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28 April 2015 - QONNECTIONS 2015 GLOBAL PARTNER SUMMIT, Dallas,TX
Tagetik and Qlik Showcase New Integration That Brings Together Trusted Financial Information and Visual Analytics
Combination gives the Office of Finance the power to manage complex finance processes and provides self-service visualization of trusted financial information with confidence
Tagetik, a visionary leader in global performance management software solutions, and Qlik® (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in visual analytics, today announced that the companies have completed the integration of Tagetik's cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) platform with the Qlik® Analytics Platform.
The Qlik Analytics Platform, which underpins Qlik's next generation Qlik® Sense visual analytics product line, is designed specifically for developers – whether partners, OEMs or in the enterprise – to build data-driven apps to power and differentiate their organization with the underlying performance of Qlik. The integration is the outcome of an OEM agreement signed by Tagetik and Qlik last September and reinforces the two organizations' commitment to providing finance and operations executives with greater access to the critical information and the insights they need to make sound, strategic business decisions.
"Together, Tagetik and Qlik provide the ability to effectively analyze data, diagnose a situation and accurately forecast what is likely to come next with no dependency on IT," commented Marco Pierallini, co-CEO, Tagetik. "We are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to bring additional value to the Office of Finance. This robust combination empowers the CFO to be a catalyst for aligning the business and driving strategic decision-making with confidence."
By leveraging the Qlik Analytics Platform, Tagetik Analytics users get Qlik's market-leading visualization, analysis, reporting and dashboarding, and associative in-memory analytics engine embedded directly within the Tagetik cloud solution. With a zero footprint cloud deployment, it natively takes full advantage of all the powerful financial intelligence, accounting logic, security, and governance that Tagetik delivers.
"Leading ISVs like Tagetik want to build on a platform that has the most functionality, innovates the fastest, and is used by customers in every industry with every use case, around the globe," said Anthony Deighton, CTO at Qlik. "Our integration with Tagetik responds to the growing demand from companies to empower their business with powerful and flexible visual analysis to immediately provide relevant information and insight into their business. Now companies will have greater insight into financial information and metrics that drive decision-making processes, resulting in a significant competitive advantage."
Qonnections 2015, the tenth annual Global Partner Summit for the Qlik partner community, takes place April 26-29 in Dallas, Texas. The conference focuses on helping partners easily understand, implement and support Qlik solutions to help enterprise customers grow their business.
As part of the keynote presentation, Tagetik will showcase the integration of its powerful CPM platform with the Qlik Analytics Platform. Dave Kasabian, chief marketing officer at Tagetik, will also discuss the business value of its OEM relationship with Qlik during the OEM Best Practices II track (OEM4 – 1&2) on April 29 at 11:00 am. In addition, Tagetik will be presenting a customer case study about Generali Group, one of the early adopters of the integration, and the benefits they have achieved as a result of the Tagetik and Qlik partnership.
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MY RIDE-Adam Brock: 1999 Mazda G26
Adam Brock once lived out of his Mazda G26 for a month: he turned his mid-sized car into a closet. Brock says that when he was between apartment leases, he'd walk out to the car in his bathrobe every morning to get his clothes for the day.
Brock describes himself as "a kid at heart," and now instead of serving as a closet, his trunk is full of everything from a magic kit to cowboy boots to a banana board.
The larger car also came in handy when he was toting around musical equipment for his band, The Nice Jenkins, before the band was able to purchase a van, Brock says.
He says the color of the car reminds him of "a pristine evergreen forrest," and he adds that the car smells really good, probably thanks to all the coffee cups filled with old coffee.

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We don't celebrate Halloween in Greece, but I thought that perhaps those of you living in countries where it is celebrated might like to make these delicious little pumpkin pies - pumpkin being the order of the day!
We have previously posted this recipe here, so if you wish you can click on the link to see it. It also includes how to make your own philo pastry if you want. By the way, they're lovely with cream!
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Michael Jordan has taken a lot of grief since he emerged, in a twist that should surprise nobody, as the leader of a group of hard-ass NBA owners knifing away at the revenue pie. Now he's taking grief from whatever fun-house PC bang Stephon Marbury has decamped to these days. I'll leave the parsing of this tweet to you:
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Efficiency in Public Education - The role of socio-economic variables
This study measures the efficiency of public education using an inefficiency effects function that controls the socio-economic and environmental factors simultaneously. The model developed by Battese and Coelli (1995) is applied to a panel dataset. The study found that although the mean efficiency scores obtained from the model are lower than the efficiency scores from a conventional stochastic frontier model, the estimates are robust and consistent. The empirical application used three-year panel data from Kansas school districts and found Kansas schools are generally efficient and the most of the educational inputs under the control of the school administration were either had a low or no influence on students' achievement scores. However, students' socioeconomic factors were found to have a significant influence on their achievement scores.
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The Center for Laser Aided Manufacturing at SMU was created to develop a fundamental understanding of laser-aided intelligent manufacturing.
In August 2005, the National Science Foundation awarded SMU a grant to establish the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Lasers and Plasmas for Advanced Manufacturing. SMU is the fourth university site in the multi-institutional I/UCRC for Lasers and Plasmas for Advanced Manufacturing together with the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In August 2010, NSF granted SMU an extension of the I/UCRC for the next five years.
"The NSF's I/UCRCs program is structured to develop long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the NSF and are primarily supported by industry center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in their development and evolution. Each center is established to conduct research that is of interest to both the industry and the center. An I/UCRC contributes to the Nation's research infrastructure base and enhances the intellectual capacity of the engineering and science workforce through the integration of research and education." (www.nsf.gov)
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Over 17% of our county's population has roots in Mexico, Spain, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, or one of the many other nations in the Spanish-speaking world. As Prince George's County grows and changes, we want to celebrate the amazing diversity of art and culture that people of Hispanic or Latin descent have added to the rich tapestry of our neighborhoods.
Each year, from September 15 to October 15, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with music, dance, and art exhibitions throughout the County. You'll find opportunities for the whole family to create arts and crafts, savor delicious food, and hear stories—real and imagined—from around the world. The linchpin of our month-long celebration is our Annual Hispanic Festival, which in previous years has drawn thousands of celebrants from all over Prince George's County and beyond.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 4, 2012) – Players on the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team gave their all in an intra-squad scrimmage on Friday at the Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.
The scrimmage was the final preparation for the NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament, which will be held May 7-12 at the Pyramid.
In the end, the Red Team, led by outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) with 31 points, defeated the Blue Team, 23-25, 25-18, 18-25, 25-16, 15-11.
"I thought the energy (of the players) was great," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "A lot of these guys have a lot to play for. For fans, it was a great show."
Knipe still has to decide on the roster of 12 players that will compete for the U.S. at the Olympic Qualification Tournament.
One of the players doing his best to make a good impression was opposite David McKienzie (Littleton, Colo.), 31.
"It's been nice coming back," he said. "I've missed playing with these guys and I've missed playing this high level of volleyball."
On Friday, McKienzie found himself shifting sides each set. He finished with 13 points on 11 kills and two blocks.
"I feel like I've done well," McKienzie said. "I'm playing at a high level."
Anderson, who was one of the few players who played all five sets for the same team, finished with 25 kills (66.8 kill percent, .658 hitting efficiency), four blocks and two aces. Anderson was also credited with 32 receptions, 53 percent of which were positive.
Outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.), who played the first four sets for the Blue Team before moving to the Red Team for the fifth, finished with 14 points on 11 kills, one block and two aces.
Outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) scored 13 points on 11 attacks and two blocks. Middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) scored 13 points on nine kills and a match-high four aces. Middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) added 13 points on nine attacks and four blocks.
Outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), who switched back and forth between teams, finished with 12 points on 10 kills, one ace and one block.
Opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii), who started the first three sets for the red team, scored 10 points on eight attacks and two aces. Middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.), who started all five sets for the red team, totaled 10 points on five kills and a match-high five blocks.
Opposite Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.), who switched between teams, totaled nine points on seven attacks, one block and one ace.
Riley Salmon (League City, Texas), who played both libero and outside hitter for the blue team, finished with five points on five attacks and also being credited with 20 receptions (65 percent positive) and 15 digs. Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) played all five sets at libero for the Red Team and was credited with 19 receptions (58 percent positive) and a match-high 17 digs.
Middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) started the final three sets for the Blue Team, finished with five points on Middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Calif.) started the first two sets for the Red Team and scored three points on one kill, one block and one ace.
Outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) totaled one point on one kill. Setters Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) each scored one point. Suxho's came on an ace while Thornton scored with a block.
Knipe coached the Red Team and started Anderson and Priddy at outside hitter, Lee and Millar at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite, Suxho at setter and Lambourne at libero.
U.S. Men's Assistant Coach Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.) coached the Blue Team and started Rooney and Lotman at outside hitter, Holt and Holmes at middle blocker, McKienzie at opposite, Brian Thornton (San Clement, Calif.) at setter and Salmon at libero.
The Blue Team took an 8-6 lead in the first set, getting a kill and ace from Rooney and two attacks from McKienzie. With the Red Team leading 15-14, Holt scored on a kill and two straight aces two give the Blue Team a 17-15 lead. Holmes and Rooney followed with one kill each to give the Blue Team a 19-15 advantage. Later, with the Blue Team leading 23-18, the Red Team scored on the Blue Team's service error and Anderson got a kill and block. Lee followed with a block to pull the Red Team to within one at 23-22 before Gardner gave the Blue Team set point with a block. Anderson came back with a kill before the Blue Team ended the set on an error.
The Red Team took a 4-1 lead in the second set before Gardner scored on an attack, then served for the next five points giving Blue a 7-4 lead. Holmes had two kills and a block in the run while Lotman had two blocks. Blue held an 8-6 lead at the first TTO and was leading 12-9 when Anderson scored on a kill for Red and Priddy followed the pull Red to within one. Red tied the score at 12-12 and the teams scored back and forth. With Blue leading 15-14, Millar scored for Red on a kill giving Priddy two straight attacks to increase the lead to six and Blue's hitting error made it seven. Red reached set point at 24-17 when Blue served long. Holt scored on a kill but Anderson ended it with a strike of his own.
Blue took an 8-5 lead at the first TTO of the third set. With Blue leading 10-8, Anderson scored on two straight blocks to tie the score. A third Red block from Holmes and Stanley put Red ahead 11-10. McKienzie tied the score with a kill and Holt took the serve and followed with an ace. Holt served for four more points, including a block and kill by McKienzie and another Holt ace to give the Blue Team a 16-11 lead at the second TTO. The Blue Team extended its lead to 20-13 and the Red Team never recovered, as Blue won the set 25-18.
Red held an 8-5 lead at the first TTO of the fourth set as Anderson had an ace and a kill and Lotman, now playing for the Red Team, scored on two attacks. The teams battled back and forth. With Red leading 10-8, it got two straight points on Anderson and Lotman attacks. The Red Team went on to lead 16-11 at the second TTO. The Blue Team scored on Red's error, but Anderson responded with an attack to give Red a 13-12 lead. Suxho took the serve and opened with an ace, then served for the next four points to put Red ahead 22-12. The Blue Team never recovered.
Anderson opened the fifth set with an ace for the Red Team and the Red Team held an 8-3 lead at the side change. With Red leading 9-4, Blue scored on a Holt kill, Red error, and McKienzie attack to pull to within two. Red called timeout, but it came back out on the floor and had a hitting error to pull Blue to within one point at 9-8. Anderson came back with two straight attacks to hold off the Blue Team. The Blue Team never recovered and Red won the set and match.


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My question is exactly what the title says. It seems that the new web version of Springpad update allows for large notebook cover photos, but I can't figure out how to set them to appear this way. (I was going to provide nice images illustrating, but apparently I can't do that as a new user, so links will have to suffice)
These are my public notebooks, which I hope you all can see. Note that all the cover images are small.
The Spotlight notebooks on Springpad.com have what I want. I have no idea how it was done or if it is even possible for my own personal notebooks. Note that the top image is large in size, making the whole notebook cover "taller".
I have tried the notebook settings, which only seem to allow you to activate or deactivate automatic images. Also, I tried various editing options on a photo within the notebook, "liking" a photo within, etc, to no avail. Ideally I'd like to be able to choose which photo is the big one, but even having it choose one at random (like how it chooses the would be a start).


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Help, Please!
I was once a frequent VegWeb user and have recently found my way back - to a whole new site!
So far, I like the visual aspect, but, I'm sorry to say, I hate the interface! ACK! Hopefully it's just a personal oversight (must be because I'm not seeing any similar complaints), and that you awesome folks can help me with these...
1) Do I reeeeally have to open each and every recipe in my recipe box to remove it? I've tried floating over various locations looking for an "x" to delete it, or an "edit contents", or something, but no dice.
2) Is there no way to organize my Recipe Box with tabs/sections/anything! so I don't have to scroll through 10+ pages of listed (with no pictures!?) recipes just to peruse what to make for dinner??
I wish there was a "tour" of the new site...I'm so confused and lost.
Please help!! :(
Hi CorinnaJeter! Welcome back! We're still ironing out some of the kinks in the recipe boxes, so look for updates to those in the upcoming month. Never fear, VegWeb is working towards exciting new features, and keeping around the ones you love, and the recipe box is getting an overhaul.
Stay tuned for the updates, and let me know if you have any other questions!


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Interview Themes: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Business reputation; Business and social aspects; Environment.
Interview: Professor Michael E. Porter from Harvard University explores why business has lost its reputation and questions the effectiveness of CSR from an alternative perspective.
Interview: Professor Timothy M. Devinney, co-editor of The Academy of Management Perspectives asks the question whether the business case for CSR is actually clear and compelling.
Pless, Nicola M., Maak, Thomas and Waldman, David A. (2012) Different Approaches Toward Doing the Right Thing: Mapping the Responsibility Orientations of Leaders. Academy of Management Perspectives, Nov2012, Vol. 26 Issue 4
Delios, Andrew. (2010) How Can Organizations Be Competitive but Dare to Care? Academy of Management Perspectives, Aug2010, Vol. 24 Issue 3
Ahlstrom, David. (2010) Innovation and Growth: How Business Contributes to Society. Academy of Management Perspectives, Aug2010, Vol. 24 Issue 3
Devinney, Timothy M. (2009) Is the Socially Responsible Corporation a Myth? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Corporate Social Responsibility, Academy of Management Perspectives, May2009, Vol. 23 Issue 2
Perrini, Francesco. (2009) The Market for Virtue. The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility Academy of Management Perspectives, Aug2007, Vol. 21 Issue 3
Waddock, Sandra. (2008) Building a New Institutional Infrastructure for Corporate Responsibility. Academy of Management Perspectives, Aug2008, Vol. 22 Issue 3
Perrini, Francesco. (2006) Corporate Social Responsibility Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause. Academy of Management Perspectives, May2006, Vol. 20 Issue 2 [review]
Rondinelli, Dennis A., London, Ted. (2003) How corporations and environmental groups cooperate: Assessing cross-sector alliances and collaborations. Academy of Management Executive, Feb2003, Vol. 17 Issue 1
Other AMP journal article by Michael Porter:Porter, Michael & Siggelkow, Nicolaj (2008) Contextuality Within Activity Systems and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage. Academy of Management Perspectives, May2008, Vol. 22 Issue 2.
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Well, with some unexpected baggage shed of late (the lead quote of the final review on that end should spell it all out for ya), we've had a bit more time to dig in on the music and film end of the equation.
As such, despite a fairly full roster of releases on the monthly roundup review cycle, we've been able to get this month's batch of worthies covered and up and running a week earlier than usual.
So let's turn life's lemons into lemonade, and all that feel good/keep on truckin' positivity in the face of bullsh*t business everyone tells you, and jump right into it, shall we?
Prepare yourself for some surprisingly well crafted AOR and melodic metal, power, symphonic, gothic, thrash, Viking, doom, stoner, postpunk, EDM and even a few admittedly questionable black metal efforts (a genre that's seen better months and in fact better days).
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"Tall Enough" is a song sung by Big Bird, about how he used to be too short to reach things, like the light switch in the hall, and a bag of birdseed on the shelf. Eventually, however, he grew to be tall enough to reach them. Then he sings to the listener about how, even though they'll grow someday too, they're just as tall as they need to be right now.
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Bride Wears Dress Made From 10,000 Bread Tags
One bride in Australia wasn't going to just walk down the aisle in any old thing. Using 10,000 bread tags she collected from friends and family, Stephanie Watson spent months creating her one-of-a-kind dress from recycled tags and hand-me-down fabrics.
"I always liked the idea of a design challenge and thought a wedding dress would be the ultimate test! Besides, when Will (my husband) and I started seeing each other we started collecting bread tags. We decided that when we had enough tags to make a wedding dress we would get married. Ten years later I felt it was time to give it a go," Watson wrote in an email.
READ: Couple Wears Duct Tape Outfits to Prom
The 29-year-old met her husband in high school geography class and later went on to study fashion design. She worked in the industry before moving an hour outside of Melbourne, Australia.
"Will thought the dress was excellent, although it was not a surprise on the day for him in line with tradition. I needed someone to help me fit it as I was designing and making it and he was the only one around! I'm choosing not to believe in bad luck with that one," she wrote.
The dress only cost Watson $38, since she used fabric salvaged from other garments and tags donated from family and friends. This doesn't include the countless hours she spent planning and stitching, which she documented on her blog, Constructing Nadine.
"One of the tags I found had the name 'Nadine' printed on it. I thought it might be nice to give the gown a bit of personality by naming her, that way people would not have to ask me 'How is the dress going?' but rather 'How is Nadine?'" wrote Watson. "I later realised that Nadine is a variety of potato and the tag was probably used to close a bag of spuds! It makes sense as there are lots of potato farms in our area."
READ: Bakery Creates Glazed Donut Wedding Cake
One user commented on Watson's blog that Nadine means hope, and the name stuck. A year later when Nadine was finally finished, Watson wore the stunning dress at her wedding in January.
"The dress was very uncomfortable and I would not recommend anyone making a dress out of hard bits of plastic! It was almost impossible to sit down in and weighed about 7 kilos," wrote Watson. "I don't intend on wearing it again! It was also rather noisy, the tags clicked against each other as I walked. "
Since the wedding, Watson continues to sell her designs on her Etsy page. She's also had one small surprise.
"I'm pregnant! We did not know it on the day, but it turned out I had a bun in the oven," she wrote.


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One man was seriously inured and another sustained fatal injuries when a truck they were riding in rolled down an embankment on U.S. 50 about five miles west of Cañon City.
Colorado State Patrol Trooper Michael Tafoya in a press release Thursday said a 1986 Ford pickup driven by Ronald Lee Mohr, 59, of Silver Cliff, was traveling westbound near milepost 273 when he lost control, causing the vehicle to travel across the eastbound lane of travel. The Ford traveled off the south side of the road and became airborne before colliding with a dirt embankment. The Ford came to rest in a ravine on the south side of the road.
Mohr was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger of the Ford, Richard William Koester, 36, of Westcliffe, also was not wearing his safety belt at the time of the crash and was transported to Penrose Hospital by Flight for Life with serious injuries.
Alcohol and/or drugs are not considered a factor in the crash. However, the crash remains under investigation.
Capt. Don Pinover of the Fremont County Sheriff's Office said the men were reported missing by family members after they were believed to have been headed to Cripple Creek last week and had not returned. Both men were listed as missing by Fremont County authorities and Koester was listed as missing with the Custer County Sheriff's Office, as well.
Pinover said there may be evidence that the crash happened days prior to it being discovered Thursday by a highway worker on a backhoe.
In a separate incident, FCSO SWAT officers passed through the scene Thursday to arrest John Joseph Berry, 50, on CR 27 A in the Copper Gulch area on a warrant for domestic violence/assault. Pinover said Berry had threatened to use weapons against any officers who attempted to arrest him. He was taken into custody without resistance.


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Johnson County Fair draws chainsaws, rubber chickens and hot chili
IOWA CITY– Where else can you find ballet dancers, hot chili, cattle bathing, egg racing, chicken throwing and flubber making all in one place?
The Johnson County Fair had it all again this year, and more, on July 25-28 at the Johnson County Fairgrounds. With more than 2,000 entries in exhibits, competitions and demonstrations alone from the county's 4H clubs and FFA organizations, entertainment ranging from the carnival midway to a truck and tractor pull, to chainsaw carving masters and a kids' talent show, with the best cooks in the county vying for coveted titles for the tastiest chili, the best pie and the ugliest cake, crowds really can find something for everyone during the week.
According to one Johnson County Agricultural Association newsletter, fair organizers estimate about 70,000 people visit the fair during fair week. The annual event has been held since 1858.


text: A couple of weeks ago a beach replenishment project was approved for Deal, and late last week it was approved at a committee for Loch Arbor. Allenhurst will be having a meeting next week to vote on it. This is a terrible thing. While Loch Arbor is no where near as good as it used to be on most swells, it is still a good break, albeit incredibly packed in the summer. Allenhurst was a break that used to be good, but has seen very little action in the past couple of years. However since Sandy Allenhurst has had some great days. This is on top of the already planned replenishment for Long Branch, and Asbury Park through Manasquan Inlet. The plan, if the last few towns approve, will pump sand in from Sandy Hook all the way to Barnegatt Inlet. Every break that has become more natural since the last replenishment and the storm will be destroyed.


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What is Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)?
Lazy Eye Treatment - A Brief History - 900 A.D. to Today
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Amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, causes more visual loss in the under 40 age group than all the injuries and diseases combined in this age group.
Amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, is the eye condition noted by reduced vision not correctable by glasses or contact lenses and is not due to any eye disease. The brain, for some reason, does not fully acknowledge the images seen by the amblyopic eye. This almost always affects only one eye but may manifest with reduction of vision in both eyes. It is estimated that three percent of children under six have some form of amblyopia.
- Lazy Eye is an eye condition in which there is blurry or reduced vision that is not correctable by glasses, contact lenses or eye surgery
- Lazy eye can cause loss of vision, including loss of depth perception and two-eyed 3D vision.
- Lazy eye treatment can yield improvements at any age, but early detection and treatment still offer easier treatment and the best chances for a cure.
- Scientific research has proven that lazy eye treatment can be successful in older children, teenagers, and adults. Neuroscience has established that the human brain can change at any age (neuroplasticity).
- Comprehensive vision examinations are needed for infants, toddlers, and pre-school children. A pediatrician's eye exam or a 20/20 eye chart screening is not adequate for the detection of amblyopia and other visual conditions which are related to or mistakenly called lazy eye.


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A mysterious donor Wednesday left the largest cash donation the Pasadena Humane Society's ever received in its donation box — $8,000 cash, made up of $20 bills, that was dropped through its slot.
The hefty donation was discovered at around 11 a.m. inside a donation box at the Neely Cat Center, according to the humane society.
The female donor showed up asking about cats, quietly dropped the crisp bills in the donation box and disappeared.
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"We are truly grateful to this kind person and want to thank them on behalf of all the animals at PHS," the humane society wrote in a Facebook post.
The anonymous donor has not come forward yet, but the humane society hopes "they see that their good deed has been recognized."
The money will be used for the care and feeding of the animals, medical expenses, spaying and neutering and behavioral training.
On a typical day, the Humane Society receives about $20 in the donation box.
The Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA's Wiggle Waggle Walk, a fundraiser that benefits the shelter, will take place Sunday at Brookeside Park in Pasadena.


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Now MRIL has teamed up with River Journeys & Bungalows of India Pvt Ltd (RJBI), run by entrepreneur Ranjit Barthakur to market this lifestyle to the public. Barthakur already owns Wildgrass Resort, the best accommodation around Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
The new venture heritage property is on the northern bank of the river Brahmaputra at Balipara division of Adabari tea estate in Assam. A half-an-hour drive from the Tezpur airport and three hours from Guwahati, retains the unhurried setting of the tea planting cycle in the spacious wooden floored bungalows of the tea estate. The biggest one is called Wild Mahseer, named after the legendary fish made famous by hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett. Set in 22 acres of premium tea bush, it comprises of 12 suites in a sylvan avenue of four ISO-year old tea bungalows. The biggest bungalow was the visiting agent's home, another one called Charduar was the doctor's bungalow, the Balipara Camp is the group accountant's bungalow and the Basha was the visiting agent's office.
MRIL is the largest bulk tea producer in the world with 54 tea estates in Assam and West Bengal. "It's not our main line of activity but it is a rather nice way of making use of idle assets," says MRIL director Rajiv Takru.
'Two & a Bud' is an old police barrack converted into a modern conference room with seating arrangements for 30 people. 'The First Flush' is the tea bar for tea tasting and for casual sit out. In future, different types of beverages and desserts from tea leaves will be served. While the food on offer includes the usual spread, there is a wonderful Anglo-Indian cuisine at the dining room. The veggies are organic and grown at the backyard. Even the toiletries are hand-made and carry the aroma of tea. There are cosy wood fires for chilly days and pamper yourself with liveried orderly always at your service.
Restoration work was done keeping in mind of the colonial era. Tremendous effort has been made on adornment and all the period furniture artefacts are collected from across the world.
"We are providing a lifestyle", product in the midst of nature and wilderness." says Barthakur. All these luxuries cost about Rs7,000 to Rs18,000 a day for a couple.
There are interesting diversions during the day: visits to the tea factory, tea picking, rafting, angling or just a full-service picnic lunch on the bank of the Brahamaputra. The Wild Mahseer is a good jump off point for a safari to world heritage site Kaziranga National Park, famous for its one horn rhinos or for a trip to Orang wild life sanctuary. Wild Mahseer is also a good base to visit Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh which has l7th century Buddhist monastery oldest in the Asia.
"Guests can even join in the plucking if they wish to," Takru informs. Another 15 suites and a full range of spas will be ready by 2008. Best of all the estate has its own private airstrip. Khaitans and Barthakur are working out the logistics to use the company's small planes on time share basis to fly, guests directly to the garden from Guwahati airport. Among its tourists 80 per cent are foreigners. The dry cool winter months from September to February are the best time to visit. Widely travelled architect Sanjiv Sinha, who drove down from Guwahati with his wife and friends to spend the weekend at Wild Mahseer says, "Staying here is a dream experience for us. It's like going back to the colonial era."
"The place is booked till end January. Beside normal tourists, we get lot of bookings for holding conference which is a common practice among private banks and multinational Companies," says, Durgadas Sarkar, farm and estate manager.
"Tea tourism is not new in the industry but most offer only a couple of rooms to the tourists and this is the first full-scale and serious effort to open the area up for tourists. There are now plans to replicate this model in our gardens in Dooars in We" Bengal," says Takru.


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Editor's Note:This issue of The Advocate had already gone to press by the time Perez Hilton made national news by calling will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas a "faggot" after they exchanged words at a 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards. This is an Advocate.com exclusive update to the cover story.
If I were to begin this profile of Perez Hilton in the style of one of his blog posts, which is to say that if I were to begin this profile in the style of a catty, celebrity-obsessed seventh-grade girl, I might write something like this: OMG!!! Sources confirm that former fatty Perez Hilton is getting LEAN and wants to get NAKED with writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis! Can U believe it?!?
Perez admits as much to me one recent evening in Los Angeles, as we're braving rush-hour traffic in his Toyota Camry, a car that seems entirely wrong for the self-described Queen of All Media. He's been talking about gay things (cute boys, the gym, gay marriage, American Idol finalist Adam Lambert), but he's kept it all above board until now, blurting out that he's almost ready to take his clothes off.
I'm not sure what to say to that. I also feel a sudden and unexpected kinship with former Miss California Carrie Prejean, who drew Perez's infamous question about gay marriage at the Miss USA 2009 pageant in Las Vegas. When she told Perez that she believed marriage should be a union between a man and a woman, he called her "a dumb bitch" on a video blog on his website, PerezHilton.com, igniting a firestorm and propelling the loudmouthed gossip blogger into the national conversation about gay marriage. (Perez had actually written the question hoping Miss Utah would answer it, thereby bringing attention to the Mormon Church's financing of the Yes on Prop. 8 campaign.) Will Perez call me a mean name too if I respond negatively to his nudist intentions? Fortunately, I've misread the situation. Perez doesn't want to get naked with me in his Camry. He wants to get naked in front of other people at a later date. PHEW!
"I've been working so hard on my health and my body," he tells me sometime during the 20 minutes it takes us to drive four blocks, "and I'm almost to the point where I'm comfortable enough to show it off. When I am, I'm going to be naked, all the time, everywhere. I'm going to be like Marc Jacobs. Every photo shoot he does, he's naked. That's going to be me."
There's symbolism, I think, in Perez's impending nakedness. Both professionally and socially, the 31-year-old Perez, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, tells me he's never felt so happy, so free. (This is a month before Perez saw his world upended in Toronto, June 21, at the MuchMusic Video Awards, when he called Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am a "faggot" and then allegedly was punched in the eye by the band's manager. Instead of receiving sympathy, Perez, who posted an angry and tearful video on his blog the next day, was ridiculed by celebrities and readers of his blog alike, some of whom said he had it coming. Perez also found himself under attack from many in the gay community, who were aghast to learn that he'd used the word "faggot" to describe the musician. "I've always known that a lot of gays didn't like me," he told me a week after the incident, "but after this it felt like no gays liked me. It was one of the worst weeks of my life." More on the incident and Perez's reaction to it later.)
After falling into a deep depression several years ago, the "professional troublemaker," as he calls himself, says he made a conscious decision to "create the happiness" he wanted. He's started eating healthier and working out, moved his mother and sister from Miami to Los Angeles (they live downstairs from him in his charmless gated apartment complex), and bought a goldendoodle puppy he named Teddy Hilton whose portraits now adorn his apartment walls. Recently, Perez has also tried to bring happiness to his romantic life.
"My whole life has been a quest to be happy," he says, adding that he feels a kinship with Oprah Winfrey, who he suspects is on a similar life quest. Unlike Winfrey, though, Perez says he doesn't read self-help books -- or any books, for that matter.
What he does do -- and what he says brings him an endless amount of happiness -- is "entertain the world" on his blog, which reaches 14 million readers each month (mostly women in their 20s) and is the 131st most popular website in America, according to the Web information company Alexa. As a blogger Perez relies heavily on exclamation points, abbreviations, and the caps lock key, and he loves to draw cocaine and semen on the faces of celebrities he dislikes. An unapologetic believer in outing closeted celebrities (he ridiculed Clay Aiken relentlessly, scrawled "bottom" on a picture of Lance Bass, and was losing patience with Adam Lambert before the singer came out on the cover of Rolling Stone ), Perez saves his most vicious criticism for people he considers to be (a) train wrecks or, worse yet, (b) dishonest.
Emmy Rossum, an actress and singer who considers Perez a close friend (many of his friends refer to him as Mario), tells me Perez gets genuinely offended when people deny who they really are. "I think he's so proud of who he is and he's so unabashedly himself that he doesn't tolerate hypocrisy or people who pretend to be something they're not," Rossum says. "It's no wonder that he's so taken by people like Katy Perry, Madonna, and Lady GaGa. They're all talented people who speak their mind and are real people."
By championing the music of his favorite real people, Perez also has become, as Lady GaGa puts it to me, "the ultimate tastemaker in popular culture right now," although one has to wonder if the will.i.am incident might permanently hurt his tastemaking brand. Lady GaGa has certainly profited from Perez's relentless cheerleading but insists that he "can't be bought." (They talk on the phone nearly every day and can sometimes be found eating out together on Sundays, Perez's one "cheat day" on his diet.)
Perez has leveraged his cultural influence for more than just access to the celebrities he worships. To the dismay of many, the Miss California episode propelled him into a leading role in the marriage equality movement. But Perez's activist streak is nothing new. Back when he moved to Los Angeles in 2002 in a failed attempt to become an actor, he worked for a time at Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; Joan Garry, executive director at the time, remembers him as an "outrageous, larger-than-life personality who was obsessed with entertainment and really passionate about LGBT equality." Perez then went to work at the gay magazine Instinct, which he says fired him after five months for selling books on the Internet that publishers sent for free to the magazine.
Perez's activism -- his earnest belief that one of his true callings is as a civil rights leader -- is the reason we're stuck in traffic tonight. Normally, he prefers not to leave home on weekdays, when he gets up well before sunrise and works on his blog until about 7 p.m., taking only an hour break in the afternoon to work out with a trainer. But Perez agreed to drive across town to appear in a public service announcement for marriage equality. On our way, I ask him if he ever feels a conflict between his roles as a gossip blogger and gay rights activist. "Do you ever feel the need to tone down the outrageousness when you're making the argument for gay marriage?"
He shakes his head. "I don't really separate the two parts of me like that," he says, wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt that says "Vote for Gay Marriage." "I mean, I'm gay, and I make no apologies for that. Ever. I'm just being me. Besides, there are a lot gayer people out there than me. On the gay scale, I'm probably a 6 out of 10. I could be way gayer!" He pauses to answer an e-mail on his Sidekick. "But what's wrong with being gay, anyway?" he huffs 10 seconds later. "Nothing. I love being gay! I'm gay. I suck cock. I went on this date the other night with this guy who said he didn't like sucking cock, and I was like, 'Excuse me? I don't have time for you.' I'm gay. I'm very gay. And I like sucking cock. A lot. Put that on your cover!"
Perez Hilton has been "very gay" for as long as he can remember. "I saw Marky Mark in those Calvin Klein ads when I was 13, and I was pretty much sold," he says. "There was no confusion, no dating girls. I know I was born gay."
Still, he wasn't ready to come out publicly at his all-boys Jesuit high school in Miami, where he was -- no real surprise here -- a vocal presence known for speaking his mind. "I said and did outrageous things," he recalls, "but I got away with it because I was a good student. I wasn't a fuck-up. I was ambitious and resourceful. I remember that my parents couldn't afford a school trip my class was taking to Spain, so out of the blue I sent letters to big companies asking if they would sponsor me. I raised enough money, and my teacher told me, 'You're going to go far in life.'"
In 1996, Perez moved to New York to pursue acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Japhy Grant, a writer who attended Tisch with Perez, remembers him as being more interested in celebrities than anyone he had ever met. Both Perez and Grant dreamed of making it big in Hollywood (Perez as an actor, Grant as a screenwriter), but when Grant moved to Los Angeles after graduating, he found an angry and depressed Perez who rode around town on a bike because he couldn't afford a car.
"The city was being really brutal toward him at the time, and you could tell he wasn't happy," Grant says. "He was on that VH1 show From Flab to Fab, and he was scarfing down laxatives. He was really struggling for direction, and one day I said, 'You should start a blog.' He was, like, 'What's a blog?'" (Perez and Grant are no longer friends. In a scathing 2006 Salon.com article criticizing Perez for his outing of gay celebrities, Grant called him "a crass, self-serving marketer disguised as an ideologue.")
Perez first called his blog PageSixSixSix.com (a play on the iconic New York Post gossip section Page Six), and his devotion to it was immediate and unwavering. "He sat about four seats in front of me when we both worked at Star , and he basically spent all day on his blog and not doing much work for the magazine," recalls Anna Holmes, who now edits the website Jezebel.com . "A few people definitely got annoyed."
But it didn't matter, because on March 11, 2005, the tabloid television program The Insider labeled Perez's blog "Hollywood's Most-Hated Website," temporarily crippling the site's server but effectively putting his name on the map. Before long Perez was a celebrity in his own right. "I still can't believe that I've become famous by writing about famous people," he says. "It's even weird that I did it by writing a blog. I'm a tech idiot."
Perez isn't the only one surprised by his success. "Perez is that kid who came out to L.A. with no interest in anything other than becoming famous, and, remarkably, that's what he did," Grant says. "When he was starting his blog, I kept telling him, 'Mario, be careful. You can't write that on your site. You'll get sued! It's going to blow up in your face. This is not going to work. You'll never get a job in this town again!' But, of course, he's proven me wrong in every way. He did get sued, but it didn't matter. He wrote what he wanted and apologized later."
Or, more accurately, he never apologized at all. When I ask Perez if he's ever written anything he's regretted, his answer is emphatic. "No, never," he says. Not even when he incorrectly reported the death of Cuban president Fidel Castro? "OK, I do regret that, " he concedes. "I'm never going to live that one down. Of course, I regret when I get things wrong, but fortunately, that doesn't happen very often. I'm very careful about what goes on my site. Unlike a lot of other [tabloid media outlets], I don't make shit up. I don't have anything if I don't have the trust of my readers. I always tell the truth."
A few minutes later, though, when the conversation turns to one of his favorite targets, actress and singer Miley Cyrus, he matter-of-factly admits to, well, not telling the truth. "Do I really think Miley is a slut? No. But I am going to call her one because it's fun! I don't claim to be objective. I don't really believe everything I write. What I write is an exaggeration of what I believe. It's heightened reality. I write a lot of things just to piss people off or get a laugh. I'm not The New York Times. I'm Perez Hilton."
And as Perez Hilton, there is very little he considers out of bounds. Two weeks after my trip to see him, he angered many people by posting pictures of Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the film Milk, engaging in what appears to be unsafe sex with another man. Why would Perez, who claims to want nothing more than gay equality, post photographs that could defame one the movement's brightest spokespeople and be used as ammunition against his message?
"I actually have a huge crush on Lance," Perez told me by telephone the day he ran the pictures, "but I'm all about equality, about treating gays the same way I would treat straight people. I would post the pictures if it was a straight celebrity. I love Rihanna, but recently her naked pictures leaked and I posted them. So should I not do it with a gay celebrity? Do we want to be treated equally, or do we not? Besides, I'm a gossip blogger. This is my job."
In person, Perez comes off as significantly less vitriolic than his blogger persona. I found him to be surprisingly laid-back and even likable in real life, but he's not a deep or nuanced thinker and seems generally unwilling (perhaps unable?) to look critically at himself. He seems all too eager to genuinely believe his own spin, to make up his mind and then go searching for the evidence -- or the rationale -- to back it up. And though his close friends praise his honesty, he doesn't strike me as all that intellectually honest. A conversation we have about the Miss California controversy hints at these shortcomings.
I begin by asking him if there is any answer Carrie Prejean could have offered that would have disagreed with his position but not warranted him branding her "a dumb bitch." He nods vigorously. "Oh, yes, there could have been so many other better answers!" he says.
I ask him to name one. "Well, she could have been much more eloquent than she was," he says. "She could have said, 'I think our country was designed in such a way that the states can decide for themselves, and I support our country in whatever it is that they think is best for us.' Or, you know, a bunch of other answers."
Either Perez is lying to himself or to me (most likely, to himself), because I doubt that his suggested answer would have placated him. In fact, it strikes me as less eloquent (not to mention less honest) than the one the beauty queen gave: "I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other…. In my country and in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised." If Perez so loathes hypocrisy and so values people who are true to themselves, as he claims, then how can he justify attacking Prejean?
I go on to ask Perez if he regrets calling her a bitch. I don't suspect that he does (he's been criticized for years for being a misogynist, with no effect on his behavior), but his answer is telling. "The word 'bitch' has no meaning to me," he says. "It's just a word." But how would he react, I ask, if a celebrity publicly called him a "dumb faggot" -- or some other derogatory word that did mean something to him -- while they claimed as a defense that the word meant nothing to them? Perez either doesn't understand the question or doesn't want to go there. Maybe, putting himself in someone else's shoes -- genuinely attempting to feel empathy -- is a better-to-be-avoided occupational hazard for a man who spends his days mocking others.
"This whole idea that I'm a misogynist who is really mean to women is silly to me," he says. "I love women. I worship women. Hello? I'm all about divas, remember? I bow down at the feet of women. Unless you're a dumb bitch, in which case I'm going to call you one."
While Perez seems genuinely aghast that anyone would respond to his relentless name-calling with violence, few people were surprised when he was punched in Toronto. But many gay people were shocked to learn that Perez had, in an attempt to hurt will.i.am, called him a faggot. "For someone in our own community to use it to attack another person by saying that it is, quote, 'The worst possible thing that thug would ever want to hear,' is incredibly dangerous," Rashad Robinson, senior director of media programs at GLAAD, said in a statement. "It legitimizes use of a slur that is often linked to violence against our community. And it sends a message that it is OK to attempt to dehumanize people by exploiting antigay attitudes."
But Perez tells me that, in the heat of the moment that night, he almost chose to use a different word. "I thought about calling him the n word," he says over the phone a week after the incident, "but I thought the f word was even worse. I was so filled with hate at that moment because I was hated on so much, and I reacted in the worst way possible. Then I went on to make a bunch of other mistakes. I shouldn't have made the video. I shouldn't have released so many statements. But what's come out of all of this is that I've learned so much about myself, and I'm in a much better place. I'm actually thankful that it happened. As cheesy as it may sound, I had almost a spiritual moment when I just let all of the anger and worry go and am now filled with peace, happiness, and wisdom. I could let this jade me and go back to being the super bitch that I was when I first started the website, but I've softened on my website and in life, maybe because I'm happier in my personal life than I've ever been."
Perez says he tries to take his cues from Madonna, or at least from what he imagines Madonna might do in similar situations. "In times of doubt I ask myself, What would Madonna do? " he says. "For the majority of her career, she was as equally hated as she was loved. She went from one controversy to another, but she just worked through it. She didn't let it affect her. And that's what I'm going to do. Even if I feel battered and hopeless and that the whole world is against me like I did during the week after this happened, I'm just going to soldier on."
After filming the marriage equality PSA, Perez drives us to an upscale club for the birthday celebration of a local party promoter. When we arrive, he spends a minute being photographed on the red carpet before stopping for a series of quick, inane interviews with reporters from magazines like Star and Us Weekly. He never tires of talking about celebrities, and there is plenty to talk about tonight. Only hours earlier, Kris Allen was crowned the newest American Idol.
"OMG!" Perez gushes in a reporter's microphone. "What an upset on American Idol ! I totally thought Adam Lambert was going to win. I'm kind of devastated." (To my surprise, Perez says he doesn't actually watch American Idol -- or any other television except awards shows.)
When another reporter notices Perez holding a wrapped present in his left hand, the following conversation ensues:
Reporter: You brought a present.
Perez: I did.
Reporter: What did you get him?
Perez: Porn.
Reporter: What kind of porn?
Perez: Hot gay porn!
With that settled, Perez makes his way inside the party, where a handful of "Z-list celebrities," as Perez dismissively calls them, mingle with their assorted friends and hangers-on. Among the recognizable faces (in Hollywood, at least) is Matt Dallas, best known for being the attractive young star of the former ABC Family series Kyle XY .
Perez's and Dallas's presence at the same party adds some potential drama to the evening. Perez has repeatedly called Dallas gay, even posting occasional updates on his blog about who Dallas is supposedly dating. Perez doesn't like to call this "outing." "What I do is report ," he says, "just like I will report on the love lives of straight celebrities." Dallas has publicly denied being gay (on The Howard Stern Show , no less), and a friend of his wonders aloud at the party if the actor might have a few choice words for his least favorite blogger. I relay this to Perez, who can't seem to care less. After all, being accosted by celebrities is nothing new for him. As Perez tells it, Tara Reid once threatened to throw him in the pool at a party, Nicole Richie approached him at a coffee shop and demanded that he call her anorexic to her face (Perez declined), and Desperate Housewives gardener Jesse Metcalfe found him at a nightclub and announced, "Do you know how many times I've fantasized about killing you?"
Dallas chooses not to join this growing list of celebrities, and unless you count a couple of persistent social climbers who try desperately to engage him, Perez ends up spending much of the party alone or talking to me. "Most people I know out here just sort of tolerate Perez," one party attendee says. "Some will pretend to like him, but not many people actually respect him."
With no one he knows to talk to (his friend Katy Perry doesn't arrive until later), Perez sets his sights on a boyish 25-year-old who looks like an actor or model but is apparently neither. (Perez's longtime friend Eric Carr, who works in film marketing, told me that Perez's taste in men "is on the higher end" and that the blogger "wishes he could marry actor Zac Efron.") "He's really hot," Perez says of the young man at the party, trying to build up the courage to walk over and give him his number before we leave. Fifteen minutes later, he texts me from across the room -- "Still trying to work my magic here." More time passes. "I'm such a pussy," he whispers to me a few minutes later as I stand near the pair and watch as the young man playfully grabs Perez's shoulder. In the end, the man gives Perez his number before Perez can give him his.
"I know I didn't show it there, but I've actually gotten much better about asking out guys that I'm attracted to!" Perez tells me as we make our way to the exit. "I'm definitely on the prowl for dates. And to my surprise, a lot of guys that I've asked have said yes."
How does he know if someone is dating him only because he's a celebrity? "I think I'm self-aware enough to figure that out," he says. "But if it's just for a casual date, I don't care if someone's using me. I'll use them right back. I know how to play this game."
After five years as Hollywood's most notorious blogger, one would hope so. And as tempted as Perez might be to engage in some mutual using tonight with his new friend, it will have to wait. "I need to get up early and get to work," he tells me as we wait for a valet to bring him his Camry. "I may not be the best writer or the funniest writer, but I work harder than anyone I know. People can say a billion different things about me, but they can't say I'm lazy. And I have to give myself a pat on the back, because these last few years I could have lost my focus, or gotten caught in the bullshit of going to parties every night. But I didn't. And I have my success to show for it."


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No doubt there will be a gaggle of reviews, reports, regurgitations and rehashing of what went on at Day 1. So, here are my personal musing, in no particular order, of what I felt at the conference, what I sensed and what I experienced. I figured all the smarter, nerdy heads will cover the conference at a cerebral level. This is a stream of consciousness – a gut data dump – as it were.
1) Before I get to the conference, Brian Morrissey of Brandweek tweets how the men's room at the conference is jammed but the women's room is "clear sailing". I think – "that's a change – usually it is the other way around." But it certainly set the tone in my head.
2) The conference itself was conventionally unconventional as it was on the second floor of an office building. Lots of space and lots of nooks and crannies where startup and confabs gathered.
3) The uniform of the day… Jeans or jeans like object – an occasional pair of shorts popped up. T-shirts of various sizes and shapes. No business casual here – at least not much. Did I come to the right place or did I land in a college campus???
4) Large presentation room reminds me assembly at an all boys prep school.
5) Where have all the women gone!!!! I saw 8 startup companies present today and of all the 20 or so people – not a woman among the lot. Hmm….
6) Where have all the women gone who did not graduate yesterday go? Most women here are staffers, volunteers or support staff. Are they old enough to drink????
7) So much inspired thinking – so little market access. Most of the startups have hopes of selling to "big brands" but with little notion of how difficult it is for a brand to implement a niche idea – no matter how brilliant. After having worked on 40 ventures at Bell Labs New Ventures Group – I can spot winners a mile way and I can spot trouble even faster. The "motherly" side of me wants to warn these entrepreneurs. I want to say; "Don't bet your whole business on selling to big brands – that is really really hard!" But I say nothing because this is their moment to shine and I don't want to take away from their joy. The realities of life will crowd in on them soon enough.
8 ) All this technology is bottled up a without clear market access strategy. When I ask the startups how are you going to market – I get fuzzy; "oh we work with agencies" or "We want to sell to brands". I even had one startup say to me that 95% of possible leads are not useful to him because they are too small. Uh – what happened to "walk before you can run"?
9) I can see how 4 or 5 of these technologies could be combined for some kick ass marketing programs – kinda like a huge tinker toy set for marketers. I think I will go build myself something from all these parts. Hmm – I feel like a system integrator all of a sudden. Is that right?
10) Is it me – or does this feel like high school again where the "popular, cool" people hang together and everyone else tries to connect with them? Well, this is no surprise since I think the medium age of the conference might be – uh – 23 (utterly non scientific SWAG).
So ended DAY 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. I will tell you one for sure. I am not breaking out my jeans – I like dressing like an adult.
Go figure.
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Another weekend, another hunt for non-childish Nintendo Wii games. I go to GameXchange stores because used titles $7.95 or less are buy one, get one free. And it looks like the majority of the Wii's library are around $3 to $5 there. But I'll drive really far out of my way to hit the stores because there's always one game at each store that none of the others seem to have. Pretty much most stores that sell used Wii games has a title that I've never come across elsewhere. This trip, those type of games were SpeedZone, Spray, Little King's Story, and Haunted House. I remember reading back in the day that Atari were attempting to reboot the classic 2600 game Haunted House for the Wii, I wasn't aware it ever came out until I found a copy this afternoon.
Altogether, the roster of games are...
Speed Zone
Alone in the Dark
Little King's Story
Overlord - Dark Legend
De Blob
The Calling
Haunted House
Zack & Wiki - Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
I haven't been able to satisfy my collector's instinct since it's virtually impossible to find any games in thrift stores and flea markets. Getting a Wii has really ignited that drive in me. It's been a few months since I bought my first functional Wii, and I probably have around 125 games for it. I'm getting to the end of the line for really grown-up games on the system, and will have to start delving more into the more kid-friendly, casual gamer titles. Luckily those are common as hell and are dirt cheap except for first-party titles. I have a fascination with crappy shovelware for the Wii... Ninjabread Man was garbage, but the company that put it out reskinned the levels, put new characters models in it, and put it out as three other games. Talk about balls. I might pick those up just for the horribleness.
By the way, if anybody in the Dallas area wants a Japanese Saturn console, go to the GameXchange in Mesquite. They've got one, right next to a US version, for $65 if I recall (same as the US console). And next to that is a toploading 3DO (don't remember the price on that one).


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Oregon has the fourth-worst high school graduation rate in the nation, according to the federal government's most accurate state-by-state report on the topic.
Just 68 percent of Oregon high school students in the class of 2011 earned a diploma in four years, according to data released Monday.
At Springfield High School, three miles from UO, that rate is just 60%. If you are a UO professor, volunteer to join the SAIL program at sail.uoregon.edu. We know how to get these kids on the college track, we've got the results to prove it, and we know how to effectively use your abilities as a college professor to expand the program to more students. We have started a new SAIL program at PSU, with the same goal, and we can use more volunteers there as well. We have also received lots of invaluable help from UO staff and OAs, and from UO students volunteering as mentors, and we welcome more. Thanks! 11/28/2012.


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Founded in 1827, Muncie, the county seat of Delaware County, grew slowly until the discovery of natural gas in 1886, when an economic boom ensued and the population increased from a few thousand inhabitants to tens of thousands. By the early twentieth century, depletion of the natural gas slowed growth, but Muncie's central location, industrial capacity, and large workforce helped it to remain viable throughout the next century with various industries. Besides Ball canning jars and Ball State University, Muncie may be best known as "Middletown," the typical American city that sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd studied and reported upon in the 1920s and 30s in an effort to understand life in middle America.
Jews were a small, but significant element in the story of Muncie's development. Jews were present in Muncie at least as early as the 1850s, when brothers Lipman and Henry Marks opened a dry goods store in Muncie. The Jewish population of Muncie, even at its height, never exceeded 200 people. With an extremely small population, it was impossible for the Jewish community to support more than one temple, let alone a kosher butcher. Nevertheless, their impact and influence on the greater community as a whole was disproportionately greater then their numbers. By the turn of the century, Jewish entrepreneurs operated a large proportion of downtown businesses.
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A better way to compensate college athletes
George E. Curry | 5/20/2014, 6 a.m.
(NNPA) Athletes at Northwestern University shocked the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the governing body of college sports, by taking steps to unionize student/athletes. Surprisingly, NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell, former NFL great Jim Brown and Harry Edwards, who organized a human rights protest at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City that culminated in Tommy Smith and John Carlos giving a clenched fist salute when they mounted the winners platform, do not support the idea.
It's not that Bill Russell, Jim Brown or Harry Edwards have mellowed – they have not. Rather, they think there's a better way to help athletes who generate $500 billion a year to major universities, athletic vendors and others.
"I am totally against the unions in college," Brown said. "I don't like the NCAA. I think it's a greedy organization, a dictatorial organization, an organization that's totally unfair to the players…But on the other hand, I think we have all gotten away from the value of an education."
Russell and Brown made their comments recently as part of a sports panel moderated by Edwards at the University of Texas. The discussion was part of 3-day summit at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Russell said the NCAA's money machine should be viewed within the context of other successful U.S. businesses.
"All great fortunes are amassed on cheap or slave labor," he explained. "The NCAA – the one group everybody is focusing on – has this money machine. To keep it this way, the labor force has to be free or paid low wages."
As Everett Glenn, a former sports agent, pointed out in a 3-part series for the NNPA News Service: "College sports is big business – for everyone except the athletes who make it possible. College basketball and football have long operated as quasi-farm systems for professional teams by discovering talent, training players, and highlighting performance."
For example, Glenn noted, "Black athletes represent 52.9 percent of Ohio State University's basketball and football rosters and dominate among its star players, fueling a nearly $130 million athletic department budget on a campus where Black males represent only 2.7 percent of the student body. The disparity between the graduation rate for OSU's Black football players, at 38 percent, and all student-athletes, at 71 percent, represent the highest disparity in the Big-10."
If colleges are serving as farm teams for the pros, players are spending less and less time on the farm.
This year, for example, Kentucky freshmen basketball stars Julius Randle and James Young have announced that they will enter the 2014 NBA draft. It's one-and-done for the Wildcats. Randle is projected to be among the top five picks, which means he may earn $6.1 to $7.5 million over two years.
But many pro athletes have received a truckload of money, only to squander it. Terrell Owens, Allen Iverson, Antoine Walker are just a few who come to mind.
Sports Illustrated reported that by the time former NFL players have been retired for two years, 78 percent of them "have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce." Within five years of retirement, approximately 60 percent of former NBA players are broke.


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Telcos Still Pretending Google Gets "Free Ride"
from the repeating-something-relentlessly-does-not-make-it-true dept
Back in 2005, former AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre (now the head of GM) boldly proclaimed that Google was getting a "free ride" on his company's "pipes," and that they should be charged an additional toll (you know, just because). As we've discussed several times now, Whitacre's argument made absolutely no sense, given that Google not only pays plenty for bandwidth (as do AT&T's customers), but the company owns billions in international and oceanic fiber runs, data centers and network infrastructure. Despite making no sense, this idea that Google was some kind of free ride parasite quickly became the cornerstone of the telco argument against network neutrality. In response,Techdirt has suggested that telco spokespeople should pay for Google's bandwidth bill for a month if it's so low -- with no takers.
Of course, lost under the circus of the network neutrality debate was Whitacre's real goal: to get content providers to subsidize AT&T's network upgrades, something many myopic investors don't want to pay for. Whitacre was also afraid; he understood Google poses an evolutionary threat, the likes of which traditional phone companies like AT&T had never seen before. Incumbent phone companies had grown comfortable sucking down regulatory favors, subsidies and tax cuts while operating in non-competitive markets. Suddenly, increasingly-ubiquitous broadband allowed companies like Google to enter "their" telecom space, gobbling up ad dollars and offering disruptive products like Google Voice -- which threaten sacred cash cows like SMS and voice minutes.
Instead of competing with Google by out-innovating them, Whitacre's first reaction was to impose an anti-competitive toll system like some kind of bridge troll -- which should tell you plenty about pampered phone company thinking. Whitacre's fuzzy logic was given a new coat of paint in pseudo-scientific studies paid for by phone carriers, and has since floated overseas. In the UK, incumbent phone companies have taken a page from Whitacre, insisting that the BBC should pay them extra money -- just because people were using the BBC iPlayer. Now Google's non-existent free ride has popped up in Europe this week, with Telefonica, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom all jointly insisting that Google should be paying them a special toll for carrying Google traffic:
Cesar Alierta, chairman of Telefonica, said Google should share some of its online advertising revenue with the telecoms groups, so as to compensate the network operators for carrying the technology company's bandwidth-hungry content over their infrastructure. "These guys [Google] are using the networks and they don't pay anybody," he said.
Yes, Google doesn't pay anything -- except for the billions they pay for bandwidth and extensive infrastructure. Were Google a telecommunications carrier, they'd be the world's third biggest according to Arbor Networks. It's absolutely stunning that such a ridiculous argument remains in circulation (and that many press outlets don't debunk the concept as painful nonsense). If electric companies went to AT&T or Telefonica to inform them that they wanted a cut of revenues on top of payment for electricity "just because" -- they'd be laughed out the building. Yet somehow we're supposed to take phone companies seriously, when in reality they're simply repeating total nonsense in the hopes that repetition will magically make it true.
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Zodiac Tattoo Design Symbols of girl
tattoo zodiac are twelve signs of the zodiac namely Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. try combine with harmonious color more so nice.Zodiac tattoos of girl now are very popular and zodiac star tattos or Zodiac Celtic tattoo are some of the variations. the zodiac tattoo of girl can be combined with other designs such as the dragon tatto, hearts tattoo, angel, tattoo, skulls tattoo, and other tattoo and can really look more great. Zodiac tattoo Symbols of girl are popular because they relate to one's birthday or astrological signs tattoo design.


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2011-06-08 - Swiss legends SAMAEL have just released the official video clip for the song "Luxferre" off the bands brand new album "Lux Mundi".
Check it out below!
The official "making of" of this video clip you will find HIER!
"Lux Mundi" be released since April 29, 2011 via Nuclear Blast!
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UN CC:Learn Launches Guidance Note on National Climate Change Learning Strategies
More than 50 countries have expressed interest in developing a national climate change learning strategy. In response to this demand the UN CC:Learn Secretariat has released a Guidance Note which provides methodological and organizational suggestions for developing such a strategy. The Guidance Note also responds to the UNFCCC Doha Work Programme which mandates States to prepare a national strategy on Article 6 of the Convention (dealing with climate change education, training and public awareness-raising).
The Note is the product of a three year pilot phase, including five national UN CC:Learn projects to "Strengthen Human Resource Capacities and Skills to Address Climate Change". The five pilot countries are Benin, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda. The Note has been developed with valuable input from members of the UN CC:Learn Steering Group and discussions at several international and regional meetings.
In the foreword of the Guidance Note Ms. Sally Fegan-Wyles, UN-Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director, UNITAR notes: "It is my hope that the guidance will help to inspire systematic action on climate change learning in many other countries, and that those countries will share their experiences with yet other countries."
Potential users of the Guidance Note include:
- Decision-makers in government interested in understanding the process and benefits of developing a National Climate Change Learning Strategy;
- Technical staff in Ministries or other institutions responsible for organizing the process of developing a National Climate Change Learning Strategy;
- Representatives of education and training institutions and non-governmental organizations involved in the development and implementation of a National Climate Change Learning Strategy;
- Representatives of the private sector (e.g. employers' organizations and trade unions);
- Interested citizens.
The Guidance Note can be downloaded for free here.
About UN CC:Learn
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of 33 multilateral organizations which supports Member States in designing and implementing results-oriented and sustainable learning to address climate change. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is provided by UNITAR. An important aspect of UN CC:Learn is to support countries develop a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development through a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder process. During the course of 2012-2013, Benin, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda are participating as UN CC:Learn pilot countries. Core funding for the 2011-2013 implementation phase of UN CC:Learn is provided by the Swiss Government.


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Cruz, Lynn developing nice rapport
NEW YORK -- Catcher Tony Cruz has found a measure of rapport with Cardinals right-hander Lance Lynn, and he received the start behind the plate for Thursday afternoon's series finale against the Mets as a result.
Backing up the consistent Yadier Molina can make for light work for a reserve backstop, but Cruz has found a temporary niche working Lynn's past two outings. Lynn entered Thursday 4-0 with a 3.42 ERA and has tallied 16 strikeouts with just one earned run in his last 12 2/3 innings working with Cruz.
"Tony's done a nice job," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "I think there's a sense of comfort, too, when you've had some success. They've really been working well together, on the same page, had a good tempo going. The added bonus is being able to give [Molina] a day, especially after a night game."
For his part, Cruz has produced at the plate in his limited opportunities, going 4-for-8 with two RBIs in each of his two starts working with Lynn.
"There's going to be periods where this isn't necessarily going to be the case," Matheny said. "Even though they are doing well together, we're still going to be able to throw Yadier in there with any pitcher we have. I'm sure any pitcher in all of baseball would like to have Yadi back there, but right now, it's working well, and we're getting Yadi a little bit of rest on a very long road trip and a very long stretch of games consecutively."


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Owing to the overwhelming response to my first three-part story in which Harold did NOT get fired but I did, I would like to try your patience with another fine tale, told in three installments. This one takes place in the far distant past, early in my career when I believed that all salespeople knew what they were talking about and always told the truth. It involves a Vice President, a tropical fish wholesaler and a naive but eager computer programmer - me.
Frank, the Vice President of the new microcomputer division, hired Tim, the hotshot computer programmer to go with him on sales calls hitting up the existing customer base with proposals for new custom software solutions. The intention was to develop a wide range of vertical market applications that would take the world by storm, all sold on brand new Altos MP/M systems (wow, how old are you Tim?) at $30,000 a pop with a whopping 5MB hard drive.
"So, Mr. Customer, what exactly would you like that new inventory and sales program to do for you?" pumped Frank. "My programmer will take notes and let us know if it can be done." Mr. Customer, who used timesharing on a DEC PDP-11 was not used to hearing such talk about possibilities, only limitations. "The microcomputer is a whole new world, Mr. Customer," crooned Frank, "it can do whatever you want it to do." I was beginning to get a little nervous.
I listened carefully and furiously took copious notes while Mr. Customer drooled and slathered about his dream for a multi-user inventory control and sales invoicing system with bells and whistles that should have been setting off bells in any experienced programmers head. Unfortunately, this was Tim's first gig with the big dogs. All his previous success had been programming in Applesoft on an Apple II+. He had now graduated to the new world of dBASE II. Wow!
"So, what do you think, Tim?" asked Frank, "Do you think it can be done?" I swallowed hard. What should I say? "Sure, it can be done," I replied nonchalantly. "That's just like the job I did for the mobile medical imaging company just a few months back. This should be a piece of cake." All stood up to go with handshakes all around. "That's great Mr Customer," Frank smoothly closed. "Tim will get us the specs and a mock-up in a few days. Just sign here."
What critical functions did Tim irresponsibly fail to provide in this all too common situation in custom programming? Extra points if you can name more than one. Hint: there are at least three.
Part two of the story can be found here: When techs try to comminicate with management.


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12 Outdoor Games for Kids for Cool Fun This Summer
Do your kids like to play outside?
Are you looking for some unique outdoor activities?
Energize your summer with fun outdoor games for kids.
My Kids' Adventures searched the web for fun games to play outside with your kids. Some are classics with a twist, others are supersized and many are both!
In this article I'll share our 12 favorite outdoor games for kids of all ages. You and your family will enjoy them all summer long. Ready to go play?
Why Play Outdoor Games?
Playing games is an excellent way to have fun with your family. And games get everyone outside exercising. Play these games in your backyard, at a park, on the beach, on a camping trip, wherever. So pack 'em up and head on out.
There's a wide variety of options for all ages. Plus, most of the games we found cost very little or nothing to play. Whether you want a quiet game like Memory or an active game like an obstacle course, there's something for everyone and every day.


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Jun 2 2020
Knitting Ministry
Tuesday June 2nd, 10:00am
Location: Church Hall
Meetings are Tuesday mornings at 10:00 a.m. in the Church Hall.
The mission of this ministry is to provide a prayerful environment for individuals to share their love of knitting and/or crocheting and to reach out to those in need of comfort, solace and prayers. The knitter and/or crocheter begins each prayer shawl/scarf/afghan with prayers and blessings for the recipient and when the creation is completed, it is blessed by the Priest before being presented to the recipient. Baptismal blankets are also created for all children baptized here at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. All creations are fee free and available to all who request them. New Knitters are always welcome. Please contact Sr. Georgia at the Parish Office if interested.
Shawls... made for centuries, universal and embracing, symbolic of an inclusive, unconditionally loving God. They wrap, enfold, comfort, cover and give solace, mother, hug shelter and beautify. Those who have received these shawls have been uplifted and affirmed, as if given wings to fly above their troubles.
Forever Young Exercise Class w/Ed
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Location: Church Hall
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In insurance, requirements that a policyholder must fulfill before becoming eligible for a benefit. This especially applies to eligibility for long-term care in health insurance.
gatekeepera person who controls important information flows and access to other persons within an organization. The person concerned may have control over the information which goes up or down the organizational structure or in and out of the organization.
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For nearly four decades, he's been the star of L.A.'s stars — and its biggest booster of the galaxy.
Now Griffith Observatory Director Edwin C. Krupp has been recognized by some of America's top scientists for his contribution to science within the most visited public observatory on the planet.
The American Institute of Physics announced Tuesday it would give Krupp its 2013 Andrew Gemant Award in honor of his contributions to the cultural, artistic and humanistic side of physics.
"Through telescopes, other public instruments, innovative exhibits and live astronomical programs, he has brought the heavens to life for millions on the ground," said Catherine O'Riordan, AIP vice president of Physics Resources.
He will be presented the award Nov. 22 at Los Angeles City Hall for his work at L.A.'s iconic landmark. He will also be recognized in January by the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C.
The 68-year-old maestro of the universe, who has a doctorate in astronomy from UCLA, began working for Griffith Observatory 43 years ago and has been its director since 1974.
Krupp is familiar to decades of stargazers for his interplanetary 1968 Camaro, a faded turquoise muscle car he bought new that now has more than 500,000 miles. He has piloted it daily during his winding commutes to the Mount Hollywood observatory.
He's also known for his astronomical enthusiasm — including the different celestial tie he sports each day — and for breaking down a complex science into meteorite-size terms for the general public.
Krupp has written four children's books on astronomy, five others on ancient and traditional astronomy and hundreds of articles, having visited and studied nearly 2,000 ancient, historic and prehistoric sites around the globe.
He has collaborated with musicians and artists to create planetarium and other shows that link astronomy with the arts.
Most visibly, Krupp is credited with leading the $93 million restoration, renovation and expansion of the 78-year-old Griffith Observatory. The Art Deco-style landmark reopened in 2006.
For his work, the American Institute of Physics will award Krupp $5,000, plus a $3,000 donation to the school of his choice.


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Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day: A Fantastic Journey in the V&A
The display presents a selection of attractive works on paper, which illustrate the first book of fiction for children published by the V&A: Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day (2011).
Art Exhibition
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Victoria and Albert Museum
United Kingdom.
From Tuesday 19 March 2013 to Sunday 19 January 2014
Published by anonymous on Friday 12 July 2013.
Contact the publisher.
The story is set in the V&A and uses well-known works from the collection, such as Tipu's tiger. The whole narrative is inspired by the celebrated surrealist 'Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse' by Eileen Agar (1937).
Playing on the subtle boundary between reality and fantasy, the authors show how museum exhibits can tell different stories in addition to those provided by their actual historical context. The reader is thus carried away by the active imagination of the child Clara Button who transforms the museum into a fantastic new world.
The author Professor Amy de la Haye is the Roostein Hopkins Chair of Dress History and Curatorship at London College of Fashion. She was formerly a curator at the V&A. The artist Emily Sutton graduated in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. She also studied at York College and Rhode Island School of Design, and specialises in children's book illustrations.