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i have been bottling with powdered sugar. just to use up a few pounds we had on hand. i have had no problems with this at all.
Corn sugar is very slightly less fermentable than table sugar (like maybe 5% less). I use cane sugar all the time to bottle beer, no problems. I used about 3/4lb of turbinado for 5 gallons of a champagne-style beer, and it worked fine.
I absolutely meant 3/4lb, as in 340 grams. I was targeting 5.3 volumes of CO2 in 20L of beer. I used Champagne bottles, no explosions, but I did have a couple crowns come off unexpectedly.
that was the champagne style you were posting about right? so you probably lose some in the riddling/recorking process as well.

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Lady Pioneers come up short at home to Cougars; Pleasant Ridge earn road victories while Lansing, Immaculata each drop two
Facing yet another challenge within its grueling Sunflower League schedule, the Leavenworth softball team hosted Shawnee Mission Northwest Thursday.
During that doubleheader, it was tough sledding for the Lady Pioneers, who dropped both games by the score of 10-0 and 12-1.
Leavenworth will host Shawnee Mission North at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Lady Rams take two at ACCHS
The Pleasant Ridge softball team continued its winning ways Thursday.
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Lansing squeezed by Tonganoxie
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Santana set for Royals debut at U.S. Cellular Field
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Santana, who was acquired from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this offseason, is coming off a disappointing 2012 campaign that saw him go 9-13 with a 5.16 ERA over 30 starts. He got better as the year wore on and went 4-3 with a 3.63 ERA over the final two months of the regular season.
The 29-year-old righty had spent his entire eight-year career with the Angels with his greatest accolade coming on July 27, 2011, when he tossed the eighth no-hitter in team history against the Cleveland Indians.
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Peavy, an All-Star for the third time in his career a year ago, pitched over 200 innings for the first time since his award-winning campaign and went 11-12 with a 3.37 ERA and 194 strikeouts over 32 starts.
He was rewarded this offseason with a 2-year, $29 million contract.
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Valparaiso University head coach Stacy Adams has announced that 45 players have committed to play football for the Crusaders beginning this fall.
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My heart is pounding. I am literally writing this post because I am at home alone with three children and there is anger seeping out of my pores. I can not see straight. I am breathing heavily and I want to scream. I do not know that I have ever been this angry. In the last few years, I have gone through so many phases of this journey. I was so lost, consumed with depression and suicidal ideologies. I was wracked with grief and consumed with guilt.
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pa9tv wrote:Space engineering is a quite formal compared to extreme programming. And to be honest, the data problem looks easy to solve. How do you feel about release early, release often?
I agree on the front end of things, but the actual database should be designed to not need much updating of the schema. It is too central to multiple applications, and when we constantly need all developers to use a new schema that's just not going to work...
The interfaces can just have a version number in the URI if we really want to. no problem to do that and serve in one or multiple formats at the same time.
But on the satellite side its release late, release once....unless you have an on-orbit bootloader! ;)


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The Tech Set uses a creative, innovative approach with both printed books and links to online resources that give readers the opportunity to interact with each other and the authors on current and ever-changing technology topics. These user-friendly, practical and highly readable primers offer a rich source of up-to-date information that will allow librarians to understand and employ social networks, wikis, blogs, mobile information services and other technologies to further library services. Kroski will receive $5,000 and a 24K gold-framed citation, donated by the Greenwood Publishing Group.
The Award committee chose The Tech Set from a strong field of nominated books on many aspects of librarianship. The committee praised the book for covering a wide variety of timely topics, providing a way to keep the topics updated and interactive, and for being written in an easy-to-understand manner for readers both at the beginning of their quest for information and those more advanced who want an overview and updated information online.
Kroski is the emerging technologies & web services librarian at Barnard College Library as well as a writer, educator and international conference speaker. She is an adjunct faculty member at Long Island University, Pratt Institute, and San Jose State University where she teaches LIS students about emerging technologies. Series contributors include Marshall Breeding (Next-Gen Library Catalogs), Jason Griffey (Mobile Technology and Libraries), Robin M. Hastings (Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries), Thomas Sean Casserley Robinson (Library Videos and Webcasts), Lauren Pressley (Wikis for Libraries), Sarah Houghton-Jan (Technology Training in Libraries), Cliff Landis (A Social Networking Primer for Librarians), Steve Lawson (Library Camps and Unconferences), Kelly Nicole Czarnecki (Gaming in Libraries) and Connie Crosby (Effective Blogging for Libraries).
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Welcome to another installment of Biff and Mary!
Today's episode is brought to you by alliteration, autonomous body parts, unnecessary descriptions and a few common phrases I seem to see in nearly every book I've read lately (if you know which ones I mean and find them in the chapter, let me know in the comments!)
Those of you who have read the previous chapters (just click the Biff and Mary tab, above, if you'd like to review) will recall that we last left our lovely couple in the doorway at Mary's house, with Mary embracing a strange man, leaving poor Biff stunned and stymied...
Chapter Fifteen: In Which Biff Becomes Excessively Envious
Biff stood silently behind Mary, in an uncomfortable quandary, wondering if he should interrupt her embrace of the unknown man or sustain his stoic nonchalant stance. As he frowned at the affectionate display in the doorway, a sparkle outside drew his attention and he gazed over Phillipe's red Robert Graham garrison sport shirt-clad shoulder at the car parked at the end of the drive. It was a BMW 1 Series Sport Edition Convertible in Carbon Black metallic paint finish with 18" M light alloy V-spoke wheels, adaptive Xenon headlights, shiny chrome accents and tailpipe and polished black vertical bars in the distinctive kidney grille. The slowly setting sun caused the BMW's shadow to hover ominously over Biff's practical Prius, which – as he saw now – really needed to be washed, dried, and buffed to a proper shine, though it would likely never have the perfectly polished presence of Phillipe's vehicle.
Biff sighed and his eyes moved away from the driveway drama, only to find that the Phillipe/Mary embrace disturbingly continued. Just as Biff was reaching out to poke a proprietary pinkie on Phillipe's admirably clothed arm, Mary finally drew back and away, though her smile was wide and bright and not directed at Biff at all.
"Oh, Phillipe! I can't believe you're here! How did you ever know where to find me?" Mary bubbled as she ignored Biff.
Phillipe flipped his medium-length brown-with-reddish-highlights hair back out of his chocolate brown eyes and flashed Mary a stunningly spectacular grin.
"I stopped by your parents' place, and your mother was very accommodating with your address, so I jumped in the Beamer and headed straight for Loversville!"
"But, but I thought you were in Paris until fall!"
Phillipe's eyes rolled heavenward with exhausted ennui. "Paris simply bored me, Mary. One can take only so many parties and fashion shows and yachts, after all. So, here I am! Back to see my lovely Mary!" Phillipe grasped Mary's lightly tanned and toned arms and pulled her in for yet another enthusiastic embrace.
His "lovely Mary"?? Biff's eyes widened and his fists clenched in an unfamiliar way as he was filled with a new, incomprehensible emotion. He panicked as he felt his heartbeat increase to a disturbing cadence and the depth of his frown threatened to crease the Revlon Cover-me-Up in Fair Maiden Ivory concealer he'd applied to the stubborn behemoth of blemish on his forehead. His lungs filled and refilled with air at a much faster than normal pace and he began to feel rather faint as he stared ineffectually at his lovely Mary in this insolent intruder's arms. He felt beads of moisture on his brow, and after thinking about it for a moment he realized it must be sweat – something he'd heard of but never experienced, of course, as sweating was simply not done in his circles. A sense of shame as well as fear began to join the other unknown emotion that caused his rapid breathing and clenched fists as he surreptitiously swiped his sleeve across his seriously sweaty brow.
Just when he felt he may explode in some inexplicable but likely meaningful way, Mary drew away from Phillipe once more. As her mouth opened to speak, a shrill series of yelps echoed from beyond the kitchen.
"Oh! Poor Poopsie!" Mary exclaimed, running toward the back door. "I'm coming, sweetiekins!"
For a swift but seemingly interminable moment, Biff was left staring at Phillipe, begrudgingly admiring the Robert Graham shirt and the beige Cutter & Buck twill pants as well as the hickory shade of his Ferragamo Sabatino driving shoes and the Versace sunglasses that hung haphazardly out of his shirt pocket. As his breathing began to return to normal, he looked up only to find Phillipe's gaze on his own shoes.
The mutual assessment was interrupted by a rocketing ball of pink fur and tiny snapping maw, as Poopsie barreled into the room. Having been on the receiving end of Poopsie's protective nature, Biff's feet took an instinctive step backward.
Phillipe, meanwhile, stooped down and caught the ricocheting puffball in mid-bark.
"Hey! This can't be little Poopsie, can it?" he said as he gathered the previously-problematic pup against his chest. "Last time I saw you, you had to be at least two ounces lighter and a lovely shade of lilac." He turned to Mary. "You simply must tell me who her stylist is. They've done a wonderful job and I've been looking for a new one for my Lhasa, Lawrence."
"Oh, I bring her to Penny at Paulette's Pampered Pooch Emporium on the corner of Pearl and Pickwick. They let you pick from plenty of powdery pastels! Lawrence would look lovely in a light lilac, I'm sure!"
Momentarily ignoring the dog stylist discussion, Biff felt his mouth drop open in shock as Poopsie sniffed Phillipe delicately, and then her little pink tongue reached out and licked his hand, tail wagging in apparent friendly recognition. Biff looked down at his bandage-bearing thumb, which still throbbed slightly from Poopsie's earlier attack, then felt his scowl deepen as he turned toward Mary.
Mary was smiling a blinding, larger than ever, dazzling Crest White Strips smile as she gazed adoringly at…at Phillipe!
"Oh Phillipe, it is SO wonderful to see you again!" she gushed, seeming to forget about Biff entirely.
Biff forced a polite but firm "ahem" from his throat, causing all three to turn their attention his way. Poopsie began growling menacingly.
"Oh good heavens!" Mary exclaimed. "How could I be so rude!" She took a step toward Biff and grasped his arm. "Phillipe, I'd like you to meet my beau, Biff!"
Phillipe gave Biff another assessing look before he shifted Poopsie in his arms and his free hand reached out in a seemingly friendly way. He grasped Biff's hand firmly. "Good to meet you."
"Same," Biff said, unable to force himself to friendliness.
"Biff," Mary addressed him – finally! "This is Phillipe Jean-Paul Boutonniere the Third, of the Boston Boutonnieres, so well-known for their baby bunting and bauble businesses in both Boston and Baltimore, of course. He and I were…er…good friends back home."
Biff nodded, regaining enough composure to possessively place his hand over Mary's as it rested on his arm. He smiled a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes and released the breath he hadn't realized he was holding.
Phillipe carefully placed Poopsie on the floor and she sauntered off to her pillow in the living area, pausing along the way to glare and growl at Biff.
"Well, now that all that is out of the way," he announced cheerfully, "we can get to business. Mary, I would love to take you to dinner this evening…what do you say?"
As Biff's mouth dropped open once again at the audacity of the incessantly insolent interloper, wondering what he should do next as he'd never been in a position to purposely pound upon a person to possessively point out who, in fact, was in charge here, he felt Mary's hand leave his arm as she walked toward Phillipe once more.
"Oh, Phillipe! That would be…"
Will Mary accept Phillipe's offer?
Will Biff figure out how to confront Phillipe?
Will any boxes ever get unpacked?
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Munroe Regional Medical Center officials approved the hospital's fiscal 2013 budget Monday, predicting $322.9 in revenues over $322.7 million in expenses.
Munroe Regional Medical Center officials approved the hospital's fiscal 2013 budget Monday, predicting $322.9 in revenues over $322.7 million in expenses.
The projected operating revenues, 7.3 percent greater than in 2012's operating budget, are based on an anticipated 7 percent increase in patient admissions as well as an anticipated increase in surgical cases and outpatient cases.
Richard Mutarelli, Munroe executive vice president and chief financial officer, said some of the increased admissions would be due to the hospital's new children's emergency department and the newly expanded Villages South Campus offices.
But as revenues are expected to increase, so are the hospital's expenses, which are expected to jump about 7 percent.
Mutarelli said about half of that 7 percent expense increase was due to employee pay raises to current market levels, new services, and physician practice acquisitions.
The 2013 budget also included $18 million in capital improvement projects such as $6 million for renovations, an emergency power generator and a Level II Nursery.
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That will leave the hospital with about 128 days of cash reserves by the end of fiscal 2013, which is below Fitch's A-rated median of 158 days of cash reserves, Mutarelli said.
The public 421-bed hospital is owned by the state-sanctioned Marion County Hospital District and overseen by seven trustees who are appointed by the County Commission.
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Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Feld Entertainment announced today that Monster Jam: Urban Assault has been unleashed in North America for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, Wii and Nintendo DS. The original Monster Jam re-defined the monster truck genre and now Monster Jam: Urban Assault takes all-out destruction to another level by busting the traditional Monster Jam action out of the stadiums and onto city streets across the globe with the most famous monster trucks in the world.
"Monster Jam: Urban Assault is all about the fun of wreaking havoc with the world's biggest and baddest monster trucks," said Dave Oxford, Activision Publishing. "Ever dreamed of driving one of these beasts through downtown, destroying everything in sight? In Monster Jam: Urban Assault, it's not only possible, you are rewarded for it."
Take your pick of 27 monster trucks, all with improved handling and suspension, including classic Monster Jam icons like Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Monster Mutt, Blue Thunder, and Captain's Curse and newer stars such as Stone Crusher and Backwards Bob. Rack up points by crushing everything in your path and doing insane tricks you never imagined were possible in city and urban settings! There are 26 new urban tracks, 12 Monster Jam stadiums packed with things to demolish, seven different game modes, and 12 skill competitions. Multiplayer action lets you go head to head with up to four players at once via split-screen, and Nintendo DS has 4-player local wireless connection competition.
"Monster Jam: Urban Assault takes everything that is classic about the original Monster Jam video game to an entirely new level," said Charlie Mancuso, President of Feld Motor Sports, Inc. "The classic Monster Jam stadium racing and stadium freestyle elements will once again be included, but now taking your favorite monster trucks into the city streets and wreaking havoc outside of the traditional stadium settings will allow for an entirely new game play experience. We believe Monster Jam: Urban Assault will be a hit with not only core Monster Jam fans, but also traditional gamers."
Monster Jam: Urban Assault is out now for $39.99 for Wii, $29.99 for PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, and $19.99 for Nintendo DS.
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Maybe it's true that life begins at 50... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. That's according to Phyllis Diller. She was ninety-five years old when she died last year, a devotee of cosmetic surgery, and a strong woman.
A lot of fallen senior and mid-life citizens no longer laugh at the old saw about the shortest time span, said to be between the traffic light turning green and the driver behind you honking. The shortest time span is between falling and landing hard on the cement! Some (myself included) have found the time between tripping and landing to be the longest time span. One is thinking "Oh, no" and sometimes, "Oh, no. Not again." Taint funny, McGee.
The real risk and potential complications of falls can be exceeded by the morbid fear associated with going to the ground. And it's a circular problem — studies have shown the fear of falling actually increases the risk of falling.
Sex and the City's fictional columnist Carrie Bradshaw observed that "When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?"
That older people take more time to cross the street is a fact. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed the risk of pedestrian death increasing slowly through life and peaking with people over age 75; they are more than twice as likely to be killed by a car than are people overall. Better safety generally would make walking safer for older people. Better crosswalks, raised medians, enforcement of speed limits and pedestrian right-of-way, and car-free zones. Crossing signals need to be altered so that people -- seniors are people -- have sufficient time to cross the street. Why men were found to be twice as likely as women to be killed as pedestrians may be due to men walking more often than women, as well as alcohol consumption.
Falls are one of the top 10 causes of injury reported by California Hospitals' Emergency Department 2011 data. This month an American Association for the Advancement of Science study reported an increase in fall-related traumatic brain injuries among elderly men and women. In Australia, where four times as many elderly die from falls, falls by the elderly are proving costly for hospital.
Falls, osteoporosis, fractures, balance and hearing, joints and knees are often associated.
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA -- knee replacement) is one of the most costly surgical procedures performed in the United States. It "is a common and safe procedure typically performed for relief of symptoms in patients with severe knee arthritis. Available data suggest that approximately 600,000 TKA procedures are performed annually in the United States at a cost of approximately $15,000 per procedure…" Medscape's 2013 Physician Compensation Report is online: physicians are doing well and income is on the rise overall. About one third of the specialties surveyed each earned a mean of over $300,000 annually. This year's 3 top-earning specialties -- orthopedics, cardiology, and radiology -- were the same as in the 2012 Compensation Report.
The increase in total knee arthroplasty procedures over the past 20 years has been driven by increases both in the number of Medicare enrollees and in per capita utilization, and by an aging population and an increasing prevalence of certain conditions that predispose patients to osteoarthritis, most notably obesity. While there has been a decrease in hospital length of stay for TKA -- the notorious three-day hospital stay -- there have been increased hospital readmission rates and increased rates of infectious complications.
A senior citizen who resorts to a TKA has usually applied all the 'simple reminders…' that may help prevent fractures. Knee braces from the drugstore can, it is said, 'significantly' reduce pain of kneecap osteoarthritis for a while. Glucosamine chondroitin is in vogue. Pool exercise may build strength, reduce falls. 'Mobility shoes' take a load off for knee osteoarthritis sufferers. Physical therapy may delay surgery.
A new study by researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery reports spinal -- or epidural -- anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement. It was found that neuraxial anesthesia, a type of regional anesthesia, reduced morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and costs when compared with general anesthesia. [May 2013 Anesthesiology journal] Wasn't this well known?
It is essential that the total knee arthroplasty (TKA -- knee replacement) patient take command of her/his situation long before surgery. Try the delay tactics first. Then into the hospital. Here's my seniorcitizenwithoutfamily-relevant checklist:
Before hospitalization, discuss with the orthopedic surgeon your wish/need for: a morphine drip, no catheters, at least a week's hospital stay, and thence to a "rehab," i.e. not a nursing home. Ask her/him to write each into your hospital chart. Whether s/he will comply with your requests or even discuss them is another matter.
Ask the anesthesiologist for spinal anesthetic and to make you unconscious during the procedure.
Stay at least 2 weeks in the "rehab."
Follow up with a month's physical therapy visits.
"Dreamer!," you respond, and several aspects may indeed be beyond the patient control. They shouldn't be. Your primary care physician may be willing and able to intervene in your behalf.
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 98% of total knee replacement patients return to life and work following surgery.
May 8, 2013 headline: Older New Yorkers Advocate for an Age Equality Budget. More than 350 older New Yorkers from senior centers descended on City Hall to advocate for $26 million in restorations to services funded through the Department for the Aging. These services directly impact the lives and those of their families, friends and neighbors.
Senior citizen delegations, led by the Council of Senior Centers and Services (CSCS,) met with 45 of the 51 Councilmembers. CSCS Executive Director Igal Jellinek stated, "The community-based aging services network were first responders during and after Hurricane Sandy making 20,000 calls to homebound older adults, delivering meals-on-wheels and keeping senior centers operating and used as community warming centers. These services are more important than ever."
On May 13, 2013, the Vermont legislature passed the Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act – a tremendous advance for citizens of the state and the entire movement. The bill is similar to Oregon's law, but reduces requirements for patients after three years, when Vermont physicians may practice aid in dying under professional practice standards instead of procedures adopted by the legislature. This makes Vermont: the first legislature in the nation to approve death with dignity; the first state in the East and fourth in the nation affirmatively to permit aid in dying; and the first state to pass a bill that transitions to less government involvement.
OWL (The Voice of Midlife and Older Women) reports that median income for older women is only $15,000 a year. Underemployment is much higher among older women -- 20.5%, than men - 7.2%. Seventy percent older Americans living in poverty are women.


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Brandon Mahone Joins Team Adam with Temptations Cover on 'The Voice'
What 17-year-old Brandon Mahone lacks in age, he makes up for in soul. The young singer gave a passionate and heartfelt delivery of the popular Temptations song 'I Wish it Would Rain' on tonight's (Sept. 24) new episode of 'The Voice,' inspiring three judges to turn around.
Adam Levine turned around immediately, closely followed by Cee Lo, and Christina Aguilera also hit her button before the song was over. "So smooth, so soulful," she said to Mahone. "What ended up making me want to push my button was I was hearing the emotion you were putting into the song." "I pushed my button because I wanted to turn around and see you act that song out," Cee Lo remarked. Levine added, "It didn't sound like you were imitating anybody; it sounded like you were the next in line."
Mahone put so much of himself into his audition that his eyes were shining with tears by the end. He ultimately decided to join Levine's team.
The teenaged singer is a Chicago, Ill. native but has since relocated to Indianapolis, Ind. due to episodes of gang violence at his old high school. He described himself as being "a classical young guy," and named influences such as Gladys Knight, Smokie Robinson and of course the Temptations. "I don't think you can teach someone soul … it comes from within," he said.
Mahone's desire to succeed is not purely personal – he wants to make things better for his family as well (particularly his mother, with whom he is quite close). "We just need to make it," he said. "We need to have a better life … This one performance can change everything."
Judging by how smoothly his audition went tonight, things are already on the up and up for Mahone.


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COTTONWOOD — Happy May Day to everyone! Even if it keeps snowing once in a while, we know that summer is coming. The cows will be going to pasture soon if they haven't already.
Friends of the NRA are having a dinner Friday evening, May 2, at 5:30 p.m. at the Greencreek Hall. Tickets are available at Rae Brothers in Grangeville. Tickets are $40 per person or $150 for two meal tickets and $100 in raffle tickets. You could win one of the guns they will have there.
Grab your family and friends and come out to support The Center for Discovery Saturday, May 3, at 6:30 p.m. at the Cottonwood Community Hall. Dinner will be roasted pig, twice baked potato, broccoli and cauliflower salad, Caesar salad, applesauce, dinner roll and dessert. Cost is $45 per couple, while kids sixth grade and under eat free, seventh to 12th grade $10 per plate. Games and auctions will take place throughout the night, along with a craft project to do with the kids. There will also be the opportunity for family pictures. To get tickets call Erin Shears at 816-0202, The Center for Discovery at 962-7080, Tara Rowland at 962-7071 or e-mail to either email@example.com or email@example.com.
Summit Academy will be presenting a play titled "Much Ado about Napoleon" on May 8-9-10 at 7 p.m. each evening. There will also be a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Love and treason are in the air! Join us for an adventure comedy based on Shakespeare's play! The performance will be in the Summit Academy gym at 122 Substation Road north of Cottonwood. There will be a spaghetti feed each night from 5-7 p.m. with homemade rolls and sauces! Prices are as follows: $5/adults and $3/5-12 year olds. Age 5 and under are free. The total charge for a family is $20, a three-day family pass is $30 and a four-day family pass is $35. Concessions will be available for purchase. These kids do a great job of putting on a play.
Are you getting ready for the Cottonwood citywide yard sales? The library is about finished with the move and remodel, so we have furniture such as a desk, storage cupboard, book cart and shelves, along with lots of books and other miscellaneous items donated by generous people. If you have anything you don't need we would take it for our yard sale. If you want to have a yard sale with us there is still room for you. Dog Bark Park will be having a yard sale at their place that day also. Anyone interested in material for quilting should see what they have. It will be a fun day for you to come to Cottonwood.
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OCZ RevoDrive 50GB PCI Express SSD Review
Storage devices have come quite far in the last few years. We have seen terabyte drives which expand our storage capabilities beyond imagination, solid state drives that break the speed barrier faster than a jet engine and new device interfaces that make transferring data quicker than toasting a piece of bread. With all that being said, nothing has really given us the head spinning wow factor, until now that is. When you think of a hard drive, you picture a square 2.5 or 3.5 inch box to which you hook up your power and data cables which need to be routed and kept neat. Then, you have to find space in your drive bay which might be full or not the right size. Well, how about a drive that doesn't use any of those elements yet is simple to install and get running?
Today I present to you the "drive of drives", the OCZ RevoDrive 50GB PCIe Solid State Drive. This drive throws out what we picture as a hard drive and turns it into essentially an expansion card. The RevoDrive is a fully bootable solid state drive that uses a PCI Express x4 slot for power and to transfer data. This eliminates the bottlenecks caused by some SATA controllers and drives, allowing for much higher read and write speeds. The RevoDrive comes in several capacities ranging from 50GB for the budget conscious user all the way up to 480GB for the extreme speed and storage junkie. OCZ is no stranger to the PCIe solid state drives arena but the RevoDrive marks the first time a PCIe drive has had the ability to have the OS installed and be bootable. The RevoDrive really revolutionizes the way that digital storage may be contained in a system in the future. If you are as excited about this review as I am, how about we dive right in and take a look at the drive in all of its glory?
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The OCZ RevoDrive comes packaged in a sleek box with the "R" logo on the front as well as notes on a couple of the key features. On the rear of the box is a description of the RevoDrive with a picture and the specs dependant on the model that you have chosen. This particular drive is a 50GB version. However, it does go up to 480GB in size. Inside the packaging is another thicker box that slides out to reveal the items. The RevoDrive is very well packaged and secure so that there is little chance of any damage being done to it when being moved around the country, city, etc. while en route to you. The drive itself is wrapped in an anti-static bag with a warning to be careful when handling the drive due to static electricity (aka ESD).
Included with the drive is the instruction guide and a sticker that says "My SSD is faster than your HDD." There is no driver CD included but the drivers for installing the drive are available from the OCZ website. The RevoDrive will work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. I also tested installing Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition and had no issues or trouble getting it installed and booted from the RevoDrive.
Now that we have the drive out of the package, let's get a bit closer and look at what makes it so special.


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While the terms "onboarding" and "orientation" are sometimes used interchangeably they are notably different. Nevertheless, they are both critical processes in the successful assimilation of new hires. Here are some important distinctions between the two:
Strategic with an impact on bottom-line results
Evolving and progressive
An ongoing process
An event
Used for transferred and promoted employees, as well as new hires
Is most often limited to new employees
Delivers information that is unique and customized to the individual employee and is generally handed out on an as-needed basis
Delivers information that is common to all new hires usually within a classroom setting
Has a long-term focus, and can last up to a year or more
Is a short term program, typically lasting from one day to two weeks
The sooner a new employee experiences the benefits of a comprehensive and well-implemented orientation and onboarding program, the sooner the employee will become a contributing member of that organization.
Executive onboarding is acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new leaders into the organizational culture and business1. The best onboarding strategies will provide a fast track to meaningful, productive work and strong employee relationships2 and be tailored specifically to the needs of the individual. Executive onboarding should be strategic, so that it not only prevents executive derailment, but expedites the executive's contribution to optimize strategic achievement. Getting on Board: A Model for Integrating and Engaging New Employees is a report created from a study conducted by the Partnership for Public Service (PPS) and Booz Allen Hamilton in 2008. The study states that successfully onboarding employees during their first year of service increases engagement, raises retention by as much as 25 percent, improves performance and hastens the time to full productivity.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recognizes the value of ongoing assimilation into an organization and so includes a year-long orientation process among the five components of its new End-to-End (E2E) Hiring Roadmap. Though not specifically geared toward leadership positions, the E2E Hiring Roadmap can be used to help assure federal agencies recruit and retain the top talent they need to meet the complex challenges of the 21st century.
Onboarding of key executives is even more critical than it is for other employees because of the significantly greater performance expectations leaders face and the greater impact they have on the overall performance of the organization. Some federal agencies like the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) have established very comprehensive onboarding programs for their employees and their executives. Other agencies with executive onboarding programs are the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Agencies need onboarding solutions that address three types of new SES:
Solve Problems
(What are some resources available to me? What are other agencies doing to onboard their executives?)
Use the links below to access agency-specific Executive Onboarding Program information. Established best practices from other Government organizations can be shared and tailored to meet your agency's needs.
Office of Personnel Management
Hit the Ground Running: Establishing a Model Executive Onboarding Framework, was designed to provide a consistent model in which to introduce new executives into the SES and to maximize executive effectiveness. It is a flexible framework allowing adjustments that adhere to specific agency rules, policies, procedures and needs.
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Navy
The Department of the Navy has also recently implemented SES 101 and Flash Mentoring workshops, offered at a Senior Executive Seminar at the Washington Navy Yard.
SES 101 was an hour-long session designed for executives who have been in the SES less than three years. Topic areas included:
Flash Mentoring was a one-hour session that immediately followed SES 101. I thought of the idea of offering flash mentoring after some past conversations with Scott Derrick at DoD (see blog post, Mentoring in a Flash . He developed flash mentoring for members of the Senior Executive Association (information on SEA's website) when he worked there and at another organization he was a part of (13L). I decided to modify the concept for a seminar environment to be more like speed mentoring. Some particulars:
Agencies can also look to the private sector for best practices in executive onboarding. Here are a few examples of innovative practices:
Johnson & Johnson, Canada
New hires from outside the company enter a different onboarding track than those hired from within the company. Internal hires are also brought on board differently according to their key skill gaps, of which the company is already aware, as a result of their performance management process. Other best practices include providing an external onboarding coach who collects and uses business/organizational data anonymously to develop Onboarding development charter that outlines transition leadership priorities, stakeholder relationship map and individualized dashboard;
American Express
At six month milestone:
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Stay Current
(What can I learn to help me refresh my knowledge base and add value?)
As a result of a collaborative effort with the Senior Executive Association, the Partnership for Public Service, and experienced, newer SES members, OPM developed a Governmentwide Executive Onboarding Framework and Executive Onboarding Manual. These documents are tools to assist agencies in creating a business case for and ultimately implementing an executive onboarding program for their new leaders.
Please contact Cheryl Ndunguru (firstname.lastname@example.com) for copies of the framework and manual. The framework and manual will be posted shortly.
Discover Helpful Tools and Resources
(What other tools and resources including guides, articles and websites are available to me?)
There are many resources through the Internet, webinars, books, training and other media that provide good instruction on developing a comprehensive executive onboarding program. Here are a few:
Executive Onboarding (Navy) Questions and Answers
The following questions were asked of Navy's Executive onboarding program:
Does your onboarding program begin once a year, at various times throughout the year, or as new executives arrive?
We onboard executives based on their entrance on duty date, so we aren't delaying when an executive begins. We don't have a cohort per se. For clarification, the Department of the Navy (DON) does not have an orientation that new executives come to at specific times. We meet with them 1:1 at the beginning (in addition to what the Command provides) and then check in with them throughout the year. We also see them at the various events and meetings that support executive development.
How do you onboard each new SES as they come in?
At the Department of the Navy, we link executive onboarding with selection decisions in the recruiting phase. Once an entrance on duty date is confirmed, we partner with our points of contact in each Command. Our centralized office holds an initial overview (first day/first week) with each executive about their role within the greater department, near-term priorities/actions, services and support for leadership development and engagement. We provide them with a welcome packet, which includes an onboarding guide and plan that is tailored to their position and location. In addition, a soft copy of the onboarding plan is provided to the executive prior to their entrance on duty. The field activity where the executive resides takes care of local responsibilities such as introduction to the organization/staff/stakeholders, badge access, ethics counseling, etc. The bulk of our executive appointments are internal employees, so there has been more of an emphasis on assisting with their position transition and working at the executive level than topics such as benefits (which remain the same).
Which aspects of the program were most costly? Which were the least costly?
The onboarding experience is aligned with leadership development, performance management and succession planning processes. That being said, probably one of the most costly aspects is an executive coaching engagement, which includes a 360 assessment (aligned to the DON SES Competency Model) and 12 coaching sessions with an external executive coach (typically over 6 months). We introduce this opportunity to new executives after 90 days and typically recommend it begin within their first year.
One of the least costly aspects of the program (but impactful) is the face-to-face meetings with new executives throughout their first year. The cost is our time, but it pays dividends in terms of the executive understanding expectations, feeling included/valued, and building relationships with our customer and points of contact.
National Science Foundation
Studies demonstrate the success of incoming executives largely depend on the following:
This is how NSF addresses (or intends to address) this within their executive onboarding program:
Understanding the unique aspects of the organizational culture
Our new Executive Leadership Retreat has a heavy and multifaceted approach to addressing org culture.
We are planning to develop a new executive mentorship program that will also serve in this regard.
Understanding the dynamics of the teams the executive is entering (whether as a leader or colleague)
We're piloting a team formation workshop in the fall to serve this purpose.
Associate Directors and their deputies, and Division Directors and their Deputies work closely together and inform one another on these dynamics.
The personality, knowledge and leadership skills of the incoming executive
360 assessments and coaching available to new Executives.
Having all levels of staff (administrative / scientific) interview applicants.
Personality & leadership skills emphasized in Executive Leadership Retreat.
Leadership & Problem-Solving Skills course offered multiple times per year.
We're piloting an "Art & Science of Picking the Right People" workshop this fall; the workshop will highlight how to select based on these attributes.
Please feel free to share any articles, classes, webinars or best practice events related to executive onboarding on this page.
Cited Sources
1. ONBOARDING – How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time
2. OCDE New Employee Onboarding Manual
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If I'm interpreting your statements correctly, you seem to think I'm all for Apple and that I've sold my soul to the devil, that I can't have fun making fun of large corporations like in the past. Well, no, that's not how it is. Do I own Apple hardware? Yes. Do I own only Apple hardware? No. Do I only use Apple OS'es? No. Am I against the little guys, like the Haiku project, or this one? No. Am I against unfair competition? Yes, and there's actually zero conflict with my stance on this issue, despite what you want to paint it as. For formal employment, before you were online and present in any meaningful way, I worked for a subsidiary of Sony, in the CD-ROM premastering department, from 92-96. You likely wouldn't recognize their name, but wholly owned by Sony they are. What can I say? It was gainful employment. They certainly didn't do everything in an "ideal" way, but I felt at the time, at least they tried.
I've had some other employers you've never heard of, and likely never will. <shrug>. I've worked for other large, well-known employers, as some combination of full-time and contract you certainly have heard of, in this order, with me completing the contract for the latest one on Monday of this week: Yahoo!, Amazon.com, and Microsoft. They all have their issues. As long as they do things the legal and moral way, I don't have a problem working for them. I'm not overly concerned with the possible prestige involved with working at any of them: I'm interested in the work I do, as to whether I find it interesting for me to do, and that it pays my bills, and I learn something valuable from it, because let's remember, employment should be mutually beneficial for everyone: the employer, the employee, the customers, and society at large. If a company isn't all of those, I'm not interested in working there, and the money involved isn't relevant, because I can always go elsewhere, even if it pays very little, as long as I make ends meet.
But this whole silly thread you blogged about is all about making fun of a huge corporation (Apple) putting the legal screws on some small OSS project. Therefore, because Apple is some huge company, you think that them doing this is somehow unfair and wrong, because of who/what they're going after legally, and you act as though Apple is all out of line, and is the big evil corp for doing this. It seems you think this isn't fair for competition. But, I argue that you don't see the big perspective about trademarks, defending them, and their reason for being: they were created a very long time ago precisely to protect businesses from unfair competition by their rivals that deceive customers as to what they're really getting, and protect customers from those deceptive businesses, too, and the law is setup such (with good reason) that to maintain trademarks (the identity of a product/service (well, there's also service marks, which are the same thing for services) and their creators/owners) that to maintain their identity, they are legally required to fight for them, and the size of their opponent is 100% irrelevant. A large part of why it is irrelevant (and logically it must remain that way) is because those that ride on the coattails of others (infringing on marks) often grow unfairly at the expense of those that have the marks: they're parasites in a business sense. This is the heart of the matter, that trademarks exist and must be vigorously protected for the good of all, however ugly it gets. There's no such thing as a free ride for infringers, or at least there shouldn't be.
Believe it or not, I'd just as vigorously defend Samsung or some other Android-promoting company, or whatever, when it comes to defending of trademarks, or whatever, or the smaller companies suing the big ones, too, for that matter: it's not a matter of size, it's not a matter of what's profitable to me from the POV of (WHATEVER) but a matter of what's right and fair and just. But you seem to want to steal the IP rights, and the right to choose to make a living via developing IP, away from whomever you want via fiat, and I'm opposed to that asinine line of thought you keep on promoting, because you would steal the rights of people to work on what they want, on the terms they want, just to give it to others that want it: it seems you'd like to make of yourself a Robin Hood of IP, as it were, and you think everyone that creates IP of any kind should be forced to work in ways you proscribe as being legal, moral, ethical, convenient to you, because you refuse to see that everyone has the right to work towards their own welfare in their own way, on their own terms with the world. In other words: you claim the way things are done when it comes to creators and sellers of IP is generally evil and wrong, for them to set terms that they want to go by. Well, if you don't want to deal on the terms of the creators and owners, just don't partake of their works, and go and create your own, but you have zero moral, legal or ethical standing to dictate how others must earn their living. THIS is what I'm so vehemently pissed at you and your "ideals" about. Trademarks actually fit perfectly into this whole discussion, and are part of this whole IP thing. A name and identity is a very important and powerful part of any entity, and always has been.
Meanwhile, you want to go and compare others that have viewpoints violently opposed (and yes, your viewpoint that creators must work on YOUR terms instead of theirs is nothing less than slavery of a class of people) to yours as to those of a dog licking their balls in public. Well, pull your head out of the sand and see it from the POV of people that do what they do because they love to, need to, want to, and don't want to be subjected to the tyranny of Thom Holwerda and his ilk, just because he wants something that he (you) has not earned himself.
Now, does that mean I'm all on the side of RIAA, etc.? No. There's such a thing as going too far. I can agree, copyright terms should be shorter, nobody should be able to pass on the ability to make money from a single work long after the creator is dead. Copyright is still a very valuable thing to all involved, including society, but too long of terms dilutes that. I can agree (at least partially), a lot of the software patents are patently ridiculous, and are rather obvious (LODSYS comes to mind immediately). I'd say if you don't implement or cause something to be implemented within a finite, reasonable amount of time from an idea you patent (either via licensing or directly doing it yourself), well, tough luck, you should get nothing, because an unimplemented idea is just another random thought, be it software or other type. I'm all for fairness, based on the balance of the creator's rights, versus the contribution to society at large: you perhaps see yourself as also being for fairness, but it seems a bit more selfishly oriented towards yourself and society at large, at the price of the creators first. The US grew out of their horrible period of enacting legal slavery: seems it's taken a different form, and a different class, one that's not so easily pointed out on the street "Hey, there goes our slave!" but it hasn't changed in some conceptual ways, there are people out there like you that want a form of slavery, just with a different class of slaves doing a different, specialized form of work. And that's why I've turned against you and your ideals: you've gone off the deep end, and seek to overthrow the rights of creators everywhere to your whims of legal, moral and ethical expectations. Well, as I've said earlier: the name and identity is vitally important to all entities, and I, for one, am identified by my work as much as anyone, and I'm a creator. For the most part, you want to be a user, and it seems, on your terms only. I'm having none of it.
"But this whole silly thread you blogged about is all about making fun of a huge corporation (Apple) putting the legal screws on some small OSS project. Therefore, because Apple is some huge company, you think that them doing this is somehow unfair and wrong, because of who/what they're going after legally...."
Maybe there's a point somewhere in there, however you are wrong that the criticism weighed against apple is due only to it's size. We are in fact judging apple by it's actions. This is but one incident for which apple is incurring a reputation as a corporate bully.
I'm sad to see you didn't read and comprehend what was stated in there in regards to the history and reason trademarks are what they are: they're that way for good reason, and like it or not, Apple is doing what they legally need to do, it's nothing personal, and if the tables were turned, the small entity/person would do the same thing, and needs to do the same thing. It's not being a "bully" to do what you are legally required to do: that's merely considered "business" and is a required action for protecting your business and rights. Whether or not the trademark for "App Store" is something you agree with as being valid means nothing: it's been granted to Apple, legally, as they filed for it and got it. It's been used in the past for a trademark, a couple times, by previous entities: they let it lapse. Thus, the government powers-that-be clearly decided it was suitable to trademark: once something is trademarked and registered, it's legally required for the owner to vigorously defend it, or they lose it. There is nothing related to size of entity on either end of the situation, either the one vigorously defending their mark, or the one that would use it when it's not theirs, in the same/too close line of business/services. Once again... this is business, and that's all it is, and this is how business has been legislated over a period exceeding our lifetimes that it must happen.