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StrengthsFinder 2.0 has become a popular tool for conducting team building at corporations and non-profit organizations around the globe. The #1 Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestseller, the StrengthsFinder training seminar helps individuals and teams understand, apply, and integrate their strengths into their respective roles. StrengthsFinder 2.0 helps individuals and teams discover their unique talents for greater team engagement, performance, and improved business outcomes. More than 12 million people have taken StrengthsFinder around the world.
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- Increase employee engagement and business productivity
- Gain techniques to address team challenges
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- Use strengths to improve results and reach goals
- Experience an energizing and fun session
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This interactive StrengthsFinder workshop is an excellent supplemental professional development program for your organization, work-team, staff retreat or corporate team-building event. The StrengthsFinder 2.0 training seminar can be presented in a 2 hour, half-day (3-4 hour) or full-day (7-8 hour) block of time and can be conducted at your organization, a San Bernardino area hotel, or offsite.
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A full-day (7-8 hour) training experience is offered for managers and supervisors. Your managers will first discover and unlock the potential of their own talents and strengths and then learn how to use their strengths to manage, develop, coach and motivate strengths-based teams. Managers and supervisors learn The 4 Keys of Great Managers and 8 Secrets to Building Strong Teams. This workshop equips supervisors, managers and directors to maximize the potential of each employee under their leadership and supervision in order to deepen employee engagement, increase team productivity and drive business results across their department.
StrengthsFinder Facilitator, Gallup-Certified Coach, San Bernardino, CA Corporate Trainer
Dr. Christopher Meade is a Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder coach, trainer and facilitator. He specializes in building strong leaders and developing healthy teams. He has coached over 1,000+ people through their StrengthsFinder results and facilitated trainings for a 100+ teams/organizations. Some of his recent clients include: Nike, Microsoft, Salesforce, Walmart eCommerce, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, and Lewis-Clark State College. Chris' expertise is in front of the room leading team trainings, workshops, keynotes and retreats with corporate and government clients across all industries. Chris is also an author, entrepreneur, MBA professor, corporate trainer, and a motivational keynote speaker. He speaks regularly at conferences, conventions, staff retreats, and team-building training events in the San Bernardino, CA area and throughout the United States and China.
Knowledge, insights, advice, and leadership
"Thank you for sharing your StrengthsFinder knowledge, insights, advice, and leadership with our 62 managers, supervisors, directors and VPs of our Progressive team. Several participates have expressed their appreciation for what was taught. In fact, there are a few executives that are considering hosting a similar training for their teams too. We will certainly keep you in mind for our other professional development modules in the future. Some of our executives may be requesting your services again! Director and VP of Executive Team, Progressive Leasing
Our teams are excited and energized
Thank you again for facilitating our StrengthsFinder training session. Our teams are excited and energized with what we learned about ourselves and each other. Thank you for the coaching…much appreciated! We will definitely utilize it. Francis Gonzalez, Global Footwear Planning, Nike
Pleasantly surprised by the results
This was great having you join us. We were pleasantly surprised by the results. I've gotten only positive feedback from the supervisors and managers about the training. Everyone I spoke to felt they walked away with greater insight into their own leadership strengths. We enjoyed the your training yesterday! Appreciate you sharing your talents and strengths with us! Dr. Tara Fairfield, Judy Mifflin, Rana Shanefelt, Jeff Thompson – Department of Health and Human Services-USA
Gallup-certified StrengthsFinder trainer, Dr. Christopher Meade, leads and facilitates StrengthsFinder training sessions and workshops in San Bernardino, California.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Unseasonably wet crops in the fall and bitter cold temperatures this winter are sending propane prices skyrocketing. Raising concerns among Kansans.
Thirty-three states, Including Kansas have issued a regional propane state of emergency due to low propane levels, but with prices rising to record levels, some residents in rural Kansas might not be able to foot the bill to keep warm this winter.
On Wednesday, Gov. Sam Brownback announced temporary measures he hope will provide relief to people who rely on propane.
"For those Kansans who rely on propane, particularly in our rural areas, a propane shortage and rising costs can put them at risk during cold weather," said Governor Brownback. "While Kansas has been spared the worst of the cold weather, we must ensure they have continued access to propane at reasonable cost. This is an issue of safety and well-being for our citizens."
He ordered the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) to give priority status to Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) applications from people who use propane to heat their homes, even if their accounts are delinquent. He's also ordered DCF to reach out to low income families to make sure they know these programs are available.
He also has issued two executive orders to exempt truckers from certain hours of operation to ensure propane trucks are moving. They will run through February 14, 2014.
"The health and safety of Kansans is my primary concern in taking these actions," Governor Brownback said. "Bringing our state agencies and the propane industry together during this shortage should ensure that Kansans who rely on propane for heat and energy are not faced with losing this critical service."
He told state agencies to pay attention to the shortage and make sure they provide priority assistance to propane users throughout the state and is encouraging representatives of the propane industry to work to keep propane flowing to Kansas, especially to residential users.
Glen Brunkow uses propane for a variety of every day essentials at his Westmoreland home.
Brunkow said, "We have a propane furnace, we use propane to heat our water, we use propane for our stove, so its a big part of our budget."
The Brunkow family usually goes through about 200 gallons every six months, with a bill around $400 dollars. Three weeks ago Glen was shocked to see a bill of $600, at $3 a gallon. Since then it has only gotten worse.
Some Kansans tell 13 News they went from paying less than $2 dollars a gallon in the fall to nearly $5 dollars or more this week.
"It's jumped two to three dollars in the last 3-4 weeks. I can't imagine filling up a full tank. I am worried about people that can't afford it. I'm worried about those on fixed incomes that make low wages" said Glen.
Shawn Cody, President of Propane Central which supplies propane to customers in 45 counties across Kansas says an unusual harvest in the fall required an abundance of propane to dry wet corn combined with a cold winter has created a shortage of propane which directly has driven up prices.
The office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy says about 10% of Kansans use propane to heat their home. While that number may be small, residents like Glen hope nationwide propane companies are not taking advantage of residents living in rural areas.
"If there were a bigger percentage of people that used propane, there is no doubt this would be a bigger concern. I hope some of our lawmakers are looking into it so that there isn't any price gouging" said Brunkow.
Missouri's Attorney General announced Monday that his office would investigate rising propane prices and, on Wednesday, Attorney General Derak Schmidt announced his office would join the effort.
"Our office is participating in a multi-state inquiry into the recent spike in propane prices," said Attorney General Derek Schmidt. "We are also meeting with local industry representatives to determine the cause of these increases."
Officials blamed the shortage on a "perfect storm" of factors, including the large grain drain season and an extremely cold winter in the Midwest and in Kansas.
For applications or questions about the LIEAP program, call DCF at 1-800-432-0043. You may also apply online, visit www.dcf.ks.gov. The application period began Jan. 21 and runs through March 31.


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In many ways I see this as the future of online marketing. Instead of paying tens of millions of dollars a year (or more) creating banner ads and paying to run them on pages filled with someone else's content, marketers can create their own web and mobile presences and use the most efficient form of advertising, pay per click advertising, to drive traffic to these pages and then engage in a conversation with their customers and potential customers.
I like to think of this as moving the message from a banner to your brand and changing the engagement from a view to a conversation. It also helps that this approach works better on mobile where we are spending more and more of our time every day.
At USV we have quite a few companies engaged in this world of content (or conversational) marketing including Twitter, Tumblr, SoundCloud, Disqus, Zemanta, and GetGlue. Based on what I am seeing from these companies, marketers are responding quickly to the opportunities presented by content marketing and the market is growing rapidly. That makes a lot of sense to me.


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Check out the teaser trailer for the upcoming animated film How to Train Your Dragon 2!
The film features the voices of Gerard Butler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Jonah Hill, who were all featured in the first film. Kit Harington joins the crew this time around as the villainous Dragon Prince.
While the teaser trailer doesn't divulge any plot details, it features dragons Hiccup and Toothless in an action sequence.
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We're in the process of converting our web site to use CSS sprites to improve frontend performance. To implement CSS sprites, I'd recommend using SmartSprites. It's a simple build-time tool that allows you to build your CSS using regular separate background images, annotate the CSS files using CSS comments, then run the tool and have it generate the CSS sprite image files and updated CSS files. It's an excellent tool.
Unfortunately, due to limitations in the CSS sprite concept, SmartSprites can't work with just any background image usage you already have. Here are a few pointers to keep in mind when building your CSS, to make sure it's as spritable as possible.
- Don't use CSS sprites pre-SmartSprites. This may sound obvious, but there are some reasons why you might end up with some CSS sprites before you use SmartSprites. For example, our design firm implemented hover states for UI elements as CSS sprites: the same image has normal and hover states, and a hover event just changes the background alignment. Also, we use YUI widgets, and some of their default styles use CSS sprites.
The reason SmartSprites doesn't work on existing CSS sprites is that it ignores your existing background positioning declarations. It assumes you have a single background image, includes that image in the sprite, then positions the sprite to show that one image.
The workaround I used for this was to split out the smaller CSS sprites into individual images, which are then recombined by SmartSprites into the macro sprites.
- Separate out "background" properties into "background-image." SmartSprites requires background-image to be on its own line. It's not too hard to refactor later, but if you can write the styles this way to begin with, you'll save some time.
- Make sure repeating images are as few pixels as possible in the repeating dimension – preferably 1px. In order to get repeating sprites to tile properly, SmartSprites has to find the lowest common denominator of the image size. For example, if you have a 2px repeating image and a 3px one, it can't just sprite them together, because then the 2px one would have a 1px empty row. And it can't just repeat the first pixel of the 2px one, because the pattern might not tile properly. So it needs to create a 6px image, repeat the 2px one 3 times, and the 3px one twice. 6px isn't too bad, but if you add a few more images of different sizes, it can expand out of control.
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text: Welcome to another Vulcan's View, where we get a look at the panoply of volcanic activity as captured by our eyes in the sky. As always, if you want to see all the activity from this week, check out the latest Smithsonian Institute/USGS Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report. Special thanks to the NASA Earth Observatory for many of the images here! Axial Seamount, off of Oregon There was a lot of news of the last couple weeks about the prediction for the next eruption of Axial Seamount. The undersea volcano is wired with sensors, so changes in seismicity (via hydrophones) and changes to the seafloor (measured sometimes by repeated sonar surveys or submersibles - see above) can be used to assess the state of the volcano. Research at Axial suggests that the current deformation of the seafloor means an eruption should happen as soon as 2014. In the short term, they found that seismicity at the volcano sharply increased within 3 hours of the volcano's 2011 eruption - something happens at the terrestrial brethren of Axial. We probably know more about Axial Seamount than any other submarine volcano, so the information gleaned from this volcano can help us understand how some of the other thousands of submarine volcanoes might behave before an eruption. Image: An exaggerated bathymetry map of Axial Seamount. Image courtesy of NOAA.Campi Flegrei, Italy Another piece of research-related news this week came from Italy, where estimates of the size for the Campi Flegrei eruption ~28,000 years ago are going up. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters by Costa and others has doubled the estimated volume of the Campanian Ignimbrite to 250-300 cubic kilometers. A combination of 3D modeling of the ash from the eruption combined with thickness measurements to use as guides allowed for this new estimate. In this 2001 image of the Bay of Naples region, the Campi Flegrei is marked in the circle, along with the two other active volcanoes of the region - Vesuvius and Ischia. Image: The Bay of Naples region seen on July 23, 2001. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory.Karymsky, Russia Here is a shot showing three Kamchatkan volcanoes - Karymsky, Akademia Nauk and Maly Semiachik. This image shows some of the grey ash from Karymsky on the white snow of the Peninsula seen in the Spring of 2012. This image can trick the eye a bit as Karymsky can appear like a depression, like the crater lakes on top of both Akademia Nauk and Maly Semiachik. However, it lacks any sort of caldera like its neighbors - instead the lava flows from Karymsky define an almost perfectly circular boundary around the volcano. Image: A piece of the Kamchatka Peninsula, seen in the spring of 2012. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory/R. SimmonGrímsvötn, Iceland Last May (2011), we were all watching the large (and short-lived) eruption of Grímsvötn in Iceland. That eruption produced the largest plume in Iceland in over 50 years - but caused nothing like the air travel disruption of 2010's Eyjafjallajökull eruption. The evidence of the 2011 Grímsvötn eruption is still visible at the surface, is an arcuate opening in the ice cap on the volcano. This was the source of the eruption and the meltwater that produced some of the jokulhlaups associated with the eruption. Eventually, this scar on Vatnajökull, the ice cap on Grímsvötn, will be healed, only to have new gashes ripped open during the next eruption of the volcano. Image: The fissure from the 2011 eruption of Grímsvötn. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory/R. SimmonKilauea, Hawai'i Ever-busy Kilauea continues to produce copious lava flows - some of which have made it almost to the sea. This June 12, 2012 image of the southeast rift zone of the volcano shows the active lava flows (as red squares). However, the flows are moving slowly, so whether an ocean entry will occur is still unknown. Image: The southeast rift zone of Kilauea. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory.Pagan, CNMI Another volcano that falls under the watchful eye of the USGS is Pagan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Much of the volcano monitoring that is done for Pagan is via remote sensing thanks to its location in the Pacific Ocean. Plumes like the one seen in this March 2012 image of Pagan are commonly and still going on today. Image: Pagan's plume in March 2012. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory/R. SimmonIwo-Jima/Ioto, Japan Sometimes we have little evidence of activity at remote volcanoes - such as at the Iwo-Jima/Ioto caldera in the Pacific. Even in this satellite image of the area, the evidence is ambiguous about whether there is a small plume showing near the island or just a cloud. The last confirmed eruption of Iwo-Jima took place in 2009 and it has had frequent small (VEI 1) eruptions over the past few decades. Image: A potential plume at Iwo-Jima seen during the Spring of 2012. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory/R.SimmonCurry, South Sandwich Islands Things get even trickier when there are a lot of clouds that can disguise a plume. The plume spotted this May at Curry (part of the greater Zavodovski volcano) in the South Sandwich Island blended with the clouds in the area - and vortices caused by the interaction of wind and clouds in the south Atlantic can make identifying plumes tricky. Image: A May 2012 image of the plume from Curry in the South Sandwich Islands. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory/R. SimmonKarthala, Comoros Islands Finally, we end with the wispy plume from Karthala in the Comoros Islands seen on May 29, 2006. Many people aren't aware of the active volcanoes on the Comoros Islands, off the east coast of Africa. However, Karthala, a basaltic shield volcano, has erupted numerous times over the past century - as recently as 2007. The volcano even produced a VEI 3 eruption in 2005. Like many ocean island volcanoes like Kilauea or Piton de la Fournaise, the volcanoes of the Comoros Islands are caused by a mantle plume under the Indian Plate. Image: The plume from Karthala seen on May 29, 2006. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory.


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On 25 March, ESA and CNES, the French space agency, signed a €435 million contract assuring the availability of the CSG launch range for ESA programmes and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers during 2009 to 2013.
The ceremony took place at the Guiana Space Centre (Centre Spatial Guyanais – CSG), Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Antonio Fabrizi, ESA Director of Launchers, and Joël Barre, Director of CNES/CSG, signed the contract in the presence of ESA Member States' Delegations to the Launchers Programme Board.
From 2009, the Ariane, Vega and Soyuz family of launchers will be operated from CSG under a new legal framework, which includes in particular an agreement between ESA and the French Government on CSG and associated services. Under this agreement, the French Government guarantees to ESA the availability of CSG for ESA programmes and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz. The French Government has designated CNES as the authority responsible for the implementation of this guarantee on its behalf by means of the contract just concluded between ESA and CNES.
ESA has, since 1975, contributed through such contracts to the upkeep and operating costs of the CSG launch range, ensuring the availability of the range as a key element of guaranteed access to space for Europe.


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Welcome to the SANS Security Policy Resource page, a consensus research project of the SANS community. The ultimate goal of the project is to offer everything you need for rapid development and implementation of information security policies. You'll find a great set of resources posted here already, including policy templates for twenty-seven important security requirements.
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- Acceptable Encryption Policy
- Acceptable Use Policy
- Clean Desk Policy
- Data Breach Response Policy
- Disaster Recovery Plan Policy
- Digital Signature Acceptance Policy
- Email Policy
- Ethics Policy
- Pandemic Response Planning Policy
- Password Construction Guidelines
- Password Protection Policy
- Security Response Plan Policy
- End User Encryption Key Protection Policy
Network Security
Server Security
Application Security
- Analog/ISDN Line Security Policy
- Anti-Virus Guidelines
- Server Audit Policy
- Automatically Forwarded Email Policy
- Communications Equipment Policy
- Dial In Access Policy
- Extranet Policy
- Internet DMZ Equipment Policy
- Internet Usage Policy
- Mobile Device Encryption Policy
- Personal Communication Devices and Voicemail Policy
- Removable Media Policy
- Risk Assessment Policy
- Server Malware Protection Policy
- Social Engineering Awareness Policy
- DMZ Lab Security Policy
- Email Retention Policy
- Employee Internet Use Monitoring and Filtering Policy
- Lab Anti Virus Policy
- Mobile Employee Endpoint Responsibility Policy
- Remote Access Mobile Computing Storage
- Virtual Private Network Policy
There is no cost for using these resources. They were compiled to help the people attending SANS training programs, but security of the Internet depends on vigilance by all participants, so we are making this resource available to the entire community.
Over the years a frequent request of SANS attendees has been for consensus policies, or at least security policy templates, that they can use to get their security programs updated to reflect 21st century requirements. While SANS has provided some policy resources for several years, we felt we could do more if we could get the community to work together. This page provides a vastly improved collection of policies and policy templates.
This page will continue to be a work in-progress and the policy templates will be living documents. We hope all of you who are SANS attendees will be willing and able to point out any problems in the models we post by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We also hope that you will share policies your organization has written if they reflect a different need from those provided here or if they do a better job of making the policies brief, easy to read, feasible to implement, and effective.
We'll make improvements and add new resources and sample policies as we discover them.
Is it a Policy, a Standard or a Guideline?
What's in a name? We frequently hear people use the names "policy", "standard", and "guideline" to refer to documents that fall within the policy infrastructure. So that those who participate in this consensus process can communicate effectively, we'll use the following definitions.
A policy is typically a document that outlines specific requirements or rules that must be met. In the information/network security realm, policies are usually point-specific, covering a single area. For example, an "Acceptable Use" policy would cover the rules and regulations for appropriate use of the computing facilities.
A standard is typically a collection of system-specific or procedural-specific requirements that must be met by everyone. For example, you might have a standard that describes how to harden a Windows 8.1 workstation for placement on an external (DMZ) network. People must follow this standard exactly if they wish to install a Windows 8.1 workstation on an external network segment. In addition, a standard can be a technology selection, e.g. Company Name uses Tenable SecurityCenter for continuous monitoring, and supporting policies and procedures define how it is used.
A guideline is typically a collection of system specific or procedural specific "suggestions" for best practice. They are not requirements to be met, but are strongly recommended. Effective security policies make frequent references to standards and guidelines that exist within an organization.


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WWE Vengeance opened with a very good video focusing on Triple H vs. Chris Benoit.
Jonathan Coachman & Garrison Cade vs. Yoshihiro Tajiri & Rhyno.
Rhyno was the surprise partner for Tajiri. Coach acted like he wanted to start, until he saw that Rhyno was starting. Coach immediately tagged in Cade to start the match. Cade and Rhyno traded arm wringers and side headlocks, and Rhyno hit a shoulderblock. Cade complained the the referee, claiming Rhyno pulled his trunks. Cade slapped Rhyno, and Rhyno unloaded with punches, then hit a hip toss. Rhyno set for a Gore, but Cade rolled out of the ring. Rhyno went after Cade and tossed him back in, then tagged Tajiri. Tajiri hit some kicks, and Cade responded with right hands. Tajiri kicked away a backdrop, dropkicked his leg out, and grabbed La Magistral for a two count. Tajiri hit more kicks, and Coach kneed him from the apron, so Tajiri kicked him in the head, sending him to the floor. Cade used the distraction to hit Tajiri with a back suplex. Coach tagged in, and worked on Tajiri's back. Coach was screaming "You don't mist me" at Tajiri, then hit some shoulderblocks to the back. Coach slammed Tajiri, then mocked him with a bow, so Tajiri kicked him in the forehead. Coach dropped an elbow, and tagged in Cade for a double suplex. Cade covered Tajiri for a two count.
Coach tagged back in and put Tajiri in a surfboard. Tajiri booted a charging Coach and put him in the Tarantula. Tajiri kicked Coach and tagged in Rhyno, who hit a series of clotheslines and a suplex on Coach. Cade ran in and Rhyno backdropped him, then hit a spinebuster on Coach. Cade broke up the cover, and tossed Rhyno from the ring. The match broke down, and Tajiri hit springboard elbows on Coach and Cade simultaneously. Tajiri spit the mist in Cade's face (meant for Coach, who ducked). Rhyno then went to Gore Coach, and he dodged it, and Cade took the Gore as well. Tajiri then kicked Coach in the head and got the pin at the eight minute mark.
Winners: Yoshihiro Tajiri & Rhyno.
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Flash Flooding Today?
Today's passing showers and storms have the potential to drop some pretty significant rainfall.
Most rainfall totals yesterday were between half and inch and and inch Those totals are not threatening but when you add then to what we may be seeing today, flash flooding could definitely be an issue.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH means that rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. And today's heavy rainfall may lead to localized flash flooding and could cause rapid rises on creeks and small streams and could even lead to mainstream river flooding as well.
Keep in mind that in addition to the significant rain, any passing storms may have lightning, damaging winds, or hail.
After today's showers and storms, drier and warmer weather will be moving in for Wednesday.
Laura Huckabee / Meteorologist


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Tolstoy said that all great ideas are simple ones. Lee Cockerell said, "If I was successful, it was because I hired the right people." Cockerell, who was executive vice president of operations for Walt Disney World for 10 years, was speaking in mid-March to attendees of Commonwealth Financial Network's annual Chairman's Retreat, which I've had the privilege of attending for a number of years now.
Most advisors who are interested in growth and the future see their biggest issue as being able to find and hire the right people. One advisor at the Commonwealth gathering used those very words when asked what was his greatest challenge. Those people not only allow you to serve existing clients, they can help you grow your practice with new clients and new assets, and may, eventually, become part of your succession plan. Perhaps not surprisingly, Disney has an extensive process when it hires anyone as a "cast member" for any of its theme parks, including online questionnaires that precede in-person interviews. While most advisory firms are nowhere near as large as Disney, that doesn't mean that your hiring process shouldn't also focus on finding people who share the values of your firm. One important part of the Disney hiring process: making it very clear what its expectations are for new hires, and then continually training and testing new employees. "You can't change people, you can only train them," he said, but "if you do a good job of training," Cockerell told the Commonwealth advisors with a chuckle, "you can take a nap."
So are you a manager or a leader? Cockerell suggested that to be a good manager, you need competency in your field: management competency (including good time management and focusing on what's important), technology competency ("Companies that can personalize and individualize will win") and leadership competency. So what is leadership and how does it differ from management? "Management is about how to do; leadership is about how to be," said Cockerell.
Then how should you be if you want to be a leader? It's about how you treat your people, Cockerell suggested. "People need to know that they matter. Tell them." He further suggested a simple change to your daily procedure to demonstrate that leadership. "Before you touch your work" and sit down at your computer when you arrive in the office each day, "touch your people" individually, he counseled. Ask them how they're doing, get feedback and provide appreciation, recognition and encouragement. Providing those three things to all your people will yield a great return to your bottom line, he promised.
That doesn't mean everyone you now have at your firm is a good fit. At Disney, Cockerell said they called such employees "good people who don't fit." Among all workers, some are "can-do" and others are "can't-do," so one way to determine which trait is exhibited by potential employees is to make sure that in the interview process, you ask about an obstacle they faced in a prior job. The answer will let you know if they're "can-do" or "can't-do."
One other thing about building a great firm: Cockerell said it's important to give authority to your employees to solve problems and warned, "You can't give responsibility without authority."
His parting words on leadership? Every day when you go to work or go into your home, "you can make it better or worse." It's your choice, and especially as a leader, you have that power. Use it wisely.


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After security company Lookout revealed one million people's personal details were at risk after downloading an Android wallpaper app, Google has done its own investigation and decided Jackeey Wallpaper wasn't actually causing any harm to users.
The app has been returned to the Android Market, and while we knew last week that the app wasn't actually mining SMS and browsing history details nor the voicemail password, it was still accessing the phone number, subscriber info and voicemail number for the user's phone.
However, after looking into the situation, Google found that the information was only being accessed for richer preferences and helping Jackeey Wallpaper identify users and recommend other apps. That didn't stop the big G from suggesting they go about their business in another, safer way, despite it being entirely possible to collect user information thanks to the way Android's download system works. Not to mention the fact that when users were downloading the apps, they were told that information was being collected on them. [PC World]
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!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event 2:30 a.m. February 5, 2003: Tenet Calls Powell's Hotel Room with Concerns that Too Much Has Been Cut from Speech. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
An informant for the BIS, the Czech intelligence agency, reportedly sees Iraqi diplomat Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani meeting in a restaurant outside Prague with an Arab man in his 20s. This draws concern from the intelligence community because the informant suggests the person is "a visiting 'student' from Hamburg—and… potentially dangerous." [New York Times, 11/19/2003 Sources: Jan Kavan] The young man is never positively identified or seen again. Fearing that al-Ani may have been attempting to recruit the young man for a mission to blow-up Radio Free Europe headquarters, the diplomat is told to leave the country on April 18. [New York Times, 10/27/2001; United Press International, 10/20/2002; New York Times, 11/19/2003 Sources: Unnamed US officials, Jan Kavan] Information about the incident is passed on to US intelligence. After the 9/11 attacks and after it is reported on the news that Atta had likely visited Prague, the BIS informant will say the young man at the restaurant was Atta. (see September 14, 2001) This information leads hawks to come up with the so-called "Prague Connection" theory, which will hold that 9/11 plotter Mohomed Atta flew to Prague on April 8, met with al-Ani to discuss the planning and financing of the 9/11 attacks, and returned to the US on either April 9 or 10. [New York Times, 10/27/2001; United Press International, 10/20/2002; New York Times, 11/19/2003 Sources: Unnamed US officials, Unnamed BIS informant, Jan Kavan] The theory will be widely discounted by October 2002. [New York Times, 10/21/2002 Sources: Unnamed US officials, Unnamed BIS informant]
Entity Tags: Mohamed Atta, Radio Free Europe, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, Jabir Salim
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion
Two articles by reporter James Risen on the "Prague Connection" are published in the New York Times. One article reveals that early in 2002 (see Early 2002, probably May or later), Czech President Vaclav Havel had informed Washington that there was no evidence to substantiate claims that 9/11 plotter Mohamed Atta had met with Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani in Prague in April 2001 (see April 8, 2001). The article also reveals that analysts in the Czech intelligence service had been furious with the Prime Minister for stovepiping unsubstantiated reports straight to Washington, before they had had the opportunity to investigate further. [New York Times, 10/21/2002] Risen's other article explains how rivalry within the BIS and problematic relations with Britain's MI6 had resulted in reporters receiving misinformation from sources with grievances and conflicting agendas. [New York Times, 10/21/2002] His two articles seemingly put to rest the "Prague Connection" theory, though a November 2003 article in Slate by Edward Jay Epstein will note that many questions remain unanswered. [New York Times, 11/19/2003]
Entity Tags: Mohamed Atta, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, Vaclav Havel
CIA terrorism specialist Phil Mudd visits Colin Powell's hotel suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City to review the terrorism section of the speech Powell will make to the UN the next morning. Mudd looks over the changes, including a deleted section on connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda. After Mudd reads the section, he says, "Looks fine." After leaving the hotel, he will inform CIA Director George Tenet that Powell's team had trimmed the section on Iraq's alleged ties to militant Islamic groups. [Vanity Fair, 5/2004, pp. 230; Unger, 2007, pp. 283-284]
Entity Tags: Phil Mudd, George J. Tenet
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion
At 2:30 a.m., Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson, gets a call from one of CIA Director George Tenet's aides (see 2:30 a.m. February 5, 2003). Vice President Dick Cheney's staff is insisting that the widely discredited claim (see October 21, 2002) that Mohamed Atta had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer in April 2001 (see April 8, 2001) be reinstated into Powell's forthcoming speech to the UN Security Council. The pressure continues throughout the night. Just before 9 a.m., when Powell begins his speech, Wilkerson's phone rings again and again. Caller ID shows it is Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, presumably to try one more time to argue for the inclusion of the material. Wilkerson refuses to take the call. "Scooter," one State Department aide will later explain to reporter Craig Unger, "wasn't happy." [Vanity Fair, 5/2004, pp. 232; Unger, 2007, pp. 283-284]
Entity Tags: Lawrence Wilkerson, Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Colin Powell
CIA Director George Tenet calls Secretary of State Colin Powell's hotel room at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. Powell's chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson, picks up the phone. Tenet says that he is concerned that too much has been cut from Powell's speech (see (11:00 p.m.) February 4, 2003) and tells Wilkerson that he wants to take one last look at the final draft. A copy of the speech is quickly sent to Tenet, who is staying at another hotel. [Vanity Fair, 5/2004, pp. 230-231]
Entity Tags: Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson, George J. Tenet
In a speech at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington, outgoing President Bush discusses his decision to invade Iraq. "It is true, as I have said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks," he says. "But the decision to remove Saddam from power cannot be viewed in isolation from 9/11. In a world where terrorists armed with box cutters had just killed nearly 3,000 people, America had to decide whether we could tolerate a sworn enemy that acted belligerently, that supported terror, and that intelligence agencies around the world believed had weapons of mass destruction. It was clear to me, to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after 9/11, this was a risk we could not afford to take. So we went back to the UN Security Council, which unanimously passed Resolution 1441 calling on Saddam Hussein to disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences (see November 8, 2002). With this resolution, we offered Saddam Hussein a final chance to comply with the demands of the world. When he refused to resolve the issue peacefully, we acted with a coalition of nations to protect our people and liberated 25 million Iraqis." Amanda Terkel, a writer for the liberal website Think Progress, notes that all of Bush's acknowledgments that Iraq had no connections to 9/11 came after the war began; in the months prior to the invasion, Bush and his top officials strove to create the impression that Hussein had close links to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 planners (see (Between 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001, Shortly After September 11, 2001, Shortly After September 11, 2001, After September 11, 2001, Mid-September, 2001, September 17, 2001, September 19, 2001, September 20, 2001, September 28, 2001, November 6-8, 2001, December 9, 2001, 2002-March 2003, March 19, 2002, June 21, 2002, July 25, 2002, August 2002, August 20, 2002, September 12, 2002, September 16, 2002, September 21, 2002, September 25, 2002, September 26, 2002, September 27, 2002, September 28, 2002, October 7, 2002, October 7, 2002, October 15, 2002, December 2, 2002, December 12, 2002, January 26, 2003, January 28, 2003, Early February 2003, February 5, 2003, (2:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) February 5, 2003, February 5, 2003, February 6, 2003, February 11 or 12, 2003, and February 17, 2003). Terkel writes, "Bush still embraces his pre-war lies, as he admitted in his Saban address today, because without them, the public wouldn't have supported his case for war." [USA Today, 12/5/2008; Think Progress, 12/5/2008]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Amanda Terkel
Condoleezza Rice on the Charlie Rose show. [Source: PBS]Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells PBS's Charlie Rose that "no one" in the White House ever asserted that Saddam Hussein had any connections to 9/11. Rose says, "But you didn't believe [the Hussein regime] had anything to do with 9/11." Rice replies: "No. No one was arguing that Saddam Hussein somehow had something to do with 9/11.… I was certainly not. The president was certainly not.… That's right. We were not arguing that." Rice refuses to answer Rose's question asking if former Vice President Dick Cheney ever tried to make the connection. In reality, former President Bush and his top officials, including Cheney and Rice, worked diligently to reinforce a connection between Iraq and 9/11 in the public mind before the March 2003 invasion (see (Between 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001, Shortly After September 11, 2001, Shortly After September 11, 2001, After September 11, 2001, Mid-September, 2001, September 17, 2001, September 19, 2001, September 20, 2001, September 28, 2001, November 6-8, 2001, December 9, 2001, 2002-March 2003, March 19, 2002, June 21, 2002, July 25, 2002, August 2002, August 20, 2002, September 12, 2002, September 16, 2002, September 21, 2002, September 25, 2002, September 26, 2002, September 27, 2002, September 28, 2002, October 7, 2002, October 7, 2002, October 15, 2002, December 2, 2002, December 12, 2002, January 26, 2003, January 28, 2003, Early February 2003, February 5, 2003, (2:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) February 5, 2003, February 5, 2003, February 6, 2003, February 11 or 12, 2003, and February 17, 2003). [Think Progress, 3/19/2009]
Entity Tags: Saddam Hussein, Bush administration (43), Charlie Rose, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice
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Posts Tagged 'Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'
Sundance 2012 – Top Eight and Bottom Three
This was an unusual Sundance. Going into the festival, there were only two or three movies that I was really excited about. Maybe low expectations helped the scores, which were pretty high throughout. Here are my eight favorites and three that you should avoid.
Top Eight
Indie Game
Score: 93
West of Memphis
Score: 93
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Score: 92
Safety Not Guaranteed
Score: 92
Sleepwalk with Me
Score: 92
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
Score: 92
The End of Love
Score: 91
The Raid
Score: 90
Bottom Three
Red Hook Summer
Score: 44
I came into the festival looking forward to this movie, the latest from Spike Lee. It disappointed on almost every level.
The one level it didn't disappoint on was Clarke Peters' work. No matter how tone deaf or mannered the dialogue, Peters really throws his weight behind it, and brings a sense of the inner life of a widowed pastor. Unfortunately, this only makes him stand out more from the rest of the cast, most of whom appear to be first-time actors. Given the number of careers that Lee has launched over the course of his career, it's difficult to see what drew him to anybody in this particular cast. Nearly all of them fade into the vibrant, oversaturated background and those who don't stand out simply because their work feels like it might be more at home on a small community theater stage.
The sound design and mix felt almost as amateurish as the acting. Music cues drowned out dialogue in more than one place and simply felt like a demand for an unearned emotional response in others. It was a fundamental mistake to score this film with music from open to close. Many scenes seemed extended for no other reason than to make sure that entire musical phrases. There may be a tighter 45-minute movie screaming to get out of this 135 minutes, but finding it would first require that it be untethered from the unpleasant music.
If you were searching for areas to edit, it bears noticing that during the course of this movie, I sat through church three separate times. Each time, I got a full sermon and sometimes even more. One would think that judicious editing could start there. In fact, I don't recall a single scene in the movie that felt paced at anything fast than a shuffling gait. I stopped counting the number of times that I checked the clock to see what time it is, and the first was 30 minutes in, which may be some kind of new record for me.
Spike asked Sundance audiences to make sure that people know this isn't a sequel to Do The Right Thing. The two movies hardly belong in the same universe much less the same sentence with one another, but some of the confusion may come from the revisiting of Mookie, Lee's own character from the previous movie. I suppose I can see the appeal of the cameo for Spike as an attempt to inject a few moments of levity and believable acting into the movie. At any rate, there is such a step backward in all areas of film making that I don't think that, without his name on the poster, many people would identify this movie with the earlier one.
Score: 33
I enjoyed Rubber moderately. This movie was as interminable as the director was condescending and pretentious during the Q&A.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Score: 26
I haven't the words and, if I did, I doubt I'd waste them. Run.
Sundance 2012 – Day Nine
Sundance 2012 – Day Nine
at Rose Wagner Center in Salt Lake
My Score – 75
3:00 pm
Red Hook Summer
at Rose Wagner Center in Salt Lake
My Score – 44
6:00 pm
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
at Broadway Cinemas VI in Salt Lake
My Score – 26
9:45 pm
Shut Up and Play the Hits
at Broadway Cinemas III in Salt Lake
My Score – 88
For a Good Time Call…
at Broadway Cinemas VI in Salt Lake
My Score – 90
Movies seen thus far: 27
Today's Favorite: For a Good Time Call…
Festival Favorite: Indie Game
Sundance 2012
I just returned from a week in New Orleans, so lots of reviews on the way. In the meantime, Sundance approaches and here's my tentative schedule of what I'm planning to see.
6 Wish You Were Here
9:45 The Raid
noon That's What She Said
3:30 The Queen of Versailles
5:30 West of Memphis or Celeste and Jesse Forever at 6:30 if I can't make the transition work
9:30 Red Lights
midnight The Pact
noon Indie Game: The Movie
3:30 Beasts of the Southern Wild
6 Filly Brown or 6:30 Hello I Must Be Going
9:30 This Must Be the Place or 9:45 Wrong
9 Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
6 The End of Love
9 Room 327
6 For Ellen
9 John Dies at the End
6 Sleepwalk with Me
9 The Imposter
6:30 Safety Not Guaranteed
9:45 Luv
midnight Excision
noon Arbitrage
3 Red Hook Summer
6 Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
9:45 Shut Up and Play the Hits
midnight For a Good Time Call…
12:30 The Words
3 Predisposed or 3:30 Robot and Frank
6 The Tower TBA


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On the heels of our recent announcement of FIPS 140-2 certification for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, our current in-market favorite BlackBerry 7.1 OS has received CESG approval for government use in the United Kingdom. This is a significant step forward for enabling government mobility in the region by allowing access to data classified up to and including "Restricted".
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution from RIM remains the only holistic mobile solution approved by CESG. Governments around the world have long been our partners, utilizing secure BlackBerry solutions to access sensitive data and to enable public service workers. Law enforcement, government agencies, and medical industries are just a few areas in which this takes place. In the UK specifically, the NHS, local government bodies, and the Ministry of Defense all employ BlackBerry solutions to efficient, secure, and productive ends.
A great example can be found with UK police forces. By extending core processes and systems as well as access to information databases, officers are able to spend more time in the communities in which they work rather than being tied up with paperwork back at the office. The use of mobile social media in similar settings also enables government industries to use BlackBerry technology to connect more closely with their citizens.
(As of February 2015, BlackBerry holds 70+ security certifications and approvals from governments.)
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Obama: Being nice doesn't lead to deals
President Obama says he's a nice guy — it just doesn't do that much good when it comes to dealing with congressional Republicans.
"Most people who know me know I'm a pretty friendly guy," Obama told reporters at Monday's news conference.
"And I like a good party," he added.
The president said he and first lady Michelle Obama treat Republicans well at the congressional picnic and other White House events, "but it doesn't prevent them from going onto the floor of the House and blasting me for being 'a big-spending socialist.'"
Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, played a celebrated round of golf in 2011, but the president pointed out "that didn't get a deal done" on debt reduction.
There are a variety of reasons for this, Obama said.
For one thing, Republicans who hail from conservative districts and states could get in trouble with their voters if they are seen as "too chummy" with the Democratic president.
Another problem: The issues, and profoundly different views on how much to tax, who to tax, and which programs to cut.
Both Obama and Boehner say they like each other personally, and that their disputes are rooted in politics and philosophy.
Said Obama: "I think that really what's gone on in terms of some of the paralysis here in Washington -- or difficulties in negotiations -- just have to do with some very stark differences in terms of policy, some very sharp differences in terms of where we stand on issues."


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Gov. Jerry Brown has made a series of high-profile announcements about budget-cutting actions that produce very little in savings: legislators were stripped of their cars, state employees were stripped of their phones, and last week the governor declared he was going after roughly $13 million in advances paid to state employees that had never beeen paid back. (The state's budget shortfall over two years was about $26 billion).
The political theory behind these small announcements is obvious: Brown figures that if he shows he's getting tough on state workers, legislators and his own administration, voters will see he's getting tough on waste and thus will be more likely to go along with the temporary tax extensions he wants.
But is the theory right?
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My view: it isn't. There's been no measurable decline in public suspicion that government is full of waste. And Brown's actions, instead of reassuring voters that he's tough on waste, may simply remind voters of their suspicions. Brown isn't changing any minds -- he's reinforcing the mostly wrongheaded notions of Californians who see a third of the government or more as waste. (California's state government is one of the leanest in the country, with per capita spending levels that rank near the bottom of all 50 states).
Brown needs to change his messaging and stop using messages that blame the government and legislators -- and instead focus attention on the fact that everyone -- including voters -- shares the blame for the state's troubles. And by moving away from blame, Brown could spark a bigger conversation about why the budget system doesn't work, and why people's voters don't much matter because the state's long constitution and maze of fiscal rules limit the ability of lawmakers and governors to give the voters what they say they want.
The more Brown talks about government waste, the deeper he's digging his hole.


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A Chicago woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly crashed into a vehicle, then carjacked it with a 13-year-old boy still inside, police said.
Alan Grudnowski was driving eastbound on Interstate 80 around 5:30 a.m. near mile marker 162 in Illinois when a beige 2006 Chevrolet van crashed into his suburban, according to Indiana State Police.
As Grudnowski exited his vehicle to check on the driver of the van, identified as 32-year-old Larona Green. Green allegedly exited her vehicle, climbed into the suburban and fled eastbound on I-80 toward Indiana.
Grudnowski called police to report that his car had been stolen from the crash scene and was heading into Indiana with his 13-year-old son in the front seat, police said.
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The teen had his cell phone and was able to provide landmarks while Green was driving, according to authorities.
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Major Jerry Williams was on duty along Interstate 94 and was able to locate and stop the vehicle.
Several police units responded to the scene and Green was taken into custody.
The 13-year-old boy was not injured.
Green was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, possession of a stolen vehicle and criminal confinement. Police report her blood alcohol level was at .119.
Other charges are pending in Illinois and the investigation is ongoing, officials said.


text: MajorLeagueFishing.com 2013 Challenge Cup Format and Rules 2013 Geico Challenge Cup, Lake Istokpoga, Oct. 22 - 27, 2012 2013 Challenge Cup Format and Rules Permitted use provided by: MajorLeagueFishing.comMAJOR LEAGUE FISHING CHALLENGE CUP FORMATThe field size for the CHALLENGE CUP will consist of 24 PBTAA pro anglers.The competition will be comprised of three rounds, covering six total days. Round 1 (ELIMINATION ROUND) will comprise three days (Days 1, 2 and 3);Round 2 (SUDDEN-DEATH ROUND) will cover two days (Days 4 and 5);Round 3 (CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND) will be one day, held on the final day. ROUND 1: ELIMINATION ROUND During the Elimination Round, Anglers will be divided into three groups of eight anglers each: Groups 1, 2 and 3.Group 1 will compete on Day 1, Group 2 on Day 2, and Group 3 on Day 3.MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING will determine which anglers compete in each round.On Day 1, the four anglers from Group 1 with the highest weight total of "Score-able Bass" during a full day of competition will advance to the Sudden-Death Round.The same criteria will be used during Round 1 with Groups 2 and 3 – four anglers with the highest weight totals each day will advance to the Sudden-Death Round.The total number of anglers advancing to the Sudden-Death Round will be 12. ROUND 2: SUDDEN-DEATH ROUND During the Sudden-Death Round, the 12 anglers that advanced (from Round 1) will be divided into two groups of six anglers each: Groups 1 and 2.Group 1 will compete on Day 4, Group 2 on Day 5.MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING will utilize a "seeding system" based on Elimination Round results to establish the anglers' placement in groups 1 or 2. MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING will seed the groups based on the success (or lack of success) of Anglers during the previous round.MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING will post a qualifying weight for the two days of Sudden-Death Round competition based on the fishery and existing conditions.The qualifying weight will be determined by the League Commissioner after he consults with an angler representative and/or other consultants of his choosing.The qualifying weights will be set for each of the two days and will be announced no more than 12 hours prior to the start of that round's competition.The first three anglers from Sudden-Death Round / Group 1 and the first three anglers from Sudden-Death Round / Group 2 to reach the qualifying weights set for their days of competition will advance to the Championship Round.If either one or three anglers fail to reach the qualifying weight, the angler(s) that advance will be determined by the total weight of score-able bass caught during a full day of competition.The total number of anglers advancing to the Championship Round will be six. ROUND 3: CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND The field for the Championship Round will be made up of three anglers advancing from each: Sudden-Death Group 1 and Sudden-Death Group 2.During the Championship Round, the angler with the highest total weight of Score-able Bass will be declared the winner. COMPETITION HOURS During all days of competition, anglers will fish 7.5 hours that will be divided into three periods, with 30-minute intervals between the end of a period and the beginning of the following period.Prior to the start of the first period, anglers will convene at the edge of the zone that will be utilized for that day's competition. Anglers will be released simultaneously (shotgun start) to begin the event.During period breaks, no Angler will be allowed to fish or try to locate fish.Anglers will be required during period breaks to meet at a pre-determined Rendezvous Point.MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING will select the Rendezvous Point to be located at a highly centralized area of the field of competition.At the beginning of the second and third periods, anglers will be released according to their order in the standings.Round One competition day schedule is as follows: 6:00 am – 6:30 am: Launch, Interviews and Photos6:45 am – 7:00 am: Enter Zone for Scouting7:00 am - 9:30 am: Fishing Period 19:30 am - 10:00 a.m.: Intermission and Rendezvous10:00 am - 12:30 pm: Fishing Period 212:30 pm - 1:00 pm: Intermission and Rendezvous1:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Fishing Period 3Round Two will follow the same schedule as the above Round One. Round Two will, however, include qualifying weight cut lines. If three anglers reach the qualifying weight, competition will cease for the day.Round Three will follow the same procedural schedule as the above Round One. COMPETITION RULES AND GENERAL ENFORCEMENT PARTICIPATION AND ELIGIBILITY STANDARDS Participation in MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING is open only to members of the PBTAA, unless an invitation is granted to a non-member Angler for participation on a single-tournament basis. BOATS, SAFETY AND WEATHER Boats for tournament competition will be supplied by MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING and will be fully equipped with all essentials to meet state water safety requirements.The MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING commissioner or his designee has the right to delay, shorten or cancel the start of an event because of bad weather or other factors that would endanger the safety of the competitors.Tournament waters may also be restricted at any time because of bad weather. SPORTSMANSHIP Competitors are expected to follow high standards of sportsmanship, courtesy, safety and conservation. Any violation of the standards may be deemed cause for disqualification. (SEE Sportsmanship and Flagrant Sportsmanship Violations, definition and penalties, Rules 15 n and 15 o).Use of alcohol or drugs (other than drugs purchased over-the-counter or prescribed by a licensed physician) by any competitor during MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING events could be cause for automatic disqualification.Maximum courtesy must be practiced at all times, especially with regard to boating and angling in the vicinity of non- competitors who may be on tournament waters.Boat Officials have the responsibility of reporting to the Commissioner an angler's sportsmanship violation or a flagrant violation for any act that reflects unfavorably upon efforts to promote fisheries conservation and/or clean waters. MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING COMMISSIONER'S ROLE Interpretation and enforcement of rules shall be left exclusively to the MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING League Commissioner or his assigned designee at competition.In the event of a rule violation, the Commissioner or his appointee may impose such sanctions as disqualification and/or prohibition from participation in subsequent MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING competitions.Subject to appeal, the decision of the Commissioner, his designee, or a rules committee established by MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING shall be final in all matters. MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING BOAT OFFICIAL'S ROLE A MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING Boat Official will accompany each angler throughout each day's competition.Each boat will be equipped with a video and/or audio data device that will be linked to a central database system. The device will provide anglers with a Leader Board that shows the status of the event's points leaders.The duties of the MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING Boat Official will be to weigh and record the weight of each score-able catch, update the real-time leader board, "call the game" and communicate with the base of operation.The Boat Official will serve as rules enforcer and the boat's official scorekeeper.Specific Penalty Violations will be assessed "on the spot" by the Boat Official and all other violations will be reported to the league commissioner or his representative.Rules decisions made by a Boat Official are considered final, unless an angler chooses to submit a written protest to the commissioner. THE WEIGHING OF FISH MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING competition will utilize the term "Score-able Bass." The parameters (size) of a Score-able Bass will be determined by MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING no less than 24 hours prior to the start of the SUMMIT CUP.Immediately after a catch is made, the bass will be verified as Score-able (or not Score-able) by the Boat Official. The Boat Official may request that any fish be put on the measuring board for verification.There is no limit to the number of score-able bass an angler can catch and record during MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING competition. The only deviation from this guideline will be competition days that include a qualifying weight cutline.At the beginning of the each competition day, the angler and Boat Official will agree on a consistent position within the boat for the official scale. The placement should emphasize accessibility and ease of use.Only the Angler will handle bass caught during competition. Once a bass is caught, placed on the measuring board and determined as score-able, the bass will be set onto the official scale by the angler, who will call "Fish On."The angler will hold the official scale by the handle only and position it at eye level. The bass must be held steady, allowing the scale to be clearly read first by the Boat Official in full view of the TV camera.The Boat Official will "call the weight" and the Angler will immediately confirm or challenge the call. If the call is challenged by the Angler, the Boat Official will immediately review the scale and either confirm or revise his initial call. The Angler must confirm the call. The Boat Official's decision will be final. Should the Angler refuse to confirm the call, the weight of the catch will not be recorded.Once the call is confirmed by the Angler, the Boat Official will immediately enter the weight into the MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING scoring system and record the weight in writing on the Boat Official's "Daily Score Pad."The Angler must maintain control of the bass until the Angler and the Boat Official have agreed upon the weight of the fish.After agreement is secured, the Angler is permitted to physically release the bass into the water and resume fishing. END-OF-PERIOD SCORING The on-board Scoring System will serve as the "Official Game Clock."An audible alert will mark the beginnings and ends of periods.At the ends of periods, Anglers will be clearly notified when period competition is over and Anglers must stop fishing. The only deviation to the scheduled ends of periods will be if an individual angler receives extra minutes because of a TIME OUT.Regarding the final cast of any period, any bass hooked on the final cast must be "inside the boat," visibly inside the gunnel.The legality or illegality of a period-end catch will be determined by the Boat Official. TACKLE AND EQUIPMENT Use of nets and grippers for landing bass is prohibited.Only artificial lures can be used.All bass must be caught in a conventional sporting manner.Any bass caught while "visually fishing" must be hooked inside the mouth and verified by the Boat Official before being unhooked.Anglers will be permitted the use of a lure retriever; however, Anglers must supply their lure retriever. TIES In case of a tie for first place at the end of any round of competition, there will be a 30-minute overtime fish-off involving the deadlocked competitors.The winner is the competitor that catches Score-able Bass with the highest weight total at the end of this period.If the competitors remain tied at the conclusion of a sudden-death period, subsequent 30-minute overtime periods will ensue until a winner is declared. SPECIFIC MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING COMPETITION RULES / PENALTIES GPS STORED WAYPOINTS: No pre-determined, user-generated GPS waypoints will be allowed. Waypoints may only be marked during competition hours. (Penalty - Commissioner: Illegal GPS Waypoints, Disqualification)OFF LIMITS: Lake is off limits to Anglers beginning August 1, 2012. (Penalty - Commissioner: Illegal Scouting, Disqualification)SHARING INFO: No sharing of information among Anglers during MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING competition. (Penalty - Commissioner: Sharing Information, Disqualification)ENCROACHMENT RULE: There is no official buoy distance rule. However, at no time is an Angler allowed to interfere with another Angler's line. If an Angler casts close to another Angler and hooks into his line, the casting Angler will be penalized. (Penalty – Boat Official: Hooking another's line, 2 Min. immediate, stop fishing)LANDING FISH: While landing fish, the fish cannot touch the carpet at any time during the process. If the fish comes unhooked from the bait and falls to the carpet it will be assessed as a violation. Excepted from this rule will be laying the fish on the carpet to remove a deep set hook, "only after it has been properly landed without it touching the carpet". (Penalty – Boat Official: Fish landing violation, 2 Min. immediate, stop fishing)RELEASING FISH: When releasing any fish that is score-able or not, the angler's hand must be at gunnel level or closer to the water. No flipping or tossing of fish. (Penalty – Boat Official: Fish release violation, 2 Min. immediate, stop fishing)BROKE OFF FISH: Breaking off a hooked fish while landing will result in a penalty. (Penalty – Boat Official: Breaking off hooked fish, 2 Min. immediate, stop fishing)SECOND LINE: An Angler will be allowed to utilize a second line in the water ONCE PER PERIOD. However, when utilizing a second line, an Angler must employ a "cast and retrieve" method. If an Angler casts a second line in the water more than once per period, the Angler will receive a penalty. Dragging a line from a stationery rod is not permitted. Although the Angler will be penalized for the second-time use of two lines, any bass caught is considered legal. (Penalty – Boat Official: Illegal cast second Line, 2 Min. immediate, stop fishing)LEAVING BOAT: Leaving the boat to assist in landing a fish will result in a penalty. Although penalized, if an Angler retrieves a Score-able bass, the fish will count. (Penalty – Boat Official: Leaving the Boat, 4 Minutes immediate, stop fishing)OUT OF BOUNDS: Anglers will compete in a pre-determined zone each day. Fishing out of bounds will result in a penalty being assessed. Any fish caught outside the zone will be considered an illegal catch. (Penalty – Boat Official: Fishing Out of Bounds, 5 Min. immediate, stop fishing)GRAPHING: Graphing between periods in order to locate fish is not allowed. (Penalty – Boat Official: Graphing Between Periods, 5 Min. at start of next period)GOING NEUTRAL: Round Two Anglers will be required to "go neutral" immediately after they have qualified for the next round of competition. Going neutral means the Angler is required to immediately stop fishing and return to a designated Rendezvous Point. (Penalty – Boat Official: Failure to "Go Neutral," 5 Min. at start of next round)PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICE: Each competitor and Boat Official must wear a Coast Guard-approved chest-type life preserver. Camera Operators are not required to wear the PFD but one must be on board for them. Life preservers must be strapped, snapped or zippered securely and maintained in that condition until the combustion engine is taken out of gear. (Penalty - Boat Official: Safe-boat conduct Penalty, 5 Min. immediate, stop fishing)KILL SWITCH: The Angler or other appointed driver must have his boat's kill switch connected any time the combustion engine is in gear. (Penalty – Boat Official: Kill-switch connection, 5 Min. immediate, stop fishing)SPORTSMANSHIP: A Sportsmanship Violation is defined as aggressive or hostile behavior directed at a fellow Angler, Boat Official, a non-competitor or a representative of MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING, including the use of profanity directed at these individuals, will not be tolerated. Boat Officials are required to report violations.(Sportsmanship Violation, Penalty determined by COMMISSIONER)FLAGRANT VIOLATION: A flagrant violation for any act that reflects unfavorably upon the positive efforts of MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING, MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING sponsors, spectators, fisheries conservation, and clean waters will not be tolerated. (Flagrant Sportsmanship Violation, Penalty determined by COMMISSIONER)MECHANICAL FAULT: If an Angler experiences mechanical failure during MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING competition and the Boat Official determines that the Angler is at fault for the problem, no TIME OUT will be called. (Penalty – Boat Official: Self-inflicted Mechanical Failure, No time out for repair)MECHANICAL FAILURE: If an Angler's boat experiences mechanical failure during competition and the problem is determined by the Boat Official to be no fault of the Angler, a TIME OUT will be issued. All competing Anglers will be promptly notified when a TIME OUT is to begin. Anglers must immediately stop fishing when the TIME OUT is called. Any Angler in the process of reeling in a "hooked" bass will be allowed to count the weight of this bass toward his daily weight total should he bring the bass into his boat.The TIME OUT will be employed for the duration required to replace the Angler's boat or appropriate boat part, unless that length of time exceeds 20 minutes. A TIME OUT will be capped at 20 minutes. The Boat Official of the Angler experiencing the boat failure will call the TIME OUT and manage the duration of the TIME OUT.At the end of the period, Anglers will be allotted extra minutes of fishing, with the total number of minutes equaling the duration of the TIME OUT. MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING reserves the right to alter the day's competitive time schedule should a TIME OUT occur. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Positive frist report from Consumer Report on their Model S with Supercharging Experience
Positive frist report from Consumer Report on their Model S with Supercharging Experience
I am always amused articles complaining other EVs can not charge at the SC. How is a Leaf going to get to the next SC - on a flatbed?
Awesome. Can't wait for the whole review.
The one part where he is incorrect is that the car needs (implied) the twin chargers in order to use superchargers. Which isn't the case.
"The one part where he is incorrect is that the car needs (implied) the twin chargers in order to use superchargers. Which isn't the case."
Where does he say that (or even imply it)? I don't see any reference to the twin chargers at all.
I thought it was a pretty good report. No gaffs or factual errors - unlike many reports out there.
It also mentioned that TM would be installing some EVSEs that non-Tesla's can use. I didn't know that. If it's true, it probably means 70 amp J1772 equipment at the same site as the SC.
gregv64- Watch the video at the end of the article where he mentions twin chargers being needed to use the Superchager.
In the video he says at 0:45 that the twin chargers allow the car to be charged up in 30 minutes. Sort of two mistakes in one.
Another error in the article:
"It's hard not to get mesmerized by the 17-inch touch-screen display. Though it's the sole interface for the audio system and other common vehicle functions, it's easy to use and responds quickly to taps."
He fails to mention that the scroll wheels & buttons on the steering wheel can interface quite nicely with the audio system (selecting volume and media inputs) as well as sunroof, phone calls, screen brightness, etc.
You know, all these errors in this particular consumer reports series (including the first one they did), isn't helping their image of being knowledgeable about what the heck they are reviewing...
The reviewer may not be knowledgeable but he is clearly pleased with the car so far. I'm figuring CR will write a very positive review on the S.
The video is not new to the article - I was referring to the text.
The video is old, that was already pointed out to them and corrected a while ago. I thought you were referring to the new article.
@DouglasR, I just read an article regarding Verizon and 12 other companies working with the U.S. DOE to add chargers at work places. Tesla is mentioned as one of the other 12 companies. There's not much info though. Here's the link: