final review of the Certificate's merits and determine if the Certificate is to be granted.
For further information, please contact the SBAI office at 585-275-8318, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Course offerings will vary from year to year. For information about current listings, please contact the Susan B. Anthony Institute office.
Sample Course List
Examples of classes applied toward Graduate Certificates have included:
- ANT 467 Fashion, Beauty, Power
Art and Art History
- AH 410 Women as Image and Text
- AH 413 Race and Gender in Popular Film
- AH 528 Colloquium in Visual and Cultural Studies
- AH 583 Visual & Cultural Studies Colloquium
- ENG 423 Madness, Marriage, and Monstrosity: The Woman Reader, the Woman Writer, and the 19th Century Novel
- ENG 461 Feminist Film Theory
- ENG 467 Changing Genres of Erotica
- ENG 448 Contemporary Women's Writing
- ENG 545 The Radical Narratives of Toni Morrison
- ENG 550 Modern American Poetry
- HIS 591 American Women's History
Warner School of Graduate Education
- ED 412 Sociology of Education
- ED 417 Education of American Women
- ED 424 Professions in American Culture
- ED 442 Race, Class, Gender & Disability
- ED 488 Women, Educational Leadership, and the Professions
- ED 591 Independent Study


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Hotel Cortez Azul
Hotel Cortez Azuls location in Alajuela is ideal if you want to avoid the business of San Jose...
It is a clean, safe town which is only five minutes from the airport. Alajuela is very convenient for accessing all of your travel destinations.
Each room in the hotel is extremely clean, spacious, comfortable, and is decorated with unique artwork handcrafted by the owner of the hostel. The dormitory-style rooms have hardwood flooring and the others have polished tile.
There are two tranquil sitting areas on the main floor if you need to relax. There is a television, a selection of magazines, comfortable couches, and a diverse book exchange available. Like the rest of the hotel, this area is also beautifully decorated with the charismatic owners artwork (mosaics, sculptures, paintings).
Hotel Cortez Azul offers free scheduled airport shuttle for guests staying in a private room, from the hotel to the airport only.
The free service to the airport is 4:00 am , 6:00 am , 8:00 am and 10:00 am , if you want the service at different hour you must pay $6.
The hotel also provides its guests with access to two immaculate kitchen areas where they can store food, cook, and enjoy their meals. One is on the upper floor of the hostel where you can choose to eat at the kitchen table or out on the balcony which boasts a beautiful view of the town.
The other kitchen is located on the main floor in the back courtyard. There are various tables to eat at, which are surrounded by lush gardens, pottery, and mosaic artwork.
During your stay at the hostel, the owner, Eduardo, will go out of his way to assist you with organizing whatever you wish to do. In addition to helping you with your specific travel goals, he organizes and provides full day kayak tours in the surrounding area and a full day tour to Poas Volcano, the coffee plantations, and Waterfall Garden La Paz.
If you have specific destinations in mind within Costa Rica, Eduardo will gladly arrange transportation for you.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hotel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Free Breakfast
- Cable TV
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- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
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- Luggage Storage
- Shuttle Bus
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- Wake-up calls
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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In Alajuela:
The hotel is located on Avenida 5 between Calles 2 & 4; however, due to the fact that signage is minimal, you can use the local directions. From the Jan Santamaria museum, go 200 mts north and 75 meters west.
From the Juan Santamara airport:
1) Take an orange airport taxi into Alajuela, telling the driver that you have a reservation at the Hotel Cortez Azul. The taxi driver will know where to go.
2) Take a red Tuasa bus into Alajuela. From the bus station, go 250 meters (2.5 blocks) north and then 250 mts east.
From San Jos:
Take the red Tuasa bus from the terminal by the church La Merced into Alajuela. Buses that have a directo sign in the front window are fastest. From the station in Alajuela, go 250 meters (2.5 blocks) north and then 250 mts east.
Located Near
To fly in and out of Costa Rica for convenience may need to stay near an airport and the Juan Santamaria in Alajuela. The hotel is conveniently located Cortez Azul near the most important airport in Costa Rica. Alajuela is located only 2 km away and about 5 minutes from airport. we are located 200 meters north and 75 meters west of the central park of Alajuela.


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Letter from Satya Nadella
Dear Fellow Employee,
When I came to Microsoft 22 years ago, I believed I could make a difference and change the world through technology. That belief holds true today and together, we are empowering people to do more with the services, tools, applications, and devices we build. Our focus, simply put, is to help our customers and partners thrive in a mobile-first, cloud-first world.
Living in a mobile and cloud-first era means asking people and organizations to trust us with their information and data. Trust is paramount in how we operate and conduct business with individuals, companies and governments. We build and maintain trust through our shared commitment to ethical behavior and by acting with honesty and integrity.
Our success depends on you. We set high ethical standards at Microsoft and we expect every employee to live up to those standards. Complying with the law and company policies is the first and most important job of every Microsoft employee. A momentary lapse in judgment by a single employee has the potential to erode the value and the trust we bring to customers. As a Microsoft employee, you are expected to maintain a commitment to high ethical standards and conduct Microsoft's business with integrity.
The Standards of Business Conduct are an extension of Microsoft's values and reflect our continued commitment to ethical business practices and complying with the law. We expect you to be well informed and exercise good judgment when making business decisions, and the Standards are designed to help you make the right decisions for yourself and Microsoft.
The Standards are not intended to cover every issue or situation you may face as a Microsoft employee. These Standards summarize, and are supported by, the principles and policies that govern our company. You should use the Standards, in conjunction with our corporate policies, to guide and inform your conduct. Please use the resources described in the Standards to help answer your questions or address your concerns. In addition, managers should use the Standards to foster and reward a culture of accountability and integrity within their groups.
All Microsoft employees are responsible for understanding and complying with the Standards, Microsoft policies, laws, and regulations. We all have a responsibility to raise compliance and ethics concerns, and we want to hear from you if you have a concern. Microsoft prohibits retaliation against any employee who in good faith seeks guidance or reports a possible violation of the Standards.
I firmly believe that Microsoft is the best company in the world for employees who want to innovate, drive change, make
a difference, and do their best work. Thank you for living our core values and your commitment to ethical and legal behavior.
There must be integrity in everything we do.
Satya Nadella
Chief Executive Officer


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by Nick Haines | KCPT News October 14, 2013
Egypt has undergone massive regime change. Now six journalists from the Arab republic have been visiting KCPT to witness massive media change in action.
If you're not aware, your public television station looks like a construction zone with a brand new Center for Journalism being created and new radio studios for the recently acquired Bridge radio station now underway.
Hosted by the the International Visitors Council, the Egyptian reporters are fascinated at how news operates within the public broadcasting model in the United States.
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Revenue and Taxation Code
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30. Enforcement of tax liabilities of other states. The courts of this State shall recognize and enforce liabilities for taxes lawfully imposed by any other state, or the political subdivisions thereof, which extends a like comity to this State.
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Fast Facts
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- 19,420,000
- Capital:
- Maputo; 1,221,000
- Area:
- 799,380 square kilometers (308,642 square miles)
- Language:
- Portuguese, indigenous dialects
- Religion:
- Indigenous beliefs, Christian, Muslim
- Currency:
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- Life Expectancy:
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- Literacy Percent:
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Mozambique, on the east coast of southern Africa, is mainly a savanna plateau drained by the mighty Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers, with highlands to the north. It has a tropical climate that can produce heavy flooding along the rivers. In 2001 flooding along the Zambezi River valley forced 70,000 people to flee their homes, and the World Bank estimated that a total of 491,000 were displaced by floods throughout the country. Most people live along the coasts or in the river valleys.
Infusions of aid are essential to a country devastated by decades of war, drought, and floods. After nearly five centuries of Portuguese presence, Mozambique won independence in 1975. An exodus of skilled Portuguese workers followed, and the country became a one-party state allied to the Soviet bloc. Mozambique was drawn into a long struggle against white rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. In 1989 the government renounced Marxism, and a democratic constitution was written in 1990. Fighting between the government and right-wing guerrillas, which claimed a hundred thousand lives and displaced more than four million, ended in 1992. In 1994 multiparty elections ushered in a new government, which has focused on diversifying the country's economy away from small-scale agriculture. Production of food and manufactured goods is steadily increasing, and a large-scale aluminum smelter started in 2000. Solid economic success bodes well for the future.
- Industry: Food, beverages, chemicals, aluminum, petroleum products, textiles
- Agriculture: Cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea; beef
- Exports: Aluminum, prawns, cashews, cotton sugar
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