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District of Columbia Doctorate in Counseling on Campus Programs - PhD in Counseling Degrees
Doctorate in Counseling on Campus PhD Programs offer students the opportunity to pursue advanced credentials in counseling therapy that may help them in a current or potential future career search. With more competition in the job market, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that candidates with a doctoral or education specialist degree and post-doctoral work experience will have the best opportunities in clinical, counseling, or school psychology positions[i].
Doctorate in Counseling on Campus
The college campus experience may be a memorable one, as students have the chance to build their social and professional networks. For students who wish to teach at the Postsecondary level, it may also be helpful in that some postsecondary teachers gain teaching experience by working as graduate teaching assistants. Others may enjoy the access to the university facilities, which may include career-counseling services.
Doctorate in Counseling on Campus PhD programs usually take 3 to 5 years of study, and students must already hold a hold a master's degree in counseling or a related field. In some programs, a yearlong residency or internship is required for hands-on experience. Most doctorate programs also call for a dissertation which involves research and original thought.
If location is important to you, use the city, state, or country tabs on the GradSchools.com site to help narrow down some choices. Otherwise browse through for the type of degree you are looking for. Some of the listings might include: PhD in Pastoral Counseling, PhD Counseling Psychology, or PhD Counselor Education and Supervision.
What Types of Doctorate Degrees in Counseling Therapy Are There? PhD in Counseling Therapy!
There are different Doctorate in Counseling on Campus PhD programs to choose from, depending on your ultimate career goals and areas of
interest. Both Ph.D. in Counseling and PhD in Psychology degree programs with a counseling specialization are offered. These programs instruct students to provide psychological counseling for a variety of issues, including mental health and addiction, as well as for a plethora of different groups, such as families, couples, veterans or the elderly.
Choosing may seem daunting, though if you take the time to reflect on your long-term goals, it may make it easier to pinpoint the best option for yourself. For instance are you a minister hoping to add counseling skills to your work as a Pastor? Are you interested in adding a specialty so that you are able to work with a specific issue such as mental health, or a certain group, such as couples and families?
The Doctor of Psychology Degree in Counseling (PsyD) is sometimes used as the credential for an academic or research career.
The Doctor of Education in Counseling Psychology (EdD or EdS) may be a good degree for graduates who hope to teach or work in educational administration.
The PhD in Counselor Education/Supervision is designed to prepare students to become expert counselors who are ready to become leaders or supervisors in their organizations.
The Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy (DMFT) is designed for counselors who want to work with couples and families.
The PhD in Pastoral Counseling is designed for counselors who want to work with faith groups or use a Christian faith perspective in their counseling practice.
What Qualities Should A Counseling Psychologist Ideally Possess?
Careers in therapy and counseling, and counseling psychology require certain important qualities and skills, for instance:
- You should have an analytical mind
- Good communication skills
- A patient and trustworthy disposition
- Excellent observation skills
- Be able to problem solve and come up with a treatment plan
- People skills, both to work with clients and collaborate with other professionals
Potential Career Paths For PhD in Counseling Therapy Graduates
Depending on the degree you have earned, you might be prepared to work in academia as a Postsecondary psychology teacher or academic researcher or in a variety of Counseling oriented positions, such as:
Counseling psychologists are professionals who help patients deal with and understand problems, including issues at home, at the workplace, or in their community.
Mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists are professionals who help people manage and overcome mental and emotional disorders and problems within family and other relationships, such as the couple
While a master's degree is the minimum requirement to become a licensed counselor, a doctorate degree may provide advancement opportunities.
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By the time you are applying for admission to a campus Counseling PhD program, it is likely that you already have a broad understanding of the field, and the doctorate degree is an opportunity for in-depth understanding, specialization, and advanced research. Why not start looking into programs on GradSchools.com to find the one that aligns with your goals!
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Detective Joseph "Joey" Quinn is a main Character in DEXTER. Quinn is a Homicide Detective with the Miami Metro Police Department that brought himself up from Narcotics and makes his debut appearance in Season Three instantly becoming a major part of the group (following the departure of Sergeant James Doakes). He's currently in a relationship with Jamie Batista and is considering taking the Sergeant's Exam, to become a Sergeant under Lieutenant Angel Batista.
Much like Debra Morgan, Quinn has a natural instinct when it comes to solving cases but later in his career he starts to allow emotions to get the better of his work, specifically his suspicion of Dexter Morgan near the end of Season Four and into Season Five, now his derailed heart in the midst of Season Six after being turned down from a proposal to Deb, who made Lieutenant. During Season 7, he begins dating a stripper at a club owned by the Koshka Brotherhood, putting him at odds with the Brotherhood and ultimately ends up killing a man to protect a girl that disappears from his life shortly thereafter.
Detective Quinn tends to have a generally extroverted and outgoing personality. Occasionally when stressed or feeling insulted, his anger level increases, rendering him foul mouthed and painfully blunt. If Vince Masuka is the perverted comedy of the series, then Joey Quinn is the wise-cracking, smart-ass of the group. Not one to shy away from sexual puns, he often has one of two moods: serious or joking, with no real balance between the two. For a time Dexter Morgan became his prime interest, much in the same way that Sergeant James Doakes pursued him near the end of Season One and then through the duration of Season Two. The difference between Doakes and Quinn however is Quinn's methods. Rarely does he directly confront Dexter, but when he does, it usually results in testing Dexter's temper. A lot of investigation is seen on Quinn's half into Dexter, including getting in contact with a dirty-ex narcotics cop named Stan Liddy who researches the target for the two of them. While Sergeant Doakes' death abated his pursuit for Dexter, Quinn's love for Dexter's sister, Debra Morgan, forced Quinn to retreat pursuing him for her sake, in addition to his general lack of interest in Dexter. However, after Liddy's death caused Quinn to immediately suspect Dexter when he helped clear his name after finding Liddy's blood on his shoe, Quinn thanked him and finally backed off. In contrast to Doakes, Quinn admits to Dexter that he knows they don't get along well, and is willing to put that aside for the better good - and thus tries to ask for Dexter's assistance, especially regarding Debra.
Joey's relationship with Debra Morgan is one of the most notable in the series, first being Rita Morgan and Dexter Morgan's relationship then several others such as the relationship between Angel Batista and Maria LaGuerta. While most of Season Three and Season Four the two were mostly just friends who may have made a perverted joke to one another on occasion, Season Five sparked an intense romance at the start that Deb started to try and forget, while Quinn could not let it go (which was mostly due to Deb being the one who had sex with Quinn in Dexter's old house which had Quinn trying to have her respond to him after the awkwardness). Ultimately she started to fall for him due to him being there for her, however, resulting in a relationship at the end of the season and even Dexter Morgan helping Quinn out after nearly taking the fall for Stan Liddy's death. A year later he and Deb were seen practically living together, but not much further than a standard relationship, Quinn wanted to take that further and finally proposed to her, only to be refused in the long run...and Quinn has been suffering a heartache that he can only seem to fill with pointless sex with random women (all of which he doesn't care about) and a lot of alcohol. His heart would be even more hurt after discovering it was because she never loved him, leaving him even more broken than before. Even when he tried one final time on their relationship, she politely turned him down again, officially ending things between them for good.
Angel noted that Quinn is also childish and his breakup with Deb caused him to go out and party and get drunk a lot and needs to learn to grow up resulting in a fist fight between the two. Only after Angel's near death experience at the hands of Travis Marshall caused Quinn to admit his faults and apologize greatly for his behaviour and promised Angel he'd get his act together. Though Angel attempted to request a transfer, by Season Seven, Quinn finally managed to get his act together, finally move on from Debra and reconcile with Angel and the two managed to patch up their relationship as partners. Quinn is also shown to be a bad influence on Angel, as he convinced him to smoke the joint found in Angel's car and they got high on the job.
However, Quinn has shown to be a very loyal friend - he loaned Angel the $10,000 he needed for his restaurant (likely from the money George gave him) in an effort to make up from the Travis incident, prompting Angel to admit his thanks. This loyalty is also seen when he prevents Debra from confessing to LaGuerta's murder (with Dexter's help) and thus saves her from sending both Dexter and herself to prison.
Overall, Joey was a self-serving individual, not above taking bribes and getting involved with people of interest - yet, not an outright villain, either.
Early lifeModifica
Quinn was originally a Narcotics cop during the events of Seasons one and two, working alongside fellow cop Stan Liddy. During his time in Narcotics, Quinn helped Anton Briggs out of a drug bust in exchange for making him his personal CI while paying his dues out of his own money (while lying that Anton was officially a CI with time left to get off scot-free). Quinn initially wasn't trying to be bad; he just needed Anton as a personal resource. During Quinn's time in Narcotics he had a partner named Yuki Amado (later an Internal Affairs agent), whom after having witnessing his neglect caused the death of Detective Stewart began to stalk Officer Debra Morgan and urge her to spy on Quinn for her. It is possible that Quinn's history with Stan Liddy goes back further than what we're lead on to believe and he may have participated in some of the "dirty work" that Liddy was accused of. It would be revealed by George that Quinn is a dirty cop, having taken bribes from him in the past, which can explain his expensive car and nice apartment he has and the two have a history together for using him for favors by slipping him some cash to look the other way. This could explain Quinn's expensive vehicles and lifestyle in his introduction to the series as well as Yuki Amado's investigation into him. In addition to his Narcotics career, Quinn also inherited a place from his uncle including a brand new car.
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Quinn seems to take a liking to Debra, even going so far as to assist her by introducing a C.I. to help her with the Oscar Prado case. Quinn's past is unknown and even called into question by Debra, who is pressured by Internal Affairs Sergeant Yuki Amado (unknown to Quinn) to report him. He eventually finds out about Yuki from Debra, claiming it to be a "personal vendetta on [her] part". Quinn got the Internal Affairs case dropped after finding out from Debra. He later confesses to Debra that the real source of the Internal Affairs investigation was from the death of a former partner of his and Yuki's who had a crystal meth addiction. Quinn knew about the partner's addiction but tried to offer private help instead of informing his superiors. He is seen at Dexter's wedding, despite the fact that Debra recommended to Dexter that he should not invite Quinn.
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Quinn later bears a grudge against Dexter for botching a case he worked on; however, after Dexter sees Quinn taking money from a crime scene, he tries to establish a friendship with Dexter by buying him expensive football tickets. Meanwhile, Quinn starts a relationship with Christine Hill, a reporter who flirtatiously grills him for police information. After a confidential police lead ends up in one of Hill's articles, Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta warns Quinn to be wary of any reporter who squeezes him for confidential information over pillow talk. Nonetheless, Quinn tells Hill about numerous police reports (supposedly "off the record"), and she uses this information to report that Frank Lundy has returned to Miami. Quinn breaks up with Hill after she publishes the article about Lundy, but the two soon return to a relationship. Though more careful about what he says around her, Quinn still defends Hill when Dexter tells her to leave Debra alone, as Hill wanted to do a piece on her about the shooting. All of this leads to Quinn developing a confrontational relationship with Dexter. Quinn denounces Hill after it is revealed that she is the Trinity Killer's daughter and had been manipulating him to keep her father from being arrested; after Hill shoots herself, however, he is clearly distraught.
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Quinn further develops his interest in Debra Morgan, to the point that the two of them engage in sex at Rita's house. He then becomes persistent over the fact that the two might have a relationship in the works, though he does not overdo it. Debra appears to slowly cave into to his advances (whom she otherwise treated like a jock brother rather than a coworker). Apart from Debra, Quinn is also heavily focused on Dexter himself. Following Rita's death, Quinn works every rumor he can to find out more information about Dexter and now, "Kyle Butler" (both the alias Dexter used when meeting Trinity and his family...as well as the name of one man who died and another who disappeared, first because of Trinity and the second because of Dexter). Quinn is getting closer and closer to the truth in his mind...but LaGuerta put him on suspension for breaching a witness-protection protocol when contacting Trinity's family. It is likely he will continue his investigation throughout the season, possibly uncovering Dexter's secrets along the way.
Quinn contacts his old friend from Narcotics, the recently busted Detective Stan Liddy and hires him to investigate Dexter Morgan. Eventually Liddy finds out that Dexter is squeaky clean, so clean, in fact, that his records are most likely fake. In the meantime Quinn is developing emotions for Debra, who feels the same way about him and the two finally admit to one another that they want to be together. Both Deb and Quinn later appear at Club Mayan during a standoff with the Fuentes Brothers. Carlos is shot and killed by Deb, but Marco escapes. Later Debra discovers that Quinn was suspended by LaGuerta for investigating Dexter, and not taking vacation days as he had said. Liddy begins to harass Quinn but Quinn does not wish to continue investigating Dexter because of his romantic feelings for his sister, Debra. Stan Liddy was killed by Dexter in self-defense. Quinn is the main suspect because there is blood on his shoe and numerous calls between his phone and Liddy. Dexter makes the blood evidence on Quinn's shoe go away and Quinn is once again a free man. Quinn thanks Dexter who plays dumb and just says "for what? Just doing my job".
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Quinn and Debra have been dating each other and living together after the events of the Chase case. Quinn proposes to Debra, but she eventually says no because she wanted their relationship to stay as it was. As a result the two break up. With her concurrent promotion to Lieutenant, Quinn begins to resent the declination, believing she valued her work greater than her feelings for him. Due to this he begins acting out, having random one-night stands and drinking heavily; once turning up to Debra's housewarming with a girl he flippantly referred to as "chick from bar", and hitting on Batista's sister. His one-night stands also leads to further problems when he sleeps with an assistant of Gellar's, a chief suspect, before the police realize she is an important material witness. Debra calls him in to her office to reconcile her issues, which Quinn accepts albeit regretfully. When arriving drunk at her house, he asks if she ever truly loved him and when she doesn't answer, he realizes she never loved him. He later apologizes for all the things he's done in the past and tries to rekindle their relationship, only to be turned down again and this time for good. Since then, Quinn has been going out and drinking heavily, on one such occasion he lost his gun and phone, causing Angel to help get it for him. However, this leads to a fist fight between both of them over each other's problems, with Angel telling Quinn that he needs to grow up and move on.
When Quinn was arriving late on the morning of the Wormwood and was informed of Angel's disappearance from Deb, he raced to his location, all the while he blamed himself in anger due to his drinking problem. He arrived just in time to save Angel and deeply apologized for everything he did and Angel said he can't have a partner he can't trust and requested a transfer for Quinn. Quinn managed to not get transferred and it caused Angel to note how even now he won't grow up. Quinn stated that he is really trying to get his act together.
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At the beginning of the season, Mike Anderson is shot and killed by Viktor Baskov, a member of the Koshka Brotherhood, a Ukrainian mafia organisation. In the car of the killer, the body of a stripper named Kaja Soroka is found, leading the Miami Homicide Department to The Foxhole stripclub owned by George Novikov, another Koshka member. Sergeant Angel Batista, Quinn and other police offers entered the club to interrogate the staff about the murder of Mike Anderson. When Batista asks George for a list of all employees, Joey starts a conversation with Nadia while offering her a drink. He develops a romantic relationship with Nadia, which George and Isaak Sirko find out. George Novikov tries to bribe Quinn, something he used to do in the past when the latter works at Narcotics, by having Jurg leaving a bag of cash in Quinn's car. When Quinn returns to his car and finds the bag, he immediately realizes he is in big trouble, as he hides it quickly in his glove compartment. Later he walks into George's office at The Foxhole and returns it, saying he is not for sale. When Isaak Sirko was imprisoned for murdering three Colombians, he tasks George with forcing Quinn stealing the blood evidence, allowing Sirko's release. When Quinn arrives at a restaurant for a dinner with Nadia, he finds George waiting for him instead. Novikov tells Quinn to get rid of the blood evidence linking Isaak Sirko to the Colombian murder and if he does not comply, Nadia will be transferred to a sexclub in Dubai where she most likely will be horribly treated. Quinn reluctantly accepts in return for Nadia's freedom, to which George Novikov agrees. When George leaves, he gives back the bag of cash, which Quinn accepts. At the Miami Metro Police Station, Quinn enters the evidence storage and in the freezer, he picks the blood sample of Isaak Sirko and smuggles out of the station, although with signs of guilt.
When Quinn finds out George lied about giving Nadia her passport and freedom, he storms into George's office and tells George not to fuck with him. George coldly states that Quinn has no ground to stand on and he would like to maintain their cooperation, as he would be fired and imprisoned if Miami Metro finds out that he stole evidence, but Quinn walks away. When Quinn is at Nadia's home, George appears and shows him a recording of their conversation at the restaurant, meaning George has leverage to make Quinn do his bidding. When Quinn shows up at The Foxhole to see Nadia, he finds out that George forced her to have sex. He enters George's office and after an argument, Quinn pushes George through a window and beats him up before walking away with Nadia.
Later, Quinn and Angel Batista enter The Foxhole again to retrieve Nadia's passport. Quinn tells Batista to wait in the club while he enters George's office. George immediately points a gun on Quinn, who asks where Nadia is. George drags Nadia by her hair into his office, and asks her which one of them she "belongs" to. She replies by hitting him in the face, but George hits her back. Quinn draws his gun on George and warns him to not hit her again. George thinks Quinn is just bluffing and hits her again, Quinn shoots him promptly in the chest, killing him instantly. To stage an act of self-defense, Quinn has Nadia shoot him in the arm with George's gun still in the corpse's hand. When Batista enters the office, Quinn tells Nadia to get her money and passport from the safe and leave. Batista intervenes as she is a witness, to which Quinn replies that she cannot be a witness, as the Koshka's will kill her and she is illegal in the United States. When the rest of Miami Metro Police Department arrives, including Debra Morgan and Vince Masuka, Quinn is asked what happened. Quinn says he was there for personal matters, George shot him, he returned fire and was shot. When Debra leaves, Angel notes that there was a lag between both shots, to which Quinn makes up a story that he entered the office, George shot him, then beat up Nadia and was about the finish Quinn, the latter took him out. He also asks Angel to leave Nadia out of the report.
He later visits Nadia at work due to her not calling him and discovers she moved to Las Vegas for a fresh start and has left a message with a friend for Quinn, stating she's grateful for everything and will never forget Quinn. This leaves Quinn rather hurt by her departure.
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In Season Eight, Quinn is first seen attending Maria LaGuerta's memorial dedication. Next he is present at the scene of the first Brain Surgeon victim as Dexter arrives to examine the body. He is shown having sex with Jamie Batista at her place just as her brother comes home and unknowingly interrupts them (he sneaks out while Jamie distracts Angel). He is present when Deputy Chief Matthews introduces everyone to Evelyn Vogel, and he later receives a call from Deb - who asks him to look up an "El Sapo" for her. Later, he bumps into Dexter in the hall at the station and tells him about looking into "El Sapo" for Deb, as well as Briggs' tangle with the mob. That night, he is seen trying to enjoy some one-on-one time with Jamie Batista when they are interrupted - again - this time by Dexter, who is stopping by to ask him about Deb's whereabouts.
Later at a crime scene, Angel reveals his awareness of Quinn's relationship with Jamie and says that if Quinn wants Angel's acceptance of their relationship, he must man up and take the Sergeant's Test. Before a date with Jamie, Quinn gets into a heated argument with her after Jamie questions him for always mentioning Debra and revealing the pressure put on him by Angel over the Sergeant's Test. Later that night, Quinn tells Angel he has changed his mind and has decided to take the test, meanwhile noticing Debra who is parked in a car nearby and watching him. At Miami Metro, Quinn questions Debra and takes notice of her panicking when she is shown pictures of the "El Sapo" crime scene. Dexter manages to interrupt the meeting before anything further happens.
- Quinn's desk is in exactly the same location as the desk used by James Doakes, except his nameplate is facing towards the main office while Doakes's plate was facing the main entrance and elevators.
- Quinn has currently killed only one person, George Novikov.
- Quinn's hair styles differ from Season to Season, much like Debra Morgan's and his weight has even changed. Season 4 saw him at his heaviest, while Season 3 and 5 through 8 see him as a more lean individual.


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Riot-torn Muzaffarnagar gives CM Akhilesh Yadav an angry reception
Anger resurfaced in Muzaffarnagar after days of uneasy calm as CM Akhilesh Yadav arrived on Sunday for a tour of riot-hit villages in a swarm of white Ambassadors and gun-toting security guards in black. S Raju and Masoodul Hasan report. Will riots impact east UP?lucknow Updated: Sep 16, 2013 03:10 IST
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Anger resurfaced in Muzaffarnagar after days of uneasy calm as Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav arrived on Sunday for a tour of riot-hit villages in a swarm of white Ambassadors and gun-toting security guards in black.
Angry slogans and protests greeted Yadav at some places as he went village to village in the district and in neighbouring Shamli district, meeting grieving families and promising action against the guilty.
"Bahut nuksaan hua hai (there has been a lot of damage)," he said thrice of the communal violence that has left 47 people dead and 40,000 displaced in the last week.
As the CM met the father of a boy, Shanawaz, killed in the clashes in Kaval village, a crowd gathered outside the house and started shouting slogans against the Samajwadi Party. "He met only a group of handpicked persons and didn't hear the voice of the masses," said locals Fakre Alam and Sajid Abid.
Interacting with a group of village elders in Malikpura, Yadav urged them to use their goodwill among the people and help the administration restore peace. He expressed grief over the killing of two youths from the village in Kaval on August 27, the incident that set off the cycle of violence.
"The families have lost their young members and their loss is irreparable. But I urge elders from both sides to sit together and help rebuild the atmosphere of trust and harmony," he said.
Yadav announced compensation of `10 lakh and jobs for the families of the dead. He also assured financial support for the reconstruction of damaged houses.
Later, he flew to Kandhla in Shamli and also visited relief camps, where he directed officials to provide all essential facilities to the inmates.
Addressing the media at the end of the day, Yadav promised action on the basis of a judicial commission report but evaded an answer on the demand for a CBI probe into the riots. He rejected comparisons with the 2002 Godhra violence.
When his attention was drawn to increasing instances of molestation, so much so that girls had stopped going to school, Yadav said, "Security will be provided to girls who have decided to discontinue their studies so that they can attend classes without fear."
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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other Qwiklabs offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataproc, to Tensorflow, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your GCP data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended.
PrerequisitesThis Quest requires proficiency with GCP Services, particularly those relating to working with large datasets. It is recommended that the student have at least earned a Badge by completing the hands-on labs in the Baseline: Data, ML, and AI and/or the GCP Essentials Quests before beginning. Additional lab experience with the Scientific Data Processing and the Machine Learning APIs Quests will be useful.
Quest Outline
Weather Data in BigQuery
In this lab you analyze historical weather observations using BigQuery and use weather data in conjunction with other datasets. This lab is part of a series of labs on processing scientific data.
Analyzing Natality Data Using Datalab and BigQuery
In this lab you analyze a large (137 million rows) natality dataset using Google BigQuery and Cloud Datalab. This lab is part of a series of labs on processing scientific data.
Bigtable: Qwik Start - Hbase Shell
This hands-on lab will show you how to use the HBase shell to connect to a Cloud Bigtable instance. Watch the short video Bigtable: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.
Cloud TPU: Qwik Start
In this lab you will learn to use a Cloud TPU to accelerate specific TensorFlow machine learning workloads on Compute Engine.
Query BigQuery with Python Using Ibis
In this lab you'll use Ibis to query the Stack Overflow public dataset in BigQuery.
Predict Housing Prices with Tensorflow and Cloud ML Engine
In this lab you will build an end to end machine learning solution using Tensorflow + Cloud ML Engine and leverage the cloud for distributed training and online prediction.
Run a Big Data Text Processing Pipeline in Cloud Dataflow
In this lab you will use Google Cloud Dataflow to create a Maven project with the Cloud Dataflow SDK, and run a distributed word count pipeline using the Google Cloud Platform Console.
ETL Processing on GCP Using Dataflow and BigQuery
In this lab you will build several Data Pipelines that will ingest data from a publicly available dataset into BigQuery.
Launching Dataproc Jobs with Cloud Composer
In this lab you'll use Google Cloud Composer to automate the transform and load steps of an ETL data pipeline.
Building an IoT Analytics Pipeline on Google Cloud Platform
This lab shows you how to connect and manage devices using Cloud IoT Core; ingest the steam of information using Cloud Pub/Sub; process the IoT data using Cloud Dataflow; use BigQuery to analyze the IoT data. Watch this short video, Easily Build an IoT Analytics Pipeline.
Working with Google Cloud Dataprep
Cloud Dataprep is Google's self-service data preparation tool. In this lab, you will learn how to use Cloud Dataprep to clean and enrich multiple datasets using a mock use case scenario of customer info and purchase history.
Simulating a Data Warehouse in the Cloud Using BigQuery and Dataflow
In this lab you build several Data Pipelines that will ingest data from the USA Babynames dataset into BigQuery, simulating a batch transformation
Predict Visitor Purchases with a Classification Model in BQML
In this lab you will use a newly available ecommerce dataset to run some typical queries that businesses would want to know about their customers' purchasing habits.
Predict Taxi Fare with a BigQuery ML Forecasting Model
In this lab you will explore millions of New York City yellow taxi cab trips available in a BigQuery Public Dataset, create a ML model inside of BigQuery to predict the fare, and evaluate the performance of your model to make predictions.


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JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 18, 2011) – The ETSU men's basketball team will look to make it two wins in a row Saturday afternoon, as the Buccaneers take on Sun Belt Conference foe Troy at 4 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
The Bucs, coming off an 81-68 victory over former Southern Conference rival Appalachian State on Tuesday night, will head out on a six-game road swing following the Troy game and will not play again at the Dome until facing Milligan on Dec. 19. This will be the first-ever meeting between the Bucs and Trojans.
During Saturday's game, ETSU athletics will be accepting toys as part of the Johnia Berry Toy Drive. Any ETSU fans who bring toys to the game will receive a ticket for $1.
For more on the Troy game, click on the game notebook link to the right, or read the game notes below.
For more on ETSU men's basketball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
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The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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While posting its highest RPI since the 2003-04 season, head coach Murry Bartow led the ETSU men's basketball team to another successful season in 2010-11, a campaign that included 24 wins and ultimately ended with a run to the semifinals of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament … Led by seniors such as Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) and all-conference performer Micah Williams (Manchester), the Bucs enjoyed impressive road wins at Atlantic 10 Conference member Dayton and Southeastern Conference foe Mississippi State, while also finishing second in the A-Sun Conference standings … Along with Smith and Williams, fellow senior Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) continued to impress fans with his high-flying dunks, which twice landed him as the No. 1 play of the day on ESPN's SportsCenter and earned him a spot in the national slam dunk championships … Unfortunately for the Bucs, Smith, Williams and Tubbs have departed, leaving the team with the unenviable task of having to replace over 42 points of offensive production from a year ago – equal to 60 percent of the team's scoring in 2010-11 … The Bucs will begin looking for those offensive numbers from returning starters such as senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) and senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.), while senior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) – a 2010 A-Sun all-conference and all-tournament performer – will return to the floor after taking a medical redshirt season a year ago … Other returning players looking to improve their production will include junior guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Jarvis Jones (Memphis), junior forwards J.C. Ward (Marietta) and Lukas Poderis (Tampa), and redshirt freshman point guard Ryan Woumn (Lynn, Mass.) … The Bucs have also added a talented recruiting class that includes three true freshman and one junior college transfer … As opposed to last season – when the team returned a bevy of talented and experienced players – the younger and more inexperienced Buccaneers will face more questions than usual this season when they take the floor to open the 2011-12 campaign at Virginia Tech on Nov. 12.
The series versus Troy
The Bucs and Trojans will be meeting for the first time on Saturday.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 15, 2011) – Forcing 29 turnovers and swiping 18 steals, the ETSU men's basketball team imposed its defensive will on former Southern Conference rival Appalachian State Tuesday evening, dropping the Mountaineers 81-68 in the Buccaneers' regular season home opener at the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... The Bucs had four players reach double-figure scoring on the night, led by senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) with a game-high 23 points. In addition, senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) netted 16 points, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) added 12 points, and junior guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) pitched in 11 in the winning effort. ... A crowd of 3,789 looked on as ETSU improved to 1-1 on the year, while the Mountaineers dropped to 1-1. ... The game got off to an inauspicious start for the Mountaineers, who were accessed a technical foul for dunking during pregame warm-ups. The result was a pair of made free throws from Dubose and a 2-0 lead for the Bucs before the game even tipped off. ... From there, it only got worse for ASU. The Bucs' defensive pressure in the first half was impressive, forcing Appalachian State into multiple turnovers from the outset and by the end of the half ETSU had collected 13 steals and forced 20 turnovers by the Mountaineers.
That defensive pressure led to a lead of as many as 19 points for the Bucs, who held a 39-23 advantage at the intermission. In all, the Bucs outscored Appy State 26-8 in the paint and 21-4 off turnovers in the first half, with Hubbard leading all scorers with 13 points.
In the second half, ETSU maintained its double-digit lead for most of the way, but with six minutes left, App State produced a 7-0 run over the next minute of play to make it 67-60. However, from there the Bucs answered with their own 7-0 spurt to end the threat and put the game away. ... Appalachian State got a team-high 18 points from guard Jamaal Trice, while Isaac Butts posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. ... For the contest, the Bucs held a 32-18 edge in points off turnovers, and a 48-34 advantage on points in the paint. Meanwhile, Appalachian State dominated the boards 46-33 and grabbed 23 offensive rebounds. ... The Bucs shot 47 percent from the floor, while holding Appy State to 39 percent from the floor, and 19 percent from 3-point range.
Early season scouting report for ETSU
After playing two games so far this season, the Buccaneers have seen some statistical regularities -- some positive and some negative. On the positive side, the Bucs are holding opponents to just 39 percent shooting from the floor and have forced an average of 22 turnovers a game ... in addition, the Bucs are collecting 11.5 steals a contest and averaging 10 assists per game ... However, on the negative side, ETSU is shooting just 19 percent from 3-point range so far this season, and is being out-rebounded by an average of 8.0 rebounds a game.
Florida connection proving valuable to Bucs
For much of the past 10 seasons, the Buccaneers have enjoyed a pipeline of quality players coming from the "Sunshine" state ... A glance at this year's current roster shows that trend continuing ... Entering Saturday's game, these have been the contributions of ETSU's current Floridians:
Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) 14.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists
Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) 10.5 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists
Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) 11.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists
Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) 6.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, 0.0 assists
In all, ETSU's Florida players are averaging a combined 43.5 points, 20.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 7.0 steals per game so far this season.
Block party for Brown
With a block in last season's finale against Iona, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new school record for blocks in a single season, swatting away a total of 71 shots on the year ... For his career, he now stands fifth on the all-time list at 144, but is just 40 blocks behind the program's all-time leader Zakee Wadood ... In addition to those marks, Brown's six-block performance against Belmont last year also matched the program's single-game record ... At the time, Brown joined six other ETSU players who have had six-block games, including former standouts Brad Nuckles, Eryk Thomas, Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood, Greg Dennis and Greg Hamlin.
Getting to the free throw line a key for the Bucs
In recent years, the Bucs have focused on playing stingy defense, but also driving to the basket on offense and trying to get "tough" points thanks to fouls ... One way for the ETSU coaching staff to determine how successful the Bucs have been is charting free throw attempts and makes ... Well if this statistic is a true indicator, then the Bucs are doing just as the coaches would like ... Last season, ETSU set a school record for free throw attempts, putting up a total of 856 free tosses ... The Bucs also made their share of those attempts, ranking second on the all-time list with 580 makes ... The 2010-11 edition of the Bucs came up just nine makes short of the all-time record, held by the 1991-92 Bucs at 589.
On their way to 1,000 points
As they begin their seniors seasons, ETSU's trio of Isiah Brown, Adam Sollazzo and Tommy Hubbard are all eying the 1,000 point mark for their careers. After the season opener at Virginia Tech, here is where each stands:
Isiah Brown........................................................................ 808 points
Tommy Hubbard ........................................................... 575 points
Adam Sollazzo ................................................................ 581 points
To reach 1,000, the three would have to average the following during the regular season:
Isiah Brown..................................................... 7.0 points per game
Tommy Hubbard....................................... 14.7 points per game
Adam Sollazzo............................................ 14.8 points per game
Bucs add to postseason resume
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... it was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
Home Sweet Dome ... against non-conference teams
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 144-45 overall inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... But when looking at the past 10 years, the Bucs are an even more impressive 43-4 against non-conference opponents ... Last year, the Bucs went 13-2 at the Dome.
ETSU "only" A-Sun team picked among
nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, 11 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.
Bartow gets wins No. 250 overall and 150 at ETSU;
ranks among best coaches in last five years
With his team's win over Florida Gulf Coast on Jan. 8, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow picked up his 250th career victory ... He then collected his 150th win at ETSU when the Bucs downed Jacksonville on Jan. 15 ... When looking at coaches across the country, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow stands among a select group ... Of those coaches that have been at their current school for at least five years, only 24 have averaged better than 20 wins a season ... That list includes coaches such as Dayton's Brian Gregory, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, UConn's Jim Calhoun, Florida's Billy Donovan, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Duke's Mike Kryzewski, Louisville's Rick Pitino, Kansas' Bill Self, Maryland's Gary Williams and North Carolina's Roy Williams ... The list also includes Bartow, who is average 20.2 wins a year since 2005-06.


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Director's Corner
29 March 2007
ILC Project Tools: ILCDoc - Document Search and Store
We are in the process of building an integrated set of ILC project tools for communication, data archiving, engineering, costing, scheduling and project management. Already, we make extensive use of communication tools for organising and holding all of our meetings. The basic meeting planning tool we use is Indico, which I wrote about in a previous column. Our version is synchronised with the official CERN version and we already have more than 6000 separate events (conferences, meetings and talks) stored. We often combine Indico with "webex," a web-based meeting tool for holding scheduled on-line meetings.
Today I am announcing the official release of our next ILC project tool, the document server ILCDoc, which is based on CERN CDS-Invenio document server. ILCDoc will mostly contain documents with textual or graphic information such as technical notes, communication, schedules, presentations, publications etc. Documents containing engineering data such as drawings, technical specifications and cost estimates will be organised into the engineering data management system (ILC EDMS), based on UGS Teamcenter that was developed at DESY. We will eventually build an interface between these two systems so that information can be shared. We are migrating the many existing ILC and GDE documents onto the ILCDoc system and plan to place as many of the documents as possible in the public area. ILCDoc can be accessed through a link on the ILC home page or at http://ilcdoc.linearcollider.org/.
ILCDoc will facilitate communication and provide an easy-to-use retrieval engine for ILC information, while the goal of ILC EDMS, which is still under development, is to provide specific technical and project tools and information. Documents in the ILCDoc system are generally texts or multimedia files, for example notes, presentations, reports, preprints, proceedings, minutes or photos and videos.
To facilitate classification, documents have been assigned four attributes: type, class, collection and topic. The INTERNAL class mainly identifies documents for internal use or ones reflecting work in progress. This class can be used for information exchange within the ILC, while documents that are meant for the wider scientific community or the general public are put into the PUBLIC class. The classifications 'topic' and 'collection' are used to partition the totality of the documents into subsets that might help the user's browse and search processes. In particular, 'topic' is meant to collect groups of documents that share common features, reflecting an organisational structure or a technical subject.
ILCDoc features a search engine that allows searches across different collections and types of documents through simple or advanced interfaces. You can search by title, author, keywords, date or full text. Additionally, ILCDoc allows searches through public documents submitted to the ILCAgenda system. This very important feature means all the information from our many meetings is archived and can be accessed through ILCDoc.
The implementation of ILCDoc is a very important step forward in developing the set of tools we need to enable our world-wide collaboration to work together effectively and to provide easy access to many documents.
We owe special thanks to Maura Barone for implementing ILCDoc over the past six months. Contact Maura at firstname.lastname@example.com for questions regarding this new system, and I urge you to give it a try soon. I predict that you will very quickly be hooked!
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Patti Engineering, Inc. recently announced it has successfully renewed its Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA) certification. This is the fourth consecutive time Patti Engineering has passed the CSIA audit, which is valid for three years. Known as the gold-seal mark of a professionally managed control system integration business, the comprehensive CSIA Certification provides assurance to integrator customers in the areas of professional services, business management, financial management, human resources, project management capabilities and more.
"I congratulate Patti Engineering on successfully passing the audit for recertification," said Robert Lowe, executive director of the CSIA. "This is no easy task and I commend all of the employees who contributed to and participated in this accomplishment. We appreciate Patti Engineering's continued commitment to the CSIA Certification program which is raising the professionalism of the control systems integration industry."
The CSIA audit consists of 76 criteria necessary for operating a top of the line control systems integration company. Each company that passes the certification follows a set of CSIA best practices with 300 guidelines including disaster recovery, system backup and internal quality plans.
"Passing the CSIA certification audit for the fourth time is further demonstration of Patti Engineering's commitment to achieving success across all aspects of our business and client work," said Sam Hoff, president of Patti Engineering. "CSIA prides itself on having members apply specific industry expertise to a widespread set of client objectives in a professional manner and we're honored to be a part of that group."


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Flaming Lips Pay Tribute To Legendary Band
Flaming Lips Share are sharing the track listing for their upcoming album, where they pay tribute to a legendary band.The Flaming Lips are filling fans in on the rest of the acts they worked with for their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover album. The collaboration with Miley Cyrus on the Beatles classic "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is out now, but the pop star also appears on "A Day in the Life." And on top of that, frontman Wayne Coyne's new Instagram photo of the hand-drawn track list shows that My Morning Jacket, J Mascis, and Fever the Ghost will be handling the opening title track. Foxygen and MGMT will take on the reprise a little later, while Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan joins the band on "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" The Fab Four tribute also includes contributions from Moby, Dr. Dog, Phantogram, Tegan and Sara, Grace Potter, and many more. The Flaming Lips' "With a Little Help from My Fwends" is due out in October.
The Flaming Lips' "With a Little Help From My Fwends" track list:
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (feat. My Morning Jacket, Fever the Ghost, and J Mascis)
2. With a Little Help from My Friends (feat. The Flaming Lips, Black Pus, and The Autumn Defense)
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (feat. Miley Cyrus, Moby, and The Flaming Lips)
4. Getting Better (feat. Dr. Dog and Chuck Inglish)
5. Fixing a Hole (feat. Electric Wurms)
6. She's Leaving Home (feat. Phantogram and Juliana Barwick)
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! (feat. The Flaming Lips, Maynard James Keenan, and Sunbears)
8. Within You Without You (feat. Birdflower and Morgan Delt)
9. When I'm Sixty-Four (feat. The Flaming Lips and more)
10. Lovely Rita (feat. Tegan & Sara and Stardeath and White Dwarves)
11. Good Morning Good Morning (feat. Zorch, Grace Potter, and more)
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (feat. Foxygen and MGMT)
13. A Day in the Life (feat. The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus)


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Sunday, July 26, 2009
The Astros are in the importing/exporting business. But mostly importing.
New article from MLB.com detailing home-grown talent on Major League rosters. Where do the Astros rank? Oh, I think you know. Not only dead last in the National League with 16%, but dead last in all of baseball. And not by a little, either. Next closest are the Royals and Nationals, with 20% of their roster coming up from the minors.
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Just to point out... the difference between 16% and 20% on a 25 man roster is only one player.
And just thinking out loud here... Pence, Roy, Wandy, and Berkman were all "home-grown". What about Maysonet and Sampson? That would jump us to 24%. And then, despite his hiatus from the club, couldn't we count Hampton as "home-grown"?
- July 26, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- The Constable. said...
Those are valid points. I'll go back and read the parameters of what constitutes "homegrown."
- July 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
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thedutch needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 59 freelance designers.
My client is looking for a 2.0'ish professional logo
please read the brief for further info
The company:
New startup Eurolockers will be providing lockers to different venues in the E.U.
The site itself aims on providing information about various lockers it offers and will be a gateway for potential investors.
the lockers are electronic so for future submissions please do not incluce keys etc.
- Logo should be either the eu. flag colour style or web 2.0 style coloring (client has not made his mind on this yet)
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Publicis, Omnicom: The Future of Digital Media?
The planned merger of advertising giants Omnicom and Publicis is aimed at restoring the balance of power between ad agencies and digital companies such as Google. Heard on the Street's Miriam Gottfried joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Will snails survive the winter in my pond?
Cody – Falling Spring, VA
While your fish and some of your aquatic plants remain safe and sound during their winter dormancy you may wonder if your snails will be as successful. Your pond snails are amazingly resilient in cold weather and will do just fine given their habitat is suitable.
Your pond depth will play a major role in the success of all of the living creatures in your pond. Your plants, fish and snails can survive in cold water but they won't fair too well if frozen into a solid block of ice. The ice that forms on the top of your pond varies in thickness depending on where you live but the general rule of thumb is to build your pond to be around 20"-30" in depth. This ensures there is an ample layer of water at the bottom of the pond that is left unexposed to the elements which will provide a safe haven for all of your pets and plants.
You won't have to worry too much about your snails finding a safe place to hide over the winter as they come equipped with a strong shell which provides adequate shelter. They can hide amongst the rocks and plant remains in the pond as well during the winter but as your fish are in dormancy there is not an overwhelming need for additional habitat. As water temperatures drop and bacteria begin to dwindle a lot of pond owners tend to rely on algaecides to keep their ponds free from algae. If you are using an algaecide in your water garden review the product label thoroughly to ensure it is safe to use with your snails. When your pond comes back to life in the spring your snails will flourish amongst the new plant growth.
Pond Talk: Do you do anything special to provide safety for your snails in the winter?
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By Matthew Heimer
Coaching a professional football team is mentally and physically grueling, as coaches toil through round-the-clock strategizing and Sisyphean sessions of watching and rewatching game film. It can wear a body down, and that's one reason many teams prefer to hire men who are close to their physical prime to be their head coaches. (The median age among National Football League coaches is 51.5.)
But one NFL team has seen some success this year by bucking that trend, as Kevin Clark reports this week in The Wall Street Journal. The Arizona Cardinals, a losing team in 2012, hired 61-year-old Bruce Arians as their head coach in the offseason (replacing a fired 50-year-old). Arians, who had almost 20 years of experience as an assistant under his belt, became one of the oldest first-time head coaches in NFL history—and he in turn has brought in three coaches ranging in age from 68 to 78 to serve as his assistants.
Along with this influx of maturity came a reversal of the team's fortunes: Arizona, which last had a winning season in 2009, is in the playoff hunt this season, with a 7-5 record going into this weekend's games.
As Clark describes them, the Cardinals' "Over the Hill Gang" bring to mind the retired white-collar pros who pick up a little bit of consulting work in their old industries without shouldering a full-time load. Clark calls them "elite technical coaches who specialize in fixing glitches in players' mechanics" — improving a defensive lineman's footwork, for example. Each is paired with a younger coach who has related but broader responsibilities; the reader comes away with the impression that those youngsters shoulder most of the late-night grunt work. (NFL teams are limited to a fixed number of players, but they can have as many coaches as they want.)
League-wide, there doesn't seem to be any close correlation between a head coach's age and a team's success. But it seems worth noting that the four current NFL coaches who are older than Arians include 62-year-old Pete Carroll, whose Seattle Seahawks have the league's best record, and perennial playoff coach Bill Belichick, 61, of the New England Patriots. The oldest of all: Tom Coughlin, 67, whose New York Giants are somewhat stinker-pants this year but have won two of the last six Super Bowls.
More sports stories from Encore:
Who watched the World Series? Mostly boomers
Why many NBA draft picks will go broke
Marathons: Less healthy than hamburgers?
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.


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Richard Sherman ripped the scab off his feud with Michael Crabtree this week, reiterating on Discovery Channel's American Muscle that he just doesn't "like the dude."
Without citing Sherman by name, Crabtree later made it clear that he's tired of the chatter.
"I've been doing this for a while, you know," the 49ers wideout said, per ESPN's "NFL Live" on Thursday. "I've been playing, I've been to the top of the totem pole since high school, you know. So, it's nothing new to me."
Said Crabtree: "Like when I win, it's no hoorah. I ain't yelling. You know what I'm saying? I'm used to it. But like I said, I'm getting (tired) talking about these guys. I concentrate on football. I love football. This my life, you know what I'm saying? So, I don't really have too much to prove when it comes to talking on this TV. But like I said, I'm about it."
Crabtree would rather solve his issues with the Seahawks Pro Bowl cornerback on the field, but we've likely not heard the last of this lingering tiff.
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Working with your competition might make you both stronger.
Markets appreciate consortia, Arvind Malhotra discovered. Malhotra, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, has studied collaboration among businesses throughout his career and learned early on that no business can do it all alone and thrive. His most recent research on research and development consortia revealed that even a consortium that includes a company's competitors benefits all participants, and markets respond positively once a consortium is announced.
Intense competition drives consortia formation. In the 1970s, U.S. companies were trounced by Japanese companies which were backed by government-led consortia. They responded by forming their own consortia. By pooling their knowledge and talent, companies found a strategic tool to make R&D less capital intensive. The stock market, appreciating that wheels did not have to be reinvented by each company when basic research was done soundly and collaboratively, showed its approval by bumping up the stock value of companies in the consortium.
"Markets see collaborative efforts as less risky and having less capital waste," Malhotra said. "Consortia are efficient and effective models of competition."
In coming to his conclusion, Malhotra looked at every consortium formed from the late 1970s through the 2000s, and checked to see whether consortium members showed abnormal positive market returns immediately after the collective was announced. His sample of 90 consortia comprised 465 publicly traded U.S. companies.
Although not every company reaped the same benefit, collectively the stock value for the set of companies rose instantly after the announcement. Surprisingly, the gain held true for consortia formed for marketing purposes as well as for fundamental research; and for new consortia as much as for consortia formed in the early part of the sample. Malhotra plans to study consortia consisting of international competitors next.
Forming a successful consortium requires trust among companies. They have to delineate clearly what the mutual benefits will be and the timeline for commercialization, capitalization and disintegration. Jumping the gun on turning from early-stage collaboration to competing to commercialize can result in a severe loss of trust in the long run.
"At a fundamental level, it's collective learning," Malhotra said. "Competing on your own, your odds of failure are much higher. A consortium improves the odds for everyone to succeed."
Arvind Malhotra is a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar at UNC Kenan-Flagler.


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OT: RIP Ray Bradbury
I didn't read everything of his, but I can't deny the impact those stories I did read had on my own storytelling. And he gave me my working definition of Science Fiction vs Fantasy.
And the Speculative Fiction world gets a little dimmer.
Timesurfer Posts: 0
just heard about this... amazing writer... he will be missed :(
s l f Posts: 147
Sad news.
I've enjoyed reading a lot of his work over the years - an amazingly gifted writer I had always thought.
RAMWolff Posts: 8,838
WOW, this has been a year of loss! R.I.P. Ray! *sigh..* :long:
oh noooooooo :(
frank0314 Posts: 10,820
Very sad news. I enjoyed and grew up watching all his stuff.
greatdarkspot_212623417d Posts: 59
Very sad. I did this only a few months ago...
The Fog Horn blew. The monster opened its great toothed mouth and the sound that came from it was the sound of the Fog Horn itself. Lonely and vast and far away. The sound of isolation, a viewless sea, a cold night, apartness. That was the sound.
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DestinysGarden Posts: 2,452
Very sad news indeed. My dad likes to tell the story of how he met Ray Bradbury in an elevator once. Still 91 years is a really good run. We shall never forget his contributions to the world of literature.
Chuckdozer Posts: 453
I just learned this very sad news. I grew up with a great number of Ray's works populating my bedroom bookshelf alongside other greats like Arthur C. Clarke, Tolkien, and Samuel R. Delaney. So much of his work was translated into television and film, and his enormous talent places his works clearly among the "Classics". He will surely be missed. It's kinda like loosing someone I grew up with, and that is always so very sad. Rest in peace, Ray! You will forever live on through your works.
Storypilot Posts: 1,554
A true great one. I loved the unique voice of his stories, and we are blessed to have the tremendous body of work he created over his lifetime. He's been a major inspiration to scores of writers, and I would have to include myself as one. I can't try to write a story without thinking of "The Veldt".
natrix natrix Posts: 0
He was a fairytale writer who didn't write fairytales - well mostly. His language was so dreamy and beautiful, he was a great inspiration to me during my formative years.
I love his sci-fi work, but the short story collection A Medicine for Melancholy remains my favourite. Rarely have I been so moved by anything I read.
RIP to a great man!
Norse Graphics Posts: 0
Wow! That's sad. But 91 is a very good run, so he's seen things we'll never see. He lived from the age of the transistor, to see handheld devices that uses touchscreens.
Richard Haseltine Posts: 50,112
He'd been here so long it felt as if he was a permanent fixture. He produced some wonderful work.
TheWheelMan Posts: 1,014
I consider him not a "writer" per se, but an excellent storyteller (which of course he was the best of both), and I kind of fancied myself trying to write along the same vein. I am saddened by his loss.
mrsparky Posts: 237
Now thats sad news, with stories like The Butterfly Effect he was a genius way before his time.
Even The Pedestrian seems almost prophetic today after hearing this.
There Will Come Soft Rains was always a favorite of mine. The robotic smart house that continues to do all the chores for a family who has been long dead after a nuclear holocaust
STKydd Posts: 59
I read all of Bradburys works when i was very young, sad to hear of his passing, seems like all of my favourite authors have left now.
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Eustace Scrubb Posts: 2,393
He will be greatly mourned and sadly missed. He inspired many, including myself.
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Storypilot Posts: 1,554
This is a hilarious video for Ray Bradbury fans if you haven't seen it.
WARNING - it has adult language and content.
Miss B Posts: 3,068
I think my favorite was always Fahrenheit 451. Geeze I'm dating myself. That came out in 1953, though my folks wouldn't let me read books like that at age 10. I think I was in high school when I finally got to read it.
trill Posts: 43
Fahrenheit 451 has got to be his most famous work and very thought provoking. A Sound of Thunder was the first thing of his I read (in Playboy no less) ;-) Most of the old school sci fi writers are gone So Sad.
Cbird Posts: 283
A man who didn't just use language but loved it, and encouraged his readers to love it too.
I'd recommend To The Dust Returned for anyone curious about more recent work.
I just watched The Beast From 30,000 Fathoms, it was based on Ray's story The Fog Horn
kyoto kid Posts: 29,805
...first heard about Ray's passing in another thread. He was and still is definitely an influence on my work as well.
He was also a close friend of one of my favourite illustrators. Charles Addams.
As I mentioned in the other thread, I had the good fortune of meeting him at a sci fi con many years ago.
DaWaterRat Posts: 2,862
His passing made the headlines today in the Chicago Tribune. Front page, above the fold. Heck, top story even. (yes, I still get the actual paper)
Of course, he was from Waukegan, which is a Chicago Suburb. :)


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Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:41
Lok Satta Party leaders condole the sudden and tragic demise of LSP Mumbai's Secretary Dr. Jamilurrahman Azad
Top leaders of the Lok Satta Party, expressed their profound grief over the sudden and untimely death of LSP Mumbai's Secretary Dr. Jamilurrahman Azad. They expressed their condolences to his family members.
They recalled that Dr. Jamilurrahman Azad had been a pillar of strength and support to Dr. Jalinder Adsule, LSP's Maharashtra General Secretary who has been establishing Lok Satta movement initially and the Lok Satta Party later to transform society and politics particularly in Mumbai Slums.
Lok Satta Party – National President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, National General Secretary and Maharashtra President Surendra Srivastava and Mumbai President Dr. Kedar Diwan expressed their shock and grief over the sudden death of Dr. Azad in a road accident near Lucknow.
Conveying his condolences to Dr. Azad's family, Surendra Srivastava recalled that Dr. Azad had toiled constructively to strengthen Lok Satta in Mumbai, particularly in slums in a short period after its launch in 2009.
Dr. Kedar Diwan, and Dr. Jalinder Adsule, General Secreatary, LSP, Maharashtra, said that Dr. Azad's death at a time the organization is striking roots in the Mumbai is painful.
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This page describes the system settings on your Xbox One console. To access the system settings, navigate left on the Home screen to open the Xbox Guide, select Settings, and then select All settings.
Here you can find information you'll need to register and troubleshoot your console, including the serial number, console ID, OS version, Xbox Live device ID, copyright information, and more.
This button allows you to set the device name, which will identify your console when there are multiple Xbox One consoles on the same network.
Update info
This area allows you to view when your console last checked for an update, and when the last update was installed.
Restore factory defaults
This option erases all accounts, apps, games, saved games (that haven't been synced to the cloud), and settings, and then restarts the console.
Important This option should be used rarely and should not be considered a troubleshooting step.
The language and location settings allow you to change the language display information of your console. If you move to a different time zone or region, you should update your console settings here.
This setting controls the display language of your console. Some games and apps will also detect this setting and adjust their display language accordingly.
This setting controls your console region, including the region for Microsoft Store content.
Spoken language
The spoken language setting determines the language that will be used for voice commands.
Here, you can set the time zone for your console.
Time zone
This setting identifies the time zone to which your console is currently set.
Automatically adjust for Daylight Saving
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System time
The system time settings are inaccessible (and will appear grayed out) while you're connected to Xbox Live. During those times, your console uses "net time," which is automatically pulled from time servers online. The two time settings you can change when you're not connected to Xbox Live are Time and Date.
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'Call of Duty' returns with new twists
Latest 'Call of Duty' game is a family affair, with two brothers serving as special forces soldiers together under the command of their father.
The developers of Call of Duty: Ghosts have drawn up a game-changing battle plan for the billion-dollar video game franchise.
Out Tuesday for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PCs ($60, ages 17-up), the military fighting game has a globe-trotting storyline written with the help of Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (Traffic). The post-apocalyptic near-future tale — the U.S. has suffered a devastating attack — plays on family ties and introduces a loyal and lethal secret weapon: Riley, an attack-trained German shepherd.
A new Call of Duty also means a new iteration of the crazily popular online multiplayer game mode. This year's model has an improved character customization scheme with 20,000 combinations. For the first time, you can create a woman soldier — a nod to the growing female player base. In a new squads mode, you can match up against computer-controlled opponents to improve your online skills. And an entirely new mode, Extinction, lets four players work together to fight off an alien invasion.
STORY: More on multiplayer
Publisher Activision and main development studio Infinity Ward made the right move shaking things up a bit, says analyst P.J. McNealy of Digital World Research. "You always have to take risks to avoid franchise fatigue, and new stories are needed," he says.
Infinity Ward Executive Producer Mark Rubin talks about the new Call of Duty GHOSTS, including the extinction mode, avatar building and multiplayer. Steve Elfers, Mike Snider
Timed to the game's launch is a new mobile Call of Duty app for Android, iOS and Windows 8 devices that lets players customize characters and track progress in a Call of Duty Clan Wars metagame.
Call of Duty has been reliable for Activision. Each of the last four annual releases have surpassed $1 billion in sales, each with more than 20 million copies sold.
Even though Ghosts may not be the top-selling game of 2013 — that honor will go to Grand Theft Auto V, with 29 million copies already shipped — Ghosts will scare up huge numbers. "This franchise has been the biggest and best franchise in this console cycle," McNealy says. "The huge sell-in numbers for (GTA) bodes well for (Ghosts) coming in north of 25 million units."
However, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter projects that retail sales will dip as much as 10%. The arrival of new consoles later this month from Sony and Microsoft could, he says, "hurt sales initially, mostly because of the drain on wallet share." Ghosts is also available on the PlayStation 4, out Nov. 15, and the Xbox One, Nov. 22.
Many Best Buy stores will begin selling the game at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and stores in West Los Angeles and Minneapolis will have Infinity Ward developers on hand for special events. Retailer GameStop expects 200 or more customers at most of its more than 4,000 stores for midnight sales events. Ghosts "is on track" to be the most-reserved game in 2013 for the retailer, says President Tony Bartel.
Developer Infinity Ward dropped the Modern Warfare universe of its three previous games. The plot follows what's left of the Special Forces, including the player's character, Logan, his brother, Hesh, and their father, a commander. "We added a very strong family element," says the game's executive producer Mark Rubin. "That experience of how that plays out for you as a player really adds a new story depth."
Players will also get a canine's eye view of the action when they deploy Riley in the game. Two Navy Seal-trained German shepherds were used in motion capture sessions to create the in-game dog's natural moves. It worked so well that Riley evolved "from an auxiliary role to more of a teammate," says animator Zach Volker.


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The Prince George's County State's Attorney's Office is dismissing three criminal charges against Maryland running back Wes Brown stemming from a July 3 encounter with police that his attorney labeled an "unconstitutional confrontation."
Maryland, which must now decide whether to lift Brown's suspension, said his status remained unchanged as of Monday evening. The Terps open training camp next week.
Brown had been charged with second-degree assault, wiretapping and stealing a cell phone after Baltimore police detectives arrived in College Park to question the rising sophomore about a nonfatal shooting in Baltimore.
But John Erzen, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said Monday there is no evidence that Brown committed a crime in College Park. Brown had been accused of shoving one of the police detectives, but Erzen said: "He was resisting what could be considered an unlawful arrest."
Brown, 19, resisted accompanying the detectives to headquarters and said he wanted to have at least one parent with him during questioning, according to a police document. Police moved to take Brown into custody. The player was accused of then shoving a Baltimore police detective with two hands before taking off on foot.
Jason Shapiro, a Howard County-based defense attorney representing Brown, said his client, who has been free on bond, was within his rights to decline to accompany the police.
"I applaud the state's attorney's office for dismissing the charges — which is justified," Shapiro said. "People think the state's attorney's office represents the police, and they don't. Their role is misunderstood. They're supposed to seek justice, and this is a just decision."
Police said in a probable cause statement earlier this month that Brown's car has been linked to a nonfatal shooting in Baltimore. Shapiro said he doesn't believe that Brown "has criminal culpability in Baltimore City." Baltimore police said they couldn't comment because the investigation was ongoing.
Brown, one of Maryland's most promising young offensive players, rushed for 399 yards and a 4.2 average last season. He missed the last two games with a torn labrum (shoulder joint).
Brown is from Baltimore but for part of his high school career lived with the family of one of his assistant coaches so he could be closer to Good Counsel in Olney.
The charges against Brown included a felony — using a cell phone to tape the interaction with police. The police report, filed in District Court in Upper Marlboro, had accused Brown of stealing a cell phone from a student and using it to record several minutes of the confrontation. But Erzen said there was no evidence of such a recording.
Erzen also said there wasn't proof that Brown intended to steal the phone after his own cell phone's battery died. Erzen said it appeared Brown offered the student a form of collateral – including his keys — to borrow the phone.
The case raises the issue of when police can detain a citizen.
"If the police have a valid arrest warrant, they can arrest," said longtime Maryland criminal defense attorney William Brennan, who is not connected to Brown's case. "Without it, they can arrest on a felony if they have probable cause or on a misdemeanor committed in their presence. From reading the statement of probable cause, it's unclear why Mr. Brown was being placed into custody originally."


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The Oklahoma City Thunder will get a pair of NBA Finals rematches against the Miami Heat next season, both to be played on holidays.
The Thunder will visit Miami on Christmas Day and host the Heat on Valentine's Day. Oklahoma City lost the finals to Miami in five games last season.
Oklahoma City opens the season at San Antonio on Nov. 1, with the home opener the following night against Portland. Other highlights of the schedule released Thursday night include a five-game December homestand against the Lakers, Indiana, New Orleans, Sacramento and San Antonio.
There's a road-heavy stretch in mid-January, with nine out of 10 games played on the road. That includes a six-game West Coast road trip.
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A few months ago, I suggested that the TV industry might be starting to collapse.
My argument was based on the observation that television viewing behavior had begun to change radically, even as television industry revenues and profits continued to go up, up, up.
This situation reminded me of what has happened to the newspaper business over the past 15 years: Reader attention gradually shifted to digital, but warnings of doom were met with guffaws from the newspaper industry as revenue and profits continued to rise.
But then, suddenly, in the period of only a few years, newspaper advertising revenue collapsed (see chart).
What's currently happening in TV is reminiscent of the first stage of the newspaper industry's collapse: Viewing behavior is changing, but, for now, the TV industry continues to coin money.
For understandable reasons, many TV executives continue to dismiss the digital threat out of hand, pointing out that people still spend 5 hours a day in front of their boob tubes and arguing that the TV habit is so entrenched that satellite-cable-telco-network juggernauts will be able to maintain their chokehold and profits forever.
And maybe they will.
But, more likely, the explosion of options for digital entertainment--some of which, importantly, are viewed or otherwise consumed on TV screens--will gradually bleed away the attention that was once devoted exclusively to traditional TV.
At some point, just as it has with newspapers, this dwindling attention will be noticed by the folks who pay all those massive TV industry bills--advertisers and consumers.
And many of those advertisers and consumers will stop paying those bills--or at least radically reduce the amount they are paying.
At which point the TV industry as we know it will collapse.
Importantly, what I mean by this is NOT that people will stop watching TV content. They'll keep watching it--some of it, anyway--just the way they're still reading newspaper content. They'll just get the TV content they watch in different ways (Netflix, iTunes, YouTube, Hulu). And, unlike today, they won't get it in a way that supports the production of vast amounts of excess TV content (100s of channels) and steers humongous profits into the pockets of TV executives and shareholders.
This change in behavior and spending will eventually lead to TV industry restructurings and consolidation, just as we've seen in the newspaper industry.
It won't be a disaster, so you don't need to worry about it (unless you're getting paid millions to do very little in the TV industry). In fact, in the end, it will just lead to greater choices and flexibility for consumers and more efficiency for the economy and advertisers.
One Thing That Cannot Be Denied: Behavior Is Changing
There are several reasons why the business of television is more protected than the business of newspapers, starting with the fact that TV networks don't generate most of their profit from evaporating classified ads. But if network viewership declines, network advertising revenue will eventually follow. And if pay-TV subscriber viewing declines, pay-TV subscribers will eventually refuse to continually pay more for pay-TV.
So viewership is important.
In my "TV May Be Starting To Collapse" post, I outlined the ways TV viewership has changed in my household (radically). I won't repeat that here. Instead, let's look at some results of a new study by research firm GfK.
GfK compared the viewing habits of ~265 households in 2008 and 2012. It found some modest but important changes, especially among younger, more digitally savvy viewers (in other words, the would-be TV audience of the future).
You can click on any of these charts to make them bigger. And you can download these charts and others at GfK's site here.
First, let's look at device ownership by year. As you can see, TVs have gotten fancier (HD), but many new devices have now begun to horn in on eyeball time. Smartphones and tablets, for example.
Next, let's look at share of total media time by device. There's good news for TV here. Although TV's share of total media time has declined (along with print), the total time spent using TVs is the same.
But here's where the bad news starts. People use their TVs differently than they did in the past. Specifically, they spend less time watching traditional "TV" and more time watching streaming video, watching time-shifted video (DVR), and playing video games.
These changing viewing habits, moreover, are very pronounced in the younger generation. "Gen Y" viewers watch a lot less traditional TV than they used to.
Also, even when we're watching TV these days, we give the TV less attention than we used to. The use of smartphones, tablets, and the Internet while watching TV has exploded in the past four years. Increasingly, in some households, TV is just something that's "on" in the background while you do other things online.
Among those who don't use TV screens, meanwhile (a small minority of people), the Internet is becoming an increasingly attractive way to spend time.
The bottom line is this:
- Traditional TV viewership is changing.
- None of the changes are good for the traditional TV industry.
- Someday, if attention keeps shifting, the money will follow.
SEE ALSO: Don't Mean To Be Alarmist But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse


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