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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
I've known The Sound of Music by heart for as long as I can remember. Not just the songs but the film dialog, as well. It was just that movie for me — the one you watch over and over, and somehow it never gets old. I still cry when the von Trapps sing "So Long, Farewell" at the party, I still laugh when the children introduce themselves to their new governess ("I'm Liesl. I'm 16 years old, and I don't need a governess."), and my heart still soars when Captain von Trapp declares his love for his governess. But mostly, it's the music that makes this movie so timeless. And that is why someone like Carrie Underwood — who has a timeless voice — is perfect to play governess and former nun Maria von Trapp in NBC's live three-hour event next year. I can hear Underwood just as clearly as I hear Julie Andrews on songs like "Something Good" in the gazebo or "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" with Liesl after the von Trapp's honeymoon, on "Do-Re-Mi" when she is teaching the Captain's seven children to sing and at the Kaltzberg Festival when she sings "So Long, Farewell" as the family secretly leaves the festival and Austria. And obviously, Underwood is a natural to belt out that her heart wants to sing every song it hears on the title song that will open and close the show.


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Man who shot at cops acquitted
SAN ANTONIO — Jurors who deliberated for 10 hours Tuesday determined that Adrian Perryman was not guilty of aggravated assault of a public servant for a 2010 shooting that took place inside his home as police were serving a search warrant.
They also found Perryman, 52, not guilty of a lesser charge of deadly conduct for firing four rounds at the group of officers he believed to be intruders.
Defense attorney Tony Jimenez told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday that his client, whose home had twice before been broken into, had been awakened by his frantic girlfriend, Rebecca Flores, and was acting on adrenaline when he shot.
"He was protecting his house, he was protecting Ms. Flores and he was protecting Savannah," he said, referencing the 3-year-old granddaughter of Flores who also was at the home the night of the October 2010 raid.
Though jurors never heard about the reasons for or results of the search warrant, police at the time reported finding methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and firearms in the home.
Prosecutors Steven Speir and Julie Wright argued that Perryman's in-home surveillance system would have given him ample warning of the police presence even if he hadn't heard the shouts of the nine officers yelling "Police! Search warrant!" as they broke down the door and entered the house.
"He was shooting straight at them," Wright said during closing arguments. "He certainly wasn't firing into the ceiling."
Perryman's former girlfriend, Flores, testified that she looked at the monitor the night of the raid as she came out of the shower and could only see two dark, shadowy figures crouched down outside the house before she ran to wake Perryman and handed him a gun, telling him burglars had returned to the home.
"I put my body over Savannah's," she said, recalling for jurors what she did in the moments after handing Perryman the gun and before he opened fire. "He said 'I've got a gun and I'm going to shoot — stay out!'"
Flores said it wasn't until after he fired four shots that she heard anyone yelling "Police!"
"I remember telling him the police were here; I thought they were there to protect us. I said 'Oh, thank God,'" she said.
Perryman took the stand in his defense last week and told jurors how he had shouted a warning before he heard the front door go down and "unloaded" his gun.
"When I knew they were policemen, I lay down, face down," he said, adding he dropped the gun and began apologizing. "I kept saying 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was y'all. I've been broken into before.'"

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Commercial, Products, Services
By By Andrew Parker, Senior Editor | March 5, 2011
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Greg Steiner is President of Kaman Aerospace Corp. He spoke with Rotor & Wing in the lead-up to Heli-Expo about various topics, including some insights on company founder Charles H. Kaman, who passed away on January 31 at age 91.
Rotor & Wing: We were all saddened to hear about the passing of Charles H. Kaman. Please describe how his legacy and influence have shaped the company and contributed to the helicopter industry as a whole.Steiner: His influence is the company. He was really quite a guy. Not very many people like that come along at any one time. His whole spirit of innovation and drive are really the heart of the company, so it certainly was a sad day. He hadn't been active with the company for several years, but his spirit certainly never left. I've only been here three years but can tell you what his reputation was—a lot of what I've heard about Charlie is through guys like [Kaman Helicopters President] Sal Bordonaro or [Unmanned Aircraft Systems division General Manager] Terry Fogarty. They've both been here 25-plus years and worked with Charlie. This tends to be one of those companies with a lot of long-term employees. People came here and worked for Charlie and stayed, so there's lots of great stories.
He was bigger than life and full of energy. People would describe—when he got an idea and said, we have to make this work, it was: "Bar the door, we're going!" Nobody looked at calendars or watches. They were on a mission. People would use words like "inspirational" when they talk about Charlie and what a great leader he was. It's really something. His reputation was one of a very dynamic leader, a very smart man with a lot of vision but [also had] the ability to make things happen. If he couldn't get it, he invented it. Our whole bearings business was driven on the fact that he couldn't get the bearings that he wanted for his helicopter, so he invented them and started a business out of it. That's the kind of things that Charlie did!
Rotor & Wing: What are the latest trends you're seeing in the U.S. and international helicopter industry?Steiner: When we look at our portfolio, we have a little heavier content on the military and defense side. The one business that's more commercial-oriented is the bearings business—they tend to run in the 60 to 70 percent commercial. Of the five businesses, the bearings business saw the most impact [from the recent global economic slowdown]. The rest of the businesses pretty much held their own, because in the defense world, if you're on a program and it's a good program, it tends to be fairly stable. We weathered this downturn pretty well—we didn't really grow in the period, but we didn't shrink either. We're looking at the ability now, moving forward with the commercial markets recovering and some of the positions that we have, we're now expecting to back into growth.
Rotor & Wing: What are the company's goals for the next two to three years?Steiner: We're pretty optimistic. We're on some good platforms that look like they'll continue to survive budget cuts, and we like our capabilities going forward. We're thinking that the commercial market will be reasonably robust, and some of the investments we're making go toward increasing our penetration in the commercial market. We'd like to more aggressively grow that part of the business while we maintain and grab content from the military. We're bullish about the next two, three, even five years.
Rotor & Wing: How is Kaman approaching this year's Heli-Expo?Steiner: Last year we talked about changes in the air, and this year we're using phrases like, "full speed ahead." Certainly the K-MAX will be featured there, some of the things we're doing in the blade center of excellence and the capability that we'll have in Mexico—it's all driven around growth and expansion.
Rotor & Wing: Please provide an update regarding the K-MAX unmanned aerial system (UAS) program for the U.S. Marine Corps' cargo resupply mission.Steiner: It's moving along quickly, and we're getting a lot of interest—not only from the Marine Corps but within the Army as well. We've gone through the system requirements review and have the critical design review coming up within the next 30 days. Then we're driving toward the [quick reaction] assessment in late summer.
Rotor & Wing: What is involved with the quick reaction assessment?Steiner: As we understand it, we'll go through a series of demonstrations as part of the assessment, and then the Marine Corps will make a decision. Right now, our understanding is they'll pick one of the platforms, and deploy that to Afghanistan to pilot the concept for sure.
Rotor & Wing: What are the next steps after completing the quick reaction assessment?Steiner: The way the contract is set up, there's a whole series of 30-day options, so we can deploy for two or three months, or we could for six or eight months, depending on what the [military] would like to do. We see that happening pretty quickly.
Rotor & Wing: Is Kaman exploring any commercial applications for the unmanned K-MAX?Steiner: We haven't looked real hard at the commercial side of unmanned—that's a very different world and would potentially have a whole lot of different requirements at the aircraft level. Our concentration for the future of the K-MAX has really been the military versions. The current program is very focused on cargo resupply. And we see some capabilities to expand the platform capability with add-ons. We can put other equipment on the aircraft, and it can be a relay [helicopter], it can be an observer—there's lots of other potential rather than being just a single-mission aircraft. Those are the kinds of things we're looking at for the future of the platform.
Rotor & Wing: Any future potential for commercial sectors, like firefighting or logging?Steiner: The primary use of the [manned K-MAX] fleet now is logging, firefighting and heavy lift. Some of that is real precision work, and having the pilot in the loop there makes a lot of sense. And there isn't the same level of inherent danger to the pilot as there is trying to resupply somebody in the mountains of Afghanistan. When you're logging, nobody's shooting at you.
Rotor & Wing: Please provide an update on the new Kaman Aerostructures facility in Chihuahua, Mexico.Steiner: The first things that we're qualifying are extrusions and fairly simple parts, and we have reserved a lot of room there to expand. We had the grand opening in November, and we're getting tons of interest and are very close to closing a couple orders. So we'll establish a pretty good footprint there over the next six months in feeding Jacksonville. [It's] an Aerospace Group facility, so the other businesses are looking at it to support low-cost initiatives as well. We could see having an autoclave down there for the Composites Group, and we could see some of the helicopter work being done there, should we go back into production. The big thing that we talk about there is that being a feeder—we're not taking jobs out of our U.S. facilities, this is allowing us to get more work, and some of it will feed the U.S. facilities.
Rotor & Wing: Why should operators continue to choose Kaman helicopters for their needs?Steiner: Over the last few years, we've transitioned out of being a real OEM. We're really not a full helicopter OEM—we're not producing helicopters today. But we still have the capabilities of an OEM, and our primary strategy is to leverage that. We're not as big and costly as a lot of the OEMs, yet we have the same level of capability and a strong history of innovation. Our primary goal going forward is to leverage these skills and concentrate on them. The whole idea of the innovations that we've done in blade work is now starting to drive a lot of businesses we've built up, [for instance] the center of excellence for blades. We're doing 20 different kinds of blades there. We're doing a whole bunch of blade assemblies for Bell, we do our own blades, we're doing some for Sikorsky, we're doing some for the early Cobras—so developing and concentrating that capability is important. Our ability to support our own fleet will continue to preserve that and we'd like to grow it as we look at the sale of the SH2GIs hopefully coming to fruition.


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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — FBI agents are going to meet an incoming flight at a New Jersey airport after reports that a passenger claimed that everyone aboard had been poisoned.
United Airlines Flight 116 from Hong Kong is scheduled to land at 2 p.m. Eastern on Monday at Newark Liberty Airport, outside New York City.
An FBI spokesman says there is no indication that any passengers had actually been poisoned, and that the passenger stood up and made the statement several hours ago and that the decision was made to continue on to Newark.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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Nursery Reveal
Ok, the time is here! Here are the pictures of the finished nursery! (Ok, "Phase 1″ finished… but still…)
I wanted to create a bright and cheerful room that could work for either a boy or a girl. I didn't want it to be "themey" but rather based around color, so I found some fabric that I based the whole room around. We ended up using this fabric for the curtains.
I loved the greens and blues in it. The curtains were made by my mother-in-law and have a band of turquoise at the bottom. There are a lot of windows in the room and it required a lot of fabric.
We picked a nice cheery yellow for the walls – Glidden's Buttercup, color-matched to Benjamin Moore paint (the only paint my husband thinks is worth anything…) and used some of Behr's Bamboo Leaf and Peacock Feather for other accents in the room (we'll get to those later).
We bought the bamboo roman shades at Home Depot and cut them to the width of the windows. We can never find exact matches for the old windows in our house and these shades are easy to cut to size.
We found both the sofa and the ottoman on Craigslist. The pillows are from Target (green & blue), Pier One (yellow) and the bigger quilted ones were made by my mother and my cousin.
I found the side table on Craigslist and it was already refinished with dark turquoise legs! I didn't have to do a thing to it! The green table lamp is from Target.
The crib is the Sundvik crib from IKEA. White and simple and inexpensive. We opted for simple white mesh breathable bumpers and rotate pale green, blue and yellow crib sheets from Target.
My mother sewed the crib skirt, from a coordinating fabric in the same line as the curtain fabric:
The art over the crib on the long window wall was a gift from my mother-in-law. It's from Petit Collage, and while I'm not sure where she bought those, I know you can find it on Etsy. The other art is the cross-stitch birth announcement lovingly made by my mother. She's been making cross-stitch birth announcements for years for numerous friends and family and I gave her a challenge with this one. I think a lot of child-oriented cross-stitch design is too overly sentimental or kitschy, so I found a neat Etsy shop that sells simple graphic bird and animal cross-stitch patterns and together we came up with a design combining several of the patterns and using the colors of the room.
We found the glider on Craigslist too – and I'm still considering recovering it, as the gray is the only gray in the room. Haven't quite decided what to do yet. The teal blanket was crocheted by a co-worker of mine, who had absolutely NO idea that the color fits PERFECTLY in the room. We love it.
The mobile was a gift from my mother-in-law. She bought it at a local art gallery.
The tiny little rocking chair was my sisters' and mine when we were little. I can't wait for Marc to be old enough to sit in it!
I painted the backs of the cubbies with the Peacock feather color and some of the cubbies hold Marc's amazing, growing library and some others have some awesome storage bins from Target. The top one holds keepsakes – his baptismal candle, several outfits I want to save – the middle one holds receiving blankets and burp cloths and the bottom one holds toys.
We took the door off of the closet and I sewed (with help from my mother-in-law!) the curtain to cover the door. It's made from this fabric:
The dresser/changing table was one more Craigslist find and was a beat up old brown dresser with ugly handles and cracked drawer bottoms. My dad sanded and primed the dresser and I painted it with the Bamboo Leaf color and then the drawers with a gradation in color (we added varying amounts of white to the base color to get the other colors) to create a cool ombre effect. Kelly replaced the drawer bottoms and refaced the insides of the drawers. I love the way it looks, though, it's an old dresser and has the quirks and stickiness of an old dresser.
I found some old baskets lying around the house and have all of Marc's cloth diapers and liners stacked up in them and easily accessible.
I think the art wall is pretty fun and features a lot of my DIY projects. I found the mirror at a local thrift store. It was plastic and and ugly dark green. I painted it turquoise, as you can see. I also painted the wooden letters on the shelf and decoupaged the scrapbook paper on the M hanging on the wall. The art is from Etsy, mainly. The "Let the Wild Rumpus Start!" from "Where the Wild Things Are" quote is from rawartletterpress, the airplane is from UrbanTickle (it says "I hope that even the sky is not the limit for you") and the M is for Monkey is from SeaUrchinStudio. The cross was from Marc's godparents on the occasion of his baptism. The other painting on the shelf was painted in 1999 by my flatmate when I was living overseas in Croatia. It's a simple painting of the Croatian coastline and the colors work perfectly in the room!
You can see the door wall here, where we painted the chalkboard door and where we do Marc's monthly picture taking.
I painted an old coat hook rack that was originally in the room hanging on the door with the blue paint and when Marc's old enough, he can hang his coats there. Right now I've got a few sentimental pieces of clothing hanging on it. The purple outfit was knitted by Marc's godmother after I complained about how all the purple clothes were on the girls' side of the store. Boys can wear purple! The red sweater was knitted by his godfather. It's a gorgeous Scandinavian design and has a hat, mittens and socks that go along with it. He wore the sweater on his baptism day. The lion outfit belonged to Marc's uncle – his namesake – when he was an infant in the 60s.
I stretched this Amy Butler fabric over some wood to create art on the wall next to the door:
Now, you're probably wondering what the heck is with the other wall in the room and why there are no pictures of it yet! Well, that's because it's the part of the room that's not finished yet and won't be until Phase 2 – or possibly Phase 3. But, just so you can see it, here it is:
Sad, I know. That green and blue bunting was actually the original inspiration for the room. It hung at our wedding and gave me the idea to do a room using green and blue. When this wall is finished, it will most likely still hang there, just over the wall of built-in cabinets that we are planning.
Right now this wall houses the wet diaper pail (that door is the door to the bathroom where we rinse out Marc's cloth diapers so it's very handy to have the pail right there) and a few of Marc's bigger toys.
Oh, I just realized here that you can see the carpet that we have in the room in this picture – we chose teal carpet tiles from Flor. We ended up not making a full 8×10 rug out of them – I think Kelly wanted to show off more of the gleaming hardwood floors he worked so hard on!
By the way, that cradle was made by my father for my sister when she was a baby! Now it is holding Roar Bear (my teddy bear as a child) and Marc's special Peter Rabbit (made by my mother for my little sister) and a sock monkey.
So, that's the nursery. I'm absolutely in love with this room. It's my favorite place in the whole house. It's so bright and cheerful and happy and I think it reflects Marc's happy little personality.
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(images from the gentlewoman)
It's that time of the year again, when planning beach holiday wardrobe isn't just a distraction from bad winter weather, but grounded in reality of approaching summer season. What I'm really hoping for is that by visualizing my plans, the rainy weather of the past few days will magically transform in to perfect summer days that smell like ocean and sunscreen. =)
This year I have also decided to go for one-piece bathing suits. I've been looking for a while for perfect black piece, with design that is as straight-forward as possible, because I strongly dislike silly fringes and unnecessary design additions when it comes to swimwear. And of course, I came across the perfect item while browsing A.P.C.'s webshop, that looks just how I imagined a perfect swimsuit for this year should look like. The minimalistic design looks chic as well as flattering.
But, that's not all! *cue exciting shopping adventures remix* While searching for beachwear, I stumbled across this striped piece by Norma Kamali, which has the same design qualities of the black A.P.C. piece, with added interest of striped pattern. I buy a striped bikini almost every year, so I was naturally drawn by this one-piece. The two items compliment each other perfectly, for a uniform holiday look, and more practically it's always a good idea to pack more than one swimsuit. I cannot wait to try the look with red lip balm and slicked-back chignon.


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From HaskellWiki
Unfortunately, some of the packages that Lambdabot depends on in Hackage do not, as of 9 January 2009, support GHC 6.10. Fortunately, the darcs repositories of most of these packages do support it.
To compile lambdabot on ghc >=6.10, follow the following steps
Get the stuff from darcs repositories:
darcs get http://code.haskell.org/HSP/haskell-src-exts darcs get http://code.haskell.org/mubot darcs get http://code.haskell.org/lambdabotLets install haskell-src-exts from darcs (TODO: This may not actually be required, the one from Hackage might be good enough):
cd haskell-src-exts cabal install cd ..
Install mueval:
cd mubot/mueval
cabal install
cd ../..
Apply a patch to lambdabot and install it:
cd lambdabot
wget http://www.haskell.org/wikiupload/e/ed/Lambdabot.patch -O -|patch -p1
cabal install
cd ..
Edit your online.rc file at ~/.cabal/share/lambdabot-version/online.rc
And run lambdabot via:
lambdabot -e "rc ~/.cabal/share/lambdabot-version/online.rc"
This may not be complete, please correct it if any more fixes are required, and as things are updated.
When I try to install mueval with GHC 7.2.1, I get a conflict:
cannot configure show-0.4.1.1. It requires base <4
mueval-0.8.1 requires base ==4.*
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Hematopoietic progenitor cells, cord blood is used for blood cell transplantation procedures in patients with disorders that affect blood production. This medicine is derived from human blood that is collected from the umbilical cord and placenta. The hematopoietic progenitor cells go to the bone marrow where they become red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets. These cells enter the blood stream and help restore low blood counts in patients with blood disorders.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the immediate supervision of your doctor.
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of hematopoietic progenitor cells, cord blood in children.
Although appropriate studies on the relationship of age to the effects of hematopoietic progenitor cells, cord blood have not been performed in the geriatric population, no geriatric-specific problems have been documented to date. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related liver, kidney, or heart problems, which may require caution in patients receiving this medicine.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
A doctor or other trained health professional will give you this medicine in a hospital. This medicine is given through a needle placed in one of your veins.
You may also receive medicines (eg, antihistamines, corticosteroids) to help prevent adverse reactions to the injection.
Your doctor will check your progress closely while you are receiving this medicine. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly. Blood and urine tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
This medicine may cause serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. Tell your doctor or nurse right away if you have a skin rash, hives or itching, sweating, swelling of the face, tongue, and throat, trouble breathing, or chest pain after you get the injection.
This medicine may cause infusion reactions. This can occur while you are receiving the injection or in the first few hours after it has ended. Check with your doctor or nurse right away if you have headaches, dizziness, muscle aches, fever or chills, or a skin reaction, such as a rash or itching.
Tell your doctor right away if you have a fever, rash, diarrhea, unexplained weight gain, or yellow skin or eyes. These may be symptoms of serious conditions called graft-versus-host disease or engraftment syndrome.
Tell your doctor right away if you have swollen glands, a fever, diarrhea, loss of appetite, stomach pain, or weight loss after receiving this medicine. These may be symptoms of a rare, but serious condition, called posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). It can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention.
This medicine is made from donated human blood. Some human blood products have transmitted viruses to people who have received them, although the risk is low. Human donors and donated blood are both tested for viruses to keep the transmission risk low. Talk with your doctor about this risk if you are concerned.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor or nurse immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Feb. 01, 2020
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Since opening in 2000, the culture at Alliance has been one with an entrepreneurial spirit that consistently pushes the evolution of the multifamily industry. As a result, we've revolutionized the apartment living experience and continue to be recognized for delivering world-class services and exceptional customer experiences. And that's really why we are here in the first place - to build homes, lifestyles, and opportunities for those who call Alliance home. It's this mission that propels us forward each day, motivating us to craft work environments that are engaging, empowering, and dedicated to professional advancement.
If you're looking for a fast-pace, ever-evolving career that rewards grit and perseverance, you've come to the right place. Welcome home.
As our Assistant Business Manager you have the opportunity to balance world class customer service with managing the financial aspects to run a successful apartment community. While mentoring the Sales Associates, you will be expected to drive and retain revenue for the property and motivate those around you to do so as well. By supporting the property goals and working in collaboration with the Business Manager, the Assistant Business Manager will strive towards achieving the highest Net Operating Income possible. This position is the backbone of the property as it coordinates all move-ins, move-outs and monthly reports.


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Soccer reduces risk of falls and bone fractures
An extensive research project has studied the effects of soccer on muscle strength, postural balance, bone mineral density and reflex response to a sudden push in the back among adult women and men. Five scientific articles are now being published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports showing that regular participation in soccer increases both bone mass and bone density, causes a significant improvement in standing postural balance and improves muscle strength. Together, these effects reduce the risk of falls and bone fractures.
The observed improvements in bone mineral density, strength and postural balance due to recreational soccer are of particularly interest for a large group of women but also for elderly men, says project leader Associate Professor Peter Krustrup, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, and continue "It is well known that the risk of falls and fractures increases with age as a result of weaker bones, poorer balance and attenuated ability to trigger rapid muscle force, but the present results suggest that soccer - and possibly other ball games - is an effective training method to reduce bone weakening that comes with increasing age".
Better bones from soccer than from running
A 14-week study in which women aged 20-47 years trained soccer twice a week showed marked increases in bone density in the left and right tibia. Furthermore, soccer training showed an elevated mass of the calf muscle, greater muscle strength, and an improved balance. A 16-months training intervention for the same subject group showed that prolonged soccer training for untrained premenopausal women elevates whole-body bone mineral density. The women who participated in the study had never played soccer before, implying that all can benefit from soccer. Interestingly the short- and long-term training effects on bone mineral density were greater for the soccer players than for a similar group of runners and an inactive control group.
- "During soccer training and games, the players perform many sprints, turns, kicks and tackles. This combination of actions help achieve a variable bone impact that appears to provide a better stimulus to bone mineralisation than running", explains project leader Peter Krustrup.
Little training required
Small-sided soccer games for 1 hour two to three times a week during 12 weeks for untrained men aged 20-40 years resulted in significant increases in muscle mass and leg bone mass, whereas no effects occurred for the inactive control group. The postural balance was improved as well. In a follow-up study on long-term effects of soccer for men, it was demonstrated that 64 weeks of training have an additional effect on both muscle mass and leg bone mineral density. These effects were observed despite the fact that the training volume was reduced significantly. After the first 12 weeks the training frequency was only 1.3 times per week, indicating that a relatively small amount of training can nevertheless affect bone strength in the longer term.
70-year-old men as fit as 30-year-olds
The research group has also examined muscle function and postural balance in a group of 65-75 year old men who have played recreational soccer most of their lives and compared the values with a group of men at the same age without specific training and a group of 30-year-old untrained men.
- "The research shows that 70-year-old men, who have played soccer most of their lives on a recreational basis, have just as good a balance and rapid muscle strength as untrained 30-year-olds and much better balance and muscle strength than their peers" says Peter Krustrup.
As an example, the untrained older men had more than twice as many falls in a one-leg balance test, compared to the soccer-trained older men and untrained young men.
About the project
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Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne is an actress who has appeared in a number of TV shows and movies over the past 20 years. She started out as a child actor on the popular 1980s Saturday morning TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Born in 1979, Natasha is best known for her role as "Jessica" in the 1999 hit movie American Pie.
After American Pie became a smash hit, Natasha became very active on the Hollywood party circuit. At the time was a young a pretty star who undoubtedly loved all of the attention she received from fans of the movie and the public as a whole. Here are some pictures of Natasha was she looking her best:
Unfortunately, Natasha's rampant partying and use of illicit drugs started to catch up to her. On August 28, 2001, Lyonne was arrested by Miami Beach police after hitting a road sign with her rented Dodge and trying to flee the scene. A Miami Beach Police officer witnessed the incident. According to a Miami Beach Police Department report, Lyonne refused a Breathalyzer test and actually stated: "I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?" Her boyfriend, actor Adam Goldberg, was riding in the car at the time. Lyonne later pled guilty to driving under the influence and received six months of probation and 50 hours of community service. This is her mugshot taken after her arrest:
Lyonne became friends with fellow actor Michael Rapaport in 1997 and later subletted his apartment in Los Angeles in 2001 for about a year. She moved to New York City in 2002 and rented an apartment in a building Rapaport owned on East 18th Street. The building had four apartments with several common areas shared with other tenants. Some of the other tenants began complaining about Lyonne's behavior from late 2002-early 2003, saying the she was frequently screaming at people, flipping out, and having loud guests over late at night. The other tenants also reported that Lyonne started entering her apartment through a window because she didn't want to use the front door. Eventually one of the other tenants had enough and moved out. Two other girls moved into the vacated apartment and Lyonne verbally abused them right away, yelling "Why the fuck did you cunts move in here?"
In late 2003 Rapaport had enough of Lyonne's antics and flew to New York City to tell her she had to move out. He was shocked when he saw her - he said she was really skinny and her hair was falling out. In late 2004 Lyonne verbally attacked one of the other tenants in her building and threatened to "sexually molest" her neighbor's dog and breaking a mirror in the neighbor's apartment. She spent a night in jail before being arraigned on charges of criminal mischief, harassment, and trespassing. The details of this incident did not become publicly known until two years later. In April 2005, an arrest warrant was issued for Lyonne for failure to appear in court on the charges. Prosecutors say she showed up, but arrived an hour late and only stayed 30 minutes. The charges were eventually dropped in December 2006 after Lyonne paid $2,000 in restitution and completed a court-ordered drug program.
Rapaport finally evicted Lyonne in January 2005 and was shocked at how much Lyonne had trashed his place. According to an article Rapaport wrote for Jane magazine, Lyonne caused $16,000 worth of damage to the apartment. The sink and tub were clogged and broken glasses sat untended in the sink. The New York City plumber who repaired the pipes said that "he'd never seen anything that bad before."
In August 2005, the New York Post reported that Lyonne was in Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan under a pseudonym, and had been there for over a month after being transferred from Bellevue Hospital. She reportedly suffered from hepatitis C, a heart infection, and a collapsed lung. She was also allegedly undergoing methadone treatment for a heroin addiction and had track marks on her body. The Post also reported that Lyonne had been homeless and on the streets after her eviction by Rapaport.
In June 2006 the online gossip website Gawker wrote that Lyonne was spotted in New York City looking very haggard and as though she was almost in a "drug-induced coma," "covered in a bad bed rash," and "could die at any moment." All of this makes Natasha Lyonne one washed-up celebrity!
Here are scans of the article Rapaport wrote about Lyonne in Jane magazine (click on the images for a larger view):
***Update - February 14, 2008***
Natasha Lyonne recently attended the opening night of the off-broadway show Two Thousand Years. She was photographed with her friend Chloe Sevigny at the show. She looks very haggard and chubby, but hopefully for her sake, she finally managed to kick her drug addictions.


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Tucker's kobolds
This month's editorial is about Tucker's kobolds. We get letters on occasion asking for advice on creating high-level AD&D® game adventures, and Tucker's kobolds seem to fit the bill.
Many high-level characters have little to do because they're not challenged. They yawn at tarrasques and must be forcibly kept awake when a lich appears. The DMs involved don't know what to do, so they stop dealing with the problem and the characters go into Character Limbo. Getting to high level is hard, but doing anything once you get there is worse.
One of the key problems in adventure design lies in creating opponents who can challenge powerful characters. Singular monsters like tarrasques and liches are easy to gang up on; the party can concentrate its firepower on the target until the target falls down dead and wiggles its little feet in the air. Designing monsters more powerful than a tarrasque is self-defeating; if the group kills your super-monster, what will you do next send in its mother? That didn't work on Beowulf, and it probably won't work here.
Worse yet, singular supermonsters rarely have to think. They just use their trusty, predictable claw/claw/bite. This shouldn't be the measure of a campaign. These games fall apart because there's no challenge to them, no mental stimulation - no danger.
In all the games that I've seen, the worst, most horrible, most awful beyond-comparison opponents ever seen were often weaker than the characters who fought them. They were simply well-armed and intelligent beings who were played by the DM to be utterly ruthless and clever. Tucker's kobolds were like that.
Tucker ran an incredibly dangerous dungeon in the days I was stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C. This dungeon had corridors that changed all of your donkeys into huge flaming demons or dropped the whole party into acid baths, but the demons were wienies compared to the kobolds on Level One. These kobolds were just regular kobolds, with 1-4 hp and all that, but they were mean. When I say they were mean, I mean they were bad, Jim. They graduated magna cum laude from the Sauron Institute for the Criminally Vicious.
When I joined the gaming group, some of the PCs had already met Tucker's kobolds, and they were not eager to repeat the experience. The party leader went over the penciled map of the dungeon and tried to find ways to avoid the little critters, but it was not possible. The group resigned itself to making a run for it through Level One to get to the elevators, where we could go down to Level Ten and fight "okay" monsters like huge flaming demons.
It didn't work. The kobolds caught us about 60' into the dungeon and locked the door behind us and barred it. Then they set the corridor on fire, while we were still in it.
"NOOOOOO!!!" screamed the party leader. "It's THEM! Run!!!"
Thus encouraged, our party scrambled down a side passage, only to be ambushed by more kobolds firing with light crossbows through murder holes in the walls and ceilings. Kobolds with metal armor and shields flung Molotov cocktails at us from the other sides of huge piles of flaming debris, which other kobolds pushed ahead of their formation using long metal poles like broomsticks. There was no mistake about it. These kobolds were bad.
We turned to our group leader for advice.
"AAAAAAGH!!!" he cried, hands clasped over his face to shut out the tactical situation.
We abandoned most of our carried items and donkeys to speed our flight toward the elevators, but we were cut off by kobold snipers who could split-move and fire, ducking back behind stones and corners after launching steel-tipped bolts and arrows, javelins, hand axes, and more flaming oil bottles. We ran into an unexplored section of Level One, taking damage all the time. It was then we discovered that these kobolds had honeycombed the first level with small tunnels to speed their movements. Kobold commandos were everywhere. All of our hirelings died. Most of our henchmen followed. We were next.
I recall we had a 12th-level magic user with us, and we asked him to throw a spell or something. "Blast 'em!" we yelled as we ran. "Fireball 'em! Get those little @#+$%*&!!"
"What, in these narrow corridors? " he yelled back. "You want I should burn us all up instead of them?"
Our panicked flight suddenly took us to a dead-end corridor, where a giant air shaft dropped straight down into unspeakable darkness, far past Level Ten. Here we hastily pounded spikes into the floors and walls, flung ropes over the ledge, and climbed straight down into that unspeakable darkness, because anything we met down there was sure to be better than those kobolds.
We escaped, met some huge flaming demons on Level Ten, and even managed to kill one after about an hour of combat and the lives of half the group. We felt pretty good but the group leader could not be cheered up.
"We still have to go out the way we came in," he said as he gloomily prepared to divide up the treasure.
Tucker's kobolds were the worst things we could imagine. They ate all our donkeys and took our treasure and did everything they could to make us miserable, but they had style and brains and tenacity and courage. We respected them and loved them, sort of, because they were never boring.
If kobolds could do this to a group of PCs from 6th to 12th level, picture what a few orcs and some low level NPCs could do to a 12th-16th level group, or a gang of mid-level NPCs and monsters to groups of up to 20th level. Then give it a try. Sometimes, it's the little things used well that count.
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I gripe often about the current state of Country Music. So much so, I know it's quite redundant and it makes me sound like I might possibly be running low on my Geritol. Brace yourselves…for I am about to embark on a positive pontification about a couple of current Country Music people. This doesn't happen often, nor can I predict when it will happen again. Soak it up, y'all.
I actually LIKE Miranda Lambert. There, I said it. She writes her own songs and chooses songs that have substance, a good beat and are easy to dance to. She can play a guitar. She's from Texas. She can harmonize. (Not everybody can. This brings large points with me from any singer)
I looove that Little White Liar song she sings. There's some other song I've heard of hers that I can recall its title at the moment but I like it. I LOVE "The House That Built Me." First time I heard it, which was not long after my mother died, I proceeded to burst into controllable tears and sobbing.
Admittedly, I have an issue with Miranda and Sheryl Crow singing with my Loretty on "Coal Miner's Daughter", namely because she doesn't say "In the summertime we didn't have shoes to waaaaaar; but in the wintertime, we'd all get a brand new paaaaaaar" like it was intended by the Good Lord to be done. (I am saying this in the same tone Loretty tells Doo in the movie that "You don't put no salt in chocolate pie…you jess put shigger")
Songs like "Coal Miner's Daughter" should not be sung by anyone who is not the offspring of a coal miner.
Now, Patty Loveless was a Coal Miner's Daughter as obviously was Loretta's sisters Crystal Gayle and Peggy (PAIG-gy) Sue. The kids of all those Chilean miners could sing it and I would be tickled!
I have come to terms with Miranda and Sheryl singing on Coal Miner's Daughter just because Loretta wanted them to sing it. That's that.
Anyhoo, back to the newly crowned CMA Vocalist of the Year-Miranda is a beautiful young woman. One of the things that makes her so gorgeous to me is she is not anorexic like her pal here and looks like she's eaten this week. You can't count the bones in her shoulder area. She looks healthy.
Her pal here looks pale and perhaps a little dehydrated. Somebody give Taylor some beans and cornbread!!! Stat!
Look at the gorgeous Hilary Scott of Lady Antebellum, who I ALSO like.
Something about Hilary that stands out is she is a brunette! She has curves. She can sing. Why she thinks she needs those other two guys to have a career, I do not know.
I implore both Miranda and Hilary…please, PLEASE do not destroy your faces with plastic surgery. And regardless of what your likely overweight publicists/handlers may try to tell you, you do not need to lose weight. Even ol' Reba is starting to get that scary, Mary Tyler Moore-look. Just don't do it. Reba needed a little help. You girls do NOT.
I did not watch the awards at all last night. I purposely skipped them. I realized late last night why I really didn't have a desire to watch and it wasn't because I feared upchucking over the off-key singing I knew I would hear.
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I was clearing my late fathers stuff, and came across a beautiful walking cane. There is a sterling silver band near the top and after cleaning it says clearly Colonel Bayly 1889. A bit of research shows that he commanded 1st Bn. at this time.
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As well as facing possible antitrust claims in the US, the European Union is now taking a look at Apple's closed-shop practises—with EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes claiming makers "cannot just choose to deny interoperability with their product."
The locked-down nature of Apple's App Store was specifically mentioned by Kroes, who also said that "consumers need choice when it comes to software or hardware products". And she doesn't mean buy a DROID instead.
Apple ought to be rather concerned about the rampaging commissioner, as she has a track record in winning EU antitrust cases—Kroes helped the EU whack Intel for over a billion dollars in '09. [Rethink Wireless]
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Mobility 2002: Some Potholes RemainBy Gary Bolles
Mobility 2002: Some Potholes Remain
Mobile applications have been "the next big thing" for several years now. The building of wireless networks, aggressive pricing of data services, and a rise in the use of handhelds and special-purpose e-mail devices have set the stage for large-scale rollouts. According to the 520 IT executives answering our latest survey, the use of mobile applications by both employees and customers has been on the rise, but the results are a mixed bag, suggesting that mobility isn't a near-term answer for every company.
The 57% of respondents with employee-focused offeringstypically dial-up e-mail access for Windows laptopsreported improvements in productivity and communication. About 76% said they were somewhat or highly satisfied with their mobile offerings for employees, but 60% found their mobility offerings only somewhat valuable, with ROI still not fully clear.
The 38% of CIOs whose companies provide or support mobile applications for their customers focus on e-mail, news and providing access to account information. But, like employee offerings, satisfaction with initiatives supporting mobile customers remains mixed. About 68% say their efforts are highly or somewhat valuable, but slightly more than half were in the latter category. Only one goal, more efficient logistics, was achieved by more than 50%, and a downturn in projected spending for 2002 shows concerns with such weak results.
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In some ways, the circus hasn't changed in 100 years: Elephants still lumber around the ring, trapeze artists fly overhead, and clowns tumble out of an impossibly small car.
In other ways, however, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is like any other modern business. When the last show of the day is over, crewmembers head back to their quarters, remove their makeup, plug in their laptops and check for e-mail. Business managers upload the day's ticket sales data and order more advertising if necessary, then download changes to contracts or travel plans from headquarters.
Supplying the connections can sometimes have Fred Wade, vice president and CIO of Feld Entertainment Inc., which owns the circus, feeling like the guy who rides the bicycle on the high wire. Dial-up is a clumsy solution for a business that travels 30,000 miles by train each year. Wade has pulled telephone cables into the campgrounds for dial-up, experimented with wireless and is planning to look into satellite hookupsbut so far nothing has satisfied him. "Unfortunately, a lot of vendors talk a good story," he says, "but there's a lot of marketing hype."
Wade adds that wireless technology in the U.S. "is about as good as a cell phonethe coverage isn't there yet. And the international side of the equation is a whole different world. They're on a different frequency." In the U.S., in fact, he shut down the wireless efforts for 2001 after his vendor went bankrupt. "We had 128k connectivity in 300 cities, supposedly. When it worked, you could get your e-mail and do videoconferencing and instant messaging all simultaneouslyjust like having an ISDN line. But when it didn't work ."
Early in 2002 he'll be testing a satellite hookup, with two-way transmission of data. "Instead of pulling landlines, I'd like to be like the military in Desert Storm: Put up a satellite connection, and run a wide-area network and local-area wireless."
Wade's experience reflects that of other executives we spoke with. "We would like to move to wireless, but half our sales guys spend a significant part of the day in rural areas, and the cellular service is sketchy," says Rick Pullen, IS manager at Centennial Foods, a wholesale food distribution company based in Calgary, Alberta. So, his firm's 50 sales people still rely on dial-up connections.
Even so, Pullen is among the 26 percent of our survey respondents who say their company has increased revenues by providing mobile technology to their employees. Centennial's salespeople borrow customer phone lines to dial up headquarters on their Windows laptops and enter orders, check inventories and review customer accounts.
"We are very pleased," Pullen says. "We sell more line items per invoice, and we have greater margins. The salespeople can see a customer's order history for the past 54 weeks, so they don't miss anything the customer might want. And they can see the margins on everything we offer, so they can offer higher-margin items to the customer. "
Other firms are finding success with wireless. Iain Gillott, founder of iGillott Research Inc. in Austin, Texas, a market strategy consultancy focused on the mobile and wireless industries, recently studied 35 Fortune 500 companies that experienced positive ROI on wireless programs. The most successful companies have kept their initiatives limited to one or two targeted applications, Gillott says, and they have leveraged applications and devices they already own.
"There has been a feeling that not many companies were doing anything with wireless, other than e-mail," Gillott says. "What we found is that there are a lot of people doing a lot of thingsthey're just not telling anyone about it. They consider it a competitive advantage."
E-mail is still the most common wireless application, says John Stehman, principal analyst at the Robert Frances Group Inc., an IT research firm based in Westport, Conn. What's being rolled out now, he says, are wireless field-service applicationsservice engineers getting their next trouble call via wireless, for exampleand sales-force automation applications. These projects are going forward even amid budget cutting, because they're not a big expense when compared with the resulting gains in productivity.
Stehman warns, however, that wireless isn't completely ready for anything that is time critical. "The wireless infrastructure we're using for data is no better than the one we're using for voice, and that one needs a lot of help." Some users, he says, have installed middleware to cover the gaps.
The biggest problem for technology executives, Stehman adds, is the confusion created by so-called "third generation" or 3G wireless services. "All the promises for faster speeds, better access, better coveragethey're promises, not fact. They will require significant infrastructure, significant investment, and they will be very hard to do." This next generation network is appearing in geographic pockets in the U.S. "Unless you're in those little areas, it doesn't do you much good," he says.
Still, the promise of wireless computing keeps most everyone interested. Five years from now, wireless devices will be like television sets today, Stehman says. You can take a TV set anywhere today and just plug it in. "That future device will have an intelligent radio card looking for all the signals out there and connect you to the strongest automatically, no matter which carrier owns it. You don't care who provides electric power today; that will happen for wireless in the future."
And some CIOs are thinking big. Lt. Michael Kozak, CIO and IT director of the Rochester (N.Y.) Police Department, plans a transformation in the way the department uses information to fight crime, starting with an initiative to equip some 300 officers on the road with wireless laptops. Instead of returning to headquarters to write up reports by hand, officers would prepare them electronically and file them from their squad cars.
The data from their reports will be analyzed to track crime statistics geographically, look for patterns, and forecast where and when future crimes might occur. Up-to-date data will be available in real time. "Let's say an officer has been off for two days," Kozak says. "He signs on and the computer recognizes he's been away, so it gives him an idea of what's been going on and flags safety issues."
Reflecting on what's coming in mobile computing, and particularly in wireless, Stehman of the Robert Frances Group says: "There will be some turmoil in 2002, but at the end of the day, it will get better."Terry A. Kirkpatrick
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Conclusion 01: Employee Mobile Services
The most widely implemented mobile offering for employees is dial-up e-mail service for Windows laptops. But organizations are planning to branch out into new applications for their specific industries and to support remote wireless access for a variety of devices.
The most popular mobile application for employees by far is e-mail, with 97% providing mobile access. Applications accessing corporate databases and the corporate intranet come next, both at 70%. The least offered application is instant messaging, with only 40%.
More remote dial-up services for employees are offered for Windows laptops than any other platform, at 96%. In contrast, only 19% support Apple laptops. Palm OS and Windows CE handhelds are used by 22% and 19%, respectively. For remote wireless services, Internet-enabled mobile phones (phones that can access customer and other corporate data from remote servers), pagers and mobile e-mail devices are supported by 51%, 50% and 46%, respectively.
Future plans focus on customized industry-specific applications, at 46%. Except for e-mail, all other options, such as database and intranet access, range between 34% and 40% of respondents. CIOs also signaled strong intentions to support remote wireless offerings for Windows laptops (54%), mobile e-mail devices (53%) and Palm OS handhelds (51%).
Remote access from home is supported by three fourths of respondents. Larger companies pull this average up, with 82% supporting home access.
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Conclusion 02: Benefits
There's news for those implementing mobility applications for employees: Results significantly exceeded expectations in areas such as employee productivity and improved communications. But quantifiable benefits such as increased revenues or reduced costs were tougher to find.
Hoped-for results for employee mobility offerings included increased employee productivity (69%), reduced costs (64%) and improved communications (60%). And companies were resoundingly successful with two of these: Productivity rose for 79%, and communications improved for 82%. But costs were reduced for only 40%.
About 54% of respondents hoped for a new business model or corporate strategy, but only 22% achieved it. Increased revenue was anticipated by 55%, but gained by only 26%. And increased speed to market was looked for by 45%, but reported by just 20%. Smaller companies assuming revenues would increase were disappointed. Fifty-nine percent had hoped for such a return, but only 22% realized it.
When it comes to assessing the value of their mobile offerings, IT execs are cautiously positive. Sixty percent say they're somewhat valuable, with ROI not yet fully proven. Add in those who chose "highly valuable, proven ROI," and the number jumps to 76%.
Organizations that don't offer mobile applications cite the major reason as unproven value and cost57% and 53%, respectivelythough complexity isn't much of an issue (10%).
Conclusion 03
Conclusion 03: Selection and Support
When it comes to decision-making about the selection, purchase and support of mobile devices, managers are clearly in the driver's seat. Only rarely do individual employees have much to say about the devices they use. Companies normally pick up the tab for monthly access fees.
Organizations are most likely to control the selection of Windows (91%), Apple (74%) and Unix laptops (83%). Pagers are also likely candidates for selection by the organization, at 81%. Users are most likely to choose their own Palm OS and Windows CE handheld devices44% and 41%, respectivelyas well as voice-only cell phones, 39% of the time.
Organizations are very likely to pay any monthly charges associated with mobile applications65% to 86% of the time, depending on the platform. They are even more likely to cover support costs, ranging from 75% for "other" computing handhelds, to 97% for Windows laptops.
Spending mobile initiatives is projected to remain relatively static. Seventy-two percent spent less than $500,000 on mobile offerings in the past 12 months, and 74% say they'll do the same in the next 12. Two thirds of smaller companies say they spent less than $100,000, while only one quarter of larger organizations spent that little.
Conclusion 04
Conclusion 04: Customer Mobile Services
Customer mobility offerings, used by 38% of respondents, are typically used to gain access to basic data, such as news or customer information. Windows laptops and handheld devices are popular, as are Internet-enabled mobile phones.
The most popular mobile customer service offerings were remote access to account or customer-specific information (69%) and mobile applications that meet industry-specific needs (42%). The least common are services to help customers shop while in stores, offered by only 11%, and pushing ads and/or product data to customers, at 17%.
When it comes to remote wireless access, 54% support Palm OS handhelds and Internet-enabled mobile phones, while 53% support Windows laptops. This support can range from designing Web sites that simply enable customers to quickly download information to developing software for a specific device. Larger companies were more likely than their smaller counterparts to support remote wireless services such as pagers (58% vs. 32%) and mobile e-mail devices (53% vs. 39%).
Conclusion 05
Conclusion 05: Customer Gains
Mobile offerings for customers are important to the companies we surveyed, with 65% reporting their efforts as somewhat or extremely important. Smaller and larger companies were similar in their attitudes. But expected gains from these services usually far outstripped actual results.
Companies have had somewhat high expectations for their customer mobility offerings, but expectations were not nearly as often realized, though some came close. Larger companies said they developed new business models or strategies 50% of the time, about what they'd anticipated. Fifty-eight percent of these companies reported goals for more efficient logistics; those goals were met at the same pace. But in several other areas, such as reducing customer acquisition costs and support costs, and increasing sales per customer, expectations and results were vastly different.
As a result, the jury's still out on the value of mobility offerings for customers. Only 17% said that their mobility services were highly valuable, with proven return on investment. Yet only 2% said their efforts had been a waste of time. Fully half of our respondents believe that ROI still isn't completely clear, with the remaining 30% saying their efforts weren't valuable yet, with ROI still hoped for.
Spending trends seem to map to these concerns. In the past year, 61% have spent at least $100,000 on their mobile offerings. That number falls to 40% for next year.
There's no question that mobile access is on the move, especially traditional offerings such as remote dial-up for Windows laptops. Mobility offerings are providing clear benefits in a few areas, such as improved communications and increased productivity for employees. But overall, the jury is still out for mobile applications, both for customers and employees. ROI is still assumed rather than demonstrated, and in some customer-focused areas, investment next year may actually be reduced. Organizations can still receive value from these offerings, but CIOs looking to experiment with such services should closely track return on investment, carefully manage expectations and keep spending tightly controlled.
How the survey was done: CIO Insight designed the mobility survey in partnership with Survey.com, a San Jose, Calif.-based supplier of custom online research services. CIOs, chief technology officers, and vice presidents of information technology and services from a number of sources, including third-party lists and other Ziff Davis Media publications, were invited to participate in the study by e-mail. The survey was then posted on a password-protected site, and 520 people responded between Nov. 8 and Nov. 13, 2001.


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Johnson Publishing Co., former owner of the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines that helped changed the negative image of black people portrayed by U.S. media, filed for bankruptcy liquidation Tuesday in a federal court in Chicago.
Lawyers for a former University of Illinois student accused of killing a Chinese scholar say university counselors didn't offer him adequate care when he sought help for suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
After months of debate, the controversial $1 billion public subsidy for Lincoln Yards is now law. City Council approved the measure hours after Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot softened her opposition to the project.
An evidentiary hearing that began Wednesday will be used to determine whether four officers can keep their jobs following accusations they lied about what happened the night Laquan McDonald was killed.
The non-binding measure is being celebrated by environmental advocates, who note that Chicago is now the largest U.S. city to announce a timeline for obtaining all of its energy from renewable sources.
"The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey" is a wildly creative story about a familiar message brought to life by Chicago actor Joe Foust's effortless storytelling skills, comic sensibility and emotional range.
More than 128,000 individuals in Chicago are identified as gang-related, according to reports. The city's top watchdog tells us about the police department's gang database.
A semi-pro baseball team once bested the big leagues on the Northwest Side. Geoffrey Baer takes a swing at local baseball history and its "outlaw clubs."
Chicago's next mayor won't be sworn in until May 20, but she's hitting the ground running. On Wednesday, Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot left the city to meet with top political leaders in Springfield.
Sometimes the best thing for a forest or prairie is to burn it. We spend a day with a Cook County burn crew.
Ever since Einstein's theory of relativity first predicted them, black holes have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike. We speak with two local astrophysicists about this scientific breakthrough.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel gets a warm send-off from his colleagues at his final City Council meeting. Our politics team tackles that and some of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering over Lincoln Yards.
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Bose is one of the most polarizing brands in home audio, especially on the Internet. Some home theater enthusiasts are quick to dismiss Bose products as overpriced and overhyped, but user reviews for Bose's products are often overwhelmingly positive. That makes it tough for buyers to separate truth from fiction.
Whatever your opinion on Bose may be, there's no denying the company's products are expensive, which is why we couldn't include a Bose system in our recent roundup of 5.1 speaker packages for under $500. The Bose Acoustimass 6 Series III ($700 street price) was the closest we could get and we compared it with its more affordable competitors. For all the vitriol hurled Bose's way, the Acoustimass 6 Series III held its own in head-to-head testing, especially considering its satellite speakers are among the smallest we've seen. On the other hand, it's hard to justify its $700 price, especially when an excellent alternative like the Energy Take Classic 5.1 system is available for just $400. The Bose Acoustimass 6 Series III definitely isn't our top choice for a budget 5.1 speaker system (especially for value-conscious buyers), but those who have to have the Bose name won't be disappointed.
Design and features
The Acoustimass 6 Series III is a six-piece system: five "virtually invisible" (that's Bose's term) satellite speakers and a large subwoofer. The satellites are perfectly visible to our eyes, but they are tiny at a mere 3.1 inches high, 3.1 inches wide, and 4 inches deep. Each sat houses a single 2.5-inch "Twiddler" driver, but no separate tweeter. The black plastic speakers weigh 1.1 pounds each; the cabinets are attractive and have non-removable black cloth grilles.
While Bose refers to the speakers as cubes, their backs are curved and have threaded inserts to facilitate wall-mounting. No brackets of any kind are supplied with the Acoustimass 6 system, but Bose sells cast-metal UB-20 wall/ceiling brackets. These brackets allow horizontal and vertical adjustment of the speakers, so you can direct the sound where you like. We placed the sats on stands and put the center-channel sat on the shelf in front of our TV.
We were disappointed with the quality of the sats' spring-clip wire connectors. The spring clips' grip on the wire is even less secure than for most connectors of this type, so a moderate tug may dislodge the wire. However, once the sats are in position the wires will stay in place. The clips only accept skinny bare wire ends, which is fine in this case since Bose supplies all the speaker wire.
Many packaged 5.1 systems come with speaker wire, and so does the Acoustimass 6, but the bad news is that it comes with twice as many wires as other systems. With the Acoustimass 6 you need to run the included 20-foot flat, ribbon-type wire between the Acoustimass module and your receiver's five speaker and subwoofer outputs. That proprietary cable is fitted with a multipin connector that plugs into the Acoustimass module; then you run another proprietary set of wires between the Acoustimass module and each of the five sats. The only reason we can think of for this unusual arrangement is that Bose is performing some additional sound processing in the subwoofer. That's fine, but be prepared for all the wires.


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People, I don't know about you, but I always wanted a quick way to separate the blue M&Ms from the rest. This is perfect for that: a Lego Mindstorms machine that uses its color sensors to sort M&Ms by color.
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NEW YORK – Detroit Tigers left fielder Delmon Young was arrested Friday on a hate crime harassment charge after police said he got into a fight with a group of men and yelled anti-Semitic epithets.
Young was standing outside of the Hilton New York at about 1:30 a.m., where he was staying ahead of a series with the New York Yankees that starts Friday night. Nearby, a group of about four Chicago tourists staying at the hotel were approached by a panhandler wearing a yarmulke and a Star of David around his neck. After, as the group walked up to the hotel doors, Young started yelling anti-Semitic epithets, police said.
It was not clear whom Young was yelling at, but he got into a tussle with the Chicago group, and a 32-year-old man sustained scratches to his elbows, according to police.
Both Young and the group went inside the hotel, and at some point, police were called, and Young was arrested, police said. He was arrested on a charge of aggravated harassment as a hate crime. Young was first taken to a hospital because he was believed to be intoxicated, police said. He was at a police precinct and may be facing arraignment later.
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"We are aware of the situation, however it is our club policy not to comment on pending legal matters. As we understand it, this is an allegation and we need to allow the legal process to take its course. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this time. Per a provision in the Major League Baseball Basic Agreement, any allegation that involves alcohol is referred to MLB's Employee Assistance Program."
Unclear if Young will play Friday
It was not clear whether Young would play Friday at the 7:05 p.m. game. The Tigers were home Thursday afternoon, where Young went 0-for-3 with a walk in a 5-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Young is hitting .242 with one home run and five RBIs, is signed to a one-year contract for $6,725,000 and can become a free agent after the season.
In 2006, Young was suspended for 50 games without pay by the International League for throwing a bat that hit a replacement umpire in the chest. Young, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2003 amateur draft, was ejected in the first inning after taking a called third strike. He lingered in the batter's box, walked away and then threw his bat end over end at the umpire, hitting him in the chest.
Young has played for the Tigers since last season, spending two seasons before with the Minnesota Twins. He's the younger brother of former outfielder and first baseman Dmitri Young.


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Connections between the economy and vote are commonly invoked to evaluate political accountability in representative democracies. A principal motivation for studying economic voting lies in its value as a gauge of whether democracy works or not. In recent years, however, researchers have cast doubt on the assertion that economic conditions influence voters' evaluations of political incumbents.
Criticisms hail from several directions. Some, adopting a cross-national perspective, cite the instability problem as evidence against economic voting's existence. That is, variance in the economy-vote relationship across different national contexts is sufficiently large so as to undermine claims that the economy registers a systematic effect. Other critics charge that the electorate lacks sufficient knowledge to incorporate economic conditions in their decisions at the polls. Still others remind us not to mistake correlation for causation. They charge that the voters' perceptions of how well the economy is performing are viewed through a pre-existing partisan lens. All told, these and other reservations cast doubt on the use of economic voting as a means to evaluate accountability and, in turn, democratic performance.
These charges against the fidelity of economic voting require further examination. Rather than join a growing chorus of observers concluding that the economic vote is a chimera, this piece posits that recent critiques should push us to reconceive rather than discredit economic voting. Recent work in psychology and behavioral economics provides a basis for constructive and meaningful reinterpretations of the economy's influence on voter decisions. These new directions include an emphasis on framing effects—be it on the part of strategic elites or from the media, an emphasis on what voters know about the economy, and a wider consideration of just which "economy" matters to which set of voters. While many in number, each of these new directions advance understanding by embodying deeper conceptions of voters and elected officials.
Keywords: economic voting, economic experiences, economic inequality, elections, individual heterogeneity, low-information voting, policy outputs, electoral accountability, retrospective voting, voter decision strategies, political behavior
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It's travel time again. A quick dash north, and an equally quick one back. Or I hope it will be. I suppose I have jinxed the trains by saying/thinking this.
My bag isn't full of things this time, so much as simply being a bag. OK, there are a couple of new reads for Daughter; Eleanor Updale and Marie-Louise Jensen. But I am primarily bringing the bag that 'someone' was unable to take last time. I'm the bag lady.
But you know, back in my childhood, who'd have thought you'd be able to sit looking at a small machine on your desk or kitchen table, checking if your train is running to time? (Or running at all.) On the other hand, back then who'd have thought there would be a need to? Trains ran. Often on time.
And, isn't it slightly weird that I can slip the complete works of Sir Walter Scott and Rudyard Kipling, as well as the King James Bible into my pocket? The trains might run late, or encounter the wrong kind of snow, but that's a lot of reading in one pocket. Trollope, Twain, Wilde. And so much else. (Don't worry; I won't Kiple or Scott too much. I've got other books I need to read. Even one 'real' book.)
I was excited to see that Sophie Hannah is doing an event in Dundee this evening. I'll be close, but not close enough. After her event I'll be freezing on the platform at Dundee, while she is no doubt warm in a hotel somewhere.
Too far away for Barry Hutchison's launch of The Book of Doom in Aberdeen. Also tonight. It feels funny to be closer than usual, but still too far away. Maybe I should move to Scotland? There are things going on here.
(Decided I was allowed to borrow this photo, on account of bag lady duties, and the fact that the bag contains Lent buns, even if they are late Lent buns.)