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One player's adventures in the World of Warcraft. Hunters, Paladins, Raiding, Mythic Plus.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Work , Work
Currently their professions look something like this.
Prot Paladin: Mining/JC
MM/Surv Hunter: Skining/Mining
Resto/Boomkin Druid: Skinning/Leatherworking
Arms/Prot Warrior: Mining/Enchanting
Now I have a good friend who lets me use his mage for my Disenchanting needs so I haven't seen a big need to bring the Warrior over, plus I like having a toon on Allianceside to drop by and say hello.
I'm wondering if it would make sense to change my Professions with an eye to making more gold. I'm just basically treading water moneywise. I make enough to cover my repair bills, enchants, gems, etc but not a whole lot more. This week in particular with the upgrades I've gotten and bought, on 3 toons no less, I'm down about 5k. I'm not looking to become some WoW Mogul. I'd just like to be able to do stuff like buying up Primordial Saronites, getting Epic Flying for my Druid and Hunter and maybe buy a Motorcycle.
I'm happy with JC/Mining on my Paladin. Although he doesn't mine much anymore, he still likes being able to cut my his own gems and Dragonseyes are sexy. I make a little money with his JC buying uncut gems and cutting them and reselling. The problem I have is that many times on Altar of Storms cut gems are selling for LESS than uncut gems, which makes that particular way of making money rather difficult.
My Hunter's professions were basically for him to make money while he leveled up. The intention was that he would be a farmer for me, especially back when Honors was JC/Engineering. Now that he's become part of Raid Team III, he's actively raiding. Basically all I do to make money with him is send stuff he mines or skins over to my bank mule to sell.
My Druid was Leatherworking with the idea he would make Leg Armors for Honorshammer and also to sell. Here again, like Honors JC, I'm finding that the Armors are selling for LESS than mats and I'm still at the point of having to burn Heavey Boreans to level up his Leatherworking to where he can make more stuff.
What I don't have my arsenal is an Herbalist.
So here's what I've been planning. Change the Druid to Herb/Alchemy. This fills the Herb hole so I can serve that market with raw materials. I'll go transmute spec so he can do Epic Gem transmutes for Honors, reducing the material cost for my raw gems and allowing me to sell at a lower price with a higher margin.
I could keep the Hunter as my Skinner, but switch his other profession over to Engineering. I tell myself it is to get him into the Arrow/Bullet market but the truth is I've always enjoyed Engineering. It was just a horrible profession for a tank when Honors had it, especially compared to mining. I wonder if engineering (in and of itself) provides a DPS increase like Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Jewelcrafting, Enchanting, etc do. I've had and dropped Engineering twice on Honorshammer, but each time I enjoyed it.
But I've been holding off executing my plan. It might be prudent to wait to see what the Devs are going to do with Professions in Cataclysm. Apparently, it's supposed to be much easier to level up a profession, so it might be better to wait and see. You can reference this article from ShackNews. In the article, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime, states that Blizzard expects Cataclysm to arrive in the "back half of 2010." Now we can add that to the other clues we have. There was the comment the Devs made at Blizzcon 2009 that they thought "Alliance players will be complaining about Goblin Rogues at next year's Blizzcon". The community now knows that Blizzcon 2010 is scheduled for October. I'm thinking they don't want to release the Expansion immediately before they leave the offices for Blizzcon. The 'back half of 2010' is technically anytime from June to December. That makes me think Blizzard execs are targeting an August/September release. If that's right we should start hearing about Beta really soon.
But that is still over 6 months away. As we get closer to Cataclysm, demand for current end games items like Flasks, Gems, Enchants, Bullets/Arrows, and Leg Armors is going to go way down. At the beginning of Cataclysm new raw materials will be crazy expensive. Having a Miner, Skinner, and Herbalist would be a nice advantage. But going by my experience in Wrath I'll only have time to play my main early on. I'll need to watch Beta to see if there's another Overcharged Capacitor type of opportunity in the early zones.
So I'm trying to make a decision on if I should 'pull the trigger' and change up these guys professions, or wait it out.
19 comments:
- Tijeras said...
I have 5 lvl 80 toons. 4 Alliance 1 horde. The alliance alts are all there for my main. My paladin. I have a dk who is an herbalist/transmute specced alchemist, a warlock who is an enchanter/Elixir specced alchemist, and a warrior who is a miner/engineer. I make gold transmuting and selling the raw uncut gems. I get the blue quality gems and most of the eternals from the miner. I take a couple of hours a week and just mine for one then switch and herb for another.
My horde was my first paladin however when I decided to switch factions at the start of WoTLK, the only option was to re-roll. I would like to play her more but I don't really want to put in the effort to build up the same support structure that my alliance paladin has.
- February 18, 2010 at 8:16 AM
I would say to wait until the Cata beta hits, though pre-emtively switching to herbalism isn't a half bad idea. You really can't go wrong.
- February 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM
- Chris said...
I would farm heroics and wintergrasp for emblems and honor to buy gems. If you have an alchemist friend you can mine and transmute the gems you get.
I also make good money on titansteel, but you might need that.
- February 18, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Chris said...
O and I forgot. Inscription make good money at low levels. You could roll a DK.
- February 18, 2010 at 9:57 AM
As you well know I never have an issue making gold in wow and here is how I currently do it:
Pally is mining/bs I mine 2 to 3 hours every few days 1 day is doing outland for adamantite and fel iron as they sell for 90g a stack on my server, the rest of the time is mining saronite which i send to my warrior who is transmute spec and turn in to titanium bars which i sell for 300g per 20.
I also buy all the netherweave stack for 5g or less a stack and make bags (since I always have lol) and make a good profit.
And eng is a good way to up dps on any toon..the glove haste ench is worth it.
Good luck
- February 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Darraxus said...
Make your Druid Herbalism/Inscription.
You can make your own glyphs and shoulder enchants. You can sell glyphs and tomes. You will have herbs and frost lotus for flasks or you can sell the lotus on the AH. Either way, it is pretty good money.
You dont have to put up 1000 glyphs at a time to make money. I make around 1k gold a day and only repost once (or zero times) and put up the most profitable glyphs at that time.
Money problems are a thing of the past (250k on my Alliance server) and it is mostly thanks to Inscription.
- February 18, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Eric said...
I have found it difficult to make gold in WoW from professions without dedicating a lot of time and effort.
To me, perhaps the single easiest way to make gold is through alchemy transmutes. It is low risk and always high return. Spending 60-80 gold in AH materials will net you 185-200 gold in return. If you buy your materials wisely it gets better. If you have 30-40 minutes each week to farm Primal Fire, its even better. If your Icy Prism is nice to you, well, even better. I find Alchemy to be the best alt profession for this reason. Its 10 minutes of work each day for easy gold. The demand is always there.
If you have three alchemy mules, its easy to realize 300-400g a day profit. Better yet, Alchemy is dirt easy to level from scratch and easily the cheapest to power level.
The second best way I know to make money is re-listing items. Its a risky way to make money but also lucrative. The primary stumbling block for most people is they simply don't understand the market. Pick a couple items and learn the market and then jump into it. Pick say Scarlet Rubies. Watch them for a couple weeks and get a feel for the prices. Then, start buying low and re-listing high. Its easy, but you HAVE TO HAVE the knowledge of your servers market to make it work. Its high risk but high reward.
Other than that the best way to make gold in my opinion is to have a good dps alt that can kill level 80 mobs in 6 seconds or less. Warriors are great for this as Charge/Intercept really aid in reaching the next target. If you figure 15-20 silver a kill, 10 seconds per kill, your making 75g an hour w/o from just coin drop.
- February 18, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- SirFWALGMan said...
I know you can invest time in herbalism and makes some money.. but it seems to me (as someone who has tried it) a slow way to go.. Transmute is a nice money maker.. I was going to mine matts but eventually its easier to pay 50g for a cardinal ruby and eternal fire and turn it around for 200-250 (raw or sometimes more if my JC cuts it)...
Buying matts and reselling as JC/Alch/Ench/Glyph seems a better route. Keep a lot of synergy between things.. like Alch transmute Skyflare diamonds and give to JC to cut..
Just my 2 cents. I have just started dabbling in gold making and kinda suck but have collected 8k gold on my bank alt in like 2-3 weeks. Lame but I am learning.
- February 18, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Your idea to pick up alch with xmute spec is definately a good one. But might I suggest running it on honors rather than your hunter. You already have two toons with mining and I'm sure youare using mining for the stam bonus but te flask of stoneblood will have a greater affect if you are an alch as well as lasting twice as long. Thus your flask demand on your main raiding toon is cut in half and you get the bonus for all three specs.
It really depends on how much you are attached to the stam bonus from mining. From a min max bonus blacksmithing would probably be the way to go for the extra sockets and in cataclysm the reforging sounds like its going to be awesome. But that profession would probably only cost you money in the meantime.
- February 18, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Lonster said...
I understand that converting effort to gold is a part of the game, but I really have limited playing time as a husband and father.
I suppose I should work harder at the gold thing...but I'd rather be killing things. :-)
- February 18, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Orthien said...
I would personally wait on dropping any gathering profecions.
My Paladin is Mining JC and has been since TBC but I've always wanted him to take up Blacksmithing.
With Runeforging coming in Cataclysm I will have more reason than ever to do so.
However with the prices that Ore will be selling for at release I plan to spend the 1st month of the xpac selling my Ore and once the price drops saving it up so when its no longer extremly profitable to sell the ore I can do JC and BS to cap in one go. Lets face it you wont really need them up to max that before 85 bar the odd nice peice for leveling so you might as well make good profit while you can.
- February 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM
- Orthien said...
I will also add @ Eric
You never want to sell high when relisting on AH they just wont sell and you will be undercut, sure some will go eventually but that takes time and lots of relisting cost.
Idealy you want to buy low and sell average, that way all your stock sells and you make more profit over all.
To those that recomend hours of farming, you have to remember that those mats are not free they cost you time. If you have the gold to put near that amount of time into buying cheep mats on trade and AH, you will end up with more product to sell and your profits will soon grow far outside of what farming could ever get you.
- February 18, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Will said...
Alchemy Xmutes are a good consistent way to make gold, either through epic gems, or converting saronite bars to titanium bars, added benefit being cheaper titanium for your titansteel cooldowns. You are using each of your 3 titansteel cooldowns and selling them each day. Even if you are buying the mats out of the AH, thats still another 30-60g / cooldown each day.
I'm a big fan of inscription for making money. Although if you do level a herbalist, and your guild is willing to help you 1 time, clear everything to Frea in Uld 10, and clear the keepers, then you can go in, and farm 40-60 frost lotus in a hour, and just keep extending the raid lockout there. It will make your flasks a LOT cheaper, and you can sell them on most servers now days for 70g+ each, and thats a LOT of gold for 1 hours work.
Inscription is a bit more complicated though, and requires a good understanding of the market and how to make money with it. Its also fairly addon intensive. I'll do another comment with info on inscription.
- February 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Will said...
Inscription as a moneymaker.
When going full speed, you will most likely have 2-3 bank alts with full 32 slot inscription bags, completely filled with glyphs.
Buy herbs out of the AH for 10-15g / stack, and use a milling macro to convert them to pigments. Convert pigments to Ink of the Sea which can then be exchanged for any lower level ink from the ink vendor in dal. This gives you a good consistent price on inks, and a simple way to get them. Generally you will be milling a ton of Adder's Tongue, and Icethorn.
/cast Milling
/use Adder's Tongue
/use Icethorn
that macro when hit repeatedly while watching tv or something will mill a ton of herbs in a short time.
second you will need Altoholic, Skillet, KTQ (Kev Tool Queue), Lil Sparkey's workshop, Postal, and QA3 (Quick Auctions 3). KTQ will queue up in skillet x number of each glyph, so that you have in your possession between all your alts, that number of glyphs. ie, if you have 5 glyphs on your banker, and 3 in the AH, and your threshold is 10, it will queue up 2 of that glyph. You then take your scribe to the ink vendor and click buy mats, and it will exchange ink of the sea for the inks you need, then go to the paper vendor and buy those mats, then start crafting.
Send the glyphs to your bankers, and from there you go to the AH and sell.
QuickAuctions3 will allow you to set an amount to undercut by, a minimum amount to sell glyphs for, and a fallback price if none are in the AH, and a quantity of glyphs to post. You then click post and it will scan the AH as it goes, undercutting your competition, and posting your desired quantity of glyphs. Generally it takes me about 20 min a day to cancel / repost glyphs, and I post 3 of every glyph available, organized by class across 2 bank toons. Then it takes me 1-3 hours of mostly afk / tv time on the weekend to rebuild my glyph stock. I generally make about 1k / day with basically minimal effort.
- February 18, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Jon said...
Engineering on a hunter is a DPS increase - best cloak enchant - +1 extra Agi over standard enchant in addition to the nifty parachute ;)
Glove enchant (rocket launcher) are also a slight DPS increase over +20 Agi (haste enchant is a minor DPS loss last time I checked).
Rocket boots are also a solid alternative to any of the other boot enchants that include a speed increase - and being blown into the air is always worth a giggle as long as it doesn't happen kiting Anub with 50 attempts left ;)
Having said although the DPS increases alone aren't a good enough reason to re-roll from another profession - then again I'm an engineer IRL and have been in game since level 10 - I held off re-rolling profs when engineering became meh and now reaping the benefits.
When I joined my raiding guild I was the only engineer at least 5 of our regular raiders have now re-rolled to it so it can't all be bad .
Sythe - 80 Hunter - Anachronos EU
- February 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM
- Wrathy said...
I have to agree with one of the anonymous comments up there. Not to throw a wrench in your plans, but dropping mining on your main to pick up alchemy is also an alternative. I'm JC/Alch and i LOVE IT. I xmute my own gems, and have yet to buy one with all my gear sets you know i have.
Also, Mixology makes up for anything short of Blacksmithing sockets and you only have to use half the flasks and elixirs. My Flask gives me almost 2k health and lasts for two hours. It's a Win/Win and it is the easiest non gathering profession to level. I would level herb on one of your alts, saving absolutely everything, then make pots for a few hours and you will be 450 on Honors.
- February 19, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Jacko said...
My advice might be more pointed at saving money spent than making money. I am a terrible altoholic so I know what you mean about it getting expensive when the upgrades start flowing. A huge money saver for me is to make sure each toon gets into Wintergrasp and does all of the quests each week. It takes about 30 minutes and will net you about 18k honor, if we win. Also, you will get 40-50 stone keeper shards which can be traded in for more honor (30 shards for 2k honor).
With the honor, I go to the JC vendor in the PVP hut in Orgrimmar and trade it for gems (10k honor per gem). I have never had to pay for an epic gem by doing this.
Plus you get to stick it to a few alliance which is always fun.
- February 22, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Gravity said...
Remarkable how many people are willing to help you out on decisions like this. I think they've got it covered.
The decision around Cataclysm changes is very hard, and I don't pretend to know how to make them. It will change many things.
- February 23, 2010 at 3:11 AM
- TKC said...
Chris says, "You could roll a DK."
Winner!!! I have DK on both sides and they are pretty much relegated to farming. The horde one is a miner/skinner. The alliance one is miner/engineer.
My horde DK rakes in the gold.
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- Neurological status [ Time Frame: 5 years ]Neurological status (assessment of the maintenance of the improvement after surgery throughout the study duration)
- Walking distance test [ Time Frame: 5 years ]Walking distance test on a treadmill (assessment of improvement in walking distance)
- Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 5 years ]Documentation of Adverse Events (S)AEs and implant related complications (e.g. breaking of implants)
- Re-operations, revisions, removals, supplemental fixation [ Time Frame: 5 years ]Assessment of reoperations, revisions, removals, or supplemental fixation associated with either coflex or control group
- Zurich Claudication Questionnaire (ZCQ) [ Time Frame: 5 years ]The ZCQ is a scale that measures physical function, symptom severity, and patient satisfaction for patients with spinal stenosis.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
Radiographic confirmation of clinical symptoms of at least moderate degenerative spinal stenosis, with constriction of the central spinal canal of one or two adjacent segments in the region L3 to L5 with the need for decompression.
If necessary additional decompression in the adjacent segment(s) may be performed avoiding any instability in the affected segment.
In addition the following may exist (but is not obligatory):
- hypertrophy of the facet joints and subarticular recessus stenosis in the relevant segment or
- stenosis of the foramen in the relevant segment
- and/or stable retrolisthesis up to grade I verified by flexion-/extension X-ray films.
- Radiographic confirmation of no translatory instability in the main segment as well as in adjacent segments (dynamic translatory instability ≤ 3 mm).
- VAS back pain score of at least 50 mm on a 100 mm scale (for acute back pain or a period of at least 3 month of back pain before the onset of leg pain).
- Minimum of 3 months conservative therapy without improvement of symptoms.
- Age >40 years.
- Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire score of at least 18/45 (40%) for German sites or 20/50 (40%) for the US sites (The question about sexual life will be excluded).
- Suitability of the patient for a posterior surgery procedure.
- Mental and physical ability of patient to follow the protocol according to compliance to time schedule, treatment plan, fill in of CRF pages and further study procedures.
- Personally signed informed consent form before the start of any study related procedures.
Exclusion Criteria
Any of the following will exclude a subject from the study:
- Preceding fusion or decompression surgery of the lumbar spine or preceding nucleotomy of the segments of concern (also if nucleotomy becomes necessary during surgery).
- Radiographically confirmed damage of the vertebral body in the segment of concern in the lumbar spine (e.g. osteoporotic compression fracture or because of tumors)
- Isthmic and degenerative spondylolisthesis (anterolisthesis; retrolisthesis > grade I) or spondylolysis (Pars fracture).
- Degenerative lumbar scoliosis (> 25°).
- Adipositas (obesity). Defined as a body mass index >40.
- Pregnancy, or wish to get pregnant during the course of the study.
- Known allergy for titanium and titanium alloys.
- Fluoride infections - both systemic and local.
- History of severe peripheral neuropathy.
- Significant peripheral vascular disease (claudication intermittens ≥ stage 2b).
- M. Paget or osteomalacia or other metabolic bone disorders.
- Cauda equina syndrome.
- Communicating diseases, including HIV, active hepatitis
- Patients who are lawfully kept in an institution.
- Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, will be inappropriate for inclusion into this clinical trial or will not comply with requirements of the study.
- Subjects who participated in a clinical observation or therapy with X-ray during the last 10 years.
- Subjects who participate(d) in another clinical trial (within the last 4 weeks) that might influence the safety and effectiveness assessment of this trial.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01316211
|Oberlinklinik Potsdam Orthopädische Fachklinik
|Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, 14482
|Orthopädische Universitätsklinik Frankfurt a.M.
|Frankfurt a.M., Hesse, Germany, 60528
|Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Rostock Neurochirurgie
|Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, 18057
|Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Klinik für Orthopädie
|Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, 39120
|Ostseeklinik Damp Neurochirurgie
|Damp, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 24351
|Klinik für Neurochirurgie Lübeck
|Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 23730
|Klinik für Wirbelsäulenchirurgie mit Skoliosezentrum Klinikum Neustadt
|Neustadt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 23730
|Klinikum Ingolstadt Neurochirurgie
|Ingolstadt, Germany, 85049
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Paradigm Spine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01316211 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 16, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 6, 2017
|Last Verified:
|February 2017
Keywords provided by Paradigm Spine:
Back Pains
Pain, Back
Pains, Back
Back Ache
Ache, Back
Aches, Back
Back Aches
Back Pain without Radiation
Vertebrogenic Pain Syndrome
Pain Syndrome, Vertebrogenic
Pain Syndromes, Vertebrogenic
Syndrome, Vertebrogenic Pain
Syndromes, Vertebrogenic Pain
Vertebrogenic Pain Syndromes
Back Pain with Radiation
Stenosis, spinal
Caudal stenosis
Low back pain
Lower back pain
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Constriction, Pathologic
Spinal Stenosis
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Spinal Diseases
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases


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Led by brothers Joseph & David Dunwell, the British folk rockers, The Dunwells, released their first album this year, called Blind Sighted Faith. they are touring the states and stop in Philly for an XPN Free At Noon concert on November 16!Formed in 2009, the Dunwells can be best classified as an English folk-rock band that has recently been making waves in the American music scene. Based in Leeds, England, the band released its highly acclaimed debut album Blind Sighted Faith (Concord/Playing In Traffic) in February 2012. The band has been named HMV's Next Big Thing of 2012 and has opened for artists like Mumford & Sons. Recently, peaking at #19 in the Triple A radio music chart, the British band continues to flourish in the music scene.
The band consists of five members, all of whom were independently successful in the Leeds music scene before the band's formation. Brothers Joseph Dunwell (vocals, guitar) and David Dunwell (guitar, piano, banjo), cousins Jonny Lamb (vocals, drums) and Rob Clayton (bass), and finally Dave Hanson (guitar, pedal steel) form The Dunwells. Capturing the attention of Tony Moore during a performance at The Bedford in London, the band was invited to perform at the 2011 International Folk Alliance Conference, resulting in the immediate signing to the Austin based label Playing In Traffic. Working with the legendary music producer John Porter, the band re-released Blind Sighted Faith in August and relaunched their highly successful and catchy single "I Could Be King."
To promote the re-release of Blind Sighted Faith , the Dunwells toured across the United States playing at major music venues like Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza. In addition, the band was able to perform "Follow The Road" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Essentially, The Dunwells have us convinced that they are a band to keep in your music playlist. Come enjoy a Free At Noon performance of the band on November 16, 2012 at World Cafe Live!
In addition to the XPN Free At Noon, The Dunwells play Rams Head Live in Baltimore on November 14!
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Website: thedunwells.com/
Recent Release: Blind Sighted Faith
Release Date: August28, 2012
Label: Concord Records
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This Flash-based interactive provides access to illustrations, visualizations, videos, and near-real time images of the Sun from a variety of NASA satellites. Learners can access this information to supplement other materials related to the Sun and... (View More) heliophysics. A scale tool with the size of the Earth is also presented with the solar images. (View Less)
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Emphasizing the synergies between science and engineering, these video clips highlight the research of professional ocean scientists and engineers in various disciplines. The clips are accompanied by additional relevant content including images,... (View More) data visualizations, graphs, animations, and other information. Content has been organized into more than a dozen thematic areas such as Solving Old Problems with New Technology and Small Scale Observations and Large Scale Ideas. All content has been aligned with science and engineering practices from the Next Generation Science Standards, including "asking questions and solving problems" and "planning and carrying out investigations," providing applicable resources for teachers who want to provide role models of effective practice for their students. (View Less)
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This set of three videos illustrates how math is used in satellite data analysis. NASA climate scientist Claire Parkinson explains how the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice covers are measured from satellite data and how math is used to determine trends... (View More) in the data. In the first video, she leads viewers from satellite data collection through obtaining a time series of monthly Arctic and Antarctic average sea ice extents for November 1978-December 2016. In the second video, she begins with the time series from the first video, removes the seasonal cycle by calculating yearly averages, and proceeds to calculate the slopes of the lines to get trends in the data, revealing decreasing sea ice coverage in the Arctic and increasing sea ice coverage in the Antarctic. In the third video, she uses a more advanced technique to remove the seasonal cycle and shows that the trends are close to the same, whichever method is used. She emphasizes the power of math and that the techniques shown for satellite sea ice data can also be applied to a wide range of data sets. Note: See Related & Supplemental Resources for the maps and data files (1978-2016) that will allow you to do the calculations shown in the video. These also include data for different regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, enabling learners to do additional calculations beyond those shown in the videos. (View Less)
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This short video (~2 minutes) explains how a raindrop falls through the atmosphere and why a more accurate look at raindrops can improve estimates of global precipitation. This information is important to scientists working on the Global... (View More) Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission - understanding the micro world of raindrops provides insight to scientists about the macro world of storms. (View Less)
This is the second in a series of three professional development videos that correspond to lessons taught by Andrew Cloud, an Earth and planetary sciences teacher, with a class of 9th and 10th grade students. In this lesson, Andrew asks students to... (View More) participate in an activity that illustrates the phases of the Moon. He asks one student to represent the Earth and another student, the Moon. The student representing the Moon makes one complete rotation or one full spin on their axis while standing in one spot. Andrew guides students to see that the Moon makes a full rotation in the same amount of time it takes to revolve around the Earth one time. The demonstration is followed up by a hands-on lab where students draw the placement of the moon in revolution and rotation. Includes teaching tips and discussion questions. (View Less)
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This is the first in a series of three professional development videos that correspond to lessons taught by Andrew Cloud, an Earth and planetary sciences teacher, with a class of 9th and 10th grade students. In this lesson, he uses a NASA video to... (View More) introduce the origins of the Moon. He then brings the Common Core State Standards into his science classroom by asking students to read an informational text about the origin of the moon and to write down the main idea of each paragraph. Includes teaching tips and discussion questions. (View Less)
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Google Placates the Public with Their Own Luxury Buses
Google's glistening fleet of employee coaches will soon be tainted by the presence of Everyman. In an effort to get ahead of concerns that the search giant is growing too quickly for Mountain View, Google is funding a free shuttle network to appease their detractors.
The network, which will operate around Mountain View and be available for anyone to use, aims to assuage fears that Google's corporate expansions will create traffic gridlock. According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the program hopes to reduce the number of crosstown trips residents make in private vehicles.
The shuttle program is tentatively slated to kick off this fall with four 16-seat electric shuttles to run at 30-minute intervals from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mountain View was home to 77,846 people as of 2013. Mayor Chris Clark said that the program is not designed to be a public commuter system for all workers.
"This service isn't intended for commuting to work or school," Clark said in a city statement. "It's intended to make the things we love about Mountain View more accessible to the people who live and work here without putting more cars on the road to do it."
Mountain View is already part of a public busing network—the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. But Google felt their system would be better, expressing the need to create what the paper called "their own shuttle system outside of the region's notoriously slow and geographically limited public transit."
Other cities won't be so lucky. San Francisco, the epicenter of The Great Google Bus Revolt, will still be saddled with lumbering old Muni, all while Google forks over $3.55 to use its bus stops.
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For the second year in a row, skilled trade workers are the most in demand, a new study finds.
Research from recruitment firm ManpowerGroup revealed that employers are having the hardest time filling skilled trade positions. This is the fifth time in the last six years that skilled trade positions have topped the list; the lone exception was in 2011, when it ranked third.
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Here are the nine other hardest jobs to fill in the United States, according to the study:
- Sales representatives
- Drivers
- IT staff
- Accounting and finance staff
- Engineers
- Technicians
- Management/executives
- Mechanics
- Teachers
"Year after year, we see little difference in the roles employers have trouble filling," said Jonas Prising, president of ManpowerGroup. "As talent shortages in key areas persist, we need to focus on training programs that create opportunity for employers to fill their talent gaps, and for job seekers to obtain an in-demand skill and achieve employment security."
The study found that among the employers having trouble filling open positions, nearly half attribute it to candidates lacking technical competencies and hard skills. Other factors include candidates not having the necessary workplace competencies and soft skills and there just being on overall lack of available qualified applicants.
Despite the difficulty employers have had in filling these positions, it's getting easier for them to find qualified employees. Overall, 39 percent of U.S. employers report having difficulty finding staff with the right skills, down from 49 percent in 2012.
Expanding training and development for existing staff, doing more recruiting from untapped talent pools and appointing people who lack the skills today but have the potential to learn and grow into a job are among the most popular strategies employers are using to try and improve their chances of finding the right employee.
"The improvement in the U.S. talent shortage is encouraging because it tells us companies will not allow talent mismatches to hamper business growth," said Prising. "Rather, employers are becoming more willing to invest in existing talent to help them advance, and also broadening their approach to sourcing new talent, both of which are starting to ease the strain of the talent shortage."
The study was based on surveys of more than 1,000 U.S. employees.
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This rating applies to vehicles other than the specific model and body style tested.
The Lincoln Town Car, Ford Crown Victoria, and Mercury Grand Marquis were re-engineered for the 2003 model year. Beginning with 2008 models, the Ford Crown Victoria was sold when new only to fleets. The Mercury Grand Marquis was discontinued after the 2010 model year.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has evaluated the crashworthiness of a 2003 Town Car in two 40 mph frontal offset crash tests into deformable barriers. In the first test, a high acceleration occurred when the dummy's head rebounded against the B-pillar, indicating a possibility of head injury. This led Lincoln to modify the frontal airbag deployment characteristics on models produced after May 2003 (note: information about when a specific vehicle was manufactured is on the certification label typically affixed to the car on or near the driver door).
The Institute tested a second Town Car with the modified airbags, and all head injury measures were low. Ratings of the Town Car listed here are from the second test.
In the second test, measures taken from the head, neck, and chest indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity. Forces on the left femur, knee, and tibia indicate that injuries to the leg and knee would be possible. Head acceleration from the roof rail/window frame hit was low.
Dummy movement was reasonably well controlled in the second test. During rebound, the top of the head hit the roof rail and adjacent window frame between the A- and B-pillars. As in the first test, the driver's seat tipped toward the door.
How this test is conducted
The Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis were re-engineered for the 2003 model year. Beginning with 2007 models built after July 2006, design changes were made to the optional side airbags and door trim to improve occupant protection in side impact crashes (note: information about when a specific vehicle was manufactured is on the certification label typically affixed to the car on or near the driver door). Beginning with 2008 models, the Ford Crown Victoria was sold when new only to fleets. Beginning with 2009 models of the Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis, side airbags were made standard. The Grand Marquis was discontinued after the 2010 model year.
Two tests of the Crown Victoria were conducted, one a 2007 model with the design changes and equipped with optional side airbags, and the other a 2006 model without side airbags. These vehicles are rated separately, except that the structural ratings and rear passenger injury and head protection ratings for both vehicles are based on both tests.
Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate that a fracture of the pelvis would be likely in a crash of this severity. Rib fractures and/or internal organ injuries would also be possible.
Passenger — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Driver — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side airbag that deployed from the seat.
Passenger — The dummy's head was hit by the pillar behind the rear passenger door. This pillar is required by federal standard to provide some protection for occupants' heads.
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Tom Kyte recently blogged about the senseless and yet strangely common practice of coding something like this:
WHEN OTHERS THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20001,'Following Error Occured:' || SQLERRM);
which fairly obviously achieves nothing except take a standard message like this:
ORA-06501: PL/SQL: program error ORA-06512: at line 6
and pointlessly scramble it into this:
ORA-20001: Following Error Occured:ORA-06501: PL/SQL: program error ORA-06512: at line 11
which adds some meaningless text, hides the original line number, and miss-spells "occurred". Not bad for a day's work.
It turned out that some people had been doing this for years because they were simply too stupid to realise that they didn't have to.
Anyway you know all this because you read Tom Kyte's blog. But have a look at this helpful page of advice from Tech On The Net, under "Oracle/PLSQL: SQLERRM Function"
You could use the SQLERRM function to raise an error as follows:EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN raise_application_error (-20001,'An error was encountered - '||SQLCODE||' -ERROR- '||SQLERRM); END;
Or you could log the error to a table as follows:EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN err_code := SQLCODE; err_msg := substr(SQLERRM, 1, 200); INSERT INTO audit_table (error_number, error_message) VALUES (err_code, err_msg); END;
Now that is even better. The first example adds some meaningless text, hides the original line number, and duplicates the error code (unless it's a NO_DATA_FOUND exception, but let's not go there), to produce something like this:
ORA-20001: An error was encountered - -6501 -ERROR- ORA-06501: PL/SQL: program error
ORA-06512: at line 11
The error logging example pointlessly captures SQLCODE (nobody will ever use it), throws away all but the first 200 characters of the error stack, logs nothing about what happened, and fails to re-raise the exception so if you don't check the log you won't know anything went wrong until your customers start asking where their stuff is.
Wouldn't it be great if there were, say, a Boolean third parameter to RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR that would make it retain the existing error stack, freeing up the message line for you to put something intelligent and helpful, like, I don't know,
BEGIN RAISE program_error; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR ( -20001 , 'Biscuits cannot be ordered on a ' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'fmDay') || ' without a hot beverage' , TRUE); END;
to produce something like this:
ORA-20001: Biscuits cannot be ordered on a Sunday without a hot beverage ORA-06512: at line 5 ORA-06501: PL/SQL: program error
We can but dream.


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Alfresco Launches Cloud Content Application Developer Program
Provides Developer Kit Including Alfresco on Amazon EC2-Ready Application Stacks
London, UK – September 17, 2009 – Alfresco Software Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), today launched its Cloud Content Application Developer Program. Alfresco will provide an open source Amazon EC2-ready stack and developer kit for customers and partners to develop, deploy and monetize cloud service architecture (CSA) content applications on the EC2 platform.
Managing content effectively at a low cost while adhering to regulatory controls has become an indispensible part of running an efficient business. According to the study "Above the Clouds: a Berkley View of Cloud Computing," the cost is one-fifth to one-seventh of that offered to a medium sized data center. Alfresco is designed to take full advantage of a cloud service architecture and deliver cost-effective high availability and scalability. Alfresco is portable across internal and external clouds through the use of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. Those organizations wishing to use secure, but shared data models also have the option of deploying multi-tenant solutions, offering compliant access between multiple legal entities.
"Content growth requires a sophisticated ECM solution that can scale users and content volumes simply and at low cost without massive up-front capital expenditure. Alfresco today has customers in the cloud with millions of users, terabytes of data and hundreds of millions of documents," commented John Powell, CEO, Alfresco Software. "Legacy applications may run in the cloud, but modern content service approaches consuming services resident in the same cloud are required to inherit the full benefits of a cloud service architecture. Only then can enterprises and governments achieve the cost efficiencies of on-demand scalability, fault tolerance and cloud-wide network security for documents, records and collaboration."
The Alfresco Cloud Developer Program offers partners "early adopter" advantages to deliver cloud-ready content applications for collaboration, document and records management. Alfresco will also offer a subscription for those requiring expert Enterprise 24/7 support.
For further information regarding Alfresco's Cloud Content Application Developer Program, visit http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/EC2.


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The North Dakota Wheat Commission has asked the U.S. Special Trade Representative to begin an investigation into what the commission says are "unreasonable and unjustifiable" discriminatory pricing activities by the Canadian Wheat Board.
Such charges are nothing new for the CWB, the organization that markets Canadian wheat internationally. The National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates, the marketing arm of the U.S. wheat industry, have said for years that the CWB engages in unfair trading practices.
This time, however, the U.S. organizations may be able to use the request, actually a filing of a Section 301 petition under the Trade Act of 1974, to force Canada to end the government-supported monopoly of the CWB through the ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations.
Under the Section 301 petition, the U.S. Trade Representative has 45 days to decide whether to conduct a full and formal investigation into the North Dakota Wheat Commission complaint. If the USTR says the complaint has merit, the president will be asked to take action to offset the discriminatory pricing by Canada in third country export markets.
The North Dakota Wheat Commission is also seeking immediate relief for U.S. growers through import restrictions on Canadian spring and durum wheat shipments into the United States through quotas or voluntary restraints.
While Canadian wheat does not compete directly with the soft red winter wheat grown in the southern United States, reduced sales of U.S. wheat that does can have an adverse impact on U.S. wheat prices overall.
U.S. Wheat Associates said it first began noticing declines in U.S. shipments of hard red winter wheat to South America earlier this summer.
"Crop quality was good, prices were right. So, we asked our South American customers what was going on," said a Wheat Associates spokesman. "The answer came back that the Canadians are back in South America, undercutting prices set by a free and open market and giving protein away."
The spokesman acknowledged that the Canadian Wheat Board has long maintained that the CWB does not undercut prices. But, the U.S. Wheat Associates knows those claims are "hogwash," he noted.
"Even though they sell spring wheat at a higher guaranteed protein, which is often higher when delivered, cleaned at no charge, shipped farther, for less than U.S. offers for hard red winter wheat, that's not undercutting," she said. "Canadian university economics classes must use their own specialized definitions these days."
In a news release, the Canadian Wheat Board said that eight U.S. investigations in the past decade have found that all CWB trade activities meet North American Free Trade Agreement and international standards.
"What Canadian Wheat Board officials don't say is that U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) studies and other trade reviews have hardly exonerated it," said Neal Fisher, administrator of the North Dakota Wheat Commission. "Just because the CWB hasn't always been found guilty does not make it innocent."
In the most recent case, a 1998 GAO study could not determine whether the Canadian Wheat Board was complying with existing trade laws because of the lack of information that the CWB provides on its sales contracts.
"U.S. Wheat Associates experts, who are developing wheat markets around the world, are in constant contact with the world's wheat buyers," said Bruce Hamnes, the USWA chairman. "They know what is going on in the marketplace, and while it is often difficult to document, they know that Canadian sales personnel regularly offer wheat at well-below cost for U.S. wheat that meets the same specifications."
He said the information gathered by his organization shows a clear pattern of unjustifiable and systemic anti-competitive activities. "However, the wheat industry is not Interpol. The next level of investigation must come from the U.S. government."
The North Dakota Wheat Commission's Fisher said the petition is not aimed at Canadian farmers.
Studies have shown that Canadian wheat farmers receive 50 to 75 cents per bushel less than U.S. farmers, primarily because of Canada's higher-cost grain-handling system and other hidden costs.
"Our concerns are with the Canadian Wheat Board," said Fisher, "including its federally mandated monopoly, government-guaranteed initial payments, price-pooling system and lack of transparency that makes its price-discounting practices possible.
"The ability of Canadian farmers to endure this stifling situation is none of our business," he said. "But CWB discriminatory practices are robbing U.S. farmers of marketshare and depressing our spring wheat and durum prices. That is our business."


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The cast of Silent Hill: Revelation 3D took the stage at New York Comic-Con with actors Kit Harington (aka Jon Snow) and Adelaide Clemens along with their director Michael J. Bassett.
After much banter about how the third Silent Hill game was by far the best, and promises of 3D hair whipping form Kit, we got to see some new footage. And that footage is online now! It showcases a whole collection of new and returning monsters, but we're most excited for the returning cast members (which include Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, and Deborah Kara Unger.) Take a look now.
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Renewable Energy Group, the largest U.S. biodiesel maker, has bought synthetic biodiesel maker Syntroleum Corp., whose key asset is a joint venture with Tyson Foods to develop renewable diesel from chicken fat and other waste products.
The deal was valued at $40 million, and both Renewable Energy /quotes/zigman/8136142/delayed /quotes/nls/regi REGI and Syntroleum /quotes/zigman/15132149/delayed /quotes/nls/synm SYNM shares soared on Wednesday. The 50-50 joint venture has one commercial-scale plant producing renewable diesel from poultry waste.
Analysts at Cannacord Genuity called the deal "positive, but risky."
The all-stock deal would diversify Renewable Energy into the "next generation" of renewable diesel. Production at Dynamic Fuels, the joint venture with Tyson, has been hampered by feedstock, catalyst, and equipment failures, the analysts said.
How the venture makes its biofuel is a bit of a chemistry lesson, but, in very broad strokes, it uses hydrogen (with the help of a catalyst) to break down fats. Animal fat, used cooking oil, and other grease and inedible bits can be used. The byproduct is a small amount of water, Dynamic Fuels said in its website.
The deal is a rare instance of corporate M&A in the U.S. biofuel industry, analysts at Raymond James said in a note Wednesday. Buying individual plants and strategic partnerships have been far more common.
Cannacord has a price target of $14 on Renewable Energy (the folks at Raymond James do not cover the stock). Renewable Energy stock has gained 87% so far this year, but recent months have been rougher: shares have lost 29% in the last 90 days.
Syntroleum shares have lost 16% so far this year, and 31% in the past three months.
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Ashley Samelson McGuire of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty noted the use of the term "Freedom of Worship" rather than the usual "Freedom of Religion" by Obama back in 2010 in several speeches:
Freedom of worship" first appeared in a high profile speech in Obama's remarks at the memorial for the victims of the Fort Hood shooting last November, a few months after his Cairo speech. Speaking to the crowd gathered to commemorate the victims, President Obama said, "We're a nation that guarantees the freedom to worship as one chooses." Given the religious tension that marked the tragic incident, it was not an insignificant event at which to unveil a new way of referring to our First Freedom.
Shortly after his remarks at Ft. Hood, President Obama left for his trip to Asia, where he repeatedly referred to "freedom of worship," and not once to "freedom of religion."
Not long after his return, "freedom of worship" appeared in two prominent speeches delivered by Secretary Clinton. In her address to Georgetown University outlining the Obama Administration's human rights agenda she used "freedom of worship" three times, "freedom of religion," not once. About a month later, in an address to Senators on internet freedom at the Newseum, the phrase popped up in her lingo once again.
To anyone who closely follows prominent discussion of religious freedom in the diplomatic and political arena, this linguistic shift is troubling.
The reason is simple. Any person of faith knows that religious exercise is about a lot more than freedom of worship. It's about the right to dress according to one's religious dictates, to preach openly, to evangelize, to engage in the public square. Everyone knows that religious Jews keep kosher, religious Quakers don't go to war, and religious Muslim women wear headscarves—yet "freedom of worship" would protect none of these acts of faith.
Those who would limit religious practice to the cathedral and the home are the very same people who would strip the public square of any religious presence. They are working to tear down roadside memorial crosses built to commemorate fallen state troopers in Utah, to strip "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and they recently stopped a protester from entering an art gallery because she wore a pro-life pin.
The effort to squash religion into the private sphere is on the rise around the world. And it's not just confined to totalitarian regimes like Saudi Arabia. In France, students at public schools cannot wear headscarves, yarmulkes, or large crucifixes. The European Court of Human Rights has banned crucifixes from the walls of Italian schools. In Indonesia, the Constitutional Court is reviewing a law that criminalizes speech considered "blasphemous" to other faiths. Efforts to trim religion into something that fits neatly in one's pocket is the work of dictators, not democratic leaders. So why then have our leaders taken a rhetorical scalpel to the concept of religious freedom?
Go here to read her article in First Things. With the HHS mandate the strategy of the Obama administration should be crystal clear. Catholics and other Christians can bitterly cling to their religion every Sunday, but the State will tell them what to do the other six days, and they can expect to have zero impact on public policy. This was the type of "Freedom of Worship" accorded to believers post Stalin in the old Soviet Union. It has little to do with the traditional American understanding of freedom of religion, but, then again, all sorts of traditional American understandings of freedom seem to be completely foreign concepts to the Obama administration.


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I'm not a big super hero movie person, but I actually liked this one. Interesting new characters. I liked it way more than Thor.
68 percent like it enough said
amazing movie! not sure what the critics watched, but this movie was fantastic!
I saw the movie 5 times and AWESOME
The abbreviation DC stands for Da Capo. That's Italian meaning go back to the drawing board and try this again. Drop mic.
Flash, and your money is gone. Maybe if they cast Momoa as Aqua Velvet man instead? I don't quite know how to tell you this movie is bad than to tell you to go to the other movie review sites and verify my claim. it's bad.Really bad. Really, really bad, and to top it off, even the popcorn tasted crappy.
Should of just made a Wonder woman sequel and CGI the rest. Quite possibly the worst comic book adaptation since Richie Rich. I wish I could find something redeeming cause I grew up reading the books, but there's nothing. So my advice, is under no circumstances go see this movie. It costs a lot of money for this time of year, and you won't walk out feeling like you got you money's worth.
If you're a fan of superhero movies you'll be disappointed. If your kids are driving you crazy and you've been locked in a house for six months, and you're only allowed to read cereal boxes in between your chores, and you've recently been diagnosed with dementia, well then, you'll have a great time.
No, you won't feel better, or feel like it was time not wasted, or even getting decent entertainment for your dollar. You will feel poorer, wasted your time, and abused as consumer. Bad script, directing, and casting. Aside from Wonder Woman, these characters will never b seen in the role in another DC movie. There are spam bots that patrol these boards ad nauseum, so i recommend viewing other sites as well to get a feel for the movie. The ratings from critics everywhere is from fair to horrific. The fair ratings are the usual shill and the horrific is the other 90%. A 300 million dollar production where you only see a quarter of the money on the screen. There will not be a sequel until they recast, rewrite, and get an entire new production staff and allow some time for people to forget this abomination.
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ALDDLSS needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 49 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
I'm Florent, a french consultant. During my own time, I like to write articles and books. My first book was a business novel on the Lean Six Sigma. For this first book, I did all the job, from the writting to the distribution, it's include the design of the cover... Today, I would like to give this kind of job to professionnal people. So many thanks in advance to participate to my contest ! ;-)
1 - Pitch of the book :
The idea is to take 10 principles of the financial control and to explain why they are dysfonctionnal.
To demonstrate problems of the traditionnal financial control, I used the systemic approach.
At the end of each chapter, I suggest a new commandment to use at the place of the old one.
Ssome examples of commandments :
commandment 1 : "On results of you KPI, you have to focus !" Becomes at the end "Before designing your scorcard, the understanding of the operating mechanism of the indicator, You'll make sure!"
commandment 2 : "In the forecast, you'll be a master !" Becomes at the end "Between the present and the futur, a bridge you'll have to built !
commandment 3 : "Based on the cost of products, all choice, you'll have to do !" Becomes at the end "To optimize the throughput, your choices will contribute !"
Some Tools explained :
Pareto, Theory of contraint, Throughput accounting, Benford Law, KPI, systemic approach, data management, dashboards, the black swan.
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Between 25 years old up to 50.
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1800 px X 2700 px
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PSD files for both covers (front and back side) with all layers availables for modifications (no layers merged).
3 - Information on the front cover :
The name of the author : Florent FOUQUE
The Title of the book : L'antibible du contrôle de gestion
The subtitle : Pour la rénovation des 10 commandements du contrôleur de gestion
Information that a USB CARD is included with audio version and bonus : Inclus : Une carte USB avec la version audio et des bonus
If the designer decide to show The USB card on the cover (ex:card_usb_Flash_Disk.jpg), this one should be customized with the same picture of the cover book. If the usb card isn't on the cover, a version with the usb card closed the book will be asked for the promotion of the book.
4 - Information on the back cover :
For the back side of the cover, a psd file will be given with the ean13 barre code and the font file. (Back_Cover_Antibible_CG.psd - font : ean13)
A .doc file will be available with the text to include (txt_for_the_back_side.doc)
A historical reference could be used to illustrate the ten commandments, but it's not an obligation. (10-commandments.jpg)
If the designer do the choice of the reference, an emply tablet with the font should be deliver with the cover in order to illustrate the beginning of each chapter inside the book.
Last information on the contest : It's not me who will chose the best cover, I'll propose the most beautiful for my readers and I'll let them to chose the best one ! So GOOD LUCK ! ;-)
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Georgy Gounev – Published first by American Thinker July 29 2012
The most important international factor that influences the Syrian crisis is the politics of the United States and Russia. In the eyes of the majority of the American observers, the primary factor for the continuing bloodshed in Syria is the diplomatic and military support rendered to Assad's regime by Russia. Read the rest of this entry »